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

Could also be because AI slop is made by industrial plagiarism on a scale you likely fail to comprehend.

The equivalent of a joke thief's joke being funny when you do not know it is stolen and have not heard it told by the original comedian. "That Carlos Mencia is a genius. His domination of comedy is inevitable."

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

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 unc...

Wow, different worlds...

But I'm glad those people have a nice feature in Jellyfin now!

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

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.

Genuine queation: what? Ive never had an issue with my cursor being in the wrong place or not exactly where i want it?

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tmyakal infosec.pub tmyakal@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-06-04
#55 · Quote Reply

Wow, different worlds... But I'm glad those people have a nice feature in Jellyfin now!

My college roommate used to play Family Guy on his laptop all night to help him sleep. It meant that I didn't get any sleep that entire semester.

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

Wow, different worlds... But I'm glad those people have a nice feature in Jellyfin now!

For me it's an AuDHD thing that covers attention issues as well as sensory ones.

In my case, I don't listen to shows where I'd need this Jellyfin feature. It's usually videos of playthroughs or speedruns of old video games. It provides constant music while also having some progression to follow with the sound effects and changing tracks. So not unlike listening to a show in that sense.

Having something to pay attention to keeps my mind from racing and keeps me from worrying about whether I'm falling asleep fast enough.

And for whatever neurological reason, having constant sounds in my ears is soothing. In the same way quiet game sounds help me get to sleep, having some loud thrash metal in my ears helps me focus and get things done whether it's writing code or doing yard work.

My personal theory is that audio-based stimulus helps press the pause button on my non-stop internal dialogue.

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faintwhenfree lemmus.org faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
Joined: 2023-07-16
#57 · Quote Reply

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

I'm sure dev has abandoned it completely.

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flying_sheep lemmy.ml flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-09-09
#58 · (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

I implemented the โ€œframe seekโ€ functionality using the , and . keys a year back, was merged in v12. You're welcome.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/7315

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Apytele sh.itjust.works Apytele@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#59 · (edited) Quote Reply

Wow, different worlds... But I'm glad those people have a nice feature in Jellyfin now!

Night shift psych is kinda like specifically being a sleep specialist lol. My personal sleep cue is a raging thunderstorm. Honestly I wish I had more options for providing sleep ambiance to patients but the institutional setting is notoriously stingy. What I really wanna know is why men sleep with their hands in their pants / over their genitals. It doesn't read as arousal most of the time, so it must just be a regular comfort thing somehow.

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Test_Tickles lemmy.world Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#60 · Quote Reply

Night shift psych is kinda like specifically being a sleep specialist lol. My personal sleep cue is a raging thunderstorm. Honestly I wish I had more options for providing sleep ambiance to patients but the institutional setting is notoriously stingy. What I really wanna know is why men sleep with their hands in their pants / over their genitals. It doesn't read as arousal most of the time, so ...

Your post leaves me with a lot of questions. But as for the hand in pants thing, they probably had siblings or roommates at some point who thought it was funny to wake people up by tagging them in the balls.

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

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

What in the world are you on about?

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TigerAce lemmy.dbzer0.com TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-13
#62 · Quote Reply

Sounds nice, but most software devs I know implement subscription features and such while also forcing AI into it making the product shit and expensive.

The thing I really want is Directory Opus to make a Linux version but they told me "no there's not a big enough market for that". So far that program is the main reason why I'm still using shitty Windows and not Linux instead.

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ferdinand sopuli.xyz ferdinand@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2026-06-20
#63 · Quote Reply

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.

which DE is moving the cursor around without human input?

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WhyJiffie sh.itjust.works WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-11
#64 · Quote Reply

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.

that's the fun part, kde does that too! its never in the way

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

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.

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

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.

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WhyJiffie sh.itjust.works WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-11
#67 · 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..

this really reads like marketing speak

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

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. ๐Ÿ˜… I get you. Myeah. One of the reasons why I like to just use the terminal, or terminal file browsers like yazi.

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Rolivers discuss.tchncs.de Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-15
#69 · Quote Reply

FreeCAD development basically.

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QamarKb reddthat.com QamarKb@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-10-20
#70 · Quote Reply

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.

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Kalothar lemmy.ca Kalothar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-20
#71 · Quote Reply

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

My MacBook does this as well

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

this really reads like marketing speak

Idk, I've used it for a bunch of weekend projects and it works for me. It's like hating on hammers because you guys are all screwdriver elites. Everything is automatically slop if it's an LLM...

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

Could also be because AI slop is made by industrial plagiarism on a scale you likely fail to comprehend. The equivalent of a joke thief's joke being funny when you do not know it is stolen and have not heard it told by the original comedian. "That Carlos Mencia is a genius. His domination of comedy is inevitable."

I do comprehend it and the output in code is still good enough or better than human output, at least in some cases. As I said, there is plenty to critique, but output quality isn't anymore with code. Regarding art, I just don't care about it.

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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-11-13
#74 · Quote Reply

How do you use the symbols?

By hand.

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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-11-13
#75 · 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

Mac does it too, since quite some time. But only to like 5x the size.

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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-11-13
#76 · Quote Reply

What feature are you waiting for? ๐Ÿ™‚

Any good video player for xiaomi HyperOS (vlc cannot be switched away from and you don't have a "next" button, all others have different sync problems or cannot find files in hidden folders etc etc).

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

Any good video player for xiaomi HyperOS (vlc cannot be switched away from and you don't have a "next" button, all others have different sync problems or cannot find files in hidden folders etc etc).

Oof, sounds very annoying ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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RaccoonBall lemmy.ca RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-04
#78 · Quote Reply

Sounds nice, but most software devs I know implement subscription features and such while also forcing AI into it making the product shit and expensive. The thing I really want is Directory Opus to make a Linux version but they told me "no there's not a big enough market for that". So far that program is the main reason why I'm still using shitty Windows and not Linux instead.

Not sure why you'd want to run it on linux, but it seems like it works in wine. You could probably get it going with winboat too

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notabot piefed.social notabot@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
#79 · Quote Reply

Sounds nice, but most software devs I know implement subscription features and such while also forcing AI into it making the product shit and expensive. The thing I really want is Directory Opus to make a Linux version but they told me "no there's not a big enough market for that". So far that program is the main reason why I'm still using shitty Windows and not Linux instead.

Directory Opus looks like a file manager, so you might want to look at the options available on Linux. If you're not fixed on one desktop environment, it's worth checking several as they all have slightly different ideas. I can see Directory Opus has various other minor features, you'll find many if them already included in existing file managers, but if something's missing, you could request it, then you're in the position the meme talks about.

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driftwood lemmy.zip driftwood@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-29
#80 · Quote Reply

Night shift psych is kinda like specifically being a sleep specialist lol. My personal sleep cue is a raging thunderstorm. Honestly I wish I had more options for providing sleep ambiance to patients but the institutional setting is notoriously stingy. What I really wanna know is why men sleep with their hands in their pants / over their genitals. It doesn't read as arousal most of the time, so ...

For me - itโ€™s cats. They know exactly where to jump on the bed while Iโ€™m asleep. I try to side sleep now but if Iโ€™m on my back Iโ€™m protecting ๐Ÿ˜‚

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NotSteve_ lemmy.ca NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-16
#81 · Quote Reply

Some know the OP is into GitLab more than GitHub ^^

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

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TigerAce lemmy.dbzer0.com TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-13
#82 · Quote Reply

Not sure why you'd want to run it on linux, but it seems like it works in wine. You could probably get it going with winboat too

Nice thanks!

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nullspace lemmy.world nullspace@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-05
#83 · Quote Reply

You can now toggle file extension exports to either be uppercase or lowercase

This tickles the 'tism.

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blartcap_ lemmy.dbzer0.com blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-07-03
#84 · (edited) Quote Reply

What in the world are you on about?

Okay let's say it again in easy to understand words.

You're being annoying and nobody likes it.

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

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

I was so overjoyed when that happened that was originally going to be the subject of this meme. I make all my memes in Krita, and I wanted that text tool so bad. It wraps around! Wraps around, I tell you!

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

I was so overjoyed when that happened that was originally going to be the subject of this meme. I make all my memes in Krita, and I wanted that text tool so bad. It wraps around! Wraps around, I tell you!

Maaaaagic!

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

In reply to an earlier post

I see that edit! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐ŸŽ‰

I just saw this and thought of you!

https://programming.dev/post/58400011

This is your day! ๐Ÿซถ

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

Ah. I had to do some deep reading to find that this can sometimes be called typeahead search. ๐Ÿ˜… I get you. Myeah. One of the reasons why I like to just use the terminal, or terminal file browsers like yazi.

You can find more info here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/work_items/142 and here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1030

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

You can find more info here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/work_items/142 and here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1030

Yeah it's weird that this is not default versus initiating a deep search on type. I would expect a file/directory selection when typing a letter, only files in the current directory, like you describe.

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kossa feddit.org kossa@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-11-29
#90 · Quote Reply

Any good video player for xiaomi HyperOS (vlc cannot be switched away from and you don't have a "next" button, all others have different sync problems or cannot find files in hidden folders etc etc).

hidden folders

Heh...just put it in a folder called "homework". They'll never catch you.

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Bread sh.itjust.works Bread@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-22
#91 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

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

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

Yeah it's weird that this is not default versus initiating a deep search on type. I would expect a file/directory selection when typing a letter, only files in the current directory, like you describe.

This post claims it went missing around 2012: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/search-vs-the-old-type-ahead-find/772

We'll probably never see it in the official version, but at least there's forks that reimplement. Note that in this thread a GNOME dev says that the suggested patch to reimplement typeahead is of bad quality and to expect bugs, but I've been running this patched version for so many years now, I've never encountered a bug related to the typeahead search, ever. They're just being stubborn for no reason.

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Longylonglong sh.itjust.works Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-07-27
#93 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

Could not agree more. Fuck AI.

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐ŸŒ€ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#94 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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

This post claims it went missing around 2012: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/search-vs-the-old-type-ahead-find/772 We'll probably never see it in the official version, but at least there's forks that reimplement. Note that in this thread a GNOME dev says that the suggested patch to reimplement typeahead is of bad quality and to expect bugs, but I've been running this patched version for so many ...

Well that's disheartening. ๐Ÿ˜• At least you have the functionality you want though. The beauty of open source, eh.

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provectus lemmy.ml provectus@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-04-23
#96 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

If we are talking gnome that will never happen. Sorry.

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BaroqueInMind piefed.social BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-04
#97 · (edited) Quote Reply

Okay let's say it again in easy to understand words. You're being annoying and nobody likes it.

Crazy that you think I care what a rando such as yourself, who likely hasnt bathed, says to me on the net. Appreciate the elaboration, though.

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blartcap_ lemmy.dbzer0.com blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-07-03
#98 · (edited) Quote Reply

Crazy that you think I care what a rando such as yourself, who likely hasnt bathed, says to me on the net. Appreciate the elaboration, though.

All your comments above were literally asking randos for their thoughts.

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rowinxavier lemmy.world rowinxavier@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#99 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

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.

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Equinox1289 sh.itjust.works Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-14
#100 · Quote Reply

FreeCAD development basically.

They've taken forever to pull that extension realthunder made into the actual project.

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Equinox1289 sh.itjust.works Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-05-14
#101 · Quote Reply

Me and everyone else with JXL in the browsers.

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