Mastodawn

evacide 11h ago

This is your regular reminder that if you are the smartest person in the room, go find another room. You are not going to run out of people or rooms.

@tml I've been using dark theme in Windows since 2002 or 2003, but I've always set the text to fairly low contrast (took me a few years to find colours that suit me, but I've been using basically the same theme since 2004). I've been (ab)using high contrast mode for this since Windows 8 took the classic theme away, and still do that in 11 despite it supporting dark mode, because the text is way too bright for me there (and it only applies to select few applications, because of course Microsoft had to invent a whole new way to use dark mode instead of using either the theming service that's been there since XP or UI colour settings that have been available since Windows 3.0).

For web pages I use either custom CSS or Dark Reader to get the desired low contrast dark theme.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/knowing-steam-players-are-hoarders-explains-why-you-give-valve-that-30-percent-analyst-tells-devs-you-get-access-to-a-bunch-of-drunken-sailors-who-spend-money-irresponsibly/

Scalzi 11h ago

How dare this article describe me so accurately

'Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%,' analyst tells devs: 'You get access to a bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly'

"More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it."

PC Gamer

@oblomov @zhenech @mcc That's when you (if you're on Windows) fire up KLC and place the characters on more accessible combinations :)

Download Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) Version 1.4 from Official Microsoft Download Center

The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator allows users to create or modify keyboard layouts.

Microsoft Store - Download Center

@oblomov @zhenech @mcc Does that put {} on 4th layer (AltGr+Shift)? That's worse than Slovenian.

@mcc Speaking of programming, []{} are AltGr+FGBN and ^ is AltGr+3 followed by a space; since these are annoying, I made my own layout that replaces ćĆđĐ with {[}], since we don't need these letters and added ^ as a non-dead key.

mcc 12h ago

Here is a set of questions for European-Time-Zone mastodontists especially.

- Does your keyboard have a $ on it?
- If not, is there a different currency symbol you have instead?
- When a programming language makes semiregular use of $ (for example, for string substitution) does this annoy you?

@mcc Slovenian layout has $ on Shift+4; € is AltGr+E (note, this is the layout that Windows and Linux use, and is the same as Croatian layout; MacOS has a very different layout, and since 2009 there's also a layout defined by the Slovenian Standards body, but nothing ever implemented that).