Notices by Dr. Fyzziks (drfyzziks@makervine.net)

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

@Polychrome This looks interesting/promising:

https://briarproject.org

@Polychrome The Flip is fun. Had two. Liked them. The Flip 3 developed dead pixels along the crease within a few months, but Samsung repaired it under warranty. Never had an issue with the Flip 4.

Biggest issue I had was that the cameras were so-so compared to other similarly priced phones. But the pictures it took were “good enough” most of the time.

@mike @Gargron Can confirm. Playback issues on both Safari 17.2 and Firefox 120.01 on macOS 14.2. The initial thumbnail loads, but when I click play I just get a spinning loading indicator. Seems to be specific to the Flipboard Peertube instance - I don’t run into this issue when playing video back on other instances, like @lonseidman’s https://peertube.lon.tv.