renzev

@ renzev @lemmy.world

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2 yr. ago

1mo ago

My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME
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renzev @lemmy.world 1mo ago
I personally pronounce it with a hard G even when talking about the mythical creature because that's how it's pronounced in most other languages that have a similar word. Anglos can go fuck themselves with their needlessly complicated phonetics.

2mo ago

YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products.

You know this will only make people want to dig deeper, right? Whoever is paying you off to pretend like nothing is going on should've really told you to use an alt or something.

2mo ago

No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58)

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Can we stop with this subtle EU propaganda slop? I LIVE in an EU country and I have the exact same problem with modern movies. This has nothing to do with who gets to make the laws, there are only two reasons why everything needs subtitles now:

Because of advancements in microphone technologies, actors don't need to speak as clearly and are getting lazy as a result.
Movies producers are assholes who think that everyone has a 50000$ surround sound home theater system and master the movie soundtracks accordingly -- which makes explosions and action scenes sound WAY TOO LOUD on normal people sound systems.

2mo ago

YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli(and gui)

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I love how new versions of the CLI have the result automatically update as you type. Nice to see people going above and beyond to make CLI's pleasant!

2mo ago

YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products.

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Banned from community? Post score in the negative? What are the mods trying to cover up here?!

2mo ago

YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save any page into a single HTML file.

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Also recommending ArchiveBox -- it takes the shotgun approach to archiving websites, making snapshots with a bunch of different tools, singlefile being among them. You can use it as a one-shot command, or run it as a web server which provides a UI for archiving web pages. Linkwarden is similar.

2mo ago

YSK: enable smooth display in Android

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

IMHO the only reason to go above 60Hz is for better responsiveness in competitive games. Otherwise it's just a meme, definitely a total gimmick on smartphones.

2mo ago

Is there something like GitHub, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Forgejo is an activitypub-enabled Git forge software, and codeberg is one of the largest forgejo instances.

Tangentially related, but git-annex, and, in particular, its sync subcommand are a great tool for storing files and managing git repos across multiple machines (and even just loose drives) in a "P2P" way without any centralised server

2mo ago

How to find offline alternatives to software-as-a-service and apps with unnecessary internet connections?

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renzev @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I sadly can't recommend any communities for this, but what I do know is that search engines have been basically useless for finding software alternatives for a while. Search results are just full of for-profit bullshit trying to sell you their stupid app or low-effort list sites like alternativeto.net. If I need to find an offline alternative to some specific tool, as ironic as it is, I usually just ask an LLM. They work pretty well as a sort of reverse-search engine for finding software based on a description of the features.

3mo ago

What's the weirdest thing you're upset about?

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renzev @lemmy.world 3mo ago

During my quantum mechanics course in year one of uni the lecturer spent the entirety of first lecture essentially ranting about how all of these "interpretations" of quantum mechanics are a complete waste of time with zero practical application. So you're not alone on this one.

EDIT wait no lmao the course wasn't even on quantum mechanics it was on electromagnetism, the lecturer just had a personal gripe against all this quantum bullshit lol.

4mo ago

Everyone's Dream

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renzev @lemmy.world 4mo ago

My vote is for non-ai. Look at those rocking chairs. They actually make sense. Even the best image models would trip up on complex geometry like that. Also the window on the top right. You can see through to the window on the opposite side of the cabin and see some of the green foliage through it. It looks very "abrupt" in the sense that I don't think that a model trying to come up with the most statistically likely image would just put a fragment of green in the window like that.

4mo ago

Everyone's Dream

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renzev @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Speak for yourself, carbon lifeform

( /j )

4mo ago

I give up

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renzev @lemmy.world 4mo ago

S0 Standby and its consequences have been a disaster for the computing race

5mo ago

Everything is so tiny

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It's a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only "coexist" with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can "coexist" with the COVID-19 virus

5mo ago

Everything is so tiny

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

It's never about the DE's themselves, it's about the devs.

KDE's devs are just focused on making a cool desktop environment with many features. It's a little buggy and has some weird design decisions, but whatever, no biggie.

GNOME devs deliberately sabbotage existing linux standards in attemps to take control over desktop linux. Examples: client-side decorations, client-side shadows, systray fiasco.

This is not a question of personal preference. It's a question of keeping desktop linux free, fair, and accessible for everyone.

5mo ago

its real

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Huh? How did you go from "people should have equal opportunities" to lynching and firing pregnant women? At this point you're just saying whatever you want.

Plus, lmao at the hypocrisy of calling DEI a "boogeyman" while simultaneously accusing anyone disagreeing with you a racistsexistlyncher. It's totally real, you're proving it yourself.

5mo ago

Rule 🦅

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Batshit analogies like these that simultaneously make sense and don't is what I'm here for. Amazing.

5mo ago

US Congressmen praying inside the House of Representatives

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

They don’t actually believe any of this shit.

I agree with everything else that you're saying, but I wouldn't be so sure about this. Have you ever noticed how it's much easier to start online flame wars when you actually believe in the batshit stance that you're arguing as opposed to pretending to believe it for the sake of trolling? I think it's a similar thing here. I don't think humans are that good at compartmentalising, so in order to do something performatively so often and so well you have to trick your mind into actually believing it in a sort of corrupt way. I know this makes me sound like a middleschooler, but I think George Orwell's concept of doublethink is very much real in cases like these.

5mo ago

its real

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

I question whether the people hollering that "X11 is held together with duct tape" have actually tried using X11 in the recent years. It's surprisingly stable. You never have to fiddle with Xorg.conf anymore, it's all automatic. The only parts where it really shits the bed, in my experience, is either if you're trying some extremely non-standard setup like mixing and matching wildly different generations of graphics cards, or in cases of deliberate sabotage by gnme devs like client-side decorations and shadows. I really wished that the X11 -> wayland transition would be just like the pulseaudio -> pipewire transition where a desperately broken system that was causing issues for users got replaced -- in a matter of months -- with a successor that was not only 100% compatible but offered cool new features on top of stability improvements. But this has just not been the case so far. Wayland has been "the future of the linux desktop" for nearly twenty years, and it's still not quite there yet. X11 mostly just works, it isn't abandoned, it's finished. And what exactly are the new features we should be looking forward to in wayland? Isolation between clients is very cool I must confess, but did it really necessitate an entire protocol overhaul? QubesOS has had that feature working under X11 for over a decade. This guy on github managed to get it working with off-the-shelf X11 tunneling tools. Nevertheless, I'm still optimistic for wayland. The already existing backwards compatibility with X11 is impressive, and I think with enough work it might just be viable as the successor.

5mo ago

its real

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renzev @lemmy.world 5mo ago

When people say that they are “anti-DEI” in the US, they mean that they want a society where the only people with power are white, protestant men.

Source: trust me bro

Is it really that implausible that some people really do just want to have diversity, inclusion, and equity the "old way" by simply giving everyone an equal opportunity to participate instead of embracing DEI ideology? It's a huge leap in logic to just assume that anyone who doesn't subscribe to some specific ideology that claims to be tolerant must secretly be opposed to tolerance itself. I think all of those people yelling "nazi" at anyone remotely critical of DEI are just projecting.