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Finally solved the battery drain issue in Firefox Android!!
  • I've been using Mull for a long time and had no issues. Recently installed Iceraven, phone got quite hot already after minutes of using it, battery drained fast. Not sure that is this but it sounds like.

  • *among us theme plays sussily*
  • ...there probably was none.

  • That's just what happens. It's life.
  • There's like 20 years between those pictures.

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  • Yes, absolutely agree on the Cortosis thing. I did not know about that and kept thinking were lightsabers really that unreliable in history? It was just heavily overused for something that had no introduction at all.

  • Japanese man grows extra-lucky 63-leaf clover
  • But by 7. Extra lucky.

  • Any operating system, you said?
  • laughs in BeOS

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  • Episode 5

    Calling it, Sol is a Sith. He was Qimirs master, then Qimir somehow left (yes: somehow, Qimir left!) and Sol has been trying to convert another Padawan to his cause ever since. Osha didn't work out, so now its Jecki. Well, it was.

    That's why Sol is familiar with Qimirs presence. It's also why he asks Qimir "why risk discovery" because he is a Sith in hiding. It is also why he tried to attack Qimir when he had his back turned on him.

    It is the secret he wanted to talk to Osha about.

    I know, bit farfetched. But something's fishy with Master Sol.

  • Time to move
  • The hilarious thing is, in the movie that very same guy got run over and then he sued for a ton of money which allowed him to retire. The American dream!

  • Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K
  • Yeah, that one is definitely a sight to see, if you can stand looking at dead people's bones.

  • Those with a side/second job in this economy, what is it that you do and how did you get into it?
  • You are blaming the customers for "thinking you deserve less pay" when the actual person not paying you enough is the bar owner. Sorry for kicking up yet another fruitless discussion about tipping in the US, but these kind of mental gymnastics just trigger me.

  • Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded
  • I don't know if it is worth the effort to brick 3 devices out in the wild.

  • Two different lives in Russia
  • You're probably joking but since my internet sarcasm detector blew up I still feel obliged to tell you, its probably rather about the foreground versus background.

  • Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean
  • Oh, completely missed that, thanks!

  • Parent/Child Height Relationships - Regression toward the Mean
  • I might miss the point, but the height is dependent on both parents genetically, so just comparing mothers with daughters is a bit like the usual "correlation does not equal causation" thingie, or not?

  • Money, please!
  • The problem is they base that number on the already massively inflated profits they made before going open access. The only reason they have to go open access is if they are not making a deficit in profit.

    Funny enough, they are still double dipping in most cases because you still have to pay the subscription to access all the non-open access papers.

  • From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center
  • After all the Windows 11 crap I would not trust their hardware any more than their software. Don't care it is easy to repair, not going to buy anything Microsoft unless there is no feasible alternative.

  • Perfection
  • makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like a boss

  • Worst...name...ever...
  • Yes u

  • Sorry I can't do it.
  • I also heard good things about Nobara in terms of gaming. Haven't tried it myself though.

  • Alternative to RaspiCheck

    I have a small self hosted setup at home with a RaspberryPi and an external HDD, just enough for what I need.

    Some time ago I found a pretty sweet app which from the name implies its mostly working when you use a RPI OS, to monitor the RPI from your android phone: https://github.com/eidottermihi/rpicheck

    Its called RaspiCheck (picture in the post is the one from github), and unfortunately it is seriously outdated and development ceased. It is still working on my current phone but I am well aware that's not going to last.

    So I am wondering what else is out there that could fill the gap it would leave.

    I am using it for 2 things mostly:

    1. monitor system stats, like simply seeing the system is running (I know, like ping), but at the same time also showing memory, average load, temperature and so on.
    2. sending SSH commands, and this is where the app really shines. Using a terminal on the phone is not impossible, but boy is it annoying. In RaspiCheck you can define commands, with placeholders, which allows you to send those to the RPI just by tapping them. So for example I got my backup set up that I can mount the backup drive with one tap, a second tap runs the right backup script (I have several I can choose from by filling the placeholder I leave in that command) and then unmount with a third tap.

    I got other commands I like to reuse a lot set up in it and its really useful to me, let's me manage the RPI from my phone in an easy way.

    So back to the question at hand, is there anything else like this out there for Android? If possible one app, FOSS preferred. I am pretty sure there are browser-based solutions, if there is no dedicated app other than this, then I guess that's the next best thing. What are you using in your setup that you can recommend?

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    Dual boot Fedora Kinoite and Windows 10

    I have been planning to install Kinoite on my laptop, dual booting with Windows.

    However depending on what I read online, it is either not possible, not recommended, tricky to setup or it is just a matter of setting partitions up before installing Kinoite. Broad range of opinions and no good "tutorial" how to do it.

    Anyone having direct experience with that?

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    Amazing attitude

    Let's work from home when the kids are sick, thank you great company that I am allowed to slave away for you while taking care of my sick kid! It isn't even a US company it seems.

    Edit: guess I should have posted to unpopularopinions instead!

    I just wanted to add I cut off the photo of the person on purpose. She is posting that with her sick child in her lap and that photo has been taken by some other person, not a selfie. If you are not feeling that the content of the post is bad, you hopefully still agree that presenting your sick child in an almost professionally looking photo to the world for LinkedIn clout is not great.

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    OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76
    www.theguardian.com OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76

    Former American football player who was acquitted of murder in 1995 died of cancer, according to a statement by his family

    OJ Simpson, ex-NFL star who was acquitted of murder, dies aged 76
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    What do people here think about the movie web app extension?

    I guess most people know about the movie web app site, which pulls videos from various sources.

    Recently they added a request to download an extension to your browser, for optimal perfomance and better quality.

    It is featured on the firefox android extensions site from Mozilla, it has a github page. What I read online is that it seems the extension wants access to everything you do in your browser, which seems kind of sketchy.

    What do people here think about it? Anyone installed it and can say more?

    Edit: thanks for all the comments, looks like less people knew about this than I thought.

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    Researchgate cut a deal with MDPI for "enhanced brand visibility"
    cen.acs.org Is the academic social networking site ResearchGate still relevant?

    A recent deal with the publisher MDPI is leading some users to delete their accounts

    Is the academic social networking site ResearchGate still relevant?

    Not sure this fits in the community but I felt it is an important topic that needs visibility. Researchgate made a deal with MDPI to prefer some of their journals on the site over other publications or journals. It will likely be impossible to know if suggestions you see in the future are genuine or paid for by this deal.

    MDPI made a post on their site about this https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/7051

    I could not find an announcement on the Researchgate site so far. Possible enshittification of Researchgate up ahead?

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    Unpopular opinion: I was more excited to find crystal keys when they only opened crystal chests

    Just something to rant about, obviously ShatteredPD is great and I still enjoy playing it after so many years...

    ...however! The one addition I don't like is to use the crystal keys for so many more goodies than just the two chests rooms.

    It used to be when you found a crystal key, you would immediately know there are two chests waiting for you, maybe even the crystal chest mimic. I was always excited to find those keys because it meant I would get a new hopefully useful item.

    These days however, its just one of many possibilities and once you find that second or third key, you know its not the chest. I don't dislike adding all these other options, but I like them all less than the original chests. Could there not be another key type to use for those? Like the golden ones, if it has to be an existing type. Or make the original crystal keys into something else, skull key or dragon keys or whatever. Rat king keys maybe. Please?

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    FOSS app to record GPS location, saving it locally?

    Is there any good FOSS app that could record the phone GPS location, but keep the data locally on the same phone, no dialing out?

    Like the Google Maps location history, just not sharing it with Google services.

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    Rpi 4 - lightweight image backup and gallery recommendations

    I need some help with some new suggestions for what I want from my tiny homeserver, made up by a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (passive cooling case) and an external hard drive. That server will not be reachable from outside my home network, if that makes a difference for suggestions.

    I am looking for an easy solution that works well on the limited resources of the Rpi. What I mostly need is an app I can self-host that has a nice and well performing gallery function, I got tons of old photos from when I still used digital cameras a lot. Those are already sorted in folders, and I want that app to not mess with that at all, just read them basically.

    What I also need is for that app to be able to auto-upload new photos from my phone regularly, so I can include them more easily in backups of my server. I also do not want them to be weirdly hidden in some strange folder structures, so that they remain accessible if I want to change apps again down the road.

    Here is what I tried already: Photoprism - loved it in general, but all the indexing was super slow on the Rpi of course. I didn't really need the AI features of it either. It also made quite big thumbnails for the image analysis so it would really add a huge requirement of a ton more storage space just for features I did not want to use, I understand those could be downscaled but the process seemed tedious and resource-intensive. Overall wasn't practical for the Rpi, if I had a stronger server I'd try again.

    Nextcloud - thats the current solution I am looking at, since it got all I want. Auto-upload, easy access, no resource-heavy features I don't need. But overall, it is pretty slow on the Rpi for scrolling through photo libraries. I found today the NC Photos app on Google Play Store, which seems to work better than the Nextcloud App to look at galleries, but still seems slow.

    Aside from that I found out about Immich, but cannot test it right now since my Rpi runs on 32bit. But it sounded to me like a lighter type of Photoprism app, maybe not fair to say, I know its supposed to be like Google Photos. But the stuff it does for face recognition and what else makes it sound again like a choice I won't enjoy using on the Rpi. Maybe that is an unfair view? I see recently the feature that allows external libraries in it, was added, so that fits my needs.

    Anyway, thanks for reading all this, I will end with the question, are there any other solutions that I haven't considered so far?

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    Best way to migrate user accounts plus user data to new installation?

    I am going to soon start over with my homeserver that has jellyfin running on it and I'd like to take over all user accounts on there plus their collected data, like watched episodes, into the new installation. Its a linux system, no docker, next system is going to be the same basically.

    Via searches I found a few solutions online, some on reddit, some other places so it seems possible. Just asking here as well since no one has asked before, seeing this is a quite new channel, but also because all solutions I found go back a few years and I wondered if there is anything more recent I may have missed in my search.

    Some solutions were heavily hands on looking up data in sql tables, if there is anything more user friendly it would be great.

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    [Bug] Tapping on own comments in profile or responses in inbox shows emtpy page

    I have had this issue for a while now that I cannot go to my previous comments or replies to my comments in my inbox, meaning I cannot tap on them to get to the post they are in.

    Instead it briefly shows the post, then all content is gone and its a completely empty page. Just see the top and bottom bar essentially.

    How to reproduce, just go to your profile, go to comments or posts you made, tap on one. Same for replies in my inbox.

    10
    App does not keep my new subscription to a community

    I am having issues subscribing to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but I do think it also happens with other communities on different instances.

    I subscribe via the main button or via the plus in the search function. The community may appear in the sidebar, sometimes it does not at all, but whenever I restart the app the subscription is fully gone.

    Weird thing is, on another app for lemmy I can still see I am subscribed, so I am not sure what is going on.

    2
    Theme: Kiki's Delivery Service

    After making the theme Ponyo for Eternity based on color palettes extracted from Ghibli movies I chose now the color palette of Kiki's Delivery Service to make a new theme: Kiki

    Hope you like it, I will post the theme in the comments. I took the screenshot from this community feed since the theme preview did not show the color of the notification bar correctly.

    3
    SSH capable file manager with batch rename?

    I want to connect to my server via ssh on my phone, then rename a bunch of files with a batch rename function. Are there any open source file managers that do that?

    I checked Ghost Commander but didn't look like there is a batch rename function, neither for Material Files. Unless I miss something.

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    "Save artwork into media folders" not working

    I set all my libraries to save artwork into media folders, but somehow it does not work. Its a linux installation, no docker, media is on an external harddrive.

    File permissions are set to 775, I haven't tried giving full permissions yet though, I just realise. Then again, does Jellyfin count as other for permissions?

    Anytime I add something new, I do not see any files showing up in the media folders. It did work some time ago but I have no idea when and what happened in the meantime.

    Found a github issue but there is no follow up https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/8026

    Any idea what to check? The logs don't seem to show that metadata/artwork is saved?

    Second question, once I got it working, is there any way to move all existing artworks into the media folders too?

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    Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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