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light, 8 days ago

@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.

light, 8 days ago

@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, 11 days ago

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

light, 16 days ago

@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.

light, 19 days ago

@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, 19 days ago

@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.

light, 19 days ago

@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, 19 days ago

@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

light, 18 days ago

@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

light, 18 days ago

@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, 18 days ago

@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.

light, 18 days ago

@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.

light, 17 days ago

@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, 1 month ago

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

light, 1 month ago

@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.

light, 22 days ago

@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. 😃

light, 22 days ago

@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, 22 days ago

@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, 22 days ago

@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.

light, 1 month ago

@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.

light, 1 month ago

@lanodan
GNU/dad is spot on. 👍
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as dad, is in fact, GNU/dad, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus dad. 😂🤣

light, 1 month ago

@SirTapTap
The 'old car engine starting' should be when the cat purr 😅, or I misinterpreted that option? 😜

light, 1 month ago

@BeAware
Yeah, I know it's not as powerful as if it was blocked by the instance. The only other thing I can do is migrate to another instance that blocks it. But other than I really don't like my instance is federated with threads I like it here. I don't think I would migrate just yet.