After you use ChatGPT for a bit, you will start recognizing its style of writing in posts and comments. I've seen dozens of obviously ChatGPT generated posts or replies on Reddit and Lemmy. Usually there will be a person who already replied to them something like "Thanks, ChatGPT", because it is that obvious. This only happens with naive prompts though, if you ask ChatGPT to present its answer to your prompt in a different style (for example, mimic some famous writer, or being cheerful/angry/excited and avoid overly safe language), it will immediately start writing differently and there's likely no limit on variety of writing styles you can pull out of it with enough effort of just asking it to write this or that way.
Yeah, got a bit carried away yesterday. Ultimately, there can't be right or wrong, since the whole discussion is simply about individual understanding or even preferences for the term "slop", nothing more. Some people will try to be as empirical as possible and choose a meaning based on how they've seen it being used in the wild, others will try to push the meaning they want for the term, it's all good and subjective.
I'm not sure this is KDE Panel you're talking about, but if it is, you can configure border radius in Panel Colorizer:
This is where the fundamental difference in attribution of connotations lies. From what you say, you perceive the term "slop" as a direct synonym to "low quality", without any extras. I perceive it as something more of a synonym to "repetitive" but with extra connotations, the most accurate common divisor of which is "repetitive content produced at speeds suggesting low effort".
I understand your point of view. But would you call something complex, high-quality, but repetitive, slop? And the same question, but if the person who produces it, does it extremely fast.
How would you use that term? Would you call "slop" something that was just mindlessly generated using AI in a single prompt and non-"slop" something that uses AI in more sophisticated/deliberate ways? What is the threshold of something being "slop" ultimately? Is this just result not looking decent enough or amount of effort combined with amount of knowledge and experience that was used to create that? I'm personally conflicted on this, because sometimes even mindless prompt may give great result, and sometimes a lot of manual effort may give shit result. I guess with "slop" I tend to gravitate towards "amount of effort combined with amount of knowledge and experience that was used to create" and perhaps also the amount of content that particular person produces and speed of its production. So if someone is really good with some tools (not necessarily AI) and figured some overpowered shortcuts that allow to produce results very fast with little effort, it also can be called "slop" just for the rate of production alone.
FWIW, the thing with killswitch it not due to Bazzite, nor KDE. There’s a f*ck load of user reports all over the internet with different systems that have experienced the same thing; e.g. this one by a GNOME user on Pop!_OS.
My bad, so it's probably ProtonVPN client doing tricky hidden things that can break.
As for your criticism on kdewallet, I was also bothered by it the last few times I engaged with KDE Plasma.
I also got a kdewallet problem with flatpak VS Code authenticating to github, but that one is so widely known, they even included guidelines in docs on how to solve it.
The only real issue I’ve had was that the btrfs partition sometimes shits itself and requires some CLI commands in emergency mode to fix it.
This sounds scary, not sure I'd be able to fix that. Hopefully, with some search if that happens to me.
IIRC there was a widget for setting preferred GPU in the taskbar?
Couldn't find this one, and in general couldn't find any UI for configuring GPUs systemwide. It's possible to set preferred GPU in Lutris settings, but it didn't work for some reason. I installed most heavy games via Steam, and Lutris doesn't see my Steam games and setting preferred GPU in its Steam category doesn't affect games in question.
cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/16319506
> So I've been using it for a week or so, tried some other distros on the side, also tried some very dangerous things like rebasing from KDE to Gnome. I'll present my impressions as lists of good and bad things. Also keep in mind I've been mostly using Gnome in the past, so some of this feedback might be more about KDE / Plasma 6 in general, rather than Bazzite itself. > > Bad: > - The most shocking issue I figured only yesterday is that games didn't use my NVIDIA GPU and instead used integrated one, I simply didn't expect NVIDIA edition of gaming-tailored distro could fuck up this, until I tried some heavier games yesterday and checked glxinfo after being unsatisfied by performance - only to find out it was indeed the case, workaround/fix can be found here. > - Transparency and blur work in a rather tricky way and by default blur is set to maximum that makes transparency not visible at all, took me a while to figure this out. > - Aurorae window decoration themes don't support "draw border on maximized and tiled windows" and there are no workaround without doing things that are very unsafe/unstable in context of atomic distro like Bazzite so for the rice I wanted I had to stick with builtin Breeze theme which is old and limited in many ways, I pretty much had to achieve everything with color scheme + panel colorizer alone. > - I don't remember how exactly this happened, but killswitch option in Linux ProtonVPN client somehow got broken in a way that I couldn't connect to internet at all because killswitch was activated and couldn't disable killswitch at the same time, I had to create another user and remove previous one. It also bombarded me with some errors regarding "kdewallet" that I don't understand. Worth noting, I've been using this client with killswitch on many Gnome distros before and never had this issue anywhere else. > - When using external monitor, some apps and games don't perform the same. For example, Blender's viewport feels less smooth/snappy than on internal monitor. > - By default mouse acceleration is on, which makes it feel weird/bad in some games and graphic programs, I believe it makes more sense to have it off by default and I'm not sure why even include that option in gaming-focused distro, I can't imagine anyone wanting to use it. Gaming is all about raw input (imo). > - Builtin terminal is rendered in its own style completely ignoring theming, I didn't like it at all. I was able to install alacritty via rpm-ostree though and it works just fine. > > Good: > > - All my favorite windows-only games installed from the first try with zero workarounds. And after fixing the issue with wrong GPU, performance in games is awesome, feels like it might actually be slightly better than on Windows. > - After discovering panel colorizer and figuring some quirks of Plasma 6 theming, especially in context of immutable distro, I was able to achieve look and feel I'm very happy about. > - I really like the idea of immutable/atomic distro, and ecosystem for using it here is solid and mature. It feels like system is very safe and bulletproof. > - Even though it's not recommended but rebasing from KDE to Gnome did work well with maybe some minor issues which I'm not even sure weren't just Gnome issues. In the end I didn't like Gnome version more than KDE one and decided to clean up my partitions and reinstalled KDE version again. > - I also briefly checked some alternative distros like Nobara, but nothing impressed me more than Bazzite. > - Volume and brightness controls, bluetooth, network manager, disks utility, and after some tweaking dolphin - everything works smooth, everything supports scenarios I want to use, and most of those feel better and more advanced than Windows or Gnome alternatives. > - Builtin ujust utility is neat and has a lot of optional tools installable in one command, like "ujust bazzite-cli", which installs and intergrates other utilities like atuin, fzf, ripgrep. > - I feel rather happy about it now, and I don't expect it to break anytime soon or have any major issues for me. Time will tell though.
So I've been using it for a week or so, tried some other distros on the side, also tried some very dangerous things like rebasing from KDE to Gnome. I'll present my impressions as lists of good and bad things. Also keep in mind I've been mostly using Gnome in the past, so some of this feedback might be more about KDE / Plasma 6 in general, rather than Bazzite itself.
Bad:
- The most shocking issue I figured only yesterday is that games didn't use my NVIDIA GPU and instead used integrated one, I simply didn't expect NVIDIA edition of gaming-tailored distro could fuck up this, until I tried some heavier games yesterday and checked glxinfo after being unsatisfied by performance - only to find out it was indeed the case, workaround/fix can be found here.
- Transparency and blur work in a rather tricky way and by default blur is set to maximum that makes transparency not visible at all, took me a while to figure this out.
- Aurorae window decoration themes don't support "draw border on maximized and tiled windows" and there are no workaround without doing things that are very unsafe/unstable in context of atomic distro like Bazzite so for the rice I wanted I had to stick with builtin Breeze theme which is old and limited in many ways, I pretty much had to achieve everything with color scheme + panel colorizer alone.
- I don't remember how exactly this happened, but killswitch option in Linux ProtonVPN client somehow got broken in a way that I couldn't connect to internet at all because killswitch was activated and couldn't disable killswitch at the same time, I had to create another user and remove previous one. It also bombarded me with some errors regarding "kdewallet" that I don't understand. Worth noting, I've been using this client with killswitch on many Gnome distros before and never had this issue anywhere else.
- When using external monitor, some apps and games don't perform the same. For example, Blender's viewport feels less smooth/snappy than on internal monitor.
- By default mouse acceleration is on, which makes it feel weird/bad in some games and graphic programs, I believe it makes more sense to have it off by default and I'm not sure why even include that option in gaming-focused distro, I can't imagine anyone wanting to use it. Gaming is all about raw input (imo).
- Builtin terminal is rendered in its own style completely ignoring theming, I didn't like it at all. I was able to install alacritty via rpm-ostree though and it works just fine.
Good:
- All my favorite windows-only games installed from the first try with zero workarounds. And after fixing the issue with wrong GPU, performance in games is awesome, feels like it might actually be slightly better than on Windows.
- After discovering panel colorizer and figuring some quirks of Plasma 6 theming, especially in context of immutable distro, I was able to achieve look and feel I'm very happy about.
- I really like the idea of immutable/atomic distro, and ecosystem for using it here is solid and mature. It feels like system is very safe and bulletproof.
- Even though it's not recommended but rebasing from KDE to Gnome did work well with maybe some minor issues which I'm not even sure weren't just Gnome issues. In the end I didn't like Gnome version more than KDE one and decided to clean up my partitions and reinstalled KDE version again.
- I also briefly checked some alternative distros like Nobara, but nothing impressed me more than Bazzite.
- Volume and brightness controls, bluetooth, network manager, disks utility, and after some tweaking dolphin - everything works smooth, everything supports scenarios I want to use, and most of those feel better and more advanced than Windows or Gnome alternatives.
- Builtin ujust utility is neat and has a lot of optional tools installable in one command, like "ujust bazzite-cli", which installs and intergrates other utilities like atuin, fzf, ripgrep.
- I feel rather happy about it now, and I don't expect it to break anytime soon or have any major issues for me. Time will tell though.
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."
I also tried Maximized Window Gap (fixed metadata and manually specified margins), but it doesn't seem to do anything on current KDE/Plasma.
I'm trying to add margins around all maximized windows (so that it matches my custom taskbar which also have small margins all around), any ideas how to achieve this? I tried doing a KWin script, but even though it installs and activates, it doesn't work, not sure what's wrong. Also I have suspicions there might be easier ways to do it. This is my script attempt: ``` workspace.clientMaximizeSet.connect(function(client, h, v) { if (h && v) { client.frameGeometry = { x: 0, y: 4, width: workspace.displayWidth - 4, height: workspace.displayHeight - 8 }; } });
```
Found solution: I already have panel colorizer widget for KDE Panel and it turns out, I could simply create extra panels on top/right/bottom edges with panel colorizers that allow to make them fully transparent and have custom height/width. And for windows to not lose borders/rounded corners when maximized I found a flag in "Window Decorations > Breeze" options.
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.
As I mentioned in OP, I also tried Kvantum, but it didn't work well because what's the point of using it if can't restyle taskbar. One of the most important things to customize for me personally. Ideally would like it semi-transparent blurred/glassy, like a shader or something.
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.
Decided to try some new distros and this time it's Bazzite. I can't figure out any way to make any kind of custom themes work and look as expected. I tried few themes with transparent windows from "Global Themes (Plasma 6)" category but transparency doesn't seem to work in any single one of them. I've seen general KDE suggestions to try forceblur/betterblur plugins but it requires compiling it manually and since it is Bazzite, it's quite complicated and I couldn't figure it out (if I compile it in distrobox for some kind of Fedora, will it even work for my Bazzite? if I don't use distrobox, how do I even compile it? it needs tons of extra dnf dev packages). I installed Kvantum via rpm-ostree, but turns out, it doesn't style taskbar and console (also firefox, but I could live with that since I probably can find a matching firefox theme). Any suggestions?
That's really sad. Can we at least have their stuff now? I mean it would be a waste to not open-source all the code and assets they've developed and make them available under MIT, CC and similar licenses.
Cool idea, I almost forgot this feature even exists. I think I dismissed it the past when I realized it's probably not going to be easy to switch VPN servers this way.
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.
Even co-op in gacha games doesn't qualify as MMO, because for that you need hundreds or thousands of players being simultaneously in the same persistent world. This is the same reason why games like Dota, League of Legends or Counter Strike aren't considered MMO.
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