UlrikHD @ UlrikHD @programming.dev

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putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog

Could you elaborate what you by this?

Language specific communities

Just block it? Do you really browse c/all without filtering out unwanted communities?

Try downloading a png from a site that converts to webp for their CDN services. It's my only real complaint, but it's damn annoying going into the Firefox config just to download a simple image. I don't mind them displaying it as webp, but let me download the source image

Normal users can see it?

I don't think a Japanese company targeting the youth is concerned about what American conservatives think.

What plug-in is it and does it work with Firefox? I had a plug-in that worked with chrome, but it didn't work with Firefox and I never got around to fixing it.

Since it's variations of the combined ending, each permutation would count as unique. Meaning that 10 companions with 10 endings each would total 10.000.000.000 variations,

I've never seen anyone being smug about their distro, but I've also never seen a comment where somebody have said they use Ubuntu. Arch on the other hand is everywhere, meme or no meme.

That worked, thanks

Whenever I click on the link it prompts me to register on kbin. Is it a closed off instance?

With boost on reddit I would just block any subreddits that I felt was just noise. Any American centered subreddits (mostly politics), NSFW subreddits (back when those showed up in r/all), niche meme stuff like that deep fried stuff, etc... You could also block keywords like "elon" and "trump". It actually made r/all a decent experience to browse through.

If it isn't already a feature on lemmy, hopefully it will soon. I much prefer letting the user do the filtering than the nuclear option that is defederating. Boost for lemmy is also on the way so I expect that to be an option once the app launches.

Will nobody comment on the level of indentation? It looks like 10 leves deep.

Except that you have to know exactly what

<program>

is, character for character, and usually includes some long string of numbers and letters where 1 character is wrong and you have to retype the whole damn thing. This is the opposite of easy.

If it a program you are unfamiliar with, yes you'll probably need to search for the apt name and copy paste. I much prefer that over searching a website, verifying it's not a scam site, then download the exe, and then run the exe once the download is finished. After the first time, just add it to a .sh script and then you can download every program you need automatically if you ever need to set up a new instance again.

I guess it's not for all, but worst case it's hardly any more work than needing to go to a website to download the exe.

What issues are you encountering on android Firefox? I've used Firefox + ublock for years and I don't think I have ever encountered an issue that was fixed by using chrome instead.

Downloads and Documents starting with a capital letter is my biggest pet peeve with Ubuntu. It makes it a lot more annoying to navigate through them than if it was all lower case.

I have no idea how to install all the different program types (flathub, db, appimage, etc.). Windows has exe. I click "install" and boom, it's done.

That's strange, I've always felt that installing stuff is a lot easier on Ubuntu than windows. It's just apt install <program> and apt remove <program>. Having to manually download and run an exe feels outdated in comparison.

I can't even select a file because there are no previews. Just a gazillion blue squares with names like "dlcosn_3947912947".

Curious what distro you installed that had that issue. The only preview issue I've encountered was on win10 where I had to pay for windows to support H.265 to give me previews of H.265 files.

Things are constantly breaking. When they do I look up support articles that are written in fucking Klingon and sent to the terminal to type in commands that always return some sort of generic error "command not found" or some shit because the solution is written for a different one of the 862700422 available distros.

That's a fair point though. If you aren't willing (and most aren't) to learn enough to be comfortable with the terminal, it can be very easy break something when you are forced to interact with the terminal.

Other than now lemmy, the only other apps I use are Firefox and email/messaging apps. Hardly need that much performance.

4 years since the last update on my phone, I really don't see why I would change unless core apps like Firefox were to stop working.

Those neat little python libraries that makes it go really fast is written in C. It's a neat little trick to have up your sleeve if you want to take your python profencie to the next level.