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Post your favorite icon pack / cursor / theme for your DE
  • I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.

    That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.

    I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.

    When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.

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    What's the coolest thing you've found in a thrift store?
  • a bunch of records from a retired local DJ ended up scattered in thrift stores around my area; I ended up getting a bunch of really good condition 80s disco and funk 12in singles

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    Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
  • In the case of Brave and Vivaldi, they add their own undesirable parts (Brave adds crypto bullshit and Vivaldi is closed-source, so $DEITY knows what they're adding).

    Librewolf is open and doesn't contribute to the Chromium monoculture; so it's the best option

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    GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles
  • They do. sorta. It's definitely possible to put something like Starfield on a dual layer BDROM, probably even uncompressed! But then load times would be fucking crazy because BD is an order of magnitude slower than an SSD.

    Distributing install files for a day 1 version of a game and using the disc as an auth key, (which is what they did last gen iirc) is still possible.

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    Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
  • I live close to CNU and never knew this. I probably should have assumed something like this happened considering this whole region is built upon the exploitation of PoC.

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    PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
  • The difference between the Fediverse and a closed system like reddit is that it's open and we're privy to haphazardly implemented functionality and bad API documentation.

    I work on big closed source web apps for a living; they're just as haphazard and badly documented, it's just all closed.

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    Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter
  • I don't think anyone liked it. More like tolerated it because of a combination of network effects and it being less shitty than Facebook.

    At least, that's why I was on Twitter. People I wanted to follow were there.

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    Have you used other forum software? Which ones did you like?
  • I used Voat back in the day, from the beginning, when it was still called Whoaverse; to right around when it became a Nazi-filled shithole. But that doesn't really count too much since for a good portion of that time, it ran on a modified version of the old open-source reddit code. Whatever it moved to in the short time before the new ""community"" ruined was pretty decent; lemmy-ui reminds me of it a lot actually.

    I used to be big into Imzy too, before it shutdown. Its software was somewhat like new Reddit, but like, actually performant and not a bug-riddled mess. I still miss it, but the lemmyverse, especially Beehaw, is filling that hole.

    I've also used the old guard of forum software, I don't know what ran what because I didn't really pay attention to that kind of stuff as a kid.

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    has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?
  • I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video

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  • Can't Access my Instance from Browser, but Apps Work Fine?

    I think this means that something is wrong with lemmy-ui, but I'm not sure what.

    ETA: I'm eleanorOpossum on beehaw.org.

    EDIT: FIGURED IT OUT

    Cause: I deleted everything in the pictrs folder after the CSAM raid on lemmy.world. The UI was crashing because it couldn't load the site icon.

    Solution: TL; DR: I ran this UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id; in the database.

    My install uses lemmy-ansible, so my DB was in a docker container.

    • I ran docker ps to find the id of the container running the DB
    • Then I ran this to connected to it docker exec -it $CONTAINER_ID_FROM_DOCKER_PS pqsql -U lemmy -d lemmy
    • Then I searched for my instance in the
    • And then I ran this SQL expression to set my site icon to null; UPDATE site SET icon = NULL FROM local_site WHERE site.id = local_site.site_id;

    Based on this comment and the rest of that thread (along with some basic SQL knowledge)

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    Is there any reason to have a Switch and a Steamdeck,
  • I have both. I haven't tried emulating Switch games on the Steam Deck yet. I use my Switch for Nintendo exclusives and local multiplayer games since it's less of a pita to set up

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    Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like
  • I disagree. I think it's mostly a combination of baby duck syndrome and the perceived difficulty of gaming (unless you're a kid who "needs" to play the flavor of the month over-monetized multiplayer trash)

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    Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming?
  • I've been using Trixie (Current testing, next stable) for gaming for a couple weeks. Everything (gaming wise) works the same as it did when I was on Arch.

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