I think you might be looking for something like OpenSnitch.
everett
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Found the Golgafrincham.
Can we stop picking on this startup? They're just hardware hobbyists, give them a break.
KDE would liKe to Know your loKation.
Create a folder with intriguing name on desktop, take screenshot, set screenshot as wallpaper, delete folder. (Didn't everyone?)
Imagine not learning your lesson about going for the hook.
The vast majority of people have no idea who he is. That doesn't make them stupid.
Remarkable eink tablets. Buried deep in the settings they actually give you the root password so you can SSH in. Also, it comes with an epic .vimrc file.
Elementary OS. People who have apparently only seen MacOS in screenshots went to a lot of trouble to copy it poorly.
edit: I was expecting to get more than a couple of downvotes, or maybe at least one person asking me what I don't like about Elementary OS. So I preemptively downloaded the latest stable version, installed it in a VM and used it for 30 minutes or so before posting this comment. It had been a few years since I looked at it, and continues to be exactly what I have come to expect.
::: spoiler So I didn't suffer for nothing, a few observations:
- The big "e" logo on the boot screen of this very-polished OS overlaps the throbber animation. We're off to a good start.
- The keyboard shortcut list quotes shortcuts with
⌘. I'm not even running this on a Mac. - There was something I genuinely couldn't figure out, I think maybe in the file manager? So I ended up pressing F1 and also trying that in a few of the preinstalled applications (I don't remember which was which) to see if there was some help available. One application actually popped up a traditional help file. I was impressed! In another application F1 did nothing. In a third application it opened the web browser and started loading a StackOverflow page (lol). I mean, if minimalism is your software ideology, how hard is it to document all four of the features?
- I had a few applications open on the main workspace and another one open on a second workspace. On that second workspace I tried launching a settings panel, idk, maybe Keyboard or something. Nothing happens. I try it again and still nothing happens. It turns out that because I had left the settings window open on the other workspace, trying to launch another settings thingy just appears to silently fail. How would I have even known the search result was part of the application I had open? (Not that that makes it user-error.)
- I was curious to see if there was a task (process) manager and how they would implement a very basic one. I also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't include one. But Elementary OS was like, "Cool, here's
htop." Oh boy. I mean, it's not exactly noob-friendly, but it's something. I try launching it and... nothing happens. Maybe don't suggest CLI apps in the launcher if they're impossible to launch? - The functionality of the music playing application is inscrutable. There's no way to add a folder to "watch" as your library. Okay, so maybe it's not library-based (though the included photos application is). Dragging mp3 files into the window looks like it's going to work (I think a "+" badge appears over the icon?) but dropping it in results in a generic error. ("File can't be read" or something.) But double-clicking the same file in the file manager enqueues it and it can actually be played, so...
- The included text editor is called "code editor" or something. It has a few extra IDE-like features, nice. One of the features is: you can type a number in a box and quickly skip to that line number. Except that always results in ending up on the wrong line. Like, enter "3" and the box changes to display "3-decimalpoint-randomdigits" but you end up on... line 2. Enter 6 and you end up on line 5 with 6.something showing in the box. What?
- In the file manager, with a file selected, beginning to type doesn't select a file in your current folder, doesn't start a recursive search beginning at your current folder, but starts a recursive search of your entire system. With a completely fresh system, no extra files or applications, I had to wait like 15 seconds to find out what was going on, and the top search result was something other than the matching file that was right there in the current directory. :::
This represents maybe half of the issues I came across doing really basic stuff for 30 minutes.
When people complain about duplication of effort within the free software world, I usually don't agree. I think it's usually fine if people want to spend their time writing a whole new thing for a specific or niche use-case! But if this is where things are after (checks Wikipedia) 12 years...
I also recommend everyone a book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century"
In case it makes a difference to someone, it's a pretty short book.
830 partners! Try not to sell any data on your way to the parking lot!
Yes, because I like reading.
But seriously, ebooks... maybe 8.5 times out of 10. E-ink screens are amazing and just as good as paper, but having your books also available on your phone, and thus always in your pocket, is transformative. So, digital on a platform that syncs between devices. (Bonus points for accomplishing this with an open-source app.)
When I first saw sudo I assumed it was pronounced "pseudo" because it lets you fake like you're doing stuff as another user. So that has stuck for me. (And despite all evidence, I still low-key believe it's a clever pun encompassing both that and the official "superuser do.")
Username does not check out.
Yep.
Chumbawamba! (Am I doing this right?)
Whose entire life was in a... what?
The shape and tabs suggest it's a rare, reversible microUSB plug.
(And not a joke about conflicting USB-C standards, as I originally thought.)
Thunder wonders: is that all you've got?
That's great, but what's the update? The Lemmy cross-posts from two years ago have the same title.
update: I read the post and the last paragraph talks about the full blocking of third-party cookies as a thing that's "starting in 2024" (future tense). So my best guess is it's that, but whatever the August 28th update was could have cleared all this up.
This is the way.
The librarian ghost in Ghostbusters is still pretty creepy, you guys.
It's understandable they'd want to see your technique.
Skateboard from IKEA. It looks cool, but I still don't skate.
A few years back they sold me a box of onions covered in everything bagel seasoning. I'm doing my part!
I actually don't try very hard, probably coasting on your efforts. So thanks for that!
The official site says the DRM-free download includes both Windows and Linux (and Mac), just like the original game did.
at least why are people not backing up locally then wiping in advance of any servicing?
Have you met people?
Unfortunately, Apple's worst habits trickle down to other manufacturers who see what they manage to get away with and start taking notes.
Even literal poo disapproves.
And yet, Reddit trademarked the term.
A great example of why I'd just about always prefer to get software packaged by my distro (Debian) over "straight from the developer" methods (including pip, npm, flatpak, etc.). I remember hearing about this and being like "Oh, that's bad, but it's not going to affect me."
This unlocked a memory for me. In college my roommate and I took a late-night walk to a nearby diner, only a five minute walk from our dorm if jaywalking across one of the main streets in this town. Walking to the nearest crosswalk would more than double the trip, so patiently waiting for a break in traffic to safely cross was the norm.
On one weekend in particular, one of the other big colleges was having an event of some kind (homecoming or parents weekend, or some crap like that) that packed this town to the gills and turned the main street into a sea of cars as far as the eye could see in both directions. But don't picture everything at a stand-still... the nearby traffic light must have been shut off (or turned to a blinking yellow) because the sea of cars was moving at a slow but steady pace with no break whatsoever.
Walking the extra few minutes west to the crosswalk, and then a few more back east to the restaurant, would have been the best bet, but our experience told us it would be wasteful because there must be a break in the traffic coming soon. There just had to be. As the minutes rolled by more we were joined by more dorm neighbors and other hopeful crossers, and we all stood there incredulous at just how perfectly bad this situation was.
Just estimating here... we absolutely waited more than 20 minutes, possibly 30. And it's been so long I can't remember the circumstances that finally let us cross. Also, yeah, this is a great example of the sunk-cost fallacy.
You're going to have a web browser installed, right? .epub files are just zips with HTML/images/CSS inside. Just find the HTML file with named "toc" and go from there.
No one ever had doubts how type B or mini B or micro B go in.
How lucky you were to never have a device that had one of these upside-down.
Found the Golgafrincham.