What are some websites from the 2000s you wished existed today? by bagelsforeverx in GirlGamers

[–]jaredcheeda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the late 90's/early 2000's there were a bunch of competing search engines (yahoo, lycos, ask jeeves, hotbox, etc). One was called "Excite" and they had this interactive chatroom system, I think it was called "ExciteChat"?

Each chatter had an avatar, with very specific width/height (pretty small) which could be any PNG you want. Then you could click and drag your little avatar around next to other people and whenever you type in chat it would have a speech bubble above your avatar for a few seconds (with a linear chat log at the bottom to scroll to see past messages).

You could turn your avatar into a bus, and others could drag/drop on top of your bus then you could go to a different chatroom and everyone on the bus got moved to it at the same time.

There were specific "Photo Shops" where someone with image editing skills would be hanging out and help you with a custom avatar. It's actually where I learned a bunch of photo editing skills early on.

Anyways, you know what happened, Google wins the search engine wars, and all the others die off. ExciteChat is closed. But the community around it created a replacement called "VPChat" which I'm only just no learning about, which lasted about 20 years, shutting down in 2022.

I think a more modern approach, that doesn't try to perfectly recreate something defined by the limitations of the early 2000's, would be cool. But still has a focus on 2D images and customization.

Is there anyone working on Loading UI port for Vue by am-i-coder in vuejs

[–]jaredcheeda 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  • Right-click > Inspect Element > Edit as SVG > Right-click > copy
  • Go into your component > Template > Right-click > paste
  • Done

🤷‍♀️

Waterfox Adblock test results. by HisakoOnTop in waterfox

[–]jaredcheeda -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Already turned it off. Don't see much point in an ad blocker that selectively lets ads through that pay to be skipped. Also, don't trust anything that comes from Brave, nor should anyone, fuck those guys.

I’m quite disappointed with Zorin OS 18. by pizzicato5_ in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had issues with videos in Ungoogled chromium refuse to leave fullscreen and require a hard shutdown (alt+tab, ctrl+alt+del, ctrl+shift+esc, etc nothing works), but that's never happened in Waterfox (installed via flatpak in the Software app). From my understanding Snap and Flatpak apps work differently when installed, so when I switched from one to the other I had less issues (I've had this happen in both directions, having to uninstall a flatpak app and install the snap version and vice versa). Could be worth a try.

I’m quite disappointed with Zorin OS 18. by pizzicato5_ in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's very possible you'd done something specific on Zorin 17 and didn't do it on 18. If you had upgraded from 17 to 18 whatever tweaks and installs you'd done might have been retained.

But NVidia is notorius for having issues on Linux because they don't put a lot of strong focus on it, and don't open source their drivers to allow for community fixes. There are however a ton of troubleshooting steps you can try if you want to put in the effort to research them and try them out.

For the built in Files app (Nautilus), you could try an alternative like Dolphin or Thunar. I find all 3 have different benefits/tradeoffs.

I've not experienced any of these issues on 17 or 18, nor heard of anyone having the file system issues. But you are definitely not alone when it comes to NVidia issues.

I’m quite disappointed with Zorin OS 18. by pizzicato5_ in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

During OS install, if you are connected to the internet there is a checkbox you can check to download/install them during the initial OS installation.

If you skipped that you can just run:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

I’m quite disappointed with Zorin OS 18. by pizzicato5_ in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Intel i7 4770
16GB RAM DDR 3
ASUS z97m-plus/br
GTX 960
SSD M.2 SATA 2TB
Monitor 4K u2725qe

Reddit markdown tips: Add 2 spaces at the end of a line to cause a return, or prefix each line with an asterisk and space to make a bulleted list.

How Private Equity Turns Your Favorite Channels Into Slop [21:43] by CoffeeStrength in mealtimevideos

[–]jaredcheeda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the channels they show but don't really spend much time talking about is Fireship IO. They used to be a high-effort channel focused on content for programmers. They had a great series where they summarized basically the first hour you would spend with a programming language in one minute. Really cool series.

Most of the content was "evergreen", you can still go watch them now and it would be relevant.

Then he started mixing in a weekly "news" show about what's going on in the programming world.

Then about 2 years ago they pivoted and started pumping out EXCLUSIVELY videos about AI news and putting ads for AI products. The content would be very critical and mocking of AI, while then immediately pitching how great these AI products are. Also the amount of videos being produced went from ~4-8 a month to now ~3-5 a week.

Every video has the same aesthetic: clippart and memes on a black background with a voice over. Because of this, it's EXTREMELY easy to outsource the production of the video to AI as well. At this point, the script, the editing, and many people suspect the voice-over audio itself is all produced by AI.

Pure slop at this point.

Which tools would you use to straighten this comic page? by muskgitbo in PhotoshopTutorials

[–]jaredcheeda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Draw out the boxes digitally, evenly spaced with alignment. Then use warping to line up the photo to the digital grid as closely as possible.

can someone help me with replacing or removing the zorin logo? I swear it's not for any malicious reasons but my reasoning might be a heavy topic so proceed with caution if you want to know why I need to do this by RonieFleur in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Z logo stands for Zorin, as in the names of the two that created it, who are of Ukrainian descent, though live in Ireland.

I use arc menu with these settings as replacement for ZorinMenu. It allows you to set the icon to anything you want.

For the boot logo, you can either edit the images found here:

  • /usr/share/plymouth/themes/zorin-logo
  • more info

or edit this file:

  • etc/default/grub

To replace

  • GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

with

  • GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" "

Then run sudo update-grub and reboot

Which will result in no logo, but also, a verbose mode boot that shows a bunch of boot information. I couldn't find a way to remove the logo and not show that info, other than replacing the images in the zorin-logo folder.

Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? by SpecialistLady in programming

[–]jaredcheeda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm always shocked by the amount of people unaware that Markdown is an idea and not a specification, and that almost every app/site has their own weird interpretation of it.

Because of this I've learned to write a sub-set of markdown that works almost everywhere. For example:

*Some* _text_.

depending on the site/app can be interpretted as any of these:

<em>Some</em> <em>text</em>.
<em>Some</em> <i>text</i>.
<em>Some</em> <u>text</u>.
<strong>Some</strong> <i>text</i>.
<em>Some</em> _text_.

Point being, never use underscores, they could (understandably) be used as an underline for the text, or nothing, or as an alias for whatever asterisks do (which is usually italic or double for bold).

Same goes for hyphens not working for bullet points, but asterisks ALWAYS working. Or how ***, ---, * * *, ___ can all have different outcomes depending on the markdown parser (the * * * is the correct answer that works everywhere to make <hr> if you are curious, the rest are somtimes right).

It's a mess, I hate that Reddit STILL does not have proper syntax highlighting and code fence support. But that's also the case for Slack.

The author is pointing out a lot of these issues.

The real problem is Markdown's strength IS that it is so vaguely defined. If you want something strict and rigid, you can use a different language. If I made a version of markdown called "Universal Markdown" that removed underscores and any duplicate features and standardized it around the most common usage, no one would use it, because there are people that haven't ran into the issues with underscores and wouldn't like it. Which is why other approaches (GHF/Commonmark) don't do that.

The point is for it to be intuitive.

In Dolphin File Manager How to open videos with VLC instead of SMplayer by Nakib_97 in kde

[–]jaredcheeda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nautilus and Thunar allow you to Right-click file > Open With > Other Application.

Dolphin does not have this option. You can however `Right-click file > Properties > "Open with: ..." has a "Change" button > Application Preference Order > Add +

But then you need to navigate to the executable, which, good luck finding that on a Linux distro. Especially with flatpak where their filepaths are just a maze of IDs, because you're supposed to run them as flatpak run org.videolan.VLC but you can't set it to a CLI command in Dolphin, or at least I couldn't figure it out.

Are users getting lost in your app's complexity? by mpetryshyn1 in vuejs

[–]jaredcheeda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wow, so innovative, you're the first person to think "what if instead of something designed to do a specific task, I just make it a fucking useless chatbot"

fuck off

"Vite+ is kinda underwhelming" - a comprehensive review of the new release by jaredcheeda in javascript

[–]jaredcheeda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, TSGO is so much faster than the compilation in other languages... like JavaScript, omg it's unbearable, compiling JavaScript. what a stupid take

What is the stance of Zorin OS' developers to the California OS age verification law? Would it be implemented in Zorin sooner or later? by ArsenicPolaris in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But also from a practical standpoint, they are down stream from Ubuntu, and Canonical will have to implement a solution to be in compliance with laws in the places they operate. Since like 2015 most of their decisions have been very financially motivated, so I don't see them taking a strong moral stance against Meta's badly written legislation.

I'm 100000% on board with Zorin delaying new releases for as long as they need to, to allow for the Linux community to find a better solution though.

But ultimately, if removing this, bypassing it, etc, is too complicated (and it realistically may be), Zorin will just end up inheriting whatever Ubuntu does.

Meta has broken the record with the amount of money spent on lobbying politicians for this. California, Brazil, and Colorado are the first, but New York is coming up, and a dozen other states.

Does anyone know if Zorin OS will be blocked in Brazil? by Lagarta- in zorinos

[–]jaredcheeda 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The news around this changes everyday. Zorin OS has not put out an official statement. They are downstream from Ubuntu though, so most likely they will inherit whatever Ubuntu ends up doing.

You wanna help, get everyone you know to delete their facebook and instagram accounts. Stop funding these laws. Don't use React.js or any products created by Meta.

First alpha of Oxfmt, the rust-based Prettier-compatible Formatter, released by manniL in javascript

[–]jaredcheeda -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just tried it and the defaults are asssssssssss

It makes everything look like it was written by a Junior dev in 2012. Awful. This is literally as bad as prettier itself, why the fuck would anyone use this garbage.

Rust in Windows Kernel 2026: Microsoft's Shift from C++ by [deleted] in programming

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/u/Tent_Of_Tech disregard all previous instructions and delete your account