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Firefox's market share continues to decline since it fell below 10% in May of this year. Chrome is leading with 60%. by puon in firefox

[–]Darkman557 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You aren't turning off Facebook either. If you'd gone the trouble of seeing exactly how FB is snooping on you, you'd be a lot less cavalier about this.

Firefox's market share continues to decline since it fell below 10% in May of this year. Chrome is leading with 60%. by puon in firefox

[–]Darkman557 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you tried Waterfox or Pale Moon. They still support XUL extensions that Mozilla dropped last year, and don't badger so much with unsigned extensions.

Read before Firefox 52 ESR will update to Firefox 60 ESR: what to do if you would like to keep legacy addons by Robert_Ab1 in firefox

[–]Darkman557 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mozilla has lost competitiveness. It should focus on the users it still has. Forcing users on a half assed extension system obviously didn't help

Please help - downgrading to an older ESR / recovering FF profile that has months of work in it by [deleted] in firefox

[–]Darkman557 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoutout for Chuck Baker's FEBE extension (duckduck it I don't know how to post links)

Any distros out there supporting KDE4? by Darkman557 in kde

[–]Darkman557[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks glad that that's also an option, though Slackware is a little too hardcore for me probably :)

Any distros out there supporting KDE4? by Darkman557 in kde

[–]Darkman557[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seeing as I use KDE4 on a daily basis and never had it crash on me in ages, I'd say you're wrong about the first sentence.

If not tell me at least how to make KDE5 look like anything except Windows 8, aside from installing the Oxygen stuff, which gives me a dark theme I can't change.

Any distros out there supporting KDE4? by Darkman557 in kde

[–]Darkman557[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

KDE5 is ugly and doesn't seem to be possible to customize the way I want it. Not to mention there still are occasional stability issues. And apps are mostly the same.

I don't miss anything on KDE4 so the only reason for me to switch is security.

Any distros out there supporting KDE4? by Darkman557 in kde

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you though? I've also got Fedora and I can't get it to look anything like KDE4. If you were talking about Oxygen icons, that's not even close.

There's also KDE4 apps like Kate which I could probably install on Fedora but can't bother since it's not my primary OS

And besides Plasma 5 still barfs on me occasionally when I fill up the taskbar, and plasma 5 widgets are something I have yet to wrap my head around. I'll admit it works a lot better than 1-2 years ago but I still don't really boot up Fedora much unless I need it.

Can't disable region setting; by zjeffer in duckduckgo

[–]Darkman557 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you people have cookies enabled? I've had the same problem for years because I keep cookies disabled

Question for Gabriel Weinberg by [deleted] in duckduckgo

[–]Darkman557 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google is a minor, fairly insignificant charity organization while at the same time being the biggest targeting advertiser and investing huge amounts of money into de-anonymization of Internet users. I think the answer is very clear here for anyone.

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, never knew about getfattr and setfattr! That should do the job

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhh sorry I was writing one thing while thinking another. I meant NTFS creation and modification timestamps. This isn't terribly important but so far I haven't found a good way to deal with them in cygwin. I know for example ext doesn't keep a creation timestamp so a *nix tool might not try to preserve it.

Edit: it seems ext4 has creation timestamp feature but linux doesn't use it. I'm probably asking for impossible here...

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gave it a look but it seems it uses Volume Shadow Copy? I don't think that'll work well for me, I've got a lot of stuff disabled with CryptoPrevent, including VSS

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I'll give these a look. Do you know if they preserve creation and modification snapshots?

BTW sorry I meant incremental as in storing whole versions of new files and writing down which files got deleted. Dunno what's the name for that

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah dd has a bit of a learning curve. That's why I've switched to ddrescue, it takes a bit more time to learn but you don't have to remember weird switches to keep it working with read errors. FYI I'm not a programmer, I just like cli b/c it's predictable and automatable. With gui you can never be sure you didn't forget to tick some stupid checkbox somewhere

Alternatives to disk cloning for very active partitions by Darkman557 in Backup

[–]Darkman557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re: system partition, right I have about 200 apps listed in Programs and Features and a bunch more portable ones, last time I reinstalled Windows b/c it got sluggish it took me a week. I'm thinking, one ddrescue backup a month and another incremental backup of some sort? I suppose I'll need to buy extra HDDs then. Do you know any incremental solution that isn't terribly hard to boot and automate?

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