federalreverse

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federalreverse, (edited )

Not an expert but: tldr don’t.

Battery calibration is supposed to help the battery’s firmware figure out how low the battery can go. It also tends to hurt your battery, so you should avoid performing these calibrations and keep the charge between 20% and 80% as much as you can.

It seems what you’re trying to do is improve battery estimation by the OS on a new machine. And in that case, Is just trey trip love* I’d just try to live with possible insecurity of not knowing whether the machine has 15 or 25 minutes left.

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federalreverse,

I use Calyx on a Fairphone 4. It’s not totally degooglified, since it comes with MicroG which is used to connect to Google services. I use Aurora Store and a couple of original Google Apps like Gboard too (none of my Google apps can access the internet, since they’re behind the built-in firewall). It works well except call functionality which can be wonky and there’s the issue that a lot of apps from Play don’t work well with MicroG. I only use a small selection of Play apps though, so it doesn’t bother me too much.

federalreverse, (edited )

I never bothered with banking apps. (Outside of the virtual debit card app from my bank. That one did install successfully. However, I never got try out in store because it deleted my virtual card after a few days and I didn’t care enough to set it up again.)

federalreverse,

X11 is not made with security in mind. At the point where you disable Wayland, you can basically use native apps rather than flatpaked apps.

federalreverse,

Capitalist economies are not sustainable. That’s kind of their point: Line goes up, even though resources are finite (which economists conveniently ignore). Hence, they can’t be sustained ad infinitum. We’re all borrowing/stealing from somewhere, including from nature. (And the harder we believe in capitalism, the faster humanity will crash because resources are getting used up.)

Ultimately, money is a means to an end anyway: Making sure society functions well enough that everyone has food and shelter. Other than that, it’s just imaginary figures.

federalreverse, (edited )

Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) “all the crap” later, after the storm.

And no, it wasn’t just the favicons feature that was removed (which like … is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

federalreverse,

Yes, these are off-by-default features.

federalreverse,

You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software

  • downstream
  • against user expectations
  • for somewhat spurious reasons
  • seemingly quite ad-hoc

He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.

But, to make it clear: I certainly don’t approve of hate directed toward him and I don’t have a personal issue with him.

federalreverse, (edited )

GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.

GTK used to stand for “GIMP toolkit” but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn’t upgraded to either.

federalreverse,

Porting Wayland compatibility to GTK 2 would be incredibly out of scope for GIMP developers. :)

federalreverse,

GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.

federalreverse, (edited )

.db is usually short for “database”. I’d suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. Where did you find the file? Edit: phishingurl indicates that it’s part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into .local/share though. Might be a KDE thing.

Edit 2: Qkall’s answer says it’s KMail.

federalreverse,

I guess it’s an appropriate name if the file collects the URLs of sites that trick you into installing malware.

federalreverse,

The marketing idiots who published this are Americans. The pronunciation is borderline correct but not quite.

federalreverse, (edited )

SUSE originated in Germany, where it’s just the normal pronunciation. “Suse” also pre-existed as a nickname for “Susanne” (of course, the company name was derived from an acronym which isn’t used anymore).

The issue comes in when non-Germans, especially English-language natives try to pronounce the word. English pronunciation is incredibly inconsistent. Hence English speakers tend to fail (very confidently) when pronouncing foreign-language words.

(Fwiw, Germans and many others don’t know anything about the silent G in “gnome” and will happily pronounce GNOME the way the project intends without being told. Similar things are true for the I in Linux.)

federalreverse,

Well, “nome”, with a silent G is the correct pronunciation of “gnome”, as in e.g. “garden gnome”.

federalreverse,

It’s wrong nonetheless.

federalreverse,

That depends but many people will be familiar with the absolute basics of English pronunciation and likely recognize the word as English too, I think.

federalreverse, (edited )

Is not up to SUSE’s marketing department, most of which is from the US, either. The company has a German origin, had German founders (they’re all out of the company at this point though), and the company name used to be a German acronym. The correct pronunciation is the German one.

(See the update @barbara added. Lisa Sherwell actually took the effort to learn the correct pronunciation. Part of the reason why is that she was actually involved in planning the new German office of SUSE.)

federalreverse,

You can’t even read the title of the window properly, and it’s a short one! And there’s this ugly scramble of icons all clustered on the left. This may work and you may be used to it but Gnome is certainly not designed to be used like that.

Hiding all the buttons as the poster above told you to do is worse though.

federalreverse,

So this is what happens when package maintainers fail to find the problematic bits during package updates. I’ll be honest, after seeing how Linux package management is done (automation and semi-automation galore) and by whom (people who often don’t know the programming language of the source and who don’t have much time either), I am more surprised that it took this long.

federalreverse,

Cheap Chromebooks tend to break just like other cheap laptops. The only difference is that the OS may feel more responsive initially.

federalreverse,

I really don’t see the what the fuss is in this thread. The source does make it seem a bit nefarious, but even so, it appears the changes in VLC amount to adding support for a streaming format and adding a channel listing of some sort.

FAST is simply a streaming format. Whether to run ads is an individual decision of each channel.

If I can have a streaming client that can play certain streams versus one that can’t, I’ll obviously pick the former. (Unless they employ a DRM scheme which does weird things to my devices but it doesn’t appear that’s part of the discussion here.)

federalreverse,

Maybe…?

hairpiece

Please recommend me some blogs about Linux or FOSS or similar that you follow through RSS.

Hi. I have a category Little Tech Blogs in my rss reader where I put those cool niche blogs mostly about Linux, FOSS, programming, etc… Many of them I found by articles linked in this community, so I was wondering if you guys know about more blogs like that. By little I mean it’s run by one person or a small group of people,...

federalreverse,

Planets are (or maybe, used to be?) a good way to learn about people involved in projects, e.g.:

  • planet.mozilla.org
  • planet.gnome.org
  • planet.kde.org

I guess you get the gist.

Planets are a periodically updated collection of blogs on a topic that were very popular in the 2000s and early 2010s.

federalreverse,

You can find out:

snapper --iso list should include a column “Used space” in its output.

snapper delete --sync *ID* deletes a snapshot and frees up space.

Nb: I am not a Snapper user personally. The link above takes you to the official docs.

federalreverse,

According to the docs, running snapper rollback should set the right snapshot as the default.

The truth about linux having 15% market share in India.

I am from india. These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux (ubuntu). These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc. I don’t see anyone here switching to linux on their...

federalreverse,

People here buy desktops only for gaming/content creation, which means most households here doesn’t need/require a desktop.

You just described the entire world. This is far from unique to India. Most people I know don’t have a desktop and maybe have a laptop, and I live in North America.

Pretty sure that they mean that most people’s only device is a phone. Desktops and laptops are basically the same thing, packaged slightly differently.

federalreverse,

Ah! In that case I misunderstood you, sorry!

federalreverse,

Actually, you’re speaking about three product lines: Xboxes, regular old Windows, and Windows NT. Hence also the weird contortions with Windows Me (“Millennium Edition”): They couldn’t name it Windows 2000, because that version had been released half a year earlier. They couldn’t really name it Windows 2001 either, because that would have implied it being better than (or even related to) Windows 2000.

federalreverse,

They could’ve sold Windows 2000 as Windows NT 5 and Windows Me as Windows 2000; that would’ve kept the “NT X” versioning scheme for the professional line and the year-based scheme for the consumer line.

That’s true of course. But iirc, Microsoft itself was on the fence of whether to release Me at all or whether to go straight to what would become XP, the release that united both lines of Windows. I guess that might explain somewhat why the NT product people felt it ok to steal the year-based versioning scheme of DOS-based Windows…?

Does anyone run their desktop environment containerized?

I’m used to using Linux from the terminal. I have a new machine which I plan to use mostly headless but would occasionally like to run a desktop environment and play games with GPU acceleration. I know I don’t have to launch the desktop environment on startup, but I was wondering if it’s possible to have that entire...

federalreverse,

I am not using it, but you can also try Opensuse Kubic. The twist here is that you don’t get a completely immutable ISO-type base installation but rather you have an at-boot updateable/customizable base installation image that can’t be changed while the OS is running.

federalreverse,

Not to be overly cynical, but including competitors can make sense from an SEO perspective, because it means people may find your site while searching for a competing distro.

federalreverse,

Yeah … My cursory knowledge about Purism says that’s a very risky investment.

federalreverse,

I am not sure I would necessarily call them a “good company” either.

If we’re being honest, the phone project was a delusion from the start—the company is simply way too small to build a phone from components that were never meant to be in phones and have it actually work properly. At this point, can you finally even use the phone to call people via 2G/4G? Have they gotten beyond the sub-24h standby battery life? Have they got the bandwidth to handle the security reviews of the kill switches in their phones?

In the plus side, I appreciate that they invested in implementing adaptive layouts in Gnome. But the Linux space is littered with unsuccessful startups who all left their pawprints in code. Usually then allowing Red Hat and other big players (or, in the desktop space: a community) to build upon that code.

is there a foss project to automatically sort files

do you know that minecraft mod that autosorts your inventory? is there are project that can autosort a messy file system and put all of your files of a similar nature into a well organised, well named order. obviously this would require ai that could do image, language, and audio recognition but is there anything in the works? i...

federalreverse,

i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x

I am confusion. It seems like this wouldn’t help much with distro-hopping at all. At least not the way I learned to reinstall OSes, i.e. keep /home and make sure to back up important config files you edited.

federalreverse,

Upgrades/downgrades can always cause issues, but more often than not you’re totally fine, especially during upgrades. I tend to declutter my home a little too. E.g. I keep the configurations for Firefox and Thunderbird but delete their cache, for Inkscape I may keep my custom palettes only. For a lot of Gnome tools, I just delete all the configuration, especially for stuff that I only use once a month. However, the major issue during that process for me is that accidents happen occasionally.

federalreverse,

Yes. If you copy /home to a completely different drive, do make sure to be intentional about access rights (i.e. in your new install, you want your files to belong to you again and you want scripts to still be executable; sorting this out after the fact is possible but can be time-consuming) and make sure to copy hidden files/directories (i.e. .dotfiles, which is where user preferences for your apps are stored; if you want e.g. your Firefox bookmarks and tabs to remain with you, keep these files).

federalreverse,

It ships a file called https://github.com/stuartlangridge/ColourPicker/blob/app/pick/snark.py which is apparently used to name colors. Examples:

(0, 85, 85, ‘liquid Nyquil’),

(85, 170, 170, ‘smurf blood’),

(255, 170, 170, ‘“nude” tights that only match Becky's skin’),

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