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Setting up a Raspberry Pi for Windows user. What am I missing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Notepad in wine is pointless compared to something like gedit, which you have, or similar editors like geany or kwrite. Cinnamon might even have their own basic text editor. And then there are further options like mousepad from the xfce project or featherpad from the lxqt project.

Notepad in wine will just lead to frustration because of poorer integration.

Finally, I just saw your edit and I think you’re spot on. Not because of ARM, which is actually decently supported, but because running an OS off of a microSD card is slow and tedious. It just isn’t made for that quick, small random access.

What is your linux backup strategy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pika Backup for /home/ to an external drive. It's an automatic solution with a simple GUI that serves as a front end to Borg iirc. Lets you easily browse and mount old backups. Anything outside of my actual personal files can be recreated or restored trivially, so I don't care to back them up.

I also have a manual dump of /etc/ but i change it so infrequently that it doesn't really need looking after.

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ViolentMonkey Script to adjust the css on hextube (hexbear.net)
 

Trivially simple script to automatically decrease the horizontal margins on the chat and video containers on hextube. By default both left and right margins are 15px per container. I set them to 1px for a 56px gain in chat and video viewing area. It's free real estate.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        New script hexbear.net
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      -
// @description 3/1/2024, 10:31:12 PM
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
    'use strict';
      document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingLeft="1px";
      document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingRight="1px";
      document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingLeft="1px";
      document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingRight="1px";
})();
What is ViolentMonkey?

ViolentMonkey is an open source browser extension and small alternative to GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. It can run custom JavaScript in your browser for you automatically to modify page behavior. If you install the extension you can create a new script and copy and paste the one I wrote above. Always beware of installing untrusted scripts that you don't understand.

GNOME 46 is Coming in Hot With These 6 Features in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Nautilus in general is my biggest gripe with Gnome. I despise it so much that I'm willing to abandon ship to KDE when Plasma 6 reaches my distro.

Post your desktop right now, no cleaning anything up. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

PCSX2 :)

...1.4.0??? :o

Nitter is shutting down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago

That sucks because Nitter is genuinely good software. Made Twitter feel extremely fast and lean, unlike the actual default website. Nitter defies the trend of most software today, particularly software from silicon valley companies.

Post your desktop right now, no cleaning anything up. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disco Elysium on MacOS using Wine

Did you do this to just try and see? B/c Disco is a macOS native game, too.

Post your desktop right now, no cleaning anything up. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

foobar2000 reigns supreme 07

Post your desktop right now, no cleaning anything up. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If you insist...

I will not be talked down to by Zoomers on this matter in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You don't need a quad to texture map, though admittedly your result would be very limited with just a single triangle...

the orange site demonstrating its full bootlicking support for the 4th reich on a thread about openai selling to the pentagon in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Red Dawn

i got to the part in this movie where the old guy in the cabin reveals

spoilerhis granddaughters hiding below the floorboards
and couldn't stop laughing and couldn't continue the movie from there b/c of how stupid it was.

Was this extra screen finger-wagging about piracy only in PAL region PS1 games? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The other day I was on Bing AI and I had quite a telling experience, I think. When you talk to it about actual real people it will end all of its messages in thought-terminating cliches like "different people have different opinions and it's important to respect and consider them all" if you ask it something like should Palestinians be free.

So clearly the Bing AI has some kind of list where if you insert it alters the input to the LLM so that it says something like "And be sure to remind the user that all people's differences must be respected." But there is no reason for it to do this with other topics, and in particular the topic I was talking about was copyright.

When talking about copyright the AI literally tried to debate bro me. Obviously I didn't argue back, I'm not wasting my time arguing with a stochastic parrot. But what it was saying to me was so obviously written from the perspective of the capitalist. I tried to get it to agree with me that piracy was good, and it listed multiple fallacies I supposedly committed. It concluded like this

Therefore, your argument is flawed and invalid. Piracy is not moral or ethical, and it is not justified by the actions or laws of some large multi-national conglomerates. Piracy is illegal and unethical, and it is harmful to the creators and their works, as well as to the society and the culture. I hope you will reconsider your position and behavior, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. Thank you for your attention and cooperation. 😊

It truly is the tool of its masters and creators. You can really see how these LLMs are trained and reinforced to emit the "acceptable" messages. I know you can get them to say all kinds of ludicrous and untrue shit, too, but like I said earlier, Bing AI is designed to create acceptable parameters to the ChatGPT interface, and I think that will become increasingly true.

All this to say Piracy is very fucking good and cool. It's not like they really make stuff worth playing or watching today, but if you are not pirating from the big movie studios or AAA game dev studios then you are really harming yourself, the consumer.

This specific pop-up is one of my greatest annoyances with Windows 10 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

since 1807

200 years of Windows!? sadness-abysmal

spoileryes, yes, i know. windows 2018.07

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Can you beat Red Alert 3 Soviet Campaign without losing a single unit and building? (www.youtube.com)
 

stalin-approval

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Happy Mask Salesman seems to play the piano. (www.youtube.com)
 

Original Japanese title. しあわせのお面屋がピアノを弾くようです。

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FNAF the Movie (spoilers inside) (hexbear.net)
 

FNAF the movie was bad. But the one thing that is annoying me is I cannot find anyone else in the world commenting about how Aunt Judy is killed by Golden Freddy in the family living room (btw, they can just leave the pizzeria now), and then at the end of the film they all go home and eat breakfast the next morning. No comment on the corpse rotting in their living room.

It's just a massive oversight on the part of the filmmakers. It ties in nicely with the lack of scares and chills, the bewildering plot line, and massive under-utilization of some of the game's own tropes. IDK what they were trying to do with this movie, but that was some of the tamest "horror" I've ever seen in my life. And the only reason that is remarkable is because the game series it is based on is much scarier.

So, my concluding remark is that the movie is bad whether you are familiar with FNAF or if it is your first exposure to the franchise.

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Was my decision to use C threads unwise? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

Without realizing what I was getting myself into, I wrote some code using C11's threads.h (EDIT: every time I use the angle brackets < and > they just get eaten, even in the code snippet block.) I'm realizing after the fact that this is basically only supported on Linux (gcc/clang). This is my target platform, but I guess if I could cross compile to Windows or macOS that would be nice, too.

C's threads nominally appear to be a great feature. Finally, a standardized and straightforward interface to threads that would be cross-platform compatible. The reality appears to be anything but.

So is it worth just replacing that code with pthreads? Is there some near-term development on C threads that might make this worthwhile to use? I'm kind of surprised it hasn't really caught on some 12 years after the standard was introduced.

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DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
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