Remember Jarhead with Jake Gyllenhaal?
They were literally depressed because they didn’t get to shoot enough people…

But at what cost… At what cost…

Oh… 😢

What does “40%” mean in this context?

I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option.

Yeah, I don’t know about WinRar either, and I even bought a license back in 2010, so I guess I shouldn’t feel bad for using it, it’s just that I want to support FOSS more these days.

I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.

I believe Ark isn’t happy extracting a lot of r01, r02 etc. files or maybe it was passworded filed it struggled with, but that’s why I found PeaZip to begin with.

Thanks for reminding me. I was still on 10.4. A shame this isn’t in the Fedora repositories, it’s nice to have GUI alternatives to Ark as that isn’t exactly perfect.

Over the summer Zypper got a huge speed upgrade after decades of being one of the slowest package managers, and while Hayden James did give Zypper “the best score” (not really, (except if you assume they all got 5 in ecosystem size) all of them got 17, except Pacman that got 16), it would’ve been nice of them to mention that as I’m sure lots of people probably still have this idea of Zypper being sluggish and taking forever.
In fact, seeing as how APT is limited on simultaneous downloads, I’d wager that Zypper is actually faster than APT now. Probably faster than Nala as well.

Cryptomator works on Android as well.

That or CryFS sounds like the way to go from the replies I’ve looked at now. Thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you for the tip. Disgusting how “features” like this are turned on by default.

If I wanted to encrypt everything I put on OneDrive, hopefully something that is crossplatform, how’d I do that? I’m on linux right now.

EDIT: A quick search brings up VeraCrypt a bunch of times and it’s apparently FOSS, does anyone have experiences with it?

Yeah, unfortunately there’s no inverse mouse cursor theme. I loved it on windows as well. What I’m using now is this “Hackneyed high contrast cursors” theme, the green one to be specific, and I absolutely love it.

I don’t actually know, but I assume mouse themes are universal? Or does KDE mouse themes now work with Cinnamon?

I read that there’s an extension for Cinnamon that does the same, although I also saw a bug report that it might be broken, idk. Worth a shot. Here’s how to enable it.

For the cookies, Consent-o-matic could help with that. It doesn’t work on all pages, but it speeds things up.

I can only speak for myself on how I’d do this, but I’d dedicate the non-SSD for /home which avoids most of your headaches. For games on your SSD drive you could just make a dedicated /games folder on your root partition.

Personally I’m lucky as I have a 2 TB main SSD (NVMe), so I don’t have to choose. And then 2x4TB for storage, backups, linux ISOs etc.
Obviously you don’t want “just buy a bigger SSD” answer, but I’d definitely consider saving up for that.

It’s something I noticed this last half year, how the kernel has just ballooned, especially for us nvidia users.

Over on Nobara they did at one point recommend this, but has since been removed from their wiki, but:

echo 'omit_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia-drm nvidia-modeset nvidia-peermem nvidia-uvm "' | sudo tee /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf

and then rebuilding initramfs:

sudo dracut -f --regenerate-all

It certainly helps me a lot as I’m stuck with a 1GB /boot partition, although I see why it’s not recommended as those with LUKS set up will have problems.

It’s a stock photo. Found it by searching on ecosia for “bald bearded man screaming at camera stock-photo” hehe