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  • Debloating opensuse tumbleweed

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  • sudo zypper packages --unneded will give you a list of packages that have not been explicitly requested and are not dependencies of explicitly requested packages. As for how to remove them... IDK (I do it manually, once in a blue moon: it's not like there's new unneded packages every week).

    It's been a while since I've used debian, but IIRC apt autoremove will leave behind config files (unless you specify --purge).

    In tumbleweed (and I think all rpm-based distros?) config files are removed per default together with packages (well, the config files installed with the package, not others that may have been created later such as the ones in your \~ - basically zypper rm is the same as apt purge).

  • What maps app do you use

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  • Google has many faults, but the one responsible for this one is someone else :)

    The FOSS google maps alternatives I hear recommended most often are OsmAnd+ and, especially, Organic Maps.

    Personally I don't use maps very often (I know my way around my area pretty well, so I usually just lookup the location of wherever I want to go before leaving home), but I'd say Organic Maps is simpler and more user friendly than OsmAnd+.

    Both can work offline if you download the maps for your area.

    The maps are pretty good (at least in my area), but compared to Google Maps you'll have to rely more on street addresses as there aren't as many points of interest.

  • The hidden gem of this season: If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student

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  • [Meta] Taking volunteers to help mod /c/anime

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  • Is it time to remove the pin from this post?

  • Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.

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  • We do deserve end-to-end encrypted communication but then nobody except nerds could be bothered about managing private keys, so in the end providers would manage our keys and still be able to read our messages.

    If the problem is that goggle/etc can read your email, not using them for your email is the solution.

    Then, yes, there's also an issue where ecommerce sites submerge us in useless email (is "your package has been shipped" an event so important that I must be immediately notified? Because I only care about when the package will be delivered) and could use a "notificaiton settings" page.

    Of the sites I use, the worst offender is aliexpress, which sends (IIRC) "order confirmed", "package shipped", "packages reached customs", "package cleared customs" and "package has been delivered" for every friggin' item you ordered.

  • Looking for Help with Weird Connectivity Issues

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  • Assuming you are using networkmanager, the first thing would be to check the DNS settings on your home wifi connection (assuming you are using Gnome, it should be inside "Settings" and then "Network" - sorry if that's wrong, I don't use Gnome).

    If you can't locate the setting to change, you can try deleting the whole connection and connecting again (as you would to a new wifi network).

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  • Could the Mull browser be continued under the Librewolf project?

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  • Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

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  • Apologies if this is explained in the article (sorry, as a Linux user I don't care enough about this story to actually read the article), but... how is a filter that avoid taking screenshots of sensitive info supposed to work? I mean, what kind of divination algorithm can detect something is sensitive without looking at it first?

  • How did the Ventoy blobs issue end?

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  • Agreed: now that I'm looking at the whole thing, this looks like a story where the FOSS community left much to be desired.

  • The "Nothing to hide" argument is a logical fallacy

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  • I know nothing about Wikipedia drama, but the term "logical fallacy" usually indicates a reasoning pattern and does not apply to specific arguments, regardless of how fallacious they may happen be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

  • Best "just works" mesh router for open wrt?

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  • "mesh" is a buzzword that doesn't make much sense (to me at least) if we are talking about wired and routers... what do you mean by it? can you describe your setup?

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    Let me clarify :)

    Unless I'm mistaken, mesh means that one a bunch of devices, usually wireless access points, connected with each other (in a mesh) with possibly low-quality connections that automatically switch traffic for each other.

    If you have ethernet running from the router to the APs, you always want to use that and so you don't want a mesh at all.

  • Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host?

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  • The best option would be to have a "regular" client that keeps a local copy in sync with the cloud instead of a mount.

    BTW: IDK what cloud storage you are using, but IIRC some show files that are not available locally (ie. only the most recent files are downloaded locally - the older stuff is downloaded on request).

    Alternatively, you could hack something together running unison locally in the guest to sync the cloud folder to a shared one... you'll have two copies of the data though.

  • for those worried about the impact of sanctions on linux, is any of the bsds a better alternative?

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  • This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

    It nails a different problem on the head.

    You don't have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won't be liable in case you are lying.

  • Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions

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  • First of all, saying "based on their country of residence" is either grossly uninformed or (most probably) plain dishonest.

    Ignoring that, the GPL-freedoms of companies subject to sanctions are still preserved, so.... having established that your "free" is not the same "free" as in "free and open source software", what the hell are you talking about?

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  • Finland was invaded by Russia before WWII, then participated in a campaign against Russia with the Axis powers and finally signed the Moscow Treaty with Russia and the UK and joined them against Germany.... I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view (I'd go to far as to say that, most probably, reality is too).

    Also, if I may, that happened some 80 years ago... do you think current Finns should be ashamed of that when they were not even alive back then? Can you name a nation that didn't do anything shameful in the last century?

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  • It's a guy babbling about an anonymous website with the same-old stuff against Stallman, and how that is part of a conspiracy to harm free software.

    I watched it (most of it) despite having formed my opinion on the quality of that DistroTube channel a while ago... you might want to be wiser than me and do something else with your time.

    PS:

    Before you put me in the pro-Stallman faction, let me clarify that I think the FSE (non the FSFe - BTW you should change your name guys) is largely irrelevant and so I've never investigated the allegations to Stallman enough to take a stance pro or against: I do not care.

  • Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo

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  • I must say, this whole shitshow has been pretty funny to watch :)

  • [Solved] This maybe a strange question but can I run a Linux app in a separate container/sandbox? Without its dependencies bloating my host OS?

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  • One way or another, if you want to run an application you are gonna need its dependencies (the key is the name)... they may be bundled into an appimage or come as part of flatpak ruintime, or be confined inside a container, or live in the nix store, but they will "bloat" your system anyway.

    Learn how to cleanup your system (ie. uninstall all packages that are not needed by others that have been requested explicitly) and live a happy life. Only bother with other solutions if the software (or version) you need isn't available for your distro.