Hey everyone! I’ve been diving into RPGs lately and wanted to share my thoughts and seek recommendations from fellow gamers. I’ve found myself resonating with Scott the Woz’s viewpoint on random encounters and grinding, but I do make an exception when the combat system is truly exceptional, like in the case of...
Im getting back to dowloading Linux distros for the first time in over a decade…man have the times changed. I’m running qBittorrent with all the major repos including Jackett…but everything is downloading
You’d see that a lot on Reddit, on subs like r/pcmr or r/gaming. But not much of that here, presumably because Lemmy has a higher ratio of FOSS-friendly folks.
Keep pop-up windows open – Instead of minimizing pop-up windows when you go to the Recents screen, pop-ups will now remain open after you leave the Recents screen so you can continue what you were working on.
As a heavy multitasker (on a Fold), it was annoying having the popup windows automatically minimize. Glad they fixed it now.
This reminds me of those old forum signatures which looked like a signpost, and showed your IP address, browser, OS etc. They were pretty popular back then (when no one cared about their privacy), to the point that some folks even made parody versions of those signatures (like changing the IP to “127.0.0.1” or writing a funny message).
I by now have wasted far too much time trying to setup a VM on my decently decked out machine (i5 13600KF, RTX 3080, 32GB DDR5, Win11 on a 4K Display) to run some kind of Linux in there that runs perfectly smooth - mostly for Development purposes....
I respectfully disagree, as someone who’s tried both WSL1 and 2, I’d avoid it. Not only does it not replace the experience of a proper Linux install, you run into weird issues or quirks that’s caused by WSL, which is the last thing that someone new to Linux and trying to code at the same time, would want to experience. In my case, I had an issue with my Arch WSL2 install where the network would stop working for some weird reason. Tried a bunch of things, nothing worked, in the end I gave up on it because I wasted too much time on it, when I could’ve just used Hyper-V instead - which I did, and had no issues (which was also weird, considering WSL2 uses Hyper-V in the backend). Then the other weird issue was trying to clean up my broken WSL2 install - no matter what I did, I couldn’t get my Arch install out of the wsl --list --alllist - even though it didn’t actually exist anywhere.
And in case you ask, yes I did try other distros too, had the same issue with the network.
The whole experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth, like it was some unfinished beta product.
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
I can’t speak for the author but I’ve experienced this issue a few times, with increasing frequency of late, on Firefox and even other apps (not Chrome). Especially if I’m browsing under private mode (which I often am, just because I don’t like any cookies/cache to be saved for random sites). Now, it’s not like it’s some random site who’s Javascript broke or something, perfectly functioning sites would stop working and display that CloudFlare access denied message, when they previously worked just fine.
The other app I’d experience issues with is Tachiyomi, a manga reader and scraper. Whilst it works fine for the most part, every once in a while I’d get blocked by CloudFlare, which prevents Tachiyomi from searching/accessing various manga sites. But if I access the said site via Chrome, it’d work just fine.
It’s not just CloudFlare. Sometimes, when again browsing via Firefox’s private mode and say I needed to run a Google search, Google sometimes throws a captcha at me because it finds my activities “suspicious”.
Just so you know, there’s nothing unusual about my internet setup - I’m just a standard home user, with a static-ish IP from a well known ISP. My public IP has been the same for over an year now, and I don’t run any web/mail servers or anything that my ISP or a website would dislike.
What it is, is just plain discrimination. Just because I have my privacy filters up and blocking all tracking and crap, it’s seeing me as suspicious. If this sort of stuff is going to be the norm, I can only imagine how much more bleak our future would be if Google’s WEI went into effect.
... @opensuse Project turns 18 years today in 3,5 hours
also @debian turning 30 next week, was thinking of doing something in Stockholm but signed up to an @android developer meetup at Klarna instead and got busy
Nothing wrong with the actual service itself, speed well within advertised ranges, outages are very rare.
But on the rare occasion an outage does occur, getting in touch with their customer service is a PITA. Extremely long hold times so don’t even bother ringing them, and their chat service via their app is pretty janky - they don’t use push notifications, so you wouldn’t know when an agent has replied to you, unless you’re glued to your phone, kept your screen alive and dropped all your work. Better to use the chat feature on their website via a PC, IMO.
Their other contact options are to use either Zuckerberg’s data harvesting apps, or a walled-garden fruity messenger. Why can’t they just use Signal (or Telegram), like civilized people?
Unfortunately I do not currently have the capability to translate between languages. I’m an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
“The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.”...
We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and...
It seems like OneUI 6 is coming soon. However with the screenshots of the control centre UI, it seems like the ‘one handed’ UI focus is disappearing as more UI elements are brought higher…
Can’t remember last time they released new android version on a flagship without breaking either performance or battery life
That’s actually quite normal for most in-place OS upgrades, and isn’t specific to Samsung or even Android.
As an old PC nerd, the rule-of-thumb still stands true today: always do a fresh install when doing a major OS upgrade, it’ll save you from much agony down the line.
I’ve always been a Stock Android fanboy, so I loved the Pixel phones. However, for reasons, I got myself a Galaxy Fold 4 last year, which I fell in love with. I can’t see myself going back to a regular phone now, and for me to get a Pixel Fold, Google would really have to improve Android’s multitasking capabilities. On my Galaxy Fold for instance, I can have three tiled windows in a split-screen layout, or can have several floating windows of regular apps, which can be minimized into floating chatheads. With these floating windows, I can freely resize them, hide the header and even change their transparency levels. Which is great if you want to keep an eye out on some chat or Uber Eats or something whilst you are reading a book in full-screen. Having gotten used to these multitasking features, I can’t see myself going back to stock Android, until these are implemented.
Very cool. Jealous that you got to talk to Kenny Chou. Him, Josh Jensen, and the Elam family are all my heros - I’ve read the OMF manual so many times that I still remember all their names, nearly three decades later. I wonder how their baby, Bethany Kay Elam is doing these days, and if she’s still chewing on joysticks and slobbering over keyboards…
I vividly recall the distinct humor and light-heartedness of the manual, which instructed me to print it out, give it to my friends and even put it in my bird cage. I couldn’t do the latter since I didn’t have a bird cage… but I did I print out several copies and gave it to my friends. My first manual was printed on a dot matrix printer. Later down the line, I managed to upgrade to an inkjet version - and even printed out a few pages in color (because color printouts were a precious thing back then), put it in a nice folder and made fancy borders and stuff around it.
The manual really struck a chord with me for some reason. Maybe because it went so detailed into the back stories of all the pilots, or maybe it’s was the down-to-earth language of it and the candid descriptions of the developers that made me feel like I got to know them personally… there was just something different about it, compared to all other game manuals at the time. Till date, I’ve never come across any official manual for a game with this sort of character to it. If Ryan Elam is still around, I’d love to meet him sometime and have a few beers with him.
This AI generated ad on the front page of a newspaper. Can you find what is wrong with it? (kerala.party)
What are some RPGs for someone who doesnt like most RPGs
Hey everyone! I’ve been diving into RPGs lately and wanted to share my thoughts and seek recommendations from fellow gamers. I’ve found myself resonating with Scott the Woz’s viewpoint on random encounters and grinding, but I do make an exception when the combat system is truly exceptional, like in the case of...
Is everything slow for you?
Im getting back to dowloading Linux distros for the first time in over a decade…man have the times changed. I’m running qBittorrent with all the major repos including Jackett…but everything is downloading
Linux users are the vegans of the computer world
“As a Linux user…”...
Here’s everything new in Samsung’s Android 14 update [Gallery] (9to5google.com)
This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED]
Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works...
New! From Google! "Enhanced" ad privacy! (midwest.social)
Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch....
Myth: "DOS does not multitask" (lunduke.locals.com)
Truth: DOS has been multitasking since the early 1980s.
Portable Keyboard?
If this isn’t the right place for user questions, please just let me know....
Can anyone recommend me a setup to virtualize Linux under Windows that runs smoothly?
I by now have wasted far too much time trying to setup a VM on my decently decked out machine (i5 13600KF, RTX 3080, 32GB DDR5, Win11 on a 4K Display) to run some kind of Linux in there that runs perfectly smooth - mostly for Development purposes....
Sync is crazy!
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Probably New Zealanders too. (lemmy.ca)
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
Who's your ISP and how do you rate them?
From 3.5 to 12.7 just because 1-10 is so overrated, it’s like a 6.5 out of 4.3 to 16.2.
Chat Gpt now has ads in some responses (jacobw.xyz)
The Enshittification may have begun of this service too....
Android 14 introduces first-of-its-kind cellular connectivity security features - Google Security Blog (security.googleblog.com)
Key points:...
Mishaal Rahman: ASUS is NOT killing off bootloader unlocking for its phones (twitter.com)
“The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.”...
USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)
We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and...
Samsung announces One UI 6 beta with Android 14, then deletes it | 9to5Google (9to5google.com)
It seems like OneUI 6 is coming soon. However with the screenshots of the control centre UI, it seems like the ‘one handed’ UI focus is disappearing as more UI elements are brought higher…
How does everyone feel about Google Pixel phones?
Previously on Lemmy:...
What is your favorite underrated or unknown DOS game?
We all love our “Doom”," Command & Conquer", “Commander Keen” etc....