Tech Broligarchy*

Thanks! That worked right away :) I have also entered the correct environment variable in Flatseal now, and it opens as expected now from the desktop shortcut.

Just to explain why they’re stored there: you’re trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in “~/.var/app/…” pertain to the app itself inside it’s sandbox.

Thanks for this explanation! I love Linux after having used it for two years now, but the sheer amount of things to know about is quite overwhelming when I don’t always have too much time to spend on learning. It doesn’t always feel like I’m getting any better (although I know that is not true), but comments such as yours is certainly helping people like me become better users :)

At least in the DMCA I believe

Cheers, it looks like I will have to open up this week end then and forget about these cleaning programs.

Time to print out your commit history and show Zuck how many lines of code you wrote last month!

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, and nothing happened. I think it might only work for the printers with an LCD-display? Mine does not have that (does yours?), and I remember reading somewhere that to do that hardcore cleaning (I can’t recall what they called it), I would need to run it using either Windows or macOS.

Thanks for that! I’m not quite sure what the dummy cartridge is, however, and how I would access it. Would you be able to elaborate on that?

Well, after having run the print cleaner, now the problem is worse, and it also won’t print yellow… wth?

Thanks, I’ll try that if I can’t get anywhere with this. After a long time, now it suddenly seems to detect it upon a random retry after dealing with some other stuff for several hours, although it reports some weird values (e.g. all tanks are empty, when they are about 3/4 full for black and 4/5 full for rest). I’ve managed to start the head cleaner now at least, so we’ll see where that leads.

That is configurable. Settings > Privacy > Query in the page’s title

It is fairly recent, as the solo dev of DivestOS and its applications (including Mull and Mulch) stopped development. I moved to Fennec for now.

The best and brightest in an area for the pay the companies are willing to pay is not the same as the best and brightest (you are adding a lot of constraints). A lot of times those people will be quite average (or mediocre). By definition, most people are average or close to it. If a company is not willing to pay to attract and retain the actual best and brightest (as many will not), they are left with mediocrity. The companies will often still be able to make a lot of money, because companies in general do not need the best and brightest just to avoid failure and bankruptcy.

Will once innovative companies become worse companies and provide worse services/products? Absolutely. Will they be left behind by better companies who do attract the best and brightest? Sometimes, depending on the industry and the depths of the moats they have built and the number of aligators guarding their monopolies (e.g. regulatory capture and other monopolistic behavior). Will they go bankrupt? Sometimes, but in general it takes more than to just settle into a mediocrity.

Stacked, no. But they have several people who are best and brightest.

Every company has this you think?

Do you think every company out there is stacked with the best and brightest? By definition, only a minority of employees can be considered that. Many companies run just fine on mediocrity, it all depends on how they intend to make money. Mediocrity can in many cases be an advantage for a company, if that allows one to set aside any shred of integrity at a shot of accomplishment and praise from executing on the many bullshit and unethical things many corproations bring in cash from.

It’s known as a beginner-friendly distro, exactly for the reasons you say. There is nothing wrong with using something like that as an intermediate or advanced user if that is what you prefer. You don’t have to go “Well, I have been using Linux for four years now, guess I am an intermediate user so now I have to switch to Arch”

So is my washing machine. All that seems to mean is that the programs are listed in a different order each time I use it.

I also have a Quest tucked away somewhere, given to me by someone who got a newer version. I was planning at some point to take it out and tinker, hoping there was a way to use it without a Facebook-account. But I was perhaps a bit naive to think that?

Isn’t Pico from the company behind TikTok?

I’m on CalyxOS with microG, and as far as I know, Android Auto does not work here. I understand this is a deal-breaker for a lot of people, but I have personally never seen Android Auto to be of particular interest, so I am completely fine with it.

Since deleting my Google account early this year (having used it as a primary account for e-mail for about 15 years), I have only stumbled upon two problems. The first one was that an old account I had with my current ISP had tied my phone number and my old e-mail account. This was solved with a call to customer service that severed that link and allowed me to make a new account with my phone number. The second was that I missed an invitation to an alumni party from a previous job… so yeah…

Note, I did spend a significant time overlapping my new primary mail account with the Gmail-account to ensure I had resolved as good as all of these issues. Since moving to Proton, I think I spent 2 years before actually deleting my Google account. That included a fairly thorough cleanup of old accounts that took quite some time and energy (boy, do some of these services give you a hard time deleting old accounts…)