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astramist , 7 months ago to linux in Inexcusable Fedora caveats after Arch (rant)

I use Fedora on my workstation and somehow have trouble with packages. E.g., there is no OpenVPN 3, which I need for enterprise network. Huh, Fedora 39 doesn’t even have it in EPEL. So sad.

astramist , 7 months ago to piracy in Does YouTube block mentions of uBlock Origin or Sponsorblock in comments?

Yeah.

The video author can enable a setting to analyze the comments. YouTube itself flags comments that it deems inappropriate. The author only chooses which videos to include this tweak and the level of strictness.

It is enabled by default.

Comments that may be spam, self-promotion, gibberish, and otherwise potentially inappropriate will automatically be held for review in YouTube Studio and will only be published if you approve them. If you want a higher level of protection for your channel, increasing strictness will increase the number of comments held for review.

astramist , 10 months ago to piracy in Is 1337 no longer safe?

Wow. Does anyone share software from “the russian hacker” Valdik outside the RUNet? That’s the first time I’ve seen it.

astramist , 11 months ago to games in horror

Clive Barker’s Undying

astramist , 11 months ago to linux in Endeavour vs Manjaro

[Edit]

It’s already been shared.

astramist , 11 months ago to technology in Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book read

True. Popular books being read by millions of people have no reviews. That’s why I’m on the LibraryThing now.

astramist , 11 months ago to gaming in What's the most toxic game community you know of?

100%!

astramist , 11 months ago to technology in A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font

Oh, it’ll be easy! Everything I’m about to explain is written by its authors in a Microsoft note.

• The first and most important thing is the character line thickness. It’s almost the same everywhere.
• The second is “crisp-looking shapes and wide characters”. The gap between the characters is wider than in Aptos.
• The third is sharper lettering and fewer curlicues.

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Look at the characters, for example, “a”, “e”, “g”. They have bulk shapes with a minimum of lines compared to Aptos. And now for my personal reasoning.

What is the most common case of reading the folk will have? It’s lack of light or twilight (subway, auto, office, home room, etc.). It’s a small screen size (smartphone or laptop). It’s a low PPI. This is the distance of 20-35 cm, or about a meter, to the screen. These are eyesight problems and astigmatism. These are the points (and more!) you must consider when creating a font.

Here’s my example. I have pretty good eyesight and a little astigmatism (only need to wear glasses when working long hours). I mostly surf the internet using a 17" laptop. I sit a meter away from the screen. That said, I have good illumination.

While using serif fonts, my eyes get tired after hours of reading. This is because astigmatism causes characters to have a subtle shadow at the edges of the lines (if there are pixel artifacts on display, it doubles the effect!). So fonts like the EB Garamond are generally unreadable for people like me.

Also, the brain needs a fraction of a second to figure out what the character is. E.g. the Tenorite’s “a” and the Aptos’ “a”. I don’t confuse it with anything else when looking at the Tenorite’s “a” and it goes much smoother while reading. The characters don’t blend into one mess for me.

As the authors said, they created a font “comfortable to read at small sizes onscreen”. If it’s comfortable on small screens, it will be the same on larger screens. On a 32" screen, almost all fonts will be OK. I could increase the font size on the small screen, but then it would be uncomfortable to read because of the smaller amount of content.

Based on studies, the better the font reads, the worse we are at memorizing information. But there’s not a lot of actually significant information on the Internet, and I do more writing than reading. So that’s not my point.

Thanks for a recommendation of Comic Neue from one old Reddit’s thread. It’s a wonderful font for reading in low reading environments. Seems Tenorite has replaced it for me, as it looks more common and has thicker outlines.

P.S. This is just my own geek standpoint, I didn’t/am not in the typography business.

astramist , 11 months ago to technology in A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font

I fell in love with Tenorite.