what garbage cleanup tool gets rid of dotfiles, especially .git? if you let us know we can learn to avoid it

well, it’s in the settings. “Include anti features” menu.

my 750 ti works. nouveau can’t increase the clock speed to the operating clock on boot, on boot the display on that card shows random data with colorful pixels, and nvtop does not see it either, but it works.

wait, are they really using it?

IT basically constructs several virus exe files during runtime FROM THE BYTECODE SECTION !!

what kind of viruses? what do they do? did you notice anything objectively bad that they do? or something fishy other than creating executables?

These exe files are what does the activation. It also installs backdoors, and potential malware !!

could you provide a little more details on what kind of backdoors does it install? and what malware?

this could be a big deal, but you didn’t provide anything that could be verified.

unexpected lesson, but that umask in a subshell is very clever!

this user has been posting lots of questionable things. lately I see them often

“in a big way”, “it will be your win”

It’s ridiculous

Recently I learned that it does not work anymore with lemmy.ml, so its probably because of that

why don’t you/they just block meme communities then? downvoting memes because they are memes does not make any sense when they are posted to communities made for that reason

I mean with something easier than OBS, but which works on KDE or any other desktop. something like OnTopReplica on windows

sure! I use the libredirect addon: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/ works in firefox on desktop and mobile

it redirects various privacy invading services to privacy preserving alternative frontends that are ran by volunteers. by default it only redirects youtube, so you would need to toggle on reddit too. Currently it only uses 1 redlib instance by default, you may select more to be used in the addon’s settings.

redlib and other frontends are distinct projects. their project page often has a list of public instances. here is redlib’s page: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
but you normally don’t have to look at it because libredirect updates its instance list automatically

sometimes an instance is temporarily blocked by reddit, if that happens you can quickly switch to a different instance in the addon’s menu.

redlib and other frontends usually have some cpnvenience settings, be sure to check them out. but they need cookies allowed, and they are not synced across instances.

isn’t it possible with some external utility? OBS can capture individual windows with pipewire, and it can render that to a new window, so it must be possible with something easier too

once I noticed failures on my ventoy pendrive because a specific bootable system had unexpected bugs each time I booted it. after I have rewritten it from backup, it was working fine again.

but bitrot works this way not just on pendrives, but SSDs and HDDs too. the system won’t know unless it tries to read the file. SMART selftests may help. but even then, what good it is if it does not let you know actively?

I don’t think re-registration is a problem for most of us. we just don’t want to go there on a daily basis anymore. especially since all apps have been kicked out other than that garbage, data mining official app.

nowadays if I go there, I only do because I’m following a link, and then I always use a redlib instance to view the content

you don’t need the whole usb drive to fail. It’s enough if a sector or two went corrupt, and you won’t be able to open (or even see) a directory, or copying a file will stop in the middle. maybe files disappear too, and then at best they get recovered to FOUND.001 or such directory without path and name, maybe also just partially, or interleaved with other lost or deleted files’ fragments

but surely microsoft keeps multiple copies! they are infallible!!

I have heard less about phone chargers failing catastrophically. They also handle much less power (except the fancy ones), and I haven’t seen a hot phone charger adapter yet, but plenty laptop chargers of which some were just very warm, and some so hot just on its outsides that it was uncomfortable to hold it in hand.

this is why I’m more worried about laptop chargers

I would assume that landfill laptop manufacturers are trying to minimize costs even harder on the charger.

but what timeframe do you mean with “anymore”? laptops made in this decade, or the last 10 years, or something else? there’s plenty of old laptops that fitinto OPs category.

I think 5W probably can’t be achieved, maybe with chromebook-like hardware, but I guess GPIO could be solved with a USB accessory

in my opinion the bigger problem is the fire hazard of an unsupervised charger. I have seen enough that runs super hot, and even if it doesn’t, I just can’t trust them.