This right here. I’d rather my email stay the source of truth for auth, but totally sympathize with website owners that don’t want to store and protect any sensitive user data (like an email address and password).

I do wish some sites would offer the magic link option if they don’t want to keep password hashes. It has problems too, but can be a simple way sometimes.

On some level I know the OAuth flow should be pretty safe. The idea that I have one identity that gets me into multiple sites makes a lot of sense. And I’m already using the same email in most places, so it’s not like I’m anonymous anyway.

And yet… I can’t convince my paranoia that ‘sign in with Google’ isn’t oversharing. I always worry that authorizing with other sites will give too many permissions to see/alter Google/whatever data, or that clicking it will take me to a fake Google/whatever page where I give away my creds.

If you actually just download a .py file, you need to run it with python. Like in the example you linked, something like

python3 _filename_

(and if that’s the case, you might need to add a line at the top of the file, telling it where the interpreter is. But probably you actually want the following)

To install, you use the python installer program, pip. Something like

pip _package-name_

Before you do either, you need to install python and pip. I don’t know exactly (look for correct package names), but you need to run something like

sudo apt install python3 pip

I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.

But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(

That’s a good question, answer is generally that it depends. Do I want to spend more money on stuff? Of course not.

But if the price is the same or negligibly more, then I’m better off not incurring the bodily damage of consuming excess calories. The smaller the default size of the suggested meal (eg, a combo) the better, unless it hits the point where it makes me order a second meal or extra sides.

That preference reflects my own privilege, health perspective, and lack of self-control though. I know it’s a different call for everyone.

I’m actually pretty OK with this. Portion sizes were generally kinda oversized, especially for not-so-healthy fastfood.

It’s funny, I love vim and have never understood Emacs, but when setting up a shell it seems the Emacs commands felt more natural.

I get a lot of mileage out of the line editing commands. I think they are Emacs based and optional… but like Ctrl k, Ctrl u, Ctrl a.

rg and fd have been so much easier to use than the classics to me. Great replacements!

bat is another one that I think can be worth switching to, though not as essential.

What do you use for podcasts? The software should be handling it so you don’t have to think about it much.

I’m on AntennaPod (FOSS podcast client), and looking at the Add Podcast screen, I see it does include Apple Podcasts. You can add RSS feeds for other sources, but mostly I search the name of whatever podcast I want and it finds it.

It’s at least pretty cool that the statement is true enough most of the time to be in wide use. The walled gardens continue to expand, and the situation will get worse. But by and large podcasts are pretty open and accessible in a decentralized way.

I know Spotify is grossly proprietary, but is Apple’s new service too? For a long time it seems like being on iTunes or whatever meant they also had an open RSS feed for podcasts clients?

Replacing the digraph is pretty cool. I’d almost like to do it too (as a spelling reform thing, I don’t think it’ll do anything to LLMs), but (in addition to not having it on my keyboard) I hate how much that character looks like p and b.

I mean, yes, but I don’t think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they’re trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it’s also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.

In the past, I’ve used Fcitix (in Plasma anyway) and found it to work well.

Since I switched distros and moved to Wayland though, I haven’t managed to get it working again.

I agree, this is annoying. It’s taking the place of what used to be an excerpt, giving me a hint about actual text on the page.

I haven’t seen that yet… hopefully it’s on the Duckduckgo side and a setting I can turn off. But it’s probably Reddit continuing to be frustrating.

I’m not against having the AI summary and I do see the utility, it should just be very clearly separated from the real content.

Ubuntu had a thing for a while where they would send you a CD if you asked for it. Friend of mine from school gave me one.

I really like App-images. For the most part, they just work, download, run, done. And sometimes you want the flexibility to install something the distro’s pacakage manager doesn’t give you (or doesn’t have the latest version of). It’s a little extra work to put the app in system menus, etc though.

Package manger still preferred. Having the system deal with updates and dependencies is nice.

AUR is still good, but I’d take the App Image. Sometimes these work for me, sometimes they don’t. Still have to manually update them, AFAIK.

There’s a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.

I hadn’t heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it’s a different take on the same idea.

And I meant to say, most helpful resource for me was the website rtings. Most review and best of lists I can find by searching are so spammy, it’s hard to get any signal. But at least that one let’s me filter a table of printers by features. I just don’t know how many they’re missing.

Had to get a new one recently too. I’ve had good experiences w/ Brother in the past too, but couldn’t find one that quite fit the bill. Needed color and for it to be able to handle cardstock.

Ended up getting an Epson, one that’s in the eco tank line. Has been great so far. Works just fine out of the box on Linux (LTS Ubuntu, anyway)