avapa

joined 1 year ago
[–] avapa@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

AMD GPU + KDE Plasma with Wayland finally gets me close enough to the smoothness of Windows, especially the per-display settings for fractional scaling and high refresh rate were sorely lacking on Linux. It’s not perfect yet (and neither is Windows’ implementation) but it improved the Linux desktop experience a ton!

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YouTube Shorts doesn’t even work properly for me. At least half the videos, that are suggested to me, I’ve already seen multiple times before. Boring, as you said. I’ve found myself staying off of social media or news sites more in the last couple of weeks. News’ll make me depressive, social media bores me. Then again, more time for hobbies!

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just went the ol’ VPN route and got a YouTube Premium family subscription in Turkey. It’s about 2€/month for 5 people; peanuts essentially. I wish I could avoid giving money to Google entirely but I’m mostly using Apple devices to consume YouTube content and my four friends who share the subscription with me do as well. So yeah, that’s the trade-off I can live with.

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

With how many B-52s that carried thermonuclear bombs and crashed, I’m glad the US didn’t accidentally nuke itself and other countries.

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, beef jerky, even when making it yourself like @CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space does, can be quite expensive depending on where you live. Thankfully beef jerky doesn't require high-end cuts of beef. Round Eye is one of the preferred cuts and even in regions with relatively high prices for beef (e.g. Germany) it's still quite economical compared to store-bought Jack Link's.

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Japanese society is very old-fashioned, male dominated, hierarchical and “I’m older than you so that means I’m right”. Japan’s cybersecurity minister admitted a couple of years ago that he had never used a computer in his life. While I understand the frustration it is (unfortunately) not surprising that these changes do not happen in a timely fashion.

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mlem has become really good since they updated the app two days ago.

 

Was just wondering if that was a reasonable and ethical way of growing Lemmy...

[–] avapa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I don’t know… Leaving privacy aside (we are on /c/privacyguides mind you) it’s not that bad but it has become so incredibly bloated with features that I almost feel overwhelmed especially coming from stock Chrome or Firefox. Might just be me tho