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  • My point is that the "piss in the car" comment was mean, thoughtless, and added nothing. If grandpa is incontinent, then he'll wear diapers regardless of the car or the bus.

    Your comment was either a.) implying that messing themselves in public was better than in relative privacy, or b.) if you use a car, grandpa doesn't get to wear Depends.

    Take your pick.

    It might not be what you meant, but you were too busy being a jerk to notice that it's what you said.

  • They have played us for absolute fools
  • In the doctor scenario, we've had adult diapers for a long time. Your solution is you let them pee in your car?

    And your solution is they shit themselves on public transportation?

    I mean, I'm 100% for better public transportation and urban centers designed around walking, but let's compare apples to apples here.

    They didn't make a straw man argument, they had a point. It's a genuine issue and they deserve better than a flippant remark telling them to make grandpa wear diapers so he can piss himself on his walk from the bus stop.

  • Is anyone else having issues with Jeroba text entry
  • Actually, this problem is why I stopped using Jerboa. It's really weird. Of course, like an asshole, I never bothered to ask about it ornfile a bug report, because I'm a bad person.

    I use Eternity now, and I like it a lot.

  • Looking to dip my toes into Linux for the first time. I have a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with pretty solid specs collecting dust right now that I think I’m going to use. Research so far has indicated to
  • To be fair, Fedora has opt-in telemetry. It's 100% anonymized, though, and helps with development. I always say yes when I'm running a beta (like now).

    That having been said, you should always check the privacy policies of any given distro. They tend to all be pretty up front about it (kinda hard to lie about it when anyone can check your source code...).

    AFAIK, though, neither Mint nor Elementary collect telemetry by default, although they might have opt-in like Fedora. Both are based on Ubuntu LTS, but they also both scrape out so much stuff that they're devoid of most of the Canonical junk.

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • You know, I had a big long thing about my local grocery store obfuscating the peanut butter, but I deleted it. I think I'm just gonna let this one go.

    Look, dude, I think we probably caught each other at a bad time or something. I'm not generally this confrontational, and I kinda doubt you are either. I'm sorry I dragged it out so far, and I'm sorry I responded the way I did to your expression of frustration.

    I'll try to be better. Have a great day, yeah?

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • It's not obfuscated if it takes less than a minute to find the answer, dude.

    I liked it better the old way, but the feature isn't hidden.

    ETA: My point is you don't get to complain when people reflect back the energy you put out.

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • Yes. It is. And so was doing a big complainy rant without doing any research.

    Again: if you want polite discourse, you have to open with that, not rant and get mad about it later. You set the standard, I just went along with it.

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • TL;DR: Don't lay this one on me, buddy. You walked in here looking for a fight.


    I didn't much care for the direction you started in. If you wanted an actual discussion, then opening with hostility and claims that could be refuted if you'd bothered with less than a minute of research is the wrong way to go.

    If you want a civilized discussion, you have to start with a civilized post. My responses have been no more hostile than your opening salvo.

    As it happens, Google's influence over Mozilla is of massive concern to me. And I agree that the change was not needed. But it's not obscure, it's not hard to find out how to do what you wanted to do, and your hostility to responses suggesting DuckDuckGo only confirmed my suspicion that you didn't want an answer, you wanted a fight.

    So I gave you one.

    Here's the deal. If you walk into a place with guns blazing, you don't get to act all surprised and indignant when someone fires back.

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • Maybe. But even if that was the case, the way it is now isn't obfuscated. It's not difficult. It's not hard to find out how to do it. You made a big long post to complain about an "obfuscated" feature that I found in under a minute.

    Next time, either do a search or ask for help, instead of whinging like a n00b. Or worse, some kind of Google FUD-spreading parasite.

    FFS, Jesus Wept. I finally understand those blokes over at FreeBSD telling me to RTFM twenty years ago.

    Edit: Apparently, the synonym for complain I used before was offensive. It was not the "B" word, which I only use in reference to female dogs. Just wanted that to be clear.

  • Since when did Firefox make it so difficult to set custom search engine?
  • What are you talking about?

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-a-search-engine-from-the-address-bar

    That took me like two second to find. You can also use addons, like this one for Qwant:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qwantcom-for-firefox/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

    Which I like. But none of this is hard or "obfuscated", and it's literally identical to changing or adding a new search engine on Waterfox.

    I have a lot of issues with Mozilla, not least of which is their reliance on Google for income. It's like hiring a dingo as a babysitter. But c'mon, man.

  • How do you pick your games?
  • The first thing I check for is if a game is Terraria. If it isn't, I play Terraria instead.

    All kidding aside, I tend to enjoy games that involve exploration, character development, and pleasent visuals. Good sound design is also a must, and I prefer games to be at least somewhat action oriented.

    None of these things are hard and fast rules for me, of course. I like a lot of different games.

  • Issue with Dark Style on 39 (Workstation Prerelease, Gnome 45.rc)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4972845

    > Hey, everyone! I'm what you might call an "intermediate user" I guess, and I usually manage to track down problem on my own, but here goes... > > I'm using the Fedora Workstation 39 Beta 1.1, Just installed it and am up and running, Everything is working well, but I have a weird issue in that most (but not all) GTK4 apps are ignoring my Dark Style settings. Nautilus is light, for instance, but Console is not. The Wallpaper follows the light/dark setting, and once I tweaked it, so do the GTK3 apps. > > I'm not sure how to provide more info. I have tried gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1 in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini which seems to do nothing, I can't find a dbus entry, and I haven't really installed much, other than the adw-gtk3 theme, Gnome Console, and some flatpaks. > > Any ideas?

    EDIT: Turns out this may be a known error: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dark-mode-broke-after-last-update-on-fedora-39/89965

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    Issue with Dark Style on 39 (Workstation Prerelease, Gnome 45.rc)

    Hey, everyone! I'm what you might call an "intermediate user" I guess, and I usually manage to track down problem on my own, but here goes...

    I'm using the Fedora Workstation 39 Beta 1.1, Just installed it and am up and running, Everything is working well, but I have a weird issue in that most (but not all) GTK4 apps are ignoring my Dark Style settings. Nautilus is light, for instance, but Console is not. The Wallpaper follows the light/dark setting, and once I tweaked it, so do the GTK3 apps.

    I'm not sure how to provide more info. I have tried gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1 in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini which seems to do nothing, I can't find a dbus entry, and I haven't really installed much, other than the adw-gtk3 theme, Gnome Console, and some flatpaks.

    Any ideas?

    ETA: TUrns out I'm not the only one; it may be a problem with the update: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dark-mode-broke-after-last-update-on-fedora-39/89965

    Part of the problem with playing with a beta, I guess...

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