I have been looking for a sudoku app which allows me to use different symbols rather than numbers because sometimes the numbers themselves confuse me, so using random symbols helps to keep them arbitrary. After years of waiting I submitted a feature request for Open Sudoku and a couple of weeks later it was implemented. Years of waiting, a few weeks waiting after asking, just amazing. Open Source software is definitely the future, and the communities around Open Source project, while a little variable, are absolutely outstanding.
Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it’s preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.
Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I’m sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations’ drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There’s a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.
Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven’t been looking. We’ve lived through the middle of something incredible. I’m sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn’t thinking, they’re going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.
That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.
Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.
It’s hard to even convey how very true this is.
Basically all of network infrastructure depends on open libraries. All of the most widely used cryptography standards are open source. There was a period when basically every server on the internet was an Ubuntu/Apache stack. The Internet Protocol itself is open, and would not function otherwise.
Open source is the Internet. The Internet is open source.
Could not agree more. Fuck AI.
I’ve seen open source software devs fix niche little bugs I reported within hours of reporting it. Feels good.
How do you use the symbols?
In the settings you can change which symbol set is in use. For example you can use Japanese kanji numbers replacing the Roman numerals. The numerals at the bottom of the screen on the keypad also change to match, so you just press the corresponding button. You can also use a few others and it is a really nice if niche feature.
Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. 👍
Not that nieche, I bet a lot of people wanted it. Kinda surprised it took til v12
I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.
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Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it’s huge?
Boy have I got good news for you…
90% Chance that person knows that already
… that’s the joke.
In case you don’t know, KDE does that
And if you want your cursor to just go where you put it, stay there, and not be so damn extra… XFCE does that.
Those who do not learn from Comet Cursor are doomed to repeat it.
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that’s the fun part, kde does that too! its never in the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEAUCtlSBjE somebody postes this here months ago
I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them 😏
Them?
M’theydy
On cachyOS, it has this feature but there is no upper bound to how much it increases. So if you just keep shaking it, it grows to fill the entire screen. Lol
I just installed Fedora Linux on my old Winblows Surface 3 tablet. It does this, and it’s pretty fun to mess with.
My MacBook does this as well
Some know the OP is into GitLab more than GitHub ^^
At this point I should just set invent.kde.org as my new tab page.
Starting at a new company that uses Gitlab instead of Github was a culture shock for sure. I still slip up and say PR sometimes instead of MR
Sync for Lemmy will be fixed any day now…
When you have submitted multiple PRs and they get ignored even though you follow their ridiculously complicated CI and testing guidelines, so you just fork the repo and do whatever you want. (And then hope things don’t break a year from now because you aren’t pulling any new features and fixes.)
I wish I had the drive to learn to really program instead of just small scripts and BS, but im sure I’d just spend all my time keeping up with the code base and trying to follow guidelines that I’d add nothing to the project.
Factorio allows you to transfer items between space stations now.
IDK if that’s the kind of thing the post is about, and there has certainly not been 5 years. Also, no time for Yay!, because I’m busy designing some space platform fabric…
I can remember back when that one feature I waited for was a functioning DX11 driver like the box fucking said. Fucking AMD…
What feature are you waiting for? 🙂
I’m waiting for Linux 7.4 to drop so I can have non-Steam games working with my Switch 2 Pro Controller out of the box.
I would recommend the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless. I’m using that as my main, for Rocket League and other games. Works great. Cheaper and better than Xbox controllers, PS controllers, even Nintendo’s ones. I think I paid around $40–50 for it. Much, much better quality than my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which was almost $200 and now barely works.
I doubt there is a better deal at present than the Gamesir Nova Lite, but Gamesir keeps undercutting themself.
https://gamesir.com/products/gamesir-nova-lite
Dual hall effect sticks (no dead zone, that’s right, zero dead zone), wireless USB, bluetooth, and wired functionality for $25. That’s $5 less than the MSRP on the Logitech F710.
The 8BitDo has TMR sticks and Hall effect triggers though, which is even better. Worth the extra money IMO, but of course opinion based.
Typeahead in Nautilus
Did that go away at some point? I thought we had that since forever?
It got replaced with a search function. It searches as you type and filters your view as it finds things. Typeahead just jumps to to first file that matches your input.
Ah. I had to do some deep reading to find that this can sometimes be called typeahead search. 😅 I get you. Myeah. One of the reasons why I like to just use the terminal, or terminal file browsers like yazi.
krille-chan still refusing to review my room order and subspace categorization feature request for FluffyChat even though I’ve already created a mockup by directly forking and modifying the source code (twice):
You can now toggle file extension exports to either be uppercase or lowercase
This tickles the 'tism.
I completely get this. You check it so often that you start to recognize the usual reviewers and the little back-and-forth, and then one day that small feature you have been hoping for finally lands. It is funny how satisfying something so specific can feel after waiting that long.
GTA5 finally added the ability to make your own missions not too long ago, but only after I stopped giving a shit about playing the game.
Then the project gets archived 6 months later and nobody forks it…
Reminds me of that screenshot where some chronic gooner asked the Cyberpunk devs way before release what kind of sex den simulation would be available.
