I know the site but i never payed that much attention to the text size because i’m not learning Chinese. Yes it’s weird that everything is an image. I started using this Chinese handwriting input site to get characters as text, but that’s obviously impractical if you need more than a couple characters.

The text size can be improved by zooming in the page. On Firefox (default in in mostt DEs, i think) you hold control and scroll up or press the plus key.

I wonder if the site is so old that it was written before there was a better way to display Chinese in HTML. I don’t know any of its history tho.

Ooh, this is good stuff. I don’t know if i’ll pursue this further, but you make me more confident that i could.

You can also add it without installing anything by going to about:preferences#search, clicking “Add search engine”, and filling in the link as https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%25s

There isn’t one, i’m pretty sure i’m the second person in my city to use this stuff. If i can replace my phone it won’t happen overnight.

I think my username there is IndigoGollum. But i couldn’t even sign in last i checked, and i don’t play super often. Don’t expect me.

That is several questions.

Near the top of the AntiMicroX window are buttons to save and load profiles. Once you set up controller input to keyboard input, save that profile in a folder somewhere you can find it later. It should automatically load the last profile you used for a given controller.

The GameCube controller doesn’t work for any games i’ve tried it in. Again, probably a drivers issue. But maybe it would work if i tried it in something like Dolphin emulator.

I used to use DS4 for everything when that was my only controller. When i got Hollow Knight it was buggy, only accepting some inputs, so i got the Logitech and now i use that for all my Linux games that i don’t play with a keyboard. Right now that’s mostly Hollow Knight, Final Fantasy VII, and SSF2. The GameCube controller is mostly used for Smash Ultimate, and occasionally other Switch games that support it or don’t put anything super important on buttons it doesn’t have like L3.

My solution is to use AntiMicroX to map my controller buttons to keyboard buttons, then SSF2 can map those keyboard buttons to game controls. This works for my DS4 and my Logitech F310, but not for my GameCube. I think that one is a driver issue.

Also, it’s cool to see other people still playing this game.

I switched it to Vulkan and this hasn’t happened since.

Didn’t work, but thanks anyway.

I know you’re right, but that’s how it feels when they seem to keep removing the settings people have been using to fix this.

Testing this on Firefox is a good idea, and i would do that except i’ve given up. Thanks anyway.

This is possible but now that i’ve seen some more limitations of New Tab Override, i might just stick with a blank page and only have my custom page for new windows. Thanks anyway.

Where would that piece of code go? One of the three configuration files i mentioned, or somewhere else?

I’d like to just use local files for this so i’m not downloading anything for a new tab, whether stuff is cached or not.

HTML with embedded CSS isn’t a huge problem. Embedding any image that’s not an SVG is more of a problem. Regular <img> elements don’t work so everything has to be actually embedded in the page. Loading an image from an HTTPS address works, but again i don’t want to have to re-download things every time.

I currently also use a blank page and bookmarks. It’s just not as good as a completely custom page could be.

It could also be that they chose “remotoscope” over “remotorasis” intentionally because the former is such a fun word.

‘But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”’ Alice objected.

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’

The argument i see against anti-prescriptivism is that words are at their most useful when they mean something and everyone can pretty much agree on what that something is. Yes, it is annoying and pedantic and more or less pointless when someone insists that you one must say “whom” and not “who”, or makes a big fuss over a verb phrases that happens to put a preposition at the end of its clause. But i think that’s different from a native speaker correcting someone who’s just learning a language (as a second language or a child learning their first) and has said something in a way that’s nonstandard and confusing.

On that note, i do wonder how a language would evolve with no prescriptivism at all. A carefully controlled environment where nobody is allowed to tell anyone how to talk, offer suggestions, or even answer questions about the language or a statement’s meaning.

I think you’ll find that outside of grade school English (as a first language) classrooms people are more likely to be against prescriptivism than for it. At least, that’s what i’ve found, but i’m more immersed in the linguistics parts of the Web than the picking-fights-for-no-reason parts.

And maybe i’m wrong about my opinion there, and i’m just being hypocritical and thinking that my level of linguistic prescriptivism is the correct one. I don’t know, i’m no expert.

My own site had no JS at all for like a year, and even now only uses it for optional things. I keep JS disabled by default on sites i don’t trust, i shouldn’t expect anyone else to be more trusting about it.

If it’s just a number, you could probably use <input type=“number”>, with some CSS to make the “increase” button take up the entire visible space. Maybe make that button transparent so you can see the displayed number behind it but can’t click it to type a number. But, like TragicNotCute said, it would reset when the page reloads.

I suspect you can do some cool CSS tricks to adjust other things based on this number, but i have yet to figure stuff like that out. I also am only pretty sure it’s possible to style parts of an <input> like that. I still have not got around to styling any of the inputs on my site.

It’s pretty fun. The main reason i haven’t played much lately is that it crashes my computer and i have not figured out why.

I’ve never played Asuna, but the research thing sounds like it’s copied from Terraria’s journey mode. Research enough of an item and you can duplicate it endlessly, as an alternative to a more traditional creative mode.

Sounds like there’s more Terraria influence too, like slimes holding items and the lack of swimming. I wonder if you’re supposed to find boots of water walking or flippers for swimming, so you can cross water easier.

I don’t have a problem with that. Terraria has a lot of great ideas, that’s why so many Minecraft mods (and apparently also this) also use them.

I know i could switch to something like Tello and pay $6/month for their sketchy privacy policy. It’s not just about money.

Money is just one part of it. I don’t like that there are only 3 companies making phones work here in the USA and every other carrier is just reselling that service. I do like that that Mesh* is encrypted.

You’re right that this would be a lot of work. Not just setting up repeaters, but explaining it to people, convincing people to use something new and less convenient than SMS, more stuff that i’m too tired to think of just now.

I hope i can prove you wrong. I don’t use my phone a lot. There are a few people i regularly text, and about one i call often. I get my work schedule texted to me, but i can get that via email instead.

I want this to be possible.