[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

I mean, to some degree definitely yes. You do need some upfront knowledge and some editing steps can be quite tedious.
I zone out while shoving shapes around the place, so I actually enjoy doing it in my freetime.

Having said that, we are talking about icons. You usually don't want those to be particularly complex anyways.
But the SVG format is also more powerful than one might expect.
You've got a collection of basic shapes. Particularly, paths allow you to draw essentially anything, including some really useful curves. And you can also do some cool gradients and even animations.

And you can use fonts in the text element, but only like in HTML, i.e. you specify "bold" or "Times New Roman" and hope wherever it's displayed has that font available. Would definitely not recommend that for an icon.
Inkscape allows converting text to a path, so that it doesn't depend on the host system. So, if I ever want a font in an icon, I'd do that in Inkscape and then copy the path element that it created into my text editor.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago

I like to write SVG by hand with a text editor and Firefox, but that's probably not for most people.
I mainly like it, because you're entering all the coordinates as numbers, which makes ratios more apparent and also easy to work with...

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

Yep, that one's the Holocene.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

I think, it works kind of well in games where you're able to enslave/recruit the random encouters (Pokémon, Shin Megami Tensei and such), as it's then a surprise what you'll find, somewhat like a slot machine.
But the way the more recent entries work in these series, that you find out what creatures roam the world by exploring, that kind of works, too.

More generally, I don't particularly like the problem that random encounters solve. Which is that you've got sections of gameplay where nothing happens, so you throw enemy encounters into there. That also goes for non-random encounters.

RPGs do this and I used to enjoy RPGs as a form of escapism. But now that I'm doing more stuff in real-life, I want it condensed down in roguelike form, or I'll just play other genres...

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

Are you sure about that?

A crescent-shaped croissant

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 day ago

Man, sometimes I wish courts were a lot sassier.

the customer and his wife had made threats to publicise the claimant's email in the press, social media and/or Trustpilot.

Bam! Perfect evidence that the customer is a twat.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I wasn't trying to say no forks existed beforehand. There just weren't as many active ones.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 day ago

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I'm glad that forks are becoming a thing, again. The community (including myself) have slacked off for far too long, just taking it for granted that a browser was provided to them.

And people got seriously offended by any choice Mozilla made, even though the source code is right there. I get that not everyone has the skill to modify the source code, but enough people do that we should be able to cover various different preferences.

Would be even cooler, if the grassroots community started pushing the browser forward more, rather than just doing things different from Mozilla, but it's a good first step.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

And Pocket isn't very intrusive either, is the point you were trying to make, right?

To my knowledge, it's the recommendations on about:home, which can easily be disabled, and then just a glorified bookmark to access Pocket. If you want it gone from the UI, set extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

There's two things at play here.

MP3 (or WAV, OGG, FLAC etc.) provide a way to encode polyphony and stereo and such into a sequence of bytes.

And then separately, there's Unicode (or ASCII) for encoding letters into bytes. These are just big tables which say e.g.:

  • 01000001 = uppercase 'A'
  • 01000010 = uppercase 'B'
  • 01100001 = lowercase 'A'

So, what your text editor does, is that it looks at the sequence of bytes that MP3 encoded and then it just looks into its table and somewhat erronously interprets it as individual letters.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Well, uh, mine is Kate. Not sure, if you need much selling on that, then.

I use it with an LSP server to provide highlighting and refactorings for Rust. Other languages are available.

The project-wide search & replace feature is really useful. It's available from the bottom bar.

In the settings, you can activate the "Filesystem Browser" plugin, which I sometimes prefer compared to the Projects view or the Documents view.

You can search for features with Ctrl+Alt+i.

In general, though, it's lightweight and easy to use. It's not going to win an award for a riveting new usage concept, which is why I like it.

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We often talk about the climate impact based on greenhouse gases, but extracting fuel from the ground and using it in exothermal processes of course also releases energy as heat.

This is mostly¹ in contrast with renewables, which make use of energy that's not long-term contained to begin with, so would end up as heat in our atmosphere anyways.

So, my question is: Does the amount of energy released by non-renewables have any notable impact on our global temperature? Or would it easily radiate into space, if we solved the greenhouse gas problem?


¹) In the case of solar, putting up black surfaces does mean that less sunlight gets reflected, so more heat ultimately gets trapped in our atmosphere. There's probably other such cases, too.

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Real screenshot from (crappy) personal project...

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Hi, the default Roboto font is boring me out of my mind and I'd like to change it.

In the past, I've done so by just replacing the font file in the OS, which worked well, but meant that it would reset after every OS update.
I'm considering scripting that with ADB to make it less of a pain, but figured I should ask, if there's a better way.

I'm on LineageOS which has a font styling system, but it only applies to the OS, not the user-installed apps...

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From the release announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.0/

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