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7 months ago

i just found out you can just add openvpn files to your internet connection without any additional software on linux mint. that's so cool

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

for those who don't know, open vpn is a vpn protocol & there are these .ovpn files that you can download for a vpn connection without having an official client for said vpn

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solinus updated Solinus • Since 2021

7 months ago

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

cloudflare isn't letting me visit the linux mint fanlisting even when i turn my vpn off AAAAH

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

Lakes The Guy

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

i decided to go with a windows 98 donation page with a green background. but i might switch it up later

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

Lakes The Guy

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

i'm struggling to think of how i should style the donations page. because i watch it to be eyecatching but i dont want it to be over the top or silly. since it might come off the wrong way. idk i'm probably overthinking it but i dont wanna be disrespectful towards the people i will be linking you know

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seasoups 7 months ago

i feel like as long as its sincere people will understand! if sincere to you means no funny business, then that is how you should go.

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@seasoups thanks

greenbox 7 months ago

Silly is fine if that's what your heart wants, personally I'd be more likely to donate to something that made me laugh than a very serious no goofing around donation page - maybe make it look like the Winrar free trial notification? It would match the Windows theme :)

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virtually-isolated 7 months ago

You can start with a simplistic version of your normal layout with short descriptions for each Fund and then see how comfortable you are adding more elements or touching-up text.

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

how would you all feel if i start promoting gofundmes on my website

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limovars 7 months ago

that’s great, but may i suggest also linking to protest/direct action orgs

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limovars 7 months ago

i’m considering doing something similar

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@limovars thanks! i'll add that to the page when i get to it

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hhroses 7 months ago

good idea. its a cute idea for ur fans/supporters to help support u financially :P could label it

hhroses 7 months ago

could label it "feed the dev!" $ lol nomnomnom

limovars 7 months ago

@lakes just to be clear i am referring specifically to mutual aid for palestine and other important causes, not promoting a gofundme for myself

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limovars 7 months ago

@lakes but ofc if you or anyone wants to promote their own gofundmes, it’s not my site and people can do whatever they want!😊

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@limovars @hhorses yeah just to be clear. limovars is correct. it wont be my own gofundme. but other people's

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lakestheguy donovan-thought

7 months ago

found this family from gaza that needs help: https://tinyurl.com/wafafamily

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donovan-thought 7 months ago

got it set up after some struggling (apparently html links don't like ampersands so i had to set it as &) but thank you!

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donovan-thought 7 months ago

oh that's hilarious. apparently writing the html ascii key makes it just an & again - i'd meant & / amp;

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

Lakes The Guy

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limovars 7 months ago

Much of mainstream tv shows head in the direction of never adopting actually radical positions, preferring only to portray suffering under capitalism void of any viable solutions. Mark Fisher goes into this in Capitalist Realism

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@limovars RIGHT!! i've noticed this too. but i was thinking maybe squid game would at least be entertaining about it. but you're right though. even severance which is a better show doesn't show any possible radical solutions at least yet. the only exceptions i can think of are star trek & sorry to bother you. one of the reasons i respect boots riley as a director is how openly communist he is

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limovars 7 months ago

I love STBY!!! Just recommended it to someone on here.

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

btw the prev text post was about custom COLORS not the window borders themselves. i understand the way i worded it might be confusing for some people

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

i just noticed my website isn't showing the custom window border colors on the windows 7 style pages anymore AAAAH!!!! idk if it's a linux thing, a librewolf thing, some combo of both?

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thehoneypot 7 months ago

Not sure if I am looking at the right thing, but /musicofwhenever is showing Win7 styled borders for me. MX Linux / Firefox.

lakestheguy 7 months ago

@thehoneypot i mean for me it's less about them being win7 styled (they are still are for me too). it's just that the custom colors i put are GONE!!

lakestheguy 7 months ago

@thehoneypot like compare the thumbnail for the homepage to the ACTUAL homepage and you'll see what i mean

thehoneypot 7 months ago

Oh my bad I do see what you mean. I can see on the article you set --window-background-color to the shade of red that's in the thumbnail, but I am struggling to find where that variable is then used. The inner title-bar uses --w7-w-glass. When I manually set that to --window-background-color, the colour appears, albeit not transparent but I think if you explore that hopefully you will find the fix!

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thehoneypot 7 months ago

Yeah got it - On the .window::before css, set background-color to --window-background-color and the custom colours (and correct transparency) appears!

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@thehoneypot i can't edit that part of the css since i have the win7/98/xp stuff linked from a third party rather than directly hosted on my site. but i might see if i can download it on my computer later

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polemoniaceae 7 months ago

i have a working copy of the 7.css stylesheet on my site if that helps: https://polemoniaceae.neocities.org/7.css

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

Lakes The Guy

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lakestheguy demonialex

7 months ago

i just wanted to answer a question you had on your homepage. yes you can absolutely link to other neocities. in fact there's a practice where people have small images that link to someone else's website called site buttons. hope that helps

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bulltown 7 months ago

yay buttons!

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badgraph1csghost 7 months ago

in terms of etiquette, it's best to link to the user's landing page, which will happen automatically if you don't put anything in after the link. (like https://badgraph1csghost.neocities.org/ leads to my landing page) if people don't want you linking to their site at all, they'll tell you so on their site somewhere.

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

i figured out how to take an extension that's only available on vscode marketplace & install it on vscodium. apparently you just click the settings icon for the extension on vscode & download as a vsix. then go to vscodium's extensions & click the 3 dots to select "install a vsix." so that's goodbye to vscode. you started getting laggy as shit on linux lmao

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lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

7 months ago

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solinus updated Solinus • Since 2021

7 months ago

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

i signed up for a proton vpn account as a backup for if my main vpn craps out on me. why did no one tell me the linux version was better? like they kept the ability to pick locations and everything

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thehoneypot 7 months ago

When I swapped from Windows to Linux I found Proton VPN to be pretty poor, but I didn't know you couldn't pick locations in Windows anymore! I find Mullvad's Linux support to be top notch personally.

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@thehoneypot that makes sense. honestly i trust mullvad more than proton. so that's not a surprise to me. the only reason i dont use mullvad is i'm kinda unemployed right now but noted

lakestheguy updated Lakes The Guy

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draggianuniverse 7 months ago

plus the entire concept of "cringe culture" ultimately originates from ableist bullying about special interests, hence why I get sad / annoyed even when folks use it for themselves as a "reclamation" because...no. there is no "culture" there to reclaim

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@draggian that too. i'll admit i do still find things cringe/embarrassing, but i usually try to decenter my own feelings when that happens

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hhroses 7 months ago

@draggianuniverse i feel like cringiness is just a person not loving that part of themselves, or like, they got shamed for being authentic, so they cringe when others act authentic because they were once bullied for it or something. idk i hope im coherent lol.

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hhroses 7 months ago

shame is a taught emotion

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draggianuniverse 7 months ago

@hhroses > I fully agree with that re: individual people, but if you look at when and where calling things "cringe" as a popular cultural phenomenon originated, it was (and still is) mostly directed at autistic folks' SIs / things with large autistic fanbases. Personal trauma is part of that, but the broader ableist origins can't be ignored in any discussion of the concept.

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