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I can't enjoy Diablo anymore. in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 31 points 2 months ago

Blizzard make money extraction software now, not games. The lifecycle of their products starts with a complicated system of overlapping, interrelated components like events and currencies and battlepasses and sales and shops and services and items and subscriptions, and then they dress it up to look like a game.

Firefox adds option to remove 'List All Tabs' button after user backlash in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 8 points 2 months ago

I have never understood why these things aren't removable by default. Especially when it's something that some users will literally never interact with, not even a single time. Why not make everything optional? I don't get it.

I removed this button with userchrome.css on day 1, but ... I really shouldn't have to.

PulseAudio hotkeys script in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing.

As a somewhat related thing that others might find useful, here are my shortcuts to get my Varmilo keyboard media keys working with useful functions instead of the default stuff. I've got these set up as custom shortcuts in KDE, but they should work in any context:

Next track

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next

Previous track

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

Play-pause toggle

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause

You can replace Spotify in the destination parameter with any MPRIS-capable program. To find out what's available on the dbus and get the exact name, use this command:

dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames

Need some advice about creating game overlay in Linux in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your detailed reply. I can feel I'm out of my depth in many ways, but between your reply and the others I've gotten, I have a lot of entryways into the problem, and I'm looking forward to figuring out how to make it work. I've done a bit of coding in C++ in the past as well; maybe that would also be an option. But since the purpose of the exercise is primarily to get more familiar with Rust, I think I'll exhaust whatever options I have down that path first. Thanks again :)

Need some advice about creating game overlay in Linux in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks so much for taking the time to write that long post. I have lots of things to dig into now. I think I'd prefer not injecting anything into the game for the reasons you mentioned, the most important consideration being the anticheat risk. I don't know what the company behind the game have implemented of that nature.

Need some advice about creating game overlay in Linux in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 1 points 3 months ago

OP here. Thanks for your reply. If what you're asking is the case, I'd be happy to find a solution that runs under X instead. This tracker would in any case mostly be for my own use. I was just excited to finally get Wayland working with my NVIDIA card with the explicit sync stuff.

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Need some advice about creating game overlay in Linux (self.rust)

submitted 3 months ago by Commodore to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I've been learning Rust for a while, and I want to take on an actual project now to learn even more. I need to be pointed in the right direction for one aspect of the affair, and I hope someone here can help me.

I want to create a deck tracker for Hearthstone that runs natively in Linux. This is, on the back end, a fairly simple matter of parsing a constantly updated file that tracks everything that happens in the game. On the front end, however, I want to create a window that sits on top of the fullscreen Hearthstone window and shows me stuff. The "stuff" doesn't have to be images or anything fancy, I'll take whatever I can get, but I don't know how to get started on this part.

So the task is as follows: Create an overlay on top of the fullscreen Hearthstone client, preferably under Wayland, and update it constantly with new information about cards drawn, cards left in deck, that sort of thing.

How do I tackle this problem? Are there any crates that'll let me create such a window and render stuff to it? How would you approach the problem?

Thanks in advance.

A Finnish Lapphund dinner in c/dogs

[–] Commodore 67 points 3 months ago (12 children)

You're insane if you think the breed needs this. You can feed a Finnish Lapphund any type of dog food. It's not a magical being from another dimension.

After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts in c/technology

[–] Commodore 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you ever wonder why the people you know seem to be better friends with each other than with you, or why they look away while talking with you, or why they always seems to excuse themselves after interacting with you for only a very short time, this post is why.

I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] Commodore 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A cool guide of commonly believed myths in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

evolution is a theory, it just is

I realize the person I'm replying to has no interest in the truth, but in case others are interested, read the first paragraph here to get a sense of what a scientific theory is. The myth/misunderstanding is that a scientific theory is a theory in sense 3 here. Not only is it a myth, it's a very common and very dishonest way to dismiss evolution without having to address the fact that it's a fact.

Why openSUSE? in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 5 points 6 months ago

That's exactly why I am on Tumbleweed as well.

I am not German myself, but most of my colleagues are. Having gotten to know the German attitude towards technology, I feel I understand why life with openSUSE is as uneventful as it is. How anyone got them to adopt something as subversively radical as a rolling release model is something of a mystery to me, but I won't complain.

Why openSUSE? in c/[email protected]

[–] Commodore 5 points 6 months ago

Thanks for this clarification. I didn't consider that someone might run btrfs without snapshots, but I suppose that might even be quite common. I don't get out much.

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Having to select my single account from a "list" of 1 account when logging in is madness (self.protonprivacy)

submitted 6 months ago by Commodore to c/protonprivacy

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This new account selection screen that pops up every single time I visit my inbox is driving me insane. I only have one account. Why do I need to see this account selection screen? What possible benefit could my having to click through that screen have for me or for Proton?

I don't understand what kind of sick, warped mind would devise such a thing.

It's like forcing me to pick my car from a list of one car when I click on the unlock door button on my car key in the morning.

It's like a voice asking me which of my one phone I want to make a call from when I dial a number on that very phone.

It's madness. Absolute Lovecraftian soul-shattering insanity.

Please make this insane screen go away for users who only have one account.

Or make it a setting in my settings that I can toggle on and off.

Also, please make the login screen stop blinking BRIGHT WHITE multiple times during the authentication process. Why does it have to be white?? Of all colors, white!

It's like sadists work at Proton.