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  • I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.







  • Have you tried installing MTGO using Lutris? Apparently it works fine, but you’ll need some tweaks. The key is to use windowed mode, disable music and card animations:

    Runner options: -Use the latest version of lutri-proton if it’s not the default. -Use windowed (virtual desktop) mode and the display resolution of whatever device you are playing on. This was the biggest fix of most problems for me with stuff related to proper rendering of windows. -All else is default from Lutris install

    System options: -Uncheck restrict number of cores -Disable desktop effects -All else is default from Lutris install

    In-game options: -Disable or silence music and Uncheck play client startup music -Disable card animations(summoning sickness and foil treatment)

    I’ve also found that it is always better to close the program using the Stop button on Lutris, there’s a bug where sometimes if you close out of the game via the Close button in the window, it will not properly stop the game, and will prevent starting the game back up again. I also tend to start the game in Lutris instead of via a desktop shortcut.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/101262d/psa_mtgo_on_steam_deck/j9bqck9/



  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWindows eats partitions
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    1 year ago

    In my experience (W11 + Fedora on UEFI Thinkpad), I’ve seen it actually get rid of the Fedora entry from the UEFI boot list. Reinstalling GRUB from chroot didn’t fix it, so I used EasyUEFI and manually added the Fedora EFI file to the boot list and that worked.

    So it wasn’t simply changing the boot order, it actually nuked Fedora from the UEFI boot list.








    • Fedora KDE plans to drop the Plasma X11 session, in favor of Wayland

    • Because X11 is bloated, insecure, and in a development freeze since many years.

    • Wayland is simple, secure, minimal; developed by former X11 devs.

    • Challenges:

    • Wayland’s minimal core protocols lacked essential features.

    • Fragmentation in development efforts occurred.

    • Protocol approval was political and time-consuming.

    • Current State:

    • Standard protocols for most requirements are now available.

    • Plasma and KDE apps run well on Wayland with the upcoming Plasma 6 release.

    • Many 3rd-party apps work via the XWayland compatibility layer, but some need to be ported to Wayland.

    • Conclusion:

    • Fedora aims to drop the Plasma X11 session entirely, if you don’t like it then switch disros.

    • Many 3rd-party apps are already Wayland-ready, but many are not, and collaboration is needed to expedite this transition.



  • The enshittification actually began several years ago, back when FB bought WhatsApp. That was the moment you gave up on privacy, the moment that was a clear sign that it was all going to go downhill from there. If y’all didn’t quit WhatsApp at that time, then you bought it upon yourselves. The truth is, you’ve been using a shitty service for a long time and whoring your data to Meta and making Zuckerberg richer, so this latest feature bloat or w/e isn’t the least bit interesting.




  • Inflexible by Nature

    This is my biggest concern with immutable distros, but this article says nothing to address it. It gave examples of changing certain parts in NixOS, but I’d rather see a couple of “hello world” type examples for a few other popular immutable distros.

    Eg, how do I alter a file, say /etc/fstsb, in Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, BlendOS etc? Is it as easy as remounting your root as r/w and saving? Or does it require a 100 steps? If it isn’t straightforward, then it may well be considered as inflexible.