VinesNFluff

VinesNFluff, 5 days ago

Depends what country you’re in

VinesNFluff, 3 days ago

In my country it is decriminalised unless you’re doing it at a very large scale and charging money, so I’m home free.

My ISP does block most torrent trackers – But changing DNS providers is enough to get around that.

VinesNFluff, 8 days ago

Removing and re-adding the panel made no difference.

I’ll attempt creating a new user in a bit.

VinesNFluff, 8 days ago

Well I’ll be thrice-damned. Creating a new user, and indeed, in a new user profile with everything fresh, the bug doesn’t happen.

So. Something in my configs ig? But I wouldn’t know what. Maybe if I hit “DEFAULT” on every tab in kcm it’ll do something, but I won’t try that YET.

VinesNFluff, 8 days ago

I checked, but seeing if there’s anything “obvious” in there is beyond the limits of my knowledge.

VinesNFluff, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Well fuck

I did what you suggested (actually, I didn’t just mess with THAT file, I made backups of every file that looked kdeplasma-y on the .config folder and then copied over the equivalent files from the functioning test user profile)

I was going to come here and say “that made no difference and now I’m even more confused”.

But THEN. I noticed an icon in the tray (that most certainly had not been there before!) saying “Plasma is using software rendering”. Which was odd, it definitely wasn’t supposed to be doing that. So I changed settings to make it use Vulkan and rebooted again. THAT seemed to fix the icon rendering issue (though by this point all my customizations are gone, but hey, if it unfucked the system, even if by a roundabout path, that’s a fair price to pay)

But THEN. I did that thing where you flick your mouse to the topleft corner of the monitor to switch windows, and THAT made Plasma just crash completely.

Now I’m REALLY confused. I’ll test one more thing (changed it to OpenGL now, will reboot again)

POST REBOOT EDIT: Sooooo, changing to OGL seems to have fixed it? SEEMS? I won’t mark the thread solved yet, give it some 48 hours to see if anything changes, but I will post my findings to the kde bug report place too for good measure.

VinesNFluff, 7 days ago

Deleted my previous comment, felt like I should give this a bit more attention.

To be honest I feel like all designs are good in their own way. I like the general vibe of Memphis, but being that I was born in the mid 90s, it’s probably just that general energy you get from things that happened before you did, where they are “cool” due to how just-old-enough-to-be-old-but-not-old-enough-to-be-an-antique they are, yanno?

Y2K design – Well. I like the transluscent plastic on Gameboys and Macs. Really underrated aesthetic, wouldn’t mind having it back. The DreamCast had some very sleek angles too.

Frutiger Aero will never not “look like the future” to me. It was the age of computer interfaces having all sorts of fun colours and transparencies and animations, and it just LOOKED futuristic and neat. Don’t care for the product designs of the era though. That shiny finish would draw in filth and fingerprints from accross the room and after a very short time it’d lose its prettiness.

Flat design I have issues with, like the hamburger menus and the abandonment of descriptive text in favour of abstract icons – It is also a bit too serious, but I understand and accept that, even if I miss the playfulness of Frutiger. – But it DID finally bring us dark mode. And my eyes are forever grateful.

… Just wish solarized themes were the norm instead, no idea why they must have such high contrast. I’d even give light mode its time of day if it was a solarized light instead.

VinesNFluff, 9 days ago

Plus they could announce the rebrand by replacing the weird dog chewing on a brush with the same weird dog lifting weights

Hitting the GIM.

VinesNFluff, 9 days ago

Brushes with bellpeppers attached to them

VinesNFluff, 8 days ago

Libre Graphics Manipulation App

LiGMA.

VinesNFluff, 15 days ago

It’s not quite emulating the game’s moves and such

But some years back I played so much SMT IV on the 3DS (which is a quite striking-looking game with the stereoscopic effects on. Characters are anime art but everything has depth and it looks real neat) that whenever I’d look at a plan wall, I’d see patterns moving back and forth as though they were objects in the game’s stereoscopic effect.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

The American government will defend this.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

It does look and act like a cellphone OS :P

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

Pirated versions totally work on Linux. I do quite a bit of pirating.

It just takes a bit more effort to manage, but I use Lutris for my pirated titles.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Honestly the lack of customizability is the least of my worries with Gnome.

Why the FUCK doesn’t it have a SYSTEM TRAY without an extension?

Like it’s one thing to be minimalistic and opinionated.

It’s another thing entirely to opt out of basic system functionality that has been part of every OS since 1997. Like fuck.

Edit: Also how fun that this is how I find out Hyprland is cooked due to internet drama and 4chan bullshit.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

“Is cooked”, meaning “Is in trouble” or “Is in some shit”.

Hyprland’s dev got themselves into some internet fight because they associated themselves with a transphobe and Freedesktop people decided this was enough.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Eh, I’ll be honest. Having read the posts here (from both Vaxry AND Freedesktop) about the subject:

It does seem like Vaxry is just a well-meaning software dev caught up in shit he didn’t ask for. He wasn’t the person who made the comment for one thing.

But also I kinda get Freedesktop’s angle here, being a queer person myself. I’ve seen communities I previously cared about get ship-of-theseused into places that are deeply unwelcoming to people like me due to brushing off this kind of ‘joke’. You give the -phobes an inch they WILL take the entire road.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

This kind of attitude is precisely what rubs me the wrong way about gnome.

Like nevermind customization. I care about it because I am literally this. But most people just want their OS to work and get out of the way so they can get to doing work or playing games or looking at hentai or whatever it is their do with their computer and I get and respect that.

It is true that Gnome’s control center can do a lot of things. All the integrated system functionality is there, as is the stuff for applications that are made FOR Gnome.

But the thing is. A lot of programmes that aren’t Gnome-centered, that are DE-agnostic or even System-Agnostic? They expect a system tray, because every OS has had something like it since 1997, and implement functionality expecting it to be there, with some configurations and such only being accessible through the tray icon. And Gnome’s general attitude to third party applications expecting something to be there is “fuck off, we don’t care, the third party application should adapt to how we do things, but if you REALLY need this thing we decided is worthless, you can install this janky third party extension to get it I guess”.

My choice for ‘gets out of the way’ would be something like Cinnamon. In my experience, Gnome does the opposite of getting out of the way, as a lot of basic functionality requires third party stuff. So in order to get things to work, if they aren’t specifically part of the Gnome ecossystem, you’ll have to spend time tinkering, and it’s not ‘tinkering for fun because I like coonfing’, it’s ‘tinkering out of necessity to get this thing to work properly’ which is not nice.

VinesNFluff, 16 days ago

[tongue click]

In another universe where things are entirely different, I might agree to the ‘people should be very private online’. Fuck, I’d even extend it to real life?

But we don’t live in that other universe, and in the universe we currently live, obnoxious behaviour from The Straights ™ isn’t considered obnoxious by 90% of society, whereas even the smallest bit of expression from a GSM person is seen as extravagant and explicit. Straight people can take advantage of the standard of ‘people should be private’ because their expression isn’t considered unprivate by most and the opposite isn’t true for us.

So $&*# that. I’ll be as loudly gay as I can be.

VinesNFluff, 12 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Dropbox and MEGAsync, though I stopped using those late last year (switched to having an old laptop as a “home server” and using syncthing for backups) so maybe they changed since then. They were my ur-example for it, as I was still using them last time I tried gnome.

Lots of wine related things. Game clients and such. If wine can’t find a tray it drops a window on a corner with the tray icons which works but is inelegant

Then there’s programs that while absolutely usable without a tray, are just better if you have it. Steam for one, with a tray it lets you close out the main window(s) and then call up just the thing you want from the tray. AntimicroX too. A pair of electron apps like Heroic Launcher and Zapzap (a WhatsApp client) have troubleshooting things and configs on the tray icon, even if you can use them without that (or learn key shortcuts for the same function)

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

Flat-earthers, and I see it as the most unhinged for one simple reason:

It seemingly has no – Stakes?

Like

With every other conspiracy, whether it be related to 5G or Fluoride in the Water or Vaccines or whatever, there is someone who is consolidating a shit-ton of power or wealth through their conspiring, y’know?

But with Flat Eartherism… ? Like. Imagine you got control of every educational institution. You use it to convince people the planet is the wrong shape. And by doing that you gain… – What exactly? It just seems pointless? We know what people do when they have power to manipulate people on that level, because history tells us. And they generally don’t bother with the shape of the planet.

VinesNFluff, 17 days ago

I always circle back around to SRB2. It has been beautiful to watch it grow over the decades.