Thank you, just what I was looking for 🙂👍
I changed my user agent string to following and problem went away.
Thank you 👍
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061214
> Latest update to LibreWolf changed it's user agent string and it's causing websites to freak out. For example amazon will default you to a mobile website and Youtube music is having issues. To make matters worse if you try to download an extension to change the user agent string, it won't let you and tell you to download Firefox. You'll need to manually override the user agent string by going into about:config. You'll need to add general.useragent.override string into config. > > > > > > Here is how you can do that: > > https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox > > > > I changed my user agent string to following and problem went away. > > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0
I was sort of under the impression that tlp was an "install it and leave it if you want" type of thing, but that you could tweak it more to your liking if needed. 🤷♂️ Well, in any event it didn't work for me in either case!
Thanks for the suggestions; I might give auto-cpufreq another shot first just because I've used it in the past on another machine, but if that doesn't work, I will definitely take a look at tuned. 👍 Will try to remember to report back with the results, though it may take a while.
I have uBlock and Canvas Blocker off, the little shield thingy off, my VPN off, and Autoplay allowed, but still cannot play videos on bandcamp. Anyone else having this problem?
The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29217325
> I've got a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 10th generation, which, from the start, IIRC was criticized for not having the best battery life, I think, because of its processor (12th Gen Intel Core i7-1280P × 14). > > I thought I had read that using a more recent kernel might help the lowish battery life problem (I'm using 6.11.0-24-generic at the moment), but it doesn't seem to help much, if at all. > > I tried using tlp, which meant uninstalling power-profiles-daemon, but this just made my laptop run hot, and also screwed up my battery when I tried to set charging thresholds (had to reset it by using the emergency pin hole), so I probably won't be trying that again. Reinstalled power-profiles-daemon, and now have it on power saver; so back to normal now, not running hot, but battery life still isn't great. > > Anything else I could try? There's auto-cpufreq which I used for a while on an older laptop, but that was quite a while ago . . .
Especially if I insist on watching them in high definition? Yeah, probably doesn't help!
No, nothing like that, fortunately; as long as I have power-profiles-daemon installed, it runs fine.
Not sure what the hdparm commands are supposed to do . . . ?
Yeah, my brightness level is usually set kind of low; like right now it's 20%(!), which is actually how I like it. The keyboard backlight is at 100%, and I kind of need it to be that way because of the state of my vision. The screen dims to 5% after 5 minutes. My stopwatch applet tells me now that I didn't even make it to 3 hours! 🙁
A bad habit, but I often end up watching videos in my browser, LibreWolf, while I'm working, and I'm sure that probably adds to the power drain rather significantly.
I've got a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 10th generation, which, from the start, IIRC was criticized for not having the best battery life, I think, because of its processor (12th Gen Intel Core i7-1280P × 14).
I thought I had read that using a more recent kernel might help the lowish battery life problem (I'm using 6.11.0-24-generic at the moment), but it doesn't seem to help much, if at all.
I tried using tlp, which meant uninstalling power-profiles-daemon, but this just made my laptop run hot, and also screwed up my battery when I tried to set charging thresholds (had to reset it by using the emergency pin hole), so I probably won't be trying that again. Reinstalled power-profiles-daemon, and now have it on power saver; so back to normal now, not running hot, but battery life still isn't great.
Anything else I could try? There's auto-cpufreq which I used for a while on an older laptop, but that was quite a while ago . . .
From the Man Himself (Clem):
JL
Hello, and thank you for the new release. I have a question about the power-profiles – how and when are they applied? Here is why I ask. I have custom settings – set by tlp and by scripts – and I don’t want Cinnamon to override those settings. Thanks.
Clem
Hi JL,
They’re applied by power-profiles-daemon. Note that Cinnamon supports it as a feature but doesn’t depend on it. If you’re using TLP you can remove power-profiles-daemon for it not to interfere. The profiles will just then disappear in the Cinnamon Power Settings and power applet.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4785
Now my only question is, which is better, tlp or power-profiles-daemon? Guess I'll have to run some tests.
Oh yeah, and what about auto-cpufreq?
Thought I'd ask before installing it and potentially messing things up.
Ok, I think what we're supposed to do now is this: Go to the Update Manager>Edit>Software Sources>Maintenance and either "Remove foreign packages" or "downgrade foreign packages." I think this's been there for a while now, just never used it before.
This is unfortunately the same type of experience I've had with SearXNG. 🙁
I haven't really experienced a worsening of DDG, and this is a bit off topic, perhaps, but—
I have yet to find a better alternative to Google's video search. Google Books also remains valuable in many ways, since it will give you different "search inside the book"-type search results than the Internet Archive will (and they also have some books that IA does not).
What's annoying to me is that StartPage, which is supposed to have Google search results, and by and large does, does not give the same video results as Google (go ahead, try it). It would also be nice to have an Invidious or FreeTube type front end for Google Books, and I believe there used to be something like that, but not any longer.
Some Google products still have definite value, it's just important that they derive no benefit from us using them.
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately PCs don't have very big back seats...🙄
Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.
While I'm waiting for the Linux desktop client for Proton Drive . . . does anyone have any experience with Filen?
https://alternativeto.net/software/filen/about/
https://tosdr.org/en/service/6820
Up until recently there used to be these special batteries you could put in your fire/smoke/CO alarm that would contact you on your smartphone if the alarms went off while you were away.
They don't make them anymore, and if you want anything equivalent, it seems like you have to buy into an entire "smart home control system" or whatever they're called, and I don't need or want that.
It doesn't have to be a battery, but is there some way I can set up my alarms to contact me without surrendering all my privacy? The alarms I have now also aren't hard-wired into the house, which could present a problem, but that's why the Roost batteries were so nice!
The United Nations Open Source community is proud to announce that 16 leading organizations have the UN Open Source Principles, following the initial endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), bringing the total to 17.
Asking because USPS's frequently doesn't work.
As creator of this new community, I will take the liberty of making the first, in no way self-serving 🙄 post, which is as the title says: favicons don't display for custom search engines; it worked for Internet Archive, but not for libremd or for AlternativeTo. Any way to fix this?
Since there's a LibreWolf community, I thought that one for IronFox might be useful as well, especially now that Mull is no more.
(I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by creating this; if so, please message me and we'll figure something out, even if it means discontinuing the community!)
Know your rights, but also minimize your risk.
SearXNG does, I think...any others? Looking around for other engines that aren't US-based, though I guess DDG is still considered acceptable for LibreWolf's default engine. Bangs are incredibly useful!
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
I was able to change the new tab favicon on LibreWolf with CSS:
/newtab favicon/ .tab-icon-image[src="chrome://branding/content/icon32.png"] { content: url("librewolf-NO8X71.png") !important; }
But I'd also like to be able to change the logo that appears on the "about:logo" page (looks like lemmy.world's CSS page is locked for now, so I'm asking here). Anyone know how to do this?
I kiped the logo from LibreWolf's reddit page, it's by u/NO8X71; tell me it's not the coolest thing you've ever seen! Wish I'd done it.
Signal has a "Note to Self" option which basically lets you send texts to yourself for reminders, etc. Is there a way to do this with any of the various Matrix clients, and if so how?
