Neat. Nearly watchable. I tried kitty/sixel options but those are too high-res and cause even more frame-drops (at least on the older hardware I tested it on, no drops playing with normal mpv), with a 360p video it’s isn’t scaled up.

Then again, I guess it’s a whole lot more watchable than the blinkenlights (Starwars) thing via telnet.

The Void install was relatively easy, though maybe because I used the XFCE edition as I wanted that anyway.

That said, I’ve used Arch for 7+ years and am still using it on my main machine just can’t update. Give me a Polaris-or-better GPU and some faster internet and yeah it probably wouldn’t be an issue. I probably still would prefer slower+more stable updates (and ideally not just a specific time-window) though.

The last time I tried to use Flatpak for Krita, it had to download the Flatpak-specific nVidia driver which is my issue when it comes to internet speed again.

For me the legacy nVidia driver put on the AUR is a no-go. Even before that, non-fiber internet added friction to updating especially when I forgot about it for a while (or when manual intervention is needed).

I installed Void Linux on an old machine, I think updating might be more forgiving but the packaging system isn’t quite as good* and for some things I’d have to rely on appimages (I don’t want redundancy from Flatpak etc).

Tumbleweed/Slowroll might be a better answer if I didn’t hate Patterns.

* after adding some applications, already had to manually install missing dependencies, optional dependencies is also not handled

☑️
Marked safe from
spiral cult
today until they have mechs or can turn me into a “biocomputer*”

* head in a jar that can connect to stuff

It’s not an issue with how you did the link, I can view that thread on my instance but not the thread’s host instance see last bit.

Though there is an answer to your question: assuming it stays up, lemmyverse. (use fediverse icon link, remove https bit and plug it in)

For example, your comment on that thread works as a link: https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/comment/14366386

The fediverse link I get from that thread (https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/asklemmy/…) is just wrong for whatever reason? (even wrong on host instance!)

This works: long link, breaks if you shorten it
This also works: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357 (found via get-embed-code option, this is the sort of link my own posts get)

So non-comment thread link: https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357

You are right about a few things, though the key is that Raylib is what’s creating the polygon (after I parse the text file into a sequence) and ideally I don’t handle face/mesh creation myself (at low-level). Maybe eventually.

what you mean by color index face hints

For additional context on where faces are.

I’ve mentioned vertex color (ideal as face colors), but I probably do want to handle a 3-digit-hex color palette with object-library-wide management.

#values: matrix_xres matrix_yres target_size vert_num
#IDEA, fails with heart as there is only 1 corner vertex
32
32
160.0
11
                                
               E                
               1                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
E2         C       C         3E 
                                
                                
               1                
              2@3               
              4 5               
         C           C          
                                
                                
                                
               C                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
     4                    5     
    E                      E    
                                

The reason I’m thinking about this is that it would be better to have one way to define verts. triangle_strip can generally do more (shapes with no central point) than triangle_fan, though I think the star here is the sort-of-thing that a single triangle_strip cannot do. That, and with numbering it only allows 62 verts (0…9, a…z, A…Z), and is a bit clunky to iterate on. Numbering, especially with a strip, is also a lot more complex as you get more verts. If I got to the point of making my own editor*, I might abstract this away so the user only works with points.

Use-in-code-wise I may have already solved fan-vs-strip with a function that just compares the values of the first few points to choose draw type, though I wasn’t confident in that as it’d require a lot more testing. Might be better to store that in an enum as well.

* I wasn’t quite sure of using what I already made for anything more than a simple arcade-like game, so that sort of kills motivation, needing to do even more technical work just to get visible results.

That’s how it could work when it gets to 3D anyway (with face-corner vertex color which I might not always need) but that’d be a pain to define by hand and the format I have I don’t actually have a way to define the same point more than once as it’s on a text grid.

#values: matrix_xres matrix_yres target_size vert_num
#vert pattern is cntrclckwse (related: replace 0 with @ for closed shape) or |/|/
31
15
160.0
9
               1               
                               
    2                     8    
                               
                               
                               
                               
3              @              7
                               
                               
                               
                               
    4                     6    
                               
               5               

I have a couple of ideas bouncing around, but they might be too ambitious (plus harder that I use a less common language, often via bindings).

The first is a lot of ideas for a mesh editor, but not sure where to start. Technically, I already started a while ago with a text-based* polygon format/loader for Raylib so if I had some (high-level) way to export that polygon to a 3D file (single/double-sided faces or extruded) that’d be the first step. However I never really used/continued what I made (2D) because of how windings (fan vs strip) are, not good** as you’d need to keep track of it during usage. Perhaps something else might be better, like p5js?

The other is a frameless+floating X11 WM, and I’m similarly unsure of what I should use for drawing a title/titlebar and window buttons (and inset controls if possible). .xpm for bar/buttons is a maybe.

* sparse (a rectangle is 4 numbers on an otherwise empty grid), not like traditional (filled) ASCII art

** maybe expecting winding from an unordered list of points is too much, but not sure there’s an easy way to cover windings for most situations. Color index (8-way) used as face hints, or similar (4-way?) for inside direction? Multiple origins for raycasts?

They designed it and chose the specs, MSRP, and most importantly decided to use the same name rather than something like RX 9040/9030.

Though even for the 8GB, compare this to criticism around nVidia’s RTX 5050 for its pricing (slightly better performance and lower MSRP than RX 9050 8 GB). nVidia had controversies with same-name cut-down parts as well.

Somewhat true, but I also don’t think these cards actually fit that market with the prices especially for those stuck on PCIe3.0 hardware. Imagine buying a new pre-built for a decent sum of money and still being stuck with ~2016 (1050Ti/RX570 4GB) limitations. (even the 8GB version seems to perform just below the RTX 5050, which has lower MSRP but seems to be controversial due to the price)

Maybe the market really is just this terrible, but it does seem like waste of sand territory. I do think this says more about how bloated (and “upgrade your PC” CEO says) games are, though.

EDIT: I’m seeing some sites say it’s x16, but the wccftech article says both 8GB and 4GB models have PCIe 5.0 x8 (so it could be an issue for even those on PCIe 4.0 motherboards). The 4GB model also has a half memory bus though I don’t know how much that matters especially with differing memory speeds/generations.

Also seems like it needs a power cable still, but maybe the 4GB version is low enough power that a pcie-power-only version could exist.

OOP after shooting L1T Wendell: “What? It was obvious! He’s the red commie. Watch, he’ll turn red any second now! …Aaaaaaany second now. See, red! No-wait, that’s blood.”

I almost got void fully installed and working
I just wanted my new replacement laptop up
I gave up 🥹

Did you use the XFCE version? I did so (XFCE musl*) on an old machine, had a bit of trouble with the partitioning at first (had to try the live image a second time because new changes weren’t working) but ultimately worked fine. Seems to run fine, then again I wanted XFCE anyway. Install octoxbps and you can use that for installing/updating software as well.

Though post-install I did notice some dependencies being missing when installing some software, and packaging seems weak (like no optional dependencies like Arch has). So I haven’t committed to it on my main machine**, though I guess I can test it to see Void’s long-term updating experience (though the live image being from ~6-months ago probably says enough).

* because I am actually interested in this for compilation, and it actually is a use-case for an old machine

** outdated Arch… a bit of friction with my non-fiber internet, legacy GPU (1050Ti) drivers on AUR is a no-go for me

I’ve used my current install for at least that long (going back further with Antergos) and you’re correct about non-rolling options… I definitely would’ve had more pain with system upgrades and PPAs etc in those years.

That said, I think the Tamagotchi comparison probably makes sense in a way if it “dies” you probably did something “wrong” as on-paper it’s also not difficult to maintain a digital pet either.

I’m using an outdated system, it’s on three strikes:

1. Slow, shared internet for me. This adds friction to updates, and when I don’t update as frequently as Arch expects this is the breakage you won’t see.

2. I hate that updating today vs days-from-now might yield drastically different results. Admittedly the actual problem with my last few updates is that the reason-I-updated issues persisted.

3. The AUR is the biggest reason to use Arch. But use the AUR very carefully and not for system dependencies! Your graphics card is now legacy, so we put the driver on the AUR* ;)

Though I don’t think these sort of problems are unfixable**, and other rolling distros probably do fix some of them but may also not have as good of a packaging system as Arch.

For instance I’m trying Void Linux on an old machine and have already ran into 2 (non-default) applications missing dependencies (which might be an issue with package maintainers, but also Void doesn’t seem to track optional dependencies).

Tumbleweed/Slowroll would probably be a better fit for me, if not for Patterns.

* also if you update without switching, blank screen for you

** internet+GPU are also material problems as well, but those cannot get fixed today and probably will not be fixed next month either

I like that Void seems to better handle less frequent updates than Arch, but my point is that the package system seems to be a bit of a step backwards. (which to be fair doesn’t seem like anything unique to Void, optional dependencies is commonly not a thing or is inconvenient like OpenSUSE’s patterns)

OP posted to this sub with an article about void 17 days ago. OOP, sure maybe.

I’m trying Void on old hardware and it feels pretty usable. Package availability still an issue*. I’ve also noticed some dependencies not getting added (git not included with programming lang that needs it for its package manager, installed archive manager engrampa and it couldn’t actually open zips until I added another package for that). I’ll probably keep this on my old machine just for testing musl compilation.

* appimages might help, other solutions with redundancy not so much with extra downloading

I don’t know much about that universe, so I’d probably choose the escapism option (perma-VR*, chem synthesis). Realistically, probably dumpster parts or some bartered hand-me-down stuff. Sidestepping universe, If I were lucky I’d get one-o’them Jameson-types! (or brain-in-a-tachikoma)

Genre aside, I’d go for something more organic (maybe something closer to Farscape). Less upkeep, more microbiomes/symbiosis. Even for the ‘cybernetic’ part of cyborg, there’s less interest if whatever I could be hooked into isn’t an extension of my nervous system in some way.

* not to condone current VR, given price and limited content. I’ve barely used a relative’s dusty headset because I couldn’t install anything (even if I made it myself) because no Facebook

Same here, much too ambitious/low-level for me. I haven’t done enough though, TBH (currently stalled, for a few reasons). I did complete my last project though (~150 LoC minesweeper clone, Godot+bindings, no UI except win/lose screen, and I did simplify and pick my features).

Even those might be more-than-a-few completed simple projects away for me (if I can get that far), though.

I was going to say voxel stuff isn’t such a bad idea, though when searching I did find a voxel editor with smoothing which is the one thing I’d want there (not quite sure about it using ASCII).

The 1.44MB thing has made me think about stuff like Raylib again, though a while back I actually made a toy-like polygon text format+loader but wasn’t quite happy as it’s sort of in catch-22 territory (usage complicated by 2 polygon types w/different capabilities+windings, if that weren’t an issue an editor still might be nice).

I likely will stay with Godot for 3D, moving on to something simpler (like Raylib) especially when I have a set of models that look good unshaded.

I would post a “Wait… I know you” picture with the ordered dithering filter used if forced .webp conversion didn’t muddy the edges/colors further.

I love the filter they used for the game itself, seems to be the Retrotink 5X ($325, yikes) with the consumer-1 filter.

(something like this like this is in software is sometimes called ‘triangular filter’, not always available though. Similarly, for me Lottes filter is triangular in one software and a more standard grid with worse settings in another software)

1. They can’t count
2. They just need more money, because it sits in their villa as decoration in a giant stack like: