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Am I overthinking it?
  • My advice is to stick to a popular and well known general purpose distro. Even though I have never tried Pop os myself I would recommend it over that Brazzite thing (which has a very similar name to that one very popular video streaming site if you know) because I have heard good things about Pop os.

  • People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
  • You are right, I wanted to do some nodejs and realized that the package in the repo was Node version 12.something while latest node is version 20.something.

    Also they still ship Python 3.10 which is ancient technology by today's standard, luckily nothing major is added between 3.10 and 3.12

    Their mirrors are worst, ALL OF SELECTABLE OPTIONS FROM MIRROR SELECTOR which shows up at 47 KB/sec which just hurts your area spanning from asshole to large intestines.

    I use bridgetide linux mint mirror btw

    So why am I not switching?

    Here is why: Linux mint is based on Ubuntu meaning that you can add Ubuntu repos or ppas or whatever they need directly into Linux Mint and dont have to worry about it breaking.

    Say that you need to have some software for a reason and you cannot find one in Flatpak or an appimage, etc. You will be happy to realize that many of these software are built for Ubuntu and provide their deb package with own repo with updates.

    I run Linux Mint 21.3 and that means I can just use a program built for Ubuntu Jammy as Linux Mint Virginia is based on Ubuntu Jammy. If I need to install something out of repo, I can just go and install Ubuntu jammy deb package and it will work normally.

  • Databases and their real world use examples
  • If I understood your question correctly,

    A database is a base for your data, its where your data lives.

    A data is the most important thing for most modern applications. You have an account in Lemmy. You have made posts and comments. All that post texts, images, etc has to be recorded somewhere in the server. Thats what a database does.

  • FIrefox can and should but refuses to implement browser level encryption to protect every browsing data generated by the browser.

    Chrome does not do it either but are we supposed to be the ones that start a new trend or the ones that follow the trend?

    I made a post into their feature request section about how important it is for privacy and security. It is perfectly possible to do but they are not interested in doing.

    What I asked was that they provide a feature that allows users to opt in to encrypt all browsing data including history, passwords, cookies, etc. With this feature I can only access my browser information after I open up Firefox and provide my encryption password.

    How would this help? Well, there could be viruses that can read Firefox browsing history and cookies and send that to the server. With this feature enabled, one can be even more safer.

    There is an option to encrypt Passwords. Thats not enough, every other piece of browsing data should also be encrypted.

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    Be careful, your understanding of incognito mode in Firefox may be wrong and that could be costing you

    All the incognito browser windows share the same "session" in Firefox. So say you open an Incognito window to browse Facebook or something, then you open another Incognito window, this new incognito window is linked to the previous incognito window, meaning you are logged into Facebook at that new Incognito window as well. This is because, as I explained before, all the incognito windows share the same "session"

    The only way to clear incognito window is to close ALL of them and then create a new incognito window. You dont have to close the main non incognito Firefox window though, just close all the incognito windows. Then open a new one, now your previous session is destroyed and you are new again.

    You may know it but its not that common knowledge as it should have been

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    Firefox supports loading about:config settings using user.js file that does not support even the basic thing Javascript is supposed to support

    Why use .js extension if it does not even support what Javascript is supposed to support. Here is my user.js file that does not work in Firefox: https://pastebin.com/QZXL0YJp

    However the following works: https://pastebin.com/xEjh7g9U

    I wonder why not implement a full Javascript engine to read in those configuration files, it kind of sucks to keep on typing user_pref( in every line when one could put all the configs in a list and loop over it and use user_pref() to apply them.

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    How is downvote counter negative in some comments?

    Video demonstration: https://old.reddit.com/r/u_cy_narrator/comments/16bng75/negative_downvote_on_eternity/

    The upvote and downvote counter both should have been positive no? How is it negative in this case?

    I am not making a huge fuss about this very tiny of a tiny glitch. But I feel like this can become something much more serious if unknown.

    7

    What is the most official Android app for Lemmy?

    Like there is the Official Mastodon app for Mastodon, and Element app for Matrix, which app is considered the most official lemmy app for Android [possibly also for ios]

    Or atleast, the app which supports most(if not all) the features available in Lemmy

    17

    Any website that lists OS compatible with Raspberry Pi 0 W running ARM V6

    The ONLY one that works is Raspberry pi os Legacy available from the rpi flasher. What other OS would work?

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    How do you deal with blurry Hazy graphics in an old CRT TV purchased in the last 15 years?

    About TV

    Company: Daewoo DC

    Purchase date: Last 15 years, and the most modern of its time

    Size: 24 inch

    Interface: Has Audio-Video port

    [Other than that, its just a radioactive box, weird signal goes in, video comes out]

    About Raspberry pi

    Model: Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB RAM)

    OS: Raspberrypi OS

    Situation

    Its not cabling thats the issue. The TV shows visual but the graphics is very hazy and blurry. I suppose it has something to do with either the frame rate made for digital monitors being too high for the TV or the video resolution being too unbarable.

    I have used CRT computer monitors but they used VGA. In those monitors, I used to set resolution to 800x600px and it would show the clearest. CRT monitors dont have this concept of pixels, yet setting pixels to 800x600 does the job in VGA CRT monitors. It did not work in case of my TV.

    I should mention that the device I purchased to convert HDMI to Audio Video has a toggleable switch that can be changed to NTSC or PAL. I dont know what that is, both works but setting to PAL seems to be slightly clearer.

    I am asking here in hopes someone else has done it and how they made it barable.

    [Also I am sorry I do not understand the language that is mostly used here. This community seems to be the most active one so I decided to ask for help here]

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    [Bug] Spaced words get clumped together when pressing backspace to erase words

    Video demonstration: https://old.reddit.com/r/u_cy_narrator/comments/166y9re/this_space_bug_in_jerboa/

    When I am typing and press the backspace, the words get clumped together that shouldnt have been.

    Version: 0.0.44

    [Sorry that I had to use Reddit to upload video about Jerbora]

    8

    Should lemmy community mods accept your subscription request in some community?

    When I click to subscribe some groups it goes to Pending stage for a long time before it gets to subscribed.

    Is that because the mods accepted my subscription request or is it taking long time?

    5

    I have a bunch of questions about Firefox profiles

    I run Windows 10 and I have never done anything with Profiles at all. I am completely new.

    When I go to about:profiles I see three Enteries,

    • Profile: default-release
    • Profile: default
    • Profile: dev-edition-default

    Of which default-release seems to be default. Indicated by Default Profile: yes

    First off, why are there 3 profiles if I never created one?

    In Each profile, there is Root Directory and Local Directory which point to the same directory in all 3 cases. What are the differences?

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