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early_riser

@ early_riser @lemmy.world

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  • Is there any hope for accessibility on Linux?

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  • Currently trying Pop_OS in a VM.

    Long way to go but the fact it presents the accessibility options the first time you log in post install shows some thought has been put into it. Magnifier is present, and unlike Mint there's an invert color option. Haven't explored enough to see if any of this can be globally bound to keyboard shortcuts. Orca still craps the bed as soon as it's started but that might be due to the VM not playing nice with audio. My use case is reading text under the mouse. It has to be responsive and it has to read more than just a line. Paragraphs are usually the ideal.

  • Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer?

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  • Civ games seem to have acquired a reputation for being underbaked at launch, at least I hear that from others. I only got into the game with Civ V and that a fair bit after it came out. Seems like people are holding up the vanilla new release to its predecessor with all expansions.

    But yes it's a bummer there's no local multiplayer yet.

  • Are there any art programs designed specifically for mouse users?

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  • Or do you just want tools you can adjust and won’t have to be precise with and fiddle with to infinity to get the shapes you want?

    That's kind of what I'm thinking of.

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  • The Victorian Internet: about the societal impact of the telegraph

    Isaac's Storm: about the 1900 Galveston hurricane

    Open: about the early history of Compaq and IBM PC clones

  • How do you feel that forums/social media have changed over the period of time that you've used them?

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  • I think there are two problems with modern social media. First is centralization. The fediverse helps in that regard, but the second problem is how ephemeral it is, which is a problem with how one interacts with and consumes content. Since the fediverse is largely made up of clones of corporate platforms, that problem is inherited here. There's no space for long-form, and long-term, discussion. Things drop of the front page in a few days never to be seen again.

  • How do you feel that forums/social media have changed over the period of time that you've used them?

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  • I know I'm saying the same thing to probably the same people, but traditional forums were way better at this sort of thing. Lemmy is better in some ways but it's still strongly biased toward recent content rather than old but still relevant content. In any case, Discord is a terrible replacement.

  • What content filters are you using to clean up your Lemmy feed?

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  • IDK, I just block NSFW posts in settings, haven't seen anything really objectionable so I think it's working. From there I block all the politics and news communities., that helps my blood pressure. After that it's just a matter of filtering the stuff that simply doesn't interest me. I honestly wish you could just whitelist comms or users to show up on your feed rather than having to block everything.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • I watch archived news coverage of tornadoes on YT and I've seen it used live. Pretty sure it has some broadcasting-specific features especially when streamed to an Apple TV.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • I'd say look at where the money comes from, and especially who the majority stakeholders are. If it's a publicly traded company, steer clear. Proton is majority owned by a nonprofit, so there aren't stockholders to maximize value for.

    I'm not naive about Proton but you could do a whole lot worse than them.

    In a perfect world it would be easy to self host email. It's easy enough to set up a bare SMTP server but that won't work outside of a lab.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • I always download the app first before buying. If it requires an account (and they usually do) I don't buy.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • I don't trust Proton much, either. The more a company talks about how secure and private they are the more I think they're a honey pot, but maybe I'm paranoid. But I trust them more than I trust Google.

    Not sure what you mean by a secret tip other than don't use Proton Pass's suggested email when it asks you if you want to create an alias when signing up for something. It just uses the domain name of the site minus the TLD as the address name. I make an alias using a random word. You can put a note with each alias that says what it goes with.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • I use simplelogin.io plus a cheap throwaway domain, every single service I sign up for has different credentials, so the absolute worst that could happen if this server got hacked is someone could log in as me.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • I have this pipe dream of a noob friendly router/hypervisor/NAS combo that would trivialize the installation and running of server-side apps like nextcloud or home assistant. The reason it's also a router is to automagically forward ports so you could have remote access without someone else's computer the cloud.

  • What happened to lem.ee?

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  • This is the Achilles heel of the fediverse, or indeed of any non corporate platform. It's more often than not run by passionate volunteers, but passion will only get you so far and it doesn't always last forever.

  • What happened to lem.ee?

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  • Honestly I can relate.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • Indeed, a lot of people think it's an active satellite connection when all it is is a receiver picking up a really accurate time signal.

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • I'm still waiting for a useable screen reader :(

  • Still no flying cars

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  • We really need to make people more aware of how their data gets from A to B. I think most people think you need internet access for anything connected to a network to communicate. If more people realized that if device A is on your LAN and device B is on your LAN, there's no reason traffic from A to B has to traverse the internet, they wouldn't fall for stuff like this.

  • Does anyone just feels extremely annoyed when other people are playing their videos on loudspeaker?

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  • Every day I curse Tim Cook for getting rid of the simple headphone jack. Now I can't just hand cheap dollar store earbuds to people on the bus. Not that I ever did that, but I've sure thought about it.