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  • Thank you!

  • Do you have a link? I heard about this one but haven't found a sharable link yet

  • I have no personal experience with it, but you might be interested in this completely open source mouse:

    https://ploopy.co/mouse/

    https://github.com/ploopyco/mouse

    It looks like you can buy a fully assembled mouse, a build it yourself kit, or do it from scratch with the schematics. Doesn't come with quite as many side buttons though

  • From the avatar wiki:

    The term "Avatar" comes from the Sanskrit word avatāraḥ (अवतारः), which means "descent". In Hinduism, Vishnu manifests himself as an avatar to restore balance on earth, during a period of imbalance.

    And there's a lot of overlap with Hindi Avatars in general: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar.

    So pretty apt if you ask me

  • Thank you for the suggestion! I've been trying it out for a few days now and it is my new favorite app in terms of design. I'm having a strange problem where it keeps logging me out every couple days, but other than that I love it

  • I use Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) on desktop, and while they have an official mobile app, I've been enjoying Read You on Android

  • They've been working on the redesign for awhile now, but the version everyone's used to (Teamspeak 3) still works perfectly fine. TS3 clients can connect to new Teamspeak servers, and new Teamspeak clients can connect to old teamspeak servers, just without the new features like screen share

    My group still uses TS3 on a daily basis on a self hosted server

  • Heyy I've been looking around at different android apps and I think I've also settled on "Read You." Thank you for the list, I haven't heard of lots of them like MariusHosting and they look interesting

    Which feeds do you watch for automation? I also like automating what I can lol

  • The TF2 community has been going strong! There's even been a revitalization of classic custom game modes like TFWare, Balloon race, Dodgeball, Smash Bros, Randomizer, Class Wars, etc: https://teamwork.tf/community/quickplay

  • I also really appreciate these, a bunch of cool projects I haven't heard of before this week

  • Thank you, I didn't know this existed!

  • Wishes

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  • The parents are getting a divorce, meaning the kid will celebrate Christmas twice, once with each parent

  • Oh definitely

    There's plugins for tons of things from customization (like custom boot and suspend animations) to tools (like mangohud for performance/energy monitoring) to quality of life (like kde connect or syncthing or teamspeak right in the sidebar)

    And it's super easy to install and update, just go to their website in desktop mode and download and run the executable to install it, and then you can just install plugins and update without needing to leave game mode

  • There is a decky plugin that lets you turn on kde connect in game mode, though you have to pair in desktop mode first

  • My favorite non-standard holiday song is If it has to be Christmas

    With such lines as

    If it has to be Christmas for you to be nice

    You're an asshole

    If you think the season is the reason

    You're a piece of shit

    And calling people spineless if they can only make a change for the better if it's New Year's and hints that so much of the holiday just appearances

    It's part of an album that was made for a game, so most of the other songs directly reference the game, but this one and a couple others are standalone

  • Rule

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  • Recently I had two major problems with Windows updates that needed manual intervention in a very user unfriendly way.

    Earlier this year one of the security updates for 22H2 broke my computer's recovery partition and prevented the update to install and constantly fail. It took like a week for Microsoft to acknowledge the issue, at which point they said they would post a fix shortly. Then a whole month later they said they wouldn't/couldn't fix it automatically and anyone affected would have to manually delete the partition, shrink your main disk partition, and recreate the recovery partition. On top of that, there was no notification of the issue or how to fix it, one would have to notice the update keeps failing, look up the error, and dig up the instructions from their blog. And then go through the ugly process of editing partitions which I can't imagine most users doing.

    Either that or just live with no recovery until the next time you reinstall the os.

    https://superuser.com/questions/1837245/kb5034441-and-changing-the-recovery-partition-starting-offset-in-order-to-be-abl

    The second issue this year was halfway through a windows update (when it just reboots a couple times) my computer just simply stopped booting. I could power cycle and everything and after the bios it would just black screen forever. The only way I got around it was to hop into the bios and change the boot order. Another thing I wouldn't expect normal users should have to do to just boot the computer

    And I personally have seen all the ads in Windows explorer, the start menu, the lock screen, etc. and the massive pushing of Copilot being added to the toolbar even after removing it manually. And readding OneDrive. I'm in the US though so that's probably why (it's nice to know the only reason Microsoft does all this because they're not legally pressured not to. Gives me so much trust in them to do the right thing with my computer and data)

    I've since moved to Linux (which I've used on my work machine for many years) and have had near zero issues. It's very nice not worrying how my computer is going to make itself worse without my consent next

    edit: I definitely wouldn't consider myself a fanatic that tries to convert everyone to Linux. For a lot of people Windows is the best choice, but in my case in particular it really has made things easier

  • The pinebook's privacy switches (for WiFi/BT, camera, and microphone) operate at the firmware level, the operating system has no control over them

    https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro#Privacy_Switches

    The keyboard operates on firmware independent of the operating system. It detects if one of the F10, F11 or F12 keys is pressed in combination with the Pine key for 3 seconds. Doing so disables power to the appropriate peripheral, thereby disabling it. This has the same effect as cutting off the power to each peripheral with a physical switch. This implementation is very secure, since the firmware that determines whether a peripheral gets power is not part of the Pinebook Pro’s operating system. So the power state value for each peripheral cannot be overridden or accessed from the operating system. The power state setting for each peripheral is stored across reboots inside the keyboard's firmware flash memory.