shapis

shapis , 7 hours ago

Is there somewhere I can read/watch an explanation on what the .net ecosystem is. And hell what .net is ? I’ve been writing code in c# for years and Im still absolutely clueless about its ecosystem.

shapis , 1 day ago

I can forgive the lack of support. That comes with time and adoption.

What makes it bad for me is how buggy every single DE is.

shapis , 1 day ago

I have yes.

shapis , 1 day ago

It does not depend on what you’re using. They’re all buggy.

shapis , 1 day ago

Do you want a link to a bugtracker or what.

shapis , 14 hours ago

Nah, I wanna hear about bugs that have affected you that you can confirm are bugs :-)

I’m glad you asked. 5 seconds ago gnome froze and sent me back into the login screen and closed all the apps I had open. Ask me again in 20 seconds and I’m sure something else will be broken as well.

shapis , 2 days ago

It’s weird to me how people(are they?) here bend over backwards to defend a monopolistic drm platform like steam.

I get gamers like their games. But come on.

shapis , 6 days ago

I’d never admit it irl or to anyone I know because it’s petty. But it bothers me when cs people refer to themselves as engineers.

Referring to themselves as scientists would seriously be a step past that.

shapis , 19 days ago

114466390

shapis , 2 months ago

It’s there though? I’ve been trying it for a while and even the most popular rooms are just dead.

shapis , 2 months ago

I want to like this place.

People seem too aggressive here though.

And apparently everyone’s hobby is using Linux and neurodiverging.

shapis , 2 months ago

You see. If you have this exact hardware with this exact software it’s going to work flawlessly. Pinky promise.

shapis , 3 months ago

It surprises me too. I suppose gamers do really like their proprietary DRM with monopolistic practices.

shapis , 3 months ago

Is it not stable?

Can you not set it up and then not have ongoing issues?

You are going to get gaslit to hell about this on lemmy. But no. It is not stable in the sense you mean.

The effort is worth it though.

shapis , 3 months ago

RCS, Signal, or Lemmy

I wish. But I don’t know a single person that uses any of those.

shapis , 3 months ago

All of this. Plus often it just doesn’t work.

And no. I do not want to blind fiddle with the permissions to fix it.

shapis , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Were you using Firefox? On my phone, FF browser takes ~5% battery per hour,

Mine drains about 6% per hour, it’s absolutely unsustainable. Just uninstalled firefox, let’s see. I regret getting it so much (pixel 7) lol.

edit. wasnt it, what a piece of shit this phone is.

shapis , 4 months ago

DRM is never good for the end user.

shapis , 6 months ago

Google the history of xmpp. This is exactly the same.

It’s not a good thing.

shapis , 6 months ago

Meredith.

After Meredith McKay.

shapis , 6 months ago

I hope steam is broken up. Monopolies and DRM are never in the users favor.

shapis , 6 months ago

It’s a hard sell explaining to new people that they will have software up to a couple years out of date.

shapis , 6 months ago

Yet they scream when their 6 months old un-updated windows install wants then to update

The problem isn’t the OS being out of date I wouldn’t think, it’s the applications they actually use. Flatpaks are kind of a solution but not really.

shapis , 6 months ago

When software is open-source and monetized, it strikes a critical balance. Users gain the freedoms associated with FOSS – the liberty to run, modify, and share – while developers receive the financial recognition for their contributions.

I never understood how these two concepts can coexist.

Lets say you made something FOSS and sold it to one person. Can’t that person just… redistribute it for free? Which kinda makes you trying to make a living out of selling it much much more difficult or downright impossible?

shapis , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

the recipe may be visible to all, but the chef’s expertise in crafting and adapting the dish, as well as the dining experience provided, is what customers pay for.

I mean, you cant ctrl+c ctrl+v the dish. That’s the difference. If anyone could ctrl+c ctrl+v meals I think most restaurants would go bankrupt. Right?

shapis , 6 months ago

Destiny

When I first played I had a wiki open on my second monitor for about the first month I was playing.

Love the game. One of my favorites. And the artwork and music are second to none.

It definitely has the worst onboarding experience ever though.

BG3

It does have deep systems. But you can just pick what feels right to you and the game will accommodate you.

It’s a masterpiece.

shapis , 6 months ago

No, we are sad because the decrease in posts lately have left behind the worst parts of reddit.

How so?

shapis , 6 months ago

They obviously were landing pads for alien ships.

shapis OP , 7 months ago

I can get the clients to fetch the e-mail atm, the issue is what I wrote above, is there a simple way to get thunderbird to fetch them from the moment I turn the pc on and give me notifications about it?

shapis OP , 7 months ago

the developers seem to think that users do not need this functionality

Weird.

shapis OP , 7 months ago

Right, I wasnt as clear as I should have.

As of this second I have all 3 clients I mentioned fetching e-mails while they’re open. However none of them fetch e-mails in the background, and geary/evolution seem to just… break sometimes and I have to redo the process to add business gmail/proton accounts to it.

My main issue is the fetching e-mails in the background though, it doesnt feel to me as if it should be something that difficult or niche.

shapis OP , 7 months ago

. I couldn’t use gnome online accounts as that’s blocked by policy

Oh that explains a lot, thank you.

shapis OP , 7 months ago

Do you get background notifications with Geary?

shapis OP , 7 months ago

Awesome. I’ll give mailsprint a try, thanks!

shapis OP , 7 months ago

I love the idea of kdeconnect but it wreaks havoc on my battery, on both phone and laptop.

shapis , 7 months ago

It would be easier if you told us specifically what programs you need that aren’t supported.

shapis , 7 months ago

Install Plex Radarr Sonarr and Jackett.

Select jackett as the indexer for both sonarr and Radarr.

Select your torrent program as the main torrent program for both radarr and sonarr.

Point the Plex library to whatever folder you selected to use on Radarr and Sonarr.

And that’s it.

shapis , 7 months ago

These are the ones I install on every system:

ttf-caladea 20200113-3

ttf-carlito 20230509-1

ttf-fira-code 6.2-2

ttf-liberation 2.1.5-1

ttf-linux-libertine-g 20120116-7

adobe-source-sans-fonts 3.052-1

adobe-source-serif-fonts 4.005-1

noto-fonts-cjk 20230817-1

noto-fonts-extra 1:23.11.1-1

Currently trying otf-monaspace though and I quite like it.

shapis , 7 months ago

my computer?

“Your computer?” – Microsoft probably

shapis , 7 months ago

Don’t let people here make you feel like you have to defend yourself for the things you like.

“I love windows” is a phrase only uttered by the truly deranged. But if you love it you love it.

shapis , 7 months ago

I’ve been using Fedora for months now and it was my first time using Linux. Is probably the most modern and best working distro right now.

I’m not gonna suggest to you to switch distros or whatever. But as far as this comment goes, most of the modern feeling you are seeing is just the DE, which you can use whichever one with whatever distro. As far as Fedora’s own stack the centerpiece which is the package manager is actually really slow comparing with anything else.

You think Arch or Mint wouldn’t become just like Red Hat if they had the user’s numbers?

Yeah. They wouldn’t. I think they actually already do have higher number of users than fedora actually. If they don’t, then Debian surely does.

Red Hat is a for profit company, and their first goal will always be that. Community distros are explicitly about the community and not about profit, and it works quite well.

shapis , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

if a distro becomes really really popular is inevitable that sooner or later some kind of corporation will put it’s hands on it.

Not how it works. And more so in general if you’re interested and curious do some reading on copyleft licenses. It’s truly a marvelous thing and they work quite well at keeping projects open.

I know Fedora is mostly just Gnome, but you can’t deny it’s probably the best implementation of it in any distro.

I absolutely can, what. It’s about the same as all other distros that don’t add much or at all to the upstream version.

And Arch is definitely not easy to install for a newbie.

If you are interested in trying it some time, once you’re in the installer type “archinstall”. It’s a default installation script that makes it easy to install. There isn’t nearly as much upkeep as the memes would suggest.

shapis , 7 months ago

Ark ascended sometimes.

And waiting for season of discovery in classic wow. Super excited for it.

shapis , 7 months ago

I have ferociously defended the platform against iPhone

Why tho

shapis , 7 months ago

I tried really hard for about a year to use gnome without extensions.

I’d say at best in the end it wasn’t annoying me too much.

Recently tried dash to panel again and yeah. I’m not going back.

I do not understand how people manage multiple programs open without a tray. Do they just memorize in what workspace everything is at all times ?

shapis , 7 months ago

How long did it take for it to click for you? I tried for about a year and it never did to me.

I ended up quite fast at it but it never became natural.

shapis , 7 months ago

Not gonna lie. This is the kind of tech illiteracy people are talking about.

In the specific case of setting up Jellyfin, it takes about 10 minutes, you do it once, never have to do it again, and it has no programming skill requirement to it.

These services google offer thrive on ignorance of alternatives, they’re not any easier to use than the alternatives.