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@light@hachyderm.io

All time lurker 👀. Just trying to figure things out.

Generally a lazy nerdy person, with interest in Linux, Foss, video games and sometimes do diy projects.

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light, to random
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A really weird thing happened. :mastodon_oops:
One of the notifications in my Notifications was edited by the OP that is completely empty, probably it was a toot that I boosted previously.
I don't get how this notification totally broke two of my Mastodon clients, Sengi and tut in a totally different but really annoying way.

light,
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@sengi_app
I think maybe if somehow one your notification for a toot that you favorited or boosted got edited by the person whom tooted it in a way that it have an empty text message. I suspect that was what caused my problem too.

mcc, to random
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A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

light,
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@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou
I have a suspicion that some accounts didn't set the language in the settings so the translator either doesn't recognize the language of the text or just not that great with some languages.

fasterthanlime, to random
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Last Saturday I went to a computer parts store and asked for one of these SD cards and they said "...they make V90 cards???"

Yes they do, for idiots like me who want to shoot 4K25 all-intra (also a V60 would probably work, but... not taking chances).

light,
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@fasterthanlime
Buying stuff from local physical stores are the way I would go about shopping not just computer parts, but almost anything if it's an option that's available to me. But sadly that's not always the case sometimes I can only find the good stuff I'm needing in online stores. I'm avoiding Amazon and similar big online stores, rather buy form much smaller local online stores.

Adorable_Sergal, to windows
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I can't get over how insufferable Windows 11 is for creating things. Win11 stops taking pen input--not freeze. Pen input just stops, and this is with an official Microsoft pen. Drawing art in Krita is a game of red-light-green-light.

Darkradiant doesn't update the 3D window. No lighting preview. :/

light,
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@Adorable_Sergal
Wow 🤯 I newer thought Microsoft can be that bad at supporting their own hardware lineup that they designed and developed. I'm not talking about the weirdness in Krita, but their own input device the Pen not working. But to be fair maybe it's only a problem when used under Krita an FOSS not under Photoshop. I'm not trying to excuse this is still shitty from Microsoft's part.

light, to random
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I can't express how great it is that we still have text based web browsers, they can be life savior when shit happens and for whatever reason Xorg can't start up, because they can be used on the TTY too.
Today I have this exact scenario when I had no other way to look up what could be my problem. I'm glad I have at least one of them installed on my systems.

#textbasedwebbrowsers #textbasedbrowsers

molly0xfff, to random
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light,
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@molly0xfff
🤣😂 I guess nothing can stop the cryptocurrency weirdos shilling their scams. 😮‍💨

RL_Dane, to random
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Strange sensation just now when I plopped down on my couch with my laptop:
I fully expected my cat to jump up on my couch right after me and claim his spot on my lap.

I'm not going to launch into a dirge, but man, I miss my furson. 🥲
Almost seven months now.

light,
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@RL_Dane
I'm sorry for your loss. 😿
Pets are like family to me, since I was little I've always had a dog 🐶 and when they passed away felt like one of my good old friend gone forever.

RL_Dane, to vim
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When you're in a web browser and and end an input form with [Esc]:wq

;)

light,
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@RL_Dane
You could close some web browser with vim commands and key bindings. There's a couple of web browser that use vim keys by default, the first one that comes to mind is Qutebrowser, but there's others too. In this way you can avoid the disappointment and being confused why my keybindings doesn't work⁉️ 😅😜

#vim #nvim #vimkeybindings #webbrowsers #qutebrowser

light,
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@RL_Dane
I get it I myself strongly prefer Firefox because it have some features that I like. I use tridactyl for vi-style navigation it can do more but I only really want the vi-style navigation.
I have used in the past Luakit, I have nothing against it but wanted to try out other browsers too with vi-style navigation.
I use nowadays Qutebrowser, neither I like it too much that it's based on Chromium, but at least it uses WebKit that based on Chromium it's not directly uses Chromium.

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@RL_Dane
Oh I see, I looked up the github page of Qutebrowser, your right it uses QtWebEngine now. In their github there's a section about that alternatively it can use QtWebKit but it's not recommended due to known security issues in QtWebKit.
If I'm not mistaken Qutebrowser have used QtWebKit in the past.

light,
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@RL_Dane
With some searching around trying to find out more about why QtWebKit was dropped from Qt6, the reason being it's not maintained and even stopped being developed about 4 years ago. But it seems it was poorly maintained even before that according to this issue from Qutebrowser's GitHub page.
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4039
And the reason it's not recommended to be used according to the QtWebKit GitHub page, there's a warring for being incredibly dangerously unsecure.

https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases

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@RL_Dane
Look I have found this old article in Qt Group's (from Qt Company formerly Trolltech and Quasar Technologies) website that states what was the reasoning behind they stopped developing QtWebKit and started work on QtWebEngine. It's a quite reasonable and understandable decision from their perspective.

https://www.qt.io/blog/2013/09/12/introducing-the-qt-webengine

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@RL_Dane
WebKit still being actively developed and maintained, only QtWebKit is deprecated. So we still have at least WebKit, although only a small number of web browsers using it, a good example of a web browser that based on it is Luakit.
Yesterday I installed it out of curiosity to see how well it works, it's still being maintained but nothing really noticeable have changed about it since the last time I used it and that was about 4 or 5 years ago.

light,
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@RL_Dane
I have no objections against QtWebEngine it's still not exactly the same as plain vanilla Chromium, yeah it uses some code from it but not that much to be simply equivalent of Chromium.

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@RL_Dane
I understand the concerns, I'm not trying to argue that google dictating the web standards is a good thing. I'm just as much not in favor of how much power google have over the web, but sadly there is not much that anybody can do anything about it.
I'm not going to be mad at projects that use some google code, because it's more feasible to reuse code that already works good, not having to reinvent the wheel that would take more time and resources that are already being scarce.

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@RL_Dane
💯 agree. Yeah I know it's a broader problem, that's why FLOSS should be used whenever is possible instead of just using the more mainstream software form big corps. 😄
The thing is people can't always avoid using those 'open source' corpo software, anybody kinda need to use for example either an Android or iPhone smartphone. And even if there's the option on some Android phones to flash a custom ROM on it, there's still some google code running on them, it's just unavoidable. 😑

light, to fediverse
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Only now realizing there's and open source alternative Ghost that's like Substack. And there's some talk about Ghost joining ActivityPub. I think if it happens it will be nice, even if I was not even know it existed up until today.

#activitypub #ghost #opensource #opensourcealternative

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/open-source-substack-rival-ghost-may-join-the-fediverse/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIn7JO-iReq0rNa3eZAx-STTip7Q7TeNspiFO_2lgyBXbBxKtRluwa2iyCrUvMoMha5ckDnKPnL9of8fFm_AGwLpD3Q3sYBKWv_vjnHvCU49MUaOmPq3F23LIIyMXRtVbDmsHHGcKe6muoWga_8gFf_aOpCplaYs3LhV3j6Nqwss

ashleyspencer, to animals
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I don’t know what kind of contortionist sleeping position this is 😄

light,
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@ashleyspencer
It doesn't seem like a comfy sleeping position.😅

thomasfuchs, to random
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Maybe the reviews of the Humane pin will finally wake sheeple up that “AI” is a giant grift

light,
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@thomasfuchs
Yeah those underpaid workers whom job is to train, correct and improve the models just to be somewhat useful are invisible to the average person. Who knows, if the knowledge of this not so hidden fact will shape peoples opinion on AI. I think as sad as it is there are people who know what's in the background and those workers are brutally exploited just don't care as long as they can use these flashy new AI models. Some people are just completely sold on the AI hype.

jake4480, to PS2
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The PS2 is one of the greatest game consoles of all time. Sony released the Automobile Color Collection in 2001 to commemorate the sale of the 20 millionth PS2 console sold worldwide. First after the shot of all five colors is the SCPH-30000 RSR Super Red. And then there are two angles of the SCPH-30000 RLY Light Yellow, the rarest of the collection.

#PS2 #Sony #PlayStation2 #RetroGaming

The red console and controller of the Automobile Color Collection Sony released in 2001 to commemorate the sale of the 20 millionth PS2 console sold worldwide.
The light yellow, the rarest console and controller of the Automobile Color Collection Sony released in 2001 to commemorate the sale of the 20 millionth PS2 console sold worldwide.
Another shot of the light yellow, the rarest console and controller of the Automobile Color Collection Sony released in 2001 to commemorate the sale of the 20 millionth PS2 console sold worldwide.

light,
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@jake4480
Those Automobile Color Collection ones look great 🤩 😍 . I only have a regular Black one that I think looks very cool too 😎 . I think the PlayStation 2 is one of the best looking game consoles and they are a great console to have even nowadays with it's large list of games. 😃

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@jake4480
I'm sorry to hear that your's died. :blobfoxsad:
Good luck hunting down one, the colored ones show up every now and then. 🛒, it's not impossible to find one but they are somewhat more rare.
Mine is working fine without any problems. 😊
Those special colored ones are looking fabulous 🤩, but they always way more expensive then the black ones, at least the ones I have seen.
I'm fine with only admiring them on images or seeing them showed off in YouTube videos. 😁😅

light,
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@jake4480
👍 Garage sales are a great place to find stuff that are somewhat more rare in a good price and even thrift stores if they are available in your local area.
I only ever had one and that's a fat model, never really looked at the slim ones. I already decided later on I want to buy an original Network Adapter and add a HDD, that was one of the reasons I bought the fat one, the other reason being I think it looks better. 😎

light,
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@jake4480
Some games can be played from an USB drive, but there are plenty that will have problems. Some won't even start up it crashes immediately, others have problems with the FMV (full-motion video) playback being to choppy ruining the experience of playing the games in the first place.
Yeah PS2 games can get really big especially if there were release as multi disc games and even some of the single disc games can go as high as 8GB, like for example Yakuza 2.

Adorable_Sergal, to linux
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It really does feel like the overwhelming majority of Linux videos on YouTube are just distro hopping. Thoroughly vacuous content that spends a day or two opening up Firefox alongside a stopwatch.

#linux

light,
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@Adorable_Sergal
Yeah those videos lazy reviews that have almost no value to the viewer. I don't get why there's so many of these kinds videos and whom are the audience that are watching regularly.

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