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After a single UFW rule addition KDE Connect Just Works™. Love to see it!
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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I won't lie, I kinda miss him in this thread. His posts were mostly good fun and occasionally he genuinely did contribute useful info.
No idea about what he may or may not have done in other threads though. I only ever noticed him here.
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Once I realized he liked to bait both the Linux and Windows threads I started to enjoy his posts.
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KDE Connect is one of those handy little things that you just wish you could have in anything else, but you know it'd be a jeeted data-slurping UX nightmare. Google quick share is the perfect example. It works... for given value of "works".
Bait and counter-bait. The trick is to never get angry.
So that's me fucked...
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Bit annoyed that Mint 22.3 and its new version of Cinnamon put in a dark gray side bar in the menu that clashes with a lot of old themes.
Also I'd rather have the older colorful icons for app categories than these new flat white ones. Am autistic, need pretty colors.
Also I'd rather have the older colorful icons for app categories than these new flat white ones. Am autistic, need pretty colors.
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In the start menu settings in the appearance tab you can disable the symbolic icons for categories, replacing them with colorful icons.
I did that, but I really wish they'd revisit the Mint-X suite and get the new OSD stuff in line with the non-flat themes. Would help with my Gnome 2/Mate style panel layout I have going on.
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In Supporters a mod clarified it was only a week tempban
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Is it possible for an atomic distro to run off a permanently compressed filesystem directly? Like, when they build the image they compress it in a way where files can be accessed and executables run directly without having to be decompressed first, only being decompressed in memory.
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XFS supports compression. BTRFS supports compression.
The ethos of atomic distros is kind of opposed to being frugal with disk usage, of course.
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Shouldn't be a problem, as far as I know. And if you use something like btrfs with lzo, or zstd with a fairly low compression ratio, it actually improves performance. The compression algorithm that works best will depend on the kind of drive you are using. You probably want to go with lzo for an nvme, or zstd for a sata ssd. If it's an actual hdd, I would look into what would be best. I can't remember what's optimal for that.
The idea of it is with a fast compression algorithm, that compresses faster than disk writes happen, it speeds up writing data to disk, because you are actually writing less data, and the compression is fast enough that there is no delay. The main cost is in cpu cycles. The other benifit is saving space. With lzo it's not a crazy ammount of space, but if you have an nvme it depends what's more important to you. If you would prefer improved write performance, or if you want to save as much space as possible. If space is what you care about, you could use zstd with a higher compression ratio, with the cost being cpu cycles (and potentially performance if you don't have the cpu power to write at the compression ratio without slowing things down).
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Slav Power wasn't even wrong. It just got really old and pathetic seeing a grown man driveby-troll* and throw daily tantrums over Microsoft Windows of all things.
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I had fun with it up until here.
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At that point I realized he would always react the same way, and sperg out. So it lost the fun, and became tiring. I remember specifically saying that because I wanted to give him the hint, I was trying to fuck with him without just saying that outright. I don't know if he picked up on it at the time, or not.I have the feeling he did, because after that he did really seem to get even worse.
Really he didn't seem to post here that often until the 4chan hack happened. So he must have been spending a lot of time on /g/ or whatever the tech board is there. At least I don't think he was posting in here from the time I made this account until then.
I will admit sometimes I would still try to mess with him a bit after this if you look back through the posts I wrote then lol. I saw some when I was searching for this. But idk you can only be so annoying before you deserve to be fucked with a little. I do think he actually thinks I hate him or something with some of the posts he made. I don't hate him. But he could really be annoying sometimes. It gets old having these huge seething walls of text over and over again.
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ProudSkibidiTolietAryan
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MSpaint will give you pop ups to resign into your microsoft account. yes MSPAINT
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i am still confused about all these different gtk versions. on my computers, every app that is gtk4 does not look like the rest of the system, and instead just looks like GNOME. it's extremely infuriating when other apps will look just fine. i wonder when gtk3 support is inevitably dropped in favor of gtk4, how will desktops cope? will i just not be able to theme anything?
i will install it, thank you for your input.
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polakrobak99
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Voidlinux is the best, I just wish there was a stable version instead of rolling release. I'm trying out Devuan now but Debian overall has some weird ways of doing some things, and sysvinit sucks imo. In void everything is intuitive, clean, and minimal, but I'm just too old for my system breaking when I upgrade, or for having to upgrade my entire system whenever I want to install some small app (because of dependency conflicts).
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Enshittification at its finest.
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Technically there's theming support, if theme author bothers to make the styles. It's just that instead of applying it like a normal theme, you have to put the actual files into ~/.config/gtk-4.0. See, e.g. Celestial GTK which has a flag in the installer to symlink assets. (It's what I use, Ghostty and Foliate are themed and work and look perfectly fine)
Alternatively, there are gtk and libadwaita forks that return the use of styles, though they're likely not packaged anywhere except AUR. This is what Human relies on.
But yes, the point to doing this is that GNOME designers with their HIG know better and you should eat it up and ask for more.
See also this old gem, written unironically: https://stopthemingmy.app/
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Would you recommend NetworkChuck's Linux for Hackers series for first time learners, Kiwi Farms?
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Pretty sure Slav Power was thread banned for a bit there before being ban-banned because there was a period where people were saying mostly hyperbolic shit about Windows in this thread that he didn't rise to while he was still being mildly helpful in the Windows thread.
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Gtk2 has crux (eazel), does gtk3 have crux? No? Gtk2 wins again then. (I am still miffed there isn't a gtk3 port of that theme)