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Farran
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Yo hi! I usually post things about linguistics, science, biology, environmental science, health, and recently, some stuff on numbers. I'm an advocate for freedom of communication I'm a bunch of things but I mainly focus on environmental science, training people into becoming scientists, and an array of aspects about communication. A strong future for humanity and life depends on good community and good communication. I accidentally became a linguist, and I've made a few alphabets, my latest one is called NewEng and it does a good job of encapsulating both English pronunciation & its accents, and English etymology.
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Farran 3 months ago
concurrent wifi hotspot and wifi connection on Linux anyone know how to achieve this? my wifi chip can do it under Windows, no problem whatsoever, decent speeds too. actually even under Linux, on gnome, i've used screencasting which sends via wifi direct. but trying to set up a wifi hotspot? Absolute nightmare, wtf.
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Farran 3 months ago
a window manager feature i'd LOVE to see: when you maximise/restore a window, the window dimensions actually resize between the states, through an animation transition, so that the window directly changes dimensions -- instead of the normal instantaneous dimension change with the faked scale animation
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Farran 3 months ago
now google have moved google maps from maps.google.com only to google.com/maps, we can no longer have independent zoom levels for maps and other google domains. what the fuck is wrong with these developers.
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Farran 3 months ago
anyone got pipewire running ok on systemd-less Linux yet? i have done a bit of searching but my brain is tired and my only sysVinit system is my server (and is also my teaching device with windows vm on it) so i'm a bit nervous of doing a buncha system surgery just for sound for pipewire-dependent apps. basically only need it for screenrecording, everything else works fine. i am testing gpu-screen-recorder though and it's ok, doesn't need pipewire and tbh i don't need it to record sound anyway. fucken pipewire and systemd fgs
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Farran 3 months ago
All I want for ʞristmas is the collapse of microslop before billy gates kicks the bucket Crossposted with @Openvibe
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Farran 3 months ago
If you only use openvibe for 2 accounts then make one of those be Threads so that you don't need yet another godforsaken meta app on your phone Crossposted with @Openvibe
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Farran 3 months ago
Also odysee was set to import my youtube videos but it never stayed up to date with new videos so I ignored it and uploaded them myself. Now apparently it's started auto-importing them, retroactively too, so I have dupes everywhere The modern internet is fucking shite i am SO TIRED
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Farran 3 months ago
> uploaded a vid to YouTube slightly over 3 mins > too long for a Short > no views > reuploaded under 3 mins, classed as a Short > zero views > presumably googie's "ai" detected that it's the same content so has shadowbanned it im very tired of googie woogie
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Farran 3 months ago
Pro tip for saving storage space: Use Photoshop in 8-bit colour mode — you almost definitely don't need 16-bit. * I'm a human who uses m-dashes
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Farran 3 months ago
If your app says "utilises ML" instead of "ai" I am 1000% more likely to use it
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Farran 3 months ago
using libreoffice on KDE but the page rendering keeps glitching? launch the app with the environment variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 for way better performance and no random glitchy rendering artefacts
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Farran 4 months ago
You post with AI, I unfollow I advise we all do the same
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Farran 4 months ago
What's the point of Aurora Store if every app I try to install just fails
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Farran 4 months ago
General call for all apps which run services to have a "Shut down app" menu option. There's a ridiculous amount of apps that just launch themselves and/or are unquittable. They shouldn't launch themselves for no reason, and we shouldn't need to quit them by Force Quit
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Farran 4 months ago
General call for all developers to migrate away from GitHub. The recent drama issues are of course a major reason, but also lately the downloads are often slow or unreliable.
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Farran 4 months ago
If you're struggling to get PPD (power profiles daemon) to work correctly without systemD (SysVinit, openRC, runit, dinit) then try TLP. I just installed it in Devuan and it works fine, and tlp-pd integrates well with KDE Plasma (and other DEs). Moreover, my laptop battery now lasts longer :))
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Farran 4 months ago
So they're allowing ai generated code into the Linux kernel. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.