I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin)
I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend.
I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.
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| beverage | flavoured rooibos, i'm cutting out caffeine. (this used to be a Star Trek joke) |
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@alexhall heh. Back in the day I'd sometimes pull out a dictionary while reading another book just to check if I understood the meaning correctly. Always had a dictionary around anyways if only to confirm spelling of words I didn't use often.
Nowadays dedicated ebook readers often have the dictionary built-in. It's typically accessible by tapping and holding on the word that you would like to look up.
@brooke @mansr with the modern logitech ones, you can configure the autoswitching (adjust the threshold, or disable it completely) if you like. I'm pretty sure the button which switches between stepped and smooth modes can be remapped to do something else if you prefer, too.
If you're on Linux, Solaar is probably the best tool for tweaking Logitech devices.
@unascribed the commit has an explanation for why it was added, at least: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/commit/b6a944bb80a9bb886bf38508e8a2b85be22dda57
It seems like something that they probably would be willing to make more flexible if there's some devices it causes problems for.
I do notice on my Logitech mice that the value is rather larger than needed, it could probably be 1/4 the value while still having the desired effect.
@wezm that's very weird. The sorting is actually locale dependent in GNOME Files, but with an English locale selected you should be getting case insensitive sort.
I'm not sure how this would happen on any standard distro, but it seems like you might have the "C" locale selected? Or perhaps have overridden just the LC_COLLATE variable? (I've actually done this intentionally on one of my systems)
So I've been thinking for a while that the reason oral-b has come out with a new, incompatible, electric toothbrush system is that they had some patents which were about to expire.
Anyways, I was in the store the other day and they had store brand toothbrush heads compatible with oral-b brushes, at about 2/3 the price.
@unascribed oh, apparently I'm mistaken on that. Looks like the woff2 format doesn't do "collection" fonts, so they're single-language (the one I linked is Japanese-only).
The actual smallest multi-language font is https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/blob/release/Variable/OTC/SourceHanSans-VF.otf.ttc (32MB)
@unascribed yeah, and on Linux fontconfig supports them too - you can just drop this woff2 in your fonts directory and it'll work.
Annoyingly, some linux distros are still shipping the separate static font instances for noto, so you might have several hundred mb of cjk fonts installed when you really only need a few 10s of mb at most.
@unascribed to the best of my knowledge, the smallest "complete" multi-region CJK font that exists is the woff2 format version of Source Han Sans Variable: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/blob/release/Variable/WOFF2/OTF/SourceHanSans-VF.otf.woff2
But that relies on so many pieces of very new font tech - variable fonts, language variant glyphs, woff2 compression - that it's not really usable outside of the web :/
(Source Han Sans is the upstream for the Noto Sans CJK fonts)
Rather impressed with the software preservation for the love live school idol festival games.
All the game assets were saved and are on a cdn, or you can mirror them locally. Reverse engineered game servers have been written. A modified app is available which connects to localhost, letting you run the server on the same device.
Amusingly, the cdn is faster than the one the game used in live service. Combined with the server on localhost, the preserved game performs a lot better than the original did.
