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Anyone know of a way to "mate" widgets to the taskbar on KDE? So that when I hit the super button I get my widgets popping over any active apps...

I searched for a while and couldn't find anything, but if anyone got any special sauce I'd love to know.

Edit: just noticed the extra start menu on the right side - lol that's where that went

Strange, I've had the opposite experience. I remember early on 11 was really bad and buggy in general so I waited to move my main install, but it's been fantastic for me on laptop and desktop.

Granted, I'm very particular about my Windows installs and know how to clean everything up pretty well, so I have no idea how out of box experience compares, but at least with how I use it, 11 has been fantastic, performance has been much more consistent, I don't need to reboot as often, and it lasted way longer before I felt the need for a fresh install than any of my 10 installations.

I still have certain things I'm not able to entirely fix that bug me (still searching for a way to remove the stupid Office 365 ad from the settings homepage) that weren't in Windows 10, but the settings in 11 are overall SO much better, window snapping is way better, explorer is way better, HDR support is way better, multi-monitor support is better, default apps in general are better, it's becoming easier to remove built-in apps you don't want, and just a whole bunch of small QOL changes and updated, more consistent styling, it's just a much nicer OS to use at this point.

If you haven't tried it yet, Tiny11 23H2 just came out, and while there's still some stuff I fixed after installation, it does an excellent job of trimming most of the fat off Win11 without sacrificing usability. You can use Windows update like normal (and you'll have to update after install) but it may be worth another try if you haven't tried 11 recently. IMO it's a really nice upgrade over 10 if you can fix all the little annoyances like the new right-click and such. (BloatyNosy on GitHub is what I use post-install, in addition to a few powershell commands and such)

That's what they're saying. Wholesale price is the same, retail should go down due to less people in the chain.

They just phrased it poorly.

The whales are the devs IRL

This characterization disgusts me but it's a perfect analogy.

Ah okay. The book I read went through 2017, and I don't really know of trustworthy news sources to keep up with current events in that region.

Yeah the political posturing like getting upset over handshakes is nothing new (altho AFAIK that kinda support has increased in recent years) but as far as actual substantial support, it has often been quite hard for Palestine to get it. (for many reasons)

Thanks for the info.

Culturally they appear to favor authoritarianism, nationalism, and strong man mentality in their politics.

Yeah, while I understand that there is an element of that that's uniquely Russian, I mean that was also much of the world for much of history.

But like you said, no easy answer.

And yeah obviously the people I interact with outside of Russia will give a different perspective. I just always got the vibe from them that a large portion of the population resented Putin, but apparently that's less of a vibe than I thought.

Putin still enjoys widespread public support, and the vast majority of the Russian public supports both the explicit goals of the war as well as the implicit ones

Sources?

Every Russian I've interacted with has expressed their distate for Putin.

This is a problem bigger than Putin, bigger than the oligarchs, and bigger than the current regime.

So could you explicitly point to what the problem is? Bc it seems to me that the oligarchs and Putin have been doing their best to brainwash and ensure that they remain in power, to the detriment of the Russian people.

Are the arab countries doing something? I've been educating myself on the situation, and historically the other Arab countries' support has been very limited, at best. This has largely been due to the US' influence on the region and players like the Saudis not wanting to upset their relationship with the US, despite their public proclamations of support for their Arab brothers and sisters.

But I'm also not very informed on the current state of things, so perhaps support has increased in recent years?

Fuck Putin. The Russian people do not deserve the hardships they're enduring due to his warmongering rn

Yeah I tried Sea of Thieves a while back and unless you already got some friends who are pretty into it, or you're a streamer trying to do crazy antics messing with people, the game just doesn't have a lot of appeal.

I may hop on for PVE just to see how it is, but idk if that'll fix enough of the game for me.

Yeah just did a fresh install and once I installed Waterfox I just had to click a single button when prompted.

However this was Tiny11 so I am unsure if that applies equally to normal Win11.

Nah it's not because it's too gay/queer, it's just far too strange for most people.

The only person I ever knew IRL that regularly used VRChat was very.... Uncomfortable to be around.

And the few times that I've used it, yeah there's the people being normal and doing normal stuff, but there's lots of people who regularly say and do very weird/inappropriate stuff.

It's great that there is a large queer community in VRChat, and I understand that most people are prolly just normal ppl chilling, but I don't think companies stay away from VRChat because of the queer community there tbh.

Exactly. I'd like to see a few significant improvements for the next gen - namely in screen and performance to match, but my dream would be to see Valve license Framework's module system (or build something similar of their own) and integrate one of those somewhere on the deck.

It'd be great for the obvious, like adding high-speed storage, but just imagine the possibilities for a handheld gaming console of attachments people could build with a module system that locks in place like that.

Obviously the module thing is a pipe dream and unlikely to happen, but I just feel like there's a ton of additional potential for that form factor that's unexplored, and I'd like to see longer generations not only for support, but also so that larger iterative work like designing a module system or whatever can be prioritized over rushing out regular performance upgrades.

First Starbucks unionization in that movement was Dec 2021, not end of 2022.

I think that we as humans put ourselves above all other animals a lot. But as animals with a higher level of awareness, I feel that we have a responsibility to treat all other animals with respect.

If someone thinks it's justified to experiment on animals, I see it as their moral obligation to do everything in their power to minimize the suffering that animal will experience.

Also, if this technology could potentially help with handicaps (big X to doubt moment tbh) I absolutely do not want Elon fucking Musk to be the one who owns the technology, so I hope they hit his company with the book.

One thing I do when adding ppl to my plex is just tell them I'm going to setup their account and hand it over for them to change the password.

Open incognito window, create plex account with their email, paste invite link from my account into the incognito window, fix their account settings, then hand it over.

Obviously a bit of a clumsy solution compared to jellyfin, but maybe that can help.

That's because this is literally a screen cap of a TikTok post.

"Content" on lemmy

Yeah the memes on Lemmy are all absolute garbage-tier and get praised just bc they're content.

I guess I could repost my back-catalogue of reddit OC - at least then I'd be contributing content. 🤷‍♂️

lmfao have you never heard of the source engine? Garry's mod? HL2 was just the first game running Source that really showed some of the physics and creativity off.

While the physics on totk are cool, and the crafting system is impressive, especially for the hardware it's running on, nothing it does is exactly revolutionary. Plenty of games have been doing similar stuff for a very long time, on much older hardware.

Not exactly the same, and they certainly deserve credit bc what totk has is impressive, but acting like totk was some revolution in videogame physic and one of the best games ever is a bit of a stretch IMO. It's a fun, well-made, complete open-world game, that builds on the previous title's map.

Also, there are AAA games that struggle with frame rate drops on PC, PS5, and Xbox series X

Yeah but their stuttering is dropping from 60FPS to 50FPS, or 180FPS to 100FPS, and because they've got actually capable hardware, they also support freesync, which greatly reduces how jarring FPS drops feel.

But claiming some stuttering in totk when players have set up chaos means it proves the switch is underpowered is just incorrect

Any game that can barely run at 30FPS (totk relies heavily on dynamic resolution scaling in denser areas, even without player contraptions) and drops to 20FPS when loaded with stuff built in game is a stuttering mess. Be it on PC, Xbox or Switch. Switch doesn't get a break on a game being a stuttering mess because it's weak.

That's literally the whole reason ppl are criticizing the switch. It makes games like totk a stuttering mess, instead of allowing people to enjoy incredible games like that at a nice smooth 60 or 90FPS

My two-year-old phone can run games at beyond 1440P, 120FPS, with better graphics than a Switch.

Any game that gives you a set of tools and the instructions ,"go" stutters when there's too much going on.

Yes every game is gonna have a limit to the physics it can crunch. TOTK's limit before stuttering is pretty damn small, relatively speaking.

And dorsnt it prove the .ain point of this thread? That Mortal Kombat could have looked good with a tweaked art style for switch but was just a bad port?

No. Because that would have required the devs to literally create new textures for every single asset in the game, with new art style, which especially in a game that people are often very competitive in can cause massive headaches for the devs.

Ok, but if there are zelda/nintendo fan boys it follows that nintendo are consistently making great games

Andrew Tate is a good person bc he has a lot of fanboys, right? If that logic doesn't follow, why would it follow for videogames? Fanboys are known for irrational support, not rational criticism.

fan boys wouldnt be enough alone to get a game that highly rated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_review-bombing_incidents

Remeber that this game only released on switch, meaning it didnt have all the pa5 and xbox owners to help boost its numbers.

Wow, REALLY?? Nintendo didn't release Zelda on Xbox????? 🤪

So whilst im sure the fanboys had something to do with it, its likely that the fact that the game is good played a kuch bigger part.

I never said it wasn't a good game. It's a great game. Not my speed, but it's great. I don't think it's anywhere close to top 10 tho, and the only reason it's even in that discussion is because of fanboys who are okay with Zelda becoming just another open-world RPG with towers to climb and now crafting shit.

Is it the one with the shit textures

Yep, that's the one.