russjr08 @ russjr08 @outpost.zeuslink.net

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I'm not sure if this is universal or specific to the last site I tried to use my Yubikey with as a passkey, but it only would allow it to be used as 2FA, not actual passwordless authentication.

I assume this is because Yubikeys don't create a secret for each individual website I suppose? Not exactly sure about that one.

Wait, Avenue 5 was cancelled? Damn it!

They also support gimmicks like “reacting” to messages which get overlaid in-line with a heart icon. On SMS it is sent as “MooseBoys loved ‘be right there’”.

Technically, yes SMS doesn't support reactions. But you can do what Google does and just parse that text and "turn" it into a reaction for viewing purposes.

If an iPhone user sends me a reaction it looks fine to me, but funnily enough now when I send one back it looks the exact way Apple sends it to non Apple devices.

Oh. My. God.

Definitely one of the changes I'll be most appreciative of, that was incredibly annoying.

The task bar, for example, will often stop being useable and freeze up. I have had the digital clock widget freeze up on me, which requires a relog to fix.

Thankfully this has been tracked down, and will be fixed for Plasma 6. If you run into it, you can hit Alt+F2 and run kwin_wayland --replace which will restart the shell.

If you go into edit mode, and edit the task bar widget that shows your running applications, disable the option that shows window previews upon hovering over the application. Apparently that is the thing that causes the renderer to fail on non Intel GPU systems. Here's the bug report that goes over the whole history if you're interested.

Definitely feel you on the overall Nvidia Wayland KDE issues. I really wish I was in a position to be able to pickup an AMD GPU.

Same here. The overflow menu also causes a crash:

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PopOS and Mint do the best job I have seen of being reasonably inviting to non-technically literate users. Ubuntu is pretty bad but not nearly quite like Arch.

While I'm not going to say that Arch doesn't want those users, Arch is not really designed for those people. Arch is designed for those who want to build their OS from the ground up and pick the pieces they want. For people who fit this, they (traditionally) would not want a flashy website - they just want the information. You'll find that most people whether they use Arch or not, if they're familiar with what it is they would not recommend it to new users.

Due to the rolling release nature of Arch, the homepage is designed to be essentially a changelog for what you need to be aware of when updating your system. Or in other words, the "bread and the butter" is supposed to be the latest news portion right below the introduction. Such as the latest news post as of this time of writing.

Well, I certainly hope you brought enough to share with the class!

Very nice! That sounds like a fantastic "get away from it all" moment!

Well on the upside, yesterday I got a new office chair! It's not exactly a high-end one, but its a significant upgrade over my last one which felt like was destroying my posture every minute I sat in it.

... on the downside, I've only woken up about two hours ago, and my stomach has apparently decided that I will be spending most of my time in a different chair for today (or at least, this morning).

I get the feeling closing the lid has the same effect as putting your thumb on top of a hose...

Not to mention, a lot of ISPs still provide you with shit hardware, so by just purchasing an actually somewhat decent router you may even notice a performance improvement on your network as well.

Absolutely! I know the first time I installed Arch before the lovely days of archinstall I ended up doing a lot of reading of the wiki through my phone haha!

I never got the chance to use NeXTSTEP and that sounds great! Would be an excellent middle ground and is definitely one of those "I didn't know I needed this until now" sort of thing!

Unfortunately, if they were to do this I'd imagine they'd be able to know you blocked them - as your instance would need to tell the other instance (and if they were a single user instance they could grab that record from the database) to hide your comments/posts. Which could cause even more problems as there are definitely people who'd go scorched earth over it. Even if they didn't go on a rampage about it, they'd still be able to just then logout and see what you're saying because of that.

From what I recall in the ActivityPub spec, transmitting blocks is already there, but I imagine no one implements it for that reason.

They might be talking from a mobile perspective (or alternative UI) since a lot of them have that ability. Though, the next Lemmy update will have that feature natively thankfully!

Right, yes - I'm fully aware that LO follows OOXML's spec (the name "Office Open" being ironic), but that's still missing the point of what I was saying. If you turn in a homework assignment that your teacher/professor can't properly read because you saved it using LO and they're using MSO, its not going to be accepted no matter how much you tell them that its Microsoft's fault. Same thing if you try to submit a Powerpoint presentation to another department at work. Or if you try to submit a spreadsheet to some government department.

That's fair, but at the same time as you mentioned most people use Windows because their computer comes with it. Now, while generally just browsing the internet and doing office work is simple even on Linux - what happens when they do run into a problem (say my coworker, who ran into graphical glitches with Fedora when not using safe graphics mode)? How likely are they going to have someone around them who uses Linux to help them troubleshoot the issue? When they try to work on a document that they've gotten from work, or school, then submit it only to find out that Libreoffice mangled the formatting causing it to render completely incorrect to everyone else whose using Windows at their workplace/school. How many of those folks are going to have an IT team at said place whose able to help them correct the issue?

You and I would be around to help with that (if its possible - using Libreoffice again as an example, there are some cases where MS Office just does not agree with the way LO saves documents), but given that Linux users are many order of magnitudes less than Windows users - this is just not likely to be the case for the average population.

I get that this is definitely a "Chicken & Egg" problem of course, but the reality is that this is the current situation, and short of Microsoft royally pissing off not only users but PC manufactures, this isn't likely to change...

Websites that do not let me copy/paste my password in from my password manager, and break the auto-fill functionality.

Additionally, the ones that make you change the password every sixty days because they don't let me copy and paste the newly generated one in... It just feels like they're begging me to try to use an insecure one.

About the bonus peeve, it's definitely a double edged sword for me. I know exactly what you mean, and I hate those moments.

But at the same time, one thing I've come to dislike on GNOME is when I click a link in Thunderbird expecting it to open right away, and instead get a "Mozilla Firefox is ready" notification. It makes it feel a bit clunkier/slower when I've come to expect that interaction to be instant (and I wouldn't be surprised if that's precisely why it hasn't changed in most places).

So now instead of being bothered by one case, I get bothered by both cases lol. I wish there was more of a middle-ground, like middle clicking the link (or holding control/some other modifier key) would bypass that notification and just directly open/focus it.