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2024-10-03 18:24:09

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@npub1l3g…vu48
Great! It's unfortunate that page curls didn't go away, but at least you got something usable out of it

2024-10-03 17:11:55

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@npub1l3g…vu48
I haven't looked for any such app on my laptop but I know on my Android phone there is an app that I really like that can do exactly this kind of thing.
It can take in a bunch of images, do some processing on it to handle bad photographs and the like. It also can extract text out of the documents, but thats a bit wonky if you want to copy the text to somewhere else (won't have same formatting). Its call OSS document scanner.
https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

2024-07-17 16:44:53

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@npub1hxf…g8qu
If I wanted to look at the positive side, they're probably doing this to make sure no one can create an account with your username. Though realistically, it's just to forever hold your data.

2024-05-01 21:19:56

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@npub1l3g…vu48
I'm currently using this. It works pretty decently for me. Its not perfect, I prefer it over other FOSS options
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.afkanerd.deku/

2024-04-25 01:30:24

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@npub1g74…w635
My update went pretty smoothly. It even fixed an issue I had with Wayland compatibility.
I had a minor hickup where my dorm WiFi said I had a different Mac address and made relogin, but that about it.

2024-03-20 02:02:55

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@npub183n…tahh
I did not know that. I guess that's one more reason for me to avoid SNAP. Honestly, I would think a company would be able to fund reviewers better than an entity that relies on donations..

2024-03-20 01:48:25

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@npub183n…tahh
I'm honestly surprised that we're not seeing this more in Flathub. Or maybe Flathub just has much better screening than I thought they did.
But I'm curious to see what happened to the snap store now. I imagine a lot of such issues would be solved if certain keywords like crypto or popular brand names prompter manual review.

2024-02-12 23:57:39

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@npub1s22…nf4d
To learn and to host nextcloud. Nextcloud has stuff like my files, calendar, tasks and the like. At one point I had jellyfin for media but then I realized I don't really need jellyfin since I can just play videos from next cloud, though the fact that I broke my jellyfin installed might also have something to do with it.

2024-02-09 14:03:33

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@npub1gl5…7hk0
I definitely appreciate this. I was good for a bit, but at some point the names just got too confusing. Even community projects started using scheme, like vauxite, and I'm pretty sure I saw a lazurite image on the Ublue website too.
I still don't know what lazurite is

2024-02-05 01:43:20

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@npub1nlt…t44t
I had an ML class a few years back. Tuning numbers till it worked is pretty much what you do do.
I even had the bright idea of looping the whole thing with a bunch of parameter combinations and leaving my computer to do its thing for a day. Though that gave mixed results.

2024-01-25 18:19:10

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@npub1qhp…tkpv
I guess you just accept it. Living in a place that is just so capitalistic definitely has its issues. You can avoid a lot of nonsense by living in a moderately rural area though. Not all of it, but it can be much better.
Though this is just my experience, can't say about others

2024-01-25 18:05:38

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@npub1qhp…tkpv
As someone in the US, it probably is a result of cashback bonuses, hoping to improve credit score, not bothering to cancel the cards, etc.
But yeah, the US definitely has issues to work through. I'm considering moving to Europe. I'm sure it has its own problems, but it sounds great as someone currently living in US.
Like just today I got charged $20 for a health checkup a few weeks ago that I was told was already covered by insurance. $200 if I had no insurance btw.

2024-01-11 23:35:47

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@npub183n…tahh
Honestly, even if they do this, I cannot see why linux distributions can't just make the alias themselves.
As you said, it is not an extra maintainance burden. Some distros already have aliases for stuff like 'ls -a'. It could either be in the default bash config, or an actual script redirecting to the new command.

2024-01-04 19:14:48

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@npub1t9n…k9e7
Good grief, looks like Microsoft is adding another button usrless to linux system. My current dell laptop (bpught a few years ago) has more than enough of these.
Anyway keep up the great work! Glad you're not following along with them.

2024-01-02 11:08:14

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@npub1t9n…k9e7
Probably more gpu options. I'm happy with AMD, but I think there should be options at different price points.

2023-12-30 00:27:04

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@npub183n…tahh
About the part where you were saying that people get British accents confused with Australian. I cant say from the perspective of an average US citizen, but as someone in the middle east, I couldn't tell the difference between American, British, and Australian accents (I'm a bit better now though). Simply because I didn't hear them often enough to distinguish them.
Similarly, I imagine some Americans don't get to hear Australian accents often.

2023-12-29 15:09:02

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@npub1wjw…ue5t
For me, I'd appreciate passkeys support. Not just for login, but also to store in the password manager.
I'd also like unified push notification support for proton mail. It could be in advanced settings, or optionally turn it on if GSM is not detected.

2023-12-27 19:09:51

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@npub1vvu…pj6u
Installing and tinkering with software. With stuff like nix and distrobox, it's pretty amazing to have containerized apps that can be cleanly removed.
I recall with windows I was always worried that doing so will add crust to system in random that would be hard to clean.

2023-12-20 20:47:54

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@npub1vvu…pj6u
The person with red and blue patterns, with the "A" on the sweater.

2023-12-07 19:43:43

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@npub1gv8…uu0q @npub15c0…hxke
I found about recently and switched as soon as I found out. It works great, even stuff like passkeys work with no issues (even in a specific case where it doesn't work on the firefox flatpak).
It works a bit better than the distrobox setup I had prior.
Also just curious, but is there any specific reason it isn't verfied? Like does something not work?

2023-11-16 18:46:16

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@npub188q…3jlx
One big issue that you didn't mention (or I just missed it) is that you have no control over a snap. If a permission or the like is messed up in a flatpak, you can fine tune it till it works. Sure you're breaking the sandbox, but it at least works.
With snaps, if something is broken, it remains broken until the developer does something about it.
Also now flatpak theming is decent in KDE at least. Adwaita app by design are hard to customize, but the rest isn't difficult.

2023-11-15 12:23:07

Hey @npub188q…3jlx
I was planning on trying the onlyoffice app on Android. I couldn't find an fdroid version, but in Play store it has a bunch of trackers (including facebook) according to its exodus privacy report. This seems pretty shady to me and makes me doubt their other apps too.
Do you know if the desktop apps also have trackers? I was wondering since you have done sponsorships with them in the past. I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, just wanted to know if you had more info.

2023-10-31 23:54:50

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@npub183n…tahh
I looked over the patches for thorium, and a lot of it is really cool. Making the browser feel like an actual Linux first browser.
Though I also definitely agree with you on the issues. A chromium fork that out of date is pretty dangerous, though the risk is mitigated somewhat by using ublock (assuming you turn on all the security related filters). Thorium also has somewhat unique settings that can make it easy to fingerprint (for the privacy conscious folks).

2023-10-22 01:39:42

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@npub1rnj…vtmy @npub1wst…ez75
Note: I would recommend using the latest image, like fedora:latest instead of fedora:38 when creating container. The complete image creation command would be
distrobox-create --name fedora --image fedora:latest
I'm using fedora as an example here, but any other distro that can install Vivaldi should work.

2023-10-22 01:36:45

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@npub1rnj…vtmy @npub1wst…ez75
Distrobox is more or less a more convenient wrapper for toolbox. If you're going to use a graphical app like vivaldi, I would definitely recommend doing distrobox rather than toolbox, since you can export it to the desktop more easily.
I use a fedora distrobox to install vivaldi on my system, but you can use a different distro if you prefer. Its FOSS made a great article on it.
https://itsfoss.com/distrobox/

2023-10-20 00:28:17

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@npub1gl5…7hk0
yeah I was pretty surprised too when I saw that. It's amazing that Fedora over has gotten popular enough to show up in TechLinked. Hopefully this means that Fedora and Linux as a whole is getting more mainstream.

2023-10-15 14:24:36

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@npub1xvg…fy5f
Fair, I'm also considering an arc card whenever I have to buy one. In any case having a backup, even if it is ehat you currently have may be a good idea. Just in case you do run into those issues

2023-10-15 13:52:16

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@npub1xvg…fy5f
I do not own a card myself, but it seems driver issues on some ranfom games are the biggest problem. Not just in linux, but also in Windows. Likely due it being a 1st gen product. Though once again, I don't own the card.

2023-10-12 21:23:58

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@npub1qhp…tkpv
I can't say I noticed this issue but then again I run a custom Android ROM without Google Play.

2023-09-27 20:58:30

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@npub1zpu…qh6x
I'm currently using using as a test. It has a lot of gaming stuff sure, but it's also pretty good for day to day use. It uses a tad bit more resources than regular kionite, but its still pretty good.
It has a few kinks when it comes to desktop files but works pretty well otherwise

2023-09-26 20:07:15

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@npub172v…689n
It wont affect any ad blockers since that is presumably an extension, but it will clear cookies of any site not in exceptions.
Also I realize its not really convenient, but I'm not sure of any other way to replicate the burn button. Though it may exist

2023-09-26 19:57:39

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@npub172v…689n
IDK about a burn button, but firefox has an option to clear site data when closed, you can add exceptions to that. I imagine you can do something similar with Vivaldi.
You can also containerize different sessions with the "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" extension to create a container, do the stuff you want to do, then delete the container.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=featured
I know this isn't exactly what you want, but hope it helps

2023-09-23 00:25:57

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@npub183n…tahh @npub1hlt…ck4e
That's some thumbnail

2023-09-13 12:06:47

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@npub1hxy…666k
I can't view the page on firefox android for some reason. It works fine with vivaldi, a chromium based browser

2023-08-21 23:54:16

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@npub1j43…jvze @npub1ku7…strj
Nala is pretty great on debian based stuff.

2023-08-09 17:54:02

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@npub1zpu…qh6x
Ooh that sounds pretty great. Awesome to see that Valve is officially providing second hand stuff and reducing what's otherwise e-waste

2023-08-09 17:52:31

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@npub1wst…ez75
Perhaps try looking into what keybindings are set up. From what I recall, a lot of those can be customized.
Here's an article from vivaldi that might help
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts/

2023-08-09 11:55:26

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@npub1wst…ez75
I don't have a bigger screen, but I think I wouldn't mind so long as the AC can be controlled through knobs and buttons.
I would simply set whatever I need to set and just drive. Unless there is a good reason, I don't mess with anything during driving. I also prefer using my phone rather than the car for GPS.

2023-08-07 23:34:59

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@npub13w6…479m
Often looking up how to do certain things helps. Sometimes you get a command that does a similar thing with an explanation of the various parts, which teaches you how to modify it.
Not saying anything is wrong with what you're doing, just saying that you don't necessarily have to rely on --help flags. Also definitely agree that devs can word explanations better

2023-08-01 21:20:01

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@npub1t9n…k9e7
Making an arm or risc V device sounds awesome. Arm chips in particular could be used for very portable devices.

2023-07-19 03:37:45

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@npub1t9n…k9e7
I checked now and it's on batch 6 atm. Amazing job!

2023-07-18 18:10:32

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@npub1t9n…k9e7
The laptop looks incredible! I really appreciate the amd graphics card since it's a massive boon to the linux users. Nvidia is not only over-priced, their drivers for linux are iffy (they're mostly fine, but definitely are worse than amd).

2023-07-15 17:46:41

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@npub1wst…ez75
True, they managed to get so much hype on an email client of all things, so it definitely feels like a missed opportunity.
I personally am still excited about it though.

2023-07-15 17:39:44

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@npub1wst…ez75
I asked them about it here on mastodon. They said it'd be fine for the next release. They're late this time due to the ownership changes or something.
So far I've seen their nix package and the tar ball that they give at version 115.

2023-07-13 22:14:57

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@npub1gzc…fsz3
I'm waiting on the flatpak. Would have been awesome if that was ready the update came to flatpak at the same time as it did on windows/mac.
Though I'm happy so long as it happens soon

2023-07-08 03:28:14

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@npub1gl5…7hk0
I'm fine with telemetry so long as it is done in a privacy respecting way. I think KDE's approach to this, with the slider and such is the best way to implement it.
I also would argue for opt-out telemetry (choice given at install or first boot). This will ensure a more representative dataset.
Just my thoughts on it. Telemetry is a great way to know what to improve, it just should be done right.

2023-07-05 17:50:07

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@npub1gl5…7hk0 @npub1ysz…d0j4
That's awesome! but is it possible to have amd GPUs? Nvidia has gotten better on linux but it still isn't as good as AMD.

2023-05-24 19:57:28

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@npub1gzc…fsz3 @npub13xq…r9us
I prefer the current icon, but that may just be because I'm used to it. The new new icon does look great though

2023-05-24 12:23:52

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@npub188q…3jlx
Hopefully more organizations make a similar choice. I never considered Twitter a particularly positive place, but now it's much worse