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Yet another thing to add to the investigation list! Yeah, we may want to swap out that macro with something more modern. There have been a lot of updates to pointer support in recent years 🙂

The debug settings are complaining about missing libraries such as winsock when release does not so I’m going ahead and removing the PCH support to help us…[Read more]

Test_TemplateArray() in common/container/tem_array is bad. It’s got lines like this: CreatePointer(pTestInt, (long)(12345678l));. That’s incorrect as CreatePointer takes a pointer object and a type, not a number:
#define CreatePointer(pObject, Type) {
(pObject) = new Type;
if ((pObject) == NULL) {
SystemLog.Printf(stderr, _T("Failed to…[Read more]

So setting up different tasks for different branches using GitHub Actions is rather ugly. There’s no clean way to do it in one workflow file as you can only specify the branches on which the file runs, not the tasks. There are two options: set up the jobs section as an if-statement using Git references or have multiple workflow files. I’m leaning…[Read more]

Yeah, the dogs here love the hammock beds. The lab I used to have used to eat them, though! 😛

These days, my dog mostly ignores the beds and either uses the couch or the beanbag chairs. When she uses the couch, she has a habit of hogging all of the blankets. The other day, she claimed all four of them and piled them all up into a cushion!…[Read more]

Looks like openSUSE has it in the repo: https://software.opensuse.org/package/OpenRGB

Should be able to install it easily from the command-line (my preferred method) using zypper. 🙂

Not in PopOS (at least, the version I’m on as the upgrade hasn’t landed yet) but Ubuntu has it: https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/openrgb

Arch has it as well:…[Read more]

Just finished correcting all of the paths. All of those commits have been uploaded. I haven’t yet merged things into master, though. I may also look at setting up the CI to create debug builds on the dev branch first, as well. Anyways, there may be stuff to fix once the CI runs on it (quite possibly the resource files as they choked before when I…[Read more]

Good news! Both GNOME and KDE have a collection of solitaire games! You won’t get the community features but you can play them to your heart’s content!

Weird. Could be something with the interaction of OpenRGB. I never got into RGB lighting much except for the color backlight that I left at default settings. Never had a problem in any application…[Read more]

Don’t worry! Most stuff can be handled by the GUI these days! There’s not much that requires manual editing on most distros now. If you do go with Linux, I’d recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed (it’s a stable rolling release with an amazing package manager) with KDE or even PopOS (I’m mostly too lazy to switch to openSUSE 😛 ). KDE is much better for…[Read more]

Ugh. What a mess!

I generally eyeball the power requirements for the individual parts and then add a few hundred watts to provide extra headroom for future upgrades and power hungry tasks that I may perform. For instance, 750W was recommended by the linked tool in the Reddit post but I went with a 1000W power supply. Definitely overkill for most…[Read more]

It’s possible Linux would work better. Granted, based on your hardware, you should be running Windows without issue.

A few weeks later, Microsoft made a statement about it: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2912435/if-windows-defender-flags-winring0-on-your-gaming-pc-pay-attention.html

System76 would need to update how their driver works to remove…[Read more]

Random remarks:

It may be possible to set up the multi-game support as external plugins so that the whole program doesn’t need an update when individual game components are updates by dynamically loading the libraries using LoadLibrary() on Windows and dlopen() on *nix (at least on Mac and Linux, would need to check for the BSDs). This can be…[Read more]

Turned out great!

Yeah, I’ll try to get a picture of the next one I make and decorate. Too late now: it’s already passed through the body and back to the water treatment plant 😛

Oh, cool. We don’t get those around here, only the regular Prunus persica variety (free stone and cling). Due to the weather conditions the last few years, our crop has…[Read more]

Fixed a bug in ui/class_dlg.h: for some reason, it had an improper include-guard that came in the original project import. Will be in the next upload 🙂

Not a clue! I don’t know PHP but the installation looks simple enough 🙂

Discord does have a swag store: https://discordmerch.com/ 😛

Ugh. That’s going to make it harder to track down common issues and fixes, especially for those without a Discord account. Discord does have a threads feature but it’s mostly an afterthought and the interface is extremely cludgy. It’s good for chats but not much else, really.

Sounds good 🙂

And game/morrowind/ has been taken care of 🙂

Forgot to mention the other week that OpenMW got updated to 0.50: https://openmw.org/2025/openmw-0-50-0-released/

It’s mostly minor fixes and better controller support but there are some other goodies thrown in. 🙂

Yeah, Windows has always been slow to get everything up to speed, even on a fresh install with an SSD. I’m assuming Windows is installed on the HDD? The SSD will definitely boot faster than the HDD if you want to go that route. Would mean moving the install, though, which can be a bit of a pain

And the first book in the Nancy Drew series along with more Agatha Christie. 🙂

And then there was the time that Donald Duck killed Goofy:

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/peur_evol/17297328/27908/27908_original.jpg

Think Geek used to sell an electronic useless machine. Don’t recall the details but it did stuff when you pressed the button.…[Read more]