Interesting read. Thanks for posting.

How is your experience with exporting GIFs in terms of file size? They tend to run larger than, say, mp4 files, right?

I use Shotcut btw.

Hmm, well, it used to, but I guess it’s been that long since I’ve fresh installed Firefox. Today I learned.

yeah, but Firefox ships w/ Yahoo as the default search engine 😱

Floof mode engaged.

OP says they have no software development skills, so when you recommend for OP to build something they want, make something entirely new, add a feature, etc…how do you mean?

Honest question: Why?

IMHO stack exchange is basically reddit/lemmy with hand cuffs because no threaded discussions and every other question is closed as off topic. I don’t understand what another stack exchange would buy anybody.

I guess one thing stack exchange does well is “related questions” and tagging, but… I dunno. (shrugs)

I think what I’m looking for on Pixelfed is a toggle similar to what Lemmy has, where the user can choose between Local or All. Local would show photos from just that instance, whereas All would include photos from all instances (that aren’t blocked ofc).

To see what I mean, go to any instance, visit the explore page, and click a hash tag. Then go to a different instance and enter that same tag on the second instance. In every example I’ve tried, the second instance either has a completely different set of photos for the same tag or no photos at all. For example, on https://gram.social/ the tag #carspotting shows 171 posts. Now if I try the same tag on https://pixey.org, 0 posts.

Kudos to dansup for at least giving us proofs of concept to build on top of. Despite my own reservations about registering for pixelfed until the discover pages federate with different instances and hash tags work again on the flagship instance, I look forward to a post-instagram world.

I read the article so you don’t have to.

Excerpt:

A group of 12 Republican US senators sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, threatening repercussions if the court issues arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, according a Monday report from news organization Zeteo.

The senators allege that the ICC seeks to punish “legitimate actions of self-defense,” citing Khan’s report of the “calculated cruelty” he witnessed following the October 7 attack and making clear that they find “no moral equivalence between Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s justified response.” They claimed that the arrest warrants “would align the ICC with the largest state sponsor of terrorism.”

The signatories declared they would take any warrant issued as “not only a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.” They threaten, “Target Israel and we will target you” and that any further action will “end all American support for the ICC” and “bar [Khan] and [his] families from the United States.” It ended: “You have been warned.”

The letter, dated April 24, 2024, was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as well as Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; Katie Boyd Britt of Alabama; Ted Budd of North California; Kevin Cramer of North Dakota; Ted Cruz of Texas; Bill Hagerty of Tennessee; Pete Ricketts of Nebraska; Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida; and Tim Scott of South Carolina.

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Used to use Evernote, but switched to OneNote b/c Evernote enshitified so badly as to be unusable on mobile, which is my primary use case.

Still not totally satisfied w/ OneNote, but I don’t feel like paying for Obsidian sync or hosting my own solution, so it’s good enough until I change my mind on either of the above.

An app called Ardour was listed as an open source alternative to Audacity in this HTG article from 2022. I’ve no experience with it, but from a quick internet search it looks like the options are very few.

There’s an app called Local Send that’s like an alternative to air dropping files on iOS devices, not sure if that’s what you’re talking about or not.

Does it work if you enable VRR via xorg config?

Confirmed VRR is enabled via the xorg config (terminal output below), but I’m still having the issue.

yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf 
Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "AMDgpu"
	MatchDriver "amdgpu"
	Driver "amdgpu"
	Option "HotplugDriver" "amdgpu"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier "AMD"
     Driver "amdgpu"
     Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
EndSection

Oddly enough, I just accidentally discovered that when I Alt+Tab out of the game, the monitor’s refresh rate matches the frame rate in game; however, as soon as I Alt+Tab back in so the game is the active window, the refresh rate goes back to the monitor’s native refresh rate. So in the Xorg session, VRR works sometimes, but not when Steam is the active window. Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Not sure if this video will play, but here’s what I mean. Look at the top left—the slightly larger FPS in the white box is my monitor’s overlay, and the smaller FPS under that is MangoHud. Notice how initially, my monitor’s refresh rate is fixed at 165 Hz, then as soon as I bring up the text document, my monitor’s refresh rate starts varying, and when I Alt+Tab back into the game, my monitor’s refresh rate goes back to fixed at 165 Hz again.

Which xorg driver are/were you using, amdgpu or modesetting?

I think amdgpu—does the terminal output confirm that? This is the first I’ve heard of modesetting.

How do I know if I’m using sata 3.2/3.3 vs something else?

I have one of these in the 8 TB variant that I use for backup purposes, and I plug it into one of those USB docks, like this one. I have not applied any tape or adaptors and it seems to be working fine.

For the streaming services like Netflix, how do you get around the max resolution of 720p in web browsers?

Your job allows employees to install software on their work machines?

Check out this article from December about using sponsor block with yt-dlp.