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The root HTML element of that has an ID called "editBookmarkPanel".

You can set the width or a larger font size, for example, depending on what you want.

recent versions of Firefox (with a few privacy add-ins) have become nearly unusable for me.

Due to performance issues? Mind that Linux is likely a good bit more usable on your hardware and you may very well not need to move away from Firefox after all.

“missing MSVCR120.dll” (part of Windows C++ Redistributable pkg)

Not sure, if you're saying that you already found this out, but yeah, there is an installer from Microsoft for this Windows C++ Redistributable package.

bergerrealty.com & attheshore.com (web cam hosting sites)- “no compatible source was found for this media”

I'm on Linux and these work for me in Falkon. But it could be that your particular hardware + the Chrome browser engine that Falkon uses, results in no source being compatible (e.g. your graphics card only offers acceleration for the H.264 codec, which is what Firefox generally uses, not VP9, which is what Chrome/Falkon prefers). Then it would still not work after the switch, although again, Firefox would probably work...

legacy.com (obituary site) - various page loading and display issues. If I fully enable content permissions, I can get the home page displayed, but no links are functional.

Again, works for me. I didn't have to do anything. I have the built-in ad block enabled, but no other customizations, as far as I remember (I only use Falkon as a backup browser).

facebook.com - Log-in successful. Home page displays, but is immediately followed by: “Qt Qtwebengineprocess has stopped working” here is the pertinent info from the Windows analysis pop-up:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH; Application Name: QtWebEngineProcess.exe; Application Version: 5.12.1.0; Fault Module Name: Qt5WebEngineCore.dll; Exception Code: c0000005; Exception Offset: 00b75263

I don't use Facebook, so can't test this one. This could be due to using the 32-bit version, but it's really difficult to say. Only real pointer I can give you is that "QtWebEngine" is a thin wrapper around the browser engine of Chrome (which is called "Blink"). It's part of the Qt GUI framework that Falkon uses. So, likely not specific to Falkon.

If you've got a spare USB stick, I would recommend just preparing it as the Linux Mint installation medium. You'll be able to boot off of that into a largely functional Linux Mint system, without actually installing it.

This will be slower than a proper installation, as it will read the data off of the USB stick rather than your hard drive, and lots of these "live" installation medias do not come with all the media codecs, so this will probably not be representative for your webcam sites.
I'm also not entirely sure, if you can just install Falkon into that live system.

But at the very least, you can give Firefox a look (it's the default browser), see how that performs, and just play around with the system.

Yeah, currently scheduled for Firefox 120.

I can reproduce this by replying to a thread and then deleting my comment...

Yeah, that image viewer is likely using an image library that supports WebP without the image viewer devs being aware of that.

Nope. JPEG XL is more modern and delivers lower file sizes without fucking up image quality as much. Downside is that, right now, JPEG XL is actually supported by even less things, because it is still so new.

But it is an industry standard rather than just Google trying to push its own thing, so I do expect it to overtake WebP in a few years.

Step 1: Lots of hard fucking work.

Point is, we have laws enforcing that possibility. It's not goodwill from companies...

Trust me, the eng team doesn't want to fuck with Python either.

The German translation of "Switzerland" is "Schweiz", which is a word like "meadow". It just describes a particular region, which often happens to be mountainous and with lots of forests, like the actual nation also happens to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Switzerland_(landscape)

I do also imagine xenophobia being involved, but the tourist might have just translated the word "grenade" and held that up on their phone screen.

At $DAYJOB, I was evaluating a data collection software and needed some files for it to read. I had some random text files top-level in my home-directory, so I figured, I would just tell it to read from ~.

I expected that it might read directories recursively by default, but I could just stop it, if it does that.
What I didn't expect, is that yes, it does read recursively, but also that by default, it deletes the files it has read. It had eaten a good chunk of my home-directory when I realized.

Now you might think, it doesn't just delete the files, it transfers them to a different place, so surely, the data still exists. And you'd be right.

However, while it reads from directories recursively, it doesn't retain the directory structure. So, the contents of my home-directory were all still there, just completely flattened in one big folder.

I'm mostly a fan, because I don't feel like I have to have faith.

If my instance explodes, I'll make an account on another instance. If the Lemmy devs collectively evaporate (and neither me nor others want to pick up the slack), then I can go to Mastodon or Kbin or whatever.

Individual rogue instances can be defederated. If e.g. Reddit truely disappears over night and Lemmy were to gain mass market appeal, then I can likely find a more isolated instance with a smaller community sharing my interests.

We're already seeing an increase in natural disasters, with various areas experiencing floods, draughts or wildfires that didn't use to have them.
This alone leads to political conflicts in those areas, but also leads to mass emigrations, ultimately causing the political egoists right in unaffected areas being strengthened, which could at its worst lead to another Nazi uprising, world war etc..

I do also think that humanity as a whole will survive (that is, if we don't obliterate the ecosystems sustaining our lives, like e.g. pollinators). But our current life style of 8 billion people across all areas of Earth may not be sustainable anymore, which does mean the more privileged will be fine, others not.

We are currently in the 6th mass extinction event in the history of the planet Earth. 🙂

I can recommend Starship.

I did say, it was a completely ridiculous side-project. ¯(ツ)_/¯

I am fluent in reading music, with the exception of different clefs. I just never played an instrument that wasn't in bass clef.

But yeah, this will take me multiple years. I'm learning as I go.

F-Droid has the most up-to-date versions (v0.3.16 and v1.4.5). Both of these just haven't seen a release in a while, although the FlorisBoard developer seems to have recently returned.

For the past year, I've had this completely ridiculous side project to compose a big orchestral piece, even though I don't have that much experience, and I feel like I've gone through half this discussion on my own.

Suddenly, I need to read notes for all kinds of instruments, many in treble clef, which I'm less familiar with, and constantly switching back and forth between clefs, too.

What's also not fun, as complex as notation is, it's actually quite limited in describing how to perform, especially at a detail level where a computer can do it.

As a result, I've considered switching from notation to a DAW, but:

1. You quickly lose yourself in that detail work in DAWs. The limitations of notation are kind of a feature.
2. The piano rolls really are quite unwieldy. I basically can't have more than one instrument visible on my laptop screen. And even if I could, visually jumping 10cm (or more) up and down, just to compare two instrument parts, is not helpful.
3. I don't want to encode it into some DAW-specific format, which might not anymore be usable in 10 years or so. Especially, if you do rely on encoding performance details to make it sound good, there's no chance any human will be able to replicate that.

So, yeah, I've been trying to embrace the limitations of notation. Make it sound good, without relying on the specific performance.
And if I really want, I can compose it all in bass clef + 8va as needed, then switch it back to treble clef when I near completion. Or I can just have it render the note names into the music sheet.