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Does anyone actually like the default GNOME workflow?

I've been testing KDE for several weeks now, XFCE before that but I'm back to Gnome. It just feels right. Everything is where I expect it to be. No searching in thousands of menus. What scares me about KDE is that there are tons of options and stuff that no one will ever need. Especially KMail I find just awful. So many options and you only find what you are looking for, after an extensive search via a search engine of your choice. This is totally frustrating. XFCE does a lot better here, but I miss the one or other pleasant animation when opening windows and the like. Gnome, on the other hand, isn't great either, but I feel most comfortable here.

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Android's Find My Device network will get a huge upgrade soon – here's how it'll work

Find My Device is completely useless until the device is unlocked. As long as it is rebooted and not unlocked, there is no way to detect its location. Since most phones (if not all), use an encrypted filesystem. With such, no service can't start if the device isn't initially unlocked after reboot, including Find my device.

This isn't only a issue with Google's implementation, it's the same with other implementations to.

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Systemd timer unit

OK, many thx for the tips. Since my script in the service file is already doing some logging, i will try to use the last log entry, to find out, when it was last time running and exit the script, if it is not in the timeframe of 1 week.

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What are your favorite browser extensions?

I have created a FOSS extension called SyncMarks to sync bookmarks and tabs. It's working with Firefox, Edge and Chromium and also on Kiwi on Android. You can sync your bookmarks independent from the browser and cross-browser. For example from Firefox to Edge or Chrome.

As a backend I would recommend my small php script which you can selhost. You only need PHP and a database like SQLite or MySQL. As fallback you can use any WebDAV share.

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Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?

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Oh there is a APK, when using Chrome or Samsung Internet (installed via Samsung Store). The store is generating and signing the APK. Only with such a signed APK OS Level functions will work. A good example is the share_target functionality. If this is enabled by the PWA and installed as APK, you can share text and links with the PWA. The same applies for PWAs on the Desktop, for example with Edge on Windows.

If you use the same PWA with Firefox or Samsung Internet installed from Play Store, it can only add a shortcut on the home screen, without share_target functionality.

Additionally some service worker functionality is very basic on some browsers. On one hand this is bad for functionality, but good for privacy. Assume a PWA uses a background sync service for example. This can exchange a lot data and sync it with any target in the web, without user consent. This is only a small part where service workers do not respect users privacy.

If you look at that we come in fast steps to this insane and total crazy manifest v3 webextensions. They are completely privacy nightmare at least how Chromium designed them. The Mozilla implementation is a lot better, but incompatible to Chromium.

Welcome to the ugly world of new web technologies.

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Dual Boot Best Practices?

Keep a minimum of 30GB free, for Windows update processes on the windows system partition. I don't how much the windows installation counts in space, but add that to the 30gb free space. I would recommend to have a extra partition for the games on NTFS and move your steam, epic, ubisoft, whatever library to that partition.

I have tried to use the same gaming partition between Linux and Windows, but failed every time. In the worst case this can alter your Windows privileges. At least I had this issue.

Currently I'm using Windows only for 2 games: Space Engineers and Empyrion. The rest works with better performance on Linux. Satisfactory, Ark survival, Elder Scrolls Online have more FPS on Linux with the same settings. I have to use a nvidia 1050 Ti in my laptop. With a AMD GPU the situation is a lot better on Linux.

I'm not a hardcore gamer, mostly im coding here and there. But sometimes gaming is a must have.

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RPi4 as NAS - Transfer Speeds?

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Alles gut :-) Das Problem ist gelöst. Die Dachdecker haben das LAN Kabel beschädigt. Werd mal ein Neues am Montag ordern. Ich hasse es nur, das Kabel zu verlegen. Das liegt teilweise unter dem Laminat im Flur, was ich mühsam verlegt habe. Was solls, da muss ich wohl durch.

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KeePassXC 2.7.6 released

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I can't speak for others, but at least for me, I'm using XC on Manjaro Linux (don't have Windows at home) and KeePass 2 on Windows at work. Personally I think, XC has a better overall workflows but I miss some features from KeePass 2 a lot. For example prefilled names for already existing custom fields, use of some AutoFill keywords, to name the most missed thing's.

KeepassXC is a lot better integrated into Linux as KeePass 2 with Mono.

To my surprise, I don't miss the WebDAV integration, since I'm using SFTP/sshFS at home.

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Best chipset for Linux laptop, Intel or AMD?

I wonder the same, some time ago but for different reasons. If I have to buy a gaming laptop, what should I choose? Intel CPU and Nvidia was my best friend on Windows, but on Linux I'm totally unsure. I think AMD does a better job for gaming under Linux, but I have absolutely no idea if that's true.

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systemd path unit questions

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The depth is changing constantly, because new subdirs are created and removed during the day and/or upload/sync process. Thats why the script is walking across the complete directory structure every time. But the dummy file is a nice suggestion. In this case, I can monitor only the dummy file and trigger the script on dummy file change. Good idea.

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App installed from F-Droid and updated via Playstore?

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This makes sense. Yes, I have paid in the playstore for this app (and I would do it again and again). But if I understand it correctly this would also mean, I could download their v4.3.8-ose from the official GitHub repo for free, and it would be updated automatically from Playstore to v4.3.8-gplay version (which is not free). Strange.

But this app is worth every penny.

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Mixxx 2.3.6

Ohhh nice. I will try that one. Have used only a simple battle mixer and the good old sl-1200 mk2 for several years. Maybe it's time to try some digital mixer. Nice that there is something for Linux... Thx for the link.