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  • KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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  • been waiting on the global theme thing so I can save my weird setup and not have to rebuild it every time I switch distros (and I need a reinstall because I did something the computer said not to and have weird issues now)

  • KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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  • thats exactly what plasma needs right now. feels like every time I read this week in plasma they just extracted it straight from my mind and fixed the things that were bugging me.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • Honestly I don't think those things are that big of a deal. yeah it's annoying, but very few people are going to be setting up on new devices often enough for the verification thing to matter (also it's only needed for encrypted chats, which won't be most of them) and most discord users either don't care about emojis or use whatever is available on their server as part of the server. Just letting rooms (probably need a way for all rooms in a space to have them too) have a set of custom emojis tied to them should work for most people. for the people who do care about emojis and stickers, they can have any emoji or sticker they want.

    I think the main issues are things like slow load times and trying to keep every room loaded at all times. the first can be alleviated by going to a less popular instance or by fixing the second. most people won't trust instances other than the main one for a while bc they are new to the federated stuff. The second can be fixed by just not trying to load every room. you still need to check for new messages every so often but that doesn't mean they all have to be loaded at all times. I'm also pretty sure you can turn of the verification thing in your instance account settings.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • thats exactly what I mean though. the technical side is already great, if they can get the ux on par with discord (which is a very low bar) they'll have a shot. thats something they could feasibly do in the short term.

  • Why aren't there more mice with 360° scrolling?

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  • no idea why they dont have it. i like the separate vertical and horizontal scroll on my MX master 3 but it would be nice to have a little more control.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • if matrix can get some of the remaining issues fixed I think it has a decent shot at taking over, but people will probably pick another "federated" proprietary app like with bluesky

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • i use Niagara and I like it, but its a little different. if you want a more traditional one ive heard lawnchair is good.

  • Geoguessr, but actually fun

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  • gotta give this a try, looks fun.

  • Save as PDF

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  • oop probably meant from websites

  • What's that word?

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  • defenestration

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • well most (tech-related) industries dont really get much traction when its just private companies. generally a private company starts something and then open-source projects keep the underlying tech working while major companies rebrand stuff every year.

    thats part of why I'm so excited for the steam frame. it'll finally give a vr platform that doesnt rely on proprietary stuff, freeing people up to do stupid things with it and accidentally make something really cool. what we really needed is for the bubble it was in to burst so the companies that had it in a chokehold would let go, but it just got smaller and they held on. its a lot like the ai situation right now where there are useful and sustainable use cases, but its too wrapped up in shareholder circlejerks for anyone to get the chance to set it up right.

    also, I need to get my ender v3 working again. that thing was fun.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • vr is useful but its too wrapped up in corporate bs to really take off for now. its dominated by companies obsessed with ai and by pathetic startups that never finish a product. it just needs meta to be less dominant.

  • How's Nvidia GPUs in Linux nowadays?

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  • i have a 1650 and as long as you have that or newer the open source drivers should just work. iirc the proprietary drivers are a little better right now but that probably wont stay for long with how close they are.

  • If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

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  • check out helion. they are trying to make small, modular reactors that are cheaper to build and maintain, so they can be deployed easier than fission reactors and the couple of fusion designs that already exist. iirc they have the actual fusion part working and are now working on actually getting the energy out of it. real engineering has some good videos about them on nebula and YouTube.

  • TIL: Lemmy's instance-level URL filters also evaluate against community descriptions [See edit]

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  • its not necessarily every single user, but the vast majority of the time when you interact with a .ml account they act insane and are assholes. it may only be a vocal minority, but the mods do nothing to stop them and on .ml communities they actively support that behavior.

  • TIL: Lemmy's instance-level URL filters also evaluate against community descriptions [See edit]

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  • you're missing the point. in subscribed view .ml content can still appear. the point is to make it so that nothing from lemmy.ml can get through at all because the people on that instance suck to interact with.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • the ux is dependent on the app or webapp (usually tied to an instance) you are using, and mbin is the same ux as Lemmy like 90% of the time. there is only one mobile app (Interstellar) but its no worse than most Lemmy apps. i think the better federation alone would be enough to make it more popular if Lemmy wasnt the only thing being recommended for threads.

  • Loops is Now on the App Store

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  • yeah, as much as I hate algorithm-based social media short form content needs it. you scroll from one video to the next with no way to pick and choose which ones you interact with. normally you can just not click on a post and it gets nothing from you, but short form content does not allow that. that means the next video has to be chosen for you, and that regular feeds will not work. that mean you have to have some kind of algorithm or you will have to interact with tons of videos you have no interest in to get to one that is worth watching to you (which is the current state of loops).

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • mbin should be on there too IMO. similar to Lemmy but it federates properly with microblog stuff.

  • 1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • I'm a little behind on this, what does goodreads have to do with bezos?