A few weeks ago I was given an old Dell Latitude E6320 laptop that my mum had for a while. It has an Intel i5-2520M with integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, and 8GB of RAM. A perfectly fine mid-range laptop for 2011, I imagine. A quick look at the spec sheet shows that this thing is very obviously business-oriented. I think whoever owned it prior upgraded the memory, though I don’t know the exact…
A couple of weekends ago the 59th Ludum Dare game jam happened, and I took part in the Compo event where you have to make a game from scratch in 48 hours. The theme was “Signal”, and I ended up making Connection 2559, a space shooter where you have to deploy comms beacons to connect two planets.
For one reason or another, I recently found myself wanting to play the original retail 2004 build of Half-Life 2. Given that I now use Linux full-time, I have to do so under Wine, using Lutris to launch it and DXVK for the Direct3D 9 implementation. I quickly ran into some issues though.
For a while, Zandronum has supported saving credentials for its account system to the system keyring using the login_add command, so you don’t have to keep typing your password into the console or storing it plaintext in your configuration file. This was only supported on Windows since the feature was first added, but I recently added support for libsecret, so this feature can now be used on Linux…
If there’s one thing that GNOME does right, it’s workspace management. One of the options GNOME offers is that workspaces only exist on the primary monitor, so windows on secondary monitors stick. I don’t use GNOME, but I really liked this feature.
While hacking at Subterranean (some not-a-game blocky cave game thing), I was experiencing weird groups of stutters happening about once per second that I was having trouble figuring out the cause of.
I neglected to write a post about this a couple weeks ago when Mercurial 7.0 was released, but: in the off-chance you were using the Mercurial package from the devel:tools:scm repository on openSUSE Leap 15, this will no longer be updated, due to Mercurial 7.0 introducing a dependency on a version of setuptools_scm that is newer than what is distributed in Leap. Since the development projects are…
Last May I wrote about how I had finally switched to using Linux full-time, now that I had an AMD graphics card, which actually work well under Wayland, unlike the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti I had before. I thought I kind of had to use Wayland, because I have two displays, with different refresh rates - a setup that would have you burnt for being a witch if you lived in the era where X11 was created.
I recently found myself wanting to use Debian on real hardware for something, but since my left monitor is dying, I need to override the EDID for it. This is mostly just for my reference in case I need it again (because where else better to store notes other than your public website?) The prior link shows how to do it for dracut-based distros like openSUSE. This post will probably also work for…
Merry Christmas! Hey remember that game I released 4 months ago? I spent the past couple of days hacking at it again, and now it has Android support and proper touch controls.