I have read just now that if I give myself ownership of a special file called '.' (just the dot without quotation marks) in the partition I could achieve this. I seem to have succeeded for now in this. I will use it for sometime and see how it goes. This at least solves the problem of using a data partition for backup.
I want to be able to browse any partition on my desktop if is mine or otherwise. Is there a way to do it?
In PCLinuxOS it mounts to /media. But even if I change the ownership of /media to me, it still gets mounted as root.
I keep multiple distros across 3 to 4 hard disks. Windows partitions both NTFS and FAT get mounted with rw while ext ones go root. Even a data partition.
I have an observation about this. Right now when auto expand comments is disabled then I get to see all first level comments. If I tap on any comment it gets hidden. There is a small up arrow to the right end on the icon bar which also does the same thing. Now if I want that comment tree to expand, I should first collapse the comment and then expand by another tap.
May I suggest changing the behavior of single tap to expand first and if a person really wants to collapse the single comment into nothing then he may still use the up arrow.
Being client side could be advantageous as it could save the server time I guess and I don't mind a bit slow down or battery drain as I am in charge of it. It might become an issue if someone does a head-to-head comparison of Lemmy clients.
People don't value things until they lose them.