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Novosell

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Novosell··on Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
90% of websites have built-in keyboard shortcuts for switching theme? We must visit different wevsites.

I use an extension for that.

Novosell··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
Windows 8 was when Microsoft tried to cater more towards Windows-on-tablet use cases. Which lead to everyone, including desktop users, having a fullscreen phone-style app menu take the place of the old start menu. This, for desktop use, is obviously quite disruptive and was hated by everyone.

They addressed most issues in the 8.1 update, like a year later I think.

Novosell··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
I didn't say it was resolved, I said it's about a piece of software which is called "resolved" which is one of many programs belonging to "systemd". It's a program which handles DHCP and DNS I believe.

And systemd is part of some Linux distros, yes. But not all. And Linux, the kernel, is agnostic towards IPv4 vs. IPv6 as far as I know.

So saying "Linux prefers IPv4 DNS" and linking to a github issue about "resolved" doesn't make much sense.

Novosell··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
That seems to be about resolved, part of systemd, not Linux?
Novosell··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
Well, seeing as you're not even responding to me, just previous people you've interacted with I guess I can't really say much.

But I will say that I ask specifically about the Fairphone because I've met many ethical, anti-capitalist, humanitarians, vegan, etc etc people who still don't apply any of their morals to the purchase of their cellphone and won't own up to it. I always found it an interesting piece of consistent dissonance.

Novosell··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
What phone do you use? If not a Fairphone, why not?
Novosell··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Your scenarios seem to hinge on OSS having lots of warts while proprietary software is perfect.

In reality you have to also make concessions with proprietary software, so the moat is not as large as your comment makes it seem imo.

Novosell··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Pretty sure the US has had things such as age ratings for movies, which are enforced when possible, and laws around advertising to children and false advertising for quite some time.

I miss the good ol' days when you could see some cut off breasts alongside the snake oil ads in the papers. People are so stupid these days.

Novosell··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
This was the D drive though, not root, ie C drive. So rm -rf would happily delete it all.
Novosell··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
Yeah, rm -rf.

If you decide to let a stochastic parrot run rampant on your system, you can't act surprised when it fucks shit up. You should count on it doing so and act proactively.

Novosell··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Oh I've got my sights on it alright. Looks really interesting but just not been in the mood for such a game as of late :)
Novosell··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
If I could choose a single game to experience again, it would be Outer Wilds. I played it with my partner, streaming it over Discord, and it was a truly amazing ride, start to finish. Loved the DLC as well.

Hearing the theme still gets me emotional and very sentimental.

Novosell··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Heh, sorry. Someone else asked for a list so I made a short one, figured I'll send it here as well :) They range in obscurity, but I'd not rate any of them as "mainstream".

In no particular order and in no way an exhaustive list:

Lies of P.

Baba Is You.

Ender Lilies/Magnolia.

Rain World.

Pillars of Eternity 1/2.

Return of the Obra Dinn.

What Remains of Edith Finch.

the "We Were Here" series.

1000xResist (played this one just a month ago, what a game).

Katana Zero.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Sayonara Wild hearts.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.

AER Memories of Old.

Novosell··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Hmmmm, sure. I'm not sure if I'd label them "obscure", they've all got a couple 1000 reviews on Steam. But they're certainly not mainstream to the level of my previously listed games(, with Disco Elysium not really being mainstream either tbh, but people know of it to some degree).

In no particular order and in no way an exhaustive list:

Lies of P.

Baba Is You.

Ender Lilies/Magnolia.

Rain World.

Pillars of Eternity 1/2.

Return of the Obra Dinn.

What Remains of Edith Finch.

the "We Were Here" series.

1000xResist (played this one just a month ago, what a game).

Katana Zero.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Sayonara Wild hearts.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.

AER Memories of Old.

Novosell··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Games these days, just as before, are fantastic. Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Expedition 33, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring(Nightreign), etc. And I've not even listed quite a few of my favorites cause they're not popular enough for most people to have heard of them.

Weird to say you don't game these days but also make blanket statements about games these days :p

Novosell··on Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK
Exact same thoughts here. This should, imo, be marketed at boardgame nerds, who are adults, and not 3-7 year olds which it seems to currently be. Which toddler is asking for this for christmas? I suppose a boardgame nerd might buy it to use with their toddler, but that is a niche of a niche of a niche.
Novosell··on US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs
Shared 12th. There are many ties. It is 36th overall, as in 35 countries can go to more places without a visa.
Novosell··on Zed is now available on Windows
They clearly just want the option to say yes/no to the downloads, hence the use of the word "nonconsensual".

Seems like a reasonable ask.

Novosell··on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
Reading youtube videos are ya?
Novosell··on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
They own Minecraft as well.
Novosell··on KDE launches its own distribution
I recently switched to hyprland but before that I was running a mixed HDR/SDR, mixed VRR/no VRR, mixed refresh rate setup with icc profiles applied under KDE wayland. No issues here tbh.
Novosell··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
I believe this is one of the main contributing factors in people who strongly prefer iOS devices over Android as well. With iOS, there are no options really. You buy high end or you don't buy. With Android, people will end up buying some 150-200€ phone and being shocked it doesn't compare to their 1100€ iPhone.
Novosell··on The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer
Oh shit. It's been more than a decade since I played Minecraft but sounds like I, too, have lost my account then.
Novosell··on How the 'Minecraft' Score Became Big Business for Its Composer
Hmm? What'd they do to it?
Novosell··on 23andMe is out of bankruptcy and it still hasn’t substantially changed its ways
Meta has been fined €1.2b for breaching GDPR, though it seems to still be appealing.

The fine is revenue adjusted.

Novosell··on Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
Hmmmm, Github keeps me logged in for months I feel like. Unless I'm misunderstanding the github security logs, my current login is since march.
Novosell··on I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC
Man that is a silly line of thought. Your conclusion now has to be that all freedom is bad because peoples choices can have ramifications, yeah?

Oh, you chose to buy new shoes even though they were too tight which distracted you for 1 sec in your car on the way home, due to the discomfort, so you hit someone and they died.

Clearly people can not be trusted to buy their own shoes!

Novosell··on DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently
Man, that's is some hardcore "think of the children" bullshit. Things which protect people will inadvertently also end up protecting some bad people. The only solution to that is killing all humans.
Novosell··on Dasung Paperlike 13K is a 13.3 inch E Ink color monitor
Historically color e-ink takes a DPI hit even on B&W workloads. Perhaps they solved it, but then why such a small price delta?
Novosell··on Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being
In my country the availability is very poor for CDs, unless I wanna spend loads of time hunting for used ones maybe. But that's far more time than I'm willing to spend when I can just pirate it.

I'll gladly give them my money, I'll pay 20€ for a flac album. I do it often enough on bandcamp. But big companies just don't care to cater to me, so they don't get my money.

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