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@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup lemmy.ml

30m ago

At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life.
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 30m ago
It's the R programming language, typically used statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

3h ago

Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago

Oh man, for some reason I thought the title was going to end with:

by boosting software and network service efficiency.

Of course, they're just talking about offsetting the costs, not actually about reducing them. 🫠

3h ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago

To be honest, what I'm most mad about isn't the typoes, it's that someone generated this image and figured, yeah alright, that will clear things up.

On some level you want to believe that even if someone does not come up with a proper concept for a visualization, that they still check what the AI shat out, so that it's at the very least not conceptually wrong and not confusing.

This image isn't just shitty, it's actively worse than having no visualization. They could've generated that, chuckled, and not used it. Just how do you blunder your perception check so badly that you decide to include it anyways?

4h ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

Wow, it stole it badly enough that it might not count as copyright infringement in court, but it also stole it badly enough that it isn't useful at all.

4h ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

I admire your ability to interpret anything into this fucking picture...

4h ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago

Yeah, I've done that occasionally, too, but it adds a load of friction for moving windows between screens, in particular also when un-/replugging the screen, so it's still painful enough that I don't bother with a second screen.

I guess, it also plays a role that I do use lots of workspaces, so it's 1) extra painful and 2) I don't have as big of a need for a second screen, since I can just switch out what first screen displays very quickly.

12h ago

Never a dull moment (reprise)

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 12h ago

I use one of these:

🙃

12h ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 12h ago

Oh boy, feature freeze for Ubuntu 26.04 is on Thursday. Hopefully, they still include this update.

My work laptop unfortunately comes with Kubuntu LTS and I desperately want the virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen feature on there. Currently, I'm the guy that actively disables all but one screen, because my workflow does not work at all with the secondary screen switching in sync with the primary screen.

13h ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 13h ago

I still wouldn't assume it to actually go further than that. It's a limitation of the EWMH standard, which is used for controlling the placement of windows.

I don't have in-depth knowledge of the standard, but I assume, it can only represent 1 desktop as the active desktop and stuff like that.Maybe you could try to be clever by e.g. always reporting the active desktop of the active screen and stuff like that, but yeah, no idea if you can do that for all aspects of the standard, and whether applications will still behave as expected.

13h ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 13h ago

It's mentioned as the second point in "But that's not all...":

An optional new login manager for Plasma

14h ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 14h ago

Are you thinking of the volume icon in the systray? For that, it's pretty standard that scrolling changes the volume, yeah. @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works is talking about the volume of each individual application, though:

(I have hardly used Windows for the past decade, so no idea, if it has it.)

14h ago

You said my activation phrase

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 14h ago

Yeah, a guy recently said that they'd jump into Mint and I could've said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn't end up saying much at all. 🫠

1d ago

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Kind of wild how rambly of a video this is, while also being shorter than your average YouTube video.

Where's the cold open, the intro animation, the needlessly long introduction into the topic, the cliffhanger, the sponsor segment, the second(???) introduction into the topic, the summarizing of a news article without adding even so much as your own opinion, the bland statement with zero nuance and the telling people to like, comment, share, subscribe, ring the bell and blow the foghorn...?

2d ago

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

That seems like a better approach than blanket-banning kids from certain platforms.

Going to be interesting, though. TikTok is pretty much built around infinite scrolling, autoplay and an algorithmic timeline. I would absolutely argue that it's closer in its design to a slot machine than to a traditional webpage.Will they make you tap a button after swiping up thirty times, so that it's not technically infinite? Do they have to display a scrollbar?

I mean, I'd also say that any change is probably healthy and we can worry about the exact details later, but yeah, still curious what exactly will constitute non-infinite scrolling here.

2d ago

People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Ah, no worries! Taste is hard to describe. 🫠

2d ago

Just a negative vegan?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

The vegan philosophy isn't an all-or-nothing never wanting to cause any pain philosophy. It's a philosophy of reducing suffering as much as reasonably possible while being able to still live your own life.

But any argument about plants feeling pain is completely sideways to that whole issue anyways, because farm animals eat more plants per calorie than when humans eat plants directly. Those farm animals need to use some of the plant calories for sustaining their own life, which will not make it into the meat, egg or milk. Even if you hate animals and love plants, you have to snack on plants to cause as little harm to plants as possible.

2d ago

People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I'm not saying, that the taste isn't strong enough for me. I'm saying that it actively adds a taste, which I can best describe as "hollow". Falafel or hummus with cumin tastes worse to me than without...

2d ago

Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, I was thinking that recently when I realized I've known

the crazy plot twist in Star Wars

(Luke's daddy issues) :::for as long as I can remember.

I've also known::: spoiler so many iconic characters and scenes (Yoda, R2D2, Chewbacca, the metalkini, C3PO, when they boop the Death Star etc.)

before I was even old enough to watch the movies, too.

I'm sure they're cool movies, with lots of cultural relevance, but they've been spoiled in every possible way for me, specifically because the older generation loves them so much that they can't shut up about them.

2d ago

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Oh man, what the fuck. What I really don't like about this is that you assume some sort of motivation when someone submits a PR. When they provide a feature implementation, a bug fix or a configuration change, you assume that the way things were before did not work for the contributor. That it was so problematic, that they invested quite a bit of time to scratch their own itch.

You simply can't look at a PR in complete isolation and just evaluate whether its changes are positive or not. On some level, you'll decide that, sure, if this user is better off with this change and it doesn't break anything, then might as well merge it.But there is no user here. It's going to include pointless changes that just need to look plausible enough, so that this bot can bolster its credibility.

2d ago

Should pogs make a comeback?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I can't imagine the kids of today finding pogs particularly interesting, when they've got smartphones in their pockets. Maybe if you equip the pogs with an NFC chip that ties into some online game to give you monsters or items or such. But yeah, even that's going to be a hard sell, unless the game happens to be Roblox or Fortnite.