no the vpn I was using didn't have a native app, so I was looking for alternatives. It uses v2ray, and v2raya wasn't working. Clash verge works though, so it's all good!
no, they didn't talk about that in WWDC so I'm pretty sure that's not a thing (yet). I haven't tried yet though, I'm not sure.
Yeah, I'm open to trying KDE some time in the future
fedora workstation :D
hopefully apple does something in between the beta and public release to improve this! But turning everything transparent was always going to be a hit on battery life...
Using the developer beta and my phone runs quite hot. Of course, it's a beta so they'll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there's an obvious option to reduce transparency.
My opinion on the "liquid glass" is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn't look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.
The lock screen effect with the "3d" photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it's enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there's the option to make it normal again if you select "solid". Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it's all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I'm assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is...
Onto the home screen. I think the "liquid glass" themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the "clear" icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn't natively built (I'm guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn't look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I'll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.
Overall, in places where it's used tastefully (in a lot of Apple's apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to "solid". The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it's annoying that it's buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that'll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn't too functional, just hiding everything isn't better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn't work in all places.
I mean that’s fair. I might get to doing that at some point
that is the buggy region where it's difficult to wall jump! I have absolutely no idea why it's like that, there's nothing different about it (it's all just tilemap tiles like everything else...) but wall jumping is very tricky there. In my experience you really have to hold on to the wall before jumping since it doesn't seem to register you're on the wall properly
I like floorp, it's very customisable!
Hold on, is it the part where you the ledge was just higher than double jump height and there's no obvious walljump to get up there? (see the second screenshot, is it that part?) That's a tricky section where you have to jump to the left wall, wall jump to the right, then double jump. Alternatively, people have tried jumping to the right wall, wall jumping to the left, holding right, and double jump.
Ah ok. Good to know that wall jumping is intuitive enough :D
This is my first high-effort project using godot, and besides the player animated sprite and movement system (based on a tutorial by HeartBeast!) all the pixel art, sfx, music, programming, etc. was done by me. This was made as part of a physics project about black holes and Einstein's theory of relativity and is partly based on the movie "Interstellar"
I am really proud of this and I think my pixel art has really improved! I really like how the dialogue boxes turned out and the music sounds pretty decent too. The decorations (grass, flowers, rocks) turned out really great as well!
here's the itch.io link: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes
and several screenshots of the game:
edit: The game has been released on itch.io, see here: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes (exported for both Linux and Windows)
This is probably my first-ever high-effort game I made with Godot (or any engine, really...)! I've made all the sprites, tilesets, music, sfx, etc. by myself. (The music and sfx were generated using Jummbox and bfxr) And ofc I did all the programming myself too, with only the movement system borrowed from a different game that I never finished (can't waste that nice movement system! I don't want to re-program it again...) as well as the grass tileset (but the decorations on top are new)
I'm very proud of this and I think my pixel art skills have really improved :D
here are some more screenshots:
A lot has happened! I successfully pushed through China and capitulated both the Ethiopians and Japanese! I also dealt with Venezuela joining the African Union, which was surprisingly easy. The final peace deal is...not great. China is split into a bunch of pieces again, with my own puppet (in two pieces) mostly in the coast line, and Communist China (in two pieces) was resurrected by the Soviets, and a lot of Central and Western China is just Soviet territory now. Xibei San Ma (in two pieces) still exists. I have puppeted the parts of Ethiopia but not all of Ethiopia. I puppeted South Korea as Stalin insisted on annexing the north.
The Soviets really liked annexing everything this game, with much of Western Europe, the Raj, parts of China, and even bits of Yemen for some reason were all annexed. There is a teeny tiny "Soviet Raj" puppet as well in one very small state, but the rest was just annexed. Indochina was also given to my American France puppet, which only held parts of northern Algeria.
The Comintern pretty much dominates the whole world now aside from Brazil and a few other places. I could go to war with the Soviets, but with they have a bajillion puppets and huge amounts of territory. no thanks. Playing until 1956 really made the game chug, my poor single fan laptop got really hot and it was LOUD. I'm going to stop playing HOI4 for a bit now, I'm tired and need to go study.
p.s. I turned to Comintern into NATO...
Quite a bit has happened! I am defending the coastlines of the Americas and Western Europe to prevent any annoying naval invasions. I have also successfully pushed through the kingdom of Siam, capitulating them, and am currently pushing through China (which became a Japanese puppet) and Japan.
I have also capitulated the Allies by successfully naval invading Britain (and also nuking London...), and I have puppeted most of Latin America, the U.K., and the majority of Africa. I have also taken Canada, Mexico, Iceland, and the Carribean. Peru is still occupied as it joined Japan's faction...
Ignore that there are two portugals (one soviet one american that has been left in a part of angola) and american france . Also, the Soviets interestingly didn't puppet France, Spain, and Italy. Even the Raj stayed part of the Soviet Union, except for a tiny bit that the Soviets allowed to become independent. The Soviets puppeted a few others parts of the world, like Australia and New Zealand, much of the balkans, and weirdly one state of Colombia.
Currently, all I need to do is push the Japanese out of China and SEA, defeat Ethiopia, and naval invade Japan. Nearly there! (and now that it's 1955, the game is really chugging...)
This was my very first playthrough where I was "winning"! (excl. games where I played with commands)
After winning the civil war and switching to communism, I invaded Canada relatively quickly, with the british only holding out on an island (think it's called Newfoundland but I might be wrong). I joined the Comintern and helped the Soviets push the Germans out. Casualties were not great for me and especially not for the Soviets, but we managed to capitulate them and the Italians, and the Soviets puppeted and took over much of Eastern Europe and the entirety of Germany. Strangely, the Brits fought to make two states of Germany independent, not sure why.
I was still at war with the Allies since I invaded Canada, so after the Axis capitulated, I helped take out British Italy and France. I had to fight the Spanish as well since they joined the east asian co-prosperity sphere for whatever reason. Also, did I mention I was at war with Japan? I don't even know how that happened, but here I am. I also tried naval invading Greenland, but that failed.
So what now? Well, I needed to capitulate the Allies. France is dead so that means I only need to take London, right? Nope, Turkey and Chile are majors this late in the game, so I had to help the Soviets cross the Bosphorus and capitulate the Turks. Unfortunately, the Soviets lost Turkey (but still hold onto Istanbul, meaning they're still "capitulated") so I'll have to intervene. The Soviets were constantly naval invaded in France, Italy, and Iberia, so I had to help them out a bunch. Very annoying. Interestingly, at some point the Soviets were able to capitulate the British Raj with Iran.
Then I had to capitulate Chile. I did my focus to enforce the Monroe Doctrine to get a bunch of war goals on Latin America and pushed downwards. A lot of them joined the Allies so they didn't become puppets. Interestingly, after I took Mexico, Japan invaded the Yucatan so I had to deal with that (El Salvador joined the co-prosperity sphere I think). The only countries that did not join the Allies and became puppets were Guatemala (and they also expanded into Honduras and El Salvador) and Nicaragua (which expanded up to Panama). I crossed Panama and continued pushing through Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and then I got to Chile and Argentina.
I used pretty much my entire army (that wasn't in Europe saving Stalin) to push so it was pretty easy. I quickly capitulated the Chileans and the Argentinians put up more of a fight but I was able to brute-force towards Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, a part of my army had to go deal with a british invasion (liberation really) of Canada. After that was dealt with, I quickly took out Bolivia and Uruguay because I happened to have the war goals. I didn't have enough war score to puppet all of Bolivia so now there is two. I am in the midst of invading Paraguay, but they are putting up a really good fight. Maybe my army is tired after conquering half of south america. I had to give Alaska to the Soviets as I really didn't want them to get a war goal on me (Europe is under Soviet control)
By this point, the Soviets have had many incursions into Iberia, Italy, and France that I had to go deal with. Most of that is sorted now. Turkey will be a pain to invade again. But the only major left is the British, so I need to work on gaining naval supremacy and doing that. Then I'll FINALLY be done with the war against the allies...but I also need to go take out both Japan and China (I'm at war with both of them for some reason...not sure why)
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ahh okay, that makes sense. Material Shell looks very cool