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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 10/12/2025

I *hate* that modern TVs only have optical or eArc audio out. Give me an analog out I swear to god. FUKKK WHY DO I NEED AN APP TO SET UP A SPEAKER????? (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 04/12/2025

It's becoming a trend for apps to, when the brand is having events, have unskippable 30-second or so animations to advertise the event. Prime day ads on the Amazon app are a good example. WTF. I am already on your app. If you make it take longer to do what I came here to do I WILL find another app

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 15/10/2025

My fucking apartment's website made it so you CAN'T login via password anymore, it's "Send OTP to email" only. What. The. Fuck. Why? It's not more secure, it's a pain in the ass.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 10/10/2025

If you sing poorly enough, you can just claim it's microtonal and that it took you a lot effort to learn it that way.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 01/10/2025

I occasionally feel existential. Aware of my own legacy. I think about the things I've made from 1-off projects to friendships. Sometimes it feels insignificant. Then I think about how the vast majority of individuals famous for their actions are also just shit human beings. Yeah, I'm good.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 01/10/2025

Most notably in allowing for different peripherals for the task to be always attached But I like being able to do cross-disciplinary things on one device. I think it being general purpose is part of the point.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 01/10/2025

I call my main work area at home the "Computer Room" It's not my "office" or "studio" or "game room". It is all of those things, but I like the idea that it's general purpose, used for all the things. There are benefits to a computer being treated as a single use appliance:

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

I am so fukin tired of websites that let you do more from an app than their actual site.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

Dear tech companies, If I am using your tool, I do not need you to give me a full screen pop-up asking me to use your tool. I am already using it. Shut the fuck up. Sincerely considering switching to other products, - Vega

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

What really got me to start looking in the first place was it ending every request with a "by the way" that was either an ad or a recommended voice command. You can turn it off, but the fact that got turned on and behavior changed long after they were setup really grinds my gears.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

It's very possible to be using the best tool available and for that tool to still be ass. This is why I enjoy making tools: Creating things that empower myself or others to create better things is what drives me.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

I am just so tired of having to talk to it with accentuated spaces. Between. Words. Alexa. Turn. Off. The. Lights.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

I'm already planning on replacing it with a local box running the Home assistant stack, but previously hadn't because it worked and I honestly didn't think I could do better. I never would've thought Alexa getting worse at voice recognition would be what puts me over the edge.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

It's not just me, either. My SO and parents have been complaining about it too. We're all from the Midwest, so it's not as if we have an accent that has a vowel shift or blurs words

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 30/09/2025

Amazon's Alexa devices have gotten significantly worse in the last few months. I used to be surprised when a command mis-triggered, now almost every command does. Often playing music or trying to set alarms despite me asking to do something I have a word-for-word matching "routine" setup for.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 26/09/2025

It's amazing how much code I see that's copy-paste hell or just pile upon piles of technical debt that is making for fires to be put out on the weekly instead of actual progress

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 26/09/2025

It grinds my gears how often people lack care for quality in the craft of coding. I don't care much when it's for some silly personal project, but when it's something safety critical or a large codebase on a commercial product please just give a shit.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

Like, unironically, I absolutely can't justify $20/mo on AI BS. But you know what I could justify a $250 yearly license on? Stable software. If you told me I could pay that and get a modern OS with 11's software library but 7's stability and consistent UI, with Linux's deep control? Instant customer

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

What I don't understand is it can't possibly be good business sense, right? Like, at some point, people don't care about the new features, they just want their shit to work. Why drop billions on AI bullshit when you could invest in making your product un-touchably rock solid.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

I remember seeing this back in the day, going from 8 to 10. This is not giving a shit. I cant attribute this to incompetence when we see it in program after program. Its malice on the part of the managers and tech firms that prioritize new features over going back and making the shit they have work

Error message with title "Something Happened" and description "Something Happened"

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

14: If there's no way to back it up, fuck off. That includes DRM/Activation. 15: If an action actually can't be performed because of something else, don't give me a cutesy error, tell me what the fuck happened.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

If there is lag in moving my mouse, I am pissed. 13: If an endpoint doesn't have a consistent ID and no way to give it one, it can fuck off. COM# changing? Dynamic IPs? Nah, fuck you. Everything should always be deterministic. In this house, we know what paths go where or they get killed.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

etc. - then don't. Just fucking don't. I care much more about the page loading quickly and not moving after initial draw than your AI bullshit. 12: If the OS ever, ever, ever lets anything lock up the system, it fucked up. The OS should prioritize user input and output above all.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

9: If your tools doesn't interop with others tools, it's not a tool, it's a money grab. 10: If you take more than 10ms to do anything UI facing on my computer with a 3090 and 5900XT you can go straight to hell. 11: If you can't do something faster than that because network latency, it's a long task,

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

If I say I trust this IP I'm directly connecting to without https, do-fucking-not warn me again ever now and then. Fuck. Off. 6: Don't collect my personal info unless you really need it 7: You don't need it. 8: No, really, my real name and photo ID is none of your god damn business

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

4: Do not break with time. No update should stop you working. Ship your deps (alt: the os should keep old installed deps) 5: I know better. Never nanny me. 5.5: Security is optional. If I tell you I don't give a shit. I mean it. Not "I don't care for 48 hours" not "remind me later".

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

I have a few rules for tech: 1: Shut the fuck up 2: If you must speak, let me make you shut the fuck up and never warn me again 2.5: Log that action somewhere, and let me undo it. 3: I own it. I don't use it. I own it. If I can't use it without a cloud connection, it'll be trashed or hacked.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

The biggest two offenders I encounter regularly are Ableton Live and literally anything Microsoft. But a lot of it isn't bugs - that's not fair - it's just head-ass anti-user decisions.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

@mostlycoragrace.bsky.social Saw your keyboard-esque thing in a eurorack case today. it's really, really cool! Amazing work!

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 25/09/2025

I don't understand how so many pieces of software I use that are made by huge businesses can be buggy, half-baked UI, pieces of shit. Like, you'd think at least one player would exist that has taken the time to make sure their code is good for each industry. There isn't. Everyone sucks.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 24/09/2025

Yesterday I got a ADB root shell on a glasses-free 3D photo frame.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 24/09/2025

I feel like my setup at home has transcended "studio" or "gamer" or "engineer" and gone right to "cyber-hoarder 2077"

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 05/09/2025

I passionately hate that Android tries to manage my phone for me and says "we've removed permissions from things you haven't used in a while" or "we're gonna put these apps in deep sleep" Afaik, you can't turn either off globally so if you have to turn it off for every app.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 20/08/2025

Just installed steamos to the ROG Ally I bought off a fren, it is now 100x better. I can't believe they even shipped it with Windows in the first place.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

Fuck Collective Shout. That's not their call to make.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

It shows a lot of bad relationship dynamics like dependence and blackmail in a way that I think is disturbing for its honesty. I don't think it glorifies it, but it also leaves the moral judgment to the player. Some will interpret that differently I'm sure, but, importantly:

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

But, importantly, it was a lot of fun. While *I* don't personally see a good reason to even finish playing Andy & Leyley, I know there are some that will. The art style is interesting, and I think it's pretty clear in saying the characters you play as are bad people.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

The lood parts are honestly fun and entertaining, more in the "heh, bewbz" way than the "oh that's hot" way, and I honestly like that. It made the game feel less like a game meant to be played one handed and more like a game that just happens to be really horny.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

The latter, FlipWitch, is good. I'm not normally one for X-rated games, and I think is largely notable for being a decent game. I know a lot in the lood genre are just ... bad? This is a thoroughly enjoyable metroidvania.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

The former I was interested in mostly because I'd seen some internet buzz about it. I think it's art style is interesting, but I found the story a bit thin and reliant on shock to really be interested. The puzzles were meh. Just, seems like it's only "popular" for being edgy?

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

Today I played though some of both "The Coffin of Andy and Leyley" and "FlipWitch: Forbidden Sex Hex"

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

And I see today FFPMEG (!!!) moved to Forgejo today as well. I hope the train to data self-sovereignty keeps chugging. I'll be moving all of my repos over and deleting them on GH one a time!

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

Why do you think people stay up all hours of the night? [...] It all boils down to one inevitable conclusion: Because they're not satisfied with how they spent the day. --- Makes me want to refuse to sleep until I am each day.

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Vega Deftwing @opguides.info · 18/08/2025

Successfully moved my Website to be hosted on git.gay today. Feels good to have it hosted by and be a part of a smaller community that actually cares instead of a mega corp that has ICE contracts.

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