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New comment on Firefox contained in Flatpak vs Snap comparison:

Linux user

I am using snap version of firefox and have been looking at firefox on flathub and I have noticed the flathub version is 1 version behind for last week which makes me think it is not updated as quickly as snap is and and I'm not sure why since other flatpaks seem to be more up to date then some snaps. I have never used fedora so i can not commit on that version. I have both snaps and flatpaks and like them over deb on ubuntu since its easier to stay updated on alot of programs and I now avoid other options, On a n100 fanless mini pc with 16gb of ram everything is fast regardless of what I use. I also use brave and perfer the snap version since the flatpak version has more warnings about being safe then other flatpaks. Snaps and flatpaks is all I use for software now since it will make upgrading easier is future..

New comment on Everything or Nothing: The missing James Bond theme song:

Anonymous

This song was released on 7inch vinyl single in US and as promo cd single in Spain.

More info on the cd release here:

https://www.discogs.com/release/5598830-Mya-007-Todo-O-Nada-Banda-Sonora-Original

I also uploaded that cd single for you: https://pixeldrain.com/u/bfn5ZBQe

New comment on Windows now blocks Edge browser competitors from opening links:

the extracool

My son and I have been using microsoft windows the last years. We came to the decision to change that. Microsofts Windows produces "backdoors" in their OS now for years (News and interesting Themes, Webbrower Locking for Search, other tools and restrictions to maintain collection of users behaviours and interest, and even much more. Not to forget, that Microsoft is a U.S. American Company and underlies the U.S. American Cloud Act in addition (even if we had nothing to hide, we don't like the feeling to be spied and scanned all the time). After its getting more and more difficult to customize the os, we have decided to change our Operating System to Linux. We started with a Dualboot Environment, but after 2 years using and comparing we will change this to use only linux since we noticed that there are enough possibielities to comfortably use the alternative. Looking in the future, we see also further hardware limitations coming which would enforce us to buy new hardware. we dissagree to that, since our hardware works still fine and we do not have more requirements to it. We think that the whole development is to force peaple to be even more dependent to the industry and even more control of the mean structures coming on. please consider thinking your situation over the same way. we wish you good descicions, even if it may be some kind of inconvenient in the beginning, it could be a good "investment of time" for your future. Thanks to Daniel for his engagement and work in the past. Keep going the alternative way.

New comment on 5 options for auto-mounting network shares on MacOS:

anfalas

A totally free and open source solution is Network Share Mounter developed by a german university

https://gitlab.rrze.fau.de/faumac/networkShareMounter

New comment on SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way:

Anonymous

As someone that spend well over a week trying to get my head around SElinux, I ended up with even more questions, and less understanding, there IS a way to disable selinux for a speciflc program / label whatever, but I cant find even a whisper of how to do it online anymore.

I run permissive and know that one day, ill have to re learn it and hopefully grasp it better.

Just like LDAP, if youre fine with having a vague understanding of how it works, and not knowing what to do when it breaks, then crack on.

New comment on I’ve joined Vivaldi Technologies:

zakius

I love the promise of Vivaldi, unfortunately it takes a very long time for a feature they include to become good enough and the Chromium lineage causes a lot of issues (like poor text rendering or abysmally bad extensions API)

what I do like are configurable hotkeys (so we don't have to adhere to the Chromium insanity that Mozilla decided to use too), mouse gestures that actually work and easy way of removing these pesky close tab buttons

what I don't like are incomplete support of uBO, inability to move extension buttons separately and don't get me started with the mobile app... sure, it handles text scaling properly out of the box (most of chrome-like doesn't) but the UI is just off and lack of extensions hurts

New comment on How to remove the Adobe Acrobat Update service:

baconology

Thank you for this! Didn't have to even go searching on Reddit. You're the only thing that comes up on google that is useful. RIP google.

New comment on How to enable hibernation on Fedora Linux:

MCz

Very cool tutorial! It worked for me

New comment on What is the best file format for web shortcuts:

Rafael

Great article! It's so strange that there isn't a global standard for such a simple thing.

New comment on How to add CalDAV and CardDAV accounts and sync with Windows 10:

Anonymous

This no longer works on Windows 11. They have changed the way they sync with iCloud. It says that Microsoft requires a app password to be created on icloud that Outlook for Windows will use and will sync iCloud data with MS Cloud. This method appears to be obsolete now unfortunately. They probably discovered the security hole that people were using and patched it. In all honesty, that's a good thing. After all, this method was a work-around, or back door if you will, to get in via a method designed for something else and this was just exploiting that flaw.