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Farran
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Yo hi! I usually post things about linguistics, science, biology, environmental science, health, and recently, some stuff on numbers. I'm an advocate for freedom of communication I'm a bunch of things but I mainly focus on environmental science, training people into becoming scientists, and an array of aspects about communication. A strong future for humanity and life depends on good community and good communication. I accidentally became a linguist, and I've made a few alphabets, my latest one is called NewEng and it does a good job of encapsulating both English pronunciation & its accents, and English etymology.
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Farran 55 mins ago
Also odysee was set to import my youtube videos but it never stayed up to date with new videos so I ignored it and uploaded them myself. Now apparently it's started auto-importing them, retroactively too, so I have dupes everywhere The modern internet is fucking shite i am SO TIRED
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Farran 58 mins ago
> uploaded a vid to YouTube slightly over 3 mins > too long for a Short > no views > reuploaded under 3 mins, classed as a Short > zero views > presumably googie's "ai" detected that it's the same content so has shadowbanned it im very tired of googie woogie
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Farran 4 days ago
Pro tip for saving storage space: Use Photoshop in 8-bit colour mode — you almost definitely don't need 16-bit. * I'm a human who uses m-dashes
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Farran 1 week ago
If your app says "utilises ML" instead of "ai" I am 1000% more likely to use it
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Farran 1 week ago
using libreoffice on KDE but the page rendering keeps glitching? launch the app with the environment variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 for way better performance and no random glitchy rendering artefacts
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Farran 2 weeks ago
You post with AI, I unfollow I advise we all do the same
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Farran 2 weeks ago
What's the point of Aurora Store if every app I try to install just fails
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Farran 3 weeks ago
General call for all apps which run services to have a "Shut down app" menu option. There's a ridiculous amount of apps that just launch themselves and/or are unquittable. They shouldn't launch themselves for no reason, and we shouldn't need to quit them by Force Quit
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Farran 3 weeks ago
General call for all developers to migrate away from GitHub. The recent drama issues are of course a major reason, but also lately the downloads are often slow or unreliable.
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Farran 3 weeks ago
If you're struggling to get PPD (power profiles daemon) to work correctly without systemD (SysVinit, openRC, runit, dinit) then try TLP. I just installed it in Devuan and it works fine, and tlp-pd integrates well with KDE Plasma (and other DEs). Moreover, my laptop battery now lasts longer :))
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Farran 1 month ago
So they're allowing ai generated code into the Linux kernel. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.
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Farran 1 month ago
Use Wine? Pro tip for desktop apps: Sym-link the folders you need into the virtual drive_c/users/username directory. Then you can access them directly through the dreaded wine file browser.
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Farran 1 month ago
Very funny that gnome apps launch instantly in KDE, compared to 0.5-3+ seconds in.. gnome
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Farran 1 month ago
Pro tip: DEcrease automation in your life. You'll find yourself more in touch with things and people. You'll be more aware of what you're doing; and what your devices are doing; and what condition your objects, spaces and relationships are in.
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Farran 1 month ago
i hope the kde dev community recognise the direction of the wind and don't make kde+plasma dependent on systemD. it's time to re-connect to the fully-modular nature of linux
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Farran 1 month ago
when you look... you'll see quite how different the gnome devs are from the kde devs. kde & plasma respect the user -- that's us, the community. gnome fucking hate their users.