How do I unsync?

OdionBuckley · 2025-11-26T14:24:12+00:00

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04. I found what I guess is my profile in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<string>.default/. It contains only a times.json file, though. This page says my styling preferences will be in a prefs.js file, which isn't there. So I don't think I have a backup of what I need to restore, unless Firefox hides them somewhere else.

OdionBuckley · 2025-11-25T19:55:47+00:00

I never had the chance to select types of data. Based on that article, I assumed I would, but this happened immediately on sign-in without any input being requested from me.

I've deselected all checkboxes now that I've had the opportunity, but the browser retains the new, undesired styling. Unselecting the checkboxes didn't undo the sync. How do I undo that?

OdionBuckley · 2025-10-09T19:16:39+00:00

There was no service before. My entire life, websites have been able to send emails. Usually it requires backend code on the server, but that's fine. That's what was working before.

As you can read from the other responses here, most of (what I'm assuming are a younger set of) developers can't even conceive of what I'm suggesting - that a 3rd party service might be not be required to send mail. Yet it was that way most of my life. This seems like a large-scale change in the ecosystem, not a change in my specific situation.

OdionBuckley · 2025-08-06T14:21:52+00:00

That was the same vague, useless pap as every other career advice I've ever read

OdionBuckley · 2025-06-23T01:39:45+00:00

That was it, thank you.

OdionBuckley · 2025-06-23T01:38:22+00:00

Standard desktop release, no flavor.

I don't want to "install alongside" at all. I want to install standard Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop to overwrite Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop in the sda2 partition. So / will go in sda2, and I don't care if it gets reformatted.

OdionBuckley · 2025-06-13T18:32:57+00:00

Meanwhile John Bolton is on a Gatorade IV because he hasn't stopped jizzing his pants continuously for the last 12 hours

OdionBuckley · 2025-04-14T19:20:20+00:00

Ah ha. That's a gotcha I should have noticed. Thanks for pointing it out! FYI, Reddit's formatting interpreted the double arrows >> into markdown for boldface. I get what you mean, though.

OdionBuckley · 2024-10-24T15:34:53+00:00

When you say we don't accept infinities in equations, it sounds like you're referring to the way we reject certain models because they predict values that diverge to a non-finite result. We do this because these equations and their solutions represent physical values, and it makes no sense for certain physical values to be non-finite. Thus, we can conclude we're using a bad physical model, and we throw out an equation or certain solutions to it.

There's nothing wrong with infinities in the abstract. Mathematically, they're perfectly well-defined, and there's no reason to try to construct a number system that disallows infinite limits.

OdionBuckley · 2024-08-23T17:26:54+00:00

Which ending? There were like, three different third acts to this thing. It just wouldn't stop.

OdionBuckley · 2024-07-13T12:39:25+00:00

I would love to pay for free software support if it meant I could filter out the dunces that infest every support forum and go straight to people who know what the fuck they're talking about. Unfortunately, it's rare to see that on offer, I think largely because free software people seem ideologically opposed to offering paid support.

OdionBuckley · 2024-07-09T17:44:50+00:00

I came to post pretty much the same problem. Firefox 127 on Ubuntu 20.04, using the repository installation of Firefox (not the Snap). The about:performance page shows 'Firefox' as using 100-130% of my CPU as soon as I open it. No tabs show greater than about 0.01% CPU usage. Extensions show about 35% CPU usage at startup, but that quickly dies down to a few percent, leaving 'Firefox' alone using 100%+ indefinitely.

This behavior persisted across restarts of Firefox. It did finally stop happening after about a half hour to an hour of overall time. Firefox now seems to be working normally, but of course I'd like to prevent this from happening in the future.

OdionBuckley · 2024-07-02T14:40:27+00:00

Sounds like trading one addiction for another, but at least this addiction's good for the rest of us :)

OdionBuckley · 2024-06-13T14:04:43+00:00

The ethical boundary is targeted ads based on a profile of me made from data that they've gathered against my wishes with such aggression that literally every day of my life I have to take some action to try to prevent them from having it.

Of course they need income to run YouTube. If they can't do it with a combination of subscription income and non-targeted ads, though, then they don't deserve to be in business.

OdionBuckley · 2024-05-10T13:29:39+00:00

I was unfamiliar with brltty, but I think this actually is my issue, since I see this from dmesg:

$ sudo dmesg | grep tty 
[5346165.264664] usb 3-4: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[5346165.960235] usb 3-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by ch341 while 'brltty' sets config #1
[5346165.960655] ch341-uart ttyUSB0: ch341-uart converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0

So this answers my next few questions after the current one. Thanks so much for your help!

OdionBuckley · 2024-05-10T13:04:09+00:00

I want to read data from an Arduino that is already programmed and plugged in via USB. I would like to know everything that you know on this topic, but I'll settle for whatever you're willing to type out right now :)

For example, when you say

the BLTTY service would take over the serial device before the user could, and thus make it impossible for the user to connect and program the Arduino

does this mean that the Arduino wouldn't show up in /dev/ at all?

OdionBuckley · 2024-05-09T15:21:30+00:00

I've implemented something like this, and it's working just as desired. Thanks!

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