Anyone who can file issues on the atom/rss news feeders, could you please let maintainers know they're totally out of sync? The latest news they show are from 2016, the feed URLs:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.atom https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.rss

Now a days the rss one could actually be dropped, if that alleviates the burden of keeping the feeds active and maintained.

Thanks a lot if anyone can let them know and ask if that can be fixed.

Hello !

This hackaday blog Electric Jeep With Modified Prius Hardware shows an example of an electrified jeep from this youtube post Boost Charging with the Gen 2 Prius Inverter.

I'd really like to look at examples like this, and now I know the prius inverter is a thing, but I'm also looking for more kind of off road conversion kits, and targeting old but pretty good but sturdy off road champs like different jeep models. And that are not as expensive as buying anew?

The issue with modern vehicles, whether electric or not, is how connected they are, and how they have become like software as a service kind of stuff, so one really doesn't own the vehicle since one needs to keep paying per month, quarter or year, whatever it is, and with all the dangers on privacy and security of generating location and other personal information that can be gathered from the vehicles. There are people that have found ways to hack modern cars to incorporate kill switches and the like, but that's risky if in need to apply for guarantee or similar. Besides, Ford, Bollinger, and Rivian, which are all pretty expensive, there's no much off road options, and maybe converting is the best way moving forward.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40858754

On dino and conversations for example I can chat to myself on a chat to my own JID. As simple as that. On profanity I can not do /roster add <my_jid>, nothing gets added, although there's no failure either. And I can't do either /sub request <my_jid>, it gives the error:

Error Invalid presence type

And if I include something something to the chat to myself on dino for example, then my JID shows up as unsubscribed, and if I do /omemo start <my_jid> I can't se whatever I posted on dino or somewhere else. But this is weird, because whenever connecting to my account my JID doesn't show up as a possible contact to chat with, and I can do /omemo start <my_jid> but it still shows up weird...

Hello !

As federated, I'm subscribed to communities from other instances than lemmy.ml, for example ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], ![email protected], and several other ones...

The common thing is that the federated communities are often pretty out of sync with regards to the original ones on their corresponding instances, and that in the best cases, some times I don't think they've even been syncing for quite a while.

I'm wondering if it's a limitation given lemmy.ml can't keep up, given its amount of users and federation, or if it's something that can be looked at...

Thanks !

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25256388

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17370625

I've been a user of Librewolf for a about a year now, and it's always served me pretty well as a nice easy way to get a hardened Arkenfox Firefox.

However, recently I was curious why Librewolf wasn't recommended on PrivacyGuides, and took a look through their reasoning on their forum. That thread spans multiple years, and for the most part I thought their reasons for not including it were a bit unfair, especially after Librewolf started offering automatic updates.

But towards the end of that thread in October, a Privacy guide team member posted a link to the Arkenfox github issue tracker, where a Librewolf team member reveals how the project appeared to have lost steam after a critical member left, and they are struggling to keep it up to date with the latest Arkenfox updates, despite putting out new releases.

I'm not sure if those problems have been resolved since that time. One of the maintainers did mention they're still short staffed in this topic on taking over maintaining Mull.

After considering the arguments for and against in the PrivacyGuides thread, I think their conclusion for not recommending it was ultimately correct. Using Librewolf adds an additional layer of trust, not only to not be malicious (which I don't suspect they are) but to also be able to adequately fulfill what they set out to do reliably.

Another big part of them not recommending it was the existence of the Mullvad Browser, which I didn't realize was in fact a very well hardened version of Firefox (essentially the Tor browser without the Tor part), and is far more effective for private browsing compared to Librewolf or an Arkenfox'd firefox.

Ultimately you'll have to come to your own conclusion, but personally I'll be switching back to Firefox as my convenient daily browser full of addons, alongside the mullvad browser for (more) private browsing.

This is so so sad, :( I've been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there's a fork in the horizon, :(

Anyone with a moto one 5g ace (kiev) that performed OTA update recently and got a boot loop out of it?

I use lineageos for microG, which is based on lineageos, and Today got an OTA update which I can't matches the same version as the one on lineage, but after attempting the reboot required by the update, the phone gets into a boot loop.

I haven't found a way to get out of the loop without losing data. Downgrading doesn't help, no matter if a major upgrade is attempted.

It looks to me this could be rather lineageos issue, since I got a past experience with a pixel 4a (5g), and at that time I lost all data attempting a factory reset that didn't even help at all. Later there came an update from lineageos, which I manually installed, and got the phone back, though with all data lost. This time I'd like to avoid losing data.

Any help or hint is appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

I'm long K9 user, and I was aware of it becoming Thunderbird, but I need to clarify what should I do to easy eventual transition, hopefully without having the deal with all my K9 settings...

Today K9 turned into Thunderbird Beta for Testers, however there's already an app called that way Thunderbird Beta for Testers showing up on f-droid. Thoug the actual ID of each differ (com.fsck.k9 vs. net.thunderbird.android.beta).

What should K9 users do, to avoid losing its current settings (accounts, folder settings, encryption and so on)? Should we remain using the K9 app, and hope that when it goes away then the thunderbird app replaces it somehow automatically and pick all accounts and settings? Should this period when the two apps with the same name coexist be used to install thunderbird beta for testers, hope that it pick all settings from K9 up, and then remove K9?

It's somehow confusing, I was originally hoping at some point K9 just turned into thunderbird, but at once, automatically, without still having two apps, so I'm wondering what's next. For now I'm just still using the K9 app with thunderbird name...

Thanks !

Edit 1: Many thanks for those who replied, at least I don't have a google account, and no need to inherit the OAuth to google, or any other of such account for that matter, although I could remain to K9 I migrated to Thunderbird official release (no beta) without issues. It sounds like a good opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird.

Edit 2: It's sad that the OAuth can not be inherited, though understandable. For those who were just using TB or K9 for a long time with gmail, and the account gets into the infinite dependency loop of requiring a device already logged in, given the stupid security question has no answer, then perhaps it's time to ditch google and look for an alternative, I haven't found anything useful to help around there. Google actually sent a message indicated it has protected the user from herself, and inhibited her attempt to reach her own account. Meanwhile, just staying with K9 seems OK, since it's still there (just a metadata name corrupted but the app ID remained K9 still).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21673875

Cross posting so that the OP realizes this community is alive. I have no issues with qemu, which is installed on my system with no issues.

Posting here as there doesn't seem to be an active Arch Linux community.

I noticed while updating my system today that I have a bunch of qemu packages I don't recall installing. So I took a look at why they were there and found this:

Name            : qemu-base
Required By     : qemu-desktop
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package

Name            : qemu-desktop
Required By     : None
Optional For    : qemu-base
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package

It seems like qemu-desktop was a dependency for something I later removed and pulled in qemu-base. However, because of the dependency cycle, they aren't showing up as orphans and has just been hanging around in my system along with 150mb of other dependencies.

Correct?

Edit: Adding clarification on why this was cross posted, and no I'm not the OP.