Dear God... trying to type into the chat field on major financial website on a *12th Gen i7* and it's like watching the text appear in slow motion.
LET'S JUST BURN THE WEB DOWN AND START A NEW ONE.
Saw a full eclipse for the first and possibly last time in my life.
NOW I understand why people spent crazy money to get here for one day, and why the ancients flipped their lid when it happened.
Me: press windows key
Me: "sleep"
Windows 11: Sleep settings?
Me: press escape, press windows key
Me: "suspend"
Windows 11: HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF SUSPENDERS!!!
How the crap does anyone use this utter flaming garbage?
Kinda love how a lot of USB-C accessories on #LexCorp suddenly have 'iPhone' in the name.
Welcome to the land of partial sanity, iPhone users!
Now if we could only get you to be able to side-load your own blasted software. Or jailbreak your phone without risking bricking and lots of bad things. Or install an alternative operating system.
I was looking up a quote for car insurance...
Based on nothing more than my name, birthday, and address, it had the names of all of my immediate family.
Um... No. Just heck no with all of that.
@5c76222c
Nice. I had a 486DX33 that I drop-in upgraded to a Pentium... ~60Mhz? I recall the multiplier being a bit weird, not quite 2x
Strange that I'm now missing a computer I got in early 1994 and gave away in 1998 XD
@5c76222c
Oh, an anecdote. I remember rendering a particular scene in the #PovRay raytracer on that machine circa 1995.
The resolution was somewhere between 640x480 and 1024x768, inclusive.
It took a WEEK to render the scene (drums with a kind of plasma background).
I tried it out on my relatively week ARM #PinebookPro and it rendered at 1080p in like three seconds. XD XD XD
@5c76222c
Oh nice 😄
486?
I remember waiting for The Cars' "Let the Good Times Roll" to download...
It would download a little bit, and I'd be able to play a second of it or two, then I'd repeat it and it would have had a little more downloaded, and so on 😄
@81b79283
I just remembered working at Dell in the second half of 1997.
The dispatcher guy always had some angry rock playing (quietly) on winamp, 24/7
Hey #AskFedi,
Is there any way to run #Firefox (specifically) without fractional scaling / in some kind of "Native DPI mode?"
For QT apps, there's QT_USE_PHYSICAL_DPI=1 and QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=0
I can't find anything similar for #GTK3
(Running on Linux)
@2b70e7da
You know what's funny, I was scrolling past some random listing of components on a git page and had a very old neuron fire reminding me vaguely of some software I used in the 90s... and then it died (the memory).
@9e362022
I like the look of it.
Do you have a roadmap?
I need to get *another* old Thinkpad to try it on. XD
I can foresee I'll be like one of those old cat ladies, except a gent, and instead of cats, a stack of thinkpads with all kinds of groovy boutique FOSS OSes. ^___^
@ec7d111a
Just had a great (and dead-simple) idea, and I do *not* know why I didn't think of this 20 years ago:
(in my ~.bashrc2*):
workingdirls="$(ls ~/working)"
if [[ $workingdirls ]]; then
echo
echo "*** Contents of working directory ***"
echo "$workingdirls"
fi
You can put anything there, including symlinks to projects you're working on and don't want to forget.
*I use a separate .bashrc2 file so it can be synced across systems without overwriting the distro stock config in .bashrc.
D'oh...
I just realised that "workingdirls" (i.e. working directory ls)
...looks a *lot* like "workinggirls" (i.e. virinoj de la nokto) from a distance.
Oops.
#Esperanto #MeaCuupa #EmbarrassingFauxPas
@74e30f83
There's nothing like 7pm-10pm classes.
I remember *so* many times walking out of those amazing classes into the dark campus feeling like my brain was on fire.
One of the most memorable and beautiful times in my life.
Ok LibreOffice,
Opening a file read-only means I don't want to be allowed to save it.
It does not mean that I do not want to modify it at all.
:facepalm:
Dear GUI programs in 2023,
If you could just **not** do single-pixel tolerances for things like spreadsheet cell size dragging regions, that would be GREAAAAAAAAAT.
We're not rockin' VGA displays anymore.
@2779c0ed
I've been using 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.3 for the longest time, but NextDNS looks pretty cool.
If you get a Pixel phone, #CalyxOS is very beginner-friendly. Well, the install process isn't as beginner-friendly as #GrapheneOS' web installer, but it's still pretty easy. Download the win/lin/mac executable and run it with your phone connected, follow the prompts.
Just make sure you have ~4GB space in /tmp for staging.
(I usually have to comment /tmp tmpfs from fstab when installing calyx)
@2779c0ed
Also, check out something like TrackerControl or DDG's tracker protection mode.
It uses a loopback virtual VPN to filter out network connections you don't want.
It's great for devices where you're not able to install a de-googled OS, like my Kindle tablet.
@9ed0fe3f@4eebd810
So many layers of abstractions today. The average tech worker is really not that technically proficient.
And also, security and privacy aren't the same. Lot of people who care a lot about security don't give a rip about privacy.
I'm not sure why we're surprised that the same industry (and the people thereof) that let garbage/evil companies like MS & GOOG gain dominance don't give a rip about human rights.
@e71b1450
Yeah, that is a problem with apps not relying on GSF or MicroG for notifications. They'll just keep polling.
There are times where I've had to install the Google Play version instead, just to get reliable and power-efficient notifications. Telegram was a great example of this, when I was still on that platform.
Alternately, you can just disable notifications on those apps. I'm enough of a dopamine junkie on #fedi as it is. XD
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@e71b1450
...
I know that fedilab doesn't background-poll, though. It looks for some kind of push notification service provider, and if it doesn't see one, it'll just give you a warning and grab notifications when you have it open.
@e71b1450
Yeah, that is a problem with apps not relying on GSF or MicroG for notifications. They'll just keep polling.
There are times where I've had to install the Google Play version instead, just to get reliable and power-efficient notifications. Telegram was a great example of this, when I was still on that platform.
Alternately, you can just disable notifications on those apps. I'm enough of a dopamine junkie on #fedi as it is. XD
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@4eebd810@977a45f8
*blink* *blink*
3k tabs? WHY??? I mean, HOW?!?
You know about bookmarks, right? XD
I get antsy if I have 10 tabs left open between sessions. :P
...
Anyway, I kept coming across these #AfricanAmerican pro-trump guys' videos... and... I have **SO** many questions... and I'm not quite sure I actually want to know the answers. :eyeroll: :blobcatderpy:
@5b00f2ed
Just my two cents, but this is what happens when culture collapses and is replaced with commercialism.
Commercialism eats at culture while nihilism eats at shared concepts of reality to the point that people have zero identity except for the most shallow and immediate.
Thereby you have gamer bros acting like Attila the Hun and hundreds of thousands of incel*-types hanging on to every word of the likes of Jordan Peterson
*to me, incel has nothing to do with sex. It's attitude.
Oddbean new post about login | logout
Notes by R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: | export
Just had a great (and dead-simple) idea, and I do *not* know why I didn't think of this 20 years ago: (in my ~.bashrc2*): workingdirls="$(ls ~/working)" if [[ $workingdirls ]]; then echo echo "*** Contents of working directory ***" echo "$workingdirls" fi You can put anything there, including symlinks to projects you're working on and don't want to forget. *I use a separate .bashrc2 file so it can be synced across systems without overwriting the distro stock config in .bashrc.