I've noticed a few things when blocking users.

1. If i block user A, then any post/thread by that user A is not shown. So lets say a thread has posts by user A and other people respond to him, all the replies to user A are hidden and only other peoples replies in the thread is visible.

2. If user A made link posts, they are all hidden including every reply to his thread.

When blocking a domain, i see that communities from that domain still show up in all. I'm confused how to block all communities from a particular domain.

Instead of completely hiding the threads, links and replies to banned users, can the blocked user's post/replies/threads be replaced with a spoiler that the user is blocked in preferences?

I feel swipe to type should be an option on laptops. Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets. Remove the physical keyboard and put a 6" to 10" lcd with touch input on it.

My magazine @GooglePlayDeals has no subscribers except me. Most probably because it's new and was just created a few days back and I don't know how to advertise it on kbin. On the other site, there were subs we could link to to get subscribers.

I've seen some people who have their magazine name next to their username. How do they do that? Probably saw it on lemmy world i think.

Kbin: @GooglePlayDeals

Lemmy: !GooglePlayDeals

Are you waiting to spend your Google Play Rewards on something? Want to buy an app, game, movie or book and the price is too much? Subscribe to my magazine to be in touch with the latest deals on the Play Store. Saw something on sale? You can share deals you come across with our community too.

Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon.

I am using powertop to view what is using my laptop battery the most and it seems the bluetooth adaptop is using around 5W. I turned BT off in settings and also in /etc/bluetooth i changed the config file main.conf to not autostart bluetooth.
Even after doing this and a couple restarts, powertop still shows BT using 3-5W power.

pasocon@pasocon:~$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth
[sudo] password for pasocon:
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-07-28 13:09:10 IST; 1h 0min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 792 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1 (limit: 18691)
Memory: 1.9M
CPU: 26ms
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─792 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/ap>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sb>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sb>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sb>
Jul 28 13:09:13 pasocon bluetoothd[792]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.33 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/>

pasocon@pasocon:$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
pasocon@pasocon:$ bluetoothctl <<< show | grep Powered
Powered: no
pasocon@pasocon:~$

I searched the bios but didnt find any option to disable the bluetooth device. The only advanced options are wrt frequencies and transmit power settings. Does this mean I cant switch off BT completely?

edit: using quotes instead of code because code doesn't work well. i havent striked out anything. the kbin editor is striking out text by itself. o.0