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FeelThePower

@ FeelThePower @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Like you, I am a living person with memories, emotions, and interests. But from your perspective, I'm just another picture on a screen. Isn't that concerning?

  • What's the most notable difference between you and the other people in your neighborhood?

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  • I don't own a car

  • Meteorologist rebukes DeSantis for scrubbing climate change from state law: ‘Florida is on fire’

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  • I remember going to soflo, Miami beach area in 2018 and the streets were overflowing with salt water. You know those rectangular drains on the sides of roads under sidewalks? it was coming out of there. You'd think they would care more about the environment in that state but I guess not. Oh well, that's why I left. The woods I used to hang out in are now also perma-vacant single family homes.

  • I don't have long left

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  • I've had the same bag since 2018, I got it for school. Since then I've taken it all over the country many times and currently it's still one of the only items I have from my "old life" after I had to move 2 years ago and lost most everything else. It's also been discontinued. If anything happens to it I will genuinely be as heartbroken as losing a friend.

  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows

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  • if you're being for real, it's successor is this. though compared to other offerings these days I don't really prefer to use it. open source and no ads tho so that's cool.

  • Douglas MacArthur was going to take things too far

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  • it's actually become insanely popular with gen z / alpha in the last couple years.

  • who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

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  • Gen Z weeb from FL living in CA for a couple years now, almost went the IT route and finished trade school but ended up just working a part time service job to have more free time at the cost of being poorer lol

  • Chad VLC

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  • If so, then it definitely doesn't make it as obvious as VLC does. but good to know I suppose

    edit: it only plays whatever the largest file it can find on the disc is, no menu / iso support. womp womp

  • Chad VLC

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  • I switched to MPV recently for the same reasons. If it had support for playing disc media it would be the absolute king of video players imo.

  • "Disable adblocker"-thing on YouTube is back

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  • I use a locally hosted frontend.

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  • I'll probably look more into it, but the only reason I didn't before is because I couldn't find one in my price range with reasonable specs that ran on Linux. I have a G15 5515 that cost me around 500 when I got it, has an rtx 3050 and 16gb ram with a ryzen 5. System76 didn't really have any comparable offerings for that price at the time.

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  • Wait, could you explain? So KDE can control scaling at the application level? Because I was able to set the scaling in the actual settings just fine and it worked for the UI and most applications. I just remember a few wouldn't scale up no matter what I did.

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  • Yep, Nvidia. As for the scaling issues I'm not sure either. UI elements were fine but no matter what desktop environment I used, some things (though I can only remember steam immediately) would be super tiny in full 1080p instead of scaling with the rest of the applications. Didn't try tiling window managers because honestly I don't enjoy them so no comment on that one.

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  • I really, really wish Linux worked better on my gaming laptop. I used it for many years on desktop as my only OS (hopped many distros and ended back on mint) but on laptops I just can't find a distro without considerable issues. Whether it be display scaling problems, performance, not being able to switch my video card mode, etc...

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  • Hmm, good point.

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  • The only thing we reasonably have is security through obscurity. We are something bigger than a forum but smaller than Reddit, in terms of active user size. If such a thing were to happen here, mods could handle it more easily probably (like when we had the spammer of the Japanese text back then), but if it were to happen on a larger scale than what we have it would be harder to deal with.

  • What do we think about the new DDG AI Chat feature?

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  • I just want this trend to be over.

  • Can you live without YouTube ?

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  • Honestly it depends. A lot of my online time in the last ~5 years has strayed away from YouTube. Most of my time is just spent playing musicbee while browsing anidb/ MAL/ MFC, searching for rares / chatting on soulseek, or watching anime / movies. But YouTube does come undeniably handy for those times where you want something you can't find anywhere else online, like people going solo into hard-to-access countries to record their journeys, or tutorials that explain things in much more detail than text could due to visual demonstration, or more in-depth reviews of products where the video makes it a lot easier to feel the size / scale of the product I'm looking at.

    Could I do it? Sure. But it would definitely be hard for a long time, as I track down various blogs / self hosted websites with what I liked to use YouTube for. But honestly that kind of internet might be better. Or if a smaller platform would gain more traction so YouTube wasn't the only option. I think that would be ideal.

  • Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

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  • While I don't plan on being a parent, I will say that I did learn a good bit about piracy from my dad when I was younger, which kept me away from obviously shady things and now that I'm older I pretty much have a routine in place for my stuff whereas he doesn't even use a computer anymore. I think it's worth it really.

  • DuckDuckGo AI Chat

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  • I used to use startpage but just recently switched back to ddg. for some reason on my browser the search would return errors or sometimes I'd type my search query and it would just load the homepage of the site. Sometimes it just feels like there is no winning. :/