[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wonder at what point repairs would be satisfactory for engineers to declare it usable again. Would it need to go on an empty test flight exactly along its normal path to be declared "safe enough?" What's the minimum incurred damage at which a plane would be considered totaled?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip
  1. Start drafting a post in Blorp to submit to any Lemmy community
  2. Spot a typo, or otherwise intend to delete or add a word, etc. in the middle of the title line
  3. Proceed to delete or
  4. The moment I press backspace, space, or any character, the text caret/cursor jumps to the end of the title text, causing the rest of my backspacing or typing to get placed there; I have to keep manually moving the cursor back to the spot in the title that I wanted to edit, per character.

I've never seen any other app do this. Could this be investigated? I'm running Android 16 on a Galaxy S25, if that helps. Thanks.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip

~~[Feature Request] Be able to filter for only unread replies~~

~~Sometimes I intentionally keep older replies unread as a reminder to go back to them later if they're addressing material that I can't get to at the moment but can follow up with later. So could there be a way to filter for only unread replies so that I can find those more easily? That would be great.~~

So... That was all the original post body. Then I realized (which I had somehow missed) that there is an "Unread" button already. The weird part is that it doesn't have an unread pip icon even if "replies" does. This really kinda threw me off for a bit.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip

I'm noticing that when you get a response and you tap the comment to go to, the screen doesn't actually take you to the comment; you still have to scroll down to see it. Could the screen automatically scroll or just start straight at where the comment is visible? Galaxy S25 on Android 16 here, if that helps.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip

Other apps like Summit and Thunder allow you to access the options menu for your posts and comments when viewing your own profile and directly edit your content right there. It would be cool to have that in Blorp.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip

I just returned here from Thunder, which has two amazing features:

  1. It always asks whether you want to share a link from its instance, your instance, etc. It'd be cool if Blorp had this option to just always ask instead of having to go into the menu to change it every time. Even previewing what the URL would look like under each option would be cool.
  2. It can create an image that has text embedded around it, which you can pick and choose in a modular way (just the image, or with the post title and/or post body, and/or the URL in the shared message body, etc.). I find this to be by far the most incredible feature that I've ever seen in any messaging app ever made (that I've tried, anyway). (In fact, the chief reason I left is that it doesn't support private-messaging, oddly enough.)
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

I read somewhere on Reddit that people who use Linux should periodically, manually check for security updates to their computers' BIOS from their motherboard manufacturers, because Linux apparently ends automatic updates once you leave Windows. I have no idea of where to look on the ASUS website for my Zenbook 14, or if that's even the right place. Could anyone give any guidance on this matter? Is this a thing that we should indeed be doing semiannually or something?

And what else should I be doing on a schedule (even if annually), while I'm at it? Haha.

Edit: thanks, everyone!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.world
  1. Set the custom keyboard shortcut sh -c 'pgrep -i keepassxc > /dev/null || keepassxc' to Alt+V
  2. Keep KeePassXC's default autotype prompt keybinding, which is Alt+V

One disables the other. I thought that going the grep route might make the program opener conditionally inactive, but apparently that's not doing anything. I would really like to avoid using a separate keybinding if possible. Otherwise, I guess I'd just have to have it open on launch.

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In GNU nano 7.2 (the latest as of this posting, as far as I know), why does Ctrl+Delete delete entire words but not Ctrl+Backspace? How do we restore its correct functionality?

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 36 points 1 month ago

Yes, I thought this is excellent. I hope some of them will walk away with enough inside knowledge of how things work there to know how to sabotage/cripple the company in some way/s later.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not gonna make them obsolete. It's gonna keep piling on technical debt from bad practices of which it's entirely unaware (not that it's ever "aware" of anything) while tricking dumb upper management, C-suite, and investors into thinking that it can render so many people obsolete, before it all crashes. "Pride comes before the fall."

Proof: the layoffs are failing to generate improved returns https://toast.ooo/post/13892904

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I thought self-hosting requires, like, paid ownership of a website or something. I don't think I've ever self-hosted before and am lost with its guide.

My primary concern is RustDesk's warning about possibly shutting down its free self-hosting because of bot abuse, despite now requiring GitHub accounts. There seems to be nothing even remotely close to RustDesk, except possibly HopToDesk, which I heard is a fork of an older version or something.

It'd be nice to be able to keep this going just in case. Or are there free, E2EE servers out there that anyone knows of?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linuxmint@programming.dev

Edit: Wow, I didn't need any of these; Meld via Nemo Compare does the trick in conjunction with the built-in text editor, Xed! Glad I came across this delightful plugin!

~~Kate~~. ~~Zed~~. ~~Basically anything with Git's diff doesn't seem to allow live edits to either file directly in the comparison itself; I have to open one of the files in another text editor and search for the discrepant lines manually. Is there anything that can rival VSCodium out there (which, yes, has no telemetry but still feels too resource-heavy relative to the Syncthing sync-conflicts for which I intermittently use it to manually resolve)?~~

~~The search has gotten so bad that it feels like a failure to have to download Notepad++ on Windows to try to run it through Bottles, in which I then had a graphical scaling error (had to restart with 200% DPI, but the mouse cursor is still tiny) and I couldn't open my own Linux user directory in its file browser.~~

~~I'm pulling my hair out; I had no idea that this would be such a ridiculously difficult search. I'm trying NeoVim next, with possibly LazyVim, but I fear the same outcome...~~

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.

This is literally what Linux is always like and it never slows down even after decades. It boots and shuts down in about 3 seconds each. Join us; I spent a lot of time typing a foolproof guide recently. Let me see it actually get used lol!

I just played a game on Steam earlier tonight with friends; it launched WINE under the hood so invisibly that I couldn't believe I wasn't playing it on Windows. Nearly everything is cross-compatible these years with WINE, Bottles, Proton, Lutron, etc. There is basically no fear. If anything, the software typically performs even better.

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I didn't keep the .XPI file, unfortunately. Is it possible from a phone's file structure to export or even build this from(/out of?) a currently installed add-on that can no longer be (easily) downloaded?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

I lack the time to learn Lemmy tools and run this place and fx0mt left for whatever unfortunate reason. Let me know and I'll briefly review your account history (you don't have to have nodded anywhere before, but you must already have a decent history and not simply be new to Lemmy). Thank you.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 39 points 2 months ago

Indeed: electric vehicle batteries are lasting even longer than estimated. All the constant breaks from use that the batteries get has been interestingly improving their durability (which makes me think that shutting off our phones for 1 whole day per week or even month could improve their lifespan, even for the 40-80% lithium-ion boundary keepers).

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 39 points 5 months ago

I hope they eventually crumple from hiring stupider and stupider team leads, then.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 39 points 6 months ago

Vivaldi is not open-source, so it shouldn't even be considered as an option. Try !waterfox@programming.dev!

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 39 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the context, which led me to downvote this post. Come on, guys; not all complaints are valid.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago

Oh.

I guess I was thrown off by the driver not actually smiling in the second frame. That really messed me up and wondered if there was something far more sinister underneath the detour lol. I'm thinking too much.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

no mercy for ~~surveillance~~ capitalists!

There, all fixed now.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

Nanobots of 90's sci-fi, here we finally come!

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