Shihali

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A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you!

A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What is the setting in about:config to opt out of this?

Censorship on feddit.org in c/agora
[–] Shihali 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't see any relevant surviving quotations elsewhere in the pinned post, and I'm not going to go through a whole community looking.

Censorship on feddit.org in c/agora
[–] Shihali 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Looking at feddit.org's homepage now, it has this rule:

"Content that is illegal in Germany, Austria or Switzerland will be deleted and can lead to an immediate ban of the account." (emphasis mine)

I am totally ignorant of how German law applies to social media hosted in Austria and moderated by Germans, but the intent to not host content illegal in Germany seems clear and a clear motivation for their censorship. I also can't evaluate the quality of their censorship because I'm not familiar with the requirements of German law.

I wish some of those comments “just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy” had survived, because without them it's your word against theirs. :(

Censorship on feddit.org in c/agora
[–] Shihali 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

SJW here has similar policies to feddit.org. If it's illegal in Canada, it can't be hosted here, even if it's legal in your country of residence.

Are there any comments that were "just expressing dissatisfaction and questioning the policy" that survived in the modlog? It's got a lot of users banned without a record of the comment.

LibreOffice 25.2.3 released in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is OnlyOffice's offline performance and support for Graphite smart font technology? I use Graphite fonts and no support for those is a deal-breaker.

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Tab groups? (self.firefox)
 

Did anyone else have tab groups become disabled by default in the last few days? I'm on the beta version, and existing tab groups remain but I can't make new ones in 138.0b8 and 138.0b9.

I wonder if there's a story behind this, like being disabled due to instability.

Need help for very different fonts rendering on the same setup (i3wm + i3status) on 2 different machines (Fedora and Arch) with FontAwesome 6 in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 1 points 1 month ago

Font Awesome is a font that uses codepoints in the "Private Use Area" for icons. (The Private Use Area is a chunk of Unicode specifically set aside for any font to put any image they want in there, instead of expecting a certain codepoint to display as a specific letter.)

To the OP: I don't know much about this, but if you use a different app, does Arch's Font Awesome show as the colored or B&W version? You might have to try a wide variety of apps due to competing color font standards.

What is your best supernatural anime? in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 2 points 2 months ago

Mononoke came to mind although there probably is a better one.

Nightly users can now enable a tab strip in Firefox in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 2 points 2 months ago

I've been using vertical tabs for a while now. It rearranges your address bar and that's going to take some time and annoyance to sort out, but I've got it back to where I like it.

Vertical tabs aren't as great as they would have been ten years ago. So many websites nowadays use a two- or three-column layout to use the excess horizontal space on a normal screen, and having the vertical tabs showing full length often compresses those. Thankfully there's a button to switch between full-length tabs and just the favicon for those sites.

What's up with the isekai genre? Are there any *good* isekais out there? in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 2 points 2 months ago

I haven't watched them, but I've heard little but good about Twelve Kingdoms, Magic Knights Rayearth, and El-Hazard.

How often do you downgrade Firefox versions or workaround issues? in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 1 points 2 months ago

I have often had to go into about:config to revert unwanted new behavior, but never had to downgrade.

#Firefox 136 Enters Public Beta Testing with Hardware Video Decoding for #AMD GPUs on #Linux, Vertical Tabs, and More in c/[email protected]
[–] Shihali 2 points 3 months ago

There is a possible fix!

  • Go to "about:config" in the adress bar
  • Search for "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant"
  • Toggle both entries for variant-a and variant-b to false

Variant-B was "true" for me.

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How to clean Diamine Imperial Purple stains out of a cartridge? (self.fountainpens)
submitted 7 months ago by Shihali to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

I tested Diamine Imperial Purple in a reused Sailor cartridge before putting it in a demonstrator, and the result was a stained cartridge. I love the color, but I haven't had any luck getting it out of my cartridge with water, soap, a little bit of ammonia, and time.

I don't write much, so a pen could stay inked up for months on end.

Is there a way to get this color out of plastic? Is it safe to use in converters and demonstrators without staining them too?

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Why is quakers.social defederated? (self.main)
submitted 8 months ago by Shihali to c/main
6 comments fedilink
 

quakers.social shows up on our list of blocked instances, but looking at the most recent posts at https://quakers.social/public/local I can't see why. They seem like a harmless group with a lot of religious reposts. Does sh.itjust.works have a policy of reciprocal blocking or something like that?

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Washable inks? (self.fountainpens)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Shihali to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink
 

Are there any inks that wash out of clothing very quickly and easily? I'm especially interested in inks that wash out cleanly without stain treatment.

Edit: Washing quickly and easily off the toddler is a bonus.

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Why don't we have AAA Puzzle Games? (self.truegaming)
 

This copies a post by grailly on Reddit.

Most games have adopted popular RPG mechanics and it's widely accepted that "everything's an RPG now". RPGs are also some of the biggest and most popular games around.

I'd argue that Puzzle Game mechanics (aka puzzles) are even more widespread than RPG mechanics throughout the media. However, Puzzle Games themselves are pretty niche and basically never get any big budget titles. This gets more surprising when realizing Puzzle Games are very popular; Tetris might just be the most recognizable video game, Portal (Portal 2 might be the only AAA puzzle game?!) is insanely beloved, wordle took the world by storm last year, sudoku and crosswords are still in the newspaper every day, Candy Crush...

Why do you think Puzzle Games are relegated to being indie or AA?

I thought about it a bit and came up with some unbaked responses which I hope you will add to:

  • People want to kill stuff in AAA games. To which I answer, can't we kill stuff in puzzle games?

  • There's little point to making Puzzle Games more expensive. Would having The Witness or Talos Principle pushed to AAA status make them any better?

  • "Puzzle" is a recessive genre. Add anything to a puzzle game and they aren't considered puzzle games anymore. So making a AAA Puzzle game will basically remove its Puzzle Game consideration. Puzzle + exploration = adventure. Puzzle + fighting = Action adventure. Puzzle + story = walking simulator, etc.

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Recommended mods for Crusader Kings II? (self.paradoxgames)
 

What mods are highly recommended for Crusader Kings II? I haven't gotten the new one yet -- had to get a computer that can run it first -- so I'm still interested in mods for the old one.

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Lay practice in Tibetan Buddhism? (self.buddhism)
 

What do Tibetan Buddhist laypeople do as routine practice? Also, does it vary a great deal from person to person or group to group? All the practices suggested online add up to a part-time job or more, so I have to wonder what recommendations are given to people with jobs and small children (or demanding pets).

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How do we report spam communities? (self.main)
submitted 2 years ago by Shihali to c/main
8 comments fedilink
 

Just today these are some communities created on this instance:

https://sh.itjust.works/c/tutoiementunboaste https://sh.itjust.works/c/unrenewablesubpana https://sh.itjust.works/c/vegetarianprogramm https://sh.itjust.works/c/myelopetalplainnes https://sh.itjust.works/c/waylaidmegasses https://sh.itjust.works/c/expiateshottie https://sh.itjust.works/c/knackwurstsreearn https://sh.itjust.works/c/sculptedsixteenpen https://sh.itjust.works/c/anelesunimitablene https://sh.itjust.works/c/ebonistregenerativ https://sh.itjust.works/c/extensionlessvulca

Is there any way to report this spamming? In particular is there any way to report this spamming that doesn't require creating a separate account on a separate system?

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