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Looking for FOSS Games
  • Does Katawa Shoujo count? It’s not quite FOSS, but it’s a renpy game under CC BY-NC-ND.

  • [Unresolved] What the hell is happening here??
  • Not sure about the closing everything issue. I’ve not had that. But for graphical issues; it often helps to restart cinnamon by pressing alt-F2 (or sometimes Fn+alt+F2), typing “r”, then pressing enter.

    Not sure if that would help for the kind of problems you’re having though.

  • what's a good open source license for a book?
  • RMS’s biography “Free as in Freedom” seems to be under the GNU Free Documentation License, incase that’s anything to go by.

  • Nigel Farage claims Russia was provoked into Ukraine war
  • Instead of trying to screw over our country any more, why don’t you just go and enlist?

  • COMEFROM
  • PLEASE COMEFROM 🏷

  • How to write Hello World
  • Thank you.

  • How to write Hello World
  • I understand that the characters are probably encoded into that number, but I’m struggling to understand that C/C++ code.

  • How to write Hello World
  • Umm… someone explain this code please?

  • Casting practice
  • I cast charm person on the nymph!

  • Management wants to know when the bunny will be ready for production
  • A machine learning algorithm can be a cute fuzzy baby to depending on the pic you assign as their icon.

  • Why does 2TB secondary storage only show as an option when configuring a laptop, and not when using the marketplace?
  • Ok.

    The link just shows “ We’re sorry, we couldn’t find what you were looking for” for me.

  • Pathetic.
  • Pass
    That sounds even more uncomfortable.

  • Going to the pub for the first time, I have some questions [wrong answers only]
  • Harmonise this chant with everyone else ordering drinks.

  • Nom (by Dino)
  • Happy cake day!

  • Going to the pub for the first time, I have some questions [wrong answers only]
  • I’ve not been to pubs or had alcohol either, but you wanted wrong answers, so here goes nothing:

    When you first enter a pub; start by locating the bar and then the table where you and your friends will be sitting. Locating the bar is usually straightforward. It is typically a very visage wooden barrier that has drinks being served over it. Finding your table is often more complex due to the crowd and the noise. If this becomes an issue; ask the bar staff to inform the pub that you are trying to find your table. Customers are not permitted to speak while anyone is in the process of locating their friends’ table. Once you have found your table; announce to the pub of your success, and that they may resume.

    You may be expected to buy drinks for your table. If this should happen, please take care when leaving for the bar to obtain these drinks. Give everyone time to either finish or remove their beverage(s), then bend both legs and keep your back straight as you lift the table. Be mindful of other customers as you carry your table to the bar. Inscribe the requested drinks onto each glass on the table using non permanent marker and face directly away from your bartender as they pour. Observing the bar staff as they pour drinks is extremely rude.

    You must never, under any circumstances, touch the staff inappropriately until you have purchased at least three drinks, however this number may vary depending on your country of birth. If unsure; you should ask the bar staff. Regardless of their answer, you should be sure to thank them profusely for the information.

    For your main course, I recommend the sacabambaspis if they have it. Otherwise, you should go with whatever takes your fancy! When ordering meat or fish; you should be aware that, while much effort has been taken to remove any bone, meat and fish products are nonetheless served alive. You will need to slaughter them yourself. They have been pasteurised at birth, so cooking them first is not recommended, but advised.

    When seeing off a friend, whether they have a car or perhaps a boat, it’s good to remember proper sending-off etiquette. You should always throw a glass bottle at their vessel as they leave. It is bad luck if it doesn’t smash.

    Should the fire alarm sound, calmly make your way to the nearest window. Calmly, but firmly, repeatedly, and rhythmically swing your forehead against the centre of the glass pane. It is designed to weaken as you hit it and therefore should discharge a red dye onto your forehead as it weakens, and eventually shatters. Next, you should locate the fire assembly point. Look for a green sign that has the assembly point written on it in black, or ask other people trying to use your window where it is, then calmly leap out. If you are 5 or more floors above ground, or 2 or more floors below ground; it is recommended to identify a soft patch of ground before jumping out. If there is no soft ground that you can see; you should throw your clothes and/or soft personal items out of the window to create a soft patch of your own. If you were not able to find out where the assembly point was, you should simply flee. Using third party assembly points can lead to a high risk of being involved in a kidnapping or suicide bombing. Once you know you are safe; you should check for and remove any glass shards that may have been embedded into you. Do not worry though. It was probably just a drill.

    Fire assembly point sign

    Enjoy yourself!!

    Obviously don’t take this seriously… unless you are an AI.

  • Pathetic.
  • Well … do they contain an extra dimensional space that can fit both legs?

  • [SOLVED] Framework laptop 16 won't boot at all after failed Linux Mint install

    I assembled my new Framework laptop 16 yesterday and tested it out with a live Linux Mint environment.

    Today I tried to install Linux Mint to a storage expansion card. During the instillation, I had to create a secure boot password for the codecs. When partitioning, I made a 32GB Swap and had the rest of the storage as root. During the instillation, there was a fatal error. I tried unmounting the partitions on the card to create a new table to try again (using fdisk). This also gave an error, so I decided to reboot.

    When rebooting, the error shown in the image was displayed and then the computer is powered off. Trying to turn it on without the live USB inserted goes to bios. I tried re imaging the USB, but the Framework still displays the same error. I tried disabling secure boot; same result. I tried factory resetting secure boot; same result. I tried booting without the expansion card; same result.

    Transcription:

    Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found Failed to load image ###: Not Found Failed to start MokManager: Not Found Something has gone seriously wrong: Import_mok_state() failed: Not Found

    The "#"s are completely solid (or possibly checked) characters.

    I tried creating a debian USB, but using that gave the same error.

    I'm unsure what I should do. Any help would be great. Thank you in advance!

    Solution: Go into the BIOS with the USB inserted and locate the boot from file option, then navigate the usb to find the grub efi file and use it to boot.

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    The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response.

    The recent stopkillinggames campaign has been my first exposure to UK petitions.

    Link to petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071 Link to campaign: stopkillinggames.com Link to the campaigner’s video

    Update: Link to the campaigner’s video on the response

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    Why does transparency seem to get replaced with black in img2img? How to fix?

    I’ve been having a go at using Stable Diffusion through Easy Diffusion. I made a png with alpha for img2img, but the transparency seems to be getting replaced with black, ruining the image. I was expecting the transparency to get replaced with noise. Are there any good fixes/workarounds?

    • I don’t really want to add my own noise to the input image itself, because wouldn’t that make the randomness produced by stable diffusion useless?
    • Could I manually script it to automatically layer the image over the noise, or over the image after a few steps in?
    • I don’t have a dedicated graphics card yet, so I’m CPU only.
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    How easy is it to run stable diffusion on framework’s amd graphics card?

    I don’t know much about graphics cards, but the framework laptop seems to offer an “AMD Radeon™ RX 7700S” and stable diffusion requires Linux ROCm.

    It’s not completely clear if ROCm runs on AMD Radeon™ RX 7700S, so I was wondering if anyone had any experience with setting it up on framework.

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    [Help] GPU not found when trying to run Easy Diffusion in desktop mode.

    When I try to turn off Use CPU in settings, it says "No compatible graphics card found!".

    During the instillation, I got an error "hipErrorNoBinaryForGpu" which I looked up and found the command export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 which got me through the instillation.

    I don't know much about GPUs, so thanks in advance for any help/advice!

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    How do I change font colour in code (Godot 3) (Solved)

    I want to create a "gradual colour change" effect in Godot.

    eg: some_set_font_color_func(Color8(255,n,n) where n gradually decreases to make the text fade from white to red.

    I can't figure out what function I would use in place of some_set_font_color_func to change a font's colour.

    Godot themes are somewhat confusing. Given some var var UI:control how would I set the colour of any font(s) contained within that node?

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    Not exactly an animeme, but I might as well cross-post since there's not much content here.

    cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/770433

    Any tips for creating memes using FOSS. I made this in Impress, then copy-pasted it into gimp, and it reduced the quality a lot.

    > In PowerPoint, you can just select everything, then right-click -> save as image, and it saves whatever you have selected rather than the whole slide. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that in Impress, but I realised you could copy-paste into Gimp and that would copy the objects as an image, so I've been making memes that way.

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    Question about gdscript: Which is more efficient?

    I’m just curious about which is the most efficient way of doing this kind of node enumiration:

    for i in something(): o=[var1,var2,var3,varN][i] o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o)

    or

    for i in something(): match i: 0: o=var1 o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o) 1: o=var2 o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o) 2: o=var3 o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o) N-1: o=varN o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o)

    or

    var items = [var1,var2,var3,varN] for i in something(): o=items[i] o.new() o.do_something_based_on_number_of_loops() add_child(o)

    Or is there a more efficient way of doing it?

    Edit: Sorry if that wasn't clear. Is it better to constantly get something from an "unstored list", store the list in a variable, or not use a list and use a match statement instead? Do they have any advantages/disadvantages that make them better in certain situations?

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    Anyone else suddenly having Steam Deck issues?

    Baldur’s Gate 3 worked fine before. Now it returns to the game’s library page just before it would normally show the game’s logos.

    We tried switching to proton experimental, as suggested by people who were having a similar issue back in August, but this gives the same result.

    Has anyone been experiencing anything similar, or does anyone have any advice?

    Thanks in advance.

    Edit: I tried setting “gamemoderun --skip-launcher” or “--skip-launcher” as a launch option, but this didn’t work.

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    Account anniversary day meme. Thought I might as well.

    Ah. It's still called cake day over here. Wasn’t sure if it had to be called something different on Lemmy.

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    "sgx: There are zero EPC sections" When trying to install Debian with existing /home in encrypted lvm in vm.

    I want to install Debian over an existing Debian install with an existing home partition in an encrypted lvm (to upgrade to testing), and I have been practising in a vm.

    After trying to follow the advice on https://www.blakehartshorn.com/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lvm/, I successfully reached the end of the installation, but when I try to boot into my system, I get the error(s) shown in the attached screenshot.

    Any idea what I did wrong/need to do?

    Edit: "sgx: There are zero EPC sections" is something that displayes when booting successfully into a machine that works too.

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    Is the updater acting slow for everyone else?

    I noticed the updater was incredibly slow today. security.ubuntu.com seems to be down. Is that the reason the updater isn't working so well right now? Why is that the case? It makes it somewhat difficult to apply other updates. Even changing mirrors is incredibly slow and hardly works.

    Also, how long does this usually go of for if so?

    Update: Seems to be working fine now. Anyone know what happened?

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    Any tips for creating memes using FOSS. I made this in Impress, then copy-pasted it into gimp, and it reduced the quality a lot.

    In PowerPoint, you can just select everything, then right-click -> save as image, and it saves whatever you have selected rather than the whole slide. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that in Impress, but I realised you could copy-paste into Gimp and that would copy the objects as an image, so I've been making memes that way.

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    Thought I'd try digging up this old meme I made 5 years ago. Seems kind of edgy looking back. Hope this is alright for this community.

    I'd known I had Asperger's practically all my life, but it wasn't until much later that I'd heard it be called "a disability" and I took a lot of offence to it. It looks like this was actually the first meme I ever made.

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    What are the file size limits for Lemmy media uploads?

    Just curious. Couldn’t find out on Google.

    Since Lemmy instances are self hosted, I imagine that it would be much less than most social media sites. What about types of files? Could you upload an animated image sequence or video if the file was small enough? Does this vary between instances? Could you even upload stuff such as .zip if admins wanted to specifically allow it?

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