[-] Quibblekrust 1 points 1 day ago

I did not, you misunderstood the table.

[-] Quibblekrust 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe I'm an AI or maybe I'm just autistic and good at markdown.

When I think retro I’m thinking of Duke Nukem ported to the C64 or something like that.

Well, that's unique. Most people call any game older than PS3 "retro", especially the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.

"To each his own" is why people say "irregardless". It doesn't make it right that tons of people say it. Normally, sure, language evolves, but "irregardless" is just plain wrong. "Retro" and "vintage" are super common terms everywhere else in life. Why can't gamers get it right?

[-] Quibblekrust 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Strictly speaking this is probably more like retro-adjacent rather than truly retro gaming

Thing is, this is literally what "retro" means. Like retrospective. It means looking back at old styles and modeling modern things after yesterday's trends. When people say "retro gaming", what they really mean is vintage gaming because they're playing vintage games from the 80s and 90s, etc.

There's vintage clothing, vintage automobiles, vintage art, and then there are modern versions that emulate the style, and those things are "retro".

It's a hopeless battle, and I'm only bringing it up because I thought it was extra funny that we have an example of something that's truly retro, and you are saying, "Well, it's not really retro, but maybe retro adjacent?" When it's literally retro! 🤣

I just have to laugh, it's funny. Here's a helpful table:

Industry Vintage Retro
Clothing 1970s jeans Any modern bell bottom jeans
Automobiles A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air A PT Cruiser
Guitars A 1973 Fender Stratocaster A Fender Vintera II
Electronics A 1950s radio A bluetooth speaker designed to look like one
Video Games (wrong) NES Super Mario Bros.
Video Games (right) NES Super Mario Bros. Shovel Knight or Sea of Stars
[-] Quibblekrust 9 points 1 day ago

It's so cheap and so portable. It doesn't really compete with the Steam Deck. You can take it places you would never take a Steam Deck.

[-] Quibblekrust 5 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: your "fun fact" is a myth. Artificial banana flavor is not "based off Gros Michael". The flavoring is not some sort of recipe that was based off of anything. It's a single chemical found in all bananas. It's a coincidence that Gros Michael tastes more like fake banana flavoring than other bananas, but all bananas contain that same ester: isoamyl acetate. It's just that Gros Michael has more of it.

However, if you dig in to this tale a little it soon becomes clear that there is little or no verifiable source that artificial banana is based on Gros Michel. “It sounds very, very unlikely to me,” says synthetic organic chemist Derek Lowe.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140829-the-secrets-of-fake-flavours

So please stop repeating this myth.

In addition, you're completely wrong about artificial vanilla flavor. It is the exact ester found in real vanilla, and it is by far the most dominant flavor in real vanilla. It tastes exactly like vanilla minus a few extra subtle notes.

[-] Quibblekrust 3 points 5 days ago

Ain't nobody got time for that.

[-] Quibblekrust 5 points 5 days ago

Then I guess the meme is right. That's all I was saying.

[-] Quibblekrust 2 points 5 days ago

Only 100? That's like 20 ISOs.

[-] Quibblekrust 4 points 5 days ago

"Into the breach!"

[-] Quibblekrust 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You have to keep an eye on the docs? WTF? I just want to use my PC, not constantly watch out for impending doom from running an update on the wrong day.

[-] Quibblekrust 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

God that article is annoying to read.

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submitted 1 month ago by Quibblekrust to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

I definitely have it saved. See screenshot. But it never auto-fills. What's the deal?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Quibblekrust to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Update: Turns out this is caused by viewing a large image and then zooming in. At a certain zoom level the app goes into fullscreen, hiding the navigation buttons and top bar. It then never exits this mode until you quit the app.

v0.9.0-3 Pixel 7 Pro Android 16

[I edited my screenshot to add the border and the word "SCREENSHOT" because the full size preview was making it very confusing to view the post in the app. 😅]

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submitted 2 months ago by Quibblekrust to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

Like, I don't want to hear about the Steam Machine's price, registration date, or launch date 8 hours after the news comes out. I want to hear about it instantly! I want to be woken up. I want an Android App that subscribes to a webhook, runs in the background, and sounds an alarm when there's news. You know, like an Amber Alert but for Steam hardware.

Any of you nerds want to help design this?

I'm imagining not just the API, but also a front-end website where trusted users (admins and volunteers) can ring the bell when real news comes out by posting a link. Whether it's an announcement about the price, or even an announcement that that announcement will be soon. Any real news from Valve.

Yes, I'm stoned, but my idea is brilliant nonetheless! This is totally worth the effort. If no one wants to help, maybe I'll vibe code it. I know Lemmy loves that!

For real, though, are there any existing services I could use besides opening Lemmy every hour?

[-] Quibblekrust 162 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use "Tyranasaurus" and "tiramisu" pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.

That's my hypothesis.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Update: It's caused by the "Show Text Post Indicator" setting being on in Compact mode.

Version v0.9.0-1

I forgot I installed Thunder via Obtanium, so I get very quick updates. I guess I shouldn't be surprised no one else has seen it. It also turns out it's caused by a non-default setting.


Is this happening to anyone else? It started after an update.

I already submitted it to GitHub: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/2070

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/linux@programming.dev

UPDATE

It turns out I didn't lose all logins in Firefox, just a couple of major ones. It was very surprising. And this was after losing all in LibreWolf, so I thought it was all in Firefox, too. My bad.

As pointed out in the comments, LibreWolf is basically "Private Browsing Mode" by default. I did not know that. I turned that off, re-copied my profile, and I'm good to go.

Original Post

I just installed Librewolf (Flatpak) the other day, here's the sequence of events:

  1. Install Librewolf
  2. Run it once and close it.
  3. Copy the contents of my profile folder from Firefox to my new profile folder in Librewolf after deleting its default contents.
  4. Run Liberwolf and see that everything is good: bookmarks, logins, extensions, etc.

The next day I run Liberwolf and notice I'm logged out of every website that I normally keep logged in. I figured I probably failed to change some default privacy setting in the new browser and it wiped my logins.

So I open Firefox and I'm logged out of every website there, too! I still have all my bookmarks and such, so I know I didnt move my profile contents by accident.

What in the world happened? Why did I suddenly get logged out of everything in both browsers?

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with btrfs.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Version v0.8.1. Android 16. Pixel 7 Pro.

After scrolling a couple pages (endless scrolling is on) I start seeing "Instance of 'LemmyApiException'". Once it starts, the tiniest amount of scrolling—even upwards—causes the error. I can make a bunch of rapid, itty bitty scrolls, and each one will hide and reshow the error.

What is Thunder doing with the API on every single scroll? Even up? Makes no sense.

I don't have "mark read on scroll" enabled, or anything odd. I haven't changed any settings in weeks, and this started happening just a few days ago. It might only be happening on my home instance. I could test with an alt.

Update: I can't reproduce this using a lemmy.world account

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

By viewing this post you are infected, and all future clocks you attempt to make will fail to render, too.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

Update: It's worse than I thought. It's crashing my VPN! I use the Mullvad VPN app. After that crashes, Thunder crashes. This happens every time.


First, it slows way down and stutters a bit, then turns all black and crashes to my home screen.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Android 16. Pixel 7 Pro.

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submitted 10 months ago by Quibblekrust to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

If not, can you please add a setting to disable it? It's just not for me. At best it's a distraction while I wait for the image to load. At worst, it blocks part of the image.

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submitted 10 months ago by Quibblekrust to c/wholesome@reddthat.com
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submitted 10 months ago by Quibblekrust to c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Quibblekrust to c/signal@lemmy.ml

Android 16, Pixel 7 Pro. My Signal data was getting too bloated, so I backed it up, moved the backup to PC, and verified that signalbackup-tools can decrypt and extract the backup. Cool. Now I want to wipe the data in the app while not losing any settings or contacts or anything.

In the app, I went to Settings > Manage storage > Delete message history. It pops up two separate confirmations, and I hit "Yes" to both. After waiting a bit each time, I did this three time. It hasn't gone well.

  • Signal storage settings still says it's using almost 9 GB of data.
  • However, Android says Signal is using just 154 MB of user data.
  • All of my conversations and messages are still in Signal, but the media in each conversation shows a broken icon.
  • The "Review storage" screen in Signal still shows tons of media with thumbnails, but none open. Tapping on one just shows a blank camera roll and black space.

So, I went to "Review storage" and it let me do a select all and delete, saying, "Are you sure you want to do this? This will delete 9 GB of messages". I said yes, and it's still going. I hope this will at least delete the ghost media.

I suppose I could set a message duration in settings and let old chats expire, though I'm not really against keep the text messages. It was just years of cat photos and videos taking up way too much space.

But why isn't this feature working?

Update:

My phone screen turned off and when I re-opened it, the progress spinner on the delete progress is frozen. I can't cancel or anything. I can give it more time, and force close the app if I have to, but it's not looking good.

Update 2

I swiped the app away from the app switcher, and I was able to open it again and see conversations and such. When I opened settings, it showed that it was using 4.7 GB, and when i closed and reopened settings, it was s tiny bit smaller. Sure enough, after waiting a full hour, it now says it's only using 67 MB of storage, and all the thumbnails are gone from the media list. So... success?

I still have years worth of plain text messages, and I guess I don't mind that.

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