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Feeling much better after taking a break so I’ll try to pick things back up again in a couple of days 🙂

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Elementary has been on the list for a while, just haven’t gotten to it yet. I’m not sure where I can catch it, will definitely need to find out.

O Brother, Where Art Thou has come up from time to time over here, just haven’t gotten in the mood for it. It always looked a bit silly for me 😛

Been watching TCM a lot more recently and I’ve really missed all of the old films! They were even running a monster movie marathon a few weeks back, which was a blast. Don’t know the occasion but I’m not going to complain!

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I’m actually thinking beyond just farming. Take ancient Rome, for instance. They had computers, even if rudimentary, and even indoor plumbing with hot and cold running water. The technology was lost for a thousand years before being rediscovered.

As for storage medium, digital isn’t a good option as not only does it break down faster than analog but it is also highly susceptible to magnets and electrical impulses. The ideal medium would be to print everything on stone tablets but those wouldn’t be exactly practical 😛

I’m not seeing half a TB from the storage requirements for ARK, only about 80 GB or so (they don’t list the space taken up by each pack for whatever reason but the season pass takes up 20000 MB (why they don’t use GB is beyond me….)). Anyways! Games are taking up more and more space. If I had known at the time, I would have opted for two 2 TB SSDs instead of 2 1 TB SSDs when I ordered this system. Not that I’ve run out of space yet…. 😛

And, similarly, crustaceans do as well. I thought I had read that plants also feel pain but couldn’t find the study. They, do however, respond to the stimuli even though some folks say it’s not a pain response due to the lack of a nervous system. I would argue otherwise, however: if they’re responding, even without a nervous system, then I would say they most certainly do feel pain, even if it’s not pain in the same sense as animal pain.

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https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-reportedly-developing-250tb-to-1pb-nearline-ssds-enough-for-up-to-8000-gta-v-installs
That’s a lot of storage!

However, there is a trade-off:

The flash is not standard QLC. Girard says endurance is lower, at around 0.1 drive writes per day, compared with around 0.5 DWPD for current QLC drives.

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I’m just more comfortable without them when working at the computer 😛

Progressing at a fairly good clip, all things considered. 🙂

Some of the UI quirks may be due to how they’re using Qt. Could be worth sending them a feature request 🙂

Yay! Been playing some minesweeper off and on lately myself. Of course, when you get to the end game, it winds up being mostly luck as you sometimes have multiple squares that could be either a number or a bomb and no amount of logic can save you 😛

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Could possibly cannibalize a few robot vacuums for parts to get the Labubu heads to suck up dirt 😛

🙁 Good choice on site. I like to keep my dogs’ ashes in the living room so that they’re always nearby 🙂

We’re getting some rain as expected, finally. Not a whole lot but it is better than nothing.

Got to thinking recently, we need a knowledge vault in addition to the seed vault. What’s the use of storing all of that food supplies if we won’t have the tools to use it to rebuild? Would need to manned around the clock just in case something happens so the various locations would need, ideally, at least three teams each taking eight hour shifts (or less, depending on how many shifts are used). Would also need to have the locations spread around the globe and all contents translated in multiple languages. Getting everyone to cooperate on this endeavor is another matter entirely.

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The Labubu bot may need treads before it can adequately roll on various terrain. Not hard to do: gluing rubber mats to it may be the ticket. Will definitely need to look at the project in more detail.

The readme is kind of light on details, though. Definitely needs more fleshing out.

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Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for tomorrow which is nice. Weather behaving your way?

🙁 How old is he now?

We’re starting to get more regular rain, which is nice. We’ve already lost a lot of trees with others in desperate need of water. The neighborhood is definitely going to need to do some replanting once the drought ends.

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Reinstalled Guild Wars 2 the other day and, while the game runs beautifully, it does have some issues with displaying text on 4k monitors. With my display scaling set to 125% in the OS, text was so tiny that it was unreadable even without my glasses. Had to set it to 150% to get it readable. Since I don’t feel like jumping all over the place with scaling just when I want to play, I’ll probably compromise and keep the global scaling at 150% and simply wear my glasses while playing. Supposedly, you can tweak it via the Wine settings but I don’t feel like installing the full Wine stack just for this one thing.

Pretty good game, though, if you like MMOs. I do! 🙂

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Just got a note that GitHub is updating the VS version on the cloud to Visual Studio 2026. Shouldn’t affect things too much since the code is already C++20 compliant but we’ll find out once we get things building again.

On that note, I’m taking a bit of a break since I’ve been hard at it for months. In the meantime, if you want to take a look or stab at things, the current work has been taking place here and will be merged once it builds again with the cloud build logs being here. Will definitely get back to it! 🙂

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Yep, saw that! Haven’t had a chance to browse, though. Will definitely need to! 🙂

There have been some curation come up on Hacker News but I haven’t been making much note of the threads. There was one project that let you scroll through them like a roll of film 😛

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Had some new recipes come in: http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm

Could be a lot of fun making dishes from a thousand years ago. May need to try some of them!

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Had this come in: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/labububot/overview/

Still have no intention of getting one but could be a lot of fun!

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Sorry to hear that the fur-balls are having some issues. I know how that can be: my dog hurt her neck last year and that wasn’t fun 🙁 She’s fully recovered now 🙂

Yep, we also had Mothers’ Day yesterday. 🙂

Finally getting some rain over here, which is nice. Hopefully it continues to rain off and on for a while. We’ve got several bodies of water that have pretty much dried up 🙁

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I suspect winuser.h needs to go before afxwin.h but I need to take some time to study the logs some more.

Turns out that wasn’t the issue. Still getting the same error:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\atlmfc\include\afxwin4.inl(154,11): error C2039: ‘UpdateLayeredWindow’: is not a member of ‘`global namespace” [D:\a\MWEdit\MWEdit\builddir\MWEdit.vcxproj]
(compiling source file ‘../mwedit/script_compile.cc’)

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\atlmfc\include\afxwin4.inl(154,11): error C2660: ‘CWnd::UpdateLayeredWindow’: function does not take 9 arguments [D:\a\MWEdit\MWEdit\builddir\MWEdit.vcxproj]
(compiling source file ‘../mwedit/script_compile.cc’)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\atlmfc\include\afxwin4.inl(150,23):
see declaration of ‘CWnd::UpdateLayeredWindow’
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\atlmfc\include\afxwin4.inl(154,11):
while trying to match the argument list ‘(HWND, HDC, POINT *, SIZE *, HDC, POINT *, COLORREF, BLENDFUNCTION *, DWORD)’

Will back out those changes and take another look at things.

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Got tired of the bugs and missing features in COSMIC so I switched to Cinnamon. In the past, I’ve always used XFCE or gone piecemeal but many packages I like of the latter are no longer maintained. I don’t know, I just felt like using Cinnamon right now.

It currently uses X11 so we’ll see if I have similar issues when it switches to Wayland.

Not ideal and I couldn’t really find a theme that I liked but things do work better. Workers and Resources runs properly now but I still can’t get it to go fullscreen from its settings menu so I’ll need to try the config file.

I’m happier now but still wish I could find a set up that I like better.

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We’re getting some errors regarding UpdateLayeredWindow even though we don’t use it in the project. I suspect it’s another missing include somewhere upstream that’s resolved in windows.h so it’ll take me time to figure out which file(s) in MWEdit need(s) the header that defines it.

So far, here are the files in the Windows API that we’ve discovered have missing includes:

• winnt.h is missing tchar.h
• winuser.h is missing windef.h

Will figure out UpdateLayeredWindow just give me a bit. We’re definitely getting closer, though. UpdateLayeredWindow has two versions: a global version and one in the CWnd class.

I suspect winuser.h needs to go before afxwin.h but I need to take some time to study the logs some more.

Also, I disabled warnings for system headers when compiling under MSVC. No changes should be needed for GCC but I’ll double check when I get the opportunity. -Weffc++ could be interesting to experiment with but we’ll get there.

With regards to MSVC, there are some useless warnings we may want to disable as they clutter up the logs. One such warning is it telling us a specific function was inlined.

Once I get GCC builds enabled, there may be additional tweaks we’ll want to make on that front as well

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So it turns out that MSVC doesn’t like it when I try to use bool instead of BOOL for MFC stuff, which is annoying. Looks like they never updated the type to C99 or modern C++. Blech:
D:\a\MWEdit\MWEdit\ui\load_dlg.h(69,15): error C2555: 'CEsmLoadDlg::OnInitDialog': overriding virtual function return type differs and is not covariant from 'CDialog::OnInitDialog' [D:\a\MWEdit\MWEdit\builddir\MWEdit.vcxproj]
If you’re going to use C++ then at least use the proper types! *grumbles*
Will need to go back through and fix it. Again. *sigh*

Also getting some errors regarding stuff in the shipped winuser.h file. Will see if those go away as I go through. If not, it’ll be another broken Windows header to add to our list.

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Turns out it’s an issue with how COSMIC does compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Input_grabbing_in_games,_remote_desktop_and_virtual_machine_windows

So basically, I can either drop PopOS, drop COSMIC, or wait for them to fix things.

Workers and Resources is great! Highly recommend it if you like realistic city builders 🙂

Running it through Proton. Due to the above issues with Wayland, Alt + Enter don’t work to make it fullscreen. I’ll need to see if I can find another way to force it. Adding -fullscreen to the launch options didn’t work either. Will try the INI file when I get the opportunity.

Could also be a rogue cosmic particle. They can get mad!

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The Witcher launches in fullscreen and I can choose the resolution from the in-game menu. It’s currently set to 4k, which is the monitor’s native resolution.

Haven’t used either one myself but I do see them recommended in the OSS circles. 🙂

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Yeah, I see E-61 machines mentioned a lot but the decent ones seem to start at around 2,000 USD with new La Marzocco units going for around 6,000 USD. That’s a lot just to get a cup of coffee! 😛

Yep, will make a note of it for if I get over there! 🙂

Hard to treat them here due to how wet things usually are. They just come right back a few months later.

Still pretty dry but we’re supposed to get heavy rain today and then nothing for a while. I’ll take what I can get, though!

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