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Keshara

@ Keshara @piefed.blahaj.zone

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IT Consultant by day, gamer by night 🎮MTF trans 🏳️‍⚧️ | Sydney based | 420 🌿Matrix: @keshara:chat.blahaj.zoneSharkey: @keshara@blahaj.zonePixelfed: keshara@pix.blahaj.zone

Currently spending way too much time in World of Warcraft, Counter Strike 2, and absolutely obsessed with Sea of Stars.Always down to connect with fellow gamers and fediverse wanderers 👋

  • WoW stopped working via Steam

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  • Which bit?

    For CS2, especially around launch, this was advice fed to me multiple times on places like the linux gaming subreddit. And then also through my own experience of trying it out and comparing.

    Black Mesa, this was also just known within the Half Life and Linux gaming communities. Plus if you tried playing the native you would start to hit your first set of visual bugs within the first 5mins, switching to Proton solved basically every issue lol.

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  • And just to add on to this, CS2 has been shown to perform better under Proton than running it natively.

    And yes I know before anyone points it out that VAC doesn't work under Proton, but you can still try it out on a private no VAC server. Or, the way some people were doing it around the time CS2 launched (assuming this still works), installing Steam via Wine and then launching CS2 with Proton worked as well with VAC working.

    And another example of using Proton over the native version of a game would be Black Mesa, where it was always advised to run the game with Proton due to less bugs and far better performance.

  • "Liam Neeson" backwards is "no seen mail"

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  • Oh but he will find that mail

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    Do some rich people date "poor" people?

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  • 41 posts by OP, only 4 comments on a 24 day old account..

    Yeah OP definitely needs a better hobby lol

  • Those with 100% remote jobs that travel abroad, how did you find the job and what advice can you give?

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  • Yeah this is pretty much smack on.

    I'm an IT Consultant that works 99% remote (occasionally in the office, but they are trying to get us in more), temp contractors I see tend to have the highest amount of freedom but lose on the job security, us permanent hires have to seek permission to travel and work, but have our job security.

    Then there are the client requirements as well, some demand on site consultants every day, others occasionally, then the majority in my experience are more than happy with pure remote work.

  • May 18 brings One UI 8.5 update for several Galaxy smartphones

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  • Out of curiosity which device is this?

    For the accent colours, have you tried pinching your home screen > Wallpaper and style > Colour Pallete? This was changed for me aswell, but was able to switch it back.

    For the tint on the lockscreen, have you tried doing the same pinch > Wallpaper and style > Select the lock screen > Effect.

    As for the other stuff, were you using Goodlock before? If so, you may just need to open Goodlock again and update the apps in there. Or you will most likely solve your other issues through Goodlock?

  • A "gentle reminder" implies the existence of a violent reminder

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  • We working at the same place are we?

    My company will start to give reminders 5 minutes beyond their arbitrary 'deadline', but will take months and months and months to sign off on a promotion..

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    Western societies are wildly over-engineered

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  • Okay.. Want to elaborate on that?

  • May 18 brings One UI 8.5 update for several Galaxy smartphones

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  • I just did the 8.5 update on my S25. What about it do you not like?

  • Firedragon. Another firefox fork alternative.

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  • I'm not "getting up in arms" about it, but rather trying to understand a very confident double down on their comment in a public forum.

    The advice to not touch something "unvetted", the fact they so confidently said it was "straight up unknown". Just because you haven't heard of something does not mean you can now confidently start telling people that it is unknown, don't touch it, etc. This isn't Reddit..

  • Firedragon. Another firefox fork alternative.

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  • You're the one that mentioned about Garuda not being privacy focused though? I don't really get why you wouldn't just answer the question if you were responding anyway?

  • What was default font in MSN messenger? Specifically around 2007-2010.

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  • 2007 MSN was still very popular for high school students here in Australia

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • Actual discussion is still possible in the Fediverse, at least for now.

    Somewhat recently I was talking to a close friend about their brother and how he has been acting, particularly how he approaches discussions with those around him. My friend was telling me about a discussion they were having, and the only response his brother could give him was "you are uneducated and misinformed", but couldn't actually formulate an argument to back up his side. I physically laughed when he told me this and jokingly responded that he "sounds like a standard Reddit user", my friend paused for a second, chuckled, then replied "he basically lives on that site".

    I'm yet to have this kind of online interaction on the Fediverse, and that is nice ☺️

  • Firedragon. Another firefox fork alternative.

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  • Outside of something like TailsOS, what Linux distros are you regarding as "privacy focused"?

  • Firedragon. Another firefox fork alternative.

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  • So because you don't know about it, "it's straight up unknown"?

  • Firedragon. Another firefox fork alternative.

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  • It's not an unknown browser? Firedragon was the default browser in Garuda Linux (not 100% sure if it still is), Garuda if you didn't know is quite a popular Linux distribution that has attracted a bit of attention over the years mostly for its OOTB theming.

  • Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?

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  • "Bullshit I missed that parry! These fucking devs"

  • Pixelfed and NeoDB

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  • Don't care about follower numbers, and post what's on your mind or engage with others as you see fit. The big one for me though was curating my tabs (feeds), using Antennas was easy for this. So for example, my 'Home' tab is an Antenna tab with a bunch of keywords and phrases that I'm looking for, for example 'linux gaming' and 'retro gaming'.

    Took some setup, but super happy with it now

  • Pixelfed and NeoDB

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  • Not your question, but just want to talk about the Mastodon bit.

    I've always been interested in microblogging platforms since Twitter originally released, but I've never been able to really engage with them. Over the years I tried Twitter numerous times, later X, tried Bluesky a couple of times, and also tried Mastodon and failed to stick with it.

    However lately I've switched to Sharkey (using Aria on Android), which is a fork of Misskey. Sharkey federates with Mastodon, Misskey, and a couple of others that I'm mind blanking on right now.

    It's only been coming up to a month since I switched, and I'm absolutely loving it! Plenty of engagement, the Antennas keywords and phrases thing is awesome, and it's just really nice to be on a platform like that without a damn algorithm dictating what I consume

  • Books @lemmy.world
    Keshara @piefed.blahaj.zone

    Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    Keshara @piefed.blahaj.zone

    TIL how to get my first Android App running on my phone

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    Keshara @piefed.blahaj.zone

    My 2 GameBoys - Looking for advice

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    My small retro/gaming shelf