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UPDATED 11.10.24: Here's my list of Anime communities on the Fediverse
  • I managed to find this post somehow but I can inform you that there's a community for Tsukihime that I've created early on, it's on a smaller instance that doesn't wage defederation wars so it should be accessible to almost anyone.

    Additionally if you want to appear in our sidebar you can reach out to me over DMs on this account or PM me on mastodon at @Scraft161@tsukihi.me. (this goes for any anime community; discoverability on lemmy is pretty lackluster)

  • I can't use AMD
  • It's sad that more companies are just willing to screw their customers and squeeze them dry of every last penny just for the sake of profit and infinite growth even though we know infinite growth will never be attainable.

    Every corporate entity is willing to forfeit their goals for money, especially if they hold a monopoly in a certain space and when growth slows they will look for other ways to offset that income.

    I've learned that loyalty means jack shit to the company and it's just another thing they can exploit you with, I'm not loyal to AMD but right now they're the least unethical party in this race to the bottom.

  • I can't use AMD
  • NVIDIA finally being the whole bitch it seems, not unexpected when it comes to tech monopolies.

    In the words of our lord and savior Linus Torvalds "NVIDIA, fuck you! 🖕", amen.

    In all reality, a lot of individuals aren't gonna care when it comes to EULA B's unless they absolutely depend on it and this whole move has me want an AMD gpu even more.

  • I can't use AMD
  • last I heard AMD is working on CUDA working on their GPUs and I saw a post saying it was pretty complete by now (although I myself don't keep up with that sort of stuff)

  • "It's dangerous to fall alone, take this!"
  • Just came across it and it's more relevant today than when it was posted

  • Discord rich presence on linux (game activity)
  • They could bother with pulse, but IDK how portable the API for that is, also discord working on Linux is more accidental and this getting fixed might just be because they want it fixed on the Mac side too.

    It's sad to see that discord has waited over 8 years to do this, but the whole thing is soydev code anyways.

  • Discord rich presence on linux (game activity)
  • From what I can tell they are working on updating their electron version to one that is aware of pipewire, this is the first part of solving the issue (especially for Wayland folks), the second part is just fixing some code in the client to deal with that and then it should be fixed until we deprecate pipewire in 2079. Additionally it would make discord finally act as a native Wayland app instead of being forced in xwayland.

  • Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
  • Truth is in many ways stranger than fiction.

  • USB Disk Drive for Linux
  • I heard of MakeMKV before, thing is that I generally don't buy blu-rays because of the downright horrible DRM schemes.

    if DRM makes it harder for me to enjoy the content I bought and paid for (this includes limiting me to some lowres garbage even though my system is more than capable of playing HD and FHD video) compared to what I would get if I were to pirate it then it's a problem of distribution; not one of morality.

    you will always have some group that pirates your content no matter what; but if buying gives me a worse product because of artificial restrictions put on it I can't give any less of a shit.
    there's very few streaming platforms that even give me a decent option (and I don't even properly own my library; all I get is a license to watch/listen to something, one that could be revoked at any time in the future without me being able to do anything except complain about it).

  • USB Disk Drive for Linux
  • Most dvd's should be fine as VLC can play almost any of them.

    BD is where things get complicated because of DRM, expect almost none of them to work thanks to big corpo telling us what we can and can't do with something you bought and paid for (sadly enough streaming doesn't get much better either)

  • How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?
  • If japanese kanji show as their Chinese variant make sure you are using the proper font variant. My recommendation is noto-sans-cjk-jp.

    Fedora does allow you to set the locale, it doesn't mention generating them so they might very well already be present You can use https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-administrators-guide/basic-system-configuration/System_Locale_and_Keyboard_Configuration/ to read more than I can tell you here.

  • "Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]
  • sxhkd/swhkd, both support creating these natively and the second one works not just on Wayland, but also X11 and the TTY.

  • That escalated quickly 😬
  • Exactly this worked best for me back in the day

    Not just you, your brain is wired to pick up language, how did you learn your first one?

    I’m German and while we have some mandatory English classes, they’re …well … not good.

    I can attest that English classes here aren't great either (although most people here do speak English as a second or third language)

    and at least the teacher I had first also had a VERY thick German accent

    This is a known side effect of premature output (writing/speaking before you feel comfortable doing so), you don't just listen to what's around you, you primarily listen to yourself and pronunciation differs between languages, this premature output becomes toxic input for your brain which then uses that from then on (you can try and get rid of it; but it is really hard to do)

    once I was halfway through the game my brain kinda switched to “English mode” and I actually learned words and grammar in a natural way instead of trying to force myself to understand what the hell a “singular past tense adverb” is.

    Yup, that's natural understanding for you. When you speak a language you don't care about the rules; you should instinctively know them.


    As for my issue with Duolingo: it ignores the amount of time it takes to properly acquire a language, if I were to split up all the time I spent watching english youtube into 5 minute chunks it'd take me well over 15 years (and that's just accounting for the initial 4 month span; I've learned more things after as I naturally used the language). Combine that with the fact it throws established research on this topic to the wayside to push the school-based one which we know goes against the natural way in which we learn. I found a great blog post online about this, while it mostly revolves around learning Japanese; the core principles apply to learning pretty much any language. The beginning of the post does sum the entire thing up pretty well though:

    We do not recommend "language learning" apps like Duolingo, Lingodeer, Babbel, and others due to the fact that their methodology conflicts with AJATT's principles of immersion learning. Such apps do not actually help you with anything. There are no success stories. On the other hand, AJATTers typically reach fluency in just 18 months. The apps prevent you from reading interesting content in your target language, such as manga. And they make you more miserable in the end.

    There are some really good parts in that blog that apply to any language; but a lot of it is geared towards Japanese specifically.

  • I made SVGs of Silver Wolf's pins
  • If you need a file host see if catbox fits your needs.

  • That escalated quickly 😬
  • The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos... Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).

    I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.

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  • If I can give my thoughts on what I've seen in research and linking various factors together.

    1. A not insignificant amount of neurodivergent people tend to pursue a career in IT (mainly people with ASD), these people can learn a lot through self study as it tends to align more with their personal interests, at some point through this they may become exposed to Linux and open source and subsequently choose to learn about that.
    2. Research has revealed a strong link between ASD and gender dysphoria. People diagnosed with ASD are ~4 times more likely to experience it.
    3. Even if you go through gender reassignment, you are still subject to the societal programming associated with your initial gender (which for boys tends to include videogames).

    While these 3 facts on their own don't mean much, I can see how these come together to create an above-average amount of trans women in the IT and Linux spheres and this only gets amplified by stereotypes.

    That said, this is mere speculation on my end based on the things I mentioned above, I am sure it plays a role; but I cannot be sure as to how significant that is in the grand scheme of things.

  • The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community
  • I love how musk is trying to make X the everything app all on his centralized network, and here we are building a decentralized everything network with dozens of open platforms and good 3rd party clients outpacing whatever musk is trying to cook.

  • God-given airbags?! ​:blobhyperthink:​
  • Hi, it seems like you posted to Lemmy from mastodon, while this is perfectly possible there are a few things to keep in mind.

    1. The first line of your toot will be the title, this should be pure text and avoid things like links, emoji, and other text markup as Lemmy doesn't render those.
    2. Lemmy will only ever show the first image on a mastodon toot.
    3. Lemmy doesn't handle image alt text very well, this is not a huge issue and I expect this one to get resolved as time goes on.
  • How do I tag/mention a user in a comment?
  • Just include their account address, the webui or your app should do the rest if needed.

  • venture capitalism goes brrr
  • I've been using Vendetta with a custom stylesheet for mobile which does the AMOLED theme much better than discord, haven't used the new app yet and I'm honestly contemplating whether I should get the old android native app running again.

  • Mastodon integration with lemmy & how to post here using your mastodon account.

    there are a couple posts across lemmy describing how to use mastodon with the service; but I have yet to find one that sums everything up neatly. also I'm doing this in my own community for moderation purposes.

    1. Viewing users and communities

    Any lemmy user will show up in mastodon as a normal user and vice versa, posts/toots probably won't federate properly, and toots from mastodon will not show up in lemmy for the time being as lemmy does support self-posts.

    Likewise any community will show up in mastodon as a user, but this user will function like a mastodon group, you can follow the account to "join" the community and it's posts should show up in your timeline.

    2. Posting to lemmy on mastodon

    This is the tricky part, while it is simple in theory; due to how both platforms differ you need to keep a couple things in mind.

    1. mention the account address in your toot ex: @tsukihime@iusearchlinux.fyi
    2. the first line of your toot is the post title, titles do not support anything beyond plain text so don't put mentions, links, ... here
    3. you can use markdown formatting on lemmy
    4. the first image attached to your toot will be the preview image on lemmy, any other images will not show up at all.

    3. Comments/replies

    Comments from Lemmy don't seem to federate through to mastodon (I tried a whole bunch of things across various clients and I didn't manage to get a single comment through. Replies from mastodon however seem to show up in lemmy just fine.

    4. Notes

    A lot of this is from personal testing I conducted using this instance, I highly suggest you try some experiments yourself from another lemmy instance if you can (of course without cluttering somebody else's community without permission) and try and help lemmy and mastodon out how to federate with each other if you can.

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    [Ciel Sundays] Time for some more Curry, Itadakimasu

    Artist: Ajita Ponzu (gelbooru)

    Bit late with this one as I had quite a bit to do today, but I'll make sure that there aren't any leftovers.

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    [Ciel Sundays] She needs a coffee

    Source: unknown (tried saucenao and iqdb)

    Wanted to do a bit of a semi-regular post and like any sane person I have a collection of artwork of anime girls (totaling 3.2GiB).

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    Tips for extracting assets from Tsukihime, Plus Disc, and Kagetsu Tohya

    disclaimer: while I've only fully extracted Tsukihime, both Plus Disc and Kagetsu Tohya are built with the same tooling so everything should still apply.

    Before we start you should have some installation of Tsukihime (not the remake), we're only going to use a couple files from it; but these are the actual game contents. Addtionally you want to get AETools to actually extract the archives, the program isn't really maintained anymore; but neither is Tsukihime.

    Audio

    By default Tsukihime streams it's audio from the CD, if you have the japanese release or an ancient translation patch you'll have to rip the audio yourself or find a source online. The Mirror Moon translation includes a patch to the game that alters the way the game does music, you'll be able to just find the music in the CD folder or somewhere near the game's installation.

    Game script

    The game's script is found inside the nscript.dat file, this .dat archive contains a single file 0.txt. This file might not display well in all applications as it is SHIFT-JIS encoded, you should be able to save a copy of the file as UTF-8 using notepad; otherwise there exist various tools to do this for you.

    NScripter's language is very primitive, but Tsukihime's script is pretty hefty so I would advise against dropping it in a heavy IDE. What is of note is that you have 2 types of sections: f-blocks dictate the flow of the script, if you are interested in all the choices the game makes you should look here, s-blocks contain the scenes, this is where the text lies alongside what graphics to show and what audio to play.

    Assets

    These are all the audio, backgrounds, character graphics and other tidbits the game uses, you'll find these in arc.sar. if you have arc.nsa and arc1.nsa they aren't too relevant (mostly copies of files found in arc.sar).

    PS: if you have any notes on this please let me know. Additionally if you have knowledge/experience with the remake (or mahoyo HD) I would love to hear of anything you have.

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    What's the general consensus behind Ciel's remake design?

    I like both designs quite a bit myself; but I feel like the remake one does a couple things that I don't like.

    The original is a really good embodyment of the character and is able to do a lot with Takeuchi's more primitive art at the time, it manages to set her apart and highlight what her character is while not straying from what the rest of the VN is. That said it is obvious that like many other things og tsukihime that it is very much a diamond in the rough situation and that it does lack this aspect of polish.

    The remake is able to address a lot of this by just 20 years of extra experience and in many ways is able to refine the overall design a fair bit; even if we have to put up with the sameface problem (even though Ciel suffers the least from this). My main gripe with the remake is her executioner outfit which goes from pretty badass but still rough to an immitation of Mash from Fate/Grand Order, while I do like a lot of the work put in the new outfit and all it does to try and improve; it goes from bland in comparison to the rest of the game to bland in comparison to the rest of the nasuverse. The big thing for me is the tattoos (or lack thereof), they worked as a really nice accentuation to her outfit and managed to make executioner Ciel a quite nice and detailed design especially in the original game; remake throws all of this out of the window for a more generic version of her outfit which would do well with the tattoos and early design documents show that they were considered and then later removed.

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    Where to start with Tsukihime

    TL;DR: start with the original here then move on to the rest, if you don't like visual novels then you can read the manga which has been translated on mangadex. DO NOT START WITH SOME MYTHICAL TSUKIHIME ANIME, if you were to find it across timelines you can discuss how bad it is with our other fellow steiners (do people still get Steins; Gate references?)

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    Tsukihime is a work with a few adaptations and such, and knowing where to start may be a daunting task, this thread should help you get started. There are a few ways to get started and I'll be summarizing the main ones here.

    Original Visual Novel

    Pros:

    • You get to enjoy the full story

    Cons:

    • Really old
    • Very Long

    This is the general recommendation if you're in it for the long run, the VN has quite a few rough edges; but if you can look past those it is the best way to enjoy the story, just know that it is basically a book with some PNGs and music.

    Remake

    Pros:

    • Better art, music and story
    • Officially available

    Cons:

    • Only on switch/PS4 (PS4 does not have an english translation)
    • Requires patch for english translation (switch only)
    • New timeline
    • Only the first 2 routes

    I don't recommend starting here as there are many cons and the remake changes the story quite a bit and currently only the first 2 routes are available which is a small fraction of the game.

    Manga

    Pros:

    • Great art

    Cons:

    • Only first route

    The manga is a good starting point for if you are on the edge or unwilling to read either VN, it only covers the first route of the game and pull some elements from the second route later on.

    Notes

    • For many Tsukihime goes from great to masterpiece in it's far side routes, these routes have not been adapted outside of the original VN
    • The far side routes will be in the remake as a separate game for which no release date has been provided yet
    • you can find more info on readtsukihi.me
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    Welcome fellow vampire hunters

    News has it that Roa has reawakened; but the church has yet to ascertain his location, in order to aid our efforts in defeating him once and for all I have been tasked with creating an online place where we can collect evidence from all over the world instantaneously so we can finally beat that old fashioned self proclaimed princess to the punch.

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    This is a lemmy community focused on discussions about Type Moon's first visual novel: Tsukihime (lit: moon princess). I am not affiliated with the tsukihime subreddit; I'm just a random fan who wanted a place to discuss the series.

    Most discussion here will likely be around the visual novel (original or remake), but related media is fine too (just like a certain cat), so discussions regarding plus disk, kagetsu tohya, or melty blood are also encouraged.

    Fate, Kara no Kyoukai, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, DDD, and other nasuverse works should be discussed in their own community unless there is some tie back to tsukihime.

    PS: Ciel best girl

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    help installing software

    I recently learned about this minimal windows manager and I thought it would be a good way to help speed up my pc. I can't seem to find any installer though and when I finally found the download link it gave me an unknown file.

    can anyone offer advice on what I should do, I'm on hastal avista BTW

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