Wes_Dev @ Wes_Dev @lemmy.ml

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Or poorly implemented cash grabs.

If Apple cared, they wouldn't be using modern slave labour.

Rethink for Android is an app firewall, DNS solution, and ad/malware/spam/etc blocker.

Might be worth giving a try.

Brilliant example. I think some of the search tools like date range or image color also get removed with the Firefox user agent, but I don't quite remember.

Fair point.

I tried it. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to work with the Amazfit Band 7. It had some issues with my Pebble too, now that I think about it. It's 100% an awesome bit of software though. It's genuinely impressive.

Really? Huh, TIL. Thanks.

If you mean for gaming, I'm mostly happy with my Anbernic 351M running modified Ubuntu, ArkOS.

If you want a phone factor, the Pinephone is fun to mess with and has a bunch of different distros you can run.

If you're thinking about drawing, see if you can get your hands on a convertible laptop with a Wacom digitizer built into the screen, from Fujitsu. Install any distro.

The far future: A man sits at a table, staring at a floating hologram display. He watches as an indecipherable block of alphanumeric characters wiggles and splits into two segments. He nods slowly.

He takes a breath and closes his eyes, broadcasting a message to everyone on duty that day.

"Merge the request. Tell Linus#3418 that Wayland is now the default display manager."

I don't follow her that much, but every time I see her in the news I just appreciate her so much. I don't know if pop punk is a thing, but she 100% gives that kind of vibe to me, emphasis on the punk. 🤘

Maybe I'm just in a good mood, but I saw that and about died. Thanks for the chortle and subsequent coughing fit.

I don't quite understand what you mean. I know Twitter has kind of gone to hell, but beyond that I'm not sure.

It also tells the website the OS you're running, as well as the browser, and various version numbers of stuff.

One interesting experiment is to use a user agent changer to view a website, and watch how the website changes every time you load a new user agent.

Google will remove search options if you're using Firefox (mobile?), for example. But if you change your user agent to say you have Chrome, even if you are actually using Firefox, those options magically come back and work. It's almost as if that's anti-competitive behavior or something...

It's also how a lot of websites know whether or not to give you Windows executables or Mac executables, or Linux executables, etc.

Interesting. Perhaps we should get together and compare distros, for purely academic reasons of course.

Yep. Like I'm a cis guy. I was assigned to male at birth, and I'm perfectly comfortable with that.

Other people are trans, or intersex, or non-binary. Biology is messy and we've got lots of variety.

Note: I might be missing something, because I'm not super familiar with all of it. I just wanted to add a little more info. I think it also helps for cisgender people to talk about this stuff too, to help normalize it. So, I chimed in.

The beard looks fake and it's weirding me out.

Also, as an autistic person, you're missing a gesture. It's to stop moving and stare in horror like a deer in the headlights, because you're unsure what's happening or how to respond.

Oh my god, I don't have a headset anymore, but there was a VR mod for it that I absolutely fucking loved. It was one of the things that the Index was made for. I spent so much time crashing into planets in VR.

I'm just now catching up on this thread. I honestly don't understand what you're talking about. Nazis are bad. War criminals are bad. Sexual assault is bad, and perpetrators are 100% in the wrong, now and forever. Some things are very clear, and some things are nuanced. That's just life.

Morality isn't a free-for-all, and I don't think anything I said would have suggested otherwise.

The reason nuance is important, is because we get actually get Nazis and shit if we make everything an absolute. I'm not advocating for anything goes, I'm saying that some things are complicated and simple answers don't always work. How people use humor is one of those things that can be complicated. I know dark humor definitely helps me cope with and overcome my trauma when I'm in a dark place. It also helps me bond a little bit when I meet someone else will so uses dark humor. It's okay if that's not the same for you. People are different.

I'm not angry or trying to be mean or talk down or anything like that. I also don't automatically think you're a bad person, even though I feel like that insult was uncalled for. And I know some of the other people browsing here were kind of assholes, so, I'm sorry about them.

Anyway we don't need to continue talking about this if you don't want to. The entire thing is kind of stressful for me, so I might not check my messages for a few days anyway. If you do want to talk more, I'm open to that. But if you're just going to be rude, I'll probably not respond.

I just now came back to this thread and started reading. I was avoiding it, because honestly it was intimidating when I suddenly had a bunch of replies about something I knew might be controversial.

I don't know what you're talking about with Nazis and shit, but I guess I'm about to find out...

Holy shit. You just reminded me that I used to be one of the people documenting and updating the wiki for MyPaint. You're 100% right.

Maybe I should try doing something like that again, start small and use the process of the documentation to help me learn and engrain stuff rather than flailing around trying to implement it from scratch.

Huh. I like this idea.