Creat

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bought 48 GB DDR5 for my laptop back in September, just before the prices ignited their rocket engines. I paid 120€ I think. Prices now are like 500(ish). Truly insane.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are KVM switches that allow something closer to that at least, but usually only for 2 hosts (pcs). It stands for "keyboard, video, mouse" and they originated in the server space, but recently became common in the home/office as well.

They main purpose is to switch use of the monitors and any attached input devices between PCs. But there are models that allow mixed/shared use as well. If you're looking for one that supports 3 monitors and 3 hosts, with some splitting options, that might be harder to find or cost as rather pretty premium (hundreds).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

That's what happens when one or more core components 5x in price (ram, but others aren't far behind).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't really understand? Samsung will trivially be able to tell that it isn't theirs and decline the warranty. If they bother to check, of course, and if there are enough being RMA'd that is even worth the effort for them.

Also I'm sure the fake Samsung already claim that same warranty, as they are being sold as originals who have the 5 year warranty. So what exactly are you asking for?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yes, and all the download sites and tools don't use anything else either. They all just wrap yt-dlp.

If it stopped working for you, you might have to read the docs on the specific error you're getting to see how to get around it. YouTube does try to make it harder, but it's technologically difficult to fully block. There are workarounds for basically every case as far as I'm aware.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Just using yt-dlp also works, but locally.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Lutris is like heroic or steam: it's essentially the downloader and launcher for games that are then run by proton.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't have it both ways. It's hard enough to get people to switch to signal, or least also use it next to other messengers. Now imagine they'd have to connect to multiple servers to talk to multiple people. Possibly everyone connection details. Even if that's done in the background, you have to somehow get the connection registered once, discovered if you will.

Anything and everything you send through their server is end-to-end encrypted. Some people hate on the phone number being required to create an account, but it's also the reason it works at all: anyone in your contacts who also has signal you can talk to. Phone numbers are an international standard. If course this also has downsides...

Finally what you're asking for exists. NextCloud has "talk". Which is essentially a messenger app, it's built in. Go use it. I have a NextCloud instance and I don't use it either. What's the point of having an app I can only use to talk with people so close to me that they're in my NextCloud with an account already?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're using a keepass database, Keepass2Android can natively sync with many cloud options including self hosted and generic ones, even without specific "companion" apps. That's what I use. In my case, it's backed by my NextCloud, but it used to be Google drive before.

Just also sync the file on your PC, merging changes from different clients is part of the keepass database format and "just works".

Also VaultWarden works great if your can self host it, but I prefer keepass for a variety of features and integrations.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, they do need to clean up the installer a bit. It's also not quite turnkey for a Windows dual-boot.

Mind letting us know why or how? When I installed it almost a year ago on my desktop, I did install it as a dual boot option with no issues. Of course this doesn't mean there aren't issues I just didn't run into. I'm also not new to Linux and didn't pick a fully default install, if that makes a difference. So I could've probably fixed it if it did break, but it never gave me any issues.

The only thing that I dislike, and that could probably cause issues, is that for my installation the mount point for the efi/boot partition isn't specified in fstab using a uuid, but using the device name (which isn't fixed and can change with hardware changes). That is a very weird (and unnecessary) decision IMHO.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 weeks ago

From my understanding if you've toggled the global "AI kill switch" in the options, this will cover it as well?

That being said, the writing's been on the wall for a while. Probably LibreWolf for me.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Forgejo was soft forked from Gitea after they went commercial and changed the license (I think). If there aren't any so far, expect pay walled features eventually.

Forgejo turned into a hard fork after communication issues between the teams. I haven't looked too deeply into it (as I don't really care about the fact that it's a hard fork now). This means while it used to be a drop-in replacement allowing you to go back and forth between the two, it's now an active conversion, I think.

 

I've noticed for a while that when playing a linked video directly in the app, it doesn't respect the global auto-rotate setting of the screen. Only today did I notice that there's a "lock rotation" button at the top of the player, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to do the opposite of that it's showing: when I see the little lock it's unlocked, and then it's just the rotation icon it's actually locked. For context, my phone's rotation is always locked, but the video always rotates on me.

In general my suggestion for the behavior for playing video would be to rotate and lock it to the "correct" orientation for it's aspect ratio. It makes no sense to play a portrait video in landscape, neither does the other way around. Rotating the phone should probably still be able to flip it 180°.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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