You can use “about:memory” to run a tool in Firefox to reduce memory use in a session. I’m not sure how helpful that will be.

Unfortunately the next best answer i can offer is probably “close tabs and use bookmarks” but I douht that is what you want.

Paywalled, archived version: https://archive.is/M7hHZ

I agree.

They stumbled into a political mess, it was naive and foolish but it doesn’t mean the whole of proton should be written off.

I’m not looking for an alternative. Although it is also good that people have other options to share and the freedom to move providers should they wish. I will still recommend Proton to people.

I use a Boox Note, and I like it a lot. Its an android based eBook reader so you have full access to android apps including side loading apps from other stores.

By default it does not have Google services set up but you can use the Play store should you want. But its not integrated to googles services. Obviously there is some integration to Onyx Boox services which is based in China. However infindnit is unobstrusive and you dont have to use their store or any of their tools.

Personally I use Calibre on my Linux PC to manage my books on the device, and I use fbreader as a reader (closed source) but you can install open source software if thats your preference. KOReader certainly works but I’m not a big fan of the interface personally.

I use ebooks.com to buy books (and calibre to remove DRM so I can use my preferred software), and you can install the Kindle app to access a kindle library if you haven’t liberated your books yet. Ebooks reader works on the device too. Obviously DRM free books from any source and format can also be used.

My device - the note - has an nice crisp screen, is well made with a nice aluminium chassie and is comfortable to hold. I read books in portrait mode so you have 2 pages visible at a time. Its also good for a4 size documents. They do also have smaller sizes that match a kindle paper white.

KDE config files can be changed on the command line using:

kwriteconfig

And viewed using

kreadconfig

Power management is in:

~/.config/powermanagementprofilesrc

And

~/.config/powerdevilrc

You can feed changes to the file via kwriteconfig via the command line OR create a duplicate file with different settings and use rename commands in a script file to switch back and forth.

E.g. rename the file to “powermanagementprofilesrc.backup” and create and rename a custom file with the settings you want like “powermanagmentprofilesrc.one” to “powermanagementprofilesrc”. Rename them back and forth via a bash script to switch “profiles”

To apply changes you’d need to then run qdbus:

qdbus org.freedesktop.powermanagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.reparseConfiguration

And then to load the new config in your current session:

qdbus org.freedesktop.powermanagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.refreshStatus

So either use kwriteconfig and qdbus in a script OR make duplicate config files and a bash script to copy or rename the configs as needed plus qdbus to apply the changes to the current session.

There may be a much simpler way of switching profiles already actually defined within the exisiting config files (e.g. battery saver vs performance) using qdbus but I’m not sure how to do that myself. Possibly using:

org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/PowerProfile

EDIT2: Sorry this is a very long post! Just to say if you’re new to linux and want to understand a bit: qdbus is a tool for QT based applications (including almost all of KDE which is build in QT) to interact with DBUS which is basically the messaging system in linux between processes.

So when you run qdbus on it’s own you’ll see a tree of processes that are interacting with QT processes. Then if you run qdbus & the name of a process like “org.freedesktop.powermanagement” you’ll see what QT processes are running with/under it. Then if you run dqbus and add that connected process like “/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement” you can see what strings and options are available. Then you can run qdbus to see more detail or change a setting/string.

Hope that make sense!

Is there enough space on your filesystem? That includes your home folder and main root file system?

If so then i’d deletenor rename folders associated with bottles and try again. If its a user level install check ~/.local/share/Flatpak/app and ~/.var/app and deleteor rename the bottles folder. If its a system wide install look in /var/lib/Flatpak/app

Then try and install it again. It will create a new set of folders.

Yeah if the primary focus is on Prevent then its scapegoating. Prevent is there to tackle people being radicalised - its not there to detect and police all violent people in society.

The real failings are in police, mental health services and social services - all of which have had resources slashed due to austerity.

Blaming Prevent is a distraction - counter terrorism is not the route this very violent and sick individual should have been caught before committing an atrocity.

I work in the NHS and the real question for me is how a very sick and dangerous child could have been allowed to walk away by child mental health services whose excuse has been that he “failed to engage”. A child does not have autonomy to decide to engage or not - it is the mental health services and social services that failed to follow him up.

A child that was too dangerous to even be allowed on site at a specialist school - he was managed from home for staff and pupil safety - should have had heavy mental health and social service input. Prevent would be able to offer nothing.

The whole story is an indictment of the failure of the state over the last 15 years since the ideological nonsense of austerity has ravaged the UK public sector and services.

Infinite doesn’t mean everything. Infinite can include a repeating pattern, even a huge repeating pattern which seems random at first. Not everything you could possibly imagine would necessarily have to exist in the multiverse.

And even if infinite and perfectly random, some things may just not be feasible and just not exist.

I have a linux desktop with dual 4K screens and I don’t have problems with high DPI? The only problems I’ve come across is with Wine which is easly fixed within the winecfg.

I’m on OpenSuSE, using KDE in X11. I DID have scaling problems with Wayland which I avoid until it is fit for daily use.

Of course 4k is 4 times 1080p (or twice in X and Y dimensions) so maybe it’s much easier to scale to? 2K on the Framework is an odd resolution so maybe scaling would be more troublesome? 1080p to 1440p would be 1.3x scaling.

I was dead against losing my 3.5mm jack, and tried to use a USB-to-3.5mm adaptor but it was poor, with issues like your sister experienced.

I finally decided to try a set of relatively cheap earplugs and I wish I’d done it sooner. They’re lightweight, have good connectivity and a convenient charging case. I’m getting better quality audio and experience than I was with my 3.5mm jack - i’d have to replace my headsets every year or less as the wires got damaged over time, and the audio quality is actually better with my bluetooth earplugs. I used to avoid bluetooth after bad experiences over the years with audio drop out and connection issues, but I’ve not had any problems with my newer devices.

I’m not pretending they are audiophile quality but neither is 3.5mm audio in a phone - they just don’t have good quality DACs in phones. Bluetooth is finally a decent and convenient step up for me for day-to-day use and I’m finally not as bothered about losing my 3.5mm port. It’s also worth noting that if you want better audio, you can get bluetooth DACs and plug wired audio into those for an even better experience - I’m tempted but it’s expensive and I’m not sure I’d appreciate the benefit enough to make it worthwhile for me.

In other words: power struggles and potential for more civil war.

No, because it suits Reddit to not have people leaving Reddit to another social network via links.

This was a tragedy and missed opportunity, but this was not “terrorism” in the sense being used. This was a seriously dangerous, violent and mentally ill person.

The focus on how Prevent failed is a real problem because the Prevent strategy is there to stop people being radicalised, not to police society for violent individuals.

The focus here should really be on the mental health system & social services, and how an extremely dangerous person who was excluded from school for violence, went to a special school and could only be dealt with as a home schooled student for staff and student safety, and for whom their family raised concerns. This guy was not radicalised, he was not a “terrorist”, he was someone who was clearly flagged as very dangerous as a child and failed to act.

There have been dangerous people before, and there are laws and structures to detain extremely dangerous people for public safety. That’s where everything failed - yet again Social Services, Police, Health and Education. It’s a pattern seen over and over again with public agencies not working together, often because they’re under resourced and stretched as it is.

“publishing director”. So Marketing.

As for game prices, in fairness to the industry prices have actually come down since 2000.

AAA Games on consoles in 2000 were around $50; that is $92 now due to inflation. Games went up to around $60 on consoles in 2006, that is around $93 now due to inflation. By 2019 they were still $60 but inflation eroded the value, and that had become equivalent to $73 today. When they then went up to $70 in 2020, that would be equivalent to $84 now.

So a nominal price of $100 is not as unreasonable as it sounds. It’s higher than games were in 2000 but in the future if static would erode back to equivalent to $90 in probably 3-4 years.

But the problem is people do not think in terms of inflationary value, and instead in terms of nominal value. And the bigger problem is most peoples earnings are squeezed by inflation and we have not been having pay rises to account for the inflation, so games are more expensive as proportion of income.

You can read NTFS drives; I still have shared drives from my Windows install despite barely using Windows at all.

You can generally import steam libraries, and then steam can do the proton work.

And you can sometimes run other programmes in Linux from the windows install - i.e. it can have it’s own Wine prefix in Linux and use the installed files on the NTFS. But this doesn’t always work - if the programme’s or game’s installer makes significant system changes or installs other software then they won’t exist in the Wine prefix and the game may not work. It’s better to install windows games fresh so everything is installed into the wine prefix.

And Lutris is well set up with scripts for installing a wide range of games from their installers; it will avoid problems reinstalling games fresh.

This is very good advice

My advice having made the move (but with a fair bit of linux tinkering before hand):

• Don’t rush to delete Windows; you’re doing the right thing keeping it about while you adjust to a new OS and in case there are some things you just can’t do in Linux
• If you want to understand your OS and enjoy tinkering / learning, think about using a virtual machine to play with a linux system to get used to it. As you’re on Fedora, you can install KVM and Virt-Manager, make a virtual machine and inside it install another Linux OS which you can practice with. It can even be Fedora - and this can let you make changes in a disposable environment before you do them for real in your whole OS or just to see “what happens if”. I’ve even built an Arch system within a VM just so I can understand more of how linux works
• Back up your home folder before making really big changes - this is where everything that belongs to you is kept, and even contains all your personal config files. Back up and restoring the Home folder can make things much faster to fix if you accidentally mess things up

Sorry I originally posted around permissions as I misunderstood; deleted that. The solution is below:

If it’s a user installed flatpak you should find the config files in:

~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides

Edit the document for the flatseal app. Thats where flatseal or the flatpak override tool makes it’s config changes for user installed flatpaks (including env overrides). You can also delete the flatseal file (which will be the name of the flatpak - com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) "to set back to default.

There will only be a few files - files are only created when there are overrides set. Anything running default permissions/config won’t have an override file.

EDIT: For completeness, for System wide flatpaks all the files are in:

/var/lib/flatpak

Just to explain why they’re stored there: you’re trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in “~/.var/app/…” pertain to the app itself inside it’s sandbox.

I have a living room HTPC connected to my tv and have Jellyfin Media Player on that, and it works well. Obviously thats more of an investment than a firestick. Mine was £290 when I got it, I installed linux and I use it for gaming (including locally and streaming more graphically intense games from my PC), watching some streaming services and browsing the internet on my TV.

I do also have a Chromecast with Google TV stick in another tv. I use that purely for streaming and it also has the Jellyfin App installed.

I find both my HTPC and Chromecast are good with Jellyfin. No issues at all, good consistent streaming. But note HDR in linux can be finicky if thats important to you. Of course most come with Win 11 so you have that choice too (I wiped windows off mine)

I do have kodi on my HTPC, works fine with Jellyfin/jellycon but I prefer desktop mode and the jellyfin media player myself. I tend to use the pc with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so dont really use Kodi.

My PC was £290 but I got one that could do a bit more gaming. You can get them for £100-£160 and they’d likely be more than capable of streaming 4k content. Better than a Pi 4 and more versatile than a £60 4k fire stick (even if more expensive - might be justified if itnopens up new uses for your tv)

Other option of course is a Raspberry pi 5 - more powerful than the 4. Ive not tested my pi5 with Jellyfin much so cant comment on how it suites the task.

So from what I’ve seen on Lemmy over the last year is that the quantity of posts and variety of topics feels like it’s going up. I certainly enjoy engaging on here.

Will it stagnate? I’m not sure. It might be that the monthly user levels stabilise but thats not the same as stagnate. If people are engaged and enjoying their time then it has value.

My feeling is that Lemmy will slowly grow over time. I don’t see it becoming a huge platform like Reddit anytime soon. Its feasible but it feels like for now it will remain niche.

But I also dont want to it suddenly become huge. I was on reddit for a long time and I saw it evolve from being something small and interesting to a behemoth and enshittification to make money. Small is sometimes better, and small or stable in no way means stagnation.