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a e s t h e t i c
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ahhh so McCain finally left - she seemed like a weird neocon but sometimes would serve as a useful punching bag for them and got some decent points out sometimes
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blueanons
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Without roundup I’m not sure if we can feed the masses
I think it's possible but would require more labor and lots of people want a simple fix
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this article suggests it's gonna depend on your laptop's specs, if you'll be able to play it in 4k or not, so if it's an old computer it may not run depending on how old, or you may need to buy something or set something up to make it work:
https://www.netbooknews.com/tips/can-my-laptop-output-4k/
Can My Laptop Output 4k?
The resolution of an external display depends on that display and the graphic card of the laptop. An NVIDIA 600 series and up with the help of either an HDMI cable or DisplayPort; AMD Radeon 79xx/78xx/77xx series and higher, R7 or R9 270 or higher will be sufficient enough.
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a bit off topic but what's the best way to follow your posts? I see in your profile a bunch of links to social media, is a mastodon feed most representative or do you have like a blog?
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what's your setup? I'm missing the context - like what is your TV and what is the device you're sending info to the TV with
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I think it's important to recognize that it's not necessarily "government" but individuals in government who have pushed for this and followers that went along with it
like, I also am curious why those individual leaders aren't sued when certain things go wrong rather than the government itself - aren't some of these million dollar settlements just paid by taxpayers?
I think recognizing the responsibility of the individual, even when each person shares different responsibilities related to different issues, is a good step towards accountability
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I must confess that I never ended up sticking with it - it needs something maybe more unique that twitter doesn't have besides just being like a conservative fork maybe
ultimately I think it was like needing an email or phone to login that kind of threw me off, something like that, just because it takes extra hassle and time to register and keep up
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it does have a checkered past (if that's the right phrase):
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by radical Black activist Ron Karenga, a felon convicted of assault and false imprisonment after he tortured two women.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Kwanzaa
During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said that it was meant to be an "oppositional alternative" to Christmas.[6] However, as Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so that practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, "Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday."
https://infogalactic.com/info/Kwanzaa
For Karenga, a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored an essential premise that "you must have a cultural revolution before before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose and direction."[5]
So it was intentionally created as kind of anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Western culture kind of tradition. But in some ways I imagine it's been stripped of that original intent, or I imagine a lot of people who do keep up the tradition probably don't care about this philosophy explicitly (although they may do so implicitly) - although probably some others do.
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transgender is a new level of deviant madness
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Even if it’s real we can handle the increase
part of the firings and lockdowns is the attempt to make things worse or look worse to justify further lockdowns and mandates - vicious cycle - without these things we would have more resources to put in to responding
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What is it, I don't understand what it is to be used for
termux is a shell that can be used on android, and there are various shells on desktop, so I guess this is like termux but also with the ability to run the same on both desktop and mobile? That's interesting, although the comments on another article suggest the project is in a state of incompletion
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maybe a few proprietary apps?
I also dunno why linux users don't promote more, most people don't use it simply because they don't know of it, in my opinion, not because it's too complicated or other reasons people bring up
the steam deck release might mainstream linux use more later next year maybe
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is this supposed to be like termux on phones
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a couple things with this:
I was wondering what the pre-covid rates were, and I thought I saw like 75% in some cases
still would make me wonder what's driving the extra percentage, if we take the theory that covid is fake
secondly the shortages are artificially created a bit by market distortions - if we had less regulations and taxes, people would be free to create more hospitals and to work these jobs without degree mandates and so there would be less of a strain and load on the medical infrastructure altogether
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gee I hope so :^)
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Linux is not yet there as a daily driver for the average desktop user
ehhh it's mostly about marketing, a kind of catch 22 situation - it's there enough for a lot of needs, and the desires that people have beyond what's available could probably be added in if more people started using it
Someone posted an article reviewing the year and this made me think of a "wikipedia year in review" or the wiki page for 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021 You can check the infogalactic entry for comparison: infogalactic.com/info/2021 but they forked in like 2016 maybe and so some of their material isn't updated since that time, their article in contrast is basically the article that existed before 2021
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the wiggling has only begun
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"but was he vaccinated tho?"
"kind of missing important details"
> The Pedal Radio (or Pedal Wireless) was a radio transmitter-receiver powered by a pedal-driven generator. It was developed by Alfred Traeger in 1929 as a way of providing radio communications to remote homesteads in the Australian outback.[6] There were no mains or generator power available at the time and batteries to provide the power required would have been too expensive. It is considered an important Australian invention.[7] https://infogalactic.com/info/Human_power#Pedal-powered_transmitter I'd like to see a low power computer running on one of these, with like some kind of "natural" battery like compressed air or something in case you stop pedaling for a bit...
https://libraryofbabel.info/ From reddit and a comment: "The Library defines a page as 3200 characters, and each book has 410 pages. The algorithm can generate every possible combination of letters on a page, which is 10 to the 4677th power books. Each hex has four walls, five shelves to a wall, and 32 books per shelf." "im going to post this on wolfballs.com for my friends to read" This quote was found at: Title: ogbigibuwghivhirx,.kufv, Page: 316 Location: 0z2ajyajoqx0hsa93tvy5s6fjc3fws...-w1-s5-v14
They're currently working on archiving Reddit which is over 800 TB: http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Reddit http://wiki.archiveteam.org/ > Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. > This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction. https://infogalactic.com/info/Archive_Team > Archive Team is a group dedicated to preserving digital history that was founded by Jason Scott in 2009. Its primary focus is the copying and preservation of content housed by at-risk services. Some of its projects include the partial preservation of GeoCities,[1][2] Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Splinder, Friendster, FortuneCity,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] TwitPic[11] and the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator".[12] Archive Team also archives URL shortener services[13] and wikis[14] on a regular basis. > According to Jason Scott, "Archive Team was started out of anger and a feeling of powerlessness, this feeling that we were letting companies decide for us what was going to survive and what was going to die."[15] Scott continues, "it's not our job to figure out what's valuable, to figure out what's meaningful. We work by three virtues: rage, paranoia and kleptomania."[16]
https://kakoune.org/ https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
Smartphone App I see there's trinus vr as an android (and ios?) free app: google play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loxai.trinus.full&hl=en_US&gl=US or alternatively apk download link: https://apkpure.com/trinus-cbvr-lite/com.loxai.trinus.test/download?from=details another possible app: https://apkfun.com/down_VR-VNC-Viewer.6808990.html Computer App Linux then on the computer, these two projects on linux: https://github.com/MyrikLD/LinusTrinus https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xrdesktop/xrdesktop Another (?): https://github.com/letoram/safespaces Windows and trinus has a windows app: https://www.trinusvirtualreality.com/ I've heard people don't like mobile VR - I tried it out before and didn't really have too many problems with it, am surprised more promotion of mobile VR hasn't happened - wanted to try out how a desktop would look, but never figured this out, has anyone gotten something like this working?
www.bloomberg.com
some people on teh redditalternatives sub think this might push a lot of people off reddit, there's about a 50% chance they'll do something to really screw up the site I suspect wolfballs will just keep growing, and maybe some other lemmy instances like it will come in to existence if they aren't already (redditalternatives people have also been encouraging more people to start lemmy instances I see)
When I zoom or maximize past a certain amount depending on the size of my screen on a computer (desktop or laptop), the top links to communities / create post / create community disappear, I was wondering if they could just minimize to icons so I could still click them or if the text could just shrink enough to still be clickable edit: I am adding voluntary [tags] for the future maybe, on things that pertain to [Lemmy] or to [Wolfballs] specifically
https://hamtv.com/ https://infogalactic.com/info/Amateur_television > Amateur television (ATV) is the transmission of broadcast quality video and audio over the wide range of frequencies of radio waves allocated for radio amateur (Ham) use.[1] ATV is used for non-commercial experimentation, pleasure and public service events. Ham TV stations were on the air in many cities before commercial television stations came on the air.[2]
http://www.rosettacode.org/
related to my post on kiwix: https://wolfballs.com/post/3021 they download for example whole stackexchange forums posts for offline reading - I wonder if there's a way to use the tools they use to back up stackexchange forums, for lemmy forums? https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-content-packages/ > Zimit is a tool that will allow you to convert almost any website to the zim format. Try it! > If Zimit works but the website is too big and exceeds the allowed threshold of 1’000 pages, open a request on Github (it has to be freely licensed content). > You are the owner of that content or need a specific distribution method (e.g. as an offline app), get in touch!
Project site: https://www.kiwix.org/en/ Links to content for download (or I guess you're able to within the app?) https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages Explanation of labels on files: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/README Overview of content they offer for download: all of wikipedia (without audio or video, 83GB), gutenberg's public domain works (40,000+, 65GB), 167 stackexchange forums, various wikimedia projects (related to wikipedia: wikisource, wikinews, wikivoyage, wikihow, wikiversity, wikiquotes), and some other random forums (ubuntu or appropedia come to mind as listed), and others They also have TED talks and Khan Academy videos, but I don't see why you couldn't just use something like youtube-dl to download specific ones you want (and this reminds me that I guess you could probably freely download and share such videos online with creative commons licenses)
**"Did You Mean..." Suggested Listings ** First idea, another one Ruqqus didn't have: let's take the new community [!homebrewcomputer](https://wolfballs.com/c/homebrewcomputer) as an example, say I remember something about homebrew so I put the URL in as https://wolfballs.com/c/homebrew - the page it gives me is "404 error: community not found". What could be helpful for users is if it shows under it: "Did you mean... [lists communities that sound like what you tried to pull up, so you can find the community you were looking for]". So if you had c/homebrew or c/homeberwcomputer (typo) it could point you in the right direction. **Notifications** Also I don't know if this is an actual problem and maybe it could be turned off in settings, I like the pop up to see a new comment that someone responded to me with, but it can get in the way and I don't see an "X" to close it out (there might be one, but maybe I can't see it because of my computer settings). Sometimes clicking on it I think would take me to that post which would take me off a page that I might have been currently focused on, as I was trying to x it out.
In [the other post](https://wolfballs.com/post/2598) I linked to an article arguing that RSS was the fastest way to "consoom" content on the internet, which I somewhat intuitively agree with - I requested Ruqqus support RSS but they never did Lemmy has RSS support, it's the little button in the top of each page that kind of looks like a sideways wifi signal or echoes. You can copy the link and paste as a new subscription in an RSS reader. The main advantage is that, on a typical page I can see maybe 3 or 4 posts depending on how much I minimize / maximize the page - with a RSS feed I can see the title of a dozen or more - you can read through the main point of posts much quicker. Problem is, RSS is just for reading - I can't comment on the post. Probably can't see comments either. Ideally then an RSS reader extension that allows me to comment on the post, or a user interface mode that looks like an RSS reader is what I have in mind as more ideal. So I don't have a clear request necessarily so much as to think of if the RSS model is useful for UI or personal "consoomption" of content across sites.
Found this link on win, basically this was what I was trying to get at - for reading posts fastest I like an RSS feed, so a hybrid RSS reader that allows me to post would probably be my ideal (making a separate post to mention that in [!development](https://wolfballs.com/c/development)
https://reactos.org/ > "Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS!" https://infogalactic.com/info/ReactOS > "ReactOS is an open-source operating system for x86/x64 PC intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003.[3]"
If you go to the [communities page](https://wolfballs.com/communities), like half of the communities have custom icons and banners, which prevents the listings from looking uniform (ones that don't have icons simply have no icon next to them, while ones that do have icons next to them) The wolfballs wolf icon like in the top left corner could be a default logo until user changes it if you want uniformity Pros: uniformity on communities page Cons: no banner or icon can look nice too on the actual community page
Sometimes like if I have a notification on something someone commented towards me, I can check it, clear it, and the notification bell might continue to display a number when I go to another page on the forum even though it shouldn't have any number there any longer
Wolfballs / Communities / Create Post / Create Community / Settings / Etc. I can't right click them, I can only navigate within my tab Like sometimes I'm reading a post and want to check for other posts but if I click at the top it will close out the post to show the main page