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How do you backup your downloaded ROMs?
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Whatever file format I use them in is also how I back them up, I backup my entire desktop's and laptop's data to an external hard drive and an online service provider. I'm sure a compressed format would be more space efficient but that would take much more time given my use case.
In the case of my laptop it runs Linux and the filesystem I use supports "transparent compression" (almost all contents of the drive are compressed with zstd), so I'm guessing any of the ROMs on there will have already been compressed as nuch as they can (but I'm not knowledgeable enough on the file format specs)
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The foundation supports a bunch of other open source projects, after all there is a lot more to devices that run the Linux kernel then just the kernel.
Also, I found it a but funny that the foundation created the PDF using Adobe InDesign 19.4 (Windows), according to the metadata in file posted on their website. (original | archive of the PDF)
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How do people plan for their deaths in terms of account & device secrets (passwords, 2fa etc.)?
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You and someone else have mentioned the deadman switch, does the other person need an account or can credentials be made for them? I haven't used bitwarden in a while (since I migrated to gopass and then to keepass), so I'm guessing this is a new feature.
That is a very fascinating feature and I think I'll look into it!
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How do people plan for their deaths in terms of account & device secrets (passwords, 2fa etc.)?
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What exactly is the deadman setup? I did a quick search and found someone asking for a feature from last pass. Is this what you're referring to?
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How do people plan for their deaths in terms of account & device secrets (passwords, 2fa etc.)?
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I've debated on using a bank safe but I'm still unsure about the regulations in my country regarding them. Notably what can law enforcement do without a warrant etc etc.
In terms of self hosting I think that'll likely be the route I go as well, where family can just "shut it down" upon my death. I'm sure my partner might want to keep a few things (e.g. my kodi setup) but the things they would want to keep aren't too difficult I feel.
Patient Gamers
Disappointment with Links Awakening Remake (NSW); what could have been a great game hampered by lacklustre controls.
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It doesn't add anything unless you have the muscle memory for the dpad movement over joystick for 8 direction input. I just find it awkward, and can't switch directions as fast. The corner zones also feel a little off compared to the cardinal directions, but this is likely just my muscle memory hampering me and not the game itself.
I feel like my issues with it are definitely nit-picky, and I can definitely see others enjoying the game and not caring whatsoever. I guess I just find it frustrating that a $79.99 CAD remake doesn't allow for both input methods.
For example I know my partner enjoyed playing with the joystick. And in other games like cuphead that give you the option he still played with the joystick instead of the dpad. Perhaps I'm just a little stubborn :p
About the only rationale I can think of is the joystick being better then the joycons dpad for movement, particularly when inputting two directions at once. I personally use a pro controller so I don't personally suffer from that in games where I use dpad, but I assume most people just stuck with joycons outside of the more "hardcore" switch owners.
Recently I borrowed my partner's copy of Links Awakening for the Nintendo Switch. I understand that many people did not enjoy the remake due to the graphics but I am one of the weirdos who somewhat enjoys the cutesy round graphics with the intense depth of field / forced perspective look. From a pure graphical standpoint I think this is a really good way of remaking a top down GB / GBC game for a new platform. I similarly enjoyed Pokémon Alpha Sapphire's graphics despite many others not enjoying them. I think this has to be one of the most frustrating remakes I have played in recent history, solely for the inability to use the dpad for 8 direction movement. I am not against the remake using the joystick for movement, for example the aforementioned Pokémon game alows for the circle pad and the dpad to be used (for 360 degree movement and 8 direction tile based movement). My frustration with the controls in link's awakening is the forced use of the joystick with 8 direction tile based movement. What could have otherwise been an enjoyable experience is made more difficult, and leaves me wondering why I am not playing the original on my 3ds instead. I do really enjoy many of the QoL improvements in the remake, the graphics, and the music. I also appreciate having the X and Y buttons available unlike the original gameboy versions. I'm still going to power through it, but sadly the GBC version is going to be the definitive version for me despite this version coming so close for me.
I have thought about this on and off for quite a few years now, and I was just wondering what people here have done while maintaining account / device security. I hope people don't mind this rather morbid conversation, but how have people here planned for what will happen with their accounts, computers, self hosted things etc. in the event of their deaths? I am particularly interested in what people have planned for if they are the person in their household who is self hosting things for the household. I'm not in a living situation that allows me to self host much but it is one of the questions I've had for myself when I decide to move in with my significant other and self host more things. I don't think they could manage much of the self hosted stuff and I also don't think they can remember all of the credentials for accounts etc., is the best way of going about it sharing a keepass database or bitwarden account with them? In regards to my accounts, I am not expecting most of my accounts to transfer, if anything I'd much rather them be deleted (and I have enabled this feature where possible). There are a few however, that I wouldn't mind leaving to someone after my passing. Is there a privacy and security preserving way of setting this up? I guess I have just been struggling with how to do this, ideally I would want a way for accounts to transfer to someone listed in my will, but I don't think it's a good idea to give ~2-3 people a copy of my keepass databse while I am still living. I am looking forward to hearing what people's thoughts are on this matter, and I apologize again for such a morbid topic.
Linux Gaming
Replacing my Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
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I mostly play rogue likes with controller and would like a XBox/Playstation style controller
I'm assuming you dont need gyro or touchpad that you'll get with PlayStation / Nintendo compatible controllers, however if you do want those features the Switch Pro controller & the DualSense (PS5) play nicely on my Linux computer (with steam)
Out of the two I'd probably recommend the dual sense since you're used to Xbox / Western PS layout rather then Nintendo / Japanese PS layout.
I've heard good things about the 8bitdo controllers, but can't comment on their compatibility or quality. The contemporary xbox wireless controllers I don't personally like, the current ones have this extra grippy texture on the back and thumbsticks that doesn't sit well with me and the lack of rechargeability ootb is disappointing for the price.
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Assuming the NAT type is one that supports peer to peer connectivity, you could try using Ethernet instead of wireless (of course this only helps when docked). This would alleviate issues with WiFi signal not being strong enough, potentially increase bandwidth, and reduce latency. Ethernet can't improve the connection beyond the incoming connection from the ISP, it only will improve issues that stem from wireless connectivity.
I live in the countryside with my family, so maybe that’s why my Internet is so wonky?
it could very well be this, when I visit my parents in the countryside the internet is sometimes not good enough, and other times it is adequate (satellite internet, so weather can impact it).
Patient Gamers
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
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I got a used copy of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for switch, I know I'm very late to the party on this one but I am enjoying it a lot.
It is the first game however where I've had my switch fully crash, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since it is a Bethesda title.
I've been spending a bunch of the time reading the random lore books in the game, the world building is definitely the main draw for me over the gameplay. Gameplay isn't my favourite but I am enjoying it still, I feel some more contemporary RPGs have definitely spoiled me in some ways.
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I have a few shortlisted
My parent's 2010 Ram 1500, the interior is rather comfy but the reliability is just not there. At 100k km the engine blew up, apparently this is still an issue with the current ones as the 5.7L V8 still has the same flaw allowing for some components to drop into the cylinder. There's also been random electrical components that have died relatively fast, and whatever metal was used rusted exponentially even with rust proofing being applied twice a year. It had more rust than their 2011 Toyota Highlander that had greater than 300k km
I also just hated when I had to drive it downtown, but I can't exactly blame the vehicle for that.
2011 Toyota highlander, it went through 3 transmissions, 5 rear wiper motors, and it was about to go on to its 4th transmission when they sold it. The 3rd one didn't even last much more than a year.
2006 Rav 4 (V6), this car also went through 2 transmissions, and then had to have the entire steering column replaced by year 2
~2016 Ford Fusion, this was a rental car for when my Civic was being repaired after an accident and my god was it awful. It handled like a massive boat despite being a medium sized car and the transmission felt significantly less responsive than even the CVT in the honda. The seats also sucked but i think that was how the rental company cleaned them, they made this awful noise every time you sat in them and looked and felt like a "casting couch" with several generations of children dried up in them...
Honorary Mention: my friends Nissan Versa, seemingly unreliable and falling apart but it refuses to ever give up. That thing will survive nuclear winter, and will remind you with every pothole that its existence is torture.
Good afternoon! I was wondering if anyone had experience with using rechargeable AAs (specifically Panasonic Enloops / Enloop Pros). I have yet to try them, but *hypothetically* they should work as they don't exceed the maximum voltage of 1.5 per cell. (They're 1.2 per cell, closer to what a disposable battery is part way through its life cycle) I also was wondering if anyone has ever found rechargeable batteries that would work in the main body. I have yet to find one that isn't 3.7v (exceeding the normal 3v of the disposable ones) which would likely render the camera inoperable. Thank you for your time :)
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The plugin that brings the "starter" / "welcome" screen when nvim is called without a file is mini.starter, a lua module of the mini plugin. My primary use case for neovim is closer to a feature complete text editor rather than a full fledged IDE, although there definitely is some overlap in my setup.
My set of plugins are roughly as follows
vim-plug, I will likely replace this one withpackerat some pointgoyo.vimandlimelight.vimfor distraction free viewing and editingnnn.nvimto integrate thennnfile manager into neovimmini.nvimaccording to the Github, "Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort. They all share same configuration approaches and general design principles."mini.surroundfeature rich surround actionsmini.statuslinea very simple no-frills statuslinemini.starteraformentioned start screenmini.pairsinserts the paired character, e.g typing(will automatically place)behind the cursorsmini.movemove selectionsmini.maphas a little map of the file similar to VScode among many other IDEs & text editors
barbar.nvimTabbar plugin- a whole bunch of LSP / autocomplete engines / snippets / git commit messages & signs
nvim-treesitterfor syntax highlighting
And the remaining things in my init.lua file are just keybindings, setting up the plugins, and disabling the swapfile etc. when editing my password secrets in gopass among other 'secret' files
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It definitely is rather reminiscent of older Windows versions with the seperate application launchers, fully expanded task bar entries that show the name of an app that are ungrouped (until necessary). And the widgets are very reminiscent of Rainmeter.
But I also bring some things from macOS that I enjoyed such as the global menu on the top (sadly Firefox flatpak does not support), virtual desktops with the pager widget on the bottom, and I use Krunner a lot (plasma's equivalent to macOS "Spotlight")
I hope your switch to Linux goes well if / when you switch!
The wallpaper is just a cropped image from the scans of the games manual found [here, note these are spoilers!](https://book.tunic.wiki/), Tunic is an absolutely lovely game I have been playing on my Switch and I highly recommend it to people who really enjoy the difficulty of older Nintendo games but want a more polished experience. The way the game integrates the "manual" is really intriguing For a while I was experimenting with different plasma themes but I landed back on the good old reliable gruvbox dark theme. Edit: my apologies for not perfectly aligning two of the images in Gimp, I forgot to press the button that aligns them horizontally and not just vertically :p
Here is the [github page](https://github.com/StractOrg/stract). The option for different « optics » is neat, and the inclusion of DDG bangs style syntax is also appreciated.
Canada
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Notably even an economy compact car like the Corolla can have keyless entry, I think it was an option for the Corolla starting in ~2007 unless I'm mixing up models. So it was not just mid-tier cars back then, but also the smaller & more affordable ones.
Privacy Guides
Skiff has been acquired by notion, is shutting down
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I wish the address book and calendar information were also encrypted
However, Open-Exchange, the software platform used by Mailbox.org, does not support the encryption of your address book and calendar. A standalone option may be more appropriate for that information. (source)
I currently use protonmail but if mailbox.org made that change I'd switch immediately, so I could actually get calendar integration on KDE (with Kontact)
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I understand why they wouldn’t want to suddenly change the branding of existing projects though.
I'm not sure if I agree, I feel like the long term damage of keeping the names is greater than changing them now to Fedora Plasma Atomic (Formerly Kinoite) / Fedora Atomic Workstation (Formerly Silverblue). Leaving them as is, is just going to create more confusion in the future to new users who won't immediately understand why the naming convention is different for the other spins and will create more confusion for documentation / support threads online.
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I feel that I am 50:50 on it, immutable at least conveyed more information about what it is while Atomic feels a lot more "buzz-word-y" and does not convey as well what it means. Regardless, I'd say the bigger issue is keeping the old Silverblue & Kinoite names, they really should change them even if it means having a ~2 year period of having "Formerly Silverblue / Kinoite".
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Thank you for the very thorough reply! For god knows what reason I get this error: error: app/org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable not installed when running the xdg-open firefox-reader command, yet manually running flatpak run --user org.mozilla.firefox about:reader?url=https://example.com works just fine. I'll have to troubleshoot it when I have a bit more time ;p
Thanks again for your very thorough write up and the linked articles. Have a good day :)
Update: It seems like on my system, the --user flag was the issue, removing it made the script function. I am using Fedora Kinoite (Immutable version of KDE Plasma), so perhaps it is just a difference in how flatpak is configured between distros? I'll have to read into it more later.
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I started using tiling window managers. What tips do you have? What packages do you use to make yours fully functional? Lost noob needs some guidance...
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I'll keep my answer focused on KDE Connect as I no longer use a TWM. You can most definitely use KDE Connect in non-Plasma environments. For non-Plasma (and non-Gnome ^*^ ) environments you can just install the kdeconnectd package. Then, to start the KDE Connect daemon manually, execute /usr/lib/kdeconnectd. You can schedule this to autostart as a systemd unit, or in the config for your TWM (I know in sway/i3 you could start it, I'm assuming it is similar for many other options)
If you use a firewall, you need to open UDP and TCP ports 1714 through 1764. If you use firewalld specifically, there's an option to enable KDE Connect rather than manually specifying it. This also let's you have it only work on private networks and not public if you so chose.
See Arch wiki for more details
*For gnome I would recommend using gs-connect even if you have a tiling extension
£ KDE-Connect: does that work on TWMs? Is there a good implementation? Can I use GSConnect elsewhere too?
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same issue as I have. I know how I would approach this if Akregator was installed on the system rather than as a flatpak, I would just change the command run by the app when opening in an external browser to ``flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox about:reader?url=%u`` which just appends the ``about:reader`` portion to automatically open it as such. This command does work from my terminal but naturally does not work with Akregator. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Any thoughts on Secureblue (and the greater ublue ecosystem of images)?
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It depends on which version you install. They have a version where user namespaces are disabled so tools such as podman and distrobox cannot run and flatpak requires bubblewrap to run as root. If you download the other version podman etc. will run and flatpak will also use user namespaces
(Read more here)
As the title states, I am just curious what peoples opinions are on [secureblue](https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue), as well as the many other images that exist (notably Bazzite for the SteamDeck)
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I'd much rather use a separate Firefox (now Mozilla I think) account for my professional work. I also would prefer having separate extensions, notably Zotero connector is kind of useless for my personal browsing
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I usually do 19C in the winter, and 24C in the summer, my parents do 22C (72F?) year around
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Most of the documents I produce are converted to PDF or printed, so I use Nimbus Roman or Nimbus Sans (I believe). I do use Open Dyslexic font
For UI I really enjoy Inter, although Ubuntu, Roboto and IBM Plex Sans are also nice
For terminal I use Hack, although Source Code Pro is nice
Mildly Infuriating
So much for that dream.
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The other nice thing for "state funded media" is they often have translations for international audiences
For example CBC / Radio-Canada also have an international page, Radio-Canada International offered in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic etc.
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I always assumed xeyes was made for that exact purpose, somewhat funny that it was not designed for this.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1163818 > **Update**: The guide on github has been updated and has addopted a different method. Notably, it: > > A) still accomplishing my goal of avoiding running the process inside as root. > > B) uses the linuxserver.io image rather than the syncthing/syncthing one (my method does not allow for the linuxserver.io image to run), the linuxserver one is based on > alpine, I truly forget what the other one is based on. > > An archived version of the guide I followed to create my setup has been placed bellow, the updated (and all subsequent version) can be found [here](https://mmarco94.github.io/linux-guides/immutable-os/syncthing) > > I saw [this guide](https://web.archive.org/web/20220613082829/https://mmarco94.github.io/linux-guides/immutable-os/syncthing) discussing how to run Syncthing in > a podman container on immutable OSes and decided to try and create a better solution that avoids running the process inside as root. I am new to podman and it's been > a few years since I used docker so I am a novice in this side of system administration and I guess I am writing this as a "sanity check" for what I have done. > > Below is the podman run arguments I used in place of the ones found in the article, I also manage it with systemd as shown in the article. > > >``` > >podman run -d \ > --name=syncthing \ > --hostname=syncpod \ > --label io.containers.autoupdate=registry \ > --userns keep-id \ > -p 127.0.0.1:8384:8384 \ > -p 22000:22000/tcp \ > -p 22000:22000/udp \ > -p 21027:21027/udp \ > -v ~/.config/syncthing:/var/syncthing/config:Z \ > -v ~/SyncedDirs/:/SyncedDirs:Z \ > -v ~/SyncedDirs2/:/var/syncthing/SyncedDirs2:Z \ > docker.io/syncthing/syncthing:latest > >``` > >_Note: I feel the original guide does *not* explain what the :Z flag does very well, it should at least emphasize unknowing users that it is telling podman to change the SELinux label of a dir to match that of the container._ > >The notable changes in my arguments is the `--userns keep-id` option and switching from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing image. The keep-id option from my understanding tells Podman to create a user namespace where the user and container map to the same UID:GID values. Allowing all files the container touches to still be used by me, the user. I had to switch from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing official one because the former did not allow the `--userns keep-id` option to work (perhaps because it is based on Alpine Linux? I have to investigate more. It failed on running an add-user command if I recall) > >_Below is an excerpt from a RedHat article describing the `--userns keep-id` option, square brackets are mine:_ > >## User namespace modes > >I can change this default mapping using the –userns option, which is described in the podman run man page. This list shows the different modes you can pass to the –userns option. > >* Key: "" (Unset) [Effectively what the original guide did] > >Host user: $UID >Container user: 0 (Default User account mapped to root user in container.) (Default) > >* Key: keep-id [What I am doing] > >Host user: $UID >Container user: $UID (Map user account to the same UID within the container.) >[(Source)](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-user-namespace-modes) > >So far this method seems to work quite well, and has replaced the `syncthing` package I had layered for a while. Is this the best way to run it on an OS like Silverblue / Kinoite, or is there a more sensible route to go? Any feedback is appreciated! > >Edit: Clarity and grammar, and some more detail in a few spots.
**Update**: The guide on github has been updated and has addopted a different method. Notably, it: A) still accomplishing my goal of avoiding running the process inside as root. B) uses the linuxserver.io image rather than the syncthing/syncthing one (my method does not allow for the linuxserver.io image to run), the linuxserver one is based on alpine, I truly forget what the other one is based on. An archived version of the guide I followed to create my setup has been placed bellow, the updated (and all subsequent version) can be found [here](https://mmarco94.github.io/linux-guides/immutable-os/syncthing) I saw [this guide](https://web.archive.org/web/20220613082829/https://mmarco94.github.io/linux-guides/immutable-os/syncthing) discussing how to run Syncthing in a podman container on immutable OSes and decided to try and create a better solution that avoids running the process inside as root. I am new to podman and it's been a few years since I used docker so I am a novice in this side of system administration and I guess I am writing this as a "sanity check" for what I have done. Below is the podman run arguments I used in place of the ones found in the article, I also manage it with systemd as shown in the article. ``` podman run -d \ --name=syncthing \ --hostname=syncpod \ --label io.containers.autoupdate=registry \ --userns keep-id \ -p 127.0.0.1:8384:8384 \ -p 22000:22000/tcp \ -p 22000:22000/udp \ -p 21027:21027/udp \ -v ~/.config/syncthing:/var/syncthing/config:Z \ -v ~/SyncedDirs/:/SyncedDirs:Z \ -v ~/SyncedDirs2/:/var/syncthing/SyncedDirs2:Z \ docker.io/syncthing/syncthing:latest ``` _Note: I feel the original guide does *not* explain what the :Z flag does very well, it should at least emphasize unknowing users that it is telling podman to change the SELinux label of a dir to match that of the container._ The notable changes in my arguments is the `--userns keep-id` option and switching from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing image. The keep-id option from my understanding tells Podman to create a user namespace where the user and container map to the same UID:GID values. Allowing all files the container touches to still be used by me, the user. I had to switch from the linuxserver.io version to the syncthing official one because the former did not allow the `--userns keep-id` option to work (perhaps because it is based on Alpine Linux? I have to investigate more. It failed on running an add-user command if I recall) _Below is an excerpt from a RedHat article describing the `--userns keep-id` option, square brackets are mine:_ ## User namespace modes I can change this default mapping using the –userns option, which is described in the podman run man page. This list shows the different modes you can pass to the –userns option. * Key: "" (Unset) [Effectively what the original guide did] Host user: $UID Container user: 0 (Default User account mapped to root user in container.) (Default) * Key: keep-id [What I am doing] Host user: $UID Container user: $UID (Map user account to the same UID within the container.) [(Source)](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-user-namespace-modes) So far this method seems to work quite well, and has replaced the `syncthing` package I had layered for a while. Is this the best way to run it on an OS like Silverblue / Kinoite, or is there a more sensible route to go? Any feedback is appreciated! Edit: Clarity and grammar, and some more detail in a few spots.
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This is exactly how i felt reading the article, part of the point is to empower users to be able to make a community on a different instance if the first instance has poor moderation, a crazy admin, or just isn't the vibe you're lookimg for.
I think a better solution is something similar to multiredits, where users can group communities together on their own. Which also opens up opportunities for someone to view only tangentially related feeds in the same view (i.e c/news and c/canada, or c/technology and c/linux)
I am curious as to what are the best practices regarding blurring and / or pixelating a portion of a photo. I understand the reasons why the website suggests to put a black box over text one wishes to redact, but for other content that is not text what is the best choice. Should a combination of the two be used or just one? E.g. for blurring a face or something else within an image. Thanks!
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I have not personally tried it, but here they describe it as being alpha software.
Of course, that alpha designation could be unwarranted, I do not know.
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I am sticking around for the time being. While it is a community project, Red Hat is still the legal entity representing it and is a sponsor of the Fedora Project. I am confident that Fedora will continue to exist (or if RedHat ruins it, the community would fork it), consequently I feel that this is more a question of morals / ethics or desire to distance oneself from Red Hat products. With switching you would likely be giving up either KDE or immutability, until OpenSUSE's Kalpa matures more. Regardless, I'm not sure how much benefit Red Hat gets from you being a Fedora user. Unless you contribute to the project itself or are using Fedora as a means to gain more knowledge for using RHEL products in enterprise.
Some relevant articles for people interested; Fedora Project Wikipedia governance section, Fedora Project Wiki regarding the proposed "Foundation" and the mailing list discussing the "Foundation".
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How many large somewhat independent papers even exist now? The only ones I can think of are Le Devoir and La Presse, I can't think of any English publications
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To elaborate further on what Vani said below, Fedora is an independent community run project but Red Hat does provide some funding to the project. Fedora is also "upstream" of RHEL / CentOS so it is not impacted like Alma / Rocky.
 I am just curious if anyone here changes it from the default (disabled) state. Would you say the telemetry data is particularly useful to the developers & respectful to the user? I generally disable all telemetry even on open source software but I am happy to hear people's arguments for enabling some of it if it helps the developers in a privacy respecting way. Enjoy your day!
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What are the steps to reproduce this issue?
Browsing the main feed with an account on sh.itjust.works seems to do this
As in the image, there's a header that mentions the email auth being enabled and to check spam. Jerboa renders it quite oddly. Is this expected behaviour (as in instance admins shouldn't add text like this) or is this worthy of a github issue?  This image depicts the actual site, the following text: *NEW USERS: We have temporarily enabled email verification until Captchas have been re-released. If you do not get an email please check your spam/junk folder.* is the problem.  Edit: According to our instance admin this is a jerboa issue. *"Its not rendering an element thats available within the lemmy features. Not doing anything custom that lemmy doesnt do"* I shall file a bug report later tonight unless someone beats me to it! Update: An issue was already filed, you may follow it [here](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/821) Update 2: This issue was fixed with [this merge](https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/875)
The Agora
[Discussion] Agora should have a community icon so I can find it easier when scrolling my communities list
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I think one of these two could work really well!
sh.itjust.works Main Community
Server version issue?
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Based on comments in other posts, this instance has not upgraded yet because captcha is not working in the most recent version.
I'm unsure if there's a way to bypass that screen, I'm still logged in on mine but I did it before the app update.
sh.itjust.works Main Community
PLEASE help test Lemmy 0.18 fixes, enterprise.lemmy.ml is the testing server with latest code
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Well one rather disappointing difference is the posts cannot load with javascript off. While I understand why actions cannot work without javascript it still would be nice if basic functionality (seeing posts) worked.
Edit: Tested with Firefox 114.0.1 (Flatpak) with μBlock Origin 1.50.0 disabling javascript
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Is summit worth using over Jerusalem? I currently have Jerboa installed but there's some things I find clunky about it.
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Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don't see how that would apply here.
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What are the pros and cons of installing PWAs?
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This will depend on browser. With Safari on my iPad, extensions do not apply to PWA installed. I was hoping I could still use some userscripts with Lemmy but they do not function with the PWA and only function if I open the website properly.
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Keeping Bethesda games Microsoft exclusives "powerful evidence" against Activision Blizzard takeover, says FTC
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I am happy that the FTC is trying to act in the best interest of consumers, in recent history the FTC and similar entities worldwide have failed to stop anti-consumer behaviour and it's refreshing to see them actually doing this.
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I did not notice this, truly devastating news. I don't know how I shall even be able to sleep at night!
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/181146 > I am assuming many of you have heard about the potential of Meta creating an ActivityPub enabled client ([TheVerge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub), [PCMag](https://www.pcmag.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-will-probably-be-called-threads) etc. have made articles). I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on this, and if it came down to it should instances in the fediverse defederate from it considering it could be a case of [Embrace, extend, extinguish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish). > > There's a [DefederateMeta magazine](https://fedia.io/m/DefederateMeta) at !DefederateMeta@fedia.io if you're interested, which includes an anti-meta pact on [cryptpad](https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Xz2YqIlhXIFXCitQApFe6Dp14O54I6vuqTUUgo8WbdM/) with the responses viewable on a [seperate website](https://vantaa.black/pact) if you care to see which instance admins have agreed. > > I'm just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated! Reposting at the request of [can](https://sh.itjust.works/u/can), within the context of c/agora should this instance defederate from any future Meta activity pub enabled clients? From my understanding it is more so a Twitter-clone and I'd argue a more severe problem for Kbin / Mastodon, but it is still worth discussing here.
I am just wondering what matrix instances are recommended. I would rather not use the main matrix.org instance, but I still want something with good up-time, updated software and that is privacy respecting. Thanks! ~~Update: I am trying arcticfoxes, thank you for all of your suggestions! Feel free to leave more as it may help others who come across this post in the future.~~ Update 2: I had an issue with cross signing, but it works on envs.net so I am assuming it's an issue with the arcticfoxes instance. I am now using envs.net. As I said before, feel free to leave more suggestions for others who come across this post.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to figure out which instances are blocking this one? I know beehaw is as it was quite public, but now we are blocked by 2 and I am just curious which instance is the second one. I have looked on the [awesome-lemmy-instances](https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances) page and also tried [Federation Observer](https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list), [The Federation Info](https://the-federation.info/platform/73) and [FediDB](https://fedidb.org/network/instance/sh.itjust.works) but none of them seem to have this information. Edit: [Lemmymap](https://lemmymap.feddit.de/) seems like the easiest option, as you can't specifically search for an instance. It seems like https://news.cosocial.ca/instances is the other instance that has blocked us! Thank you bdonvr for mentioning this. Edit2: It should be noted that this is a very small instance as mentioned by PriorProject, and is nothing to be worried about.
I am assuming many of you have heard about the potential of Meta creating an ActivityPub enabled client ([TheVerge](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub), [PCMag](https://www.pcmag.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-will-probably-be-called-threads) etc. have made articles). I was just wondering what people's thoughts are on this, and if it came down to it should instances in the fediverse defederate from it considering it could be a case of [Embrace, extend, extinguish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish). There's a [DefederateMeta magazine](https://fedia.io/m/DefederateMeta) at !DefederateMeta@fedia.io if you're interested, which includes an anti-meta pact on [cryptpad](https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Xz2YqIlhXIFXCitQApFe6Dp14O54I6vuqTUUgo8WbdM/) with the responses viewable on a [seperate website](https://vantaa.black/pact) if you care to see which instance admins have agreed. I'm just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!
Is the matrix user option just to allow for direct messages akin to what Reddit has, but keeping them on a seperate platform to avoid the devs having to replicate federated DMing tech that already exists in another project? Also, how many of you are using it? What matrix home servers do you recommend? thanks!
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/117681 > I am just curious what the state of android auto alternatives are at this point. > > As much as I would like to use GrapheneOS I would find it quite hard to part with Android Auto / Apple CarPlay. I am not expecting Android Auto to be one of the apps to be available in sandboxed gapps, but I would like to see a viable alternative that is better than using OsmAnd with my phone mounted to the dashboard.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/118641 > Lovely website to test what armour trims look like in various combinations!
Lovely website to test what armour trims look like in various combinations!
I am just curious what the state of android auto alternatives are at this point. As much as I would like to use GrapheneOS I would find it quite hard to part with Android Auto / Apple CarPlay. I am not expecting Android Auto to be one of the apps to be available in sandboxed gapps, but I would like to see a viable alternative that is better than using OsmAnd with my phone mounted to the dashboard.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/658611 > IMO, the default Lemmy style is ridiculous on desktop (especially widescreen). I saw a few posts on other servers with some Stylus CSS changes and they were a good start. I made a few changes to get rid of some of the crazy font sizes, padding/margin, and width. > > The CSS: [https://pastebin.com/b71sNaRe](https://pastebin.com/b71sNaRe) > > Stylus Chrome extenstion: [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne) > > Screenshots: > [https://i.imgur.com/UdKigJD.png](https://i.imgur.com/UdKigJD.png) > [https://i.imgur.com/PBNb1SK.png](https://i.imgur.com/PBNb1SK.png) > > Hopefully this makes things more bearable for a few people. (If you use dark mode, just delete lines 10, 11, and 12.)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/71937 > I was just wondering how people go about changing the sensitivity of the track-point. In settings there is only an option for touchpad and mouse settings, and the sensitivity of the trackpoint is modified by the mouse settings which is less than ideal. This is exasperated when I ideally want mouse acceleration on, but 'trackpoint' [mouse] acceleration off. > > Any ideas on how to do this better?
I was just wondering how people go about changing the sensitivity of the track-point. In Gnome's settings there is only an option for touchpad and mouse settings, and the sensitivity of the trackpoint is modified by the mouse settings which is less than ideal. This is exasperated when I ideally want mouse acceleration on, but 'trackpoint' [mouse] acceleration off. Any ideas on how to do this better?