QuazarOmega

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 2 days ago

I'm guessing you're currently on Windows, right? If so, Virtualbox is perfectly fine, otherwise, if you're on Linux already, you could use Boxes or Virt manager that are more performant, but don't stress yourself if you just wanna play around Virtualbox will always be more than sufficient.
As for the ISOs you can just get them directly from the distro websites or, if using Boxes, you can choose one at VM creation and it'll download it for you

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn these programmers horny af

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago

I see, I think it's clear enough now. Never noticed if that happened to me too, but yes, since you got that consistently, it definitely deserves to be discussed

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

When I install anything through wine/proton, the apps on the screen lose their focus

With "the apps" here you mean the Linux apps, right?

When I bring up an app into focus from the panel, it shows behind whatever app that is already on the screen.

Also here I'm confused if you're referring to Linux or Windows apps.

Beside that, for potential bug reports like this, I think you'll get more/better responses over at the KDE forum as stated in the page about bug reporting https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

Oh I get it now, for me that's not a problem since I'm also in the EU, but I can see why it's an issue, I do have a VPN too, but barely use it

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 10 points 1 week ago

DisplayPort connector stuck in socket I think

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see.

tor has geo location issues.

Could you explain what you mean with this? I'm not sure I understand

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time

Is it sufficient? I'd always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's fair, I won't say that it's not as complicated as it sounds because I don't know what you know, but if you want it put into simple words, it's the following:

  1. Install drive 1 in PC
  2. Install Windows
  3. Remove drive 1 from the PC and put drive 2 in its place
  4. Install any Linux distro that comes with GRUB as bootloader (most of them, personally recommend Fedora if you want a suggestion)
  5. Install drive 1 into the second slot that was left empty up to now
  6. Start boot, your motherboard will have a specific key to launch the boot selector, e.g. F10, or go into the UEFI settings to put the Linux option first
  7. Boot into Linux and trigger the GRUB detection for other OSes so it updates the list of entries
  8. Reboot
  9. Now without having to smash a random key to get the built-in boot selector, you will instead be able to choose comfortably from GRUB.

Anyways don't pressure yourself into doing any of that if you don't feel comfortable with it, of course.
One step at a time, the important thing is you're satisfied with what you have and that it's functional to your workflow

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago

Why use git exactly? You're never changing the content of the files themselves (excluding the effect of lossy compression) so you also don't need to track those changes, right?
This seems more like a job for rsync.

Aside from that, I don't know more for how to achieve the full setup you're trying to create, sorry

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You just need to run the installation with one drive at a time if you want to be extra sure, then each will have its own boot partition and they can still work together, for example I have 3 drives, one Linux, one Windows and one storage, the Linux one has GRUB on it and it detects the bootloader on the Windows drive just fine so you can select either from that or the UEFI boot selector. Never had updates scramble anything for neither of the two systems

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago

The tool presents a significant privacy risk, and shows that people may not be as anonymous in the YouTube comments sections as they may think.

I don't understand how this makes the privacy on YouTube any worse when all the information it sources from is already public, this is just automated doxxing, which, while we'll agree to be unethical, was never a privacy violation, it is just the consequence of the actions of who posted the information to begin with.
Also does it really violate YouTube's privacy policy? It's new to me that service consumers can be subject to the policy when it's not the third parties that YouTube actively sends the information to, that sounds more to me like Terms of service, which are hardly enforceable fully (thank goodness, so we can have our yt-dlp and PipePipe)

 

Hello! I wanted to make some order in my screenshots, it would be extremely helpful if I could define defaults based on the app that is currently focused when taking the screenshot, if that's at all possible given Wayland's restrictions.
Do you know if there's a way, I haven't found any setting like that in Spectacle, but maybe there's some kind of workaround?

Edit: to add to @DmMacniel@feddit.org's solution, a few tweaks to make it a little easier to handle:

  1. If you want the actual screenshots to be placed elsewhere, you can create a symbolic link to that path with the name of the directory that is generated when you save the screenshot, e.g. I use it for a game, I tried to save a screenshot of it and it created a directory named "Genshin Impact", so I replaced that with a symlink to where I want it to be ("Pictures/Games/Genshin Impact/Screenshots")
  2. Since the title is only added when you take an "Active Window" screenshot, you can trigger it with Meta+Print Screen and as a bonus the screenshot is automatically saved with this shortcut, without needing to change other settings
 

I have a Pixel 8a, which is certified qi1, and 2 devices that can wirelessly charge it, a baseus battery pack and an ESR phone holder, they're both certified qi2 (which is backwards compatible with qi1), yet when I charge with them I can at most reach ~2.2W charging instead of the 7.5W advertised maximum for my Pixel 8a.
I don't understand why that is and if I can even theoretically reach the maximum supported charging power.
If so, how would I test my devices to figure out what their real thresholds are or if there are incompatibilities somewhere?

 

If an app that I have is marked for Automatic Removal due to deprecation I can't keep the app and update the rest, because if I try to click Cancel the whole update process stops, if I click Proceed the app will be uninstalled and then the rest gets updated.
Why does it work like this, am I just not supposed to keep deprecated apps for security concerns? I hope it's not intended, because this just hampers the user unendingly.
This time it's Metadata cleaner that is going, but it could be any app that someone relies on, they'd be forced to go to the command line to update the rest while keeping that one app?

 

Hi, I've got myself stuck on an issue, I've started a big rebase (I know that was already a bad idea to begin with, but, just in case, the information I'm looking for could always come in handy in other occasions), I reordered a few commits and squashed some, while in the process I resolved a few conflicts, then after I resolved one of them and got to the next conflict I realised that I shouldn't have put a certain commit there, is there a way to rewind the process to the previous step while staying in the rebase? That way I could move the commit to where it should be and continue.
I know you can edit the todo (git --edit-todo), but that only works for the next commits, I also can't just reset back by the number of commits I want, e.g. git reset --hard HEAD~4, because for the rebase those commits remain as done and doing git rebase --continue only brings me to where I am already, the next conflict to resolve.
So I wonder, is there a way to move out commits of the done list back into todo? Also for example if I trashed an unmerged file completely while messing around, so I can get it back to its initial state, this would be extremely useful

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by QuazarOmega@lemy.lol to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
 

The Medito app is a (unsurprisingly) meditation/mindfulness app. Sort of the free software alternative to Headspace.
I haven't used it in a long time and was curious to see how it was doing, but I saw this:

  • it's only available on IzzyOnDroid now, I believe it used to be on F-droid at some point (edit: it wasn't)
  • the available release is 2 years old

So I thought, maybe the app was sadly just archived, but no, it's actually still under development, it's just that no releases have been published on GitHub for 2 years (2.0.48 clearly titled "Deprecated"), instead the Play Store releases keep being pushed out as recently as 3 February 2025 (3.2.0).
Oh and the issues tab has been disabled, which seems very shady to me.
So I wonder what the heck went down with this excellent app, it may still be considered "free software", also featuring the best licence (AGPL), but it looks like it has become unfriendly towards the community, I wonder why

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by QuazarOmega@lemy.lol to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm on a Fedora Kinoite system that is entirely on one LUKS encrypted drive, I recently added a second drive to have more space and I'm wondering how I should make use of it.
For now I formatted it completely with a new btrfs partition encrypted with LUKS and to actually add I thought I could:

  1. automount it to some location, not sure where I should mount it though, I've seen many questions online that say to avoid /mnt for permanent drives and also /media (there are contrasting opinions on that, though), so I thought I could maybe sidestep this question by going with the second option which is the following
  2. extending the already existing btrfs /sysroot to span across the 2 partitions on the separate drives, but I didn't find good information on this process when LUKS is involved. It seems like that kind of operation is heavily discouraged due to risking data loss

So I wonder, what is the best approach and the one that will give me fewer headaches? If it is the second, how do I do it?

Edit: going with the first option I had an issue where the drive wouldn't be mounted automatically at boot, I then read through my /etc/crypttab more carefully and saw that the UUID was wrong, I had used the partition UUID (PARTUUID as seen with the blkid command) instead of the actual device UUID, after correcting that it works and mounts correctly. Just a small oversight, the hardest to notice sometimes.
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Plasma's restore session functionality has started working for me relatively recently, but there's one thing that bugs me: all my windows are just dumped together into the same activity and workspace I'm in at login, so it becomes a big mess.
Is there a setting somewhere that tells it to respect the last position of the windows?

 

I wanted to install a few PWAs in my private space but the option for installation or shortcut creation isn't there on the same websites where it appears in the normal installation of the browser app.
Is this a limitation strictly related to the private space?

 

I've enabled auto download and installation of updates in the settings, but somehow they are never downloaded and installed in the background, nor when I do "install all", they all prompt me for confirmation.
Is there some setting to change to make it work?

 
 

I've set up a phone with Rethink DNS as a permanent VPN, so nothing can come through, I tried putting KDE Connect in the Bypass Universal list, but it still fails to discover devices on the network and in turn it can't be discovered by others itself.
I tried without VPN active and it all works, of course. Is it possible for the 2 to coexist? If so, what settings should I change?

 

I'm using Fedora Kinoite and there's this little issue that has been bugging me to no end, whenever I want to see what updates have been found for my apps and their changelogs I start scrolling there, but every few seconds, say 20, the page will refresh and look for updates again, so it interrupts my reading and resets the scrolling position I was at, so I have to wait there to finish refreshing, jump to where I was and speed-read that piece of text before it refreshes once again and I'm thrown back to square one.
I was wondering if there is any setting to control how often Discover auto-refreshes, maybe set it to only manually refresh instead, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the Settings tab.
Is there a solution or is this a bug?

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