kitsunesoba

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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It's interesting how differently the experience has turned out for different crowds. I've seen numerous anecdotes from more technically-inclined types saying that their Mastodon posts not only get greater engagement than their Twi
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
If it meets the poster’s needs, what’s the problem? Better that old electronics continue to get used than for them to be junked. Though my primary monitors are newer, I have monitors that are coming up on a decade old that get used as secon
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Heavily dependent on the circles one’s part of in my experience. Everybody I followed when I moved to mastodon several months ago (mostly devs, apple users, and a few designers) are still there, actively post, and have no plans to return.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Discord is convenient and polished, plus there’s only one Discord and many already have an account there. I don’t agree that it’s a good alternative to Reddit but I can see why people might find it more appealing than something like a Lemmy
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
For TVs I would agree, but there’s a visible difference between 4K and 5K at 27”. Don’t seem any point going past 5k for 27” monitors though, that truly is overkill.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Not entirely sure but I think OLED pixels modulate brightness with PWM, which causes high frequency (though invisible) flickering.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Makes sense, but I hope that there’s meaningful progress on microLEDs soon. While OLED burn-in has improved a lot, it’s still a concern for the lengths of time that people keep screens for… my 5 year old VA panel TV still looks identical to
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
> That is absolutely wild. All the time? Until mouseover? All the time, normally only the close button is visible. I can kinda see the reasoning for hiding minimize since GNOME lacks a representation of minimized windows (except in overv
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
I've not seen updated stats in a long time but saw blog posts from game devs several years ago showing that on Android, there's quite a bit of piracy going on for many one-time-purchase apps, especially games. While these devs are
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Agreed, whitespace distribution is oddly uneven.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
The choice of font itself is fine I think, but the way KDE uses font sizes, weights, colors, and padding/margins could use work. Other OSes/DEs better use all four cues to denote information hierarchy and importance which reduces
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
To me Cinnamon and some configurations of XFCE feel closer to a traditional Windows-style desktop than KDE does, but very few distros ship either as their flagship DE.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
> A big drawback, and what killed many of the original forums, is spam management and maintenance. It's also what's killed comment sections on a lot of blogs. Nobody wants to have to either periodically clean out spam or go thr
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
"I already have an account there," is a much more powerful force than some realize. Signup fatigue is real, and a lot of people will just hit the back button if it turns out they need to register a new account to participate.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
KDE has felt a bit odd to me ever since I think v5 or whenever it was that there was a big shift in its UI design. Some people really love it and that's great but I think many of its quirks/unique bits will be lost on general audi
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
My opinion of this way of handling HDR is kinda mixed when it comes to phones, but on computers and tablets I prefer it to the way that e.g. Windows handles HDR, where non-HDR parts of the screen look weirdly dim, which makes you want to on
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
There’s a ton of little power user affordances sprinkled through macOS that aren’t present in GNOME, and some not in any other desktop environment. Here’s just a few shortcomings compared to macOS pulled from memory and from playing with my
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Going login-only would be suicidal. A large chunk of Reddit’s traffic and probably the majority of new users come from search engines, which login walls lock out. It’s not like Twitter where most growth comes from existing users linking twe
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
That’s not going to be much of a roadblock for LLM trainers… they crawl the web just as well as they consume API output. I don’t think this will accomplish anything but anger legitimate users.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
True, though there’s always room for polish but nobody ever seems to bother with that.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It’s been several months so I forget the exact issue, but at that point whatever the C# runtime was didn’t install cleanly without manually building a specific branch or somesuch, with no official package being available for FreeBSD.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It absolutely could work, but then they’re giving up extended monetization opportunities with the extra data they’d be collecting from pushing users into the official app along with the ability their app gives them to shove whatever they’re
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It really is frustrating when companies decide to do anything except focus on and improve their proven core product, chasing dreams of wholly unrealistic valuations.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
It's not just on BSDs that these breakages occur. The forums are full of reports, many of which occur on Linux. And yes, I've actually considered starting a project of my own. The main thing that gives me pause is not writing the
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
I use Infuse with Plex because the official Plex Apple TV app has a really annoying bug where a lot of videos have slightly desynced audio, and Plex refuses to fix it. Infuse does not have these issues and plays everything flawlessly.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
The language doesn't necessarily have to be lower level, just less finicky about the environment it's running in. Docker might technically qualify as a fix, but I'd rather that the software be engineered well enough to not ne
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Good to hear, it was a few months ago when I was looking and it was still a mess back then. Will have to take another look.
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Not too long ago I found myself tired of how Plex on my server would periodically break itself and unhappy with how the company was continuing to pivot away from the core product, so I started looking into alternatives. Jellyfin was the mos
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Having used GNOME (and actually, running it on a couple of machines right now), I think macOS is at least a step or two above “overengineered GNOME”, because GNOME itself is basically what you’d get if you asked someone to turn iPadOS into
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by kitsunesoba 3y ago
Personally I never want browser or editor windows to be fullscreened unless I’m working on a tiny screen like on the 12” MacBook Air or maybe 12” Macbook. On anything larger doing that makes for tons of blank space that could be used for ot

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