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This is very nice, and I can see myself using this in the future. However, I have one slight piece of feedback; is there any chance you can make the delay on the menus flying out and tooltips just appearing all over the place when I move my cursor just a little bit longer? I felt like I was getting bombarded with information by just wanting to move my cursor to the other pane.

Besides that, I like it. Thanks for the links.

I was not aware of this, I will probably check this out on my Windows machine, since I've had a nasty bug where Firefox will decide to just use ALL of my GPU resources, crashing whatever game I am playing. Very annoying bug and I should probably take the time to report it, but every time I encounter it I'm usually focused on my game.

Thanks.

I use Copilot primarily as a tab-complete bot, essentially only accepting its input if that's what I was going to type. It is correct mayb ~95% of the time, but depending on the programming language it will try to suggest a large block of code that I don't really trust (in my usage, it loves to spit out Python but in my Java codebase it sticks to boilerplate or finishing my line for me).

The handy part about Firefox, unlike Chrome, will shrink tabs to a minimum width and then make them a horizontally scrolling list. I am somewhat of a tab hoarder (I also keep browser windows on vertical monitors), so using Chrome, where it would shrink tabs more and more until there's nothing but a sliver, wouldn't work. Below are screenshots of examples. Firefox keeps things usable; Chrome not so much. (I also know it isn't 1000 tabs, nor is it close to the amount I keep open on my work laptop).

Firefox: https://yld.moe/raw/nVE.png

Chrome: https://yld.moe/raw/vu8.png

Also, if you're wondering why my tabs look like they're from 2017, that's just another benefit of using Firefox [1]. Although as nice as it being able to actually customize our browsers, it would be nice for Mozilla to stop breaking things for sake of breaking things.

[1]: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

Nowadays Apple gives it away for free, but it used to be part of the paid iWork package (or bought separately from the Mac App Store).

I believe there was also a time period where it was given to users who activated a new Apple product, but for people still running older machines had to pay.

Very interesting -- thank you for the information. Just goes to show how naive I was and still am. I'll probably give this a go next time I have fun money in the budget.

Just a blog running on my Phorge instance. I want to write more about what I'm doing :-)

https://michaeleisemann.com/phame/blog/view/1/

Depends on the project, but I've contributed to a few big-name projects (podman being the latest) where I found a typo in their documentation, and they happily accepted it. I did talk to them in their IRC channel first, so YMMV.

I investigated and even begun the process of getting an IPv6 allocation from ARIN, but after setting up an LLC in my state ($300 + annual fees) and then jumping through the hoops ARIN (usually involved paying a fee or two), I eventually gave up just due to how much money it seemingly was going to take. The final straw for me was proving that I was going to acquire some % of address utilization or be a multi-homed site (would have required getting a second ISP to my residence, I believe?).

I just didn't have the willpower (or wallet) to see it through. I was merely doing it for fun and burning a bunch of money for addresses that I would barely use didn't sound fun after thinking about it. Still, it was fun chatting with my friends on IRC about it and it is a very interesting icebreaker!

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm going to try giving up internet comment sections for a while to try and see if I can live without them. I have wasted far too much time on Reddit, Hacker News, and recently Lemmy (which I tried to use as a Reddit replacement).

The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably make a userscript to disable comments here, use Kagi search to minimize the amount of Reddit in my search queries, and overall use a solution like Screen Time to try to limit use of other sites I spend way too much time on.

I know a lot of users are going to Lemmy or Kbin, both of which are on the Fediverse.

Thanks for pointing this out to me, I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't know this. I recently wanted to import my own Akkoma RSS feed into my website, and I tried searching around the Akkoma documentation and didn't see any mentions of feeds.

Does not seem to be the case for users on instances that use Akkoma or Pleroma, and probably other non-mastodon frontends. E.g. https://social.kernel.org/torvalds.rss

Perhaps Notepad++?

Just installed it, works flawlessly on Orion Browser (WebKit that can use Chrome & Firefox extensions).

Off the bat, I like the two column view with infinite scroll. I also like the bigger text size, although it could be just a tad smaller.

My only real complaint is I no longer have my custom header color -- I liked the splash of color it added!

One of my best friends uses the Pop Shell [1] GNOME extension to bring in an i3-like experience. It seems to lag behind a few GNOME versions, but system76 has instructions on how to use it on other distributions if you don't want to use Pop!_OS [2]

[1] - https://github.com/pop-os/shell [2] - https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/

Last I checked out Zorin in a distrohop phase, Zorin used a heavily customized version of GNOME 3.38. While they may have updated their GNOME version since, I don't suspect they've changed to KDE.

The only justification in my mind that makes sense for having it one way and then the next screen is the opposite is in the case of destructive actions (e.g. formatting a drive). It can help prevent users on autopilot from nuking things.

The only example of this that comes to mind is factory resetting a Nintendo Switch, but I'm sure there are much more.

No Jagex Launcher on Linux really kills it for me. I play RuneScape 3 primarily (but I did just start an OSRS Ironman to have something to do while I play on my RS3 Iron), and there being seemingly no easy way to have all my Jagex account characters on Linux is keeping me on Windows. I really hope that the RS3 community finds a way to get around that.

I'm in the process of moving my Discover HYSA balance to this. Going to take a few days for them to do verification transactions, but I've moved some of my savings from my normal savings over since why not.

I've noticed the exact opposite with my 11th gen i5 Framework (purchased in December 2021). For the life of me, I cannot figure out why my Framework laptop seems to massively drain battery life when I am using Linux. I've tried just about every distro under the sun (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, and even FreeBSD) and I consistently get a battery drain of like 7-10% every 20 minutes doing something simple like watching a YouTube video, reading things in Firefox reader mode, and having an IRC client open.

When I said "screw it" and installed Windows, seemingly my battery woes went away. I used pretty much the same programs (Firefox and Weechat) on both operating systems and I'm pretty much completely stumped. I thought about asking out to Framework support but I don't know what good that would do.

Another issue I've had is not being able to let the thing sit overnight not on the charger since it drains about 10% an hour with the lid closed in both Windows and Linux, so I'm having to remember to leave it plugged in or know that I'm going to be tethered to the wall in the morning.

Regardless of those negatives, I think Framework as a company has done some pretty tremendous things in the laptop space and I hope they continue to do so in the future.

I think it would be really cool if there was a way to make one of these that repurpose the laptop display port as a built in DisplayPort or find a way to make a power adapter (maybe Ethernet, too?) not take up one of the 4 available ports. That would make it an insta-buy for me since otherwise I'm having to plug in a keyboard, mouse, and display and I'm left with a portless desktop machine.

TechLinked is currently streaming bitcoin scams. Perhaps all the LMG accounts were under the same Google account and the scammer is working his way down the list.

I did this in undergrad when the Wifi in my dorm room was abysmal. I used an old Mac mini and hardwired it with the in-room Ethernet and then used the Wifi hotspot mode to make a nice fast wireless network for my roommate and I.

The Mac also pulled double duty as an AirPlay receiver and Plex server. Pretty handy.

Yeah I'll get this set up when I'm home from work! Perhaps the trickiest part for me is going to be hooking it up to IRC, but that's the fun part!

No chance I'd be able to run this on an 8GB M1 Mac mini then? Looking to hook this up to an IRC bot for a bit of fun with my friends and have this spare Mac lying around.

Re: Your Hackintosh

The good news is that if you used OpenCore + vanilla macOS install (basically if you followed the excellent OpenCore Install Guide [1]) and don't have any weird hardware (Intel CPU + iGPU / AMD GPU) you can pretty much just perform updates as normal through Software Update. It is certainly important that you make a backup of your EFI (might as well make a backup of the entire drive you can restore to in case something goes wrong) as well as double check the OC guide to see if there's any snags to look out for when updating.

One time-consuming thing I did when I ran a Hackintosh was to have a separate drive that I used as a macOS update test bed for major versions, and then if all went well I would perform the real update on my main drive.

I would also recommend you look at /r/Hackintosh and maybe ask around there for any advice.

Good luck!

[1] - https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/

Never heard of place-self before! I've always resorted to fumbling around with flexbox froggy and wondering why the changes I make to froggy seemingly don't do the same thing to my simple HTML.

Here's the actual recommendations: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/22/2003165170/-1/-1/0/CSI...

I didn't want to submit a PDF directly since some people don't like that.

For my new job, I've switched to using the Orion Browser [1] from Kagi since I was noticing some weird typing lag on my MacBook in Firefox. I still use Firefox at home on Windows, but native vertical tabs in Orion are enough for me to use it full time. It's also handy that it supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions, albeit some features don't fully work (e.g. "Block element" of uBlock Origin doesn't let me choose anything).

I'm not a fan of Mozilla currently, but they do have the least bad non-chromium, multiplatform browser out there.

[1]: https://browser.kagi.com

While being 3 years old, this video [1] is a good example of some of the behavior Google uses when they find out you're not using Chrome.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCq63652ig