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eleanor @social.hamington.net

i'm secretly @admin; sshhhhh

i'm also [email protected]

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Post your favorite icon pack / cursor / theme for your DE
  • I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.

    That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.

    I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.

    When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.

  • PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
  • The difference between the Fediverse and a closed system like reddit is that it's open and we're privy to haphazardly implemented functionality and bad API documentation.

    I work on big closed source web apps for a living; they're just as haphazard and badly documented, it's just all closed.

  • Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter
  • I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

    At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.

  • has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?
  • I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml eleanor @social.hamington.net

    Can't Access my Instance from Browser, but Apps Work Fine?

    I think this means that something is wrong with lemmy-ui, but I'm not sure what.

    ETA: I'm eleanorOpossum on beehaw.org.

    EDIT: FIGURED IT OUT

    Cause: I deleted everything in the pictrs folder after the CSAM raid on lemmy.world. The UI was crashing because it couldn't load the site icon.

    Solution: TL; DR: I ran this UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id; in the database.

    My install uses lemmy-ansible, so my DB was in a docker container.

    • I ran docker ps to find the id of the container running the DB
    • Then I ran this to connected to it docker exec -it $CONTAINER_ID_FROM_DOCKER_PS pqsql -U lemmy -d lemmy
    • Then I searched for my instance in the
    • And then I ran this SQL expression to set my site icon to null; UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id;

    Based on this comment and the rest of that thread (along with some basic SQL knowledge)

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    Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?
  • Most of my time on Reddit was because of the constant flow of actually new content and "new to me" content (binging subreddits that I had just found out about).

    Lemmy only has a constant flow of actually new content and it's slower.

  • What is your preferred daily driver distribution?
  • I've been switching between Arch and Debian for the past 5ish years. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than Arch has updates much more often than Debian Testing usually does. I like how meta-packages in Arch are more minimal than the ones in Debian, but that's a very minor thing.

  • What made you choose your instance?
  • I've been running mine on a cheap (€4/mo) VPS from Hetzner since my ISP doesn't let me host from a residential IP.

    My NAS is loud enough without lemmy; hate to see how loud it'd get with it

  • What made you choose your instance?
  • I joined Beehaw first because I like their philosophy, the admins seem pretty level headed, and they're decently large. But they defederated from/were never federated with a couple of instances that I was interested in, so I made my own instance and am here now.

  • How does everyone feel about Google Pixel phones?
  • I've been using Android phones for a decade now. My Pixel 6 is the best experience I've had with Android in those 10 years. I've had an OG Moto X, a Galaxy S9, a Pixel 3a, and now this 6. (I also had a brief stint with an iPhone in 2016)

    The 6 and 3a have been the only ones that I've had without a manufacturer skin or carrier bloatware and it's been pretty great. The Pixel 6 is the only phone I've had matches that iPhone I had in terms of polish and reliability.

  • What distro do you recommend for gaming?
  • It doesn't really matter as long as you're on something with recentish packages.

    I've been on Arch for the past year or so and it's been working pretty well.

    I've used openSUSE, Void, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu in the past for gaming and they've all been decent.

    I'm just on Arch because I wanted a newer kernel and graphics drivers than Debian.