• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    23·
    11 hours ago

    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

    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
      10·
      8 hours ago

      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.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        8 hours ago

        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.

        • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
          3·
          19 minutes ago

          Wow, different worlds…

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

          • tmyakal@infosec.pub
            1·
            10 minutes ago

            My college roommate used to play Family Guy on his laptop all night to help him sleep. It meant that I didn’t get any sleep that entire semester.

  • rowinxavier@lemmy.world
    55·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      10 hours ago

      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.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        8·
        9 hours 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.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I’ve seen open source software devs fix niche little bugs I reported within hours of reporting it. Feels good.

  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    11 hours ago

    I can remember back when that one feature I waited for was a functioning DX11 driver like the box fucking said. Fucking AMD…

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Factorio allows you to transfer items between space stations now.

    IDK if that’s the kind of thing the post is about, and there has certainly not been 5 years. Also, no time for Yay!, because I’m busy designing some space platform fabric…

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    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.)

    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 hours ago

      I wish I had the drive to learn to really program instead of just small scripts and BS, but im sure I’d just spend all my time keeping up with the code base and trying to follow guidelines that I’d add nothing to the project.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Reminds me of that screenshot where some chronic gooner asked the Cyberpunk devs way before release what kind of sex den simulation would be available.

  • x0x7@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Await in default values when? Auto await on use variables when? Pattern matching in JS when?

    That last one is coming and I’m excited.

    • ___qwertz___@feddit.org
      2·
      4 hours ago

      KeepassXC autotype on wayland.

      Just a few more years…

      Edit: Holy shit nvm, literally release 2 days ago. I am happy.

    • heythatsprettygood@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      17·
      14 hours ago

      I’m waiting for Linux 7.4 to drop so I can have non-Steam games working with my Switch 2 Pro Controller out of the box.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        4·
        12 hours ago

        I would recommend the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless. I’m using that as my main, for Rocket League and other games. Works great. Cheaper and better than Xbox controllers, PS controllers, even Nintendo’s ones. I think I paid around $40–50 for it. Much, much better quality than my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which was almost $200 and now barely works.