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heythatsprettygood feddit.uk heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk
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When that one piece of software finally implements that niche feature you have wanted for the past 5 years (picture below of four guys on a sofa celebrating and pointing towards a screen outside of the image)
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Artwork lemmy.world artwork@lemmy.world
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Some know the OP is into GitLab more than GitHub ^^

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heythatsprettygood feddit.uk heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-06-14
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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.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
#4 · Quote Reply

What feature are you waiting for? ๐Ÿ™‚

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heythatsprettygood feddit.uk heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-06-14
#5 · Quote Reply

What feature are you waiting for? ๐Ÿ™‚

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.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#6 · Quote Reply

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 donโ€™t break a year from now because you arenโ€™t pulling any new features and fixes.)

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marcos lemmy.world marcos@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#7 · Quote Reply

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...

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Lumidaub feddit.org Lumidaub@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-11-21
#8 · Quote Reply

When Krita overhauled the text tool (โ โ˜†โ โ–ฝโ โ˜†โ )

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LillyPip lemmy.ca LillyPip@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-08
#9 · Quote Reply

โ€˜that niche featureโ€™ being basic security.

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BaroqueInMind piefed.social BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-04
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The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?

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Hylactor sopuli.xyz Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-02
#11 · Quote Reply

I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.

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the_grass_trainer lemmy.world the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-22
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I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.

I just installed Fedora Linux on my old Winblows Surface 3 tablet. It does this, and it's pretty fun to mess with.

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Midnight Wolf lemmy.world wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-23
#13 · Quote Reply

I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.

I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them ๐Ÿ˜

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Midnight Wolf lemmy.world wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-23
#14 · Quote Reply

Then the project gets archived 6 months later and nobody forks it...

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rowinxavier lemmy.world rowinxavier@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
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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.

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PixeIOrange lemmy.world PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Yeeees luanti now has controller support so i can play with my phone and a clip on controller ๐Ÿ˜

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
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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 $40โ€“50 for it. Much, much better quality than my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which was almost $200 and now barely works.

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Reality feddit.org Reality@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-06-25
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The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?

It's awesome and Lemmy is wrong to hate and denounce the genuinely good outputs of frontier models. There is enough wrong with LLMs and the companies behind them that is fair to criticise. Lemmy puts human made code on a pedestal, but look at the certificate and php stuff this week, all human errors..

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Zombie feddit.uk Zombie@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-06-01
#19 · Quote Reply

The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?

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whaleross lemmy.world whaleross@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
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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.

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baldingpudenda lemmy.world baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#21 · Quote Reply

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 donโ€™t break a year from now because you arenโ€™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.

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BaroqueInMind piefed.social BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-04
#22 · Quote Reply

It's awesome and Lemmy is wrong to hate and denounce the genuinely good outputs of frontier models. There is enough wrong with LLMs and the companies behind them that is fair to criticise. Lemmy puts human made code on a pedestal, but look at the certificate and php stuff this week, all human errors..

Look, I agree with you. However, most people here don't, and I'm not sure why.

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Funkt4st1c lemmy.world Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-30
#23 · Quote Reply

I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.

I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it

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Ganbat lemmy.dbzer0.com Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-09-21
#24 · Quote Reply

I can remember back when that one feature I waited for was a functioning DX11 driver like the box fucking said. Fucking AMD...

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the_grass_trainer lemmy.world the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-22
#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

I'm still salty about Affinity being bought by Canva and THAT'S the version that has image trace built-in ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Mongostein lemmy.ca Mongostein@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-14
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. ๐Ÿ‘

Not that nieche, I bet a lot of people wanted it. Kinda surprised it took til v12

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OctopusNemeses lemmy.world OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-24
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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 Sour...

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.

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Zink programming.dev Zink@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-08-08
#28 · Quote Reply

I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it

Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it's huge?

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DeadPixel lemmy.zip DeadPixel@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-10
#29 · Quote Reply

I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them ๐Ÿ˜

Them?

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NaibofTabr infosec.pub NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-18
#30 · Quote Reply

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 ...

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.

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Yakuza_Wolf_ReRise thelemmy.club Yakuza_Wolf_ReRise@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-07-25
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Once GBO2 dies, I'm gonna to jailbreak my PS5

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psycotica0 lemmy.ca psycotica0@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-15
#32 · Quote Reply

Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. ๐Ÿ‘ Not that nieche, I bet a lot of people wanted it. Kinda surprised it took til v12

Huh, this is something I have never thought of, and I'm not really sure what it's for... but it sounds like the idea is that you say upfront "play me the next 3 episodes of this show", and then it plays 3 automatically, and after the third takes you back to the menu? Fascinating.

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x0x7 lemmy.world x0x7@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-06
#33 · Quote Reply

Await in default values when? Auto await on use variables when? Pattern matching in JS when?

That last one is coming and I'm excited.

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Apytele sh.itjust.works Apytele@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Huh, this is something I have never thought of, and I'm not really sure what it's for... but it sounds like the idea is that you say upfront "play me the next 3 episodes of this show", and then it plays 3 automatically, and after the third takes you back to the menu? Fascinating.

It's for people who use TV or spoken audio (podcast / radio show) as an environmental sleep aid / sleep cue. Electronics in general are suboptimal options for this but it's a common one that works well enough for some people.

They're falling asleep to it, but they're usually still kinda paying attention to the chronological plot, so they want it to keep their place just after they slip into unconsciousness so they can just rewind 30-60min and keep watching from where they were instead of waking up 8 hours and a full season into the show later.

Also some similar utility for people watching TV while doing chores who are just gonna kind of wander off near the end.

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Girl Named ZERO piefed.zeromedia.vip girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip
Joined: 2026-07-29
#35 · Quote Reply

Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it's huge?

In case you donโ€™t know, KDE does that

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jballs sh.itjust.works jballs@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
#36 · Quote Reply

Sync for Lemmy will be fixed any day now...

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Spezi feddit.org Spezi@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
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Sync for Lemmy will be fixed any day now...

I can fix her

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darkreader2636 lemmy.zip darkreader2636@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-01
#38 · Quote Reply

I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEAUCtlSBjE somebody postes this here months ago

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NewNewAccount lemmy.world NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#39 · Quote Reply

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 Sour...

How do you use the symbols?

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NorthWestWind lemmy.zip NorthWestWind@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-04-09
#40 · Quote Reply

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):

https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/issues/1326

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___qwertz___ feddit.org ___qwertz___@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
#41 · (edited) Quote Reply

What feature are you waiting for? ๐Ÿ™‚

KeepassXC autotype on wayland.

Just a few more years....

Edit: Holy shit nvm, literally release 2 days ago. I am happy.

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Reality feddit.org Reality@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-06-25
#42 · Quote Reply

Look, I agree with you. However, most people here don't, and I'm not sure why.

It's because Lemmy is full of communists and furry artists that fear for their livelihood. They imagine human code as something divine, when in reality it's cobol code that can't even get leap year calculation right. And didn't for 5 decades.

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nightlily leminal.space nightlily@leminal.space
Joined: 2024-08-08
#43 · Quote Reply

The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?

Canโ€™t you ghouls just leave it alone for 5 minutes without making everyone miserable?

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ImgurRefugee114 reddthat.com ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
Joined: 2025-08-26
#44 · Quote Reply

Them?

M'theydy

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
#45 · Quote Reply

KeepassXC autotype on wayland. Just a few more years.... Edit: Holy shit nvm, literally release 2 days ago. I am happy.

That would be aight!

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cepelinas sopuli.xyz cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-01-14
#46 · Quote Reply

It's because Lemmy is full of communists and furry artists that fear for their livelihood. They imagine human code as something divine, when in reality it's cobol code that can't even get leap year calculation right. And didn't for 5 decades.

I mean the first part is true for some but not all, but maybe after you experience memory leaks that slow your pc down to a crawl so slow that you can't even close it, maybe then you will realize that ai is just autocorrect on steroids.

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InFerNo lemmy.ml InFerNo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-07
#47 · Quote Reply

What feature are you waiting for? ๐Ÿ™‚

Typeahead in Nautilus

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
#48 · Quote Reply

Typeahead in Nautilus

Did that go away at some point? I thought we had that since forever?

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Reality feddit.org Reality@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-06-25
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I mean the first part is true for some but not all, but maybe after you experience memory leaks that slow your pc down to a crawl so slow that you can't even close it, maybe then you will realize that ai is just autocorrect on steroids.

Maybe I actually use that shit for actual work and it works for me. Again, complain about ecological impact and copyright, but don't start a holy war about a tool..

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BillionaireStew lemmy.world BillionaireStew@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-19
#50 · (edited) Quote Reply

Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it's huge?

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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BillionaireStew lemmy.world BillionaireStew@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-19
#51 · (edited) Quote Reply

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 $40โ€“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.

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