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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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):
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
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.
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 don’t break a year from now because you aren’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.
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...
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.
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).
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. 😅 I get you. Myeah. One of the reasons why I like to just use the terminal, or terminal file browsers like yazi.
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.
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.
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 $40–50 for it. Much, much better quality than my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which was almost $200 and now barely works.
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.
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!
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..
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...
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."
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.
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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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.
This tickles the 'tism.
FreeCAD development basically.
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.
Sync for Lemmy will be fixed any day now...
I'm sure dev has abandoned it completely.
I can fix her
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.
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.
Could not agree more. Fuck AI.
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.
I've seen open source software devs fix niche little bugs I reported within hours of reporting it. Feels good.
How do you use the symbols?
By hand.
Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. 👍
Not that nieche, I bet a lot of people wanted it. Kinda surprised it took til v12
I implemented the “frame seek” functionality using the
,and.keys a year back, was merged in v12. You're welcome.https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/7315
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.
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.
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.
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.
For me - it’s cats. They know exactly where to jump on the bed while I’m asleep. I try to side sleep now but if I’m on my back I’m protecting 😂
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.
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
I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.
If we are talking gnome that will never happen. Sorry.
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
My MacBook does this as well
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.
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.
Genuine queation: what? Ive never had an issue with my cursor being in the wrong place or not exactly where i want it?
that's the fun part, kde does that too! its never in the way
which DE is moving the cursor around without human input?
Boy have I got good news for you...
90% Chance that person knows that already
... that's the joke.
In case you don’t know, KDE does that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEAUCtlSBjE somebody postes this here months ago
I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them 😏
Them?
M'theydy
I just installed Fedora Linux on my old Winblows Surface 3 tablet. It does this, and it's pretty fun to mess with.
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.
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!
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
At this point I should just set invent.kde.org as my new tab page.
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 don’t break a year from now because you aren’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.
I can remember back when that one feature I waited for was a functioning DX11 driver like the box fucking said. Fucking AMD...
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...
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.
I'm still salty about Affinity being bought by Canva and THAT'S the version that has image trace built-in 😭
What feature are you waiting for? 🙂
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).
Heh...just put it in a folder called "homework". They'll never catch you.
Oof, sounds very annoying 😦
KeepassXC autotype on wayland.
Just a few more years....
Edit: Holy shit nvm, literally release 2 days ago. I am happy.
I see that edit! 😂🎉
I just saw this and thought of you!
https://programming.dev/post/58400011
This is your day! 🫶
That would be aight!
Typeahead in Nautilus
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.
Ah. I had to do some deep reading to find that this can sometimes be called typeahead search. 😅 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
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.
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 $40–50 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.
The 8BitDo has TMR sticks and Hall effect triggers though, which is even better. Worth the extra money IMO, but of course opinion based.
Then the project gets archived 6 months later and nobody forks it...
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.
‘that niche feature’ being basic security.
Once GBO2 dies, I'm gonna to jailbreak my PS5
Yeeees luanti now has controller support so i can play with my phone and a clip on controller 😍
When Krita overhauled the text tool (☆▽☆)
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!
The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?
Can’t you ghouls just leave it alone for 5 minutes without making everyone miserable?
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.
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.
You're the guy who was asking a rando for their thoughts. Did you forget?
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
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...
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.
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.
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..