AnimalsDream

The thing I don’t get about these self-host apps is why so many of them exist when the thing they do would be better to implement as a run of the mill offline program.

I just want to auto-import recipes from websites into a cookbook app without any fuss. We do not need to bring a server into this equation!

I mean I’ve spent time studying occult stuff, so I guess pretty much the trope codifier.

Turns out they mostly just like to do the macarena. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The problem is they’re making it suck more, by piling their usual proprietary shitware on top of it.

I would love to have a good pair of ar glasses to play games on my Steam Deck with. Connect a controller, and not have to hold up the heavy Deck itself.

But given Apple’s propensity for walled gardens and lock-in, and Meta putting manipulative spyware into everything they make, these hypothetical glasses won’t be coming from either of those companies.

I guess that would beg the question, how much is it worth to you pay extra to not have additional spyware in your home? Or as others have said in this thread, there is at least one brand of television that still sells dumb tvs.

Simple solution I use: Fuck television sets, get a computer monitor and basic speakers instead. A display should do only one thing and do it well.

Pinta has become my favorite image editing tool. Every other one I feel like I have to fight with in order to do anything (looking at you Gimp), but Pinta is so easy and intuitive it’s a joy to use.

Right, that was always my understanding too, but I do know that there are also anti-circumvention laws that play a more direct role in the jailbreaking scene. I’m just not up-to-date on what’s going on with that these days.

Sacrilege.

I mean if you want one app to rule them all, there’s only ever been one option… Emacs. It can be your text editor, task organizer, calendar… operating system. If by work efficiently you mean endlessly feel the need to make tweaks and modifications, and maybe learn an entire idiosyncratic language while you’re at it… Emacs. Praise be.

Okay, I see. Weird, I don’t remember that being in the article when I read it. Yeah, that was just dumb then. People who sell these things need to stop preloading them.

But now I need to look more into this, is there precedent for Nintendo going after people who sell Jailbroken devices without copyrighted content on them? I think if I ever tried to make a living like this, I would just avoid Nintendo all together. Well, anything 3DS or newer anyway. Those GBA mods these days are 🔥

I didn’t see anything in the article indicating whether or not the person sold them with games pre-loaded. If all he did was sell jailbroken Switches, that’s not a victory. That’s a loss of our rights to use and change our own hardware.

I mean yeah, I just said above that someone almost killed me. They were probably a human driver. But that’s a “might happen, never know.” If self driving cars are rear-ending people, that’s an inherent artifact of it’s programming, even though it’s not intentionally programmed to do that.

So it’s like, things were already bad. I already do not feel safe doing any biking anymore. But as self driving cars become more prevalent, that threat upgrades to a kind of defacto, “Oh, these vast stretches of land are places where only cars and trucks are allowed. Everything else is roadkill waiting to happen.”

I imagine bicyclists must be æffected as well if they’re on the road (as we should be, technically). As somebody who has already been literally inches away from being rear-ended, this makes me never want to bike in the US again.

Time to go to Netherlands.

Hold on now. If an svg will render as valid html in browsers, does that mean I can use Inkscape as a wysiwyg webpage editor, and just export that to html?

You’re right, I’m going to change all my fonts to comic sans (or whatever open-source variant might exist)…

I like how that font disambiguates glyphs that often get confused, but I found it to be pretty hard to look at, honestly. I think the main issue might be that the line thickness appears to be uniform at all parts in all letters.

I wish there was an open font that tries to do the same thing, but with an aesthetic that wasn’t reminiscent of comic sans.