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  • I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.

    That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.

    I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.

    When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.

  • Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
  • In the case of Brave and Vivaldi, they add their own undesirable parts (Brave adds crypto bullshit and Vivaldi is closed-source, so $DEITY knows what they're adding).

    Librewolf is open and doesn't contribute to the Chromium monoculture; so it's the best option

  • GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles
  • They do. sorta. It's definitely possible to put something like Starfield on a dual layer BDROM, probably even uncompressed! But then load times would be fucking crazy because BD is an order of magnitude slower than an SSD.

    Distributing install files for a day 1 version of a game and using the disc as an auth key, (which is what they did last gen iirc) is still possible.

  • PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
  • The difference between the Fediverse and a closed system like reddit is that it's open and we're privy to haphazardly implemented functionality and bad API documentation.

    I work on big closed source web apps for a living; they're just as haphazard and badly documented, it's just all closed.

  • Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter
  • I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

    At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.

  • has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?
  • I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml eleanor @social.hamington.net
    Can't Access my Instance from Browser, but Apps Work Fine?

    I think this means that something is wrong with lemmy-ui, but I'm not sure what.

    ETA: I'm eleanorOpossum on beehaw.org.

    EDIT: FIGURED IT OUT

    Cause: I deleted everything in the pictrs folder after the CSAM raid on lemmy.world. The UI was crashing because it couldn't load the site icon.

    Solution: TL; DR: I ran this UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id; in the database.

    My install uses lemmy-ansible, so my DB was in a docker container.

    • I ran docker ps to find the id of the container running the DB
    • Then I ran this to connected to it docker exec -it $CONTAINER_ID_FROM_DOCKER_PS pqsql -U lemmy -d lemmy
    • Then I searched for my instance in the
    • And then I ran this SQL expression to set my site icon to null; UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id;

    Based on this comment and the rest of that thread (along with some basic SQL knowledge)

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    Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW
  • It's a combination of Nvidia not supporting mixed refresh rates and mixed DPIs until like really recently and the open source driver not being nearly as performant as the closed one.

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)EL
    eleanor @social.hamington.net

    i'm secretly @admin; sshhhhh

    i'm also eleanorOpossum@beehaw.org

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