neptune

joined 1 year ago
[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is amazing, its like Takeshi's Castle but skateboarding!

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It looks bad compared to the iconic camera bar style they started with the pixel 6, and they changed the form factor to be more narrow and tall, RIP Passport form factor

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Things are more broken because of a undocumented upgrade from Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.4 to 0.19.0-rc.5 that happened sometime these past days and its been leading to connection issues all around

Its also concerning there has been no communication regarding these server upgrades in the main thread, Lemmy 0.19 doesn't seem to be anywhere close to stable to be pushed onto main, yet we keep upgrading (perhaps because a downgrade from 0.19 is not possible?)

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This explains why I had problems logging in since yesterday, usually I browse through a frontend like Alexandrite or use Jerboa on my phone, spent two hours trying to fix my login info before I gave up and just went to the instance directly.

It does seem extremely odd to upgrade the main instance to 0.19, I wonder if it wasn't intended. As other users mentions lots of features are still not functional and app support is basically nonexistent for 0.19 because of the amount of breaking changes.

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Mine did this once to me last month while watching a youtube video but it hasn't happened since, I joked about it being google's top secret night vision mode but I'm thinking its some sort of software bug related to graphics rendering, maybe something funky going on with its GPU.

I also restarted my pixel 7 and it went back to normal so who knows what really causes it.

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I know exactly the ads your talking about, the setting for that is misleading option that is super easy to miss during setup, Microsoft has been doing that since Windows 10 released and its quite frustrating.

Yes the terminal can be daunting for a beginner, in my first experience with linux was all the way back when Ubuntu was the most popular distro and the only way I got through some of the confusing stuff was from copying and pasting commands from a youtube guide.

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm slowly learning most of the terminology and commands, it can be a bit overwhelming at times.

I had the most success with Manjaro but for some reason chunks of it randomly break over time as updates go on, some Arch enthusiast have mentioned to me its because of some weird shenanigans done by the folks who maintain Manjaro's software distribution, something about updates being held back for "stability" but in the end they end up doing the opposite.

Right now I'm running a Fedora dual boot config with Win11 but keeping the bootloader on a separate drive so Windows doesn't touch it at all.

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Good thing I've been learning to use linux for the past couple of years, if they double down on this I'll switch permanently, just got to find a distro I like because I haven't been able to find anything that just "works" without eventually having to open the terminal for one reason or another.

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No. It’s a Kickstarter that might ship next year. The headline should have been “Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal might be available to buy next year if the crowdfunding campaign isn’t a scam”

The second I see the words "kickstarter or indiegogo" I already know whatever I saw may as well be unobtanium

If it makes its way to a storefront then I'll consider it, otherwise I'll just move on and keep my money

[–] neptune@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already clean my buds pro with a microfiber cloth when I'm done using them, but I've seen some people let their buds get really gross so might not be a terrible thing.