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[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Well GNOME does create instability and confusion too.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

~~Try to change it to English.~~

Oh then it can be a broken update.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

What language do you have set on your system and what terminal are you using?

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Good but sad it's disabled by default for now.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

I second this. It would be really nice to know.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 days ago

I think it's very nice to have a sibling who's interested in Linux just like you are.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I think it was using the Void Linux package manager.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Well it can also make everything worse. Some languages are good for DE development and some aren't.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Quite a big release I would say. They said they fixed drag and drop between Wayland and Xwayland windows which is absolute fire if they did.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

It can be a theme or a plugin issue.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I hope at least distros will make the switching automated because without it a lot of users will have issues, especially since Ubuntu and Fedora use GNOME by default.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Huh but GPUs only support it since like 2016 or 2017. Older ones won't be able to render GTK4?

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I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it.

I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways.

Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app.

P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

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I hesitated for a long time before posting this because I didn't think it having copyrighted materials (even in the client itself by default) is something the FOSS community necessarily likes the sound of but now I'm sharing it anyways. I guess I'm making my image of the most controversial Lemmy user official with this one.

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Basically title. I need an app to track my income, expenses and other financial activities. Self-hosting is not an option.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Yes this is a Telegram client and yes it will break the Lemmy's downvote world record but I still find this one very nice and "actively" maintained. There are not many good Telegram FOSS forks without Google integrations and similar stuff out there.

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I've been using it for a long time and it's been a good experience (except for 1 or 2 crashes) so here I am sharing it I guess.

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I've been receiving direct messages with pretty much the same contents from different accounts for a few months now. The contents include a question which I answered but the messages keep coming. I tried to report this using Jerboa's built-in functionality but I always got an error "Report deleted". Can I do something about it or I'll just keep receiving the messages until I create a new account?

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After the death of ViMusic (a very lightweight MD3 YouTube Music client) I saw RiMusic getting quite popular but now it's a very feature-rich client with its own UI design that is also very slow on older devices (based on my bare metal tests). I found this other one interesting so hopefully someone else will like it too.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

I'm using the official F-Droid client now but I'd like to switch to another one. The problem is I have some third party repos added and I don't really know how F-Droid works (it seems to have a lot of modules for app installation). I don't want to break it or reflash my whole OS. So can I just uninstall the previous client, install the new one and add the repos back or are there any additional steps I must follow on order for it not to cause any issues?

EDIT: thank you to everyone who replied. I did what was recommended the most (installed 2 clients alongside and deleted the old one after copying all repos and settings) and it seems to be working fine.

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I know most of you already know these apps or need something more advanced but I found them interesting so I thought I might as well share it here for those not familiar with them.

WARNING: one of the apps in the list (Plexamp) doesn't appear to be open-source so use it with caution.

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Chromium... I'm so getting downvoted with this one.

Anyways,

I have an old Android 6 phone that is still not completely unusable and my older family members want to use it as a backup phone (in fact, they already do). They can't live without Facebook (obviously) so I installed Firefox on it and made a PWA for Facebook. It works surprisingly well but Firefox itself is quite sluggish and slow to open on that piece of hardware. So I'm thinking of installng a Chromium browser on it, as well as on my other old devices to make them run a bit better and just out of my extremely unhealthy curiosity.

But the problem is they all do not support modern arm64 apps that most Android phones use nowadays. Instead they need this other type called armeabi-v7a. There were Chromium based browsers that had a v7a version (Bromite for example) but they all suspiciously died at the same time more than a year ago. Does Chromium really not support the old architecture (or whatever it is) anymore or I'm just not searching well enough?

P. S. Advices to buy a newer device will not be accepted and will be treated with appropriate level of hostility.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I need some help finding a distro for a very old machine.

It's my family's old desktop with 2001 components (bought in 2004) and a Pentium CPU that is NOT i686. I checked the exact model and architecture once but I don't remember it now. The only thing I remember is that it's not i686 so 99% of modern 32 bit distros don't work on it (stuck right after grub).

The machine has 1 Gb of DDR1 RAM though so I think it may be useful or at least fun to play around with.

Now it's on Windows XP that runs quite well but doesn't support modern SSL certificates so it can't browse the internet (idk how to fix it ok?).

A long time ago I tried to run multiple distros in live mode on it and got only one (Puppy) to work. Display, sound, ethernet and pretty much everything worked fine. GPU seemed to be an issue though because NVidia and I couldn't install the driver (it was skill issue and I think it's possible to do). But now it doesn't work for some reason.

Are there any Linux distros or other operating systems (preferably not deprecated) that I can install on it? And btw it does have bootable USB support.

EDIT: There are way too many answers and a lot of ones that don't mind the architecture limitations. I'm grateful to everyone who replied but I have to close this discussion now and I will not reply to further answers. I have received enough information and I cannot physically read so many replies.

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I think this way of implementing and using AI is actually good from all perspectives (probably except some legal aspects but I don't think Mozilla will add a legally grey feature). What do you think about it?

And I'm sorry if it's already posted here. I didn't find any posts on this topic myself

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