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Riley

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  • Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection

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  • 95 missing episodes remain.

  • (Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy?

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  • I'm 26, used Reddit for a long time, but the primary way I came to find out about Lemmy was because I was already on Mastodon and a fediverse enthusiast. I was here before the API scandal.

  • Are apps such as Saily safe?

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  • I used it the last time I travelled, it worked just fine, and I assumed it did the regular amount of data harvesting my daily phone and internet service providers do.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • The issue I had with my previous Lenovo Thinkpad wasn't that it wasn't repairable when it broke, it was. The issue was that the cost of just replacing the keyboard was prohibitively high. Higher than the cost of a new laptop. So it became e-waste.

  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • The Switch 2 having already outsold the Steam Deck at a 5:1 ratio shows that, as awesome as the hardware that Valve makes is, they simply aren't pushing it in a way that will capture the mainstream. They can certainly "win" the console generation by making a device that is better than the PS5, but they have 10+ years of work ahead of them if they want to win any console generation in terms of units sold.

  • How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread

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  • Had my first in-person class with a tutor after getting fed up with iTalki's prices (and also feeling like online tutors broadly just don't care as much about their students). It went fantastically. Added a bunch of new vocab to study thanks to that first class. Hoping to focus more on grammar.

    Today is day 667 of flashcards.

  • Samsung Galaxy XR Offers Comparable Vision Pro Specs & Features at Half the Price

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  • I still feel like this new wave of higher end headsets (the Vision Pro and Galaxy XR) are lacking in functionality and content compared to either a PC headset or a Meta headset. Really weird having two devices that are 3x-10x the price but only a 20% improvement spec-wise.

  • Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?

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  • I had a 1060 for a good few years that I used primarily with Arch and never really had an issue. At the time it didn't play nicely with Wayland, so I was still using Xorg instead, but I think that's a solved issue by now. Nvidia just doesn't support newer features as readily as AMD does it seems. It really should have no bearing on your ability to play games.

  • Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

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  • I'm so glad I don't use it anymore

  • SteamOS on my gaming PC?

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  • If I do opt for the Steam OS will my GOG Galaxy run on it or will I just have to launch the games directly? Most of the titles I play (other than the Halo games and Forbidden West) are using the Galaxy app.

    What GOG support will there be from SteamOS, if any?

    You'll be able to access those games through the Heroic Launcher, it should be able to handle any GOG games you have just as easily as Steam will handle Steam games.

  • Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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  • I've got a Google Pixel 3a with postmarketOS installed on it right now for testing, and it really is a two-pronged issue with both hardware and software. Because it's an older phone the battery drains within a few hours, nowhere close to all-day use. Because most of the software is designed for the desktop certain things are just impossible to use (the big pain point for me is Anki, but on the other hand it's impressive how many GTK apps conform very nicely to the screen). The keyboard still feels pretty rough.

    Hopefully the FSF dipping their hat into the ring will help existing projects like this in a rising-tide-raises-all-ships sort of way. Would be a shame for them to put effort into a software stack that goes nowhere (GNU Hurd), and pour $$$ into a hardware project that doesn't make it to market or doesn't do its job better than a cracked smartphone from 5+ years ago.

    I think it is possible to switch to it now and have things mostly work out for you, but it will make your life harder. I remember switching to Ubuntu around 2010 and it's almost to that level of experience. You'll be giving up a lot, apps you "need" won't work, but it's at the point where it is a complete usable experience. For those that are willing to suffer for FOSS, I mean.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Default Settings Are Eating The World

    audiovalentine.com /2025/09/default-settings-are-eating-the-world/

  • Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that

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  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace is over thirty years old now and still just as relevant

    folksonomy.co

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • > Vitalik Buterin

  • is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?

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  • Touching grass probably has us beat

  • The live-action "Legend of Zelda" film will feature Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link

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  • Not Hunter Schafer. I'm out.

  • Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'

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  • My biggest issues were that the world building felt so lazy, in that every faction essentially boiled down to Space America in various aspects. You got the Space American Liberal Authoritarian State, you got the Space American Cowboys, the Space American Technocrats, and the Space American Religious Fundamentalists. I found all of these factions kinda repugnant for one reason or another, and uninspired to boot, and so I never felt a pull to experience the world on a deeper level once I had gotten tired of the regular gameplay.

  • Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway

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  • No love for GNOME these days smh

  • If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica

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  • I'm really keen on one of these displays eventually, as I can set aside the issues with refresh rate and colour accuracy, but the price needs to drop way down. It needs to be competitive with regular LCD monitors.

    I look at terminals all day for work, this would make it so much more comfortable.

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  • I finally switched when I moved from Arch to Fedora and it's worked fantastically for me. This is where the Linux desktop is heading now for sure.

  • Doctor Who @lemmy.world
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    What did we think of "The Robot Revolution"?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Marathon | Save the Date Trailer

  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
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    Want to see more music in Vancouver? Check out this ActivityPub-federated calendar.

    cal.fiera.social
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    The Half-Life Delusion

    remapradio.com /articles/the-half-life-delusion/
  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed

    www.howtogeek.com /it-might-be-time-to-admit-the-great-vr-experiment-has-failed/
  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    TransLink is proposing massive cuts to the bus system in the Lower Mainland

    movementyvr.ca /save-the-bus/
  • Vancouver @lemmy.ca
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    The Vancouver Tech Liberation Workshop is happening April 19th.

    fiera.social /@riley/114168560014157905
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far?

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

    audiovalentine.com /2025/01/death-to-spotify-a-survey-of-alternatives/
  • Music @beehaw.org
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

    audiovalentine.com /2025/01/death-to-spotify-a-survey-of-alternatives/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?

  • Virtual Reality @lemmy.world
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    Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or stagnation

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/survey-says-half-of-developers-consider-vr-market-on-decline-or-stagnation
  • Godot @programming.dev
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Has anyone experimented with metaballs in Godot?

  • Virtual Reality @lemmy.world
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    Building VR with Godot, Inside of VR

    fiera.social /@riley/113254328983880536