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I can't seem to find any such section.

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 2 days ago

Gotcha, and yes, another friend of mine uses iDrive for its insane deal!

[–] Flagstaff 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That instantly makes me recollect CTRL Z, this 21-min comedic sci-fi short film.

[–] Flagstaff 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

backed up to 3 separate cloud services

Why so many?

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Supplement?" I would have said "replace."

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 4 days ago

Right, and even outside of transgender situations, those languages already have numerous word or phrase exceptions to their gendering patterns, which makes this only trickier!

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Flagstaff to c/[email protected]
 
  1. Search "summit"
  2. Filter for communities
  3. See that it gets sorted by your post-sorting method when you instead want Top of All Time, so sort for that manually
  4. Go here to [email protected]
  5. Press the back button

Expected result: the search results should show what they were just showing a moment ago

Current result: the search results revert to whatever your account's default sorting method is

Way to make this a non-issue: add a separate sorting method when searching for communities versus other types of content

Thanks!

[–] Flagstaff 1 points 4 days ago

I tried it and it's awesome! But there are two features that Discord has over Element when it comes to these voice calls; in Discord, you can choose to not watch the stream (which can help save data for those with limited data at the time); Matrix, or at least Element(? Help me out here) forces all voice call participants to stream the screen-share.

Additionally, Discord outlines avatars in green when they're saying something, which is a handy mic test feature, whereas Element(/Matrix?) gives no visual feedback.

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I got confused by that at first because while things did get heated, Ada is not a mod of this community—which is on lemmy.world, not lemmy.blaha.zone. I had also responded the way I had without knowledge of the deleted content, because I hadn't actually been functioning here as a moderator until after this post; I had a cross-instance access issue prior for quite a while. I've still got a fair chunk of Fediverse operations and procedures to learn!

All I know for sure is that the mental health of both sides is crucial to try to uphold as much as possible, and more us-vs.-them-ing is pretty much the opposite of the way towards long-term, global peace. So it was my choice to have OP unbanned since there had been no warning issued directly by any local mod here, but we'll monitor and retake action if more daggers fly. Respectful(-enough) dialogue should always be allowed, though, and it's inevitable that things can get hairy when changing people's opinions. Maybe I'm too permissive, but I believe there was still potential for dialogue even at the height of conflict here.

The question is: do we (I mean generic "we" over any topic, not just this) actually want to try to influence someone toward a different view, or do we just lock them out and throw away the key and treat them as less-than-human, even if that's what they seem to have been doing themselves? Banning can easily feel like tremendously authoritarian silencing, as someone who has experienced unfair banning over misunderstandings elsewhere, so I don't do that lightly (unless the person is a scammer, a troll, or a repeat offender after having been warned—those 3 specific cases are my criteria, personally). Lots of large-forum experience over two decades went into developing this policy.

Edit: Oh, and correct, empathically connecting isn't an excuse for misbehavior but that was just a possible explanation.

[–] Flagstaff 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I had intentionally deleted my own comment because I hadn't read all of the other comments here at the time, and I realized that you and others have already said what I might have said. No one should shrug off the victim's pain, but I see the other side as well, especially given @[email protected]'s insightful response most recently.

This is all sort of annoyingly merely due to the phenomenon of certain language structures like English; for example, Indonesian doesn't have a "s/he" difference; the closest pronoun, "dia," is merely universal for all singular organisms and is most closely equivalent to "that person/animal." Basically, it sucks that this problem even exists at all.

[–] Flagstaff 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This was excellently well-worded and neutrally calm and cool, until part of your last paragraph that concerns me on here.

you were not the one abused, so why are you doing it?

I deduce that @[email protected] perhaps felt directly empathic about the incident, but now we may never know.*

obviously, we can't control your language.

Banning is language control, and even direct language control; please tell me how it is not. This (mindset overall) could lead to the path of thought police and authoritarianism over time, though I'm talking only in the scope of online forums, not national laws; if a person will not listen, just let them leave on their own instead of banning them. As a large-forum admin elsewhere myself, I would have issued a formal pre-ban warning instead regarding generally unacceptable misbehavior. That almost always suffices.

*Banning also eliminates our ability to uncover any possibly critical supporting details, and just overall reduces the person's likelihood of reflecting on and reconsidering, which defeats the purpose; do you actually seek reform and understanding, or just want to silence the opposition? I do not suggest banning unless a person is specifically trolling to get a rise out of someone. I don't think this person was trolling.

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Off-topic: why is @[email protected]'s username struck-through on my end (using Summit)? Did this user get banned here, too, or something?

[–] Flagstaff 1 points 1 week ago

I'd rather just play other games as I don't feel good about doing that, partly because I don't want to deal with any malware risk due to confidential information on my personal PC.

 

This appears to be the first post about it in the Lemmiverse (for this instance), so... here we go!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff to c/matrix
 

A frequent activity that my closest friend group likes to do is spectate on single-player games played by one person via screen-sharing (and we're mostly introverted so no Twitch for us lol; plus, that's Amazon's playground anyway). This is where Discord unfortunately reigns supreme: its screen-sharing is somehow absolutely fantastic and near-flawless.

I recently learned that Matrix has screen-sharing through this Discord age-verification article, which may be enough to finally make the push for my friends to consider Matrix; how is it in comparison? Does anyone here very frequently use it?

 

Update: Never mind; apparently something was just wrong with my Internet connection! The Revenge fork is pretty good so far.

The only active ones I could even open after installation at all say they can't find any commits. Has anyone gotten any of these to work? My social circle refuses to leave Discord and Revolt doesn't have screen-sharing.

 

I'm part of programming.dev and I feel like starting a /c/volumeeating (to mirror /r/volumeeating wouldn't really make sense there, haha.

 

I've had no ISP-provided Internet access since Feb. 2023 or so and, while it's been a pain at times, I still haven't caved into returning to the evil monopoly that is Spectrum, so far, and probably won't for as long as I can't land a remote job. ArrowDL, while not perfect, has been pretty good at download management for the most part in conjunction with mobile data-hotspotting.

 

When it comes to screenshooting ("screenshotting?"), I've never seen any tool even as remotely as capable as Summit; I think Thunder had some sort of system that builds it, but Summit appears to actually calculate the screen coordinates of content that displays on your device.

I never actually thought to press the button until now when I just tried it out of curiosity. Unbelievable!

 

For example, can FileAppend() be set to create something like %COMPUTERNAME%test.txt? I have no idea of what the code for this would be like, if so.

 

Can anyone help me figure this out?

I thought it was totally absent, which is why I went to ToolsCustomize and looked for it, but once I found where it would normally be put, it was apparently already checked! Yet I don't see it... I have no idea of what to do.

And no, it's not in the drop-down arrow by the "U," which is only more customization of the underline.

 

I thought in other word processors you could simply right-click them and find a "delete" button, but there seems to be no such thing in LO Writer. Does anyone have any leads? Much appreciated!

 

That would be awesome, if so!

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