davet91's comments

On: Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit

[davet91]

You don't have to run the web interface on the server.

You can use Cockpit Client (from flathub) to connect with SSH.

On: The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

[davet91]

Dolphin has "selection mode" for a while now. I like that in combination with single click open.

https://pointieststick.com/2022/08/19/this-week-in-kde-dolph...

On: Fedora 39 Released

[davet91]

Steam fractional scaling should work since their big UI update a few months ago. Try launching Steam with this environment variable: STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5

[tapoxi → davet91]

Awesome this fixes it!

For those using the Flatpak: sudo flatpak override com.valvesoftware.Steam --env=STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5

On: YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

[davet91]

It's the same. They dropped the "Next" some time ago.

On: Platform that enables Windows driver development i...

[davet91]

Which compositor are you using?

If it's Gnome, the very recent release 45 has improvements running the cursor in a separate thread.

I personally run KDE and agree that you can feel a difference between the X11 and Wayland session but it's not terrible.

On: Spotifyd

[davet91]

For Spotify Connect on a headless Pi I can recommend Raspotify:

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

On: GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view afte...

[davet91]

With GTK you can at least drag the window by grabbing controls in the titlebar.

On: Linux boot partitions and how to set them up

[davet91]

I set a 10 second timeout for systemd-boot so I don't need to button mash to hit the narrow window of the UEFI bootloader.

Another useful feature would be editing kernel parameters for troubleshooting. Not sure if systemd-boot can do that but GRUB can.

[chronogram → davet91]

The keyboard shortcuts are here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/systemd-bo...

On: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

[davet91]

> Do they still restrict nonfree audio/video codecs?

Yes they do. If you don't like to use RPMfusion you could use something like the mpv flatpak from flathub that has all codecs bundled.

On: Instagram can track anything you do on any website...

[davet91]

The in-app browsers could use a domain whitelist if parental controls are turned on.

[yowzadave → davet91]

Shouldn't an in-app browser whose sole purpose is to read an app EULA/TOC/etc. always employ a domain whitelist, regardless of parental controls?

[adaktix → davet91]

It shouldn't be a parental controls thing for IG, it just needs to be made so when you're using an in-app browser, you're using it for one reason, whatever site you clicked on. Leaving the domain ends the process or opens in another browser.

[graham1776 → davet91]

That could be an "easy" fix where you could disable use of in-app browsers through Screen Time options.

[gowld → davet91]

The OS should apply a domain whitelist to apps, in coordination with the app developer and the device "owner". (Like uBlock Matrix)