KISSmyOS

@KISSmyOS@lemmy.world

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KISSmyOS,

If I have an issue with Linux, I look for a tutorial on Youtube. Most of the time the best result is a video of an Indian kid half my age who explains exactly what I need in a concise easy to understand manner, while typing every word they say into notepad.

KISSmyOS,

I’d go with “I used to be an adventurer like you.”

Can flatpaks be installed and accessed from another partition on the same drive?

My laptop seems very finicky with linux and enjoys periodically freezing. Some distributions are more stable than others and I’d like to keep testing other distributions without reinstalling/ downloading/transferring all my apps and steam games constantly....

KISSmyOS,

When installing Linux, you first have to partition your hard drive.
You can create a seperate partition for your /home folder in addition to the one you create for the rest of the system.
Then when you install a different distro, you can tell the installer to use your /home partition without changing or formatting it. After installation, you will have the new Linux system and the /home folder from your old one. That way, all user settings and flatpak settings will be the same as before reinstalling.

But if you’re a new Linux user, I don’t know how helpful this is. It’s easier to just copy everything in /home to an external drive, then copy it back after you reinstalled, for the same effect.

KISSmyOS,

Iirc there’s ongoing work for proper fractional scaling protocol

I don’t know why “making stuff show up bigger on a screen” isn’t a solved problem in 2023, and at this point I’m afraid to ask.

KISSmyOS,

Yep, that’s exactly the purpose of this.

KISSmyOS,

How can they use GPL’ed code and then close it? I thought this was specifically forbidden?

KISSmyOS,

That’s what I’m running since yesterday. Bare-bones Debian (base system + Gnome shell) with all GUI apps installed from Flatpak.

KISSmyOS,

So how do you delete app data after uninstalling?
And does uninstalling a flatpak app also uninstall flatpak dependencies that came with it?

KISSmyOS, (edited )

either the fedora, or the flathub build of firefox didnt come with some video codec, OpenH264 i think. switching to the other build fixed it (imo more a licensing issue with the codec than a flatpak problem)

Just in case anyone in this thread also has problems with video playback on flathub Firefox, I just solved that by installing the ffmpeg-full flatpak.
No idea why a dependency that is needed to play video without jitter isn’t installed automatically.

KISSmyOS,

Welcome to Slackware, friend!

KISSmyOS,

You could do the free software thing and write a shell script that creates an alias every time you install something.

Or use one that someone else has already written:
opensource.com/…/launch-flatpaks-linux-terminal

KISSmyOS,

The community flatpak of Bitwarden doesn’t have this issue.
Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.

KISSmyOS,

Also, with open source projects, I actually want to help the developer improve their project, whereas with Windows I simply do not care and won’t donate a second of my time to a large corporation for free.

KISSmyOS,

This also sent me last week. What in the actual FUCK?

KISSmyOS,

Even if they wanted to, it would take 19 years till someone gets around to changing the license.

KISSmyOS,

Who even uses bookmarks anymore?
Just keep your tabs open.

KISSmyOS,

It’s called Nightly cause you let it compile over night.

KISSmyOS,

I just tried out Ungoogled. It doesn’t let you choose Google as search engine, doesn’t come out of the box with the ability to install extensions (which depends on Google’s Chrome Web Store), is missing some options that use Google’s servers if activated, is stripped of all Google design elements (which gives it a very minimalistic look), and has very privacy-oriented defaults.

Which makes it pretty jarring that there’s still a “Google and me” tab in the settings that contains almost no options because everything Google-related was removed.

KISSmyOS,

I just use Chromium and go through all settings once to disable every function that isn’t “show me the website behind the URL I just typed”. Then I install ublock and switch the default search engine to Qwant.

KISSmyOS,

This is done to keep employees from sticking in unknown thumb drives that could install malware. Several critical systems on protected networks have been hacked in the past by leveraging human curiosity and placing a compromised thumb drive on the ground in the companies parking lot. Gluing shut the USB ports is a simple defense against that.

KISSmyOS,

OK, but what will be the soundtrack?
Cause there’s absolutely no way it can compete with the original.

KISSmyOS,

1 First Date

KISSmyOS,

Whether a painting is art doesn’t depend on who owns the canvas.

KISSmyOS,
  • several cheap phones from Motorola, Sagem, Samsung, etc. (I couldn’t afford a Nokia 3310)
  • some no-name feature phone
  • some Chinese 60€ smartphone
  • Samsung Galaxy J5 (used)
  • Samsung Galaxy J2 (got it for free)
  • Gigaset GX290
  • Unihertz Atom

I’ve never spent more than 150€ on a phone. If you debloat them and use open source apps, you really don’t need many “features” or much CPU-power/memory/storage.
And I don’t think I’ve ever a used a different browser than Fennec, cause that’s what pops up if you search for Firefox on F-Droid.

KISSmyOS,

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