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This Week in KDE Apps: Accessibility enhancements, new releases and performance boosts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh nice, I hadn't heard of Tokodon before. I'll have to check it out.

Added a new "Following" feed, to quickly page through your follows and their feed similar to the now discontinued Cohost social network.

That is so cool. I saw a former Cohost user mention that feature on Mastodon. A bunch of other ex-Cohost people agreed that it was one of their favorite features.

Going dispersed camping for the first time. This is my first night staying in the van. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Congratulations for going on this adventure! IMO, living for a few days now and then away from human development is almost like a spiritual experience. Occasionally reminding ourselves that there is existence outside of the systems we are familiar with really changes the way we see things. I've only been dispersion camping for four days at a time before -- this week+ trip you're on sounds like it will be great.

Alright, I never mention this in real life because it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but... the first time I dug a hole to shit in it, I felt like a different person. I was like, damn, I can do that. I just did that. Anyway, have a good shit. I mean trip.

Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 188 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Absolutely. I mean, I love the fact that GOG has DRM-free games. It's really incredible how many games are available without DRM because of them.

But I'm not going to make Valve out to be the bad guy here. Valve is like 99% of the reason why gaming on Linux is viable right now.

Valve seems like a great example of how, if you don't sell your company to venture capitalists, you can just be cool nerds that make good products. As much as I want DRM-free to be the norm, I'm also not going to vilify a company that is one of the best examples of not enshittifying right now.

Beating Sonic’s Adventure in Sonic Adventure (Sega Dreamcast) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I agree, and I absolutely love Sonic Adventure. I think I've beaten it more times than any other game I own, but the gameplay hasn't really aged well. It's probably my biggest nostalgia soft spot, though.

Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is a good point.

Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They keep using the term "motion sensor," probably to avoid saying "this device that you will place next to your kid's bed has a camera and an internet connection."

(related community if that makes you nearly have an aneurysm: [email protected])

edit: OK, it probably doesn't actually have a camera, see comment below. I assumed it had to, since it mentioned detecting "hand gestures." However, that could mean that it just roughly detects you waving in front of it, which wouldn't require a camera. I still hate it.

Let Halo End in c/[email protected]
Can you explain to me why Beethoven's 5th symphony is better than his 6th? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For anyone reading this thread that can't turn on their speakers to check right now:

Beethoven's 5th: Judge Judy intro Beethoven's 6th: Fantasia

Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spelling out all the potential consequences of an unknown party accessing your DNA is impossible, because scientists’ understanding of the genome is still evolving.

Honestly, this is something that I hadn't actually considered before. I'm almost embarrassed, since I like to think of myself as someone who is always thinking about how my data can be misused, haha.

It's not just about data that can currently be used unethically; there's also the fact that someone may figure out a way in the future to use today's data unethically. This is definitely true with something like your DNA, which is so complex that there are infinite things to learn from it. But it can be true of more simple things, too. There's no way to predict what someone will be able to extrapolate from seemingly harmless information today.

Lemmy's have you ever been "profiled" or judged preemptively? What is your story ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a reference to Paul, from the Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle#Names). He was known as Saul when he was Jewish, and then later went by Paul after he converted to Christianity. The phrase "Saul to Paul" is often used to refer to someone who converted to Christianity, as opposed to being born a Christian. But it is also sometimes used more generally to mean something that turned around or improved. Like, if you want to say "glow up" but you also want to make it clear that you think Christians are better than Jews.

Ironically, the person who said it was Mormon, and most Christians do not consider Mormons to count as Christian.

Lemmy's have you ever been "profiled" or judged preemptively? What is your story ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I once heard someone use the phrase "Saul to Paul" in front of one of my Jewish neighbors and I wanted to just shrink down to the size of a molecule so that I could float away.

Lemmy's have you ever been "profiled" or judged preemptively? What is your story ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Slightly. Not in a terrible, life-altering kind of way, but just enough to make me think, "Oh, that's what that's like."

I live in condo building and the average resident here is very old, very religious, and very conservative. No joke, several Lyft drivers have asked me, "So, is this a retirement home? I always thought this was a retirement home." When I moved in as a 26 year old guy with long hair and a ponytail, I did not fit the vibe.

I was changing my bicycle tire in the parking garage and a woman stormed up to me, absolutely convinced that I did not belong there. She said that I needed to be a resident to be in there (so, assuming I wasn't one), then started grilling me about what unit I lived in, how long I'd been there, etc. She must have thought I was stealing the bike, but taking a few minutes to change the tire first; you know, as one does.

It was an irritating but short exchange, and she left quickly. But it still put me in a mood for like half an hour afterwards. And it got me thinking: if you're a minority, you probably get that all the time. Like, you don't even have time to cool down from the last exchange before someone does it to you again.

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Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist (www.youtube.com)
 

I'm sure everyone in this community is already familiar with the concept that this video is presenting, and might even already know all of the examples he gives. But I got a laugh out of it, and I love his presentation style.

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Mahal, by Glass Beams (glassbeams.bandcamp.com)
 

I heard this track a few days ago on a community radio station. The station was https://krcl.org/, which is a pretty good place to find new artists.

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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)
 

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[x-post @[email protected]] Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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(also posted on @selfhost)

RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

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Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (supermeter.social)
 

Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I'm wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images:

and the Pine64 Star64 has a community-maintained Armbian image.

Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

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Live action "Meet the Sniper" video, with the real TF2 voice actors (www.youtube.com)
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Live action "Meet the Sniper" video, with the real TF2 voice actors (www.youtube.com)
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8bitdo made a Commodore 64 variant of their keyboard (shop.8bitdo.com)
 

The 8bitdo keyboard has been pretty well-received as a ~$100 wireless keyboard with ABS keycaps. I love the way this C64 color scheme looks.

I have an 8bitdo arcade stick, which looks like it uses the same knob as this keyboard for selecting the wireless mode. I love the way it feels every time I turn it on.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't use QMK -- it uses their own mapping software, which is Windows only. This makes it a non-starter for me, since I rarely use a Windows computer these days. But I just might have to copy that color scheme for my next build.

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Is there an easy way of starting up services with just the nix package manager and not using NixOS? (supermeter.social)
 

Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean.

I'm trying to set up a web application that I'm currently hosting with Docker containers, but do it with nix instead, like what's shown in this blog post: https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/

However, I don't have NixOS on my server. I'm using Debian, with the nix package manager installed.

Is it possible to use a nix config file, like the one below, when only using the nix package manager? Currently it errors when I try to call nix-build with it, giving an error about calling a lambda function that never called self. If I remove the self argument, it complains about config, and so on.

{ self, config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services = {
    nextcloud = {
      enable = true;
      hostName = "cloud.example.com";

      package = pkgs.nextcloud27;

      # Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
      database.createLocally = true;

      # Let NixOS install and configure Redis caching automatically.
      configureRedis = true;

      < other settings here... >
    };
  };
}

From what I've read, the services part of that creates systemd services, which makes me think that it only works if you're on a full NixOS system and not only using the nix package manager. But it's been difficult to find a clear answer on that, probably because I'm still learning what terms to search for.

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20 Years Later: Soulcalibur II is Fighting Game Perfection - Retrogaming - kbin.social (kbin.social)
 

Now that the Japanese console versions of Soulcalibur II are 20 years old, it's worth looking back at why the game remains so iconic.

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