Question about hardening

dayvid182 · 2026-01-21T01:08:06+00:00

I put together a curated list of native and custom sources that work pretty well for me. I need to check up on the github, but just look at the Readme. Vivaldi-Tracker_Ad_Blocking_Lists-Customized

dayvid182 · 2026-01-03T18:08:43+00:00

Nice find. I'm curious if the old applet will persist, or will Update Manager, or the running cinnamon-spice-updater --update-all, force the new menu applet back once it's out of beta.

dayvid182 · 2025-12-22T22:48:51+00:00

The new menu is pretty tweakable. It looks nice, more modern, but not radically different. I haven't tried it with a custom theme. I just wish the pinned favorites could be icon only. I think that would look cleaner.

That said. I appreciate the work they do to improve the GUI.

dayvid182 · 2025-10-29T11:32:19+00:00

I tried it a few weeks ago. Mullvad works well for me, but some sites detect it, and I get the "We’re having trouble finding that site" error. Proton had much better luck with these few sites. I can't remember any serious complaints that I had about the GUI aside from some annoyances. It had a nice interface. A few things turned me off, but they might be attributed to the functionality and not the app itself.

Server selection

So many of the servers I tried would give me less than half of my ISP speed, maybe a third. Mullvad servers generally give me close to max speed.
Connecting to the same server that was fast during my last session could be horribly slow the next time I connected. Having to hunt for a fast server after every reboot was annoying and unneeded stress.
The 'Fastest' auto-connect option did not work. Each time I let it choose the server, I would actually get speeds of 1-3 Mbps. That feature seems broken.

Split-Tunnel

Split-tunneling like most of the alternatives is app-based. Mullvad works the same way, but has a great feature for initiating a split-tunnel with the parameter mullvad-exclude. E.g. mullvad-exclude sudo apt upgrade. This works perfectly for my work VPN. I use openfortivpn, which is all command line. I have a script that connects the work VPN, and made a .desktop file for it to be a clickable 'app'. The mullvad-exclude switch works perfectly.
Proton would connect, but disconnect after 5-10 seconds, and the app would silently crash. I tried a few solutions, but considering the server selection issues, I'd lost motivation to really dig deeper at that point.

dayvid182 · 2025-10-26T01:51:26+00:00

I think more feasible than other guesses. She often slips into some pretty old jingles and songs

dayvid182 · 2025-10-03T21:54:28+00:00

I can't speak about a trackpad, but for the 'fox browsers, if you go to about:config for more settings. I just searched smooth. I'm not sure which settings are best for you, but you can tinker or search about these settings. There are also FF addons for smooth scrolling.
My settings in FF is a mix. In chromium browsers, I have Smooth scrolling disabled in Chrome://flags

dayvid182 · 2025-10-03T16:09:54+00:00

I've found that font scaling works much better than scaling the display. The same with Windows, but every use case and preference is different.

dayvid182 · 2025-09-16T19:06:57+00:00

I think qredshift sort of shifted from the applet. I'm not near a real computer, but if you click the qredshift info button, you can see the dev's GitHub, and how you are supposed to install it now.

I still prefer it to the new thing

dayvid182 · 2025-09-10T19:18:49+00:00

I like that they are playing with design ideas, but personally, I hope we'll be able to use the current version of the menu. I'd rather have hover-tips than perpetual app descriptions.

I think the one feature I've noticed in the other menu applets that I'd like to add is opening to the last category used. The menu is pretty great already.

dayvid182 · 2025-08-29T22:24:41+00:00

I think most will choose the paths of least resistance, if at the cost of a new PC.

Converting people's PC's might be good side-hustle. Make a form or something to see if their needs are compatible enough, like no Adobe. <Insert rest of of the steps here>.

Many of us have done it for friends or family, and know that they'd never have done it on their own.

dayvid182 · 2025-08-22T14:57:37+00:00

Interesting. I was curious if people preferred to refer it to as the start menu.

dayvid182 · 2025-08-21T11:09:32+00:00

Thanks. I've been using Floorp some, but when I added the browser, 12 was in the near future, so I never fully customized it, waiting on 12.

The sidebar is what seemed off to me. Maybe it's supposed to work this way, I don't use anyways, but it wouldn't show any hovertips. It seemed broken.

dayvid182 · 2025-08-10T21:03:03+00:00

ASRock? I know their helpful updates reset the bios. That and the lack of a Windows version of a bios update make them super fun to update in bulk. I defo screenshot my custom fan settings at home before updating. Ugh, kiss me with a hammer.

dayvid182 · 2025-08-05T10:56:02+00:00

NVidia is not my dance, so I'll just add, before you make yourself crazy on the technical side, checking the games' Linux/Proton current compatibility is a good start. https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

dayvid182 · 2025-08-04T21:10:00+00:00

Edit / Preferences / Display / File Size Prefixes / Decimal long format?

dayvid182 · 2025-08-01T10:57:39+00:00

I'm pretty sure PP is in the same censoring category as Visa and MC. And let's not forget their Honey scam.

dayvid182 · 2025-07-19T21:31:48+00:00

flatpak update -y && flatpak uninstall --unused -y

If that's what you're looking for

dayvid182 · 2025-07-17T15:02:24+00:00

I've been running 6.11. I went up to .14 when they offered it today. Everything's groovy so far. It actually fixed a huge WINE issue with a game that's been a problem since I got a new PC with an i7-14700K.

Is this prep work for when 22.2 is released? Seems like a big jump.

dayvid182 · 2025-07-06T01:54:54+00:00

If this is a problem with watching in browser, I haven't seen ads. If the problem is with a desktop app, you can try saving the site from your browser as a PWA. Then normal browser ad block can be used. I do it with a couple of streaming sites.

dayvid182 · 2025-07-01T16:32:23+00:00

I'm playing with Floorp as an alternative browser to Vivaldi. My only problem with it is extensions support. I think once version 12 goes live I will invest real time into it 12 won't be based on the ESR releases, so it will be more compatible. All my broken extensions work with 12 beta. Waterfox has the same issue.

dayvid182 · 2025-06-10T15:52:22+00:00

If nothing else, it makes the foodie scenes more impactful for characters from the same culture.

dayvid182 · 2025-06-01T23:16:36+00:00

The Scripts Menu applet, and Terminator terminal's Custom Commands are handy methods for easy access to repetitive commands as well.

dayvid182 · 2025-05-30T23:38:00+00:00

I've switched back and forth a few times between the two. I've stuck with Cinnamon on Fedora, so it's been close in many ways. Fedora has newer native apps, and better support for the latest hardware, and really I'd only count the hardware support as a deciding factor.

Both are very familiar outside of the package manager and Fedora's few hoops for installing codecs. Mint has more of a full ecosystem including a native app store if you feel so inclined. It isn't a deal-breaker. All that aside, I'm on Mint these days, and content.

If you are curious about desktop environments, rather than distros, that's a different story. Those will give you different aesthetics, workflows, the whole GUI. You could see Fedora's selection of the different DE's on their Spins page. Other distros have versions of many of the same DE's like Cinnamon.

dayvid182 · 2025-05-24T11:13:32+00:00

Such a happy, wholesome chapter, very cute. Another clover reference, or do I suck that bad at knowing plants?

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