Kevin

I look at the contributors on Github and check them out. I’ll check out what else they’ve worked on and maybe see if they have an account on mastodon or twitter. Maybe I’ll ask some friends if they’ve used or heard of the product, or know of the devs.

There is indeed malware disguised as OSS and you do sometimes have to vet them. I’ll skim the codebase and see if there’s anything that looks weird or funky, but that’s not perfect (like in the case of the xz) and some stuff can slip by.

I’m not sure off-hand since I’m not too familiar with VLC.

I would imagine it could be an issue in a graphics driver at the kernel (amdgpu?) or user level (mesa?). It could also be a problem in something higher up.

I would recommend posting an issue in the VLC repo and see if you can get better support that way.

Can you turn off hardware decoding and see if it works then?

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Hardware_acceleration/

One of the most comfortable mice out there.

I hate how tipping is now customary at every single restaurant now, including places without servers.

My older brother got me into Ubuntu when I was around 12. He basically showed me the basics, like the terminal and a couple commands, then just told me to manpage or Google everything else.

Then I got Linux for the Wii and that really got me into the nitty gritties of Linux.

I don’t think it’s very useful at generating good code or answering anything about most libraries, but I’ve found it to be helpful answering specific JS/TS questions.

The MDN version is also pretty great too. I’ve never done a Firefox extension before and MDN Plus was surprisingly helpful at explaining the limitations on mobile. Only downside is it’s limited to 5 free prompts/day.

Scihub for most things. You can also sometimes find preprints (or contact the authors) on RG.

Not really. I’ve lived here for ~30 years and certain spots are better, some are worse.

Caffeine pills! You can find them for cheap at most drug stores. Plus you can dose the exact amount you want.

Yep. I also used it a lot when starting on a hill on vehicles without handbrakes.

Nope, Lemmy is just as toxic as Reddit imo.

Ooh, the top left ones are from Ultima Online. Haven’t seen those cursors in a long while.

If you’re on a really steep incline, you’ll have to press both the brake and gas pedal at the same time using your right foot, while feathering the clutch with your left. I’ve heard this called the “heel toe” technique.

If your engine has enough torque or if the hill isn’t steep enough, you can ignore this and just ease off the clutch while transitioning from the brake to gas.

Remove the videos you dislike from your history

Maybe marginally. It’s pretty easy already to take an old tire off, especially on the machine.

Putting a new tire on is always the hard part imo. I usually let mine sit in the sun for an hour before mounting it.

It started off okay, but I’m about to give up on Lemmy after a couple months.

My main problems are:

• The comments here are hit-or-miss. Every big thread deteriorates into pedantic arguments. It’s seemingly a worsening trend and is on-par with the bullshit you’d see on Reddit.
• Lack of comment moderation in larger communities. If a thread devolves into off-topic arguments or name-calling, the mods should step in.
• The default active post sort is pretty terrible in so many ways. It’s much too slow to change and you’ll often see repetitive content. Smaller communities tend to have no visibility, but instead I see 5 posts from the same large community.
• The comment sort is bad as well. If the community self-moderates through downvoting, then why are downvoted posts near the top? I think this leads to toxic threads and pointless arguments.
• Lack of any content. I wouldn’t mind a bot reposting an RSS feed or something into a community just to start discussion… But many are vehemently against that idea (leading to small communities dying completely). I’d argue the reason !technology@lemmy.world hasn’t died out yet is because of the l4s bot.
• Way too many politics. I’m so tired of seeing political discussion online—but here, you’re just bombarded with it, even outside of political communities. Better moderation might help keep things on topic.
• Users tend to browse All. While this gives people an opportunity to see new content, I think this might harm smaller communities in the long run. This is similar to how threads lose quality once they reach the front page on Reddit.

Maybe I’ll come back after a year and see how things are. But as of now, Lemmy provides nearly zero value to me.

I chose lemmy.world because it felt the most neutral and least controversial. I also feel like there’s enough “backing” behind it and feel semi-confident that it’ll stick around.

I’m just over politics on the Internet communities. It’s exhausting and becoming increasingly difficult to avoid.

It’s not about being centrist or whatever: I have my side and strangers on the Internet aren’t going to change that. I don’t want to come to Lemmy or Reddit or whatever platform just to be bombarded by pointless political fights. I deal with that enough in the real world.

I don’t believe that getting into e-fights over one’s political view changes anybody’s view on the world—if anything, it makes people more intolerant of one another. I don’t understand why people don’t use that energy towards something meaningful.

To me, it’s because the app is so polished and customizable. Other apps don’t really come close yet, but they might soon.