I've been gaming more recently, on hardware that is decent-in-some-contexts-but-definitely-not-in-this-one which has meant pathetic frame rates as low as 7~12FPS as my save files grew bigger. A kind soul took pity on me and installed a better graphics card in my machine while I wasn't looking - which of course …
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Switching locale (Gnome 3, Fedora 20) | and making sure all the menus switch too
In the spirit of immersion, I switched the laptop's language to Japanese, however most of the Gnome menus remained in English even after switching the System Language altogether, logging out etc. Another profile on the laptop shows the menus for Activities, etc in Japanese just fine so it wasn't a …
read moreAdventures with Steam on Linux | Today: Mark of the Ninja doesn't start
I've been getting back into PC gaming for the last couple of months, and that has involved a lot of checking out what Steam on Linux looks like nowadays (i.e. playing lots of games). Most of the time everything works just fine and smoothly, but sometimes there are hiccups …
read moregit diff showing a weird output | ^[[1;33m^[[mmmmh?!
I came back to an old project on another machine only to find that the git diff command did not behave as expected anymore:
^[[1;33mdiff --git a/myproject/myapp/models.py b/myproject/myapp/models.py^[[m ^[[1;33mindex 0216829..d9e1637 100644^[[m ^[[1;33m--- a/myproject/myapp/models …
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