When that one piece of software finally implements that niche feature you have wanted for the past 5 years (picture below of four guys on a sofa celebrating and pointing towards a screen outside of the image)

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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Me and everyone else with JXL in the browsers.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    I'm still pissed that Google essentially hostaged every browser into not supporting JXL in favor of AVIF because cheap ass google wanted to save on future cloud storage costs.

    Firefox literally had JXL years ago but it was a "test feature" you needed to enable manually.

    Now all of a sudden Chrome gets support and Firefox follows like the good little dog Mozilla is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    FreeCAD development basically.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago

    You can now toggle file extension exports to either be uppercase or lowercase

    This tickles the 'tism.

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  • [–] 92 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    I have been looking for a sudoku app which allows me to use different symbols rather than numbers because sometimes the numbers themselves confuse me, so using random symbols helps to keep them arbitrary. After years of waiting I submitted a feature request for Open Sudoku and a couple of weeks later it was implemented. Years of waiting, a few weeks waiting after asking, just amazing. Open Source software is definitely the future, and the communities around Open Source project, while a little variable, are absolutely outstanding.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it's preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.

    Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I'm sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations' drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There's a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.

    Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven't been looking. We've lived through the middle of something incredible. I'm sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn't thinking, they're going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.

    That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 days ago

    Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.

    It's hard to even convey how very true this is.

    Basically all of network infrastructure depends on open libraries. All of the most widely used cryptography standards are open source. There was a period when basically every server on the internet was an Ubuntu/Apache stack. The Internet Protocol itself is open, and would not function otherwise.

    Open source is the Internet. The Internet is open source.

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    [–] 5 points 1 day ago*

    GTA5 finally added the ability to make your own missions not too long ago, but only after I stopped giving a shit about playing the game.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 days ago* (10 children)

    Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. 👍

    Not that nieche, I bet a lot of people wanted it. Kinda surprised it took til v12

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Huh, this is something I have never thought of, and I'm not really sure what it's for... but it sounds like the idea is that you say upfront "play me the next 3 episodes of this show", and then it plays 3 automatically, and after the third takes you back to the menu? Fascinating.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    It's for people who use TV or spoken audio (podcast / radio show) as an environmental sleep aid / sleep cue. Electronics in general are suboptimal options for this but it's a common one that works well enough for some people.

    They're falling asleep to it, but they're usually still kinda paying attention to the chronological plot, so they want it to keep their place just after they slip into unconsciousness so they can just rewind 30-60min and keep watching from where they were instead of waking up 8 hours and a full season into the show later.

    Also some similar utility for people watching TV while doing chores who are just gonna kind of wander off near the end.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Wow, different worlds...

    But I'm glad those people have a nice feature in Jellyfin now!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    For me it's an AuDHD thing that covers attention issues as well as sensory ones.

    In my case, I don't listen to shows where I'd need this Jellyfin feature. It's usually videos of playthroughs or speedruns of old video games. It provides constant music while also having some progression to follow with the sound effects and changing tracks. So not unlike listening to a show in that sense.

    Having something to pay attention to keeps my mind from racing and keeps me from worrying about whether I'm falling asleep fast enough.

    And for whatever neurological reason, having constant sounds in my ears is soothing. In the same way quiet game sounds help me get to sleep, having some loud thrash metal in my ears helps me focus and get things done whether it's writing code or doing yard work.

    My personal theory is that audio-based stimulus helps press the pause button on my non-stop internal dialogue.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I completely get this. You check it so often that you start to recognize the usual reviewers and the little back-and-forth, and then one day that small feature you have been hoping for finally lands. It is funny how satisfying something so specific can feel after waiting that long.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Sync for Lemmy will be fixed any day now...

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  • [–] 33 points 2 days ago (19 children)

    I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it

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    [–] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Some know the OP is into GitLab more than GitHub ^^

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    krille-chan still refusing to review my room order and subspace categorization feature request for FluffyChat even though I've already created a mockup by directly forking and modifying the source code (twice):

    https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/issues/1326

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    When you have submitted multiple PRs and they get ignored even though you follow their ridiculously complicated CI and testing guidelines, so you just fork the repo and do whatever you want. (And then hope things don’t break a year from now because you aren’t pulling any new features and fixes.)

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