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I have to constantly go to the settings and change the "exploration camera" setting from "standard" to "zoom" and vice versa, depending on where I am. But the screen there says that this setting can be changed while playing. But I don't know how!

I the previous games, I could do that with the mouse wheel, or with the arrow keys. In this game, nothing works. I pressed all the keys on the keyboard one by one, and none of them changed the camera distance.

I'm trying to use avifgainmaputil.exe from libavif 1.2.0 like this:

avifgainmaputil combine SDR.png HDR.png out.avif

(SDR.png is an 8-bit SDR PNG, HDR.png is a 12-bit HDR PNG.)

This doesn't work:

Failed to compute gain map: Not implemented
(Computing gain maps for images with ICC profiles is not supported)

So I try:

avifgainmaputil combine SDR.png HDR.png out.avif --ignore-profile

This works:

Creating a gain map of size 2560 x 1440
AVIF to be written:
 * Resolution     : 2560x1440
 * Bit Depth      : 8
 * Format         : YUV444
 * Alpha          : Absent
 * Range          : Full
 * Color Primaries: 1
 * Transfer Char. :

When I encode an HDR PNG to AVIF, the peak brightness of the image ("max luminance") is much higher than in the original PNG. For example it's 760 nits in the PNG, but 1100 nits in the AVIF. When this happens, the image appears dimmer overall with some image viewers as their tone mapper tries to "make room" for the higher peaks.

Is this fixable? I'm using avifenc.exe to encode the images:

avifenc.exe -s 3 --qcolor 80 --min 0 --max 63 hdr.png hdr.avif

I picked this game up last week, and I'm confused. I've been playing a while, but now I got to a point where no matter which event I try to play, I'm asked if I want to quit the current championship. I don't, but I have no idea what to do to continue "the current championship." It's "road racing series," but all season events for that show up as "completed."

Any help?

KWin has two options in the "more actions" settings (the icon at the top-left of every window):

1. Configure Special Window Settings
2. Configure Special Application Settings

Both look the same to me. What's the difference?

Because I knew they'd disappear again, I took a screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/swdVWca.png

Today they're gone again. What is going on? How do I keep them from buggering off at random?

Does someone understand why the following is happening when using multiarch/qemu-user-static to run arm64v8/ubuntu:16.04? First, I registered the binfmt_format stuff with:

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

Then I tried to build a project using the arm64v8/ubuntu:16.04 image, but the build fails because ldd fails:

docker run --rm -it arm64v8/ubuntu:16.04 ldd /bin/ls
WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/arm64/v8) does not match the detected host platform (linux/amd64) and no specific platform was requested
ldd: exited with unknown exit code (139)

But arm32v7/ubuntu:16.04 works fine:

docker run --rm -it arm32v7/ubuntu:16.

What is causing this warning when wireplumber starts? This is on a Gentoo system:

$ systemctl --user status wireplumber.service 
● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-04-22 13:44:21 EEST; 13min ago
   Main PID: 781 (wireplumber)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 19112)
     Memory: 8.8M
        CPU: 150ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/wireplumber.service
             └─781 /usr/bin/wireplumber

Apr 22 13:44:21 gentoo systemd[474]: Started Multimedia Se

This is some weird behavior that suddenly started happening. When starting discord through its application menu entry, my system log is getting spammed with weird trace messages:

(audio_device_impl.cc:625): SetStereoPlayout(1)
(audio_device_impl.cc:620): output: 1
(audio_mixer_manager_pulse_linux.cc:189): audio_device_impl.cc:613): audio_device_impl.cc:709): SetPlayoutDevice(0)
(audio_device_impl.cc:821): PlayoutIsInitialized

Especially this one is spammed forever with no end, and my system log is now full with it:

(device_info_linux.cc:45): NumberOfDevices

None of this happens when I start discord from the command-line with /usr/bin/discord.

Does someone know what

Hello.

I'm using Docker (on Linux) to build some software projects and I have observed a somewhat weird behavior. When I build outside of docker, there's not much HDD thrashing going on. However, when I run the same build in a docker container, my HDD seems to be hammered a lot more. As if docker for some reason is flushing the write cache all the time.

What could explain this behavior?

I have this code:

std::filesystem::path;
std::string filename;

// ...

if (auto full_path = (path / filename).make_preferred().u8string();
    is_media_file(full_path))
{
    // ...
}

This calls make_preferred() on the temporary (path / filename) and returns a reference to itself. I then call u8string() on it. Is that valid? Or has the temporary gone away by the time u8string() is called?

Currently, my ~/Desktop/Trash.deskop file is:

[Desktop Entry]
EmptyIcon=trash-empty-symbolic
Icon=user-trash-full-symbolic
Name[en_US]=Trash
Name=Trash
Type=Link
URL[$e]=trash:/

It works, except for one issue. When emptying the trash, half of the time the icon doesn't get updated and the trash icon looks like it's not empty. It seems to be random.

Am I doing something wrong?

After upgrading from Plasma 5.23.5 to 5.24.0, it's not possible anymore to quit discord because a right click on its systray icon does nothing now. Left click still works, which unminimizes discord if it's currently minimized. But it's impossible now to open the systray icon's context menu.

Does anyone else have this issue? I downgraded Plasma to 5.23.5 again and that fixed it.

Update:

The KDE bug report for this is:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449870

The issue was tracked down. Fortunately it's also fixable on an already installed Plasma, since the fix is in QML code. This comment shows how to apply the fix by editing StatusNotifierItem.qml:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cg

This playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LuR5R8bjtlsLaqDwXQiR4mu

Has a link to "SFIA Monthly Livestream: November 29, 2020" but it doesn't work. It leads to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6B3m72wKNQ&list=PLIIOUpOge0LuR5R8bjtlsLaqDwXQiR4mu&index=25

Maybe someone can fix it? Thanks!