vikingtons
@vikingtons@lemmy.world
grow a plant, hug your dog, lift heavy, eat healthy, be a nerd, play a game and help each other out
- Comment on THE FEDIVERSE IS TOO INFECTED WITH REDDITISM!! 4 days ago:
WHY ARE WE YELLING?
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
sort of like a more accessible bookmark, separated out so as to not get buried within 800 tabs (if you’re anything like my mum). it’s not anything groundbreaking in actual use, I guess it kind of just appifies a given webpage, (though there is some technical nuance that I’m kind of glossing over to assure standards compliance and help them perform better offline).
It can be kind of nice on a phone to eliminate some of the UI chrome given the limited screen real estate you have.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry that happened. I’ve never seen stuff like this happen but this is likely because I disable as much shit as I can every time I set Firefox up on a new system, but as you can see from the list of recs I pinked above, it’s a bit of a chore.
There are definitely smarter ways to go about it, like scripting the disablement of stupid shit in Firefox (or using a privacy respecting fork of the browser), but I like to do this / monitor this manually to keep track of any newly introduced anti features.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
I don’t think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone’s home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted
pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I’m not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta’s services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).
The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
I don’t use them for many things but in terms of UX, I can totally agree with that.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
in my (albeit limited) experience, that isn’t how it works. for example, ublock origin should still filter content as yoid expect, and I’d imagine inspect element would work on desktops too.
this just renders a webpage without the typical UI chrome (tabs, address/omnibar). it can be handy on am android phone for webapps like pixelfed (which is the only thing I use as pwa so far).
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 1 week ago:
the functionality is known as progressive web apps or PWAs. Did this notification come up unprompted?
You may need to switch of certain toggles in Firefox if so.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 5 weeks ago:
Apparently. This is reported to be a pseudo UE5 port (think Oblivion Remastered (💀)) and will be available on PlayStation. The core of the game will apparently be derived from Halo Reach’s iteration of Blam engine. The “technical details” are all just rumours and you’ve every right to disregard, though the entry coming to PS5 is more or less acknowledged.
I don’t believed a multiplayer compoment for this is planned.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 5 weeks ago:
ruby’s rebalanced is the only way I can play CE today via MCC.
I don’t have high hopes for 343 but I gather their CE remaster may expand upon what was available back in 2001 and reintroduce cut content.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 month ago:
It’s a real company, that ad looks as if it could be real as well, given that face is used on their website
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 month ago:
I’d never heard of arrow lake dying like raptor has been? wild.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
as far as I’m aware, those should be fine, I’d still recommend upgrading to the latest SBIOS (3.40) where available
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
But ASRock 800 series AM5 boards are killing granite ridge 3D CPUs en masse. Funny enough, it happened to me.
I begrudgingly switched to Asus after my CPU was RMA’d as that was the only other vendor to offer ECC compact on a consumer platform.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
I’ll consider you lucky. I’ve had many experiences with their hardware across different segments (phones, tablets, laptops, mainbaords, NICs, displays, GPUs).
They’re an atrocious vendor with extremely poor customer support (and shitty SW practicies for UMA systems and motherboards).
I don’t think many people have been as unfortunate as I have with them, the general consensus is they mark their products up considerably relative to competition (particularly mainboards & GPUs).
To be fair, their contemporaries arent much butter.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
in that situation, Asus are the shitty part.
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
hey, it works flawlessly out of the box with Steam games on linux and feels really, surprisingly nice. Image
some resources here:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLhXZKmjiE
- better coverage on functional testing youtu.be/7Sg8vReD_6o?t=240
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 months ago:
ravanced, magisk, newpipe etc
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
Overcooked I think tops out at four, both boomerang fu and gang beasts gonup to 8 ime
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
I can’t say I’ve ever used a dualshock 2 clone, but I’ve used a sixaxis and ds3? Ergonomically they seem somewhat similar. In terms of quality, I can’t say. The controller I’ve linked is wired only, however. If that’s a dealbreaker, a company called 8bitdo make some fairly affordable wireless gamepads which are all Linux friendly (directly interpreted by steaminput)
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
My friends and I can play boomerang fu for hours. there’s a surprising level of depth to this deceptively cute looking game. Can get pretty competitive, but it’s always fun 😊
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
I have the controller on order so I’ll let you know.
- Comment on Game recommendations 2 months ago:
boomerang fu and gang beasts are great!
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 2 months ago:
I’ve only recently been made aware of btrfs’ tendency to completely fuck data at failure states.
I’ve been using that filesystem on fedora for maybe two years now without issue, though I suppose I don’t regularly find myself hitting the issues required to cause these problems.
- Comment on Who cares about IPv4 or IPv6 when CDNs run the internet 3 months ago:
ma boy joe rice-jones
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 3 months ago:
I’ll make my own internet… with blackjack
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown 3 months ago:
That’s fair enough. I can’t talk; I still play games like pubg and halo infinite (firefight / custom games)
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown 3 months ago:
nah
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 3 months ago:
thank you for sharing all of these
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 3 months ago:
lol
- Comment on Intel Confidential CPU? 4 months ago:
Could be a prod ready engineering sample. They get around more than you may think.
