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  • I don't think the government should have done this but, being as they did, I think they punish both sides somehow in order to discourage future foot dragging by other unions/companies.

    Maybe force Canada Post to accept the last offer made, only give half of that to the postal workers, then give the other half to Uber eats drivers.

  • I switched to Tumbleweed from Ubuntu but was wary of the rolling release idea. I went in thinking "Well yeah, they need a file system like BTRFS to back out of bad updates." And this was the case for me when Zoom stopped working after an update during a month when I really needed Zoom to be working. But, somehow, BTRFS has turned into a personal requirement for me everywhere. Things went wrong on Ubuntu too, wouldn't it have been nice to be able to easily roll back the change that did it?

    So, I still find it irritating how often little things change with Tumbleweed, but I love having BTRFS in the background making sure I can back out of any major issues.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Can a Flatpak control the file picker used by an app?

    Here's the situation: I use the Obsidian Flatpak with Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed. For a long time the Obsidian file picker was the Plasma version, and life was good. After an update of openSUSE and my Obsidian Flatpak, I'm now getting the Gnome file picker. Life now makes less sense.

    I've confirmed that other Flatpaks are still using the Plasma file picker. I've also been investigating my xdg-desktop-portal configuration based off of what I've been reading here, but it all looks correct to me.

    I can't decide whether this change was because of Obsidian, the Flatpak packaging of Obsidian, or an openSUSE change. Does anyone have tips on tracking this down?

  • I don't see what would be wrong with a world where businesses just satisfied themselves with providing employees with a reasonable living, contributed to the communities they were in, and provided a good or service that was needed. Sitting under a tree and reading a book sounds better than watching the world burn in your name-brand clothes and 5 bedroom 2.5 bath house.

  • Adding my "Me too" to Vorta/Borg. I use it with Borgbase, which I like because it's legitimately cheap and they support Borg development. As well, you can set Borg backups with Borgbase to "append only," which prevents ransomware or other unexpected "whoopsies" from wiping out your backup history.

    I backup most of my computer every hour, but have pruning rules that make sure things don't get too out of hand. I have a second backup that backs everything up to my NAS (using Vorta, again). This is helpful for things like my downloads folder, virtual machines, or STEAM library - things I wouldn't want to backup over the network, but on occasion I do find myself going "whoops, I wanted that."

    I also have Vorta working on my Mom's Macbook, then have Borgbase send me an email when there isn't any activity for longer than a couple of days. Once I got automatic pruning working right I never had to touch this again.

  • I moved from Kubuntu to Tumbleweed and really like it. For some reason I really don't like RPMs and that caused some hesitancy when I thought of switching, but really I never deal with RPMs directly. Zypper is ok and I've made peace with Flatpak. I update the whole distro every weekend and I've tested out reverting using Snapper.

    In the year and a half of using it I can think of two problems I had from updating - one is fixed by removing the GPUCache directory of an Electron app when Mesa gets updated, the other is with Zoom which I mostly fixed by moving to the Flatpak version.

  • I did this this year for wildfire smoke, and it works great. Having said that, it is not quiet and the way I was using it was to run it at full blast for an hour, then leave it off for most the day.

    If you wanted an always-on solution, I think I'd actually suggest a commercial air purifier.

  • The model for most the content on the internet doesn't work without advertising. The people who are "zero tolerance" on ads are going to prevent possible compromises from being made and just encourage an arms race. I don't think we win that arms race, we get more insidious forms of tracking and brazen advertising.

  • The general discovery I made was this: for the small price of foregoing pretty colors and buttons and chrome, you can get a computer to do exactly what you want it to do much quicker. Assuming a willingness to learn a bit of shell scripting, of course.

    I find the emphasis people put on speed interesting, because by far the slowest part of any interaction I have with my computer is caused by me just figuring out what I'm doing next. When I'm functioning at top speed not needing to click around, or say, having the perfect keyboard shortcut, would save me only fractions of a second.

    Actually.. to add to this I think the cognitive load of visually navigating is much lower than typing specific things it. I think this is why I find I'd prefer to click around my bookmarks or files to find something than just pull up a "Find" dialog and type something reasonable in.

  • I have to say that hearing this story initially, then reading this update has made me question how I might jump to conclusions.

    The security footage sounds really damning. In the least, it proves the woman lied about the police not talking to her. Her and the neighbors cursing at the guy suddenly makes the "neighbors agree this guy just complains a lot" fact a lot more suspect.

    In all, I can totally see this might be a case of racist neighbors, and not simply "police charge teaching assistant with a water gun with assault."

  • CBC Hamilton spoke to two other homeowners who purchased houses by Marina Homes in the same subdivision. They said they've experienced serious issues with how their homes were constructed, but are reluctant to speak out and worried it will jeopardize their property values.

    "Uhhh, no comment. We're hoping we can scam someone else into buying this house like we were scammed into buying it."

  • I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.

    If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.

    I use Thunderbird now and ... eh. It's ok.

  • Doesn't VirtualBox use KVM if it's available?

    I likeVBoxManage. Any crazy thing I've ever imagined doing with a VM it's already supported.

    So, to answer your question - I use VirtualBox because it does everything I want and I've never had a reason to look elsewhere.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Why is OpenSSL able to use a key file my user shouldn't have access to?

    The following command works even though I really don't think I should have permission to the key file:
    $ openssl aes-256-cbc -d -pbkdf2 -in etc_backup.tar.xz.enc -out etc_backup.tar.xz -k /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key

    I'm unable to even ascertain the existence of the key file under my normal user. I'm a member of only two groups, my own group and vboxusers.

    The permissions leading up to that file:

     undefined
        
    drwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4010 Jul 31 08:01 etc
    ...
    drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      206 Jul 14 23:52 ssl
    ...
    drwx------ 1 root root    26 Jul 31 14:07 private
    ...
    -rw------- 1 root root 256 Jul 31 14:07 etcBackup.key
    
      

    OpenSSL isn't setuid:

     undefined
        
    > ls -la $(which openssl)
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1004768 Jul 14 23:52 /usr/bin/openssl
    
      

    There don't appear to be any ACLs related to that key file:

     undefined
        
    > sudo getfacl /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key
    [sudo] password for root: 
    getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
    # file: etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key
    # owner: root
    # gr
      
    Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Recovering from an openSUSE Tumbleweed update

    Zoom is vital to my job this month and prior to an update last week I had the openSUSE version of Zoom's RPM installed and working fine.

    I updated my Tumbleweed installation to openSUSE-20240704-0 last week, after which Zoom started crashing when sharing a screen. There was a message in the logs about the library libqt5qml.so and I thought I could fix this by backing out either the update for the libQtQuick5 package in particular, or just booting from the pre-update snapshot.

    To make a long story short, I ultimately installed the Zoom Flatpak and resolved to get back to this when I had a bit more time.

    My question - Can people suggest the right way in openSUSE Tumbleweed to handle the situation where an update breaks something on the system?

    Assuming libQtQuick5 was the updated package that was at fault here, is there a way I could have downgraded just that package? Would booting from the pre-update snapshot and then just carrying on with my week have been a reasonable wa

  • I ordered mine from http://clove.co.uk/ and they happily shipped to Canada. It has worked fine in Canada, the US, and Barbados (eSIM and physical SIM).

    I like the phone a lot, but whenever it's talked about I'm surprised how many people feel the urge to chime in on why it wouldn't work for them.

    I'd say my biggest gripe is lack of accessories. I paid the huge price for the official screen protector twice. They both cracked relatively quickly and there are pretty much no other options. I'm using a flexible matte-finish screen protector from Amazon now, but it scratches really easily and will slide around on the screen if I keep my phone in my back pocket.

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    What is the "right" thing to do when a website tells me to download Chrome?

    I'll be emailing the site admin... or some contact at the site, but, is there anything else that can be done to try to put pressure on these websites that tell me "you're not getting the best experience... download Chrome."?

    I know Firefox has a "Report a broken site" feature, but, the site isn't technically broken. They're just telling me to switch browsers.

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    NotAnArdvark @lemmy.ca

    Where can I ask questions about iproute2 tools?

    I have a very specific questions about Linux Traffic control and u32 filters in particular. However, I don't know where the right place is to ask such a question as it's fairly niche.

    The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control site says it has a mailing list for questions, but the last post was from 2019. There is also the incredibly busy 'linux-netdev' mailing list, but, the traffic there looks like strictly source changes.

    Any ideas?

    The question I'm trying to find an answer to is: The u32 tc filter seems to support negative byte offsets which allows you to examine the Ethernet frame header (I don't think I even found documentation on this, this is thanks to ChatGPT). However, when using u32 values to examine 8 bytes I can only use offsets in increments of 4 - like "at -8" or "at -12", with any other increment giving me the error Illegal "match".

    This seems like only a curiosity, but, I've been struggling to get m