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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: July 03, 2022, 09:36 PM »

Does this look right? The percentages and stuff look strange - https://getmydeck.in.../s/US/512/1626478593

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: July 02, 2022, 10:18 PM »

Oh, so you'd already reserved it. I thought you just reserved it.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: July 02, 2022, 03:55 PM »

I have one on preorder based on deozaan's excitement, but i dont know why 

-mouser (July 01, 2022, 10:00 PM)

When is your expected time to order?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: July 01, 2022, 09:47 PM »

I got the Laptop, but I'm still considering the Deck LOL

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General Software Discussion / Re: The End of the Atom Editor

« on: June 09, 2022, 07:40 PM »

Oh, and it just occurred to me that Microsoft bought GitHub a while back, so I guess it would make sense that they'd kill Atom in favor of VS Code.

-Deozaan (June 09, 2022, 03:27 AM)

In this case, I don't think it's in favor of. Atom stopped getting updates before that deal IIRC.

I use N++ for ad hoc editing, VS Code for projects that I don't want to open VS2019 for, and for non-project stuff, like writing, note taking, and web sites and such, and VS2019 for project related stuff that compiles.

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General Software Discussion / The End of the Atom Editor

« on: June 08, 2022, 08:14 PM »

I tried it back in the day, but didn't find anything better than Sublime Text... then I started using VS Code, and it was better than both. I guess a lot of people had similar experiences.

Today GitHub announced it will archive Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

Did anyone else use Atom?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In Python 2.7. how do I Read in Specific Text From a File and Assign to Variable

« on: June 04, 2022, 01:29 PM »

I'm assuming you read the content into a string and that's what the content variable is as that's not specified.

Find returns the location of the first occurence of the string. You then have to use that to read the actual string. The -1 means it was not found.

https://www.geeksfor.../python-string-find/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: June 01, 2022, 10:31 AM »

Synchronize It! and Compare It! - superb GUI design, I still use them to this day for small simple jobs - one can still buy them, they still work, but unfortunately not upgraded for many many years. Synchronize It! can even copy sparse files, which is extremely rare.

-brahman (May 31, 2022, 08:53 PM)

Have they been forgotten? I thought they were still being sold? I use them all the time.

https://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: May 26, 2022, 12:42 PM »

Seeing that the 512GB is $650 and the laptop I'm looking at is ~$1100 and will run the same games+ with the only difference being 256GB instead of 512GB is what's making me look at the laptop option.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Handheld PC

« on: May 25, 2022, 08:20 PM »

So you're going to possibly purchase both the 64GB and 256GB?

I've been thinking about it still. Trying to decide between getting a new laptop and this. The laptop costs more, but would have more applications.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: April 29, 2022, 08:31 PM »

Ah! The Charismatic Voice channel! One of my favs. Elizabeth is an utter gem in addition to being a knowledgeable vocal coach. She just recently released her own album. 

Not too hard on the eyes either.  

-40hz (April 29, 2022, 04:46 PM)

Agreed on all counts!

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: April 26, 2022, 10:40 AM »

Really like Home Free. The solo stuff by the bassist is good to- all of them Avi Kaplan, Tim Foust, and Geoff Castellucci

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: April 20, 2022, 01:29 PM »

  Thanks for that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: April 09, 2022, 08:52 PM »

I'm looking for a text editor that does auto-completion for markdown links (that is, filenames) in the same project? This must exist, but I haven't found it.

-urlwolf (April 09, 2022, 07:19 PM)

Visual Studio Code with the Foam Extensions does this. I have it running currently.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC

« on: April 06, 2022, 09:54 PM »

I might pass on this. Have to think hard before August comes.

Just read a thread on reddit that threw a dash of cold water on the purchase. Not because of the device, but taking a hard look at my use case.

https://www.reddit.c...mdeck_after_a_month/

I don't travel, I don't commute, and I have a good gaming PC. Add to that the fact that I'm gaming a lot less these days, and it's starting to seem like a FOMO situation rather than the device being something that fits me.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC

« on: April 06, 2022, 07:31 AM »

Using various datasets:

mooV2 (Wed Apr 06 2022) - 3-26-22-moo
Estimated Order Date: Mon Aug 15 2022

mooV2 (Wed Apr 06 2022) - 2-11-22-hoxeel-filtered
Estimated Order Date: Mon Aug 08 2022

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General Software Discussion / Re: WinPatrol appears dead

« on: April 04, 2022, 04:46 PM »

That's the thing about it- WinPatrol combined a few products into one. Still running it, though I am going to take a look at the suggestions in this thread.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Humble Bundle leftovers

« on: April 03, 2022, 09:40 AM »

Someone bought the same bundle 😉

-4wd (April 03, 2022, 04:48 AM)

I think a lot of us did. 

I don't have any specifics, but a lot of them are just going to be sitting there. If Deo and 4wd are out of something, ask me.

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Living Room / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2022, 09:28 AM »

I hate that April Fools is a thing. I hate even more that it's become something that companies buy into.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Searching and updating XML file in PowerShell

« on: March 23, 2022, 01:26 PM »

In case anyone else is wondering, the problem was the assumption on the path.

I added

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. $outPath = (Resolve-Path odata.xml).Path
2. # saves odata.xml in your current working directory
3. $xmlConfig.Save($outPath)

and it started working.

Thanks for your help!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Searching and updating XML file in PowerShell

« on: March 22, 2022, 05:59 PM »

The problem with that is that I don't want that node, I want the parent variable node so I can update the development value. I was under the impression that wouldn't help me, but I'll try it.

So I tried it, and it did indeed give me the subsection I was looking for- how would I then get the development subnode to change it?

And thanks for the help... this has been stumping me for a few days.

UPDATE: I think I found out how to modify the node, but even though when I expand it shows the node as modified, when I save, it never gets to the file.

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. [xml]$xmlConfig = Get-Content "odata.xml"
2. $validNodes = $xmlConfig | Select-Xml -XPath '//variable[id="odata-keys"]'
3. if ($validNodes.Count -gt 0)
4. {
5.   $validNodes.Node.development = "0"
6.   $xmlConfig.Save("odata.xml")
7. }

What am I doing wrong now?

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Developer's Corner / Searching and updating XML file in PowerShell

« on: March 22, 2022, 07:54 AM »

I have the following bit in a Powershell script:

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. [xml]$xmlConfig = Get-Content "odata.xml"
2. $validNodes = $xmlConfig | Select-Xml -XPath '//variable' | %{$_ | ?{((($_.Node.Property.Name -eq "id") -and ($_.Node.Property.Value -eq "this-is-the-node")))}}
3. if ($validNodes.Count -gt 0)
4. {
5.     $validNodes.development = $encryptedcredentials
6. }

And it's not returning valid nodes, even though the node is there.

The XML file looks like the following:

Code: Text [Select]

1. <configuration>
2.   <variable>
3.     <id>this-is-not-the-node</id>
4.     <development>2</development>
5.     <staging>0</staging>
6.     <production>0</production>
7.   </variable>
8.   <variable>
9.     <id>this-is-the-node</id>
10.     <development>2</development>
11.     <staging>0</staging>
12.     <production>0</production>
13.   </variable>
14.   <variable>
15.     <id>this-is-not-the-node-either</id>
16.     <development>2</development>
17.     <staging>0</staging>
18.     <production>0</production>
19.   </variable>
20. </configuration>

I want to select the valid node, then edit the value for development under that node.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC

« on: March 16, 2022, 07:37 AM »

Whereas mine used to say "After Q2 2022" it says "Q3 2022" now. That might not seem more specific than before, but for some people, they see "after Q3 2022" so that tells me I can expect to get mine sometime between July-September.

-Deozaan (March 14, 2022, 05:52 PM)

There was a converter from what we had before to what we have now, and the timeframes, and your assumptions on July-September line up with that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: February 25, 2022, 07:20 AM »

Though I use VS Code (and Sublime Text, though vanishingly as VS Code has gotten better), the one I really like lately is Deepdwn. I'll have to try to give an overview of why when I get a chance.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC

« on: February 23, 2022, 01:01 PM »

It seems Valve have released an official library compatibility checking page here:

https://store.steamp...om/steamdeck/mygames

-Deozaan (February 23, 2022, 04:22 AM)

Nice! Doesn't seem to pull all of your library though...