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Wes_Dev

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  • Well fuck.

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  • Legitimately the only reason I still have a Windows 10 ISO and key sitting on my long term storage drive is because I fear that I may have to install it to use VR whenever I get a new kit.

    Please Valve. Pretty please....

    Actually, didn't Facebook buy the lens company Valve was donating to and working with to develop their new VR lens tech? I forgot about that. Another reason to hate Facebook. (I refuse to call it the M word.)

  • Open-source ChatGPT Alternative

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  • Other offline tools I've found:

    GPT4All

    RWKY-Runner

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  • This is barely related, but I've recently discovered it using Firefox and just wanted to share my misery. If you're not using Chrome with the Google Docs extension, then Google Sheets will REFUSE to let you copy and paste with a right click context menu. But you can just press the keyboard keys to do so, or use the menu options to do so.

    Like...what? It works, but they refuse to let you do it with the context menu, despite including them in the context menu.

    If you try, it pops up a window and tells you that you have to install their extension or pound sand.

  • COSMIC: More Alpha, More Fun!

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  • Linux already won years ago. Linux won so thoroughly that Windows 10 includes a Linux subsystem, almost every supercomputer runs Linux or BSD, and the majority of all mobile devices use the Linux kernel.

    Not too bad for a bunch of nerds sharing code. :)

  • Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

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  • God, I want a THC vape. Had one once when I lost my job, apartment, roommate, etc, all at the same time.

    I couldn't afford my overpriced-yet-shitty $2,000 apartment, plus utilities, by myself on any of the jobs I found. There was nothing to do but wait for a couple of weeks for family to come pick me up, so I said screw it and got a THC vape pen. It was the most relaxing two weeks I've ever had.

    The pen had a nice big cartridge of Charlotte's Web. I used it A LOT. Woke up in the middle of the night at one point, still buzzed, and decided I should take a break from THC. I needed to sober up to handle adult crap, so I threw the thing away.

    Proud of myself for not letting myself become and addict, even though I was high at the time. But still miss it.

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  • Automated content farms to sell ads. So basically, instead of teams of people in Russian content farms like 5 Minute Crafts siphoning money from Google, the AI does it instead.

    Another reason why advertising-based economies are stupid. It's a race to the bottom, and every single content creator has to make their content worse and worse, with more and more ads, just to break even. Fucking podcasts have automatically inserted crap now, just shoved in randomly, based on your IP when you download them.

  • What the Cursor? - An introduction to the new hyprcursor format

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  • Instead of each frame of animation being a grid of pixels, each frame is a small collection of math describing the visuals.

    But we'd still have frames to use for animation, if we want.

    Instead of replacing one PNG for another PNG to make the illusion of movement, we replace one SVG with one SVG instead.

  • GNOME 46 is Coming in Hot With These 6 Features

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  • I'm okay with being wrong, it just means I'm less wrong in the future. Thank you for the info.

  • Is there a community list of VG company not to buy from?

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  • Don't forget Nintendo.

  • Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles

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  • Step 1 - Push people to piracy.

    Step 2 - Complain to lawmakers about rampant piracy.

    Step 3 - Get governments to outlaw and shut down piracy sources, compatible technologies, and generally force more authoritarian standards and laws.

    Step 4 - P2P starts to die. Piracy starts to condense around large hubs.

    Step 5 - Make money suing the only large hubs of piracy that still exist, and shut them down.

    Step 6 - Profit from lack of competition and ability to force DRM into everything.

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  • I'm still following an open bug report from a year ago where the desktop does weird stuff with AMD GPUs, like randomly scramble graphics or unmap half the screen for no reason.

  • Tech Company Leaks 2FA Codes/Password Reset Links for Major Platforms

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  • I've got some older unopened v4 Yubikeys that work let me have when they upgraded to v5. I've been meaning to try them out. Problem is there's no backup. If you lose or break the thing, you're screwed if you didn't have some alternative 2FA set up.

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  • 100% agree.

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  • That's a good point, and I do have some 2FA set up like that. The problem is I have to be logged into a computer, have a browser open, have the 2FA extension installed, and be able to copy and paste or type the code in before the timer expires.

    That's not hard at home, but if I need to sign in to my bank account while at a library or anything like that, I'm screwed.

    I think SMS is popular because it's so easy to reach the people that need the codes, regardless of platform. I just wish it wasn't so bad security-wise, you know?

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • Oh no, I got you. I was kind of looking at if from another angle.

    You normally can't buy a machine with desktop Linux pre-installed, but you can with ChromeOS. Despite that, Linux has a bigger market share. I think part of the reason why is specifically because ChromeOS is so limited and intrinsically tied to Google, that people who do things like install new OSes avoid it like the plague. Google's push to satisfiy shareholders and build walled gardens is the reason their desktop OS isn't being used.

    I've installed Android in virtual machines and played with x86 builds on bare metal. I've installed Linux on Macbooks, desktops, servers, and handhelds. I've tried out BSD on network shares and other little devices. I've never done anything like that with ChromeOS. It holds zero appeal to me, despite being easily purchasable at a retail store.

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  • Not gonna lie, I've submitted tiny feature requests to the dev team for Cinnamon and Mate before. One or two of them got implemented, and I was so .... happy? proud? idk

    I was such a cool feeling though. Being able to participate is very underrated.

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  • I use Gnome 3 because of Comic-like tiling extensions, lack of random bugs and crashes (looking at you my beloved KDE), and because so many apps require GTK that it almost always gets installed by something I want to use.

    I dislike using it because SO MANY features and quality of life things were removed and never reintroduced. Like, I have to make a custom bookmark for root or my Desktop folder in Nautilus, and can't remove the default ones that I never use. Creating symlinks is disabled by default. I have to go to "other locations" and manually type in a network address because you can't even type in the ADDRESS BAR. If too many windows are open on a tiled workspace, the lack of any reserved clickable space on the titlebar means Nautilus gets squished and I can't drag and move a window without either moving something else first, opening the overview, or using the keyboard. Not entirely the Gnome team's fault, but it's little oversights like that which make the desktop a pain to use. The awful "classic mode" application menu with no ability to search or right click on entries for more options is a good example too. I have to open the mobile-like workspaces view or whatever its call to do that stuff now. I'm not on mobile, this is a desktop.

    It's like they're trying to force me to use their cursor/touch based UX in some ways, but in others I have to use a keyboard or dig in the settings to do anything. Or maybe they're just of the opinion that if people want features, someone will volunteer to make and maintain an extension to enable them.

    Don't get me wrong, Gnome 3 is impressive, looks good, and is generally simple to use, but I end up trying to spend so much time working around its intentional limitations, that I start to hate it a little more every day. I use it begrudgingly, waiting for something better to come along. If I was a smarter person with more time, I'd try to help the project with these papercuts, but my coding skills are crap.

    But, just so I'm not beating up on them for no good reason, I'll add that there are a ton of very nice things they created or implemented that I enjoy. The quick settings menu comes to mind; and the settings app in general is very nice.

    I think the Gnome devs made a lot of good choices. I just wish they could have done so without removing so many features or trying to force a paradigm change in how I use my computer. I appreciate their work, I really do, but damn...