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allpurposemat

@allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place

Hi! I hope you're doing well.
I'm Mat. I can speak EN/ES/FR (and DE sorta?).
I like embarking on fun projects.

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mcc, to random
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I'm trying to edit the code from a Unity project with Visual Studio Code and I'm not getting any of the "IDE features", like, no mouseover type popups, no autocomplete, no "Go to definition". If I look in my plugins I have "C#", "C# Dev Kit", "Intellicode for C# Dev Kit", and "Unity". This is the VSCode project created by Unity when you double-click an error in Console, there's a .sln file listed in file explorer and all. But VSCode is acting like it has no IDE capabilities. What could be wrong?

allpurposemat,
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@mcc YES I HAD THIS TOO

allpurposemat,
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@mcc Good to hear you fixed it.
I fixed it on my end by uninstalling Unity.

mcc, to random
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The problem with udm14* is that Google Calculator is legitimately one of my favorite pieces of software (the natural language unit conversion is so good), and I expect udm14 is going to kill Google Calculator because that's the point

Maybe I should just make my own js calculator with builtin unit conversion.

  • See https://mastodon.online/ ; it's great, although since similar "give me the old version" flags on YouTube have sometimes stopped working without warning, I wonder how long it will last
allpurposemat,
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@mcc have you tried out Qualculate? It's got a little bit of natural language with the "to" keyword and (optionally) writing the full names of units, and can do a ton on unit conversions: "2(3min + 30s) to hours"
It's become my go-to for any quick math, either from the terminal via qalc or with a GUI client. Really missing an Android app for it, but https://qalculator.xyz/ can stand in for now.

allpurposemat, to firefox
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Yess we're getting native tab groups in #Firefox! Really the only feature I regularly missed from Chrome; my tabs become a mess on FF whenever I dive into a new rabbit hole.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694

metric_hen, to random
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Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

Me:

allpurposemat,
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@manawyrm @metric_hen I'm the bird perched atop the hat. What a vibe.

jrouwe, to random
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Having fun with the new custom gravity feature for vehicles!

video/mp4

allpurposemat,
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@jrouwe now that's a lotta downforce

ajroach42, to random
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"Atari acquires Intellivision brand"

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/05/atari-acquires-intellivision-brand

We're living in a weird future, populated by zombied husks of the now distant past.

allpurposemat,
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@SKleefeld @ajroach42 I love this!

I always name my phone hotspot and Bluetooth something silly like "Mat's GameBoy Advance" or "Mat's Wii Mini" in hopes to give someone else in the building a laugh.

TodePond, to random
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I'm in paris mdr

allpurposemat,
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@TodePond your French is so much better than most of the French I read online.

Moi j'aime bien Paris; c'est une ambiance très unique. Enjoy your visit!

allpurposemat,
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@TodePond oh cool! I live on the outskirts of Lille now, really love the city. C'est vrai qu'en France, on ne parle pas beaucoup Anglais. J'étudie en Belgique et cela m'avait choqué que tout le monde pouvait parler Anglais si près de France.

Mais, être forcé à parler une langue tous les jours est la meilleure manière de l'apprendre! Speaking multiple languages (even a bit) is soo helpful in day to day life, I consider myself very lucky to have grown up with that.

mcc, to random
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I have just learned that Visual Studio Code on Mac/Linux not only supports, but expects .sln files, and now nothing in the entire world makes sense to me anymore. Your cross-platform open source editor for your cross-platform open source command line toolchain relies on the pure-text proprietary container format for your 30-year-old single-platform GUI IDE? … what does it even do with it? A VSCode popup says C# code completion won't work without it. What does it expect to be in there?

allpurposemat,
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@CarePackage17 @mcc I got a huge warning and it refused to run when it detected I was using VSCodium, saying it's only licensed for the proprietary VSCode distribution. I have no idea why they would do this (????) but that's how I found out that the new one is indeed nonfree.

datarama, to random
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Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?

(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)

allpurposemat,
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@datarama I host my website, Matrix, Forgejo, and a few other things on a GPU-less desktop sitting next to the router. It works surprisingly well, and the 100Mbps ethernet adapter putting a hard limit on speed has not been an issue so far.

allpurposemat,
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@datarama ay... we really need to standardize a higher baseline internet speed worldwide.

Depending on what you want to host, a slow connection may be enough (personal website f.e).
Mastodon however may be heavier (and in my brief experience, balloons up fast in storage requirements!), in that case you'd likely be better off hosting somewhere in the "cloud", seems like you got a lot of responses about that :)

allpurposemat,
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@datarama fair, fiber took a long time to arrive in the previous town I lived in due to similar reasons, and it was prohibitively expensive once it finally did.
I hope to see fast internet become accessible to everyone in the future, but we are still quite a ways away from that unfortunately.

2DArray, to random
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messing around with the playdate again

an outline of a thick winding 2D path is drawn on a playdate screen. a black vision-cone rotates around, getting blocked by the path as it turns

allpurposemat,
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@2DArray this looks so good!

Tusky, to random
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‼️ Big annoucement!!!

✅ Tusky 25.0 is officialy out, in F-Droid and Play Store 🎉 🎉 🎉

These are the main updates to this new version:

➡️ Support Mastodon translation API
➡️ Show post language
➡️ Improved screen transitions
➡️ Filter settings now moved to account preferences
➡️ Post stats now have a stable position
➡️ A lot off under-the-hood stability & performance improvements.

❗ Also, 25.0 app is smaller in size despite having more features.

allpurposemat,
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@Tusky Great job #Tusky team! Using the app since I joined Mastodon and haven't looked back.

frameworkcomputer, to random
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This has been in the works for some time. With help from the NixOS community, we're set up to begin the process of introducing NixOS as a Community support distro.

NixOS community will be helping Framework with docs and related and we will provide hardware to those selected.

Some details being ironed out. This is a method of ensuring NixOS users identified as ideal candidates (a couple of selected people) can help us ensure we have Framework docs in place.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/exciting-partnership-announcement-framework-community-nixos-communities-join-forces/44640

allpurposemat,
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@frameworkcomputer Awesome! I've been meaning to try out NixOS once my Framework 16 arrives, happy to hear about this collab. Now, to patiently wait for shipment...

yaxu, to random
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If you're on an online community, please search "elephant in the room" and share what the elephants are.

Here's the ones from the future of coding slack:

  • DCI architecture (not sure what that is)
  • Haskell crypto
  • Code quality
  • Incoherence of ownership
  • No one in UK government listens to evidence
  • Functional reactive programming
  • IDEs
  • Browsers being crap at resizing in tiling window managers
  • The elephant being the room
  • Bret Victor
allpurposemat,
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@yaxu wait, it's not my GPU being slow? lags way behind when resizing on for me...

allpurposemat, to android
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So my Pixel 3a's #LineageOS install decided to brick itself today... any cool ROMs to try out that support AMOLED mode?
I was also considering mobile Linux, though I do really depend on Discord notifications due to my university; unsure how well that would work...

#android #customrom #linux #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

davidrevoy, to random
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Size test with open comic fonts.

allpurposemat,
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@davidrevoy unsure if you're asking for feedback, but Patrick Hand is the most readable for me (attached image from #Tusky).

djlink, to random
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compile warnings should be enforced as compile errors!

allpurposemat,
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@djlink I might be able to do that if I specifically disable the unused variable warning.

So many times I'm halfway through implementing something, need to test it but have some leftover variables, and the compiler won't let me build because of them. It's led me to disable the option entirely, but I still recognize its importance.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Holy fuck I have just discovered that the phone app in Android 13 [EDIT: no; see below] vibrates when an outgoing call connects

An outgoing call

There is no way to turn this off except to disable all vibration on your phone

So you make a phone call, you put it up to your ear, and then this thing that you've put up to the side of your face vibrates intensely. It is the most deeply unpleasant, unnecessary thing. I already knew I was making a fucking phone call I pressed the button

allpurposemat,
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@mcc my smartwatch (ancient Pebble), whose primary non-time job is to buzz when I have a message, makes the same exact buzz to congratulate me on having slept or taken a walk. Several times per day.

There's no way I'm aware of to turn it off. The company doesn't exist anymore either.

allpurposemat,
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@mcc oh wow, I never even considered that. I'm used to proprietary stuff being just black boxes you can't poke at, but maybe there's a chance the Pebble OS could be unlocked. I will contact him for sure!

allpurposemat, to Blog
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Just published a new #blog post, on writing a 3D Wii #homebrew app as a surprise for a graphics programming presentation (I got to bring a Wii to class hehehe). I'm super happy how it turned out!
https://blog.allpurposem.at/making-a-wii-game-in-2024

Follow on #rss: https://blog.allpurposem.at/feed
Follow on fedi: @mat

Tags for visibility: #homebrew #wii #gamecube #gcn #devkitpro #directx #graphics #gamedev #foss #retrocomputing #cpp

allpurposemat,
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@mardy @mat Thank you!
I wish I knew about the toolchain file before; would have saved me a lot of searching and fiddling haha. I'll add your correction in the blog post later today. Will def use that for future projects instead!

barnoid, to random
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I tried to get Wayland working with KDE and the Nvidia driver on Debian 12. Not seen this kind of thing in many years.

Your classic broken desktop rendering with windows and mouse pointer leaving trails

allpurposemat,
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@barnoid wow, I wish my computer did that. Beautiful.

mcc, to random
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He's here… it's Google. It's him

allpurposemat,
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@mcc always wanted to see who this John Google guy is that everyone keeps talking about.

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