OneRedFox

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[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 14 points 10 hours ago

Infrastructure for a 300 MAU Mastodon instance isn't very much, but if they're paying employees to run it then that will drive expenses up quite a bit compared to how it is with volunteer-run instances.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 12 points 11 hours ago

American socialism has the demilitarization of the police and ending police brutality as key policy goals, so news like this is of interest to keeping tabs on that problem.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 20 points 11 hours ago

That's a shame to see. Fediverse denizens are like the primary demographic that would consider using Firefox in the first place, so them hosting an instance was pretty cool.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully Pocketpair wins, because they made the better monster catching game. I'm still reeling from how bad the performance is in Scarlet/Violet.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's because they'd have to install it to use it. I put my boomers on Fedora with GNOME over a year ago and there hasn't been a single Linux-related issue since. Most people use their computers as Facebook and YouTube machines and Linux doesn't make that any harder than Windows/MacOS. It's not like it's 2010 where you'd need to install some desktop app that doesn't have a Linux version and you'd have to fuck around with WINE, which was a massive pain in the ass and often buggy even if it did work. Now in 2024, those apps are in the browser (barring more niche use-cases) and we have access to Firefox and Chrome like everyone else. If Linux shipped on most pre-builts, then I think the average person would be fine.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 12 points 4 weeks ago

GTK 2 has been EoL since 2020 (GTK 3 released in 2011). GIMP 3 marks the completion of the GTK 3 port, which by itself offers:

  • Moving to an actively supported version of GTK (and future migrations will be easier because the difference between 3 and 4 is a lot less than the difference between 2 and 3)
  • Better graphics tablet support
  • Better handling of HiPPI displays
  • Better Wayland support
  • Should also mean that they finished refactoring the code, thus making it easier to implement new features.

And on that last point, I would say that the biggest benefit overall with the release of GIMP 3 is that we'll finally, finally start seeing serious work on implementing non-destructive editing; I've read that some of the preliminary work is going to be shipping with the 3.0 release.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Did you manually set the icon theme in qt5ct/qt6ct? I recall having to do that on a fresh install.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You just download and put the theme files where it tells you to (and in the qt6ct folder too) and set the theme (and icon theme) in the app. Icons breaking is interesting; I just installed Dolphin and it had no problem using my icon theme. Does PCManFM-Qt also have this issue for you?

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did qt5ct/qt6ct not work for you? There's also Kvantum support.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it’s getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems – global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order… how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

Privacy as a cause is something that helps support other forms of activism. We live in a world in which hostile state actors routinely surveil activists in order to more effectively divide, subvert, marginalize, and intimidate them; privacy is important counterplay against this. It's like saying that you're not going to eat healthy because exercising is more important; one facilitates the other.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I always forget that they added a graphical installer, but IMO it kinda defeats the point of having a declarative config file setup your system.

What issues are you having with Qt themes?

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