I’m curious to see, how long it’ll last. Much like with a support hotline, there’s no directly obvious financial benefit to having such a chatbot, so if the hype has died down and the price is increased, I could see those being axed pretty quickly…

Yeah, I thought so, too, but I got that from here on Lemmy, so maybe we both read the same misinformed comment.

I think, it’s cool, though, that the official Thunderbird app can be published on F-Droid.

I’m not seeing it in my just-upgraded “Thunderbird Beta for Testers”.

Ah, yeah, I don’t think there was anything in the app. I guess, they could’ve mentioned it in the changelog, which gets shown in the app by default after an update.

But yeah, I think we’ll have to excuse a bit of a bumpy ride here. I know, it says “Mozilla” on there now, but to my knowledge, it’s still just the one core dev…

I’m not sure, if I’m misunderstanding, but the K9 devs definitely talked about it: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

Apparently, they’re currently in the process of turning people’s Manifest V2 extension off. They seem to be stretching it out over a few weeks to sidestep a shitstorm.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#october_9th_2024_an_update_on_manifest_v2_phase-out

Afterwards, there will still be uBlock Origin Lite, but the dev didn’t choose that name for funsies. It will be even worse at ad blocking, and be missing some important features like automatic block list updates and the element picker.

Oh, you don’t have to always boot anew from the read-only snapshot.

When you’re booted into the working read-only snapshot, run sudo snapper rollback and then do a normal reboot.

This will make that read-only snapshot your new (read-writable) system state. So, after doing this, your OS will be as if you never applied that update.

More info on that command: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/archive/15.0/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.snapper.html#sec.snapper.snapshot-boot

Can’t you roll back to a snapshot before the update that broke it? Then you can wait with updating for a week or two, in hopes that it gets fixed in the next Tumbleweed update…

Hmm, it’s been a few years since I’ve run Fedora, but that’s an experience also still stuck in my head from that time.

I always figured, Linux had just gotten better at that, because I switched to a more up-to-date distro afterwards, but in retrospect, it’s not like Fedora is terribly out of date, so maybe that is just a weird configuration on Fedora…

I mean, I doubt Kate or Geany or Vim would’ve closed due to OOM, but sure…

Firefox unloads old tabs when restarting the browser, so most of those are more like temporary bookmarks.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone open 300 tabs in one session or on Chromium…

100% or so of people everywhere are immigrants…

In case you like feature-rich software, QuiteRSS is good.

I thought, the +? was going to be a syntax error. 🙃

Ah, interesting. In my current setup, I dump the auxilliary files into a folder above the repo, but it can certainly make it a bit messy to find the repo in there then…

I’d say, I’m primarily a very low volume gamer, so I don’t play a lot of games, and if I do, I don’t play them for long. And that certainly makes it easy to look at the news of a game releasing and to think, yeah, that’s probably neat, but if I’m buying another game then it’d be Undertale or Baba Is You or such, and it definitely doesn’t look as neat as those…

“Infrastructure as code” is what the strategy is typically called. You use one of the many tools for orchestrating configuration of hosts (Ansible, OpenTofu, Puppet, Saltstack, Chef, etc.). These allow you to provide configuration files and code for setting up your hosts in a central place. This place is typically a Git repo, allowing you to keep track of when which change was made.

Depending on the tool you use, you trigger applying the configuration on your dev PC, or there’s a hosted CI/CD server which automatically rolls out the changes when a new commit is pushed.

For a project called “Potato Peeler”, I’ll put it into a structure like this:

~/Projects/Tools/Potato-Peeler/potato-peeler/

Tools/ is just a rough category. Other categories are, for example, Games/ and Music/, because I also do gamedev and composing occasionally.

Then the capitalized Potato-Peeler/ folder, that’s for me to drop in all kinds of project-related files, which I don’t want to check into the repo.

And the lower-case potato-peeler/ folder is the repo then. Seeing other people’s structures, maybe I’ll rename that folder to repo/, and if I have multiple relevant repos for the Project, then make it repo-something.

I also have a folder like ~/Projects/Tools/zzz/ where I’ll move dormant projects. The “zzz” sorts nicely to the bottom of the list.

Is “code”, “designs” and “wiki” here just some example files in the repo or are those sub-folders, and you only have the repo underneath code?

I believe, they said elsewhere that K-9 Mail would keep getting updated for the foreseeable future, so you can use that instead. I believe, because “Thunderbird” is trademarked, it couldn’t be packaged in the official repo anyways.

Maybe they will provide a custom F-Droid repo in the future, though…