Admiral Patrick

Instance admin of dubvee.org and maintainer of the Tesseract for Lemmy UI.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Latency is low enough to not be noticeable when playing video on my laptop and streaming audio to the desktop.

    That’s basically my use case. Want to use my HTPC as the source and some RasPi’s or repurposed thin clients as the sinks - pretty much what I do now with MPD and Snapcast. I absolutely do not want to have to mess with audio offset settings in Emby to keep the dialog in sync. lol

    I’ve only skimmed the docs (holidays are a huge time sink haha), but do you know if it can do one-to-many or just one-to-one? Like, can I have one source and multiple receivers? The docs seemed to imply it could do one-to-many, but I didn’t get to dive into them deep enough.







  • I was fine with Ubuntu until they started Snappifying every package and replacing the .deb packages in apt with stubs for their Snaps. All of the other annoyances were manageable, but that was a bridge too far.

    If I type apt-get install foo, I expect apt to resolve the dependencies for the foo package and install those. Instead, Ubuntu replaces the foo package with a stub that downloads the snap for it instead (as well as snapd if you have chosen to remove it).

    Before that, Ubuntu was fine albeit a little bloated. I’ve since gone back to vanilla Debian and couldn’t be happier.


  • Tesseract is ready, though current release is still in backwards-compatible mode for 0.18.x (none of the new 0.19 API features are enabled, but all primary functionality is tested against 0.19.0).

    However, it does have issues with the /comment/report/list and /post/report/list endpoints as well as /user/report_count. However, those are also throwing the same HTTP 400 errors as with Lemmy-UI 0.19.0-rc.4 (tested against voyager.lemmy.ml).

    The first two throw a 400 with the error not_an_admin even though I am moderating a community.

    I assume those are known issues?



  • (Please don’t take this the wrong way lol).

    My grandma would destroy laptops with malware and junkware within two weeks of me cleaning it. It was a never-ending battle.

    Since she mostly used it for FB and email, I wiped Windows and installed Zorin OS since it had the Windows look and feel she was familiar with. Problem solved.

    Other than that, it’s as good as any other Debian/Ubuntu derivative.









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    1 year ago

    Gonna trim my litany of complaints about modern trends down to my top 4 gripes:

    1. Websites that look like CVS receipts with their excessive left/right padding. Some L/R padding is desirable, but the degree to which it’s done now is typically done to cram a bajillion ads in the margins.
    2. Excessive padding for UI controls. Looking at you, specifically, O365, but others are guilty as well. I use a desktop with a precision pointing device, so I don’t need or want a UI designed to be poked at by hotdog fingers.
    3. Unhelpful error messages. “Oops, something went wrong”. Ok, but it is it a “me” problem or a “you” problem? Should I do anything, take any specific action, retry, or just twiddle my thumbs and hope someone else fixes it?
    4. Chatbots that pop up on websites asking if you need help.

    Bonus: Any time an email, website, or other online source has “click here” for a link. It’s 2023. People know what a link is and what to do with it. All that “click here” says is you don’t know what you’re doing as a designer/publisher.