I own exactly one appliance that tries to keep the time and it has never known the correct time since I bought it. 👍

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

Yep, how to make predictions about the Future™:

1. Find something that offers a mild advantage, but we don’t do, because of the massive disadvantages that come with it.
2. Claim that those disadvantages have been eliminated, because it’s the Future™.

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…

If you’ve got specific accounts you want to follow, you can get an RSS feed containing their public posts.

In terms of native clients, the closest such feature I know of, is that Fedilab (for Android) can remember your position in the timeline, so that you can resume reading.
If you primarily use one timeline, then you wouldn’t re-encounter already read posts, because they’re in the past from the remembered position.
I have to say, though, that it’s not the most reliable feature in the world…

I guess, it’s the precursor of this meme:

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…

You could use this crate to build a Rust program which uses the Qt GUI framework and therefore would feel rather ‘native’ in KDE.
But the vast majority of KDE applications continue to be implemented in C++.

Ah, “pop like popcorn” was maybe a bit misleading. I mainly meant that it jumped out of the pot violently. It didn’t turn inside-out like maize popcorn does.

So, the taste was essentially unaltered. The seed had burst open, though, so maybe that would help, if you wanted to make a sauce more spicy.

“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.