worsedoughnut

worsedoughnut, 6 months ago

This one seriously annoyed me. And it hasn’t convinced me to switch to YT Music, and instead I just found a (noticeably worse) alternative

It was such a simple and useful app, did exactly everything it needed to and nothing it didn’t. I very much dislike the trend of YouTube “everything”-ing their scattered smaller apps into one big conglomerated app.

Really I’m just still salty about Allo >:(

worsedoughnut, 6 months ago

Damn i forgot about boxhead… I must have spent more hours in that game than anything in my Steam library back in the day.

worsedoughnut, 6 months ago

Top artist was The Thermals, top song was Escape by The Bloody Beetroots / Toxic Avenger

worsedoughnut, 6 months ago

I also had the Alias 2, and then it became my mom’s phone after I moved on to my first smartphone (HTC One M7). Loved that stupid double flipping thing to death, such a great design with the e-paper or w/e for the buttons so they could change for the different perspective / context.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

On both, but I haven’t bothered to touch mastodon in a while.

I can appreciate some of the ideas that draw people into Mastoson but for me it’s just super boring though, everyone that I followed on Twitter who moved over is still great to see content from, but the overall vibe of both the instance I’m on and the global federated feed is either just the same stuff for a whole day and a half or infinite small un-curated posts. It doesn’t have that twitter “feel” of stuff I want to see and stuff I might want to see.

Bluesky on the other hand has a lot of user-generated “feeds” that lets me try out some different options, many of which offer exactly what I miss about Twitter. Still no magic algorithms as smart as Twitter’s was / is, but the user-generated stuff does a good job most of the time in showing me content from accounts I follow, accounts that they interact with frequently, and content that is similar to what I follow and interact with. It’s a lot more satisfying and useful to scroll down for a bit than on Mastodon.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Ever considered trying out a tiling window manager?

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Yeah I also use KDE on my desktop, though I have my laptop running QTile because the tile hotkeys are much more convinient than navigating with the trackpad.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Sure, but that’s not the only benefit to having full control over the entire tiling interface. I enjoy building out the features and visuals I want in python. It’s fun to have that level of control.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

lol totally fair

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Right, but the fact of the matter is you can do most things on any distro, it’s very rare that any one distros is “really for” anything specific. They’re not all that different to one another at the end of the day, and to a new user potentially paralyzed by choice this site doesn’t really help either.

Sometimes it’s much easier to say “here’s 3 that offer the most stable new experience, try them out.” And afterwards if you get really tech savvy then go down the niche distro-hopping rabbit hole.

More distros is certainly a good thing, but most new linux users don’t even know what they’re looking for or would even get to the technical depth where the difference between any two distros would actually matter to their daily use. Even more so with the current migration of gamers onto Linux.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

You are also not indicative an entire category of potential new users. You are also clearly not the majority who I am referring to, no need to take it personally.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

A little more nuanced than that, at the bottom of the article it says:

According to a 2014 Gigaom interview with Paul Kane, then chairman of the Internet Computer Bureau, the domain name registry is required to give some of its profits to the British government, for administration of the British Indian Ocean Territory.[23] After being questioned as a result of the interview, the British Government denied receiving any funds from the sale of .io domain names, and argued that consequently, the profits could not be shared with the Chagossians, the former inhabitants forcibly removed by the British government.[24] Kane, however, contradicted the government’s denial.[25][26]

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Love my Pixel, love my Pixel Bud Pros, love my Pixel Watch. Would never use Chrome over Firefox, though I use google search & assistant all the time.

I have a gmail, but it’s devolved into a “email i give to sites i know will spam me and sell my data and send me endless marketing crap” pit, and instead have a proton mail that I use for everything personal / important.

I have zero “brand loyalty” towards google though, I only use products of theirs insofar as they are the best in the class / category that I’m looking for. And for now, that happens to be first-party android devices / wearables, but certainly not browsers. Far from a fanboy, but I also don’t subscribe to the weird hate hivemind on here.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I love that even the URL preview shows an IP address lol.

The site just grabs the viewers current IP I imagine it’s probably whatever address is used by the instance to parse the URL and generate the preview, since it’s different if I view it on my instance, vs if I view it on the original post on dbzer0

Just fun to notice I guess.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

I assume some instance’s don’t have a front-end with URL previewing, but I can see it on my instance’s alternate front-end (Alexandrite), and also on dbzer0’s default layout.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

You’re missing the point. Do you think a president with an R next to their name would be any less of a bloodthirsty moron? So now it’s not only “they’re bombing Palestine” but also all the other human rights violating shit that happens under a Republican president here at home.

Yes Biden should stop absolutely supporting the genocide, but threatening to replace him with literally the same plus LGBTQ+ discrimination, immigration fear mongering, more destruction of reproductive rights, etc. is certainly not a sane reaction.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Any clue if this one addresses the impending 6.6 Kernel changes in response to how Nvidia was breaking the license?

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

phoronix.com/…/Linux-6.6-Illicit-NVIDIA-Change

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6AlbG2ZoKs

They were already scanning every message and DM for data tracking and whatnot to sell anyway, the only difference now is they’re using it for TOS violations.

Privacy-wise nothing has changed, but actual consequences for actually bad things like racism / transphobia / csam / etc. is good. The only real issue is what if they decide that sharing a music file is piracy and now your account is penalized? What about uploading an NES ROM to a friend via a DM? Or sharing a link to an anime piracy website?

It’s the kind of thing that has to be a balance between making sure users aren’t doing stuff that is strictly against Discord’s rules, but also about making a good-faith attempt to limit things that can get Discord themselves in trouble from companies who are becoming more and more aware that Discord has been used as a piracy-safe haven for quite some time now. (Like how they’re limiting their “using discord upload URLs like your own CDN” issue last month.)

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

Like when TitanFall 2 was in the news about the hacked servers and so many people saw the headlines and automatically thought the “TF2” being mentioned was Team Fortress 2.

worsedoughnut, 7 months ago

I will never let myself live down the stupidity and shame of falling for their bullshit not once, but twice. I’m ~$150 poorer thanks to my impressionable college-brain thinking their “complete in a few years” line back in 2014 was even remotely possible.

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

Are you misreading the webpage?

What you’re describing seems like intended behavior. Other than what someone else here noted about using the proton0 adapter rather than tun0, you should not have to do anything other than bind qBittorrent to your VPN’s adapter to stop leaking any and all IP information to the peer swarm.

When you use ipleak.net, you will see your current IP address at the top. This has nothing to do with qbittorrent. Farther down, you need to add the “Torrent Address detection” magnet link to qBittorrent, then that sectoin of the page will show what IP address is being broadcast by qBittorrent (which should match the IP shown at the top of the page when your VPJN adapter is present and active.)

If you have qBit bound to an adapter that is no longer present, you should see both the Speed chart on qBit drop to zero and the page’s Torrent Address section will stop updating since it will no longer be receiving any new traffic.

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

If that is indeed the case you should report this issue with as much detail as possible to the Proton team, because it seems like qBit is behaving propperly and there’s some portion of Proton virtual adapter that is failing here.

I use Proton Vpn as well, but I have a custom wireguard interface & server switching script via their API that doesn’t run into the same issue you’re describing. So the issue must lie somewhere in the Linux GUI app.

Do you get the same issue if you try using an openvpn or wireguard config generated from logging into the proton vpn website? or maybe just from the CLI version of the app?

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

The SteamDeck is intended to be a normal, non-Linux expert, platform first and foremost. Also please don’t be a shithead for no reason.

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

“highly configurable” and “very little effort to start using” don’t blend together […] Arch because they’re the standard for “highly configurable” but they really demand some effort to start using them.

Then they should just use Endeavour, it’s literally just arch with some nice QOL packages to start.

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

I’m all for this post, but I feel like someone needs to ask: What features from Youtube am I losing out on by using these alternate front-ends? (instead of just continuing the cat-and-mouse game between uBlock Origin and Google while at leat preserving the same features and UI that we’re already very mu ch comfortable with)

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

Yeah but at least you’ll know exactly when the lithium ones go bad…

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

I could understand consolidation when you’re as big as google and lot of these one-off apps (Duo, Allo, Podcasts, Measure, Hangouts, etc.) are all clearly just testing grounds for either specific features eventually destined for their mainline apps, or just neat ideas that never caught on and couldn’t be monetized enough to warrant keeping the service alive.

The real issue is: they almost NEVER actually make the “consolidated” app reach feature parity with the one it gets folded into.

worsedoughnut, 8 months ago

While I personally use alexandrite on desktop and Sync on mobile, I absolutely think that Photon looks fantastic these days and certainly deserves to be the default experience for lemdroid. I would feel proud to share a lemdroid link to someone random knowing that it would show them this nice of a front end.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

That you think it’s “odd” for Nexus to remove a bigoted anti-trans mod is such a red flag lol.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

massive props to VH, it’s an awesome modpack, though getting started can be brutal depending on how lucky you are with your seed.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

And clearly it’s working…

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

My exact solution to this on Endeavour was to just stop using flatpaks lol.

Literally everything I used from flathub was also either on the AUR or trivial to install manually from the host GitHub.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

I just wanna play as a Kenku… [sad bird noises]

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

Unfortunate but not shocking to be honest.

Only recently did smartphone cameras get better at detecting darker skinned faces in software, and that was something they were probably working towards for a decent while. Not all that surprising that other camera tech would have to play catch up in that regard as well.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

I don’t think they meant the hacked and released source code, I think they meant the kernel modules that Nvidia actually opensourced in may of '22

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

so the issue gets the attention it deserves.

The other best way to do this is to actually submit the issue in the appropriate location so the Lemmy devs can track and respond to it.

It’s been 7 hours, it can’t be that hard to make a github account and format this post into an actually helpful github issue.

worsedoughnut, 9 months ago

Not sure if you just misread the commands or not, but that’s a pretty different usecase than what they’re describing.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

RCS is our last hope…

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

Check out the XDA Forums section for your carrier’s version of whatever model of phone you have. Not all carriers make it trivial (or even possible) to unlock the bootloader and flash custom recovery images, but if it’s possible then someone there has certainly done it.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

I believe they’ve (Google) been somewhat successful in convincing carriers / 3rd party OS devs like Samsung to start implementing RCS in their own messaging apps. There’s even a 3rd party app on iOS that can use it now.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

pre-numbering, it was almost like trying to decipher Sanskrit when going out to buy a router.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

This is the leat surprising information anyone could have told me about working for LTT/LMG. Time and time again, tech jobs and game dev jobs in workplaces run by “old internet edgelords” always (always) results in shit like this.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

I mean it’s quite literally not, but whether it’s tasteful to link to a different community is up to personal choice I guess.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

No, in so far as its a valid community to link to considering this is beehaw (not federated with a few large instances) and it’s 100% relevant to the thread they posted it in.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

How Linus publicly responds to these very fairly laid out criticisms will really affect their standing in the tech review space going forward.

Linus generally sucks at taking warranted feedback & criticism, so I can see him crashing and burning super hard in whatever post or podcast comment he makes publicly about this.

This looks like a huge issue as far as moving from a “haha wacky video” tech channel to a “hard data driven testing” tech channel, but also it’s not like they haven’t done “serious” reviews prior to the Labs stuff in the past so I’m not about to hand wave away their issues as “growing pains” or anything like that; it’s just indicative of sloppy workflow and low effort internal culture.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

I mostly watch LTT for the entertainment value but I’ve never taken their reviews particularly seriously.

Except, people spending hundreds to a thousand dollars on PC hardware do clearly trust him and his channel for the final “should you buy this or not” stance at the end of each review. It’s not a negligible amount of influence he has on the tech review space, and it’s explicitly because of their click-bait / algorithm friendly thumbnails and titles that they’re able to reach such wide audiences and become the top few results when someone searches for a product.

it is clear that Linus knows his stuff

Is it? I’ve been watching for years and he always exudes “content creator persona” and very rarely expresses and real technical knowledge. He’s essentially the youtube star version of that one kid who built their PC and never shuts up about it; he has certainly educated himself on consumer tech stats and comparisons, but his background and especially his current work have very little to do with actual technical know how.

And I’m not even saying that’s a “bad thing”, since he has writers and staff and now the Lab who should be able to reach that level of understanding and let him be just the face on the screen. But the fact is like Steve has said, that clearly also isn’t what’s actually happening behind the scenes.

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

How does Amberol hold up with libraries in the high thousands? So many nice looking music played keep struggling with my music folders.

Really makes me miss Winamp sometimes.