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If capitalism insists on those higher up getting exorbitantly more money than those doing the work, then we have to hold them to the other thing they claim they believe in: that those higher up also deserve all the blame.

It's a novel concept, I know. Leave the Nobels by the doormat, please.

🤡

A match made in hell

The city (and district) I live in still has its name spelled incredibly wrong, and has had so for the past decade.

You cannot select a municipality name. They're not buildings or roads marked by mere mortals. And what you can't select you can't correct. It is just believed that they are always correct. Immaculate. Immutable.

Every attempt to fix it has failed, from contacting support (as a "premium Google One customer") or looking for senior Google Maps contributors (all of whom lost all their contacts with "higher up" Googlers when the old map transitioned into new, or just vanished once the forums closed).

In a country where last mile location is often ambiguous, that Google manages to fail at it on a scale large enough to be visible from space says volumes about how worthless their services are.

P.S: Yes, of course it's correctly marked on OSM. And a lot more.

Every single one of my friends are on Linux. Only one of them is in "IT". Most of my family is on Linux, because they didn't want to deal with viruses and ads. (I don't even "IT" for any of them, so I wasn't consulted. At best I introduced them to the fact that Linux is at least as usable as Windows many years ago). A lot of my colleagues are on Linux; now, most of them are devs, but some of them are on macs and until Apples's Proton-clone becomes a viable option running Linux on them is just cleaner.

Obviously, we're less than a rounding error all summed together. Obviously, most of that number is from government issue systems. But it's not as bleak and impersonal as it seems.

But so what?

Why do these numbers matter at all? Is it inherently virtuous for a country to have a high number of willing Linux users? Or is it because at least these machines waste fewer resources, run cooler, and more secure? Then does it matter who and why installed Linux on them?

If their users are fine with using a browser for all their work, and the offices can buy these PCs for cheaper than Chromebooks after our infamous taxes, not to mention avoid being ewaste for much longer, this is a win-win situation whichever way we look at it.

P.S. that I also own a Steam Deck (and use as my only PC) probably doesn't help my everyman-credibility much 😅

In my defence, I could afford/justify it only because a good friend volunteered to buy it for me and bring it over. I wish things were different. But I'm happy I have one, at least.

PC to phone: works perfectly (regular desktop and Steam Deck used regularly).

Phone to PC: only works by clicking the share clipboard action within the KDE connect app each time. But I recently discovered the quick settings tile and now it's almost as convenient as before if not more secure.

That, or Magisk ofc.

No One Lives Forever! Please and thank you.

They're both fantastic games, but the original (in which you go to Hamburg and a space station) felt more adventurous rather than the more grounded sequel (in which you go to the arctics and even more exotic locale: my hometown of Calcutta). Set it in the fictionalized disco-themed cold-war with the lead jet-setting around the world, and we're golden!

Also, only a single game, but: Arcanum. (At least this one's possible to buy on Gog and Steam...)

Arcanum supposedly had a sequel in the works at some point: Journey to the Center of Arcanum, and frankly, while I'd prefer to see other continents on that world explored a là Around the World in 80 Days, I'd still be sold on a hollow-earth adventure any day!

[Finished with the edits now!]

Finally, ~/Templates support!!

I don't believe for a second he could name more than five.

With cooldowns for abuse prevention now on the table, I wish Valve will consider adding something like a "day pass" for Steam friends where they can share their libraries—or perhaps specific games—for a short duration to someone they know without having to adopt them.

With cooldowns they would find appropriate, of course. And I hope that isn't a whole year...

This thing really does have everything 🥲

Thank you very much for the Linux coverage for it. Does the stylus still work in external display mode? That would be the dream...

After all that, no ^S to save 🥲

Still no Spaces support. Even the short list of rooms I've joined are unmanageable when listed flat with no way to identify which Space a #general belongs to

Friday Night Fuckin' as well, then

The 'd' stands for drama.

And also dick.

Singular.

I want to marry KDE Join the polycule 😘

Now, can we please fix the bookmarks drop-down next? Every time I try to open a nested folder and it just closes because I was too slow and imprecise in moving my mouse I die a little inside 🥲

I just want some updated stacks: Bluetooth especially.

I didn't expect Rentals to be as infuriating as they are. But I'd take them over an even smaller hand any day...

:GASP: ^S does save! I have played myself for a fool all these years!!

Now I just have to unlearn ^X, Y, enter. . . :thisisfine:

Firefox desperately needs a way to customize keyboard shortcuts, especially to disable them. Shortkeys isn't really enough.

I can only assume someone made them an offer they could refuse

It's nice to let your soul loose once in a while...

A way to group organize discover and control access to multiple Rooms.

Here's an extra ironic Elements post describing them: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/

Tasker, and... that's pretty much it!

Often as a lazier way to press the face buttons for slow games. But also custom turbo patterns for fast games. E.g.:

• In Genshin Impact, the back buttons are all face buttons, but with select ones set to turbo for automatic item pickup, or dialog skipping, etc.
  • Also very comfy to use them while swimming
• In Hades II:
  • L/R4 are the two shoulder buttons for comfier portal/character interaction
  • L/R5 do autoattack and autospecial on turbo
• In Valheim, one lets me Dodge with a single button press instead of the chord the game demands you use
• In Balatro
  • L/R4 switches hand sorting modes, which has no in-game shortcuts, still
  • L5 restarts a run on long press
  • R5 quits to main menu and resumes with a multi button sequence, to "soft reset"
• In Tabletop Simulator, the most common actions like clicking, selecting, flipping a card, and drawing, are all mapped to the back buttons for ergonomics, freeing face/shoulder buttons for more advanced stuff
• In Minecraft, various back buttons are used to enable different overlaid controls when clicked/pressed based on the modpack.

Etc etc!

The only thing cooler than a living miracle of portable computing is an undead miracle of portable computing that I'd still be playing games on come 2025 🧛

Doesn't have an entry for monads 🙃

But but my dynamic tiling 😭

Edit: nvm, still on Plasma 5.

But what about HFP/HSP? Can I actually use my new earbuds mics with the Deck now?

Enabled support for Bluetooth A2DP and BAP profiles

Or more simply: The internet is just the network. The web is one of the handful of "apps" that run directly using that network. It just also happens to be able to run apps of its own these days and is a pretty "killer" one at that :)

(Edit: please disregard the wrong link that summoned the bot below. It's been fixed. And I do not have a Balatro problem...)

I use the AmazFit Band 7, the last sensibly sized watch that exists it often feels like.

Weather fails to sync, but then it's probably the least important feature on a watch. The only feature I really wish Gadgetbridge could do that even the official stack can't is "nap mode"

As a narcoleptic person still recovering from major depression, I wish I could either press a button to silence the watch and set a "smart alarm" for 30 minutes. Even better if it would turn on automatically if it detects me sleeping during the day!

The only other thing GB can't do is stand in for the phone-side ZeppOS API functionality, but who needs that, let's be honest!

Fantastic battery life to boot. I have gone two weeks after forgetting to charge it while wearing it almost 24×7!

Ah yes, the four horse-controllers of the apocalypse — Xbox, PlayStation, Gamecube, and Mountain Dew

Thank you for the link! I'm not even OP but would use the heck out of this

I use it almost daily when in bed and thinking of some project or the other—I like to think in text—but don't want to bring up my notetaker and getting even more distracted.

And I often get friends and family open one up while troubleshooting their problems. What else would I use, Notepad?

Ultimately, why not? Why do people make little standalone tools like this? For fun, probably. Or because they can. As a learning exercise? And when it has no cost to the developer to maintain, or the user to use. Why would I even try to second-guess their motivation?

^S works!! ...As revealed by our kind palindromic friend on the other sibling comment! Why they don't just list it on the statusbar we would never know!

That's such a good photo. And by good I mean Trump-tier

Pretty much just Zenless Zone Zero and Hades II for the past month or so.

And a bit of Terraria with the boys.

I hear he don't run in background. Always center stage him. Super star.

"Joke" done. Have you tried Hermit, OP? It has containers too. Kinda pricey though.

That's what the new RPS reporting looks like eh?

Allow me—blissfully unaffiliated with all the parties involved in my post—highjack this irredeemable piece of spam with an actual "blackjack game" worth playing:

Dungeon Degenerate: Gamblers is Balatro but blackjack and just as wild a ride!

Constantly. And not just Wayback Machine. That's probably the smaller portion completed to the obscure books, especially non-English archives