bruce965

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Personally, I've been sharing this folder across different installations for years, even between different operating systems. I've never had any major issues so far.

The only minor annoyance is that whenever I switch between Windows and Linux I have to restart the browser once, otherwise extensions do not load on the first run.

So yeah, I would say diy-syncing this profile folder is feasible and very reliable. Same thing is true for Thunderbird, but I've been doing it for less time. And I would assume the same thing is also true for Chromium-based browsers because I do it with Signal which is Electron-based.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"This video is unavailable" for me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most likely Dark Reader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There is a keyboard shortcut. It's CTRL+ALT+Z for me. Unless you mean something else?

As for the "reveal on hover", iirc there was a dismissable message that said it is coming soon.

If I can share my opinion, they are more than big enough if you toggle the checkbox "optimize for touch screen". I would have to try Arc or Zen again to understand what you mean.

The only complaint I have is that I need to hover (or expand) to see the title. It becomes annoying when I'm reading documentation and I end up with multiple tabs with the same icon.

EDIT: I can't seem to find the "optimize for touch screen" checkbox anymore, but I'm sure there is something like that somewhere because I enabled it on one of my devices which has a touch screen.

EDIT 2: the "optimize for touch screen" option can be seen by right clicking the toolbar and choosing "Customize toolbar". Changing the density to "Touch" (on the bottom) makes these icons bigger.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I've started using vertical tabs in Firefox as soon as I got the notification. I never thought I would have liked them so much.

Why are you asking for decent vertical tabs? Are they inferior to some other browser you have in mind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am a novice, so if someone else is going to give different advice, consider disregarding mine.

If you want precise collisions you could manually add 2D Areas and align them with your map. Otherwise if you are happy enough with an approximation you could add a tilemap (collision only, no sprites) and use a different tile for each region.

I would go for the first option, considering that you don't have too many regions. You don't need any external program, as far as I remember, you can create polygonal shapes directly in Godot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think so, but only on some devices. As far as I understand, you can only play in high resolution on devices which support stronger hardware DRM. On those devices recording the screen might be harder/impossible.

I never tested this theory though, so please do not quote me on this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Amazon Prime, like Netflix, unlike YouTube (for now), uses DRM to protect videos. It would be very difficult to download them, and yt-dlp definitely doesn't even try to bypass DRM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I agree with you, but I would say you can't assume everyone has the same goals. I can tell you, my Nintendo friends are not idiots nor mindless zombies. They simply are not interested in learning about how the other options work, and I would say that's totally fair.

I have a dear friend who has most of his games on Steam, but still, he told me he prefers the Switch. "Why?" I asked him. "Because Nintendo makes exactly the kind of games I want to play, and because unlike with the PC, I can just pick up my Switch and start playing" he answered.

I have a ROG Ally with Bazzite (so, basically equivalent to a Steam Deck) and I have to admit that, while 90% of the time every game works out of the box, sometimes some games misbehave. Although, to be fair, this only happened to me with Epic Games games ran through Heroic.

I would say it's totally fair to prefer Nintendo. It gives you great games that don't require tinkering. If that's what you want, then Nintendo is a great option for you.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I don't think that will happen. I share your vision, but that's not how "Nintendo people" reason.

I have a few Nintendo friends and all of them share two reasons for going Nintendo:

  1. Great games
  2. No tinkering
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I have to admit that I didn't really think about reminders. That would perhaps make more sense for Simple Calendar, perhaps in the future I might consider linking notes and reminders. Or maybe it would make sense to implement it directly in Simple Notes? I don't know, I'll keep that in mind for later, thanks!

the number of clicks/menus/presses it takes to create a note

I strongly agree on that. It must be at most as many clicks as on Google Keep, i.e. two clicks (plus a few to open the app).

import existing Keep notes from a Google Takeout into your Simple Notes

I didn't think about that. That shouldn't be too hard. After the MVP (minimum viable product) will be ready, imports from various common formats should be implemented, and I guess Google Takeout for Google Keep should be supported too.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Okay, I get it now :P

DXVK was born from a Nier Automata player Linux enthusiast? That's cool! I never checked, I assumed it was build by some big company like Valve or something. Kudos to Philip Rebohle!

 

Hi! I'm a software developer working on a suite of collaborative self-hostable apps to replace proprietary services I couldn't find a good replacement for.

I am writing this post to seek opinions and ideas now that I am still in the early prototyping phase, before it's too late to change track.

My idea is to develop a collection of simple single-purpose apps that do one and only one thing. The first app will be called Simple Notes (mirror), a replacement for Google Keep. Every operation is encrypted locally on the client, and the server never sees plaintext data. I am investigating federations models to let users connect to other instances and work collaboratively, much like Lemmy.

So, my goals in order of priority are:

  • No compromises on privacy and security
  • Completely FOSS
  • Real-time collaboration between users
  • Asynchronous collaboration (work offline, sync when back online)
  • One account to operate on all apps in this suite
  • Web UI / desktop UI / mobile UI
  • Minimal interface which my grandma can use, no feature-bloat
  • No anti-features such as advertisements, tracking, etc...
  • Self-hosting
  • Federation

After Simple Notes, I plan to keep developing other simple apps, some ideas on my list:

  • Simple Notes - Replacement for Google Keep
  • Simple Split - Replacement for SplitWise
  • Simple Chat - Replacement for WhatsApp/Slack/Meet/Teams
  • Simple Docs - Replacement for Google Docs
  • Simple Draw - Collaborative drawing app
  • Simple Calendar - Replacement for Google Calendar
  • Simple Contacts - Replacement for Google Contacts (suggested by @[email protected])

Initially I started writing my own protocol (mirror), operating quite differently from Lemmy's, but then I realized that someone else already has developed a protocol for this purpose: Matrix. It is (optionally) E2EE, it's FOSS, and it's federated. So yeah, it sounds like the perfect choice to me. Also, if I pick Matrix, Simple Chat will just be a reskin of Element, so development cost is almost zero.

So, a questions for the developers on the Lemmy Selfhosted community: do you think piggybacking the Matrix protocol would be a good choice? Do you know any alternative that might be more suited for this purpose?

And a question for all Lemmy Selfhosted users: is there a simple app that you would like me to add to the list?

Bonus question: do you know of any Lemmy community where I could repost?

Thank you very much for the time you spent reading my post!

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Link to source code on my server and GitHub mirror.

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EDIT: I might have been a bit unclear on my objective. My intention is not to just build a replacement for Google Keep, that's just the first step of the idea I had. My objective is to build a template from which it should be possible to build all sorts of apps to collaboratively work on documents of various types. Simple Notes (Google Keep) would be for text documents, Simple Split (SplitWise) for expenses (because a list of expenses is a document after all), Simple Chat (WhatsApp) for chats (oh yes, I would say that a list of messages is also just a document), Simple Docs (Google Docs) for... well... text documents, Simple Draw for canvas documents, and finally Simple Calendar (Google Calendar) for a calendar (which, why not, is also document!).

So yeah, I don't want to just find/build an alternative for Google Keep, I want to find/build a tool to build all sort of simple collaborative apps on top of.

What I am looking for is not the recommendation of an app to simply replace Google Keep, I am looking for a template or even just a protocol on top of which it's possible to build collaborative document-editing apps.

 

Yesterday, Spacemesh started circulating. Do you know about it? What do you think about it?

I have written this brief blog post to explain how it is different from other mainstream cryptos. Let me know if you have any questions.

(Also, this is my first post on Lemmy!)

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