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Dirk

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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

🔗 Me, but elsewhere

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Dirk ,
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Sounds like you have an awesome dad!

how is a 36-year-old supposed to act?

How ever they want!

Dirk OP ,
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These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.

That’s my point. All of those stupid modern things do not solve my issue of just double-clicking a local ttf file in my file manager to see some text rendered in that font. That is literally all I want to do.

The fact that you’re asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK

I don’t really care what graphics toolkit is used. I just don’t want something that is heavily interconnected with any type of desktop environment due to not wanting to install a metric shit-ton of dependencies 😉

Dirk OP ,
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Ideally something that allows me to see the characters in a table, sorted by character blocks, like in the LibreOffice “Insert Special Characters” dialog, so that I’m not limited to some predefined text but being able to see all characters.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ac520811-b2ef-45aa-b7f8-1c9afe816df9.png

Dirk OP ,
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As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.

I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.

Dirk OP ,
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KCharSelect

It just installs kcharselect … and figuratively half of KDE :)

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7a05b421-8f69-40b6-b029-9dd029c499d0.png

There seems to be a Flatpak available I’ll check out later when I have time to install hundreds of megabyte of depending other KDE-specific Flatpaks …

Dirk OP ,
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Mmmh, nope, only the normal version available.

The Flatpak version (or KCharSelect in general) unfortunately ignores the font file given on command line.

Dirk OP ,
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So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in?

The ones specific to that DE, which I do not want.

Dirk OP ,
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I did, and I just don’t “feel it”. Those is all great software but none of them really fits my specific use case. They all seem to be deeply connected with desktop environments or being just plain old font managers.

My dream is something like an image viewer, but for fonts. A bit like display from ImageMagick does it, but more like this.

Dirk ,
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There is none. Mozilla has no support staff reachable by mail.

Dirk ,
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selfhost.eu offers dynamic DNS which works perfectly fine with my router, using their API access as documented by them. It also works perfectly well with Let’s Encrypt integrated in Nginx Proxy Manager.

  • can handle .at domains
  • is not Cloudflare
  • is registrar and name server
  • is European (Germany)
  • supports Nginx Proxy Manager

They’re in the market since 2001, I use them since ca. 2010 and never had any issues. Their website looks ancient, almost historic. But it’s functional.

Dirk ,
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Calories are not “a thing” but a measurement unit for energy. So yes. everything “has calories”.

Dirk ,
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But I’m not sure that all matter has energy.

It has. If it has mass, it has energy, that is a core principle of how matter is defined scientifically.

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Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy?

Calories are a very specific type of measuring energy, especially when used in the context of nutrition. When nutritionists say that water has 0 calories, they mean that water has no nutritional energy.

But when looking at it from a non-nutrition perspective water has calories.

When you say, “something has X calories”, it’s a shorthand of saying “something has an equivalent of X times the amount of energy that is needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C.”

From a physical point of view water ALWAYS has energy (that you can express in calories) because something with mass can never have no energy.

Dirk ,
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AI bro’s “won” again.

Dirk ,
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At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.

Dirk ,
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You can easily remap it to something useful.

Dirk ,
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My server's uptime is roughly the time between two kernel updates. On my desktop PC it's mostly 4-10 hours depending on what I do during the day.

Dirk ,
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Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍

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This excuse for an article is the hardest read for me since along time. I probably have an AI summarize it for me.

Dirk ,
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Someone else will continue selling RAM and making money.

Dirk ,
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TNG is also painfully old fashioned. Especially the fist two seasons are … hard to watch sometimes.

Honestly: I would start with VOY. It’s easy to watch, has a certain amount of action, and doesn’t lose it too much with society and politics.

Dirk ,
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8 GB of VRAM and 16 GB of RAM … those are the specs of my almost 15 years old legacy machine. I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

Dirk ,
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Yeah, I admit, it was quite expensive. I never updated one single bit of it, except switching to a 1080 one or two years after buying it, though.

Dirk ,
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In the whole ~30 years I’m using computers now I probably owned 2-3 computers in total. I wouldn’t say I’m wealthy or spend too much money on PCs, I just get the best hardware available and use it as long as possible.

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How generous of them that we’re allowed to install software on our mobile computers that we own.

Dirk ,
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Have we just become numb to ads?

Online I use multiple browser extensions and settings to avoid showing ads. In the offline world there is no way to avoid them but I think I pretty much can ignore them.

I also intentionally do not buy anything I remember seeing an ad for.

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They should make it a requestable permission.

Dirk ,
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Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.

Dirk ,
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The URLs mentioned in their blog article all have a wrong certificate (different host name).

I am sure if they fix it Google’s system would reclassify the sites as safe.

Dirk ,
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Please go see a doctor if you think you have skin cancer.

Dirk ,
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This is the only valid answer!

Dirk ,
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has led to a lot of the same moderation rot on Lemmy

Almost as if the platform wasn't the problem.

Dirk ,
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So, they gave in to the AI hype, too?

Dirk ,
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Next news: Quantic Dream lays off 50% of all staff due do bad sales of Spellcasters Chronicles. 🤣

Oh boy, when will they learn …

Dirk ,
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Users will be notified when they are included in a Pack.

Now I have to manually opt-out every time someone wants to share my handle with new users?

I wish it was the other way round.

Dirk ,
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Every time a pack is created.

Dirk ,
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I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.

It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.

Dirk ,
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  1. Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android?

No, but we have to approve it.

FTFY.

Dirk ,
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That’s mine.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d8ddbe87-b1dc-4d19-a4de-4bf807347daf.png

Stock kernel (only custom loader entries), using systemd-boot. No LTS kernel installed. I assume for LTS this will more or less double.

Dirk ,
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Don’t worry, it’s just fearmongering because the cannot fingerprint your browser and want you to turn of the privacy features.

Dirk ,
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That flexibility locks a few key features behind a paywall, including: …

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  • High-resolution monitoring: Connect a Sony Xperia phone to your camera with a USB Type-C cable to use the phone as an external display.
  • Snapshot: Save monitored footage as a snapshot along with shooting data.
  • Cropping and framing: Subscribers get up to 10 presets instead of just 2.
  • Multi-camera monitoring: Free and Basic (subscription) users can monitor up to 4 cameras, but you’ll need a Basic or Premium subscription (with support for up to 20 cameras) if you want to change settings on all cameras simultaneously.

Some users have reported that they can still sideload Sony’s older (and now discontinued) External Monitor app on the Xperia 1 VII and other phones in order to use their mobile phones as camera displays without paying for a subscription. But it’s unclear how long this will continue to work. And since Sony is no longer updating that application, users will miss out on any new features or bug fixes.

Dirk ,
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If you have money to spend, look for a Microsoft Surface. It’s amazing how good they work with Linux, despite being a Microsoft device designed to run Windows.

Their build quality is really good, too.

Dirk ,
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  • Mail with all the bells and whistles (been there, done that – but I just want this to work and not care about details).
  • Dynamic DNS because I just need to tell someone my non-static IP so they can connect that with my domain name.
Dirk ,
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    Dirk ,
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    I can’t go back to other browsers now, they’re all too cluttered

    Cluttered? What do you mean?

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/97d76b4a-e91e-4da4-87c8-22578b93e823.png

    Made the window smaller to not create a huge screenshot, but this is what my browser looks like.

    Anything more than that, and I would be really annoyed.

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    Navigation elements should not change their position or disappear.
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    Change my mind.

    Dirk ,
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    I am so glad that I’m using an adblocker that filters out 90% of the crap. The other 10% of the crap are killed by cookie whitelist and Javascript whitelist.