vortexal

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I haven't been paying to much attention to the news but I've heard that other, non-NATO, countries have threatened some of the countries that are just simply giving aid to Ukraine. So, I'd assume that those other countries would get involved in some way and just make things worse for everyone.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The thing that I don't understand is that, if this is such a big problem for Microsoft, why not just remove the system requirements or at least make an alternative version of Windows 11 that, even if it lacks certain features, doesn't have those requirements?

Microsoft wants people to switch to Windows 11 but a majority stay with Windows 10 because their systems don't have what's required and they're either not willing to use Linux or they can't for what ever their reason is. Making Windows 11 more accessible to Windows 10 users would fix this problem for most users but they're not for some reason. I know they're Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care about their users but they're seemingly willing to lose a significant portion of their users over something so insignificant, which is out of character for Microsoft.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I know you're probably just joking but I'm not actually sure why it's called that. The only thing it does that other keyboards don't (outside of having more keys than anyone would probably need) is that, I'm pretty sure it's the smallest keyboard app for android. It's only 1 MB while the second smallest keyboard I know is the LG Keyboard and that uses a little over 4 MB.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

While I normally use whatever the default keyboard app is, I do sometimes use Unexpected Keyboard. It doesn't have auto-correct but it has more keys available than even normal keyboards do. It may take some getting used to though as, for example, to use the "alts" for each key, you have to swipe in that direction. So for example if you wanted to press "Esc" with the default settings, you'd press q and swipe diagonally down and to the right.

For customization, I don't know if you can add images or gifs but there is some visual options and you have pretty much full control over the layout of the keyboard and what keys it has.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I think since at least middle school. I was already aware of some of the lies and "half truths" that they were teaching us. I don't remember most of what they taught us but I remember telling some of my classmates about it and they acted like I was weird.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I can provide some examples if you are looking for something specific but to list some games that haven't been mentioned yet, there's:

The Touhou games along with the remixes/covers and fan games like the two "Touhouvania" games.

Most of the Castlevania games.

Most of the Sonic games and fan games like Sonic After the Sequel and SRB2.

And to go with something really obscure, Chaos Legion.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

There are currently two main reasons I don't use PeerTube:

  1. Videos have inconsistent playback performance.
  2. It's pretty confusing and difficult to use if you are just looking for an experience similar to YouTube.

If they can find a way to make playback performance consistent and make the entire experience better, then I'd consider using it. But, I already use YouTube alternatives like Odysee and Rumble, so I don't know how much I'd end up actually using PeerTube.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I'm going to assume that I can't just buy a 100$ gift card to buy multiple things, so I'd probably just buy a cheap tablet/phone or something.

On a bit of a tangent, I actually looked into android tablets to see if you could actually buy one for 100$. It looks like you can get some decent ones but I'm so confused by their wording. I hate that they seem to use the terms "ram", "rom" and "memory" both interchangeably and completely differently from how their used for PCs. Does anyone else have this issue or is the mobile market completely different from the PC market?

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

One that I'm aware of is "tskr" in Japanese. It's a slang term that derives from たすかる (tasukaru). The meaning depends on the context and it can mean something like either "you saved me" or "thanks for helping me".

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

It seems like I can't even use it anyways, lol. I'm using Linux Mint and the software required to build it is outdated.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's one that I've wondered for a while now. Awhile back, I found out that women don't have prostates but they can still feel pleasure from that hole. How can they feel pleasure from that hole if they don't have a prostate?

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

If the issue is with the DE, I'm actually using the Xfce edition of Linux Mint. I would just use VLC but it gives me performance issues because I don't have the best hardware and mpv seems to work much more efficiently. But yeah, changing the audio output fixed this issue, I'm guessing the flatpak version of mpv defaults to pipewire. I was curious and I did test pipewire with both versions and I got the same results that they did.

 

About a week ago, I tried to download one of their games but for some reason, every single game/app they ever released is completely missing from the Google Play Store. I can't even download them through my library. I tried sending them an email but they never responded. Both their social media and their website seem to be abandoned and mention nothing about their sudden disappearance. I don't think I've ever seen a developer just completely disappear like that, does anyone know what happened to them?

Also, because it's relevant to a recent movement* and I feel like mentioning it, the game I was trying to download was Lophis Roguelike:Card RPG game. I bought this game a few years ago but it didn't work on my tablet, so I added it to my backlog of android games, thinking that I could eventually try it on a different device. Seeing that this game is no longer officially available, this is a game that I payed for but never got to actually play.

*The movement I'm referring to is stopkillinggames.

 

I am having an issue with two different Bluetooth devices on one of my Android phone and I don't understand what's causing it because these two devices work perfectly fine on every other Android device I own. The first device is a Bluetooth mouse and apps that use the mouse directly (like either FreeDoom or Delta Touch) can only detect mouse movement when I am physically touching the screen. The other device is an 8BitDo SF30 Pro and apps can detect everything except for the D-pad and analog sticks unless I'm, once again, physically touching the screen.

Any ideas of what can cause this?

 

For example, if I wanted to always see rows 5, 10 and 15, as far as I can tell, I would have to freeze every row from 1 to 15. But is it possible to only freeze the specified rows so that if I scrolled down, the first four rows could be 5, 10, 15 and 20.

 

I'm not sure what fixed it because I tried multiple things yesterday, but it shutdown normally last night.

 

I wasn't sure how to word the title but what I mean by "semi-passively productive" is something that I can have running on the phone that requires little to no interaction and is in some way beneficial to me.

What I've been doing is just using a website called Musio (one of the sister sites of Hideout TV), which is a website where you can earn points by watching videos and redeem those points for gift cards. While the amount of points I've been earning has been significantly lower than it used to be, I have other reasons why I'm looking for potential alternatives, whether it be another website or an app. It doesn't have to be a "beer money" site/app either, it's just that I'm not sure of what else there could be. The only requirement that I have is that it can work on older android devices.

Also, yes I'm aware of r/beermoney on Reddit but I don't have a Reddit account anymore and it seems like some of the posts that the wiki on r/beermoney linked to have been deleted.

 

I usually keep the WiFi off but on my "new" phone, the WiFi adapter will randomly be on when I turn the phone on. So far I've tried the following, in order of when they show up in settings:

  1. In advanced WiFi settings, I've disabled "keep WiFi on when screen is off" but it seems to completely ignore this.

  2. Turned off WiFi scanning in the location settings.

  3. I checked app permissions but the permission to connect to WiFi either doesn't seem to exist or it's listed as something different. (If it's listed as "change system settings", I've already disabled all of the apps that had that.)

  4. I don't know if it had any impact on this issue but I did technically do a factory reset but it was for a completely different reason.

I've tried "just Googling" it but every article that pops up, either tells me to do something that my phone doesn't seem to have the options for or it tells me to do something I've already tried. The phone is an LG Rebel 4 running android 8.

 

Her phone is having two issues:

  1. Texts from other phones are received several hours after they were sent when she's away from home, texts that she sends always go through instantly. If she's at home, she always gets texts instantly.

  2. Her phone keeps coming up as "offline" on some other phones.

As I stated in the title, I'm not familiar with phones, so I have no idea where to even start with this. I have done nothing more than a google search that didn't give me any results relevant to the issues.

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