(Scusa il papiro)

Sono d'accordo che la quantità di dati che consegnamo volontariamente o senza saperlo ai giganti della tecnologia sia troppo alto, ma c'é un abisso tra lo scenario attuale e quello che viene proposto qui.

Prima di tutto finora i dati finiscono in mani –passami il termine – "benevole", nel senso che sono sì enormi aziende con troppo potere, ma il loro scopo è venderci roba, non farci attivamente del male. Questo significa che sono interessati solo a certi aspetti delle nostre vite, quelli da cui possono trarre profitto. In più i dati non consistono in uno schedario unico contenente un profilo completo di ogni persona, ma in spezzoni frammentari che vengono aggregati con quelli di altre persone per verificare trend e preferenze generali. È sicuramente possibile costruire un profilo completo di un individuo con tutti quei dati, ma ci vuole molto lavoro e accesso a un numero enorme di dati di varie compagnie. In più diciamolo, è possibile semplicemente evitare i prodotti più anti-privacy (smartwatch che mandano dati di salute, assistenti per la casa che ascoltano sempre.. non sono esattamente essenziali) e chi vuole può trovare alternative per molte altre cose. Niente di drastico come andare a vivere nei boschi.

L'eccesso di sorveglianza di cui si parla qui invece, del tipo "la tua tv ti guarda mentre dormi" è ancora in larga parte illegale, fa scandalo quando casi isolati vengono scoperti ed applicazioni generalizzate esistono ancora solo nei piani futuri di CEO e agenzie di sicurezza. Non è impossibile mantenere la situazione così, in cui la privacy è sì erosa, ma non al punto che tutti sappiano automaticamente cos'hai mangiato ieri sera o com'è fatta la tua camera da letto.

Per finire, parlando di cambiamenti futuri, è improbabile ma comunque plausibile che sul lungo termine il mercato dei dati ad un certo punto crolli e che improvvisamente questo tipo di erosione della privacy non porti più vantaggi economici. A quel punto sarebbe un vero peccato aver rinunciato interamente alla privacy perché "tanto non ce l'abbiamo comunque".

Precisamente, la morale può cambiare molto. Chissà quali tue abitudini, idee e comportamenti potrebbero col tempo diventare inaccettabili, illegali, o prese di mira da gruppi estremisti/un governo che prevarichi le proprie competenze/la società in generale che viene a saperne attraverso una grossa fuga di dati. Nessuno ha voglia di vivere la propria vita come se fosse continuamente su un palcoscenico, ma le conseguenze sono potenzialmente molto peggiori di un semplice fastidio. Per fare un esempio, negli stati uniti da un giorno all'altro l'aborto è diventato illegale in molti stati e i dati delle app per il tracciamento del ciclo possono incriminare una donna. Il concetto di vita privata protegge da conseguenze negative future.

Thank you, I didn't know about ydotool, I'll get it working on openSuse

That's a great workaround, could you share the command?

How do the Tumbleweed Folks among us deal with this?

We generally don't add many third party repos and we set repository priorities. If I understand this correctly, you are currently using official openSUSE packages and your upgrade is prompting you to upgrade them by changing vendor to this home:wolfi repo. If you want to keep the original packages, you just need to set priorities: in YaST 's "Software Repositories" page for instance, you can select a repo and see what its priority is (99 is the lowest priority, 1 is the highest). You could for instance put the official repos at 95 priority and the wolfi repo at 99. This way, packages will remain set on the official repos even if there are new versions on the other repo.

However, if you have packages that you want to get from the wolfi repo but are also in the official repos, with this method you will be asked to change those packages to the official repos, the inverse situation compared to your issue. You can tell the system to keep those packages from your chosen repo, I do it by choosing a version on the YaST Software page.

I love how the division in Europe vaguely looks like the Protestant Reformation led to different prefix numbers (I know I know, Poland & co don't match)

I had the same annoyance and ended up uninstalling it, I'll look into remapping the up arrow too, I never liked the way ctrl-r works anyway. By the way, do you know how to delete a command from history in atuin? I found a bunch of discussions in development about this and some comments saying the function was added, but never mentioning the shortcut or command to delete

Oh COME ON. Where was this when my laptop died a month ago? I had to replace it asap and the previous kde slimbook was already out of stock. I got a great tuxedo, but this one is the same price and much better specs... I have the worst timing. Great news for everyone else though!

Beta? It isn't experimental, it was an official feature that is no longer supported (even if it still works perfectly).

As I said somewhere else, to get more compact tabs you can go to about:config and search for a setting called browser.tabs.tabMinWidth, I usually change the number to 20 (the default minimum width is like 70) and tabs are allowed to become roughly as narrow as in chrome. And if by "more compact tab bar" you meant how tall tabs are, there's the browser.compactmode.show setting, put it to "true" and then in the Firefox menu under More Tools → Customize Toolbars you can select "compact mode" in the "Density" menu on the bottom, which makes the tab bar and toolbars shorter

This video is criticising Lunduke, it isn't made by him

To mitigate this you can go to about:config (write it in the address bar) and search for a setting called browser.tabs.tabMinWidth, I usually change the number to 20 (the default minimum width is like 70) and tabs are allowed to become roughly as narrow as in chrome. It's a much simpler and stabler option compared to custom CSS

I agree, I honestly expected a much starker difference in land use. I also agree that soy beans can be grown responsibly, except of course it's often not the case. The fact that both soybeans and insects are being grown largely as a source of protein for cattle brings us once again back to the main issue: cows!

According to this study a mealworm farm uses more energy per kg of protein produced compared to chicken, but much less energy than any other meat. However, mealworm farms rank lowest in CO₂-equivalent emissions per kg of protein and lowest in land use compared to all meat products, including chicken.

Apparently soy beans produce 6.82 kg of CO₂-equivalent per kg of protein isolate (which is 90% protein, therefore 7,5 kg of CO₂-equivalent per kg of protein), while mealworm farms produce 14 kg of CO₂-equivalent per kg of protein (and around 30 kg for chicken, the next best option). Worse, but less than double.

As for land use, the first study calculates that to produce 1kg of protein from mealworms it is necessary to use 18 square meters of land per year (including the land to grow food for the worms) while according to this other study vegetable proteins need up to 25 square meters of land per year for each kg of protein.

I admit it's not as big a difference in land use as I thought (it's different studies, they might have slightly different metrics) , but I think there are other factors that make it a much more complicated issue: mass use of fertilizers, monocultures, deforestation, soil impoverishment... An advantage of mealworms might be that you can give them a variety of foods that are easier on the soil (the first study mentioned carrots, grains and other stuff) in order for them to produce protein, while protein-heavy plants require rich soil and tend to drain it fast.

I really don't think it's a matter of "haters". It might be more logical and consistent if you have no other frames of reference, but most Plasma users come over from other OSs who all use double click (Windows, Mac, even Gnome). If a new user blindly tries KDE and keeps accidentally opening everything while trying to select it's just an immediate and big annoyance. It's not even clear that it isn't a bug because there is no clear explanation of how to select and how to open.

Edit: we are of course all used to single clicking on touch screens, but there it is contrasted with the long press to see options and some "select mode" for file management. There is no system that works exactly like Plasma single-click, which makes it disorienting.

No, there are those big plus signs appearing on the top-right corner of the icon, if you click there it selects instead of opening. I guess it's a matter of habit, I can't get used to it

The whole eating insects idea is motivated by carbon emissions and similar concerns: insect meal is around 60-70% protein (beans are around 30%, maybe bean meal is more but I have never seen it anywhere), and its cost in terms of emissions and land use is much smaller than either meat or plants (especially stuff like soy). Nobody is arguing that it should replace beans. Rather, it could help diminish meat consumption.

After 4 years on btrfs I haven't had a single issue, I never think about it really. Granted, I have a very basic setup. Snapper snapshots have saved me a couple of times, that aspect of it is really useful.

I broke it the same way years ago! And now I haven't updated openSUSE Tumbleweed in 4 months and I know I won't have any issues when I do, there's no rush!

Ok I admit I never thought about using ublock on thunderbird but it sounds interesting, could you explain what advantages it and those filters give? As far as I know TB already blocks some elements within emails for security and privacy purposes

This looks very promising, thank you very much! I'll try it as soon as I can

I did look it up, it's great and faster than my layout for the big languages – German, French, Spanish and Italian – because the accented letters are on the third and fourth levels directly and not written via dead keys, but it's harder to write most of the others like the Slavic languages (š, ů, ď, ł, ć, ̦ż, ą), Romanian (ș, ṭ, ă), Hungarian (ő, ű), Catalan ( · ), Azeri (Ə), Portuguese (ã), Turkish (ş, ţ, ğ, ı. İ) and Maltese (Ħ, Ġ). In EurKey each one requires Shift+AltGr+DeadKey+letter and a few are missing, while in my layout most of these require one less key. Of course this is not useful to most people, but I'm happy with it.

Dixie Dregs' 1975 debut album "The Great Spectacular", for some reason it is not considered a proper release, more like a demo, and is extremely rare in physical copies as well as online. Luckily I found what I believe is the only high quality rip in existance a couple years ago, it was a long search! Worth it, it's their happiest and most delightful work, just half an hour of Steve Morse's great and eclectic guitar work

I agree, all these preferences (currency, time, date, measurements) shouldn't need to fit in a determined locale box, but if you customize them it's possible to run into issues. I believe choosing English (Ireland) might solve your issue? Either that or I have found a way to customize it way back and then forgot.

That's great, enjoy your holiday!

Ooh I see now! I should have thought of it, most of my songs are in opus format, and tambourine is only picking up the flacs:

023-07-04 11:00:57.342 | ERROR | io.github.mmarco94.tambourine.data.Library | Error while parsing music file: No Reader associated with this extension:opus

My bad, many music apps don't support opus. I have everything in flac on a separate drive, but there's no room on my laptop so I convert them. Opus is open source and compresses files in a much more optimised way than mp3, so you can get smaller files with way better sound quality.

I have no idea how much work adding support for it would entail, but I would definitely use tambourine if you decided to do it. Right now I'm using Elisa on KDE, which is nice but very slow to recreate its database every time I add or change something.

I like the design and it looks perfect for me since I store everything locally and tag manually. My only issue is it only "sees" around 600 songs out of the 30 ˙000 I have, leaving some albums with only 1 song and ignoring a lot of artists. Is there a way to force it to notice the rest? Everything is in the same folder

Change from single click to double click to open! I guess theming would make a lot of the work, I don't remember the names but there are a few plasma themes that aim to mimic windows 10 and 11. If not the entire theme, the icons at least would make it way more intuitive.

For the office suite you might want to check out OnlyOffice(or even freeoffice), it probably looks more modern and less jarring than libreoffice for someone coming from recent versions of MS Office.

The start menu also has versions of it more similar to the windows one, but the standard one Is much better, maybe it's a change she can get used to.

Make sure the desktop is in Folder View, so she can put files and folders on it, and set Dolphin's view to the one she's used to, icons or details.

I'm not sure for gaming, but maybe check beforehand if hers work on kubuntu.

Finally I'd make a post-it explaining the names of programs: dolphin - > file explorer, Kate - > notepad, ark - > 7zip and so on. The most frustrating thing is looking for a program that should have an obvious name and finding only unknown nicknames, it takes a while to get used to!

As per the previous comment, you can still find Z-Library via Tor at this onion address: loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion/

But you need to create an account to access it (use a disposable email address). Otherwise I know libgen.li is a well stocked archive

openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE since 2019, it never breaks and if you break it you can easily roll back. Yes, there are a lot of updates, but I have a secondary system that I upgrade only once every six months and it works like a charm!