But this can lead to over engineering simple stuff. Which makes the code harder to read and maintain and more error prone. Especially if you don’t need all the other stuff for the class. Worse, if you define a class then you also tend to add more stuff you don’t use, just in case it might be useful.

A simple variable name is sometimes the better solution. But it depends on the situation off course. Sometimes a new class make things more clear, as it abstracts some complexity away. Yeah, we need to find a balance and that is different for every program.

My rule of thumb is, use short names if the context makes it clear. But do not make names too long and complicated (especially with Python :D). For me having unique names is also important, so I don’t get confused. So not only too similar names are bad, especially if they all start like “path_aaa”, “path_bbb” and such, then the eye can’t distinguish them quickly and clearly. And searching (and maybe replace) without an IDE is easier with unique and descriptive names.

Sometimes its better to come up with a new name, instead adding a modification and make the name longer. This could be in a for loop, where inner loops edit variables and create a variation of it. Instead adding something like “_modified”, try to find what the modification is and change from “date” to “now” instead “date_current”.

It’s depressing how dominant Nvidia.

Not only Capcom.

I use Thunderbird for a decade, not sure maybe less, but it feels like a long time. I use Thunderbird exclusively for mail. But feels like this is the wrong place to ask, isn’t it?

Also Thunderbird is Mozilla’s most successful product. Meaning it is self sustainable.

Thank you, I take it.

It’s not GUI, but I want to mention another alternative, as people mention commandline applications here too: kdotool, works under KDE Wayland without with normal user rights (no root). They still work on a few features, but it can do lot of windowing stuff already. A good addition to ydotool.

Can’t wait for a new Brodie-video on this topic. Stay tuned for some comments.

I had recently same issue, but with a different game. Out of nowhere the performance was bad. And it took me even a day to resolve this. My PC does not need power profiles actually, its not a laptop at all. Not sure why or how the profile changed, but it got me from say 100 fps to stutter-fest 17 or something like that. I think that there was a key combination in KDE I hit by accident maybe.

You don’t need to understand a command in order to copy paste an alias or Bash function. Especially newcomers could tend to do it, without knowing what the command actually does. We are also in a posting with helpful commands, so its double harmful. And you doubling down without adding any sort of disclaimer shows you don’t care.

Lemmy is a far better platform for discussions than Discourse in my opinion. The tree like sub-reply threads in each post (the Reddit concept) is preferable over a single thread of replies. You don’t need to cross quote and for readers no need to read the quote to see who and to what the reply is about. I don’t like Discourse discussion platforms at all.

However, Discourse has a few features that fits well for a discussion platform. I like the tags and Trust system of it.

There is one in the works right now: https://www.nexusmods.com/app

The only problem is, there are just 2 games supported at the moment; Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077. Many more will follow, but it takes time. And updates can break your current setup, because its heavy on working and changes. So this is more of a future thing. I myself wait for this right now.

I remember MNG and never understood why APNG wasn’t officially recognized. I didn’t know it was widely supported already. Why do people still create and use GIF in the internet, if there is a superior format?

I just lost 100% on Steam, because I already have the game in my library and could not claim it for savings.

Here is on that I actually don’t use, but want to use it in scripts. It is meant to be used by piping it. It’s simple branch with user interaction. I don’t even know if there is a standard program doing exactly that already.

# usage: yesno [prompt]
# example:
#   yesno && echo yes
#   yesno Continue? && echo yes || echo no
yesno() {
    local prompt
    local answer
    if [[ "${#}" -gt 0 ]]; then
        prompt="${*} "
    fi
    read -rp "${prompt}[y/n]: " answer
    case "${answer}" in
    [Yy0]*) return 0 ;;
    [Nn1]*) return 1 ;;
    *) return 2 ;;
    esac
}

For the newer version of program, that’s why we have the $PATH. You put your program into one of the directories that is in your $PATH variable, then you can access your script or program from any of these like a regular program. Check the directories with echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n'

My custom scripts and programs directory is “~/.local/bin”, but it has to be in the $PATH variable too. Every program and script i put there can be run like any other program. You don’t even need an alias for this specific program in example.

I’m not sure what you mean with the question. If you have any alias like alias rm='ls -l' in your .bashrc in example, then you cannot use the original command rm anymore, as it is aliased to something else. I’m speaking about the terminal, when you enter the command. However, if you put a backslash in front of it like \rm in the terminal, then the alias for it is ignored and the original command is executed instead.

Edit: Made a more clear alias example.

Little tip: In case you need to use rm directly, even with the alias in effect, you can put a backslah in front of the command to use its original meaning: \rm filename

A few days ago I posted a one-liner to do the same thing too. It will resolve aliases from your history and expand program paths to its fullpath. I thought you might be interested: https://beehaw.org/post/20584479

type -P $(awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort -u) | sort