| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-23, 18:12 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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 Post: #21 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by Nicholas Steel With new features come great responsibility. Fortunately, we can already block ourselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-26, 17:47 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #22 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
March 1 = Feb 28  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-26, 18:55 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #23 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by Kawa I set my birthday to March 1, but my profile is displaying my birthday as February 28. Is there possibly some timezone stuff being applied to something it shouldn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-26, 19:00 in The State of JavaScript 2018
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Post: #24 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
There's never been a better time to be a JavaScript developer than now, and we're willing to bet that 2019 will make that even clearer! This hurts my soul. Excessive JS frameworks are one of the biggest reasons I'm trying to make a beeline out of this industry. It infuriates me how often used to do precious little but some lazy dev figured installing a framework and copying a tutorial was easier than actually learning how to do something in vanilla JS, leading to tons of pointless bloat, extra transfers, poor performance on client machines... But at least we can have fancy CSS animations, unnecessary AJAX, and loading the next article on scroll (eww) in places where they not only don't enhance but often distinctly detract from the user experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-27, 00:49 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #25 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Oh, good. I was having an existential crisis there. Thought I might have to see about getting my date of birth legally changed to Feb. 28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-28, 18:08 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #26 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by wertigon You've captured my two biggest reasons for sticking with Windows, right there. I'm pretty deeply invested in an Adobe workflow for... well, for all kinds of things. I'm on the publicity committee of my local community theatre, and I rely heavily on InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator for designing and laying out assets, logos, posters, and programs for our various shows. I'm a hobbyist photographer, and I rely on Lightroom and Photoshop for processing my raw images and making them look just the way I like. I'm a semi-freelance video editor, and my workflow is based in Premiere, Audition, After Effects, and Photoshop. (I'm the mythical guy who actually uses the whole suite instead of paying for it and only using one or two apps.) I'm well aware that there are alternatives to all of these things. I could absolutely save a subscription and move to Linux by switching over to GIMP, Scribus, Audacity, Inkscape, Da Vinci Resolve, and... uh, whatever is a good Lightroom alternative. But I've used these applications. Even after passing the learning curve of switching to a new app, there are too many UI headaches, poorly-labeled features, missing features, features that are technically there but don't work as well, etc. I recently did a major video project in Resolve, because the guy I was collaborating with didn't have Premiere and didn't want to pay for it. No big deal, I thought. But over and over again, I kept running into substantial limitations that Premiere just doesn't have.* And this is pretty typical of my experiences with cross-platform alternatives to Mac and Windows software. (I've heard Lightworks is pretty good, though? I'll have to play around with it, because I'm always on the lookout for good free video editing software that I can use to collaborate with folks who don't wanna pay for Adobe). Now, I get that I'm probably not a typical user. But gosh darn, ditching Windows for a better OS would be really hard for me (macOS would be a fairly easy change, but lolno). Both the reasons you mentioned apply to me in spades, so it's really easy for me to see how other people might have similar, albeit not identical, reasoning themselves. *Resolve limitations. There are a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-11-29, 00:04 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #27 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by panzeroceania I do, and I've heard good things about CaptureOne, but I am not serious enough about photography to spend more money on it right now when Lightroom is already quite good and included in a subscription that I'd be paying for anyway for other products. Maybe as I get more invested in photography, if I find myself butting up against limitations in Lightroom (which I haven't as of yet) then I'll check it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-01, 16:29 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #28 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Right now it seems Valve is doing more to bring gamers to Linux than the Linux community is. The work they've done with Steam, Dxvk, and Wine, both in improving compatibility and in automating the setup process (You install a Proton-supported game in Steam like you would install a native game in Steam, with the extra step of toggling a switch if you want to try your luck with unsupported games), is just what the gaming community needed. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see other companies copy this approach for cheaper/easier Linux compatibility on their apps than actually porting it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-01, 16:32 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #29 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Sometimes I feel like the only person who liked Circle of the Moon more than Symphony of the Night. Sure, the game was all but unplayable on a launch GBA (though perfectly fine on a GBASP, GB Player, DS, Emulators™, and more), sure the DSS system is totally broken, sure item drops are way too sparse... but I just love how tightly it controls, the layout of the castle, and the overall progression. The soundtrack, also, was top-notch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-02, 18:29 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #30 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
The US immigration issue is one that I remain astonished at how black and white people are seeing it despite the fact that it doesn't need a black and white solution. You've got one side that seems to want to let as few people into the country as possible, and another side that seems to want to let people in carte blanche and just stop enforcing immigration laws. Both seem to have largely forgotten that we have both illegal and legal immigration. I would love to see more legalized immigration and better enforcement on illegal immigration. The more people are allowed in through the proper channels: 1. the more safely we can assume that people trying to bypass the proper channels are up to something 2. the more tax money we'll get, because they won't feel pressured to work under-the-table jobs for fear of getting caught; some of this money can go to border patrol The popular notion that the immigration issue is as simple as either letting anybody in without any documentation or keeping everybody out is straight up ridiculous, and it drives me bonkers that this is how most immigration discussions are framed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-06, 06:56 in What...?
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Post: #31 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
I would summarize this as a board for discussion, projects, programming, emulation, hacking, and engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-06, 16:40 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #32 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by TheMTtakeover You seem to be misunderstanding what people have a problem with here. The problems people have with Red Hat and Canonical have very little to do with open source licensing and everything to do with monolithic, bloated software, corporate-style culture and development, and basically un-Linuxing Linux. Strong-arming the community into homogenizing everything and limiting user and developer choice is not good for Linux, and really ought to be saved for the proprietary realms of Apple and MS. Heck, I say this as someone who likes Windows, uses Windows 10 as my daily driver... Red Hat and Canonical are Microsofting up Linux, and that's a bad thing, even if the licenses remain open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-08, 00:27 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Post: #33 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce You're definitely better off for it. Garbage-tier rapper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-08, 01:07 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Post: #34 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Mozilla's response, trying to blame Microsoft for their own failure to gain or maintain any real marketshare, is absolutely hilarious. They've spent nearly a decade throwing away everything that made it unique or special, leaving little more than a second-rate Chrome copycat. That's not Microsoft's fault. That's not Google's fault. It's their own. For them to try to claim otherwise is utterly ridiculous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-14, 15:37 in Sales and giveaways
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Post: #35 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Well, if we're doing things that way... Fornite: Battle Royale is free to keep, if you pick it up any time in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-17, 18:29 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #36 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
For reasons even I don't fully understand—but might've been related to playing with shaders in Retroarch—I went back and played some Super Smash Bros. yesterday. Not Ultimate, which I was taking a break from, but the original N64 game. I'm amazed at how poorly this game holds up against its successors. Not just in volume of content, which I'm willing to overlook, but mechanically. The balance is all over the place, the controls are finicky, and the lack of charged smash attacks tends to make matches take longer than they need to. I also missed side specials, but that didn't hurt the experience nearly as much as I thought it would. In the end, the control and physics oddities just frustrated me to the point that I got annoyed into playing Super Mario 64 instead, a game which does hold up pretty well. Hard to believe I loved Smash 64 so much as a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-17, 19:48 in Misc. software
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Post: #37 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
OBS Studio is a really good choice most of the time. Slightly less performant than native solutions with lower-level access such as Nvidia's whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week, but more than makes up for it in sheer volume of options. The ability to use ffmpeg flags, in particular, makes it really, really wonderful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-19, 17:39 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 2)
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Post: #38 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
How can it be monoculture if the browsers aren't written in C♯? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-20, 15:59 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Post: #39 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by KoiMaxx using chrome's element inspector, i added .bottomlip {display:none;} and now she's making this face:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-23, 07:31 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #40 of 63 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1365 days Last view: 643 days |
Posted by tomman My hero. <3 (Note the lack of jest or sarcasm tags.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
