sbeak

3mo ago

Trump is eerily similar to a certain other far-right leader...

3mo ago

Over a month of Linux, my thoughts compiled

no the vpn I was using didn't have a native app, so I was looking for alternatives. It uses v2ray, and v2raya wasn't working. Clash verge works though, so it's all good!

3mo ago

Over a month of Linux, my thoughts compiled

Yeah, I'm open to trying KDE some time in the future

3mo ago

Over a month of Linux, my thoughts compiled

fedora workstation :D

Linux @lemmy.world

3mo ago

Over a month of Linux, my thoughts compiled

3mo ago

Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign

Using the developer beta and my phone runs quite hot. Of course, it's a beta so they'll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there's an obvious option to reduce transparency.

My opinion on the "liquid glass" is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn't look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.

The lock screen effect with the "3d" photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it's enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there's the option to make it normal again if you select "solid". Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it's all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I'm assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is...

Onto the home screen. I think the "liquid glass" themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the "clear" icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn't natively built (I'm guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn't look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I'll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.

Overall, in places where it's used tastefully (in a lot of Apple's apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to "solid". The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it's annoying that it's buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that'll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn't too functional, just hiding everything isn't better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn't work in all places.

3mo ago

Firefox 139 hides homescreen option to disable ads

I like floorp, it's very customisable!

Godot @programming.dev

3mo ago

a game about travelling to a black hole and descending into the event horizon...

3mo ago

Helping choosing the right linux

Programming @programming.dev

as a recent linux “convert” running fedora workstation, it works fantastic :D

3mo ago

a little game about travelling to a black hole (it's finished now!)

3mo ago

It's adorable

purple would be cool too. orange would also be interesting...

3mo ago

It's adorable

A yellow steam deck and/or steam machine would be cool

3mo ago

It's adorable

someone should make a yellow console. Yellow is a good colour.

3mo ago

I want to move out from Ubuntu and use something else.

I recently installed Fedora on my own 2-in-1 flippy laptop, and it works well. The screen rotates when I rotate the device, touchscreen works, and the stylus works as well.

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

not special software, but it has an app that lets you log in on win and mac. On Linux, I was able to log in and see all the servers but when I set it as proxy it didn't work :( I might try again later

edit: Clash Verge is supported by the VPN, but I thought there was no Linux app (turns out there is!) and it works fine! Hooray!

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml

I mean all I’m using is Steam, adding them as “non-steam games”. I’ve also found some game art to make it look nice. For me at least, I haven’t run into any issues besides at one point one of my games was missing a few shaders causing it to render improperly (I forgot to move the files from my Windows installation, but after I did everything worked!)

It wasn’t difficult to install at all! I just installed steam (for fedora you need to make sure you enable third-party repos when furst installing the OS) and that’s basically it. I’ve also installed Wine manually (not very hard, just “sudo dnf install wine” on fedora) to run a few non-game programs like some compiled .exe programs I made a few years ago by running “wine [program name]”. It’s crazy how simple it all is now!

4mo ago

A compiled list of my opinions and experiences on cutting out big tech and switching to more open source and private alternatives

4mo ago

I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation

rivers

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

A VPN. I couldn’t get V2rayA (the vpn uses v2ray, there’s a win + mac app for that specific vpn but not linux) to work. I might have to have another crack at it soon…

edit: Clash Verge (rev) works like a charm! Hooray!

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

letting AI do whatever it wants to your files is not very good...

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

possible issues:

blurred a part of the photo that shouldn't be blurred, data loss
erased the wrong object, data loss
deleted large chunks of content in my docs/ppts/spreadsheets I wanted to keep, data loss

This is a really bad idea

4mo ago

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer