Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@starbreaker@octodon.social I"m pretty sure it runs in XWayland (like most apps, haha) but a lot of tweak apps like Xrandr/Redshift won't work at all.

@starbreaker@octodon.social Plus, Dell use a weird automatic contrast system which is quite infamous; it's hardware controlled and I think causes the slightly odd look under certain lighting conditions.

Dell call it CABC, and it's one of those techniques that is clever, but really weird.

We're at that time of year when nothing's open on campus.

@starbreaker@octodon.social Unfortunately It's running Wayland, which I do quite like, but I've experimented with hardware backlight controls a fair bit. The screen is particularly tricky in low artificial light; like a living room in the evening. There's a redshift variant that is supposedly Wayland friendly; I may try that.

I realised that I had it way too bright onlyrelatively recently; and that is only 50% brightness.

It amuses me end that the SANS provided VM running Lubuntu has vastly superior font rendering to the Fedora 28 host it is running on.

@j_opdenakker As a related aside, foI used 'find' in th terminal on my Mac the other day and was surprised to see it asking me for permission to traverse some of my home directory folders, which Unix perms would allow. I was quite impressed they've implemented access controls.

@theoutrider@mastodon.social Ah, French sea ports

I just cannot the fonts right in Fedora on my XPS 13; the terminal is fine but Firefox looks like complete shit. When I switch back to my work 'official' Macbook Pro it the difference is notable.

Part of it is the 9360's IPS screen, which is extremely bright and quite difficult to get fonts to 'pop' on. Hinting in particular does them no favours at all.

@j_opdenakker They've been doing some neat stuff recently.

Cloudflare in the news again, this time for actual terrorism groups among its clients:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cloudflare-cybersecurity-terrorist-groups_us_5c127778e4b0835fe3277f2f

@nerthos@shitposter.club @awl Here's Tim from MAC with the K98 and Yugo derivative:
https://youtu.be/_Y0sMG8bhUs

@adrenalineetc@mastodon.social Electro swung

@maiyannah @awl They're good cheap fun.

@awl It's a great cartridge to shoot.

@awl Yeah, the Yugo pattern one is the poor man's Mauser, but it also looks slightly different with that weird furniture toward the front. Nice rifle, though.

@awl You're probably right. I get confused about the number of variants.

@awl Although I've just realized you're talking about the WW1 version; I'm not sure I've seen any of those actually being used.

@awl Someone at my club had the Yugo version. It was very nice to shoot. They're a lot cheaper.

Ammunition is fairly expensive.