half to most of these aren’t even youtube alternatives, as far as i can guess they’re just video hosting for that specific site and its content
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rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•What happens if you have more than 1 free accounts on privacy-respecting email providers such as Protonmail or Tutanota?4·1 month agoidk if i would inherently say that, but the CEO does have some worms in his brain so there’s that.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia105·7 months agoRemoved by mod
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?7·1 year agowas too incompetent to install arch one time so i used archinstaller and created a separate home partition. couple years later that root partiton’s close to filled up, and i do an update after deleting come programs to free up space. then some weird text appeaerrs in terminal, and so i try to update again (this time specifically wine), says loads of files already exist in filesystem. i think “this is weird”, so i restart.
what instantly gets my attention is this text greeting me on boot
loading Linux linux… error: file ‘/vmlinuz-linux’ not found. Loading initial ramdisk… error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue.
yup, i just borked my install, so i hastily whipped out an outdated arch USB, updated it using a spare laptop and am now on a reinstall (luckily i keep the important files on a separate drive, so not all is lost). extra insult to injury was that my previous install had my drive LUKS encrypted, so i couldn’t evne get in there to possibly backup anything if i tried lol. but it’s feels refreshing starting anew though.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself13·1 year agoglad i got off of windows 10 before windows got worse. now i’m just sitting here laughing but also disappointed that people have to put up with let alone use this shit because it’s the mainstream os
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•This is why we need to fight for Ad-blocks harder than ever.7·2 years agoThe biggest punchline of all of this is that our tax dollars are paying for this propaganda. Not in my name.
ahh, the sponsor from LTT that mined your PC while at idle :)
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc6·2 years agoAnd when they laid off their QA team with the testing lab of thousands of unique computers, they replaced it with VMs and AI. Because VMs are a totally good way to troubleshoot very specific bugs. The AI part is used to supposedly figure out when you’re “idle” so what Windows can update.
Imagine needing AI to update a computer lmao
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games8·2 years agoYeah I think they do that for movies as well. If directors want the real thing (because who doesn’t like practical effects and having the real thing in shot?), they’ll have to contact the DoD.
The DoD reviews the script for the movie, and they just water it down to absolute propaganda (they even say it out loud, they don’t hide it). US is always good, enemy always bad, US wins and saves the day. If there’s any criticism of the army, it’s usually brief and with a very weak point.
Full Metal Jacket isn’t approved by the DoD. Says everything you need to know about the, imo.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games42·2 years agoI heard in the campaign for the COD MW (2019), the devs put the Highway of Death in the game (which is an American war crime) but in the story they depicted it as something Russia did. This obviously sparked some outrage, as people read this as the game dismissing American war crimes.
Seems pretty deceptive to me.
If there’s other games (and maybe some probably much to the equivalent of America’s Army to Russia) that water down Russian war crimes, then that’s just as deceptive.
I think all propaganda is equally bad. Putting certain ones on pedestals because “At least it isn’t XYZ” doesn’t jive with me, and it distracts from the real issue.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games31·2 years agoYeah i head about that. America’s Army or smth like that. Heard it got cut and i think some players said that the game was actually kinda good lol.
Was never really interested in it tbh, seemed generic af.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games11·2 years agoVery surprising that a local channel of a video game celebrates holidays/certain events of that particular nation in the game. Truly shocking!
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•There's one thing keeping me from switching to Linux on my PC, it is the lack of support from FL Studio and a lot of VST plugins for music creation. (My experience using Wine has not been very good.)2·2 years agoye this is weird. do you have any other wine packages installed (like mono, gecko, and corefonts?) i remember installing them (and i think .net framework and visual c++ as well) before installing FL Studio.
if all that fails then idk, i’m just as stumped as you. wine can be a bit hit or miss, especially on certain setups.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•There's one thing keeping me from switching to Linux on my PC, it is the lack of support from FL Studio and a lot of VST plugins for music creation. (My experience using Wine has not been very good.)3·2 years agoWow, those are some pretty glaring issues. Have you checked your winecfg? I have mine on Windows 10 (and probably make sure yours is too. If it’s on XP, change it to 10). What WINE version are you running? (i’m on 8.13)
If that doesn’t fix it then i’m kinda stumped.
Heard certain Nvidia cards can cause issues (i’m on an AMD rx570). Don’t know if it could be related but ye those are quite the rendering issues.
rolandtb303@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•There's one thing keeping me from switching to Linux on my PC, it is the lack of support from FL Studio and a lot of VST plugins for music creation. (My experience using Wine has not been very good.)2·2 years agoI use FL Studio on Arch with mostly VST2 plugins and it runs pretty well. Only thing that is a little gripe is VST3 plugins (the GUI doesn’t update when you’re tweaking parameters). Generally VST plugins in FL Studio work pretty well for me.
I use free plugins which either come in a zip file or an .msi installer. There were some plugins which required a “Software Center” program to install, and yes, those are very tedious (I’d say even on windows). Truly hate those things.
I’ve had a couple plugins which have had certain GUI elements missing, but that’s the only extent. (one example is a spring reverb plugin which doesn’t render the knobs, but thankfully they have a shadow so i can still figure out where they are).
What sort of plugins are you using? Certain copy protection might be a bit harder to run on WINE than others. (Especially iLok, that thing seems like a pain).
he be sounding like a paranoid government leader fr lmao. i always love seeing brave simps seethe
Braveophobes lmao you sound like a paranoid government leader
the reason why people dislike huge margins and rounded corners is because they grew up in the oldschool era of computing (say from late 90s to maybe early-late 2000s). UI back then was designed to be relatively compact and be readable, everything useful is at a glance and it’s primarily designed for a keyboard and mouse, so if ther’s any margins it’s bound to be at least a couple to few pixels at most.
this kinda clashes with the more modern age where designs are a bit more simplified and spaced out (i guess inspiration came from mobile phone design, idk), and text is mostly discarded for more visual design, which if you know what the icons look like it can be a bit more simplistic, but when in 115 there’s a small little cloud with an arrow as the get messages button, yeah it’s a bit abstract (and now a bit harder to get to that button), meanwhile the new message button is more or less in the spotlight. it’s inconsistent imo.
i think it would have been more successful if they stuck to the pre-115 design but just touched it up a bit, maybe get some more modern icons for it and make it feel a it more sleek but without changing the overall layout and design.
and rounded corners are a taste thing, some people might like very slightly rounded corners while very rounded corners just aren’t their thing. (i’m one of those people, i just like corners that are like 1-3px rounded, 10 to 20 and above is a bit excessive and i generally associate overly rounded corners with the likes of google and microsoft with their current products).
and this is coming from a gen X lol, i just grew up XP what can i say. although i do like flat design when it’s done well (discord gets it right, excluding some rebranding choices).
I think they’re referring to the how to make a tiktok style edit tutorial video on the Youtube he linked. It’s pretty good, ngl, although i’d much rather than fade out, overlay the alternative clips by a few frames, then fade out and in usinc either cubic out/cubic in, or a combination of exponential and cubic. Gives it a more seamless transition imo.