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  • I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.

    Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.

    It’s a really shitty superpower.



  • I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

    I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

    But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.


  • I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

    I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

    It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

    I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

    Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.



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    5 months ago

    I just want to add that you that you can also setup multiple user accounts for different uses. One for banking, one for gaming, one for downloading random crap. It will not protect against privilege escalation attacks but will help against random scripts exfiltrating your personal documents.

    Another nice layer is containers and containerized applications (flatpaks, bubblewrap, etc). Each app will be somewhat limited in what damage it can do.

    Running pi-hole as your DNS or using some other filtered DNS provider (Mulvad or others) will also protect you from some shady sites.






  • This is the kind of selfless, talented, focused person that I am thankful for when I look at the FOSS ecosystem and how far it has come.

    An it really deeply annoys me when these talented persons, who’ve spent countless hours reverse engineering crap, undocumented, proprietary technologies that the original vendor didn’t care enough for its’ users to document or open source, get blasted online by entitled brats that say “Linux sux, my AAA game don’t work!”.

    My thank you to all of them that made all the great tools that I use and love today.