I did consider posting a screenshot of just all the applications on my PC… 🙃

But yeah, not much OP can do with hundreds of recommendations that don’t work on their OS.

Reminds me of how frequently folks get color blending wrong (using linear blending results in darker colors). Or also volume sliders (using a linear scale results in much stronger volume changes near supposedly-silent volumes).

It just looks/sounds vaguely right and then no one ever questions it…

Oh wow, did they maybe search for someone with skills of a “server” and the Indeed algorithm soup got that mixed together with skills in server technologies…?

I mean, folks here might not know that. I didn’t realize that’s what was meant. Of course, someone selling ham should probably be aware of this being one possible meaning…

What makes sense to me, is that unlike capitalism, communism requires a government to function. Well, and how do governments fail? By turning into a dictatorship.

I know that QMMP has a built-in visualizer, and the webpage says that the visualizer is call projectM, which you can apparently also run standalone: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Reorganizing the menu takes maybe two collective working days until all discussions have been had. Impacts all users.

OLED black theme, probably takes about as long, with accessibility testing, and getting the settings entry translated into all the languages. Impacts the 1% of users, who bother looking through the settings and use a dark theme on an OLED screen.

Integration of theming add-ons takes more than a month, quite possibly more than two. And this is taking into account that they do already have a rough theming extension API (for desktop) in place. This is also a task that you can’t give to the people who reorganize menus. Again, impacts maybe 1% of users.

I get that you don’t feel like reorganizing the menu was necessary, but it’s really not like you’d save the world in that same time…

Today, a colleague couldn’t do docker login for an internal registry. Constantly got an error which just said “unauthorized”.
The password couldn’t be the problem, because you actually generate a token on the registry webpage, so we tried all the different ways to spell his username (uppercase, lowercase, e-mail address) and tried different URLs for specifying the registry, tried toggling the VPN, a reboot etc., even though we knew what should work, because the login worked for me.

Eventually, we gave up and figured there must be some permission problem in the registry. Ten minutes later, he tells me that it works, without doing anything different. Now I’m wondering, if the IT saw our desperate login attempts and quickly fixed the problem. 🫠

There’s no real mobile app for it, is kind of my personal main reason why I didn’t pick it up…

I would be surprised, if you couldn’t also sell an account with a bunch of stars on the black market to bot farm operators…

Damn, I wonder what was going on in his head. Was he trying to get to Saltlake City? Or did he just go for a walk and got lost, then tried to hitchhike back home in the wrong direction?

It won’t rise much beyond that, since you only get one update per package. Whether it’s upgrading Firefox from version 120 to 121 or to version 130, it doesn’t change much in terms of download size, nor the number of updates.

At least, I assume, Arch doesn’t do differential updates. On some of the slower-moving distributions, they only make you download the actual changes to the files within the packages. In that case, jumping to 121 vs. 130 would make more of a difference.

If you do want lots of package updates, you need lots of packages. The texlive-full package is always a fun one in that regard…

Do make sure, you’re on the latest version of Android Firefox. The translation feature was added quite recently.

Thanks. 🙂

Normally, I would respond that I don’t do that, because I keep forgetting about those bookmarks, but now you’ve reminded me that I did pin something there last week …and then promptly forgot about it. 🙃

There is already one minor breakage that I’m aware of. Tabs can display additional text, for example when a tab is playing audio, it shows “PLAYING” underneath the tab title. This requires tabs to be two lines of text tall, so it’s just not displayed in Compact density…

I would recommend just downloading the fonts and putting them onto your web server as static files. It used to be common advice to use a CDN for fonts, with the idea that if multiple webpages would include the same version of a font from the same CDN, then your browser wouldn’t have to re-download it for your webpage.

But improved sandboxing in modern browsers has nixed that advantage. And with everything sitting behind HTTPS and potentially HTTP/2, it’s now generally more efficient to pull stuff over the same connection as the webpage.

Well, unless your goal is to reduce the amount of traffic that reaches your web server. Then a CDN would still be useful.

https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

Interesting, I always assumed they would be using a pretty optimal algorithm with their .tar.bz2 format, because they obviously benefit quite a bit from smaller downloads. Good to know that .tar.xz is actually better.

Yeah, particularly for downloading Firefox Nightly, these self-contained archives are extremely helpful.

I think, you’ve answered your own question? There’s a lot of different formats for Linux. Getting them all correct and working on the different distributions is significantly trickier than just bundling a self-contained archive.

Having said that, they do actually provide a DEB repo since a few months ago: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended