this would have cost him vacation time

After all these years my poor European brain is still struggling to understand this.

while sick …

ill-advised

I see what you did there.

“Become”?

I guess it’s a weird thing to complain about, but I stopped using VLC because I couldn’t find a way to change the icon theme. The monochrome dark ones it uses by default make all buttons completely blank with catppuccin…

I can’t prevent you from doing that, but there’s a use that fosters interesting discussion, and one that just fosters insufferable arguments.

Actually Debian stable has KDE6, unlike Ubuntu LTS.

Well, yes, but a Linux spicy enough to keep you above the riff-raff for a few more years.

Would looking at wave propagation from object (i.e. a piece of gauze) all the way to far field diffraction do it for you?

That’s basically the case even countries likes the Netherlands, which have a population 50 times bigger than iceland.

How is no-one here saying QubesOS???

My approach is running it in a container (podman, but if you use docker it’s the same) and simply backing up the mounted folders.

Thus way I can just move everything elsewhere and just restart the container.

And that’s absolutely your privilege to do, since you use KDE. Which is the point.

Some things i like to do in “keyboard heavy” mode, and for other things I want to be a one handed mouser.

I use KDE. My configuration for the title bar includes a “keep on top” buttons (it’s one of my favourite little Linux things, along with middle click paste, which of course GNOME also wants to remove). On the left side near the application icon. CSDs, which I sometimes use (e.g. Firefox) never include this.

I also can’t just access the KWin menu by right clicking, as I would on a normal window, I have to right click the icon on the taskbar (I do use the windows grouping in the taskbar, and that means even more clicks) or I need to use Alt+F3. Which is not too hard, but it means needing two hands for something that should need one.

So there are applications that manage to make CSDs so useful that the drawbacks become acceptable, but it’s honestly not too often.

As far as I can tell, the paid one also loses then plenty of money (possibly more than the free one?)

I keep hitting my face on the fact that DKMS modules somehow don’t depend on the kernel headers and these have to be installed manually. This happened to me both in Arch and in Debian.

Why does everyone seem to think that this makes sense?

Why was the feature added if my browser is going to browse to the page anyway? […] it could be a privacy preserving feature.

It’s just supposed to save you time and effort.

If anyone has real concerns about having their IP leaked they should be using a VPN (I think Proton has a fairly generous free tier) or TOR. Relying on a link preview feature like that would be like wearing a condom against the rain. It will technically increase your protection, but you will still be really quite exposed.

Love that you ignore all of the people who are currently seeing the popups and not understanding why.

No, I just took his objection at face value.

They create an AI feature, they realise people don’t want it, and realise a minimal one they can turn on for everyone in a thin-end-of-the-wedge approach.

OR

They create a feature with AI, realise it’s controversial, so they figure out a minimal version, they split the parts with and without AI, and enable the non-controversial one by default.

The facts are the same, just a different narrative. Which is legitimate. Realizing that’s what it is is non optional.

Germans behave (in the overwhelming majority) way better than this. But their sense of humor is often… A little different.

“German humour is a serious thing, it is in no laughing matter”

And I have the suspicion you are an Italian living in Germany anyway.

From the linked article I learned that Firefox’s solution also doesn’t use AI, not by default at least.

And the Zen way of doing it has the exact same (imaginary) privacy issue for which the article blames Firefox.

Is this guy for real?

Mozilla says that key points are processed locally to protect your privacy in the release notes, but says nothing about leaking your privacy in showing the link preview (and enabling it by default).

As opposed to the case where you don’t have a link preview, and you click on a website to see what it contains, and they get your IP. The author seems to think Mozilla should have protected our privacy by having someone act as the proxy for the request. Because involving a thirds party that receives all these requests and does work for us for free is absolutely how we protect our privacy.

The user might also have mobility impairments that makes a fast click harder, resulting in a longer hold time.

Yes, a feature clearly designed for pushing onto that juicy “people with mobility impairments” userbase.

I don’t like the direction Firefox seems to be headed in, but damn people really enjoy getting outraged over everything they do. Around here they get ten times more shit than any other comparable project.