[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 74 points 6 months ago

”Finding a co-maintainer or passing the projects completely to someone else has been in my mind a long time but it’s not a trivial thing to do. For example, someone would need to have the skills, time, and enough long-term interest specifically for this.” - https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00571.html

As someone who runs a charity almost completely solo because of a lack of volunteers, I feel this so much in my bones. It's one thing to say, "Hey folks, I can't run this on my own, I need help" but it's another to find people who actually have the level of skill, committent, passion and integrity to contribute in a meaningful way. I can get people putting their hands up but I've lost count of the number of people who have then turned around and said, "Oh, actually I realise now I don't have time for this" or start in great and then just ghost me. It also takes more of my own time and energy, on top of what I'm already doing' to onboard and train people and it sucks so hard when I do that and then people disappear shortly after - I constantly have to question whether the time it takes to do that will be worth it vs just continuing the struggle by myself.

When you get consumers being arrogant and demanding, getting angry at you for taking too long to respond to their messages or not work fast enough.... it's soul crushing. Way too many people take volunteer work for granted or assume you're getting paid for your time and can therefore treat you like a working-class pleb or are plain just fucking rude and entitled. :( APPRECIATE YOUR VOLUNTEERS FOLKS! We need more volunteers, and appreciation. Many hands makes light work.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 80 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You realise that this comment is exactly part of the problem of why this happened, right? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Oh the hilarious irony. Can anyone recommend an up to date Firefox addon that gets rid of these fucking popups, automatically declining all but necessary? I've looked at a few but I remember folks here recommending some that I can't now for the life if me remember what they were. Thanks!

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 52 points 8 months ago

Please remember to make a donation to the Internet Archive for the invaluable work they do!

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Thorned_Rose@kbin.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Dunno if this is Wayland, Thunderbird, Firefox or KDE causing this issue but in the past few days I've been giving Wayland a go. Been much snappier and no issues but for Firefox not taking focus when I open web links in Thunderbird.

When I use Thunderbird with X and click on a link, Firefox will correctly grab focus and open the link.

Using Wayland, clicking a link in Thunderbird correctly opens the link in Firefox however Firefox stays minimised or drawn behind the other windows. My dock (KDE panel set to "Windows can cover") also does not pop up like it normally would if I've opened something but it's in the background. It stays hidden and I have to mouse over it to see that the Firefox icon is highlighted.

I've tried opening links from the Steam client and Firefox correctly takes focus from there so it so far seems to be just Thunderbird links not opening correctly in Firefox. I haven't been able to find anything in KDE's settings that would affect only Thunderbird.

EDIT (tested some different app combos):

Applications it correctly takes focus from: Pamac, Bottles, Calibre, Gnome Calculator, Gnome Evince Document Viewer, Steam, Strawberry Music Player

Applications it doesn't grab focus from: Thunderbird and Betterbird, Libreoffice (links in the About or URL links in a document), GIMP, Krita, Signal, Kdenlive, Darktable, VLC, QtAV QMLPlayer, Obsidian

I also tried Okular links but for some reason those opened in Chromium instead of Firefox (despite Firefox being set to default) but Chromium did take focus.

It's a minor annoyance but obviously I would like to fix it if possible and continue using Wayland given that, for me, it's noticeably faster than X.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.6.10-arch1-1
DE: Plasma 5.27.10
WM: kwin
Display Server: Wayland 1.22.0-1
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6800 XT

Thunderbird 115.6.1, Firefox 121.0.1.

TIA!

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 45 points 9 months ago

The Epic Games that ironically has monopolised exclusive titles on their platform? That Epic Games? The same Epic Games done for violating kids privacy rights? Epic Games that makes it hard to get refunds? The Epic Games partly owned by Tencent who are known to be in bed with the CCP? That one? Epic who my be selling user data to the CCP and broke GDPR laws? And the Epic Games CEO who actively shits on Linux gamers? Are we talking about that Epic Games?

Meh, they can go to hell along with Google.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 47 points 9 months ago

As an ex webdesigner/dev, Squarespace, Weebly and the like killed my income well before ChatGPT did.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 106 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"injured rights holders"

🙄🙄🙄🙄🤮

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But the hurtful comments leave a bigger mark than the good ones

As a volunteer for a charity, I feel this so much. I work incredibly hard to help people, I get paid nothing for my time. The entitlement and rude demands burns me out way faster. Especially when people seem to put far more effort into complaining and being rude than they do thanking me or showing appreciation for what we do.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 47 points 11 months ago

Wtf is that screenshot?! When you're talking about user protection, it generally helps to have a relevant screenshot and not something thats going to confuse or put off users.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people still do raise them for food 🙂

When you've got not fridge and the environment isn't always condusive to curing and preserving meat, it's very handy to raise an animal that's a smaller amount of meat (say one meal) than something like a goat, pig, chicken or cow.

They breed easily and rapidly, eat scraps and vegetation that humans normally don't. So folks keep a herd of Guinea pigs and just slaughter whatever they need for a meal.

It's very clever and much more environmentally friendly than clearing forest for larger animals.

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain this for folks whose existence is outside the US

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago

RED FLAGS!! red flaaags. RED FLAAAGS, get your red flags heeeeere folks 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[-] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone else think that Gigabyte's "Ultra Durable" looks like an ad for condoms? No? Just me?

My spouse has a Gigabyte mobo and makes me laugh and him cringe so often lol.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Thorned_Rose@kbin.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

So I've loved the minimalist aesthetic of Elementary's Pantheon desktop for a long time now. I even ran Pantheon (on Arch) for a long time but eventually the quirks and bugs got to me and I ditched it. I've now been using KDE for several years but still sometimes get the itch for that aesthetic again.

I've almost got my KDE desktop to look enough like Pantheon to make me happy EXCEPT for the completely transparent top panel.

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(It's not so easy to see in the smaller image above, but the top panel is slightly transparent. Apologies, here's another screenshot showing it is indeed semi-transparent.)

I have adaptive transparency turned on so that the panel goes opaque with maximised windows all good. The issue as you can see from the screenshot above is that when there's nothing maximised, the top panel is barely transparent let alone fully transparent.

I understand this is from the theme I'm using (Breeze Dark).

I don't want to use Latte dock. And every single set of instructions I have come across about how to alter themes has either been outdated, doesn't work or says something along the lines of, "You need to edit the theme." but doesn't say HOW. I've searched for that too and come up empty - either outdated or doesn't apply to Arch.

Can someone please tell me (bearing in mind that I have Cognitive Impairment so breaking down the instructions is very appreciated!) how I can edit Breeze Dark so that my top panel is completely transparent?

Or if there's a simpler way to achieve this, please let me know! :) TIA!

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I REALLY want to get away from using all Microsoft products. My spouse and I use Linux but not for our kids just simply because I have yet to find anything that does what Microsoft Family does - being able to remotely set time limits, keep an eye on screen time stats, block websites and apps remotely, see what websites they've been using, etc.

So far I've found some disparate apps or methods that can do some of this. But our family situation is complicated, not least of which includes disability and special needs. So basically, yeah, I need to be able to spy on what my kids are doing on their computers but I don't want Microsoft or any other companies being able to do that. I would like to be able to switch the kids laptops/PCs onto Linux as well, but again, the lack of remote parental controls or some sort of centralised access has been preventing that so far.

We don't need a phone app, but would just really like some central place that we can do this from that respects privacy, isn't trying to sell us yet more crap and is preferably FOSS.

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