irfan

@irfan@sakurajima.social

AH. DevOps Engineer. I post about #Gaming, #SteamDeck, #Linux, #Anime, and #Tech in general.

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rakyat, to random
@rakyat@hachyderm.io avatar

So I just noticed that the Fremen in Dune use “cyrsknife” as their weapon of choice and it led me to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/s/cnZWdgVf0R

irfan,

@rakyat InDunesia

irfan, to random

TIL there's a "Gereja Ayam" (literally Chicken Church) in Indonesia that looks like it'd fit right into #NierAutomata lol, maybe the theme park and feature a secret boss fight with the chicken head if you hit it just enough times.

🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gereja_Ayam

irfan, to ai

The Singaporean government has joined the Malaysian government in using #AI generated (pictorial) content in their public materials instead of shelving out the money to get original content that they need (be it photos, illustrations, etc.).

🔗 https://twitter.com/sighyam/status/1789975574179406237

irfan, to firefox

My partner has just asked me the magic words I've never thought I'd hear in the years we've been together: "How do I set as my default browser?". Bye and thank you <3

liztai, to television
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

Very few horror movies scare me.

This scared the shit out of me ☠️

#Exhuma #Kdrama #Movie

irfan,

@liztai my sis said the same but shes a scaredy cat so i didnt take her seriously haha i shd give it a watch

irfan, to Youtube

I've been meaning to cut down my power usage without disrupting my lifestyle too much, the first thought is for me to "decommission" my HTPC which I keep running all day, asleep at best, just so it's ready for me when I want to sleep and need it to watch #YouTube (so I can get to sleep lol).

The "easiest" replacement is get an #ARM based computer to take over its job. My first thought it should run on #Linux just bcos I'm most familiar with it and it's an open ecosystem so I should be able to do a ton of things w it - but I only have a Pi 4 and that thing honestly sucks at streaming so nope. Tried #LineageOS on it to get it running #Android TV and while at first it seemed great, it ended up being quite a hassle and a mess so I ditched that.

Then my dad asked me to get an Android TV box/stick for his TV, and I got him the #Xiaomi Mi Box S (2nd gen). After I set it up and used it for a bit, I honestly kinda liked it. Tried #Plex, #Netflix, #PrimeVideo, etc. and they all ran great. The only downside I thought to this option is that I won't be able to watch YouTube with adblockers like I could with something like #Firefox on a desktop.

THEN I quickly discovered the existence of #SmartTube and GOD what a lifesaver it's been. It works just like the official YouTube client with all the pages and algos you're familiar with when you've authenticated, it blocks YouTube ads, but also it supports #SponsorBlock right out of the box without needing to self-host or wtv so it could even block sponsor segments in video if you want. Even has some nice accessibility options too like changing the subtitle colours, size, and positioning which is great for me who watches vids in bed w no audio.

This rant ended up being very long unnecessarily lol but all in all, that removed the only dealbreaker for me on getting and using said TV box for myself - so I did and have been using for abt a week now. The box turns itself and my TV off automatically after 30 mins of inactivity and I can easily turn the box and the TV back on using just my remote which is nice. Idek what'd I need the HTPC for anymore honestly since I already have a #SteamDeck to take over its job gaming wise much, much earlier.

irfan, to django

Hmm I've only ever built sites using , bcos I'm most good at and I'm just super familiar with all the features (and quirks) of Django and it's been great, but honestly being good at only Django (when it comes to web dev) does gimme huge impostor syndrome cos I know fuck all when people talk about and whatnot :(

Maybe I can learn how to build a site using so I too can speak gibberish lingo I never understood before with other fellow programmers?

RE: https://social.lol/users/bw/statuses/112414344202116592

irfan,

@skinnylatte The biggest "gibberish" to me is whenever people talk about Node/JS bcos almost every other projects I see people recommend online afterwards are just another Node or JS alternatives but faster and leaner and whatever and I GET FOMO bcos I never needed to use any of those for my work :(

11ty seems clean (no nonsense, which I love) but at the same time leaner that prolly would make me integrate these other "ingredients" to my project to make it complete/work.

irfan,

@skinnylatte ahhh sounds perfect then for me to get into and learn. Another I was previously considering to learn was Jekyll, which I guess is sort of like 11ty too?

but yea, I've been meaning to build up a simple personal site where I can post my documentations/blogs and somehow I refuse to build it in Django just bcos I'm too familiar with it at this point for it to not feel like a chore/work so learning and building it with 11ty sounds like a good first step.

🔗 https://jekyllrb.com

irfan,

@skinnylatte thank you so much for the quick round-up and resource! 😭 It will be super helpful. And I can tell the community is great, and you too are part of it!

irfan, to random

Kinda bizarre learning that we have no official documentation of what race we really are? I know it's not on our NRIC but I thought it'd be on our birth certificate, but nope. I guess that means we literally all syok sendiri only thinking we're so and so race, but who's to say who/what are we really ​:neofox_woozy:​

irfan, to random

I was mad when I learned that Perlis (Malaysia's smallest state) is actually bigger than Singapore, because people often joked that Perlis could only fit 8 citizens and it broke my immersion knowing/recognising that Singapore isn't that small (hence, Perlis too) lmao.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/skinnylatte/statuses/112412019091798957

irfan,

@geraineon YES IM NOT THE ONLY ONE. Maybe it's bcos we've been brainwashed too much that Perlis is THAT small when in fact, no.

Perlis is 821 km^2, Singapore is 721.5 km^2.

irfan,

@geraineon I know!!! 😭 There's a possibility that out of that space, Singapore has higher number of actually livable space but yea that's besides the point. I lost all my humour to laugh at how small Perlis is after that realisation :'(

irfan, to random

#Dark might be the first German speaking TV series I've watched and I'm already picking up some German words (some of which stood out bcos I've sang them plenty of times through #AOT OSTs lol):

  • Schicksal: Fate
  • Aber: But
  • Ich bin: I am
  • Jahr: Year
  • Wer bist du: Who are you
  • Verspreche: Promise (hands down MY FAVOURITE bcos of how ridiculous it is to pronounce)
  • Was: What
  • Wann: When
  • Apparatus: Apparat

Also I've always assumed Herr and Frau were Male and Female teachers respectively, just bcos in my high school those who took Mandarin as their third language called their teachers, Laoshi (teacher) while those who studied Japanese called their teachers, Sensei (also teacher). I've always thought the others learning German calling their teachers Herr (Name) and Frau (Name) essentially meant teachers as well. Bcos of this show, I know it's not haha.

irfan, to vscode

I feel like the only complaint I have of , is that I use text editors like Kate/ a lot for searching certain keywords - this is a common use case I'm sure.

On VS Code this is easy, on Kate it can/should be too... except the arrows to go to the next or earlier iteration keeps moving when it reaches the very first iteration or very last iteration. It's such a little thing but genuinely frustrating - only bcos it is a very common use case when you're using a text editor like it.

irfan, to microsoft

says it needs like Hi-Fi Rush THE DAY AFTER KILLING THE STUDIO that made (games like) Hi-Fi Rush GOD there's a lack of functioning brains over there HOW

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

irfan, to manjaro

I find it funny that #OrangePi is collaborating with #Manjaro to make a #gaming handheld called #OrangePiNeo and it's not #ARM but just yet another #AMD handheld like the rest of the fleet? Isn't Orange Pi a popular alternative to #RaspberryPi that sells ARM-based SBCs?

Power to them I guess but I definitely would love to see more ARM-based #Linux gaming handhelds (not #Android, we have a ton of those already) available, no matter how "not ready" ARM + Linux gaming is. Software support could always be improved and worked on later down the road once the hardware is available to target.

🔗 https://neo.manjaro.org

irfan, to Discord

Someone made a #Discord Messenger app for old versions of #Windows like Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This looks fascinating and cursed at the same time.

🔗 https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm

irfan, to apple

Apparently a lot of people (esp Japanese?) are upset at this new Pro ad from a couple of days ago. I guess I can see why though, a bit like throwing thousands' worth of food away just for content?

▶️ https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc

🔗 https://twitter.com/AngelicaOung/status/1788241764383678900

irfan,

ngl thinking about it the vibe of the ad felt off - crushing those artistic/creative equipments... into a single iPad that replaces them all... hmm. Maybe some years from now we'd get the same ad but instead of the tools being crushed, it's the professionals that use them and instead of giving birth to an iPad, it's their latest LLM lol.

irfan,

@rakyat yeah... there's a word I'm looking for to describe the vibe but I couldn't find it lol - ends with "tarian" (like authoritarian)... almost like that Apple vs Big Bad (IBM/PC) ad except they're now crushing creators lol.

▶️ https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I

irfan,

@rakyat yea, they def don't (for now anyway as long as Apple keeps away from AI stuffs or stay conservative about it) but the ad is certainly in bad taste and may imply the opposite unnecessarily.

Oh and yes I remember that Wacom ad thing! but I remember they got a "pass" in the end bcos what they claimed was they only bought a third party asset, the dragon, from a reputable asset marketplace and the asset was not labelled to be "AI" made (the marketplace does offer flagging them as AI generated, this asset just didn't). People did find that dragon asset, and yes it wasn't flag as AI-generated by the "creator". Prolly should've done more homework tho... or just be like our gov and be shameless about it 😂

irfan,

@rakyat yes... definitely. It's still up on Apple's YouTube channel for now and on Tim Cook's Twitter, I wonder if they're gonna take it down once they realise the heat it's getting haha.

irfan,

@whybird oh wow, that's genius! watched it and yea, it honestly totally works and brings the same message they intended to but just... in a much better way lol. I'm surprised no one at Apple watching this ad before giving it the green light had this idea

rakyat, to random
@rakyat@hachyderm.io avatar

Yes there will be AI features and all that, but all I want for iOS is a smarter screen orientation for the iPhone i.e. stay in portrait mode most of the time but switch to landscape mode automatically when playing videos that are meant to be viewed that way.

irfan,

@rakyat definitely, but cmon Apple and heck even Google, not everyone can afford a new car or the upgrade to have CarPlay/Google Auto. I find it funny that phones keep trying to get bigger but the way you'd interact with your phone is still the same with iPhone 3G/iPhone 4 days when they were tiny in comparison.

I'd be so happy if we could just get a simple "drive" mode that puts everything or the essentials into a landscape "hub" for music, maps, etc. cos I certainly don't need a bigger screen mounted to my car - just my iPhone 11 will do. I thought my Android phone could save the day but meh, it's the same, locked ecosystem after all.

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