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M4775

@ M4775 @lemmy.world

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Pop!_Enthusiast. Open source and FOSS advocate.

  • Customizing COSMIC: Theming and Applications

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  • I love the full overview as well. On every Pop installation I restore it to super key only. The Launcher then goes to it's original keys of super + /. You end up with the full activity view with the exception of the Gnome search bar. And we're talking about the COSMIC extension on Gnome right now, but the COSMIC desktop environment will be much more configurable from what I've been led to believe.

  • I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button

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  • I get that, but like the things I mentioned, most porn/comics/TV is boring, predictable, generic crap and a waste of time and brain cells. So, I don't understand why most porn/comics/TV is popular either. Absolute garbage! I can think of a thousand things I'd rather be doing than sifting through all that generic crap.

  • Customizing COSMIC: Theming and Applications

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  • Yes, it's good enough to do many normal things with. And like you said, if you get stuck you can log out and into another DE. Logging out can be done from the top panel menu, the Launcher or using loginctl from a TTY if necessary.

  • Customizing COSMIC: Theming and Applications

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  • I've never wanted to "rice" my Pop!_OS, but I think I've been disappointed that Gnome couldn't add some simple changes like the following from COSMIC without installing third party software.

    Beyond changing from Dark to Light mode and choosing an accent color you can change the application background, interface text palette tint and neutral palette tint. You’ll also be able to choose one of the three styles for the corner radii used throughout the interface and set an interface density.

    Finally! Notifications can happen where you want, and they're not connected to the calendar. This is a massive win for me. Gnome's is really annoying being top center and dropping down into your work. I've always turned off 95% of notifications. If I can have them bottom left or right I will love that.

    The notifications applet has been integrated into COSMIC DE! Unlike in Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, notifications exist in their own applet, separate from your calendar.

  • Not everything needs an app

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  • Not everything needs and app

    But then they couldn't scrape maximum personal data, collect your contacts, have access to your mic and camera, and track your every physical movement. Your so selfish!

  • I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button

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  • YES! A hide sports button sounds amazing. Including car sports of course.

    And a hide Hentai/Manga/Anime button. I don't understand its popularity.

    A hide Games/Gaming/Gamer button including PS1-7, Xbox, Playstation etc..

    Definitely a hide Furry/yiff/fetish button.

    A boobs/celeb/shoes button

    A religion button.

    People can look at whatever they like, but it would be amazing of my block list could be reduced from a thousand to a couple. The brilliant thing about federated instances is also one of the most annoying. If you block something on lemmy.world you likely have the same community on lemmy.ml or many of the other instances. Blocking the exact thing five times is tedious.

  • Cosmic theming

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    Rip Bram Moolenaar - Vim's creator - open source legend - charitable champion.

  • Your thoughts on The Orville?

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  • The Orville is my favorite Star Trek franchise. It's canon - you can't deny it. The Orville revived the Star Trek Franchise and gave it a pulse. It's like blockchain. You can say it doesn't belong, but it will always be there and nothing can change that. It has great attention to detail and decent story writing with that original "there's a moral in this episode" that endeared ST in our hearts, something the newer ST franchises lack.

  • Cosmic theming

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  • I don't think anyone could answer this reliably except a Pop COSMIC dev right now. They've been hinting at much better user enabled theming than GNOME, but the repos I thought were part of are archived. I see some development in libcosmic, but I don't know how to compare their intentions with Plasma. Wait for a DEV.

  • Pop Package Updates (Week of July 23, 2023)

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  • Yeah, a couple people mentioned that they had apps reinstalled. I had Geary reinstall itself, but no big deal. Just purge it again and put it on sudo apt-mark hold.

    The reason this happened was a reorganization of the metapackage. https://github.com/pop-os/desktop/pull/113. One of Pop's devs had this to say;

    one of the bigger changes that prompted it was the Ubuntu Pro ESM adds; now we can just drop packages like the one providing those instead of having to replace them with dummy packages to fulfill the dependencies or hack around them with additional packages. It also enables Pop!_OS server and decouples things that will make rolling out COSMIC Epoch easier, so it was really a win all around.

    These guys are always going above and beyond to maintain the open source freedom we appreciate so much.

  • Stuck between distros right now.

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  • Totally agree. I've tested over 40 distributions over the years with mixed results. I've been using Pop!_OS for five years now and still loving every second of it. It has been stable, easy to use out-of-the-box and the devs are cutting edge awesome. Pop!_OS differs from nearly all other distributions due to System76 being an open source hardware sales company - They absolutely need a stable OEM operating system at all times. I could elaborate further, but I think the vote of confidence should be enough for OP to look for themselves.

  • Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half

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  • This article neglects to point out that the initial join up number was a deceptive and manipulative corporate strategy which amounts to smoke and mirrors. 100 million people didn't join up for threads! Meta created a placeholder account for every Instagram account in existence. People were able to follow an account that the owner of never made or approved of. Then to top it off, Meta made it initially impossible to delete said placeholder unless you delete your whole Instagram. Nice retention strategy. Too bad it smells like a corporate dump on it's users. When it became possible for people to delete it without losing Instagram it halved overnight. But they got the big media headline, and that's all that matters right. Meta, and threads, is just a pathetic attempt to retain the centralized control of customer people user account holder data, identity and advertising profile as we transition into web3. Don't be lazy. Take control of your own data and identity. These corporate assholes have proven beyond any doubt that they despise people and will abuse you, your rights and privacy without hesitation or remorse. Just quit those broken and failed centralized corporate web2 advertising platforms already.

  • Pop Package Updates (Week of July 23, 2023)

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  • Nice! This is handy. Good job.

  • Want Ads?

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  • It's a decent suggestion. Using multiple windows in a tile stack would be the way I'd do it, but it sounds like that probably won't be a valid suggestion. I don't think it's a such a great feature that I'd comply with DRM based web page tracking and ads for. For clarity, any site with Google's DRM will need to be seen with Chrome or you won't be able to use the site, period. You will be 100% tracked and served ads. They will know exactly who you are on any site. They will clutter your pages, tab stacked or otherwise. I don't believe Google when they say this for your safety and will stop ads. It will give them exclusive power to push ads and companies will pay them a premium to force ads in your pages. This isn't Google's engineers who are pushing this. It's Google corporate making it's engineers break the web for profit and ad dominance.

    Losing the ability to block ads completely or have tab stacking - I know which way I'd go. But hey, you can't force people to do anything, and unlike Google I wouldn't, so I'll just leave it there.

  • Want Ads?

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  • Want Ads?

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  • I most certainly am getting there. Trying to avoid corporate enshitification is near impossible in the web space most people know.

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Want Ads?

  • Rethinking Window Management – Space and Meaning

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  • I especially like the option to auto move full screen windows to their own workspace

    That is a useful option. Some time ago I played with another extension which handled that and I liked the work flow. You could name the app in the Extensions app settings for it, and allocate a workspace number. Too bad it often broke and I got tired of that. If this were an option in COSMIC I'd use it for sure.

  • Apt, packages kept back: why and how to resolve it?

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  • OK, glad you got a result. It is odd, but some dependency issues have been observed lately. I don't know why full-upgrade didn't handle that after running that sequence. Here's a little context;

     
        
dist-upgrade
   dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
   also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
   of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
   it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
   expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
   command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
   contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
   files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
   the general settings for individual packages.

  

     
        
full-upgrade
   full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but may also remove
   installed packages if that is required in order to resolve a
   package conflict.

  • Curious about COSMIC - News and screenshot #2

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  • The technical answer is that COSMIC is a desktop environment, and like any other desktop environment you can install it on top any Linux distribution that supports it. Meaning it should be technically possible to install on an existing 22.04, or maybe 24.04 Pop!_OS. But here's the tricky bit, and nothing is concrete yet. COSMIC DE might be getting released on a new Pop-core which will not be what already exists. In that scenario a fresh installation would likely be necessary. So to answer your question - I'm not sure how that will roll out just now.

    I will say this. After using and watching Pop!_OS development for five years now, whatever System76 release will be awesome. It simply has to be as they're a hardware sales company and need a stable, secure and functional OEM operating system.

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Curious about COSMIC - News and screenshot #2

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    The merits of a solid aluminum chassis.

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    New To Federated Apps? Here's An Imgur-like Solution To Go With Your Lemmy (or anything else).

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    List of apps for Lemmy

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Off Topic

    For those new to Lemmy here's a decent explanation of federation/defederation.

    lemmy.world /post/149743