Notices by Lorewegian 📚 (lore@berserker.town)

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ohm my

relics

wouldn't mind it if the OS just gave random names to new folders, such as Hesitant Gerbil or Jiggly Mountain.

@ned

"supports" - with serious caveats

@ned the biggest one being that it won't run on my Linux system because it isn't CentOS or Fedora. next big showstopper is the lack of support for compressed video in the free Linux edition. it's very stripped down compared to the free Windows/Mac edition.

Lightworks is a good Linux video editor.

the big issue i'm having with it is that Lightworks Create is too stripped down, and Lightworks Pro is €19/mo.

i mean, i like it, but enough to pay the price of a phone subscription every month?

for comparison, full access to Adobe Creative Cloud costs €62/mo, and Lightworks is just one app.

press Fn+F2 for uhh

don't move your mouse

sometimes, you sit there at the UEFI shell of life, and you wonder what operating system you're going to run on your brain.

this is still sitting in my house. and it actually powers up just fine. the batteries appear to have fluffed up slowly over time. i have no idea how long they've been that way. the reason i haven't thrown it out is because i need it to extract files from an APFS drive. you don't usually have extra Macs sitting around just for fun, unless you're obscenely rich.

i'm wondering how much it would cost to pay for a battery replacement. the iFixIt guide for DIYing it was very long and full of warnings, so i'm thinking "expensive" and not worth it.

i never removed the bottom lid of a MacBook and had it go "boing" before. the whole case was warped and as each screw got undone, the lid bounced up.

oh no, why does this app get confused about 200% GUI scaling in KDE? i use a 4K monitor, so i need that.

this app appears to do the scaling twice, so it's 400% instead of 200%. some of the bigger windows won't even fit on the screen anymore.

it was working fine with 200% scaling in Xubuntu on Wayland.

why :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:

why do they have to make it so complicated? the user shouldn't have to think about this. it should just work, like it does on every other platform that normal humans use.

the limit for "this isn't as good as it could be" was kind of already exceeded for me when the Linux desktop environments i have tried so far failed to simply default to 200% scaling initially when they saw that a 3840x2160 monitor was plugged in, and it just got worse after that.

now i have this one GTK app (alsa-scarlett-gui) that looks gigantic because it scales twice as much as it needs to. meanwhile, GIMP (which is also a GTK app) has normal menus but tiny icons and controls.

:thisisfinefire:

:trollface:

if i was in charge of making a commercial OS based on Linux, i probably wouldn't call it Linux. i'd also throw out most of the GUI stuff and make my own. which is essentially what Android is, and ordinary people actually want to use it. macOS and iOS are similar except they did it with BSD instead of Linux.