Lakes The Guy

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cloudflare isn't letting me visit the linux mint fanlisting even when i turn my vpn off AAAAH
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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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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's avatar seasoups 3 weeks 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's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks ago

@seasoups thanks

greenbox's avatar greenbox 3 weeks 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's avatar virtually-isolated 3 weeks 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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how would you all feel if i start promoting gofundmes on my website
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limovars's avatar limovars 3 weeks ago

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

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limovars's avatar limovars 3 weeks ago

i’m considering doing something similar

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks ago

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

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hhroses's avatar hhroses 3 weeks ago

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

hhroses's avatar hhroses 3 weeks ago

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

limovars's avatar limovars 3 weeks 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's avatar limovars 3 weeks 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's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks 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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found this family from gaza that needs help: https://tinyurl.com/wafafamily
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heoism's avatar heoism 3 weeks 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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heoism's avatar heoism 3 weeks ago

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

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limovars's avatar limovars 3 weeks 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's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks 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's avatar limovars 3 weeks ago

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

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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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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's avatar thehoneypot 3 weeks ago

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

lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks 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's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks ago

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

thehoneypot's avatar thehoneypot 3 weeks 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's avatar thehoneypot 3 weeks 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's avatar lakestheguy 3 weeks 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's avatar polemoniaceae 3 weeks 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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