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i'm glad i could be helpful - i realise federated social networks are a bit of a paradigm shift, so feel free to ask me if you have any other questions (although i probably won't have any answers)

your particular instance (jlai.lu) has defederated from lemmynsfw (though oddly not pornlemmy.com); so you won't see any communities, posts, or comments from their users

you can check the federated and defederated instances before you sign up by clicking the "instances" link at the bottom of the page, then scrolling all the way down to the "blocked" section

as to why you can't sign into your lemmynsfw acct.: i don't know. possibly because they're running a patched backend? it may be worth a bug report

the ! is the prefix to make an autolink on lemmy

think r/ on reddit, or # on mastodon (sort of)

honestly? i kind of agree. but gog spent a lot of dev time revamping their client into "gog galaxy 2.0" just to make it less controller accessible; and the epic client is just unusable

i would have more sympathy if they were little indie companies. but the itch.io client is better than either. these companies are pouring money into breaking into a market, but not bothering to develop features

that comment was more an example of why the egs isn't yet a real competitor than a criticism of any as yet nonexistent competitors

It uses CEF not Electron,

fine. i was simplifying. that wasn't the main point of my comment. forgive me.

which it has used for over 13 years. This isn't something they just added.

no...?

you mean that the store has been an embedded browser? in that case yes

but the whole steam client? has always been vgui, not electron cef. did you even read the link you sent? just because there is reference to chromium in the commit log doesn't mean the whole thing's built in chromium, and just because a programme can render web content also doesn't mean it's built in chromium. when firefox switched from xul to html did you go "akshyually, it was always able to render html content so it hasn't switched at all"

If it's running slow for you you probably have an issue with hardware acceleration.

it's not just me who has performance issues. at one point it was everyone on linux with an nvidia gpu. which is supposedly fixed (and it's definitely better) but it's still unusably slow on both linux and windows. also, so what. "it works on my machine" isn't a great excuse to ignore the biggest gaming gpu brand, and electron is notoriously non-performant (if my pc can handle playing a video in ffx whilst playing recent 3d games, i think it should also be able to display my list of owned games without stuttering). my point was that i never had issues with vgui, and now i do.

edit: ah, i've just looked through your comment history. i don't believe anyone who's not a troll has -10 karma and no negative comments (especially with some comments with >100 points), and i also suspect vote manipulation. i should never have engaged. sorry. i won't engage any more.

i would love for steam to have some competition. i will gladly switch over to the first competitor that has

• a big picture / controller-friendly interface
• controller configurator that
  • is more powerful than rewasd
  • is editable in the overlay
  • has import/exportable configs (incl. with the community)
  • supports the best controller i've ever used, the steam controller
• cross-platform client
• cross-platform cloud saves
• workshop/modding support
• proper reviews system
• community page for each game
• etc.

and doesn't

• buy exclusivity rights to games
  • i don't mind revenue deals for exclusivity, but buying existing games takes the biscuit
• actively worsen existing games
  • e.g. removing the impeccable siapi support in rocket league, and making it run on the shitty epic servers so it disconnects all the time

particularly now that steam has switched over to electron, so the client runs like shit

i do sometimes use gog because i like their ideology, but they're missing quite a few from this list. any gog or itch.io games i buy, i inevitably add to steam as a non-steam game. which adds a lot of these handy features, but not all

unfortunately, until a competitor brings along something new to the table, i'm quite happy to wait and pay more for a game on steam. it just has too many features i can't give up

i'm firmly of the belief that it's designed to be on the left

if you use a calculator with your left hand, A) your thumb (strongest digit) rests on = (most used button), and B) you can write with your right hand

then some wacko put it on the right of the keyboard, so enter is on your little finger and the mouse is miles away[^1] and now we have to live with the consequences

[^1]: yes i realise mouses weren't around when this layout was designed

in about:config, try removing the pertinent domains from extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains

i've never done this though, so caveat executor

holy hell this is massive

thank you for your work db0

commiserations, and kudos for doing all you've done so far to try to keep it running

yeah i guess i can't argue with that…

the same way that removing a headphone jack is courageous, i guess

jerboa supports it! press the little exclamation mark in a diamond (it's a triangle on desktop for anyone wondering)

like knusper says, lemmy has a different spoiler format:

\ ::: spoiler the preview text

then the hidden text

the new lines are optional, but make it easier to read in my opinion

more info here

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oh by the way, your instance has alexandrite built in

i think it's at a.lemmy.world? but there are also other frontends at old.lemmy.world and new.lemmy.world and possibly phtn.lemmy.world or something?

there's a list somewhere on the meta lemmysphere (!meta@lemmy.world? !lemmyworld@lemmy.world)

https://lemmy.world/post/2878694

Aye so bottom line, we’re stuck with what exists until new formats are forced upon everybody… ¯(ツ)/¯

yeah... :(

Raw isn’t a format, it’s supposed to just be unaltered stream from the imager, so every camera model is unique in that regard. But DNG is a way to describe that data so it’s more readable to programs unfamiliar with the specific model. And well, some makers prefer to use their own proprietary models.

ah fair enough, i didn't know that

Actually AAC is mostly Apple’s format and support for it is pretty great. I’m not super familiar with the details but it sounds like a similar situation as with webp.

is it? i didn't think any android players supported it apart from specifically apple music? and i'm pretty sure ms' groove music couldn't play them^?

there's a userscript to force all links to open in a new tab - i'll see if i can find it

edit: here ye go. but i haven't used it, so caveat emptor

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It’s not. The web site you’re uploading to has to support it to allow you the upload in the first place, and to process it to make previews or lower-res versions for the web pages or apps.

alright yeah i guess. to be honest i was more talking about using images i've made on my own site, or publishers using an image format on their own websites. as for uploading to other sites it's a complete mess: even tumblr doesn't allow uploading webp, but it then automatically converts to webp which makes a horrible blurry mess

Do believe me, recently I’ve started converting those I want to keep to mp4 and I’m saving gigabytes.

i wasn't being sarcastic! i do believe you. and yeah, i'd do the same

It’s not all that well supported in lots of those cases I mention. And where it did get, it only got because Apple has actually billions of devices out there and has the power to make the format default among them with one worldwide update. Yet it still has to convert to jpg when sharing elsewhere by default. That’s how huge the resistance is.

sorry, i was talking about jxl here. i agree heif hasn't got anywhere; but that is, again, mostly due to licencing issues (unsurprisingly, given it's apple)

I’m not advocating for these formats specifically (definitely not jpeg2000 haha), but I’m saying licences and royalties aren’t that super important when it comes to how supported something becomes.

Hell look at Apple… Everything is proprietary.

yeah exactly - none of apple's formats are supported outside of apple devices (and i guess itunes for windows)

Or when it comes to formats, mp3 is still the most widely supported audio format (non-free), and DivX has been the most widely supported video format for much longer than anything else… Also non-free.

that's a fair point, and i can't really explain that - i can only assume it's big for the same reason as gif: it was good enough at the time, and got standardised by cds

Haha hardware camera makers are the slowest dinosaurs when it comes to technology. Took them fucking ages for some to support DNG raw format, and before h264 was already getting grey, most would record videos only in mjpeg.

really? now admittedly i don't know much about cameras, but i've had a couple of filmmaker friends and i was under the impression raw was universally supported

But it’s more about phone cameras anyway. And well with those we’ll only have webp and heif at most, so I guess we have to deal with that anyway.

i'm not sure about that - even google camera doesn't support webp (i mean, it's called "web picture", i think they see it as a web format primarily). i think phone cameras will continue to be solely jpg for a long time

Maybe if Mozilla had not abandoned their FF OS, maybe that would’ve been a camera supporting jpegxl now.

that'd be nice. i do wish mozilla wasn't so catastrophically mismanaged all around

the same, desktop lemmy-ui

it should be big on all clients though, #'s are markdown syntax for titles[^1] - if it wasn't i don't know why (a bug?)

[^1]: more info