Zedstrian

joined 1 year ago
[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Can locales of languages with alternate spellings be added? (i.e. English - United States, English - United Kingdom, etc.)

 

As scrolling to the bottom of the page to leave a comment can be a hassle on posts with lots of existing comments, an option to put the thread comment box above existing comments would be helpful.

If people are going to migrate to Kbin or Lemmy from Reddit, given the substantial downsides in doing so for the average Reddit user when comparing community user counts, minimizing differences — or at least giving users the option to do so themselves — might be helpful. While I wouldn't rejoin Reddit even if there weren't any alternatives, it would certainly be great if the alternatives had even a tenth the number of active communities Reddit still has.

To that effect, it would also helpful if there were a toggle to automatically upvote one's own posts and comments.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Too many posts weren't federating with kbin so I had to make a lemmy account to avoid missing comments from non-kbin communities, so hopefully the federation issues get fixed at some point.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Liberapay doesn't appear to support PayPal, but Patreon does.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don't need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it's unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't the current TPB distinct from the original; made to look the same, but run by different people?

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While most space games admittedly only overlap somewhat in the context of space dogfight battles, from what I've read the player is able to fly the ship between planets, space stations, asteroid fields, etc? Bit too FPS-focused and not enough economic-focused for my liking in contrast to Freelancer, but the games seem to at least share that in common.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm always on the lookout for more games like Freelancer, but it seems like a bad sign if they don't want people seeing gameplay footage only two weeks from the game's release date...

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Problem with PBS is that each of their releases has an availability time limit, making finding their older content at optimal resolutions difficult.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Have you found a private tracker that works well for documentaries? I've tried TorrentLeech, FileList, MVGroup, and usenet so far, but my to-find list still has several releases I have yet to find in 1080p (despite most such documentaries having released since 2010). MVGroup is the best tracker for documentaries I've found so far, but they tend to upload lots of documentaries a tier below their optimal resolutions (ie 2160p documentaries in 1080p and 1080p documentaries in 720p).

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Given only 24Mbps of download speed split between everything in one household, keeping things likely to be rewatched backed up not only saves bandwidth, but also makes having a 4K TV somewhat worthwhile.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Having only 4 Mbps up and 24 Mbps down, without Freeleech building a buffer would have been impossible, particularly when competing to seed torrents with people with faster internet speeds. In the case of TorrentLeech, the best option is to invest ~2GB of your buffer into downloading and seeding 100 10MB+ torrents, giving you 4 TL points per hour. In combining the gradual point gain with the rewards of the easily attainable TL achievements, after a month you should be able to accumulate 5000 points, enough to purchase 100GB of additional buffer from the TL marketplace.

[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Had to use sudo to do it, but it worked. No message about permission issues appears when I try to save the changes to the Arguments tab anymore, but they still don't save when I reopen the permissions window either.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zedstrian@kbin.social to c/Steamdeck@kbin.social
 

As I'm not a fan of the new Steam UI, I added the -vgui launch parameter to Steam on my laptop to revert the UI to how it was before. As trying to do this on the Steam Deck in desktop mode told me I didn't have sufficient permissions, I tried it again after using Konsole to take ownership of the Steam shortcut, however even then my attempts to add -vgui to the Arguments tab of the shortcut's properties are not being saved. Does anyone know how to make Steam launch with the old UI in desktop mode on the Steam Deck (without using Windows)?

Edit: Figured out how to do it. If you open the Steam shortcut (.desktop file) on the desktop in KWrite and go to Line 30, you'll find the shortcut's launch parameters. Adding -vgui to the end of that line and saving the edit fixed the issue despite the same modification made via the Properties window not doing so. If it still doesn't save, you might need need to take ownership of that shortcut file via Konsole using 'sudo chown deck:deck /home/deck/Desktop/steam.desktop', though try without the sudo command first.

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