KISSmyOS

@KISSmyOS@lemmy.world

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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,

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

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,

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

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,

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

KISSmyOS,

Welcome to Slackware, friend!

KISSmyOS,

Wife

KISSmyOS,

1 First Date

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, (edited )

My next project is to slim down my Gnome desktop installation, but I guess this is quite common in the Debian community.

This is pretty easy on Debian.

  • Uncheck all tasksel entries during initial installation
  • Reboot
    sudo apt install gnome-shell gnome-terminal nautilus
  • Reboot again.

It’ll boot right into a fully functional Gnome desktop and hardly anything else. The only extra software this installs are yelp, gnome-shell-extension-prefs and network-manager-gnome. Uninstall them with sudo apt purge and sudo apt autoremove --purge if you don’t need them. sudo apt install cups if you need printing and remove your wifi device from /etc/network/devices to let network-manager-gnome handle wifi if you use it.

Your system will require 2.8GB of disk space.

KISSmyOS,

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

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,

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,

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,

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

KISSmyOS,

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

KISSmyOS,

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

KISSmyOS,

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

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,

If your laptop periodically freezes, switching distros won’t fix it.
Identifying the underlying issue (which is most likely a hardware defect) would be a better use of your time.
Your first step would be to try and reproduce the issue. See under what circumstances it happens. See if it happens from a live USB or only from your installed system (If it does, this eliminates the SSD as most probable culprit). Do a RAM test. Then ask for help with further trouble-shooting.

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,

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,

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

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