TurboLag

joined 2 years ago
[–] TurboLag 14 points 15 hours ago

all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages

I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it's getting buried under the spam of "switch to Firefox" messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don't want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.

[–] TurboLag 3 points 1 day ago

I agree. This style of handling is common in newer NFS games and probably what I miss the most from the older games. I particularly dislike the grip-vs-drift upgrades, especially since drift is mostly "press X to drift".

That being said, I did find some cars fun to drive in once they're tuned a little, and I liked that different cars could have significantly different feel, which unfortunately can't be said about all NFS games, especially the newer ones.

[–] TurboLag 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The soundtrack is horrible. An yet, it feels like a masterpiece compared to Unbound's soundtrack...

[–] TurboLag 16 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I thought the same until I played Heat a couple of years ago. Heat is solid and definitely reminds you of the golden age of NFS with Underground and Most Wanted.

[–] TurboLag 3 points 2 days ago

If you don't want a GUI, dockcheck is an easy way to update many containers at once from the CLI.

[–] TurboLag 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are you using Kitchenowl for storing recipes? If so, what's your experience with it?

I've tried Tandoor, the common suggestion for recipe management, but I've found it too clunky to add recipes to. I like the concept, but it would take a long time to move all my recipes into the specific format they use, and the web UI does not make things easier.

[–] TurboLag 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Firefox starts with a bigger disadvantage than both Chrome and Safari on mobile. On iOS, it's all Safari under the hood anyway, so a lot of people don't see any point switching skins. On Android, in my experience it works well, but you still find occasional sites that expect Chrome and miss features on Firefox, especially around Google Pay.

I used to use Firefox on Android several years ago, but at the time Nightly had significantly better performance than stable or Beta, and I think some extensions were also only supported on Nightly. Stable or Beta didn't perform well enough for me to warrant choosing over Chrome. But because of the nature of nightly, every now and then an update would introduce UI or UX bugs, or occasionally even battery/performance issues. I use my phone as little as I can, so when it's frustrating if it doesn't work right when I need it. So, I have moved away from Firefox on mobile.

I've actually switched to Vivaldi. It works as well as Chrome in terms of sites playing nicely with it, and it also has good customizability. It doesn't support extensions, but that alone isn't enough for me to pick Firefox.

[–] TurboLag 2 points 3 days ago

I've liked the look and feel of Motorola Edge phones for a few generations now and I'd give one a try for a few years—the price point is often good enough that you can justify it for a a few years only, whilst software updates are supported—if it wasn't for the MediaTek chips. I know people generally praise their performance, but I'm really not confident that they aren't backdoored.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/29751389

What apps have you been using this year? Have you found new apps to fill a gap in your previous open-source use?

What is something that you wish had a good open-source alternative but does not at this time?

[–] TurboLag 8 points 1 week ago

I'll start with two new addtions for me:

  • Capy Reader (code, F-Droid). While curating my Feedly subscriptions, I decided to try switching to some RSS feeds instead, which I had previously put off because I hadn't found a client I liked. Capy Reader is excellent both in performance and user interaction, and I find I much prefer reading my sources this way than through Feedly now.
  • Readeck (code). Not technically an app, but the website works perfectly well through a mobile browser. A read-it-later service that snapshots web pages and displays them in a friendly, customizable reader mode. The only downside is that it doesn't cache the full content of the saved pages offline, so you can't use it without Internet access.
 

What apps have you been using this year? Have you found new apps to fill a gap in your previous open-source use?

What is something that you wish had a good open-source alternative but does not at this time?

[–] TurboLag 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if you regularly switch between espresso and pour over/immersion

I think this is the biggest con of this grinder. The dial does have multiple turns, and you will need multiple turns to go between espresso and filter range. So the problem then becomes keeping track of which range you are in and getting back to the other one. And because the dial doesn't have very high precision, relatively speaking, it will be hard to get back to the exact point in the other range where you were before.

To me, this would become frustrating quickly. If a small difference in grind setting is fine for filter, I would find that for espresso I have to spend a lot more time dialing in, and, the worst of it , that I would have to re-dial whenever I switch back from filter.

While I think it's a good grinder for espresso overall, I would personally not get this if I plan to alternate between filter and espresso. I would perhaps look for a grinder without multiple turns, one where getting back to the previous position is easier and more obvious.

[–] TurboLag 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, hahaa, I forgot about that! I don't have a food processor big or sturdy enough, so I just make it by hand. Still works great!

[–] TurboLag 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've made several of his dough recipes (no-knead, same-day NY, cold-fermented NY) and they all work really well. No other recipe I've tried has been so foolproof.

 

Can anyone share experience about power usage, performance, and functionality on older devices?

 

After the latest update, instance names have disappeared from the subscription section on the navigation drawer. There doesn't seem to a be setting to bring those back. Without them, it's hard to distinguish between communities with similar names on different instances.

 

I often find image posts where clicking on the thumbnail doesn't load the picture and shows a generic error message. If I copy the image link, I can open it ok in the browser. I haven't been able to tie this to specific instances or communities, so I don't know what might be causing it.

Has anyone else seen this issue?

 
 

In another thread, I read a user's comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it's changed?

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submitted 2 years ago by TurboLag to c/gaming@lemmy.ml
 
 

Yes, I've read many posts the current state of reddit. But today, somehow I thought it can't be that bad if I just go looking for some funny videos.

Boy, was I wrong. This post was at the top of my feed, and briefly scrolling through the comments got me out of there without looking at anything else ☠️

Oh, well, I tried...

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Photon Frontend for Lemmings.world? (self.lemmings_world_instance)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TurboLag to c/lemmings_world_instance
 

The Photon frontend has recently reached feature parity with the official Lemmy frontend. It has a really nice UI and I like using it alongside Alexandrite.

@rikudou@lemmings.world would you consider hosting a copy for Lemmings.world, similar to how Alexandrite is available at a.lemmings.world?

Thanks in advance!

 

On the old site, there were a number of funny video communities with regular posts, for example /r/Unexpected, /r/PublicFreakout, or /r/WhatCouldGoWrong. While there are plenty of memes on Lemmy, we have relatively little video content. Those of you who used to frequent video subs, what have you replaced them with since coming to Lemmy?

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