These cases always, always make me laugh.

Because avoiding them is quite simple.

Empieza la época del año donde uno pasa de ser alimentador de gatos a calefactor de gatos.

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I’m instacloning this. I get from the files and from previous experience with KDE that it can be done, I just haven’t gotten enough tinkering experience outside of the classics such as wmctrl to do that yet.

I used KDE activities by task and had such a config for each task. KDE activities can run arbitrary scripts on being started.

Omg absolutely separate from the purpose of this thread, but would you happen to have copies of such scripts or could you recommend some tutorials on KDE activities? I usually prefer lean DEs, but every once in a while KDE makes it so difficult for me to say no to them.

Really thank you for sharing your insight and experience on this.

In my case - clean boot takes 25s.

Clean boot yes. But I rarely start my workflow from the “blank” desktop background - there’s prep and glam I like to do or tend to set up but that I would prefer to explicitly set up instead of it being done automatically / without my input, starting with the FDE unlock during bootup (defo not something that I intend to leave the system to solve by itself). It’s one of the reasons why I like hibernate (more than suspend, anyway).

tl;dr: my workflow is not good for “true” powerdowns because it draws none to negative benefit from “clean boot”

All that said, wakeup from hibernate is snaily slow if one does not do some prep before hibernate and I avoid such interruptions where possible, but it’s not bad to the point that clean shutdown → clean boot isn’t worse.

btw. by default windows doesn’t do a full shutdown, but a sneaky hibernate

Huh… I suspected as such, as some Linuxes do also offer the option, but didn’t expect that Windows would get hung up on the idea that someone else dared to take a look at the drive while Windows was not looking. Talk about yanderes. Thanks for the interesting info!

It seems to depend on the package. Don’t know enough of Flatpak to determine if there is some sort of system-wide setting to manage this.

• Luanti, Stellarium, Norka, PPSSPP: they seem to place an entry in export/share/applications within each flatpak application dir, plus a copy (not a link) in /usr/share/applications, all formatted with the package name (eg.: “org.gnome.gnucash” or something). The native menu entry is hidden by the flatpak one, despite the native still existing in /usr/share/applications, so eg.: listing the entries in the menu or searching by name always shows one entry, and it’s always the Flatpak one.
• Apostrophe, Nheko: They place their desktop entry in the flatpak exports dir, then they remove or overwrite the native desktop entry from /usr/share/applications. Reinstalling the native application makes the file reappear, but not the desktop entry (which I guess gets subsumed into the case above).
• Gnucash, Mousepad: they place their entry in the flatpak exports dir, and a copy (not a link) in /usr/share/applications. However, these entries seem to not conflict, as the menu always shows two entries when searching for the application.

Wow was that really it?

My understanding is he’s the Potterying of the Fediverse. Trying to enshittify things in advance and somesuch, presumably to launch some sort of IPO? Heard a lot of drama re stuff like quote posts, or the suppression of “toot”.

You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid? Please, get off your high horse. I never said that. I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem, being sold as such, when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from? And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India, so what is “scaling” is just oppressing more and more people to unworthy work conditions.

Oh well. You do you. Their goal is to get their victims to fight each other. I’m stopping here.

No one have the time to create subtitle, and engaging professional may be costly.

removed I lived through the anime fansub times of the early 00s. Sometimes the fans had the subs ready before the episode came out, and they were top notch quality, even with localization considerations. And they were doing it for free (if still for the cred). AI can only ever hope to have that sort of dedication.

Like, really, what kind of brainrot do you have? We’ve had internationalized captions and content decades before we had AI.

AI is quite unlike other “rapid technical advancements of the past” in that sense. It’s so damaging to people, society and environment that there is currently no possibility that any use you make of it, “well-intentioned” or not, can improve things. Any “we might as well use it” s little more than joining the oppression.

Why not start with autotagging image posts with no alt text with something like Mastodon’s #Alt4Me? It summons the human element to help submit the data, instead of depending on AIs that we all know the stupidity and evil they do.

refuse “image post” without alt text.

Mostly* works, but increases significantly the barrier of entry to engage in “conversational” / “collquial” fediversing, and subjects the largest groups of people to the limitations of their tooling.

when you upload picture, you must provide their alt text, if there is no alt text, the picture will be deleted.

I assume this is for when you attach a picture to an otherwise text / link post? In that case, I think this is a very good path, yes, since in this ase the user who is adding the picture is already engaging in the extra work of getting it.

hide user post based on alt text and remove post score if the alt text is bad.

No CCP style shit please, we already have enough of that with Piefed.

Adding posts with no alt text to a predefined category or tag (such as Mastodon’s #Alt4Me) sounds like a reasonable alternative.

I thought we were anti AI…?