#config files.

[sparky-is-spiders]

Hi do you want to read the first section of the space illness au? Do you want domestic married sci-fi Jonelias? Where Elias is only a tiny bit ominous?

The moment that Jon would soon recognize as the beginning of the end happened on an otherwise entirely ordinary afternoon. The sky was a deep, swirling gray (it is almost never anything else), rain battered the research outpost, and waves crashed against the shore. Jon was out on what could generously be referred to as a deck. It was a place just next to the outside lab door, where the walls, metal overhang, and general location usually offered a good amount of protection from the rain (not that Jon would ever trust it enough to bring out any sort of important papers). There was a collapsible glass table and two uncomfortable steel chairs, and every now and then Jon could spot distant flashes of lightning reflected on both.

As the afternoon had crept on, Jon had noticed a weariness sinking into his bones. The kind that turned joints to liquid and limbs to lead, and which came with a lightheaded dizziness that would send Jon stumbling whenever he stood. He was not, at the time, especially concerned. It was hardly unusual for him to be tired, and the notes he was currently writing were tedious but not taxing. Mostly, he had put it from his mind.

The sky slowly grew darker. Thunder rattled the outpost. The rain continued to fall. Jon's mind began to feel… sluggish. Perhaps he could benefit from some coffee. He heaved a sigh which turned into a yawn partway through and gathered his things. He pushed himself from his chair (it had taken an unusual amount of strength, and he had nearly collapsed back into it (but surly that alone wasn't a cause for concern, either)), gathered his things, and ducked into the lab. It looked more like a scrap heap which had been pelted with sealife than a respectable place of research, but sometimes such things were necessary. Jon stepped carefully around tables piled high with equipment, trying not to trip on various puddles of (probably) seawater. His husband was hunched over a dissected sea glider, poking and prodding at something in its exposed chest cavity. Jon pressed a light kiss to his cheek as he brushed past. "I'm making coffee. Would you like any?"

Elias barely seemed to register the question. "No food or drinks in the lab, Jon. Can't contaminate the samples."

Jon considered informing him that the intention to drink coffee in their living quarters, but there really was no point. It took significantly more effort to get his full attention while he was working (effort Jon was not willing to exert while Elias was knuckle-deep in viscera, thank you very much), and there was no real reason to do so. Besides, this way nobody could judge him for being liberal with the level of caffeine. He certainly felt unbalanced enough at present to need it. He stepped through the glass door into the main living quarters. They were sparse (practically minimalist, compared to the laboratory), but they served their purpose. There was a small kitchenette tucked into the near wall, kept pristine through both fastidious cleaning (Elias) and a general lack of use (Jon). The coffeemaker here was kept in exactly the same place as it was at home: right next to the fridge, in front of the utensil holder. Jon walked right past it in favor of the microwave on the other side of the kitchen (which made coffee that tasted exactly the same and did so more quickly, Elias). Jon leaned on the counter, closed his eyes, and waited for the water in his favorite mug to boil.

It was warm and bitter when he put it to his lips, and did little to banish his fatigue.

It didn't matter. Jon had more notes to sort through and a manuscript that was going to be written if it bloody well killed him. He hadn't bothered going back out. It was cold and dreary enough inside, really. He could do without the wind and the rain possibly damaging his sketchbook (the "nice, refreshing" sea breeze had proven neither nice nor refreshing, and "breeze" was probably an overly charitable interpretation). He was working on moving his notes on the anatomy of Brown-Speckled Sea Pills (which, it should be noted for the sake of his dignity, he had not been responsible for naming) from his sketches to his manuscript. It was a process which had eaten away at the hours and almost distracted Jon from his exhaustion. Certainly, he didn't notice Elias entering the room until the man was leaning over Jon's chair and staring at his holo-screen. Jon did not jump. Or yelp. Anyone who would say otherwise was a liar. "Christ, Elias! Don't-"

He was cut off by Elias' hand on his chin, tilting his head up to face him. He was... staring. As if examining Jon. Jon narrowed his eyes at him. "What on earth are you doing?"

Elias hummed but didn't immediately answer. It was only when Jon went to make another remark (or perhaps pull him down for a kiss, he hadn't quite decided yet) that he bothered to speak. "You're looking a little pale. Are you feeling alright, Jon?"

Jon stared at him, trying not to feel unsettled. "Yes. Just a little tired. Is there something you need?"

Elias leaned back. "Can't a man simply wish to check in on his husband?"

"Well, consider me 'checked in on.'" That was rude, probably. "I do need to be getting back to this." He added, gesturing at his screen and aiming his tone in the general direction of apologetic. "So unless there's something else...?"

Elias stepped away, letting his hand stroke over Jon's shoulder. "Thought I might step in for some coffee."

Exhaustion was still gnawing at him, and a little more caffeine sounded like a rather excellent idea. "Would you mind fixing me a cup as well?"

"Didn't you have some earlier?" Elias' tone was unnecessarily judgmental, but he was filling two mugs, so Jon could let it slide.

"And now I'm having more. To be honest, I wasn't sure you had noticed."

"You do know you're going to give yourself a heart attack one of these days."

"Hopefully it can at least wait until I'm done with these." Jon said, gesturing to the screens. "If it turns out I wasted four months on research just to die before I can finish, I'm going to haunt this place."

"Well," Elias said, turning away casually, "I'm sure we can manage to get them published posthumously. It's not so difficult a process, really."

Jon let out a hum, already feeling his focus slipping back to his research.

Rereading the space illness au like. Damn. This was GOOD tho.

[softdefault]

i’ve been a headlineeffects off girlie for a long time but i’ve missed the little info bubbles and speech bubbles and the light dimmer and it turns out you CAN just remove the plumbob and keep the other headline effects too. life forever changed

[borom1r]

Lord of the Rings CD Cardz wallpapers

[corvuscorona]

minecraft modders. I would like you to know that "data-driven" is actually kind of a sucks thing for your mod to be. have you considered instead making it "buttons-driven"? where I can click on some buttons, and stuff happens? I am also willing to accept a config file with predefined options in it but frankly if you're capable of figuring out how to do that I'm PRETTY SURE you can also figure out how to manifest buttons on my screen. inside the video game

[glitchytrait]

just thought i'd leave this here

thanks to this wonderful video, i learned how to get access to all of the sims 4 expansions totally legally. if you don't wanna go through all those steps, you might just be able to get them, too, if you follow this link...

instructions can be found in the video or in the tags. i will make my own video for my process in the future. when i do, i'll edit this post and link it here.

[cyncrovee]

I just put up my first neovim plugin! :3

It uses the vim.notify() function to display one of the splash text options that the user inputs in the config (it picks randomly).

It works fine out of the box, but if you have a plugin that modifies the way vim.notify() shows notifications, it can look really nice! For example:

[kodicraft]

If you ever need to convince someone to use nix just show them this:

[windrunner]

god i forgot i shouldn’t reblog posts talking abt downloading shit w/ actual input when they don’t have enough notes tht i’m drowned out b/c then i’m gonna get someone who didn’t even look up the program i’m talking about whining abt how it must be Just like a shit yt video downloader website and i’m like….. alright man. it’s just in the name of the program b/c it’s a fork of an existing project and ppl who wanna download videos….. are often downloading videos from yt. the largest video website. on the internet. hello?

[not-available-for-comment]

Ohhhh you know what. I’m just some doofus so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but.

To fix the crowdstrike bug you have to delete a config file in safe mode right?

What if someone accidentally pushed their personal dev hack config file to prod, instead of swapping it out with whatever the official config file is supposed to be? That’s something that can’t get caught in testing because it wasn’t an intentional part of the update. Everyone in dev and QC probably has some kind of config hack to use the dev environment so who knows how many of them even look at the configs that are used for prod, especially in an update that doesn’t involve them. You accidentally select one file too many when you push the update and congrats you broke world computing :)

Again, with my rinkadink knowledge of development and computer systems that’s the only explanation that I can personally think of that explains why an apparently supposedly minor update Broke Everything. Probably they would need to change their workflow to check for that in the future or make it harder to do, but maybe that’s how a supposedly competent company managed to pull this off.

[pseudophan]

HELP sorry crafties i've just been informed by @danrifics that i forgot to put the default game mode back to creative when i restarted the server earlier today lol i'll fix it once i get home

[zebrafiz]

laptop is open… ts4 is updating….. *ominous music*

[typecasto]

welp fuck. i am finally forced to make regular use of windows again, they wont let me put linux on my work computer. well at least i’m finally using neovim regularly now, and holy shit it’s nice. i finally caved and used lazyvim instead of going full purist and making my own config from scratch and somehow it’s way easier, who would have guessed.

[miodiodavinci]

Did you make Salvador with OpenUTAU in mind? Whenever i try to use his voicebank in og UTAU it doesnt make any noise.

i made him with UTAU-Synth in mind, unfortunately ;; _ ;; standard windows UTAU suddenly stopped working for me several years ago (see: everything works fine until i hit play, whereupon it pops up the render window, renders everything, closes the render window, and does nothing. no playhead, no sound, no scrolling. yet somehow i can still export full renders) so i'd been leaning heavy on UTAU-Synth in the meantime

when i put together salvador, i hadn't yet made the jump to using OpenUTAU and vLabeler either, so he's kind of in a weird limbo where i did my best to make sure he'd work in all three versions, but i had no real way of testing to make sure he did ;; _ ;;

[transgenderization]

okay so ive got steam to recognise this controller as a ps4 controller but not. samurai remnant. which is almost certainly because its a pirated copy but i got this to work with dragon quest 11 a while ago. so i just have to remember how.

[oct2pus]

I do not know why my brain decided "2 hours decompression before bed is toiling with a different webserver".

The issue is also weird and hard to diagnose but its weird and hard to diagnose for other reasons.

Basically a program is not registering in podman but is running, a lower level program is keeping the ports open and im presumably running the application. This is noticable because it won't mount volumes and essentially does not use the volumes I've specified.

If I kill conmon and then free the port, I can successfully create the program and have it run in podman. People are documenting this but they're not providing reproducible configurations so the developers aren't really tackling this.

[theonixie]

Changing the OS you use for game development is a fun and exciting way to discover just how many things you had were either a.) dependent on things already on your old system or b.) were quirks exclusive to your old system