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Cake day: September 2nd, 2024

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  • A bit offtopic, but why would anyone want to keep their instance in line with local laws? Aren’t internet sites operating under jurisdiction of where they are hosted? Or is it just some coincidence that those people decided to host their stuff at datacenters at their local proximity? When I’m choosing hosting the first thing I think about: “hmmm I shouldn’t host in country where I live because I don’t want to ever have any problem with local authorities, and if I host elsewhere authorities there won’t be able to reach me physically so the worst thing that could happen is the site gets shut down”.





  • Damn, turns out it’s Blur effect strength that is killing transparency. Found a suggestion to turn it way down and now I actually see transparency working in window decorations. I never noticed it’s even possible to configure blur further in desktop effects. Thought it’s just an on/off flag.


  • I tried even more of manual installing, for example I gave a try installing aurorae windows decorations alone, and transparency never works. Turns out, transparency might be totally broken with Wayland on KDE / Plasma 6, at least there are many issues searchable on this topic and even AIs seem to have learned from somewhere that “In Plasma 6 on Wayland, transparency effects may not work as expected due to various bugs and issues, especially with certain themes and drivers. Users have reported that transparency works better in X11, and some have found that specific settings or themes can help achieve the desired effect.”




  • Yes, it is not handler by Kvantum, which means if you install a Kvantum theme, it will not make your panel match that theme, so you still have to do that yourself. I found out about “Panel Colorizer” widget for KDE Panel, which looks very deep and promising, I’ll try and see, maybe I can come up with something good by combining multiple approaches.



  • I tried both through discover and manually by downloading. For example the most popular theme in the KDE Store called Sweet KDE, didn’t have Dolphin and some other things transparent+blurred like showed in screenshots. The only thing which has some transparency is console, but its transparency looks kinda bad, because it’s not blurred. I also tried re-enabling blur in effects system configuration, but it doesn’t affect it.




  • It does hurt, your VPN should support proper port-forwarding for soulseek to work well. In most cases, you will only be able to download files, but your shares will be inaccessible. It doesn’t seem to work with ProtonVPN for example, even when you built-in port-forwarding feature. And even if it did work, you would need to reconfigure and restart soulseek every time you reconnect the VPN, because their port-forwarding is randomizing the ports and there’s no way to turn that off.


  • Let me explain how Honkai Star Rail handles gearing. Every single character has six relic slots: head, hands, body, feet, planar orb, and planar ornament. These relics go from level 0 to level 15, and four of them have a randomized primary stat. They all feature four randomized secondary stats, and every three levels a random one of those secondary stats gets a bonus. Each relic also belongs to a set of relics, and characters benefit from having two or four pieces of a given relic set. That means for every character in your party, you need to get the right items at the maximum rarity, the right primary stats, the right secondary stats, and the right level-ups for those secondary stats.

    This is min-maxer mindset and I would hope randomized systems like this will prevent it but unfortunately no: even here some people think they actually need to roll every dice exactly the right way. I don’t think it’s true that this is really necessary. And no, it is not necessary to do top 10 world parses; you can just beat endgame content on modest, casual difficulty and call it a day, rather than try hard to set a record.