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by foresto 7y ago
There is no official support for PPAs on Debian. You can configure a Debian system to use them, but you'll be installing packages built on and for Ubuntu, so you'll be risking breakage unless the package maintainer has already tak
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by foresto 7y ago
To any Nvidia desktop users out there who don't know yet: the AMD drivers are getting quite good lately. I switched this year, and have been very happy about it. Just be careful if you're buying a new model of GPU, as the drivers
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by foresto 7y ago
> You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it. Last time I looked, snaps still had access to the X server. They were therefore perfectly capable of logging and inserting keystrokes, capturing whatever sensitive information is
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by foresto 7y ago
> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. I am disappointed that snap still forcibly clutters everyone's $HOME with an extra directory[1] that cannot be moved or renamed. It was reported four years ago, and nearly
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by foresto 7y ago
If you care about width and not height, keep an eye out for new Xperia models. I think I remember some speculation that one of them (Xperia PRO?) might be unusually narrow. > Neither google or android serve this market. Agreed. I miss my
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by foresto 7y ago
I think the Samsung Galaxy S10e is the closest current model. It's not as small as I would like, but it's at least a sane size.
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by foresto 7y ago
Back when I used Windows, I had a mailer (and usenet news reader) called Forté Agent. I liked the fact that it didn't hide things from me. When a content type was unknown or unsupported, it would still be represented (usually as an ico
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by foresto 7y ago
> MIME is quite complicated, and in fact, I challenge anyone here to point to any mail client properly support complex MIME structures, with hierarchies including multipart, alternative and so on. What failures do you see most often in t
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by foresto 7y ago
> Your ISP is literally selling this information right now No, mine is not. > Use google if you don't like CF Google is no better. > or just disable it! It is never okay to hijack my DNS lookups. Posting a note someplace about
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by foresto 7y ago
Wine's purpose is literally to emulate the Windows runtime environment. Extrapolate.
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by foresto 7y ago
I don't want or need my UI to pretend it's a Nordic modern art museum. Seeing all that screen space wasted on huge margins, drop shadows, and glow effects makes me want to cry. I would rather see more of the information I frequent
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by foresto 7y ago
> I don't think that the cheaper goods that China gave the world only benefited the %1, and actually has helped a lot people in america and the world. Extreme wealth inequality is making life difficult for many, many people today. C
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by foresto 7y ago
Also, many of us are painfully aware of the ongoing hassles that tend to come with diverging from default core components, and this is especially true with systemd as more projects come to depend on it. We therefore grit our teeth and acce
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by foresto 7y ago
In case anyone here wants a quick primer on the differences between voting systems, or just something easy to hand to friends and relatives who don't have time for deep study, Politics in the Animal Kingdom by CGP Grey is a great start
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by foresto 7y ago
Bandwidth costs dropped steeply around 10-15 years ago, making video streaming services much more viable. I would be astonished if game bandwidth was more than a drop in the bucket compared to that, or if a F2P gamer cost Activision Blizzar
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by foresto 7y ago
> Mozilla are doing their best to make the product superior, independent of the principles difference. Last time I remember trying to discuss an issue in Firefox was when they dropped ALSA support and started requiring PluseAudio for sou
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by foresto 7y ago
I believe the phrase "things that people already use" answers your question. > To some people, a system with a security vulnerability isn't "working". Yes, we have seen that argument more than a few times before,
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by foresto 7y ago
Someone once shared a mantra that later became one of my basic design principles, especially when introducing changes to things that people already use: "Don't break working systems." I wish more developers understood why thi
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by foresto 7y ago
Recent pet project: I wanted multiple network clients to access the internet concurrently, each through its own separate VPN session, established on demand and without elevated privileges. The first part seemed like a simple enough idea un
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by foresto 7y ago
Seconded. I often just close the browser tab when I encounter a site built like this.
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by foresto 7y ago
The stats at popcon.ubuntu.com show Thunar and XFWM installations at around a quarter of a million. Of course, that only includes Ubuntu users who opted in to stats tracking, so the global count would be higher.
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by foresto 7y ago
Plot twist: It will be exactly the same physical design as a 3.5mm headset jack.
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by foresto 7y ago
> Regular updates. ...and continued updates for much longer than you will get from most manufacturers.
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by foresto 7y ago
IIRC, SATA over USB3 can offer competitive performance for sequential I/O, but PCIe will give better random I/O performance and lower CPU usage. tkaiser of the armbian project has a lot to say about this stuff. I find his posts in
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by foresto 8y ago
That side effect of NAT is easily replaced with a simple firewall. Even today, many home routers have this capability already by virtue of running linux. Enabling it would be a pretty simple step for manufacturers.
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by foresto 8y ago
To be fair, his comment was not directed at another team, but at another body of code. (Two, actually.) The context makes it not merely a dig, but constructive feedback: "Those past projects have significant flaws, and here we have
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by foresto 8y ago
> Your modus operandus means you cannot share your e-mail address Of course I can. I don't know what you're getting at. > Using a password manager Doesn't solve the spam problem (which is what we're discussing here
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by foresto 8y ago
It's really a shame when online services make overly broad generalizations like this. I use disposable email addresses for all of my services, because they are the most effective way I've found to manage spam. (They also have the
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by foresto 8y ago
I'm guessing the key word here is reliance . Some of us are fine with sites that use JavaScript, but only if the core functionality still works when scripts are blocked. If you're wondering why someone would feel this way, the re
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by foresto 8y ago
Doesn't this depend on the theme you choose in Window Manager settings? Kokodi or Moheli might give you more pixels to grab than whatever theme you're using now.

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