OverfedRaccoon 🦝

Just a spacefaring raccoon that’s eaten all the food onboard. Sorry.

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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • I’ll try and keep it short with a bullet list, as I can tend to be long-winded about everything.

    • Helped recover files on an old laptop in the Win XP days (how I got started).
    • Breathed new life into older hardware that was too crappy for Windows.
    • Thought it was neat, novel, fresh, etc.
    • Free. Why pay for or pirate Windows?
    • FOSS and, specifically, FOSS alternatives to paid software I’d otherwise have pirated.
    • Less targeted for malware.
    • Windows 11 says no to my aging, but plenty capable, computer (the last holdout on Windows til Win 10 hits EOL).
    • Reasonable, optional telemetry.
    • Not having to reboot (possibly more than once) during updates.
    • Fun to learn.

    There are some reasons to like Windows, but it’s harder to justify with the direction Microsoft is, and has been, moving.

    EDIT: To actually answer your question about Steam and Linux… because I have a Steam account that I’ve had for many, many years with 1000 games that predates me moving to Linux in a more serious capacity. While I could move to GOG (and have), I’m not just going to throw away my game library. But also, Steam working to make gaming more mainstream on Linux is a net positive for Linux in general. That was always the reason many people gave for why they wouldn’t switch - that, and proprietary software that won’t run on anything other than Windows or maybe Mac.



  • Do you know what instance it was hosted on? The only one I’m seeing was created 11 hours ago with two videos, so I’m assuming that’s not it. It’s possible the instance went down. I’d say it’s possible it was defederated, but we’re on different instances, so it’d have to be a big whoopsie to have been removed by multiple instances.




  • What, you don’t like to install the Web Store through a separate extension crx download, mess around in the settings, and enable dev mode? Wait til you hear what you have to do to get DRM working (Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, etc). Hint: It’s a separate zipped download of Widevine that you have to extract deep in the AppData folder, assuming you’re on Windows.


  • While I agree with this, it’s kind of a pain in the ass if you use extensions. You have to roundabout install the Web Store through a crx download, tinkering in the settings and enabling dev mode, then use that extension to install other extensions. And may the cosmos grant you mercy if you need to use DRM for Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, etc, and have to download the Widevine DRM stuff separately and unzip it deep in the AppData folder.

    It’s not impossible, but I guess I’m just saying that this probably isn’t going to be the answer for the everyday, average person.




  • I’ve heard Matrix is closer to Discord, but not quite as feature-rich - with the tradeoff being open source. I joined the Matrix room for Jerboa development just to follow along, and then my home Matrix instance has a chat it threw me in when first logging into Element that I let roll but mostly ignore. I have no idea what I’m doing or even why I really joined, other than to check it out for myself to see what it’s all about.


  • I don’t think I’ve been on IRC since 2006ish. It was the gathering ground for my favorite private torrent tracker at the time. We had internet radio and all kinds of fun stuff.

    Before that, like back in the AOL days, there were chat-based filesharing server rooms, where you would get a list of files, then request whatever illicit goods you wanted via chat commands.

    I’m not really sure what people use IRC for now, but it’s still active.


  • Some instances have a 100kb limit, which is understandable, but very inconvenient if you don’t have a way to shrink the filesize down. This is my best estimation as to why you get errors when trying to upload directly to posts, as it’s happened to me bouncing between various instances. There’s usually a statement in the “About this site”/sidebar area on your instance’s main page.

    Image uploads are limited to 100kb

    So you’ll have to use some alternatives; I’ve seen catbox.moe used a lot on Lemmy.