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If you did not even had legacy tray icons, you probably installed just Gnome on Kubuntu with the wrong package and did not even try to install `ubuntu-desktop` or whatever the metapackage is called that has all the default stuff. So you probably did a double "Doing it Wrong" TM. 15 years and still clueless, of course you hate everything.

You are using it on the server, and/or you refuse to learn some basics. Go back to whatever shitty OS you are really using if you think Linux DE are broken or "not even worth" looking into. Linux DEs offer more than any other OS, specifically Gnome and KDE the ones you claim people should avoid. And they are perfectly stable and usable. But if you use them for 50 years and refuse to do a 2-minute search for something that is not the way YOU want to be out of the box, then I guess ALL DEs are broken and not worth looking into from your perspective.

I recommend https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-hide-youtube... to cut out all the bullshit on YT. I am still addicted, but I actually search for things now or just watch stuff from channels I am actually subbed to and if they suck or bore me I unsub, I not get lured into some bullshit.

Why would I use a Browser for a "persistent" notes?

"Persistent" until I delete browser cache?

Why would I type my notes into a website somebody hosts? People really fail to understand what apps are for these days. They are 1001 minimalistic writing apps. And all kinds of Note apps. The is Gnote for Linux that may not look as nice, but you can actually link notes with each other, and they are in fact truly persistent and stored on your PC not in some stupid browser cache.

Well if you are clueless and not ready to learn a few things than Linux might be not as fun as it can be.

> Wanted to change a theme but first I had to install GNOME Tweak Tool for no reason

Windows does not even offer themes, why would you need a theme, they pick a great looking theme for their defaults for a reason, because Linux DE first impression and screenshots sell distros. Nothing wrong with Ubuntu's default no need to change it, crying about installing a tool that WORKS that takes you 5 seconds is no argument.

> still haven’t figured out how to have a system tray which many apps like Discord, Steam, Spotify, caffeinate need to run

Well, maybe take 10 second search? You need a Gnome extension for old style stray. Do these apps really "Need" tray icons to run? I think you just made that up. Ubuntu comes with "Ubuntu App Indicators" BY DEFAULT! That show the legacy tray icons. You claim you did an "Ubuntu" install, then you speak of KDE and DE switching. So, did you install Kubuntu? You are doing it wrong TM if you install Gnome on Kubuntu or KDE on Ubuntu. I have "Tray Icons Reloaded" running because I need that for my Gnome extension setup, works perfectly fine.

Refusing Flatpaks is you just adding an arbitrary limitation on yourself so you can complain about it. I personally run Ubuntu, and it comes with Snaps, and I never ever came across any app I needed that did not have a deb or a Snap. I would prefer Flatpak if I had to chose, but because Ubuntu has Snap integrated by default, I just use that until I really need Flatpak.

Baseless hate with no evidence. Linux DE's are perfectly working and great Gnome 3 has tons of extensions to tune it to your needs if you do not like the Ubuntu default. KDE can be a bit buggy if you run cutting edge (what a surprise), better not run a rolling release like SUSE Tumbleweed with it.

I run Linux DEs for about 10 years now, always came back to Ubuntu. KDE offers a lot of stuff that I personally do not need.

Running Gnome 3 with Dash To Panel, taskbar on top and Tiling Assistant that give a Win 10 like helper to split windows.

Previously used Material Shell, awesome but buggy. The creator works on a new thing in Rust, it will be awesome!

Makes total sense to make cursors SVG, kind of crazy that nobody has done this b4 and that it's that outdated. Then yet again, handling SVG takes a lot more than some uncompressed images. So my question is how many resources, ram ... does it actually take to make some 200kb SVG as a cursor compared to some old uncompressed picture that might be bigger, but it's simply put on the screen 1:1. I guess it COULD be just about the unit process but if it's full SVG support than cursors can now be animated and be calculating all kinds of shit inside the SVG.

I do not care AT ALL. The real numbers are actually horrible enough. We can see the footage of them destroying everything, killing everyone. They literally killed a guy holding up a white flag, I have seen the video! So what is the point of them even supposedly faking numbers? I detest this headline on its own, I won't read it. And even if they make up a few more then actually die, this really does not change a single thing for me. I know I am on the right side on this one.

Absolutely fucking not. 90% of that they call SEO is total bullshit. And people involved with this shit are so invested into it that they themselves believe what they are selling.

Bottom line is having something on the screen visible and interesting to people get clicks, if that content is index-able you basically are "SEO" ready. All these old tricks to "game" search engines are all cut out, special tags and what not are ignored. People would be way better or investing their time and money into content or website connections that are REAL not fake. And no agency will make them.

I even think metadata is overrated, especially if you use WordPress and a theme that has a normal structure to the content and uses the proper tags like nav, main, article, aside. Google has learned long ago what the date and the author name and stuff is. I believe search engines are quite capable of indexing things correctly without having it all schema.org'ed up. But it for sure does not hurt. If your content is more specialized and has uncommon data then you probably want to, but if you just have a regular site, I think it's overrated.

So you think this does not get enough attention, but you keep it secret? Makes zero sense.

I also use zsh for years and did not know that. What I like this: Actually having completions shown in the screen and being able to navigate them with tabs. I think that is not a default behavior, but that is what oh-my-zsh does for you in its default setup. Does someone have more insight on that?

I did not know about this, but I use https://github.com/wting/autojump, so I am not super sad that I missed something that hold me back severely. But good to know.

No offense but if this is what broke the camel's back for you then you seem like live in a different planet.

Get ready for getting downvoted, these people want to get hacked! I made a comment about how unsecure it is to run a 20+ year old OS and I got downvoted. These people hate facts, just like on Reddit.

They are so delusional they think some "sandbox" in the Browser that some dude ported back is fixing 20+ years of security holes in the OS, this is so funny.

"A functional sandbox for enhanced security"

Well, I think if you're running win 2003/XP and actually dare to go into the internet with the machine, you openly and proudly do not give a flying fuck about any security. The amount of open holes is insane, and some Chromium project that some dude ported is not going to save you.

Projects like this never made any sense to me.

AVIF looks better here: JPEG XL looks very blurred out on the bottom with high compression. AVIF preserves much more detail and sharpness.

https://res.cloudinary.com/jon/qp-low.png

Oh wow, knobs "programmable" can't w8 to buy this useless shit for an insanely overpriced price.

I will not even bother to read this shit. You sound naive. What is "Mathematically perfect"? EVERYTHING! Literally everything is perfect math in nature, you see things like honeycomb patters repeat themselves in so many different animal and insect species. There are so many things like that. I wish I remember what YouTube video or article it was that I read, it was fascinating how much repeating and "perfect math" happens in nature. I am sure the solar systems out there are not any different. Math is just what humans invented to measure what it already there, the outcome can only be "perfect".

In case you do not know, the speed of light is just a made up number, so how the fuck do they're even measuring some solar system? THEY DON'T!

It's all clickbait, end of story "aliens, perfect math ..." I know this without reading it.

Neither humans nor aliens created it, obviously.

" src set to www.youtube-nocookie.com instead of youtube.com. Both are official Google urls, but the former doesn't do tracking via cookies, and disables API and interaction and interaction logging. Amusingly, it's the player used on whitehouse.gov. "

Is (was) actually UNTRUE. The no-cookies URL last time I checked it should be doing it now, but I am too lazy right now. This STILL set cookies when people engaged with the embed, it just prevented automatically setting cookies and tracking with that just by loading the iframe.

Also, what about local-storage why in 2024 the talk is still about cookies? Local storage is the more modern API, and it seems many people fail to realize the all the stuff cookies do can be done with local storage and more.

There is a WordPress plugin that does some of these things and what lite-youtube-embed to all video embeds, no just YouTube. I own it I will communicate this to the author, and I am sure more of what is shown here will be added, I guess it's just to allow parameter and this insane list if it's really needed, still perplexed about this…

https://nextgenthemes.com/

The most importantly thing is just loading the thumbnail instead of the actual iframe on pageload. Loading=lazy is not really cutting it as the bloated iframe(s) just get loaded in on scroll. If you have multiple videos on a page or your visitors may not actually want to watch videos because they have already seen them ... loading=lazy is great for images but for iframe you need more than that.

sandbox can be used to completely disable any left clicks inside embeds, so clicking on stuff will not open new browser tabs. That is incredibly useful to not let video hosts lure your site visitors away. Right click will still work but its good enough.

Is the allow thing like this really true? I was under the impression that everything is disallowed by default, and you specifically have to allow it to work, hence the default embeds from YouTube and others having it on there.

"alien" is just clickbait. I believe in aliens out there somewhere but nothing any human has ever seen.

GitHub created this defense fund after they came after youtube-dl. Not very Micro$oft, but they will probably help when it comes to that, but so far they did not file for DMCA takedown in GitHub. Maybe they did and Gihub changed the rules and requires some court judgement to take things down first?

Well I like what Valve is doing with Proton, but all the fiddling around and the fact that Proton was designed ONLY for Steam games and does not really play well with other games SUCKS! Lutris has their WINE + DXVK and stuff and removed Proton as a runtime for this reason. There still is no good one-stop shop that "just works TM" for games on Linux.

And I like to play AAA games and would, lose performance in many cases on Linux, so I happily bite the sour apple to play the latest games easy and fast without any issues.

The gaming industry is so heavily focused on DX12 instead of natively building for Vulkan for some reason, even though this matter less and less with Wine/Proton getting better and better. It still makes more sense to me to just boot up Windows 11. It's a dream for me to one day delete my windows partition, and I think it will actually happen in my lifetime, just not in 2024.

Can you be more specific what computers do not work with Linux? And WHY do you have such a computer?

Well, my Ubuntu with https://vscodium.com/ is certainly much better for web development than fucking windows. I boot windows only for gaming. I detest their spyware adware OS. Furthermore, I detest "99% open source with 1% bullshit on top of it" products like Chrome and VScode. I will never use the official versions of such programs. I use Brave to use Blink/Chromium, it also has the benefit of not suffering from the v3 manifest bullshit they pulled to attack and weaken Adblockers.

WSL is cool and all, but why deal with all the quirks and issue that come with it, why learn how it works and all the limitations ... when you can just have it all natively the way it was invented and supposed to work?

Let me guess, massive amounts of taxpayers money was paid to them to create this font, that they do not even open source and allow no modifications and such.

Also, the font looks pretty generic and nothing special or unique. I do not see much value here, there are probably 100 fonts that look pretty similar to this.

Dude does not know how to install an ad blocker. WTF dude.

WordPress just implemented the interactivity API, inspired of Alpine.js, using parts of Preact. It's really great and extensible, 10 kB only.

https://wptavern.com/interactivity-api-prepares-for-its-offi...

It would matter a LOT if politicians of any country would dare to publically even try to fine the US for this. They rather pretend Putin blew up "his own" pipeline. Aside from that, a country not simply fines another.