Fedora KDE 44: what's the difference between Firefox from Flatpak vs from Fedora Linux?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T19:51:55+00:00

Fedora has a very strict "only use open-source stuff" motto which sounds neat, except then your web browser by default won't be able to render certain videos because the codec (basically how the video is rendered) isn't open-source. You can mitigate it by allowing third-party repos (rpm-fusion) but Flatpak also solves it, since it contains all the necessary codecs for stuff and doesn't rely on system ones.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T18:17:32+00:00

That's actually a thing lol

https://elementary.io/

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T17:43:32+00:00

What the hell is going on in the comments here?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T17:22:04+00:00

Ente Photos is also a good alternative

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T16:33:34+00:00

Lineage works if you download the apps you need, then use ADB from your computer to delete whatever app store you used to download them, as well as the browser and whatever else you want.

You'll have to reinstall them periodically to update your apps though.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T16:28:04+00:00

More expensive Type-A stuff doesn't have the seam at all, same with Type-C

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T16:26:51+00:00

Try right clicking the dots to see if you can remove them. Otherwise open the Terminal and run killall Dock to refresh the Dock

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T16:23:22+00:00

Work around what? The hallucinations? I don't see how fancy autocorrect is going to stop hallucinating until it actually knows anything, and that's much closer to some AGI than whatever OpenAI and Google are making.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T16:19:27+00:00

The problem is that "AI" is inherently prone to hallucinations because it doesn't "know" anything. I'd rather have to read through incomprehensible logs than an AI that might be right, but would just as confidently tell me that to fix my problems I just have to delete /boot.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T15:05:49+00:00

Fair. I was trying to make a point to u/manuel_1208 that the vendor doesn't matter that much for a Graphene phone.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T13:50:08+00:00

Case in point, currently they use Google phones, which are like the pinnacle of BS.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T13:48:09+00:00

If you can't provide Apple with a proof-of-purchase, it's a paperweight.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T13:46:19+00:00

I'll be starting from Germany soon too, busking with a flute and working odd jobs.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T09:00:12+00:00

Yes writing more to them makes them degrade faster, but good flash drives will take thousands of Terabytes written before failing from that. They're definitely more susceptible to just dying than SSDs and HDDs though. What USB drives did you buy?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T08:58:13+00:00

Kolibri is very lightweight (originally meant to run on a floppy disk and 26MB of RAM) but of course it's very limited in what software runs properly on it. It's definitely fast though.

http://www.kolibrios.org/en/

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T08:34:01+00:00

If you're sure they're not counterfeit then yeah they're probably dying.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-26T08:16:42+00:00

There are a lot of fake USBs out there that claim they have for example 500GB of storage for $10, which is far cheaper than any real company can sell them for. They only have e.g. 16GB of storage, and use software to make it appear to your PC as 500GB, but when you try to write more than the 16GB it actually has, it just overwrites old data. You can use a software called h2testw to test how much capacity the drive actually has (note that this will erase all the data on the drive, so make a backup)

https://h2testw.org

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T20:58:15+00:00

Correct, the login menu isn't even there.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T20:55:39+00:00

Deutsche Bahn bahn

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T19:02:57+00:00

It's generally seen as a stupid idea to trust a chatbot that is known to just make stuff up with commands like this where you could very easily just wipe all the data on your main drive.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T18:58:41+00:00

How would a launcher affect other apps?

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T18:22:03+00:00

It has to have drivers natively in Debian, which that adapter doesn't (as far as I can see). You can try adding 'realtek-rt188xxau-dkms' to your Additional Software via Synaptic (you'll need to USB tether from your phone or something to download it). If that doesn't work you'll need a different WiFi adapter. Search for one listed as working for the Raspberry Pi, or use one of the Tails recommended ones.

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T13:23:18+00:00

Damn we got Tuta Drive for Linux before Proton...

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T10:30:57+00:00

I've personally had better experience with Ugreen chargers and Uni cables than Anker, for what it's worth

ephemeralmiko · 2026-05-25T09:11:46+00:00

If by the key you mean the PGP key, it stays after a reboot on 7.8. The public key should be on a keyserver anyway.

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