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STOP INSTALLING DEBIAN
  • Debianties

  • Makes sense to me
  • I'm gonna chalk it up as yet another problem with Firefox Mobile. I really want to like it, but it doesn't make it easy haha

    I'll probably try again another time on something Chromium-based

  • Customer service
  • My Odyssey G7's panel also fell off 2 weeks before the end of the warranty.

    In addition to that, the Odyssey series also has a weird issue where if certain conditions are met, the entire screen will dip in brightness and display horizontal lines. It's very distracting. They're aware of the issue (as many people have reported it) but they aren't doing anything to fix it. I won't be buying another.

  • Makes sense to me
  • I filled it all in and the button at the end didn't work. That's 20 minutes I'm never getting back :/

  • Codeium - Copilot competitor
  • Not to mention VSCodium already exists.

  • Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers
  • I figured they would just run sfc /scannow and then sit staring at their screen bewildered when it inevitably does nothing.

  • Threatening me with a good time
  • Pretty sure that you get the benefit of the doubt if you had a feasible reason for adding/changing something about your food.

    For example, you could add a laxative to your food/drink and be totally in the clear as long as you labelled your container with your name and maintain that you've been constipated. It's a totally valid reason, plus it was labelled with your name so there's no reason for anyone else to be consuming it.

  • Old person traits
  • That's exactly what an old person would say!

  • how to see which instances have blocked/defedorated other content/instances?
  • The colours on that site are rather confusing. Defederated instances are shown in green and federated instances are shown in yellow.

  • This is the way
  • I used to use that for ages, but the constant ads made me uninstall it

  • Do you use TikTok?
  • Yes, that's the entire point. They promote STEM topics to their own youth and funny silly brain-numbing dances to their political opponents.

    In a number of years, China's workforce will be scientists and engineers while the US will be full of influencers and microcelebrities who provide very little actual value.

    They're playing the long game.

  • Garnet: A faster cache store drop in replacement for Redis
  • Just found this article about it that seems to fundamentally misunderstand it in every single way. I didn't know it was even possible to be this clueless. Either that, or it's AI.

  • Nixos.
  • When the spacing is tight
    and the difference is slight, that's a moire!

  • Lay them on me
  • I think they were more likely referring to how when the public eye is on something many companies will start churning out low-effort products to capitalise on the interest. The market would be flooded with cheap and inferior products in that niche, potentially threatening the smaller business that actually cared about making quality products for those hobbyists. I know this won't apply to every hobby, but there are definitely a number of them that will.

  • Dead Man Switch
  • Thor from Pirate Software (a game studio) does this. He has his set up so that if he doesn't log into a specific server for a year, the source code to his game will be automatically published.

    You could do the same thing. Just grab a super cheap server that checks the last login date and sends out emails.

  • How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse?
  • While I agree with your sentiment, this is a terrible take.

    There is always a reason for saying no, whether you want to share it or not. But that takes a backseat here because it's an open-ended question.

    You've answered in a very closed minded way and refused to elaborate on your position, therefore your opinion can easily be thrown away due to lack of evidence. At that point, why comment at all?

  • How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse?
  • We just use PayPal or a straight up bank transfer over here.

    I think OP missed your sarcasm though.

  • Why does no one do buffalo flavored rotisserie chicken?
  • I want to try the funny Zuck sauce but I live in the UK so they'd have to re-do their tagline. Over here it'd be pronounced "the source is the boss", which is just weird.

  • Definitely deserves a place in the food pyramid
  • Craving carbs? Nah, you just need nitrogen. Just breathe some air, bro.

    What even is that chart?

  • When viewing Lemmy, do you view "all" or your subscribed communities?
  • Subscribed, and when I soon run out of content I switch to all.

    I dislike Reddit as much as anyone here but god do I miss the sheer amount of content.

  • Best way of switching between keyboard/controller?

    Many games support both keyboard/mouse and controller input. Many users (myself included) may wish to switch their input method mid-game, but what is the best way of handling this?

    There are two potential solutions:

    1. Have the two input methods combine and reach a consensus (e.g. pressing W on the keyboard while moving the left thumb stick to the left will cause the player to move forward and left)
    2. Have only one input method work at any given time, but switch automatically depending on what the player most recently used.

    Technically there is a third option, which is to have the user manually switch between the two input methods in a menu somewhere. I don't consider this a real option because the user experience would be terrible.

    So, which solution do you think is better and why?

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    Long usernames overlap the post count/time before wrapping

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    Selecting a different account while making a comment doesn't work

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Make sure you have Boost set up with at least two different accounts (e.g. [email protected] and [email protected]).
    2. Make a note of which account you're currently using in the main sidebar/drawer on the left (e.g. abc).
    3. Visit a post and start making a comment.
    4. Change your account to another one using the drop-down (e.g. change from abc to xyz)
    5. Post your comment.

    The comment will appear under the first account's name (abc), instead of what you set in the dropdown.

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    What can you ACTUALLY use Mage Hand for?

    Is it just me, or is Mage Hand useless? Like, impressively useless.

    I'm new to DnD (and DnD-like games) so I could be in the wrong here, but every time I think of something that Mage Hand should be able to do, it just doesn't.

    Want to pick up an unreachable item and carry it to me? No.

    Want to loot an otherwise unreachable body? No.

    Want to pickpocket someone without being caught? No. (Okay, I get that this one would be pretty broken, even in normal DnD this is sometimes disallowed)

    Want to fly a few feet up and light an overhead brazier? No.

    Want to do literally anything useful? No.

    Want to squeeze through a small hole to see a room you've already looted? Sure!

    I'm at the point where instead of trying to think creatively about how to use it, I just immediately write it off because it probably can't do whatever I'm thinking of. I am genuinely surprised when I find out Mage Hand can do something, and that's not a good thing.

    The only idea I had that actually worked was using it to stealth the early phase spider section by just throwing the gem at the end backwards, then moving the hand in the opposite direction to draw aggro. That's literally the only "useful" thing I've done with it, and I've still not found a use for the gem.

    So I ask, what have you done with Mage Hand that's actually useful?

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    This takes the cake as the most braindead thing I've ever seen the Start Menu do

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    Test @lemmy.world Pyro @lemmy.world

    Sample Summit spoiler rendering bug

    Here's some text.

    spoiler

    and here's some code inside a spoiler

    And now some more text.

    spoiler

    and now here's some more code inside a separate spoiler

    This concludes the sample.

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    Tapping on images will instantly scroll down

    It's not 100% consistent, but it seems to happen more when the images are partially off-screen.

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    What features would you like to see in your favourite Lemmy app?

    I'm not currently developing a Lemmy app, and I have no plans to, so this is not a market research post for myself. If anything, I'd like it to be a resource for existing developers to see which features the community most wants!

    So, putting aside regular features (e.g. things that the Hard-R app already does), I'm specifically wondering about which less common features you all want?

    Here's of one of mine: I'd like to be able to limit my usage of an instance to a specific account. For example: I never want to post to LemmyNSFW from my main account. That's what my alt is for. So I want to be automatically switches to my preferred account per-instance when I interact with it (or at least give me the choice to switch on-the-fly when composing a post or comment).

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    homelab @lemmy.ml Pyro @lemmy.world

    Using cheap SSDs in RAID to increase speed/reliability?

    Hello c/homelab!

    My NAS currently consists of 6TB of spinning rust, one disk only. As time goes on I increasingly think about how annoying it would be to lose it to a random drive failure.

    So, I recently had an idea for a new storage setup when I saw a 2TB M.2 drive for £60-70 online. Given the low price, these drives are likely low-quality and probably cacheless too, but I have a potential solution: If I bought 4 of these and set them up in RAID10, would that be a sensible way to effectively double the speed and increase redundancy?

    Yes, I know it's probably a silly idea when I can just spend more on 2 faster and more reliable drives, but I would like to at least hear from people who might have tried something similar! So what do you think?

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    Test @lemmy.world Pyro @lemmy.world

    Testing animated WebP images

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    What is the most reliable (see: plug-and-play) distro for SteamVR on Linux?

    I have the Valve Index and I'm looking to experiment with using Linux as a daily driver (again). I've tried the latest version of Pop!_OS since I heard people have had good experiences with that, but I get various errors when starting SteamVR (some bluetooth errors, and some others that I don't remember the codes for) that don't seem to have any fixes right now. I would rather not spend an entire day downloading and installing a big list of distro's just to find out something doesn't work, so can anyone detail their good experiences using VR (ideally the Index) on Linux?

    I'm by no means afraid of the terminal, so if I have to set up a few things there then that's fine, but I would rather that be kept to a relative minimum if possible.

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