I just went through a long list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. One that I didn’t see that I would find useful is to press something like ⇧ Shift + ⌘ + C to copy the URL and then paste it into an email or message to send to someone. Does something like this exist?
I personally can’t wait to see communities like r/hiphopheads, r/internetisbeautiful, r/listentothis, r/battlestations… join lemmy and become as active as they are on reddit. what are some of y’all fav?
Looking for new books to read as I am preparing to head out on a much needed vacation and want to dig into some good reading. Can be fiction or nonfiction, just so long as it hooked you and made you want to keep reading and reading until the end.
For context, I live in Hong Kong where most people drink tap water after boiling first. Some may install water filter but may still boil the water. Very few drink bottle water unless they’re outside and too lazy to bring their own bottles....
This is crazy - for sure, in many countries it can be taken straight from the tap depending on the reliability of infrastructure… but to waste energy boiling it??? No thanks.
In England, I moved a few times - some places have great tasting water - others not so great - meaning it’s always safe (and ok for brewing or cooking) but not so good for drinking from the tap.
In Scotland (a couple of places I stayed and worked) it’s a toss up whether you should drink the tapwater, or go to your local and take another dram from the top row… those Single Malt Whiskeys made with water from Scotland are amazing… but both are safe in moderation.
In Bangkok, if I don’t clean my shower out monthly, it ends up with brown gunge building up, so I certainly don’t drink the stuff… and it’s hard to know how clean it is (though we’re told it’s certainly drinkable at source, it has a long way to come to my house - and the pressure of the system is low… another red flag). Visiting tropical islands, you see some resorts are connected via long plastic pipes which are often on the surface (in the sun) and so definitely not the best candidate for anything more than a shower.
In Bangkok too, unless you can test it yourself you shouldn’t drink it - but I fail to see why you’d decide to boil dirty water and drink it, seeing as most countries with inadequate tap water have drinking water.
I wouldn’t use ‘boiled tap water’ to make my pasta either.
I have six large bottles which gets topped up each week, to make sure I have plenty of water to cook and drink with… If I didn’t, then I’d invest in a good water filtration system.
For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you're not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you're suddenly not logged in....
This is a bit of a pointless question. Also, not quite making sense… because ‘workflow’ can mean absolutely anything.
I enjoy using Dolphin (KDE) because I have a terminal window at the bottom (F4 toggles it) which is tied to the GUI - so if I do ‘zi’ to jump to one of my video, or document folders, then the GUI follows… best of both worlds… and it means I can manage almost as well without the GUI, though not quite so well without the terminal.
You should aim to do things the most efficient way, without predetermined ideas about whether to use GUI or terminal. I use terminal to listen to radio, but not to edit pictures or videos.
When you get to your desktop, certainly start with a terminal open… I like Kitty - easy tabbing and splitting means I can do tons of stuff in the one window.
You learn by using, researching, and learning. That’s how you can get better. You can also do a lot by trying different shells - for example, I run Konsole (with ZSH) and Kitty with FISH - so they’re quite different to use, and each has benefits.
I’m not sure it it’s just Reddit that makes me sick, or Google. It’s the way that society is getting dumber and more subservient.
I definitely get angry when I hear people are ‘googling’ everything they want to ‘search’ for. Similarly that people simply wish to protest Reddit - when they don’t really care, they’re just jumping on the RANT bandwagon.
With the advent of instant gratification, smartphones/internet access, I welcome the lack of need for a paper dictionary.
However, people go further - they love the way the big tech can aggregate their content and dish it up to them.
They don’t care that they are being spoonfed solent green, and increasingly denied the ability to find actual answers to their questions.
If you do disturb them, like a borg they will become disoriented. They start to drown until they can feel the comforting caste of blue light on their faces as they dive back into their familiar environment.
Reddit’s CEO is not stupid - he knows that most of it’s users are sheep, and the escapees will be a minority. The mods, addicted to their power trips, will return and take whatever shit they have to… what else is their life good for?
Reddit is not ‘crushing’ the protests. The protests were mostly a flash in the pan - now most folks got bored, and just wanna go back to reading their joke of the day.
Moving Forward
A couple of problems. Firstly, even if I’ve been talking on Fediverse somewhere about a topic - if I search that topic, it will not take me to the Fediverse - I get taken to Reddit.
Unless the Fediverse content is getting included in search engine data, it’ll never be driven from that direction.
I know personally that the reason I created my Reddit account is that I would find answers there, and then end up discussing them where I found them.
PWA’s aren’t really a thing. Linux, we has a nice ‘Progressive Webapp’ manager - so I can create PWA’s with launchers for any website, using any browser. I think I have about 4 (Shopee/Lazada/Translate/PlexWeb).
9/10 times I just open the bookmarks in Firefox…
Not sure what your issue is with Bookmarks or History - but they’re perfectly usable. Perhaps you’re just fixed in your ways.
You can turn off Pocket. Even when it’s on, it’s not a problem - but Firefox has to have some revenue channels and many folks don’t have any problem with Pocket. I use RSS, so I don’t.
For limited opportunities to pee, I’d carry a good sized bottle and limit drinking to sipping water/an electrolyte beverage through a straw.
For limiting poop, I’d try to be empty ahead of time, and just take something solid like bread and cheese which means you probably could go through three days without pooping.
I don’t know if this is a Firefox or Google issue tbh, but I’m getting signed out of Google more than once a day lately for no reason and this is getting really annoying. Is anyone else experiencing this?...
I’d say with confidence that this is something with your USER data - maybe settings, maybe extensions, maybe something got corrupted. The first test is with a fresh profile, the second test is with a freshly rebuilt (via sync) fresh profile.
To test:
about:profiles make a new profile with your name. If you have a `/chrome’ folder you can copy that across. 2.Open that in a new window, and test it (maybe just add your password manager and sign in with Google). If that’s good, then synchronise the new profile.
See how it goes.
If good, delete the old profile and bring back add-ons as you need them.> nodium
I have no issues, using uBlock (disabled only for a few private sites I wish to allow ads) and a rake of YouTube (Enhancer, Sponsorblock, Dislike etc).
Whenever I mess with a new profile, I will generally copy my Firefox folder to create a duplicate on desktop, then I can experiment by moving stuff into the current profile - to restore bookmarks, history or whatever else.
I have hourly snapshots, so if anything messes up it’s easy to reboot back to the last hourly snapshot… YMMV.
I hate having to save shit to my laptop when sites won't let me paste instead of upload. Alternative anything that lets you access clipboard from windows file explorer could work too...
That’s strange - though I don’t use Windows. Generally I upload images to imagr to paste links, but images generally paste straight from the clipboard…
I always found most of Opera’s extras to be adding stuff that doesn’t really need adding… maybe look at alternative clipboard managers or something (I use CopyQ).
My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it....
Unfortunately, if you don’t already know the answers it’s more a question of experience before you’ll understand them.
When I started with Ubuntu I couldn’t do dualboot, so it was hard. It got better with each update, but my beloved Gnome2 desktop was threatened and Ubuntu went on to Unity - KDE sucked, so I jumped over to Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.
Whilst it was great, I had terrible issues getting software - PPA’s are often suited to Ubuntu and not Mint… so in the end I tried installing Arch, failed twice, then got a Manjaro (Cinnamon) ISO and tried that for a few days, got some snapshots (rsync to my HDD) and then figured it’s not a big deal to install KDE, as it’s easy enough to go back.
KDE was so much better by then (about 5 years back) that I’m stuck with Manjaro KDE - having access to the AUR to install stuff is awesome, and flatpaks work at the flick of a settings switch too.
Dual-booting gives you the luxury of (if you wanna play Genshin Impact) having the option to boot into your game OS but also the ability to install games on your Linux OS and decide which one runs best on your hardware.
Everyone has such varied ‘needs’ that your question is impossible to answer - you must just suck it and see.
That's interesting. I picked up memebership in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world (same username) after trying Beehaw and finding that I was met with an endless circle of progress when submitting...
I don't know if you've noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it's "dogshit" and "not going anywhere" get systematically upvoted....
However, something I have noticed about people is that they justify their behaviour.
So if they buy a Toyota and Dad has a Nissan, he'll ask them why they didn't buy a Nissan... If they buy a Nissan and Dad has a Toyota, they'll similarly be able to fight for their corner.
What people don't do is to buy a Nissan and say 'sure, I bought the dogshit car because I'm stupid'.
Something that's true is that Reddit aggregated a lot of behaviour on internet, and so it's obviously true that Lemmy cannot compete with that - not even close. For many use-cases, there are no viable alternatives.
The best thing that will come of this is that people become aware that they have alternatives to Youtube/Google, Reddit, Facebook, Chrome etc.
People need to work to build an independent internet and not allow this shit to happen.
They need to stop signing TOS agreements that they can't even read through or comprehend.
If an update causes me any problem, I can reboot to a snapshot (3 hourly, 3 daily, 1 weekly) and if it's an issue with my Firefox profile folder, I would just copy back one of the rsync backups:
I have the benefit of experience, I loved my Nokia 3210, bought a Nokia 3310 - but managed to lose it a few years later... and was shocked because I had no record of contacts/phone numbers.
With Firefox, I learned that trying out a new version could 'update' the profile, and then reinstalling the old one wouldn't work with that profile (I had to use sync to restore it). Since then, I always have a snapshot of the entire system, plus regular backups to defend against hardware failure.
Some people believe in Evolution, they think that the world would move forwards...
These days it's so trivial that it's hard to estimate the intelligence of anyone who doesn't do it, and then complains that something went wrong.
There's no reason not to leave it alone... though choosing a better default is advisable.
There are many times when SearX isn't a good solution (though SearX or SearXNG are a great default)... Your answer is 'popular' because everyone hates Google. But also problematic, because it will lead to folks trying something else and then just going back to the best one.
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (jogblog.substack.com)
Best Firefox Extensions? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)
I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what’s reccomended...
Is there a keyboard shortcut to copy the URL of the page you're on?
I just went through a long list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. One that I didn’t see that I would find useful is to press something like ⇧ Shift + ⌘ + C to copy the URL and then paste it into an email or message to send to someone. Does something like this exist?
What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?
What are some reddit communities you wish to see live and more active on lemmy?
I personally can’t wait to see communities like r/hiphopheads, r/internetisbeautiful, r/listentothis, r/battlestations… join lemmy and become as active as they are on reddit. what are some of y’all fav?
what book or books have you read that were so good that you didn’t want to put it down?
Looking for new books to read as I am preparing to head out on a much needed vacation and want to dig into some good reading. Can be fiction or nonfiction, just so long as it hooked you and made you want to keep reading and reading until the end.
People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?
For context, I live in Hong Kong where most people drink tap water after boiling first. Some may install water filter but may still boil the water. Very few drink bottle water unless they’re outside and too lazy to bring their own bottles....
Is there a seamless way of linking to other instances?
For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you're not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you're suddenly not logged in....
Why are we farming?????
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Global Constipation Treatment Market to Reach $27.5 Billion by 2030 (finance.yahoo.com)
How can I get better at the CLI?
I have some basic experience but I wanna be proficient and have a cli based workflow; I’m currently on Arch with GNOME
As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)
I really want to use Firefox, but feels a bit odd
Don't get me wrong, I like Firefox a lot, but needs polishing....
I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
Please don't ask why I need this....
Firefox keeps signing out of Google
I don’t know if this is a Firefox or Google issue tbh, but I’m getting signed out of Google more than once a day lately for no reason and this is getting really annoying. Is anyone else experiencing this?...
Anything to replicate Opera's Easy Files? It allowed you to upload images, notably anything in your clipboard, easily as shown in the photo attached. I need something like this
I hate having to save shit to my laptop when sites won't let me paste instead of upload. Alternative anything that lets you access clipboard from windows file explorer could work too...
[Question] to Linux from Windows as a daily driver
My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it....
Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance! (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community *is* official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/323205...
Redditors brigading against Lemmy
I don't know if you've noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it's "dogshit" and "not going anywhere" get systematically upvoted....
Does your FF also change default search to google after some updates?
It's annoying as shit