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saplyng, to linux in what's your opinion on typst?
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I've been really happy with it; I've been using it for templating reports at work for months now. I've just started experimenting with using jinja to pretemplate my template lol.

I'll probably continue down that track to try and automate my workflow away so I can focus on less tedious things, but after you get used to the box encapsulation it becomes fairly easy to work with!

saplyng, to tech in YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
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Maybe we could all raid niconico?

saplyng, to 196 in Metal Rule
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If you like power metal try visigoth (I think their drummer does an amazing job at controlling the dynamics and pace of their songs) and Fellowship (I've never heard any other band come nearly as close at something uplifting and motivating); I really like Glint from fellowship as an example of that! It's the "response" to the "call" from Oak and Ash earlier in the album

saplyng, to programmerhumor in Names
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Can we get a Santa v Satan boxing movie?

saplyng, to gaming in What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
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Level 5, I still go back to play dark cloud 1 and 2 every couple years. Now if they'd just make the third one I stead of another professor Layton or yokai watch that'd be great!

saplyng, to gaming in Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?
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Wait, I can play pso2 on the deck?! I might have to download it!

saplyng, to nostupidquestions in Do the people in Reniassance festivals occurring in Britain also speak with faked British accents, or do they use faked French/Italian accents instead?
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The epic of Gilgamesh was written in Akkadian like 2000bc. Old English would be more like Beowulf.

saplyng, to gaming in How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
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You could try installing gamesnacks.com as a pwa on their phone. They have a bunch of little games that I assume children would like.

saplyng, to pics in Been working on making the helmet wearable for an age! Finally sewing in the liner. Huge progress!
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This is looking great, I'm excited to see how you finish it up!

saplyng, to programmerhumor in LF cheesy oneliners for my Halloween costume
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I just got off work and you're here bringing me back writing ptsd for that party of programmers

saplyng, to opensource in Building the FOSSicon Valley: Could the Fediverse become the better silicon valley?
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Tangentially related, but I've been feeling like perhaps we've been jumping the gun with Lemmy and Kbin...

Maybe it would have made more sense, at least from an interoperability statepoint, to make an activitypub User protocol that can be selfhosted easily. So instead of making a new account for each Lemmy or Kbin instance someone has, you can instead connect your activitypub account to it.

Additionally as I know hosting has been an increasing problem around here, perhaps it would have been better to make instances single focused message boards ( i.e. just political humor, just animemes, just 196 etc.) So that the instance host can more easily manage moderation and hosting costs without ballooning things they might not necessarily care about to also be hosted by them.

This is just idle musings though, I'm not sure of how the community would be receptive to such thoughts.

saplyng, to programmerhumor in C++ Meme
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I'm currently in dependency hell trying to compile a zip formatted react native program I've been given

saplyng, to programming in Say I want to make an app on my phone for personal use. How to begin?
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If you want to use python, you could try Flet. I've been using it for some projects at work and it's dead simple to create an acceptable UI and the docs are very easy to read through with frequent examples. In July they added support for Android and iOS via progressive web apps, I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems interesting so I might start a project in it soon...

I've been having fun with it, if that's worth anything!

Otherwise, depending on your phone I'd just do native code with Kotlin + jetpack compose for Android or Swift + swiftUI for Apple. I always greatly preferred android development in school but once jetpack compose and swiftUI came out I find them both to be about the same level of enjoyment.

All three of those options are all declarative (describe how you want it to look in code) and I find it much easier to deal with than iOS storyboards or Android xmls.

saplyng, to asklemmy in So, on pronouns.
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Ahh I see, now I get it. I never quite understood the need for the (he/she/them) when meeting new groups because I always felt aggressively apathetic to my own pronouns; sort of a "I don't care what you call me it doesn't change my feeling of me". But your comment and this chain helped that click for me!

saplyng, to gaming in Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose
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Bethesda was only the publisher for Doom, Id software were the developers.

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