Propheticus

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[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 12 points 18 hours ago

Yes, but a bad example of one very quickly heading towards autocracy. Some characteristics like screwing up your own economy and blaming 'the foreigners' rings a distant bell.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

The Tesseract web app does that. It stacks posts in the feed that have the same url or title.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

A popup is overlay / in front of your viewport or UI, the sidebar is not in front of it. If what you see is (like a) popup, you're talking about the web panel, which a different concept Zen added. Indeed in Firefox the vertical tabs are part of the sidebar and thus they can't be move independently. In Zen, the vertical tabs are NOT part of the sidebar, and thus you can move the sidebar to the right while the tabs remain on the left.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's configurable from the sidebar dropdown menu, e.g. when opening your bookmarks (Ctrl+B): dropdown menu with sidebar options

But you can also use this about:config setting: sidebar.position_start set to false

Again you keep calling it a popup, but it really isn't. It does not pop up or overlay the browser viewport, it sits on the right and pushes the viewport left reducing its width.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

There's the Danish company Lyngdorf, who make the CD-2. It costs a whopping €2999,- though. NAD is Canadian and makes CD players around the €400 mark. If you consider Canada an honorary EU member that's an option ;)

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Aren't there several companies that donate to both running candidates, just in a 'betting on both horses' kind of way? Just making sure you're in good graces with whomever becomes president.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Perhaps https://www.cheapasssunglasses.com/ ? While the shop is European (Dutch), I expect the glasses are made in China.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've donated in November after I switched back to Firefox as my main browser. I read about the search deal dependency and wanted to contribute to what Mozilla called "reclaim the internet". Feel something akin to 'buyer's remorse' when I now read how little goes to development of Firefox/Gecko (the only multi-platform alternative engine for rendering the internet) and how much goes into CEO salaries.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

No, there are 'workspaces' -accessed via the buttons on the bottom of the vertical tab bar-with their own tabs, but you can't group tabs within one workspace (yet). And yes I can open the sidebar -which is not a popup- on the other side. The thing that's popping up on the left next to the tabs and overlays the site is what Zen calls the web panel.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

That's Denmark (Danish), this article is about The Netherlands (Dutch).

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't envy the man at all. Horrible limbo position he's in with no mandate of his own.

[–] Propheticus@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Really love(d) using it too the last week, but I can't live with the horrendous font rendering. Especially small/thin or light text on dark background (darkmode themes). Luckily the latest FF releases are adding a lot of vertical tab related functionality, theres tab groups and you can hide the title bar now.

 

While Zen's soft and round rendering looks nice on some fonts or sites, some other fonts or contrast scenarios look horrible. Especially some (demi-)bold text or headings are coarse.

A quick search shows I'm far from the first person to notice. This community however has no info on it yet, so here we go.

Below is a compilation of setting recommendations I found in posts and bug reports about font rendering issues in Firefox in general and Zen specifically. I suggest playing around to see what works best for you.

The only setting that's a must:

  • Go to about:config
    • Accept the risks and continue. You daredevil!
  • Search for "rounded"
  • Double-click zen.view.experimental-rounded-view to set it to false

I also use this one:

  • Search for "font_rendering"
  • gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode set to 5

These are found in many recommendations, but really are about preference more than anything:

  • gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.bold_simulation to 2
  • gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading to false
  • gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.cleartype_level to 100 (default -1 appears to have logic on when to enable/disable, but defaults to 100 when enabled)
  • gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast to 50 (default -1 is 100)

I used these at first but noticed these are really hit or miss depending on the site you're on. The last two options can mess up (thin) fonts when transparency is involved, like when transparent gradients are used to fade out text.

 

Hi! I joined Lemmy.zip in search of an European / non-US alternative to r/. I heard about Lemmy via one of the several Buy European / European alternatives community posts. While signing up for the .world instance it urges you to have a look at less generic instances that might match your interest. That's when I found you. I game from time to time, work in IT (architecture) and have a broad personal interest in understanding the 'How' behind technology. Lemmy.zip sounds like a good match!

While getting settled and trying all the different web apps I have observed:

  • All the different front-ends (a. /m. /t.) require a new login, this feels a bit strange while you are on the same domain.
  • The mobile m.lemmy.zip (photon), while looking pretty has a few issues:
    • The setting to blur NSFW thumbnails does not work, they show unblurred. Other apps (e.g. Tesseract) do blur.
    • Scrolling through the feed on Firefox (Android) is very jerky with a lot of 'hickups' going back up for a fraction of a second while scrolling down.
  • While I'm not opposed to seeing content in posts that could be considered NSFW, I'm not particularly looking for it or communities focussed on it. Turning(/leaving) visibility on however floods the 'all' feed with (bot)posts from porn-related communities. Is there a way to leave NSFW visibility on, without seeing those communities recommended in the feed?

So far I prefer t.lemmy.zip for mobile (Firefox) and a.lemmy.zip for desktop (Zen browser).

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