Second stargate location confirmed.

Yes. I’ve been playing apotris on my r36s clone and its my favorite version of Tetris ever.

I don’t even understand how this is supposed to protect kids from child predators. Do child predators not want to hang out online where they can interact with kids? So not having age verification enabled keeps you siloed to where the kids are… Meaning if anything it helps predators pretend to be kids better.

Now claiming it as a way to protect kids from porn… I guess makes more sense. Because we all know that sketchy porn sites care about laws.

we should separate “social media” from “attention media”

That would be the dream for sure.

What we really need is an alternative to the the original functionality of Facebook.

Staying connected with real life friends, family, and acquaintances.

Social event planning, sharing life photos, sharing life updates, hell even marketplace.

All the federated “alternatives” are basically twitter clones, which really is a very different thing at its core. I do not want to share family photos and life updates with the whole fucking planet. Just the 500ish people I “know” in real life. I also don’t want to see tweet like mastodon posts in my friend feed. Its a different thing.

I know friendica is supposed to be that, but in my experience, its slow as hell, and just feels like a weird overlay on mastodon.

With a combination of Microslop pushing users a way, and fewer people even having laptops/PCs in favor of just using their phones, I see that 10% happening pretty easily. Its always going to be the business users propping up Windows numbers.

The alternate reality where he ended up being a cop instead of a journalist.

Putting in another recommendation for Notesnook.

Can you just plug a USB HDD into that old Mac and copy the files over using that?

I think there is an American ritual aspect to it. I hate football and never watch it other than the super bowl. I’ve always just watched it for the funny ads, halftime show, and social gathering aspect. There is nostalgia for the 90s-00s where funny Superbowl ads became cultural touchstones, and early “memes” that people would quote and talk about the rest of the year if not more. Though honestly, it feels like the mojo is gone. The ads rarely seem as funny as they used to be. Or maybe we are just so inundated with internet ads and the lightspeed meme cycle that they simply can’t draw the same level of cultural relevance they once did.

I spent most of last year running LMDE6 and while it started off good, things just got more frustrating to troubleshoot and the system felt buggier over time. (Which I know is not how things are supposed to be for “stable” Debian.) Switched to CachyOS a couple months ago and things work so much smoother.

VR. Using CachyOS, a new 9060xt 16gb, and a Quest2. When I can get steam VR to launch and connect at all its extremely choppy and stuttery to the point its unusable. Worked fine on the same hardware and network before switching from windows.

Yeah getting VR working had been the only hangup for me so far. Also wireless. It will connect but its insanely laggy and compression artifacty. Worked fine on the same hardware and network with windows.

At this point I’m hoping the release of the steam frame comes with a ton of fixes for vr on Linux.

Have you tried the web based photopea? Its a pretty close replica of Photoshop. Does most of what it can do. Only thing I still need Photoshop for is my photo printing workflow. Still trying to figure out how to do it and match the same quality with GIMP or dark table and cups.

I use the web based Lightroom as an installed PWA for most of what I need. I’ve got a windows 11 VM that I can run for a few features that are left out of the web version or if I need something in Photoshop that photopea can’t do. If I really need better performance for something I’ve got a Windows “To Go” install on a nvme in an external enclosure I can boot into.

My current photo workflow is to import and use geeqie to quickly batch rename, and sort with ratings. Then I upload the rated selections to lightroom for editing.

I dabble a bit with raw therapee and darktable. But I do a lot of editing on my android phone and tablet on the couch. So adobe keeps me locked in.

The web version of light room is so close to feature parity with the desktop version (not classic) that they really should just flesh it the rest of the way out since they will never make a native Linux version.

I use Zen as my standard browser. But vivaldi is my chromium based browser of choice when I need one. I wish they were open source. But for a non FOSS product I think they do things pretty well. I personally don’t mind those revenue streams they use as they aren’t that intrusive for me. But again, I only use Vivaldi for installing PWAs (as that doesn’t work well in Zen) and for the rare website I need but doesn’t play well with Firefox.

I’ve been using Linux off and on for decades, full time for over a year now, and only now learned this was a thing after I distro hopped to CachyOS and kept accidentally middle clicking on my laptop’s trackpad and getting shit pasted everywhere. I had to look up how to disable it because it was so annoying. I generally only middle click in web browsers for auto scroll and that’s extremely rare.

My computer at work runs windows. But I bought a cheap KVM switch and use my Linux laptop for all my personal web browsing and slacking off.

Not all software available on Linux is open source. NVIDIA drivers for example. Hell, most of the games on Steam are closed source.

So, is it just a matter of principle on Valve and AMD’s part that they only want to ship with fully open source drivers?

I’m not technically knowledgeable enough to understand why you can’t just make the HDMI 2.1 part of the driver code closed source and the rest of the graphics drivers open?

This article is seriously missing the point of pixelfed.

I use it for sharing art and photography and looking at art and photography. I do not want text posts on it. I have a separate mastodon account for that.