#zorin

[xlownenbemy]

Good morning, little Seras!! Did you have sweet dreams?!

once again time to put my favourite character in horrible situations!!

[netscapenavigator-official]

I'm thinking about doing something extremely feral:

Basically, unlike macOS, dynamic wallpapers on Linux work on timers. So, the dynamic Mojave Wallpaper I have set up isn't aware of when the daylight is changing, like on macOS. As a result, 16 photos across 24 hours simply is not enough.

The wallpaper that I initially downloaded, had each of the 16 images evenly spaced out. However, one quick look at the images, and you can tell they are NOT lined up for the changes in day time. Therefore, I went into the XML file and edited the times, myself. I set them up to better reflect what the sun is actually doing, outside.

However.

The sun does not behave the same throughout the entire year. Fortunately, Apple weather has this fun feature that lets you look at how the daylight behaves across the year, on a per-month basis. As a result, what I can do is make a unique XML file, for each month, and then swap them out at the 1st to make sure my dynamic wallpaper stays accurate.

But that's a lot of work for a wallpaper, and having to manually swap them out isn't ideal. I wonder if there's a way to use functions to make a single XML file repeat the daily pattern only a certain amount of days before switching to a new daily pattern for a new month, and then repeating.

Idk. And there's only one way to find out!

[visuallifes]

[lonelimbless]

Me giving Ashlen a potential bf because I can.

Anyways, meet Zorin: the dragon prince. He is very prosperous and noble, often relaxed with his royal status, and is often an odd one out among dragon kind as he is generous to those he cares about. However, still a dragon, he always has an eye for gold and jewelry. He has a soothing voice :>

His scale and fur colors are based around a Dragon's Breath Opal because yes. Also, I'm trying to lean more with the purple than red since I need more color variety with my ocs. And yes, he has pink hair, he rocks it.

[kayden-valcourt]

kalii'2 famiily reveal.

[roughridingrednecks]

Zorin

[the-hellsing-organisation]

[magicalrobodokiofficial]

i think roxanne is gonna sue somebody /silly

reasons:

name: similar to hers

plan: similar to why mirai created her

design: lab goggles and vest are very similar to her canon lab work outfit, even if she's african american and roxanne is somewhat asian in terms of features.

voice: literally my exact voice claim for roxanne

behavior: pre-redemption roxanne-like, she'd do anything to prove herself right in the eyes of someone (the agency/her mother) even if it means killing people along the way.

Conclusion: if this game ever came out in the robodoki universe....

...bust out the james bond title card /silly

[wanderingoff]

Man I am having so much fun

In an effort to not buy a new laptop when this one really started becoming unusable (we hit 15 minutes of distance between opening the clamshell and getting onto my zoom calls), I wiped it and installed a lightweight Linux distro called Zorin, and in the week since I've been like, figuring it out and whatnot.

I've always kinda felt like I missed the boat on being like, A Real Millenial or smth as a teenager because I never really got into doing stuff with computers or websites or whatnot. Like, I've been online since I was 11 or 12, but I wasn't out here making gifs or AMVs or my own computers or whatnot. And now I am?? I mean, barely, this is explicitly designed to be Linux so easy to use Italian school systems are using it en masse, but I'm futzing around in the terminal and learning about different formats and googling around forums for advice.

The biggest challenge is the webcam drivers, which I now know I should have expected, and I've found some and the install instructions aren't quite working, but I'm like, figuring out certain steps, and I feel like I have good questions about how to do what I think needs to happen, and fun isn't exactly the right word, but I feel like I'm on a Quest to become a Real Boy and like, make my computer do stuff and I *love* it. I've always wanted to be an eccentric techie and it turns out the only thing I needed to do was... just fucking go for it.

[in-sufficientdata]

Longterm Linux user (and Windows despiser) here to recommend my favorite distro, Linux Mint.

Don't feel you have to go with my pic, though! There are lots of distros out there with options for all kinds of users. (I might also mention, for those of you with older computers, that Zorin is a lightweight distro made for outdated systems.)

As far as gaming goes, between Steam's Proton plugin and Wine you should be able to run pretty much any game that's out there.

One more thing: if you're familiar with using the command prompt in Windows or are a former DOS user, you'll find installing software and customizing your environment is a breeze. If not, you'll have to spend a little time familiarizing yourself with how to use the terminal. But most installation guides online are pretty good about providing the syntax you'll need for easy copy/pasting into terminal.

The only other thing you'll need to be sure to remember is to use the copy and paste commands in the edit menu of the terminal. Don't try to use ctrl-C or ctrl-V; it'll just type ^c and ^v.

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Deadhaus Sonata - Zorin by Bogdan Tomchuk

[xlownenbemy]

Zorin and Seras!

[netscapenavigator-official]

So I have a Linux problem, and I'm just gonna post it here. I dunno if I have the reach for this, but if you know a potential fix, I will gladly accept it:

Basically, I run Zorin OS 17.2 Core on my Mid-2017 MacBook Pro (Two Thunderbolt Ports). This computer has been hell to make work, but after years of fiddling and finding drivers and terminal commands, it works almost like OEM.

My last problem with this machine, and the only thing that does not function like it's OEM, is the Sleep/Wake function. This is a known issue with 2016 and newer MacBooks on Linux; However, there are workarounds.

Namely, I found a kernel parameter that prevents Deep sleep and only allows the computer to go into s2idle when the lid is shut. This isn't great because it means the dies quickly and gets hot when the lid is shut, but I can't really do anything about it. This did, however, fix an issue I was having where the audio would just stop working if I ever shut the lid.

The final issue was getting the computer to wake up on its own. Every time I start the computer up (not waking it up; only powering it up from a complete shutdown) I have go into terminal and run this:

sudo bash -c 'echo "0" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/d3cold_allowed'

I don't know what this command does, but without it, the machine will just never wake up. If you close the lid without running this at initial startup, it cannot be woken back up until it is rebooted.

That's not really a problem, since it's only once per reboot, and I don't reboot my laptop very frequently.

You know what would really make this even more seamless, though? If I could run this command using Ubuntu's startup applications menu. That way, I wouldn't have to manually open terminal every boot just to run this command. It would just run automatically, and I'd never have to worry about it. It would work like OEM! (Minus the less efficient sleep state.)

However, I can't do that. I've tried that. In fact, I have that exact command in my Startup Applications app, as we speak.

Any time I start the computer up and DON'T manually run the command, if I shut the lid, the computer sleeps. It will, however, wakeup (unlike if the command had never been input). HOWEVER. Unlike running the command in terminal, when it finally wakes up, the cursor photo changes into a gray square, my Night Light settings are reset, my wallpaper changes to black, my system accent color is changed to default, and any time I click inside the password box to login, the field immediately becomes inactive again. It doesn't stay active long enough for me to even get two letters typed. All this happens while "Authentication Error" rapidly and randomly flashes below the password box.

Eventually, if I don't force shut down the machine, it'll crash. It'll throw me into terminal mode, and it'll infinitely repeat an error claiming it could not write to some 'systemd jounral' thing because the operating system is in read-only mode. After that it'll either repeat that error over and over, creating endless lines in terminal mode, or it'll just freeze, and I have to restart the laptop either way. So, my question is:

WHY.

Why does running this command in terminal and running it via Startup Application have different results, and is there any way to fix it??

[visuallifes]

[lonelimbless]

Zorin but he blue now

[goatlingsvent]