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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists

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  • Yeah, when I need to inspect lots of images I just open the folder in gwenview.

    For peeking at a single picture or two through you can hold down control and click/hover on the filename when using Konsole. Love that feature. You can even listen to .wav files this way.

  • I know how to draw a circle in GIMP, anon!

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  • If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.

  • Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong?

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  • Using the official dock? Most of my problems were solved by updating the firmware. That does NOT happen automatically via the regular Steam Decker updates btw, need to trigger it yourself.

  • I released a fully open-source album of Game Boy music [link in body]

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  • Always thought of the noise channel giving the Gameboy a unique character among low bit rate music. Glad to see you make use of it (I like Thunderking arena for instance).

  • Continuously running screen recorder for linux?

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  • OBS Studio should be able to to handle that. You can set up hot keys for saving the buffer too.

  • If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?

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  • A lot of software is reliant on very precise timing. The world at large would notice immediately due to the many disconnects, glitches, bugs, desyncs, not to say anything of all the physical processes controlled by machines going wrong. As a simple example consider an industrial oven (or any process really) that is programmed to shut down at 4:39:20 but at 4:39:15 the 1 minute skip happens. An airplanes auto pilot that is suddenly missing the last minute of sensor data to. base its micro steering on. Any big internet service that has to deal with thousands to millions of clients trying to reconnect at once because their previous connection timed out. Bad stuff.

    This would be immediate world wide chaos and likely panic as the cause for all the chaos would be unknown and forever would be. Economic crash likely.

    Think of all the attention and effort the year 2k problem got, but this one is worse and there is no prep whatsoever.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Hmmm, it seems the modern way for autocracies to deal with elections is to control the information space. I don't see election being called off, but major social media platforms boosting one side while attenuating the other goes a long way. We know Musk is all in on this and the other big players like Zuckerberg & Co seem all too happy to oblige. Tiktok is an open ended question at this point.

  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • Indeed so but the power draw is very miniscule.

  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • I like the integration of the switch, should be standard. I use many switch plug-ins just to avoid stand-by consumption (it really adds up over the year) and to avoid high pitch humming on some devices.

    YSK: there's also remote controls for these switches, very handy

  • It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!

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  • Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

  • Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher?

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  • Ah yes, if you've ever had the problem of a game's graphics not working properly but you can't adjust the graphics because it requires you to launch the actual game and navigate the settings menu you will appreciate that. Most games store and read their settings in an external file and a launcher can provide a meaningful way to edit those. That being said there's many launchers who actually don't offer this feature and are just used to shove ads your way or track your behavior.

  • How's the battery life after you've had one for a while?

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  • Yeah and the fact that they allow plugins in the first place is great. It's a great way to gauge what's in demand and how it could be implemented. Reminds me of games that allow modding/addons and often key features are later added officially.

  • How's the battery life after you've had one for a while?

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  • Oh man, thanks for linking this. I'm glad there's someone out there writing plug-ins but Valve should really provide this out of box.

  • Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings

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  • True, gives me something to ponder about.

  • Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings

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  • Ok, sounds good.*but do I have to write manual commit logs whenever a config file changes? Feels like a hassle to track down and understand all the specifics. For instance when are app updates to new version with new features and that is reflected in new config files. I currently use freefilesync for backups and keep up to 5 version of old files.

  • Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings

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  • Thing is: it was the backup that I accidentally overwrote.

  • Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?

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  • Sure, for many things there's a deluxe version (clothing, cars, food, housing) but they tend to be physical. Since media is largely digital these days and has fantastic marginal distribution costs the rich consume the same stuff when it comes to popular media. Ie there isn't an alternate Hollywood studio just for the rich, itunes doesn't have a separate server, the new york times website is the same for all, etc.

  • Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings

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  • I know the feel, many years ago I chose the wrong folder and overwrote all my video recordings.

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    Had to reimage my deck; impressed by how well a backup of my home folder carried over system and app settings

  • Asking the real questions

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  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    ¿Why does Discover (the software installation manager) occasionally offer me downgrades to lower version numbers in the updates section?

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
    takeheart @lemmy.world

    looking for a dock that let's me connect my DVI monitor