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Mainly, I haven't found a way to disable animations just for this specific window in KDE.

This should still work: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-make-a-window-rule-to-turn-off-compositing-for-a-certain-app/10341

I've only started using yadm recently so I may not be able to elaborate in detail, but for me the main draw for using yadm (as opposed to Ansible, which I use at work) is the simplicity. It's basically just a bash script that uses git, so there's no dependencies besides git and tools installed on most Unix systems. Ansible felt like overkill for what I needed, ie just something to manage and sync my dotfiles.

Also, maybe it's personal bias, but I really hate installing/using Python-based programs - they often tend to go wild with their dependencies and eventually break. I recall trying to install Ansible on a Raspberry Pi at some point (via pip) and it failed because one of the dependencies couldn't be compiled for whatever reason. I gave up after trying to fix it for a while, and dropped the idea. I've had similar experiences with other large Python projects, there's always some drama. Why is why I prefer compiled binaries or simple shell scripts like yadm.

I've no issues using Ansible at work though. We use it on RHEL so it's quite stable and doesn't have the dependency issues you'd get on a bleeding-edge, ever-changing, end-user system. Plus it really shines at the Infrastructure as Code stuff so we use it to automate everything from networking gear to VMs. But I feel it's overkill for something as simple as syncing a bunch of text files.

I am also thinking about making my own image based on silverblue. there is a video made by bigpod a youtuber about how to make your own custom ublue image

Before you create your own uBlue image, I highly recommend checking out some of the existing images here: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/list-of-community-created-custom-images/340 or here.

Personally, as a gamer, I use Bazzite, but recently I've rebased to a fork of it with my own customisations, and it's been amazing.

Distrobox > Toolbox btw. Both use podman behind the scenes but Distrobox is a bit more easier to use/fleshed out for desktop usage (eg makes it easy to export/integrate container apps with your the host).

I'd also recommend checking out Nix for installing any packages not on Flatpak or your Distrobox distro, as Nix has its own advantages since it's you're running real application binaries directly on your host OS, instead of an exported script (as in the case of Distrobox), so you get better/direct access to system resources and won't face some of the quirks/bugs you may get from running a containerised app.

That's only true you succumb to the hardcore Nix fanatics and follow their recommended "declarative" way. However, Nix, as a package manager, is perfectly usable - and accessible - with the imperative way, without having to subscribe to their religion and learn their language and terminology.

In the imperative path, Nix is as easy to use as any other package manager, yet it still retains many of the unique Nix features such as versioned packaged, instant rollback, non-root user-based installs etc.

It's a shame because Nix is actually really cool and very easy to use if used this way - and especially useful on immutable distros, locked-down systems or distros which have a limited number of packages - but unfortunately, most people are missing out because the fanatics keep preaching the declarative way as if it's the only option out there.

Um, that wasn't OP's story, it's an old copypasta from Reddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9z7923/sr71_blackbird_copypasta/

Which was in turn derived from the book "Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet" by Brian Shul.

Forums and Lemmy work quite differently. For starters, forums are more suited for long-term discussions. On some of the forums that I'm a part of, a topic can be active for several years (except of course the ones which discourage necro bumping, like the Arch Linux forums). Whereas Reddit, Lemmy and the like are more suited for news and discussions around the "now". Once a post falls off the front page, it's gone from everyone's consciousness. Although on Lemmy you could have your default view set to "active" which will bump up old threads which are active, but neither the default Web-UI nor any of the clients (that I'm aware of) do a good job of highlighting the new comments/replies since you last visited the thread. There's also no easy way to subscribe to a thread (yes I'm aware there's a bot for it but it's not allowed everywhere). Furthermore, most clients also mark a thread you've visited as "read" (which is typically a greyed-out/dull color) and many don't even indicate that there are new comments, which further discourages you to revisit a thread.

The second is that there's less or even no importance given to upvotes. In fact most forums typically disable or don't even have votes on threads, which means every thread that's posted gets equal importance and visibility. As a result, you don't get karma farmers / low-effort / clickbait posts, at least not the ones made with the intention to seek karma. And it's the same with comments - because they're arranged in a linear manner (and typically don't have votes), every comment gets equal visibility, and you don't need to navigate thru complicated nested threads to pick up new comments. Again, as a result of this you tend to see fewer low-effort/meme/troll comments.

Finally, the most important differentiating factor is the moderation tools. Many mods and admins here have complained at how lacking the mod tools here are, especially when we had those CSAM spam attacks a couple of months ago - there was effectively no way to stop new accounts posting that crap without turning off registrations completely and temporarily defedarating from some instances. But on a forum, you have several measures such as having a cooldown period of x days before you can post, or gaining gradual posting privileges as you complete more actions such as say, competing the new user tutorial, gaining karma from posting to the newbie/introduction forum etc. Some forums may set it such that new users can post but a mod might need to approve the post; or they can post text but not images and links (which would discourage spammers and trolls) until they have sufficient karma or account age. I've also seen forums have a "trust" feature where a mod can mark an account as trusted to give that user more rights/access.

There's many, many more such features which make moderating and managing a forum a breeze compared to Lemmy, and for a heavily-moderated community like Beehaw which also values quality over quantity, old-school forums make a much better choice.

Therefore you can rely on it on all operating systems.

... all except that one OS which we don't like to talk about but annoyingly remains the most popular consumer OS. :P

Yep. You could run chmod again to fix it (from a different OS / rescue USB), but that would leave all the permissions in a messy state - having everything set to 777 is incredibly insecure, and will also likely break many apps/scripts that expect more restrictive permissions. So the only way to fix this properly would be to reinstall your OS/restore from backups.

I already mentioned this on an old Beehaw thread, that Beehaw's vision would be better suited to old-school forums, like phpBB, Invision etc (no Discourse please, it sucks). Forums are more conducive for long-term discussions and offer far better user access controls and mod tools.

General-purpose old-school forums are mostly dead these days unfortunately but I see an opportunity in Beehaw for them to make a comeback, and I would 100% support such an initiative.

I can relate to this. I've got a Garmin and I'm traveling currently. The best solution I could find was to get a Garmin - USB-C adapter with a little loop at the end, so I tied it to my existing USB-C cable and can plug in the adapter whenever I need to charge my watch.

Except, it's not replaying those song exactly,

• not even in their entirety. It's taking a few notes from here and there, arranges them in a way what makes sense, and effectively performing a "new" song - which isn't all that different from a human artist who is "inspired" by the works of other artists and produces a new work in the same genre.

As long as it doesn't break I would take this over any alternative minipc

May I ask why though? One of the biggest advantages of using a MacBook is the performance-battery efficiency. If you're going to get a Mac mini and loading Linux, you lose that advantage.

Unless you're looking specifically for an ARM64 machine for whatever reason, I think an AMD mini PC, say something like the Minisforum EliteMini UM780 XTX would be technically a better option - you get dual NVMe, dual 2.5G network ports, USB 4.0, Oculink for even more b/w than Thunderbolt, and far more I/O options in general. Not to mention, excellent Linux support.