I only got to know this because of an XKCD comic.

The Arch Wiki (and possibly other Arch websites, but when I checked I wasn't able to catch it) uses Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) to mitigate AI crawlers causing issues on their servers. Anubis works by making your computer do some computations before being let in. For users like you and me, it'd be a minor inconvenience, but for these AI crawlers, it'd cost them a lot of computation as they hit these sites a huge number of times.

Using Anubis is said to be a nuclear option, but as these AI crawlers don't care about that, sites, especially FOSS ones, started using it.

The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it’s one sentence. That’s still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author’s own thesis.

I think it's just a consequence of the variety of ways a Linux distro can present its options and settings. It's far easier—and arguably, safer—to share a command than to anticipate how to get to a certain option or setting.

Just as an aside, I had this exact same problem when a friend asked me to do something on my system. I ended up having to send them screenshots of what I'm looking at in order to direct me to where I need to be. All that trouble could have been avoided had they sent me a command to run on my terminal.

Is it better to have a utility that a user can just click? Yeah! Someone can write a utility program that can do just that, I guess. But then again, the problem now becomes how the user can make sure this utility program is in their system.

I guess it can be a bash script? The user can download the script and then make it usable. It's a few clicks in Dolphin and (Gnome) Files, probably the same in Thunar, but we're back to the same problem: the variety of ways a GUI can take to the same end.

I highly doubt that Linux users, at least the ones who value customization, will want to lose that customizability in order to make things easier for Windows refugees and pull more of them in.

It's from this comment somewhere else in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17995404

I just took the link there as well as other information from the other comments here and collated the information along with the description.

I wanted to see what it is about other than the title. Thankfully, some of the replies here have given me where to go to get the info to make a decision before I watch the video.

Peertube mirror (thanks to @[email protected]):

• https://peertube.wtf/w/tkde6SyxaM64kMcxYWFn3E

Transcript (thanks to @[email protected]):

• https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript

Description (taken from the TED talk link):

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others in a groundswell of digital disobedience. “You have more power than you think,” she says. (This talk contains mature language.)

Just for reference.

IDK why, but I went in expecting someone rewriting the software for PS1 in Rust.

I've played Simutrans on and off ever since the mid 2010's. I'm not any good at it, and usually play it without regard to a lot of its mechanics (especially managing finances), but I've spent countless of hours just connecting communities and cities with over-engineered roads, rail systems, ferries, and airplanes.

No problem. I actually discovered this via an entirely different route, and it can really be frustrating sometimes.

KDE Plasma is so powerful and provides a metric ton of options. However, a lot of them are lying "hidden" like this. Still, kudos to KDE Plasma for having these options be configurable via a GUI, in a more or less logical place.

In the KDE systems settings, go to "File Associations".

From there, you'd be seeing a tree of "known types", go to "inode" and then "directory", you can add a new program by clicking "Add..." in the "General > Application Preference Order" area.

What's happening here is that you're adding a program to handle the "inode/directory" mimetype. Because of that, this change isn't limited to Konsole, but will also affect other programs.

J'ai utilisé LibreWolf et il a bien fonctionné avec Firefox sync. Si je me souvenir bien, il faut activer (permettre) Firefox sync dans les options. Maintenant, j'utilise Floorp. Il, également, bien fonctionne avec Firefox sync.

(Désolé pour mon mauvais français.)

I have used LibreWolf and it works well with Firefox sync. If I am remembering correctly, it must be enabled in the options. Right now, I use Floorp. It also works well with Firefox sync.

(Sorry for my poor French.)

Thanks for the head's up. I've switched to IronFox just earlier.

Getting it into my phone wasn't as straightforward as I expected. I first failed to find it on Fdroid. Then I tried toinstall it via Obtanium, but somehow failed. A bit of more research gave me Fdroid repository link that allowed me to finally install it. Everything after that is a breeze though.

Moving my collections from Mull to IronFox had to be be done manually though (or maybe I just didn't find out a better way to do it), but it wasn't at all painful.

Thanks for the head's up! I'll take a look at IronFox and see if it fits my existing set-up (syncing from Linux/Windows PC to mobile). Again, thanks!

Not who you're asking, but I'll answer nevertheless.

I've jumped from vanilla Firefox, to Librewolf, and now to Floorp. I've also played a bit with Zen. In all of them (except Zen, which I didn't go to the process of connecting my Mozilla account), my Mozilla account connected and synced just fine.

I also no longer use vanilla Firefox mobile, but moved on to Mull. I am able to sync my stuff from Floorp to Mull and back without much trouble.

EDIT:

Thanks to a couple of people, I was informed that Mull is now unmaintained, and that IronFox took its mantle. I've switched to it just earlier now, and syncing works there too!

They certainly exist in Ikea here in the Philippines. I've been there a few months ago and the free pencils and paper tape measures (rulers?) are still there and being used.

I'll add another datapoint. I've had to do some effort removing/disabling OEM bloatware and adware on my Xiaomi phone.

To be fair though, I bought it because it has good specs for its price, and I was already aware of all the bloat and adware that came with it. The first thing I did after unboxing the phone is to just excise all of that shit.

Global version from the Philippines, if you must know.

That loop of config hell is real! It has subsided recently because I got enticed into writing my own widgets. Also, yes to rainbow pastel (tho I'm using gruvbox as a base/reference color theme).

Can't really remember much of how it looked out of the box, since I proceeded to customize it quite heavily. However, though my memory is fuzzy, I remember it looking like a combination of Windows XP and mid 2010's Ubuntu.

Checking with the xfce website, they have this screenshot of one of their latest versions:

KDE has sane defaults when it comes to windows: it opens a window at cursor position and whether or not it's fullscreen or maximized depends on what it is when you last closed the window.

So for example, if the LibreOffice Calc is maximized when I last closed it, the next time I use it, it'd be maximized.

Window rules, however, can be as fairly simple or as complicated as you want it to be.

For example, this is my settings for discord:

I set it to open horizontally and vertically maximized, on any virtual desktop in the ‘Background’ activity (not really something most KDE Plasma users make use of, but I do).

I had a similar workflow with maximized screens residing on different workspaces. KDE Plasma also have window rules which you can set on a per-program/application or a per-window basis (for example, main window for a program goes fullscreen into one monitor, in a workspace you specify, and the tools window opens in a different monitor in the same workspace you specify).