Skip Navigation

User banner

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬

@ Dirk @lemmy.ml

Posts
14
Comments
1384
Joined
3 yr. ago

Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

🔗 Me, but elsewhere

🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪

  • i'm a hardliner

    Jump

  • Not-wired connections are always and without exception a workaround for devises where it is impossible or impractical to use a wired connection with.

  • Crans-Montana: IT-Panne soll Brandschutzkontrollen verhindert haben

    Jump

  • Na ja, jetzt ist der Schuldige doch gefunden und kann durchs Dorf getrieben werden.

  • Netflix-Boykott: Synchronsprecher protestieren gegen KI-Stimmen

    Jump

  • Hab neulich zufällig mal einen Film mit KI-Stimmen gesehen. Hab nach 5 Minuten abgebrochen - das klingt so unfassbar scheiße! Wenn das die Ukunft sein soll dann können wir es auch lassen.

  • Which directories should I back up in Windows before moving to Linux?

    Jump

  • Exactly! Your user data is stored in c:\users. This includes, well, your user data for all of the users, including all user-spefific configuration files and application data and actual files and directories created by the user.

    Unfortunately lots of configuration is stored in the registry and is useless for transitioning them over to Linux. Same with most Windows software that doesn't use the registry. You'll unfortunately also find configuration files all.over the place. Might it be in the application's installation directory c:\ProgramData, or somewhere else.

  • Translations are horribly bad! Is there a way to improve them?

    Jump

  • For English to German I don’t need machine translations, but yes: English to German translations are even more catastrophic. I sometimes translate from Polish. But I also tried some other languages … None of them produced results I’d consider good by modern standards.

    Translating something to English is slightly better, but if THIS is the best we can have right now, then the best we can have right now isn’t even close to what we COULD have right now (with the right training data and resources).

    I expect there’s a project you can join

    I did a quick research that took longer than I wanted it to take, and the Mozilla Corporation is really good in hiding anything even remotely related to how the translations work and what the community can do.

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Translations are horribly bad! Is there a way to improve them?

  • Strengerer Nutri-Score, Danone, Pepsi und Co. nehmen Reißaus

    Jump

  • die A is halt n bisschen besser

    Meine erste Überlegung wäre dann, „WARUM ist sie besser?“, und dann würde ich sowieso auf die Nährwerttabelle und/oder Zutatenliste gucken.

    Es ist völlig in Ordnung, wenn Leute anhand des Scores ihre Entscheidung fällen, für mich persönlich ist er aber nur wie ein weiteres Label, was die Hersteller auf die Verpackung drucken.

  • ChatGPT apparently got rewarded for using its built-in calculator during training, and so it would covertly open its calculator, add 1+1, and do nothing with the result, on 5% of all user queries

    Jump

  • Malicious compliance is the best form of compliance.

  • Strengerer Nutri-Score, Danone, Pepsi und Co. nehmen Reißaus

    Jump

  • Es gibt doch eh nur Rot bei Genussartikeln oder schöngerechnet Grün bei anderen Lebensmitteln. Wo ist das Problem? Abgesehen davon dass da vermutlich eh niemand ernsthaft drauf achtet.

    Wer sich wirklich damit auseinandersetzt, guckt doch sowieso auf sie Zutatenliste und nicht auf irgendwelche Ampeln oder Logos.

  • OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data

    Jump

  • can’t figure this shit out!

    Oh they can. They just won't.

  • Deleted

    Mojang forces British Java users to comply with British Online Safety Act and do age verification

    Jump

  • So Microsoft finally found a way to kill off the only actually good version?

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • I did, and I just don’t “feel it”. Those is all great software but none of them really fits my specific use case. They all seem to be deeply connected with desktop environments or being just plain old font managers.

    My dream is something like an image viewer, but for fonts. A bit like display from ImageMagick does it, but more like this.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Sounds like you have an awesome dad!

    how is a 36-year-old supposed to act?

    How ever they want!

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in?

    The ones specific to that DE, which I do not want.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • Mmmh, nope, only the normal version available.

    The Flatpak version (or KCharSelect in general) unfortunately ignores the font file given on command line.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • KCharSelect

    It just installs kcharselect … and figuratively half of KDE :)

    There seems to be a Flatpak available I’ll check out later when I have time to install hundreds of megabyte of depending other KDE-specific Flatpaks …

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.

    I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • Ideally something that allows me to see the characters in a table, sorted by character blocks, like in the LibreOffice “Insert Special Characters” dialog, so that I’m not limited to some predefined text but being able to see all characters.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

    Jump

  • These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.

    That’s my point. All of those stupid modern things do not solve my issue of just double-clicking a local ttf file in my file manager to see some text rendered in that font. That is literally all I want to do.

    The fact that you’re asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK

    I don’t really care what graphics toolkit is used. I just don’t want something that is heavily interconnected with any type of desktop environment due to not wanting to install a metric shit-ton of dependencies 😉

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

  • Alabama library denied funding because it won’t move classic book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

    Jump

  • Only fascist regimes ban books.

  • ich_iel @feddit.org
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    ich😮‍💨iel

  • Neovim @programming.dev
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    solved

    How to get rid of those stupid background and font color?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Best way to dockerize a static website?

  • /c/cybersecurity - Cybersecurity News & Discussion @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Was there a recent hack/leak affecting Spotify?

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Stock-y alternative launcher for Pixel 7?

  • Hyprland Desktop Environment @lemmy.world
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Rant

    Why is there no sane way to remap keys?

  • Wayland @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml
    Rant

    Why is there no sane way to remap keys?

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    The OTP you want to use was already used

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Your favorite native Linux games?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    How do YOU create your Docker images?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    C’mon, Do Something

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml

    Please don't scare them!