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Having some comfort issues with the emojier
  • This should be an easy fix. The initial position of the cursor is defined in the apps to my knowledge.

    Please report a bug for this component on KDE Bugzilla:

    Bugs.kde.org

    You should be able to find the component.

  • The market will for sure solve this
  • This is big scale capitalism, not free market.

    Capitalism is the key problem.

    A free market is probably necessary. With a system where everyone has enough to live well, affordable healthcare, equal treatment etc.

    A free market ensures a lot of quality standards.

    But it is not only competition, improvements and "getting the best, the best way".

    It is "making & selling something that people buy, the cheap way". This principle is fundamentally flawed, as environmental protection doesnt pay, and there is no real reason for companies to be good for the enviroment. Like, actually being good.

    You can also argue that products enshittified over time (glued together laptops, unnecessarily weak drinking glasses, "IOT-ifying" everything, cheap clothes, throwaway razors, cheap food,...) because there is no value in making good products in a free market, if people get f**ing brainwashed and dont buy stuff based on their value over time.

    And equally it is even worse with the environment. As there is no value in protecting the environment, nobody does it. Now laws force companies to list all important data, and this gets converted into some indirect form of money. But not nearly as transparently and freely as a free market. You may get fees or not, you may save some "carbon credits" but these are horrendously underpriced and can be bought with neocolonial freakshows like forcing people out of their own land, to "protect it", as if it would have been destroyed before.

    And the main flaw is that there is no big reason to not fake these values. Or not just write down what you already do, and keep it at this. Or do more than needed.

    And to the topic, a free market has no stop sign. Companies naturally grow bigger and bigger, get more and more efficient, critical for whole societies that rely on working for them, and thus they are inherently not "neutral possibilities in a free world".

    This always leads to huge mega-giants having influence on people, politics etc.

    And this leads us to the situation we are currently in. Companies abusing license and patent laws, to cripple the system that even made them possible.

    I have no idea why the US is so f**cked up in this graph, but believe me Germany is also horrible.

    Trickle down economics does work in a way that ensures basic healthcare for all germans. But meanwhile these damn germans produce a SH**LOAD of stuff.

    I have no numbers but it is insane how much utter garbage we produce. And from this endless, insane stream of trash, we always scoop off enough profit to make the 1% even more ugly rich, and keep the said basic human rights intact.

    This may work, but it is soooo far from sufficiency.

    I really liked the latest video of "Second Thought", about the american dream and capitalisms natural path to fascism

  • Bazzite ? maybe not for V-rising.
  • Very true. I am also very critical of any form of "stable packages". Firefox ESR the LTS kernel are the only exception but if SteamOS doesnt use the LTS kernel then wtf are they doing?

    I honestly dont care about gaming :D I waste way too much time away from touching grass anyways.

    But I hope they backport all security fixes anyways, as the SteamDeck is now one of the most predictable Linux botnet-targets out there.

    there are always uBlue images like Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora that fix that.

    Yes I know and use uBlue since basically it came out :D awesome project

    But I specifically mean the packaging delays. There are sometimes sync issues with drivers, like this recent one with no free stuff that is used alongside the normal stuff.

    And with Cisco-openh264 they cant to anything, Cisco ships the packages which is legally binding, and there are issues sometimes.

    But Fedora is doing a great job, and the fact that rpmfusion exists alone is pretty hillarious. These are obviously Fedora people maintaining the stuff in secret, in a country where patent laws are not enforced (but are also in place afaik).

    It's actually improved my experience on my laptop significantly

    I guess so too? I dont know, Fedora Kinoite (whatever small derivative, currently ublue kinoite-main, soon aurora) works just really well.

    You are at the bleeding edge, but I often find bugs that are simply there and need to be fixed. Once KDE Plasma 6 is on some LTS release like CentOS Stream, I may think about switching.

    But until then, Fedora is just really good.

  • Bazzite ? maybe not for V-rising.
  • Nice, thanks for the info!

    Yes but I mean Steam may test many games with this specific setup. Fedora is a way better base in general, if you leave out the issues with external repos (mainly openh264, rpmfusion is maintained by fedora people, 100%)

  • How to block this annoying toggle in uBlock Origin?
  • Open the picker and select the thing.

    Then if you see an overlay that covers it it will be removed. But there is a list of elements in that area, look to make the filter as unspecific-specific as possible ("interactive annoying button" instead of "button-xd12440292-image1232.png") and as large as possible without removing stuff.

    If you removed too much, go to settings and custom filters, delete the line and try again

  • Don't dare to question Gnome
  • I agree a lot. Had Vista and XP machines in the past.

    Then mainly used Win10 and KDE Plasma was a solid upgrade.

    But they really copied the Win10 look which is atrocious. I agree that WinXP and 7 and the era where way better.

    There are themes for everything though. Its just theming. I dont know if all apps support it and have never dealt with it, as Breeze works pretty well with Adwaita and Electron apps too.

    I think there are Kvantum themes for this?

  • find a file containing some text
  • It is important to have backups for when Youtube blocks clients, but I just watch it over a VPN and Freetube or Grayjay. Not leeching any resources when avoidable, just costing big brother money.

  • Bazzite ? maybe not for V-rising.
  • This is not about mint but random proprietary NVIDIA drivers not working with Wayland.

    I dont know if ublue offers any X11 images now that F40 removed the X11 packages by default.

    You dont need to distrohop, you need a Bazzite image with X11 support. This is mostly unsupported legacy cruft and mostly NVIDIAs fault.

  • find a file containing some text

    TL;DW

    ```

    find with grep

    + concatinates results and runs the command once, faster

    find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l "somename" '{}' '+'

    run a command for each result individually

    find . -name "*.txt" -exec basename '{}' \';' | column

    case insensitive

    find -iname "SoMeNaMe.TxT

    file or dir

    find -type f find -type d

    define file owner

    find -user Bob

    define file group

    find -group wheel

    by permission

    find -perm 777

    find by size

    find -size +1G ```

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    16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug
    16years.secvuln.info 16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug

    Many DKIM setups used cryptographic keys vulnerable to the 2008 Debian OpenSSL Bug (CVE-2008-0166) in 2024.

    16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug
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    Gitea is hosted on Github, ignored issue since 7!! years
    github.com Gitea hosted Gitea · Issue #1029 · go-gitea/gitea

    For the first big stage, we would like Gitea's development could be based on a Gitea hosted and github will only a mirror. This will maybe completed in v1.x. So that this issue will list all the fe...

    Gitea hosted Gitea · Issue #1029 · go-gitea/gitea

    Instead of delivering a nice funny image, just scroll through this issue.

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    Back when both Brodie an Nicco feared Wayland

    Here is the podcast URL

    Lol guys I find this interesting, they made videos that long ago, so much progress. Brodies Podcast was pretty useless short before that, now nearly every episode is really interesting.

    AND both Wayland promoters just didnt use it back then.

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    Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary
    stackdiary.com Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary

    Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to pl...

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    Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary
    stackdiary.com Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary

    Mozilla is introducing a new feature to Firefox aimed at protecting users from bounce trackers, the browser developer has announced. Bounce tracking is a technique where a user clicks a link but ends up reaching their intended destination via an intermediary tracking page. This allows trackers to pl...

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    Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?

    I have a lot of old movies, most will barely be 720p.

    I ripped them off DVDs with MakeMKV and have sometimes 7GB files for 1,5h.

    I want to convert them to something below 300MB, I often see more modern torrented movies below that size, so this should totally be possible.

    They will only ever be played with VLC (Windows) or Celluloid/MPV (Linux) with hardware decoding.

    But what codec to use? h264 and h265 are nonfree, arent they? But Videolan has some free variant of it and Cisco also offers their free version for h264?

    Never heard of VP8 and VP9. Then there is AV1 but that seems to only have "264K 360° Surround sound 3D VR" options.

    Man I just want to encode normal movies 🥲

    What about webm? That is under "web" but probably also good?

    I suppose I should use h264 for compatibility, but the web stuff will also be compatible. I would like the best and fanciest algorithms to have least dataloss.

    Also, what to use for the audio? I think opus is best.

    Thanks!

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    How to convert xdg/autostart processes to systemd services?
    discuss.kde.org How to convert xdg/autostart processes to systemd services

    As far as I understood, currently most if not all plasma services are automatically launched on login, and they are defined in /etc/xdg/autostart/. This has several problems, such as annoying ones like DiscoverNotifier, or security relevant ones like kdeconnect-daemon not being trivial to disable. ...

    How to convert xdg/autostart processes to systemd services
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    How to get a reliable on/off toggle for kdeconnect?

    Kdeconnect is very cool but also pretty sensitive. There are many reasons why people would like to turn it off.

    I already tried placing an empty autostart file with the same name in ~/.local/share/applications/ (same with discovernotifier) and this didnt do anything.

    Another option would be simply closing the firewall (which will be done by default) but I think this doesnt affect bluetooth?

    There is a hacky way of converting it to a systemd service

    First, move /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop out of that autostart dir and make sure KDE Connect is not started (possibly kill it). Keep in mind that this file will come back if you reinstall or upgrade the package. Then copy the file to ~/.config/systemd/user/ and do

    ```

    One time so systemd picks up the new file:

    systemctl --user daemon-reload

    to start/stop:

    systemctl --user start kdeconnect.service systemctl --user stop kdeconnect.service

    to enable, which means it is started automatically when you login (and killed when you logout. The --now part also starts/stops it right away

    systemctl --user enable --now kdeconnect.service

    and disable

    systemctl --user disable --now kdeconnect.service

    output status and log (add e.g. -n 30, if you want to have more log lines)

    systemctl --user status kdeconnect.service ```

    ---

    Uninstalling is not an option, as on Fedora Atomic desktops users cant reinstall apps that were uninstalled in the image building process.

    I am planning a uBlue variant with enhanced security and need to fix this issue. Especially using it via bluetooth is great, but of course also attack surface.

    ---

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    How fast is Plasma on old hardware?

    I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.

    And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.

    But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).

    Has anyone tried Plasma?

    An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.

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    Packaging Davinci Resolve into a Flatpak
    github.com GitHub - pobthebuilder/resolve-flatpak: Flatpak packaging for Blackmagicdesign DaVinci Resolve

    Flatpak packaging for Blackmagicdesign DaVinci Resolve - GitHub - pobthebuilder/resolve-flatpak: Flatpak packaging for Blackmagicdesign DaVinci Resolve

    GitHub - pobthebuilder/resolve-flatpak: Flatpak packaging for Blackmagicdesign DaVinci Resolve

    Davinci Resolve is known to be extremely picky about hardware and software. It officially only supports CentOS which doesnt even exist anymore lol. (not entirely correct)

    So putting it into a container with set and unchanging dependencies ensures it can run everywhere (if it works).

    Also, running such a proprietary piece of software should be done isolated from the rest, and Flatpak has awesome permission management in KDE or using Flatseal.

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    Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Interview)

    Very interesting and understandable explanations of low level architecture and filesystems, namespaces, userspace, kernel functions, drivers etc.

    Highly recommend!

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