Dave

Dave , 1 hour ago

Yeah, it might be easy to install but you are also a beta tester of things that will be in more stable distros two years from now.

But with that said, I love Fedora, but with Gnome. I use Nobara for the gaming simplicity but with the vanilla Gnome spin. I’d recommend it to anyone, most Linux distros these days are pretty user friendly once installed.

Dave , 1 hour ago

Beta is the wrong word, but there is quite a difference between in stability between Fedora and Debian.

Dave , 1 day ago

And here I was thinking it was: F U, yep.

Dave , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that those 75 users are in an ecosystem with the 50k+ Lemmy/K/mbin users, along with users from Sublinks, Mastodon, Firefish, etc.

Dave , 8 days ago

Haha dumb autocorrect. Firefish is what I was trying to say.

Dave , 4 days ago

Huh, is there some drama I missed?

Dave , 9 days ago

GoG does DRM free, and not just old games. Not many new AAA because convincing a big company to sell their game DRM free is hard, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on there.

Dave , 9 days ago

Yeah, and lots of new popular indie games. Some recent oneish I’ve got are DREDGE, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. OK not super recent but not all the games are 20 years old or more. Even Skyrim Anniversary is on there.

Dave , 8 days ago

I’m playing BG3 on Linux on a laptop with integrated graphics, and I haven’t had any issues other than not being able to run it with graphics set to ultra (expected since there’s not graphics card).

Dave , 9 days ago

I never knew about it until now and I’ve used GIMP often enough, but if I was going to assign a keyboard shortcut, that makes sense. Ctrl +A select all. Ctrl + Shift + A select none.

Shift is the oppositer (reverser?). Tab goes to next field, Shift + Tab goes in reverse order. Ctrl + T open new tab in browser, Ctrl + Shift + T reopen last closed tab - OK that’s not exactly opposite but close enough.

Dave , 9 days ago

Calculator?

Dave , 9 days ago

DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.

Most people will use their internet company’s DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it’s blocked instead of to the website server.

More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.

ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites

Dave , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

You already have Jellyfin, maybe test out adding a music library and using Finamp or Fintunes to access it?

Dave , 14 days ago

Ah yes, thanks, edited. Using a new keyboard and the autocorrect is still learning.

Dave , 14 days ago

You’re not gonna grab some lactase pills with part of the cash, or spend that $15 on dairy free ice cream?

Dave , 14 days ago

Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).

My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don’t think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.

Dave , 14 days ago

Are you trying to make me feel old?

Dave , 14 days ago

Holy shit, TIL!

Dave , 14 days ago

Super impressive since we used to play Quake 2 all day on it!

Dave , 14 days ago

I mean I guess you are supposed to take it to your computer repair shop and tell them it won’t stop playing Für Elise, and the shop is supposed to recognise it as a failure of CPU fan signal. If it just beeped a few times on startup then people would ignore it, and if it beeped constantly then well maybe Für Elise is nicer.

Dave , 14 days ago

I don’t think those speakers are capable of voice. They can handle a few different beep tones and that’s about it. The song was not like listening to Spotify, it was played using beep tones.

Dave , 14 days ago

Ah shit the sheep thing! In fact, there were others I can’t remember. And I seem to remember somewhere along the line they went from fun to spam things walking around your screen trying to make you buy shit or maybe they were trying to scam you, I can’t remember but they weren’t fun anymore, and hard to get rid of.

Dave , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Bonzai buddy! Yes, that was one. Also I seem to recall naked women ones you couldn’t close.

I don’t remember grommit, but also I failed to find anything when trying to search it up. It shares its name with too many things.

Dave , 13 days ago

Haha evil! I love it!

Dave , 19 days ago

In addition to what others are saying, there is a lemmy for people that moved from r/blind: rblind.comIt has a small number of active users, but perhaps you might get some help there. You could perhaps ask in their main community, !main.

Dave , 19 days ago

I’m dumb, your account is on that instance 😆

I think here is a good place to ask as well, just wanted to make sure you were aware of that community in case it was helpful.

Dave , 20 days ago

And I think this video is talking about scrum implemented poorly. But admittedly that’s the only way I’ve seen it done 😐

Dave , 23 days ago

Unfortunately they don’t take requests for new subreddits anymore. In addition, they don’t mirror comments so in terms of answers to questions it’s probably not that helpful.

Dave , 23 days ago

Kbin still has that bug. Lemmy.world is actively throttling the number of activities it accepts from Kbin as if they don’t, they then federate these out to other servers and it impacts on the ability of those servers to keep up with the genuine Lemmy.world content.

Even with this throttling some are struggling to keep up.

Dave , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

I like the idea of Sublinks for this reason. They wanted to create a Lemmy alternative, but they are maintaining Lemmy API compatibility. That way they build one piece at a time. The Lemmy frontend Tesseract was forked from Photon, and then became the Sublinks front end. But it’s still also a Lemmy frontend because they work with the same API structure.

In addition, Lemmy apps all work with Sublinks as well.

This way, they could focus on just the backend component, and rely on Lemmy components for the other pieces until they are able to get everything in house. Though they have a plan to keep Lemmy API compatibility, so there will always be this big pile of apps and web frontends that can be used with both.

Dave , 24 days ago

The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.

If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.

Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.

Dave , 25 days ago

He was a former president. The prosecution would never have gone to trial without a watertight case.

Dave , 26 days ago

They never claimed that all published papers are science. They said if it’s not published, it’s definitely not science.

Then goes on to say that to qualify as science, here are some things it needs to have done. They don’t say that it has to be current and reproducible to be published, they say that if it’s not published then it’s not correct and reproducible. Those are different claims.

Dave , 26 days ago

It looks like if you enter an “Other” option, it adds it to the list for others to select. Some troll must have added the others you can see on the results page they are marked as “(Other)”.

Dave , 26 days ago

It looks like if you enter an “Other” option, it adds it to the list for others to select. Some troll must have added the others you can see on the results page they are marked as “(Other)”.

Dave , 28 days ago

There are lots of peertube instances. The issue is that YouTube uses ads to pay content creators, and so everyone puts their content on YouTube in the hope of becoming the next big thing.

Dave , 28 days ago

Yep, definitely. That’s the allure. From what I can tell, it’s likely there are tens of thousands of people making over $1m a year. However, there are hundreds of millions of people uploading videos.

Most people won’t make much at all, but if you don’t have the people at the top making millions then no one has any incentive, so those people are critical.

Dave , 29 days ago

Lemmy has algorithms, it’s just that they aren’t designed to maximise profit.

If you have the sort type set to Hot, posts are ranked based on score (upvotes minus down votes) with a decay based on post time. Active is the same but based on the last comment time.

If you are on the website, there is a ? next to the sort option that will take you to a page explaining how the different options work.

But long story short, most sorting options are affected by down votes.

Dave , 28 days ago

Do you eat milk? Or just drink it?

Dave , 28 days ago

Haha I searched this up, general consensus seems to be if you sip it from a spoon you’re eating it, if you do it straight from the bowl you’re drinking it. I guess it’s the same for milk?

Dave , 29 days ago

I really wish these people would notice spellcheck occasionally…

Is this not satire? I assumed the OP was satire…

Dave , 29 days ago

Is this any different from selling an account, which I presume you’re not allowed to do?

Dave , 29 days ago

As another poster alluded to, digital goods aren’t really considered property in the traditional sense. Digital property is protected under copyright (and other IP laws). The owner could sell the game, but then they wouldn’t own it anymore (e.g. when one game studio buys another, they are buying the games as well). Instead, they grant a licence to use the game, which is how Steam works as well.

If Steam let you transfer your account to someone else (e.g. bequeath or sell it), then they would need this in the licence (which they could do in theory). Other than the logistics of that (especially how to handle people selling accounts - and the scammers that inevitably come with that), the AAA publishers are unlikely to agree to those terms. Ultimately the Steam licence is likely a compromise between Steam’s vision and all the AAA publishers that wouldn’t publish on Steam if they didn’t get the licence they wanted. A bit like how Netflix doesn’t really care if you use a VPN, they just have to enforce it so studios will let them use their content.

Dave , 29 days ago

I have a 2016 Nissan Leaf. It’s a short range commuter car, it makes a great second car for a family but it’s no good if it’s your only car.

I live in a left-hand drive country that gets heaps of used imports from Japan (who is also left-hand drive), so they are cheapish and easy to get YMMV,. The entertainment system is not touch screen, it has physical buttons including controls on the steering wheel. I’m not sure if it can phone home since it’s no longer in a supported country. We use Bluetooth for music and that’s it as the Nissan Connect stuff doesn’t work here.

Dave , 30 days ago

Would it be actual wax paper? These days it could just as likely be coated with plastic rather than wax, as the plastic coatings do the same thing and are cheaper.

I’ve just spent a while searching and can’t find any reliable way to tell whether paper is wax coated, oil coated, plastic coated, or silicone coated.

Dave , 30 days ago

But if humans and dinosaurs lived together, then where are the dinosaurs now? Doesn’t this theory imply “things are as they always have been”, therefore God?

Dave , 30 days ago

So Noah, chosen by god himself, did a shit job of collecting all the animals?

Dave , 1 month ago

I use it, and like it. They dropped prices a while back so now you can get unlimited searches for $10 a month (they also have a $5 limited tier and a free trial).

First thing is I’d like to live in a world where search engines (and the internet in general) don’t have to be ad supported. This is a different model so I want to support it.

But also Kagi has some nice features. My favourite is how I can block Pinterest, and boost the ranking of other sites like Wikipedia. Basically you can have some control over search results.

If you’re familiar with SearxNG, that’s basically how Kagi works. They run the searches on a bunch of search engines and then present one cohesive search results page. But SearxNG for me takes several seconds to get the results, and Kagi is almost instant.

I don’t know if it’s significantly better than the free options, but I like using it and it’s pretty cheap really.