mulcahey

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you do this, what do people say? Do they say "Open it!" or do they ever tell you what it is?

What is the point of wrapping the gift if you're just going to tell the person what's inside?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It might not be fair to say they don't give a shit. More often, I've found that productions simply hit a wall of time or money.

Just about anyone can write or edit a great story with enough time. But movies and shows are produced against a running clock, and they have obligations and limitations that go beyond the screenwriter's imagination or the editor's time. There are so many varied interests involved in a single production. Sometimes the issue is TOO many people giving a shit, and not being able to find a workable compromise in time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Here, I got you this gift." Hands wrapped gift to the recipient. Recipient: "What is it?"

Motherfucker I swear every movie character does this. It's like they've never received a gift before what the hell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So can I get rid of container tabs now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

UPDATE: Switching to Firefox ESR seems to have solved this issue!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So I'm looking for a script that disables all power settings when Firefox is playing a full screen video, but then re-enables them when the video closes.

Does anyone have that script?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've tried disabling the screensaver in power settings (not via script). But I have to keep some power settings so that my machine goes to sleep when not in use and the TV turns off.

So whatever my power settings are, they will kick in. If I disable screensaver but I have a 30 min sleep timer, the comp will go to sleep, even if I'm watching a movie in Firefox.

Typically, turning off my TV looks like this:

  • I close a tab that's playing a movie.
  • Firefox reverts to my home tab, showing all my streaming sites.
  • I get up and walk away
  • My computer goes to sleep
  • My TV, not getting any input from the computer, turns off.

If I go the script route, it might screw up that sequence, right?

 

I've been a Firefox user for 15+ years. I love its flexibility, privacy, and (absent that rough patch in the mid 2010s) its speed. It really is a great browser. But I've hit a limitation.

One of my machines is an HTPC running Linux. I watch almost all my movies in the browser via streaming sites. At first, Firefox was ideal for this: it handles fullscreen browsing well (better than Brave) by letting me access tabs just by moving my mouse to the top of the screen. And I'm able to adjust the scale of the Firefox interface to make it more HTPC-friendly via about:config. That's not possible in Brave.

But Firefox has 2 issues that make it virtually unusable as an HTPC browser.

  1. When Firefox plays fullscreen video (on Linux), it can't stop the screensaver from coming on. This issue has sprung up repeatedly for over a decade and been reported multiple times.
  2. Extensions like Keep Awake/Caffeine do not work with Firefox on Linux. I use these extensions so that I can keep non-video sites (like Rollgator) on my TV screen persistently, without the screensaver coming on.

I'm bummed. I would rather use Firefox, with its great interface and its long history. I still use Firefox on my phone, laptop, and desktop. But at the moment, Brave is the only browser (of the two) that has addressed these issues on Linux. If that ever changes, I will happily come back to Firefox on my HTPC. (It would be great, because then I could easily send tabs from my devices to my TV!) Until then, I'm sticking with Brave.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact about the original Sim City: the lead developer said that they wanted to model real cities in the game, but "we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots."

Source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you for this clear, helpful answer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

But... Why? Why would they get different restrictions on the basis of operating system?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Sounds like that's in here:

"The test build shows the horizontal tab bar and the sidebar at the same time by default. A click on the new "hide tab strip" button hides the horizontal tab bar so that only the vertical sidebar remains."

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