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@ CatLikeLemming @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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she/they

Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3

(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)

  • [meta] Disabling YouTube's auto-dub feature

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  • I think, for once, someone at YouTube actually thought it was a good idea for the users too. It's like those websites that automatically change their language based on your IP instead of your browser setting. Some monolingual thought they were being nice.

    Anyways, the reason it's on by default is likely because people like us will know we hate it and turn it off. The average user who would like this, which is a good few I reckon, wouldn't know to turn it on. It's like videos defaulting to 720p or 480p. Many people literally won't notice and it saves YouTube a lot of bandwidth. Meanwhile if you set it back manually a couple times, YouTube does it way less.

    And my guess on the checkboxes is incompetence, not malice, the YouTube codebase is likely hellish.

  • Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy

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  • The problem is, even if I am willing to deal with some inconveniences, many others aren't. How am I going to move a server with >100 active users and multiple thousand inactive ones? And what about the six others I have that fit that description? There's quite a few servers I could go without, but around a dozen that I'd much prefer not to lose.

    I've already been trying, but people don't like Revolt, Nerimity, Matrix, hell I tried Mattermost. Some people are fine with some of these platforms, but there is never any remote consensus.

    At least some have cancelled their nitro subscription, making them a net loss for Discord in the future.

    Discord has, despite everything, been my primary chat/social app and to switch to something else one has to uproot absolutely everything. That's sadly not feasible.

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  • It isn't even that. He is a horrible monster, but what makes him so appealing to me is that he is completely delusional about it. With his new men he genuinely sees himself as the saviour of humanity, despite the fact that his plan for his new men is to destroy and replace humanity. It's almost like a tragedy, which I find very appealing.

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  • That's why heretic books like the Fabius Bile or Nightlords trilogy are great. Even authors who forget they should be writing villains on the loyalist side can remember that the traitors are evil. However, at least for those two trilogies, their authors also write them as likeable characters somehow. I would hardly call them anti-heroes, but they are understandable in their own messed up ways. It's how I feel the loyalists should have been written.

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • Let's try a metaphor. Say I have a bike. Someone's trying to sell me another bike, based on it having two wheels, both compatible with standard tubes, and optionally having a luggage rack, if I bring my own and attach it. Then I would also be asking them what their bike actually does and why I should bother swapping mine out for theirs, because it just looks like an extremely standard bike. It doesn't mean I do not know what a bike is.

    The question about lawnchair specifically has mostly been answered by comments now, but the website still does a very poor job explaining what it does over any other launcher, especially compared to the stock one.

  • truth rule

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  • I probably delete 2/3 of my messages after I typed half of them out, because I either decide nobody cares, or because I could just upvote a comment which is pretty similar to what I would've written. Not sure if it's the same for others, but I wouldn't be too surprised.

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • Sure, but what are those? Maybe I'm the issue, but the website seems to be made for people who are already intimately familiar with the possibilities of a custom launcher, because they're hardly listed anywhere, there's no list of features or anything.

    Well, there is one list, but it's

    1. "Pixel design, but more customizable somehow" How? Dunno, isn't explained
    2. "The latest android features" which is cool but also something I have on my stock launcher
    3. "QuickSwitch support" which is not explained (some research makes me believe it's API access to the default launcher that's needed to show recent applications, which is also a feature my native launcher has) and needs root according to the FAQ. So can I not access my recent applications if my phone isn't rooted?

    And the wiki is just from the dev side, which is interesting, but doesn't provide the proper info. I'm sure it's cool if so many people here like it, but the website's doing a poor job at showing that off.

    Edit: Basically it seems to me like the selling points of most Android forks, which are generally "We're slightly worse in some areas, but generally have feature-parity, possibly slightly better customization/settings, and you're free of Google spyware" which is admittedly a selling point, but here you don't even get rid of spyware if you're on regular Android, and if you are already on a fork, then why bother?

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • I just checked out the website and I'm having a hard time understanding what the point of it is. I've never installed any sort of custom launcher, so maybe I'm missing out, but the application advertises itself on being very similar to the regular pixel launcher, not needing root access, and nothing else. Even in the FAQ I only see that it supports some plugin that upgrades some widget, unless you have root where it supports whatever you can do with the "recents api". Neither of those seem remotely worth it. So what does it actually do?

  • How did you choose your names?

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  • Borrowing it from fictional characters you like would be a rather common approach. Greek and roman goddesses, flowers, and gemstones are also normal. Otherwise, it's reasonable to just open a baby name book/website and see what you like.

  • vtuber rule

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  • I'm still not sure why. For the corporate ones, like Hololive, I'm quite sure it's just management driving it for audience engagement, at least on most of them. Lesbians are very fetishized by male audiences, so it appeals to them, while also keeping parasocial behaviour alive, as those men can imagine a relationship with the vtuber since there's no boyfriend in the picture. Nonetheless, there's a couple where I'm sure they're pretty gay, Ollie and Kiara come to mind, and OkaKoro as a relationship seems genuine enough as well.

    For more indie vtubers I do not know what's going on with the queerness. It's either faked like how I assume it is with most corpos or there's some sort of selection bias. Maybe the type of woman likely to become a vtuber is also the type to have grown up in male online spaces, and assimilated some of the attraction to women during their puberty? That rough idea would track with male vtubers seeming pretty hetero overall, at least to me.

    I'm just taking random guesses here, might just be talking absolute bs, I'm not sure.

  • Hatsune Miku Rules

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  • Not sure about Father Ted, but Minecraft and Harry Potter were made by bigots. This user is trying to "erase" their creators' involvement, by attributing it to our lady and saviour Hatsune Miku, may she be forever blessed.

  • Nobody Sleeps at Night (2026, dir Max Presement)

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  • If they don't sleep at night, do they sleep during the day?

  • so entitled haha

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  • If you were already producing watering cans, yeah, kinda. They're pivoting for pure profit right now, and when the bubble bursts, they'll just go back to selling 2000€ "consumer" GPUs. Maybe they'll sit on some inventory, but the sheer profits at the moment will cover for that.

  • Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?

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  • On your point about it being "easy" to install containers via the app interface, are there any guidelines for how to configure them when all you've got for reference is a Docker Compose file?

    A lot of stuff matches 1:1, but there are often oddities here and there, and I'm still not entirely sure of the correct way to configure storage. Some guides say to create datasets in the pool and then configure some to use the "apps" preset, while others should use "generic." Others say to just use the automatic permissions checkbox, and others still tell you to check the "Use ACL" box. When I haven't found a guide, I just created the datasets manually, set them to "apps," and so far it has worked.

    And when I want to use Docker containers normally, I've been advised against it. There used to be something called "jails," but that was deprecated with the new Containers tab in the GUI. Apparently, that's being dropped again for some reason, but the jails are still deprecated, and any time I search for how to use Docker Compose, I get so much conflicting info. Some say to just run docker compose as you would on a regular server via the command line, while others say that could break the system and tell me to just use VMs instead, and it's all a mess.

    The SMART stuff I mentioned was definitely my lesser worry, just a mild annoyance that tipped me over to consider switching, but the apps feel like I'm learning a whole new abstraction layer instead of just writing a Docker Compose file with input fields. Maybe that's just a me problem though and I'm simply refusing to adapt, I am really not sure.

  • Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?

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  • Huh, sound pretty simple overall. I was mostly afraid I was missing some key features that would be painful to set up and were needed for a NAS, but apart from the filesystem and SMART tools, this isn't much less setup than I had to do with TrueNAS. Thanks!

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    Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?

  • Home Assistant 2026.1: Home is where the dashboard is 🥂

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  • I recently set up Home Assistant for the first time and I was super confused about the todo list there. It is the most barebones implementation of a todo list I have ever seen, yet it's featured in the sidebar by default, like it's super important. And then scripts and automations are in the settings menu?

    I could understand it if it was a proper todo list, with dates and priorities and repeating tasks and bonus points for a CalDAV Integration, but that one is downright pathetic.

    Still love the fact that HA exists, I am super happy about not being locked into any particular ecosystem, but some choices are very confusing to me.

  • Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort

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  • Then it's probably not a good idea to be on Lemmy. It's written in Rust, which is a programming language funded by a lot of unapologetically evil big tech companies, like Microsoft and Google. It was also initially created by Mozilla, a company with heavy associations with Google and which has even become quite pro-AI.

    I'd say using tools funded by evil counts as "loosely associated".

  • New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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  • I thought these were still common? Any time I'm near a church they do their thing every 15 minutes, banging one bell 1-4 times and then if it's 4 they bang another 1-12 times, signaling the time.

    Well, not entirely, they're usually quiet during the night, but you get my point.

    Didn't know people can't understand those anymore.

  • Sometimes I forget how awesome Linux Gaming is

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  • This is basically the reverse of how the regular gaming communities treat Linux. Take a best case for "your team", a worst case for the other, and then pretend it's always that way.

    There's a lot of good ways to explain what makes Windows bad without being disingenuous :3

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Ideas for very simple improvements to instant noodles?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please

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    3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?

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    I wouldn't rule out that this works

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    Girls rule (not Thatcher though)

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    Please rule

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    Cyberpunk Rules

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    Fallacy Rule

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    Corvids rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Stop ruling yourself

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    Fish rule

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    You rule

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    World is a rule

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Do you pre-order digital games? If so, why?

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    Hope rules

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    Cats Rule

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    NAS, Home Servers, and where do I even start?