GMaps WV as mentioned in another comment : https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/ Last updated, June 2024.

This is a restricted WebView wrapper for accessing the web version of Google Maps. Intended for use when OpenStreetMap isn’t enough.

I stopped trying after NY, Chicago and LA which were all blocked. At this point their defenses are more aggressive than my bank.

Tried Mullvad for this :

• Germany - fine
• Greece - blocked
• Finland - blocked
• Hungary - fine

I guess it’s YMMV.

They aren’t protecting state secrets.

They’re probably worried and with forums abuse this is quite fair.

Bookmarked. Thanks.

Though I’ll have to try later some other time, I guess Tor users are blocked :

The owner of this website (www.bikeforums.net) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website.

According to this I think this is the Mastodon account of the Funkwhale developer https://mastodon.eliotberriot.com/@funkwhale which is down as well. The first link also has a link to their Matrix channel.

Wondering : Does duf do a better job than df with btrfs ?

• https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=duf
• https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

NetGuard uses a VPN connection inside the phone. NetGuard is not like a VPN server, it will just block network access for apps you want to block access for.

The discontinuation of neofetch development was big news for a lot of people, for example here : https://lemmy.ml/post/15051857 I’m happy for the software developer, now a farmer though :)

The developer maybe moved on to something new, like author of neofetch took up farming a few months ago.

A Terminal Email Client As An Alternative To Gmail: The Old Dog Neomutt And Pals

A title like “A Terminal Email Client for Gmail As An Alternative To Gmail web: The Old Dog Neomutt And Pals” would be a better fit.

Yeah, that’ll be hard. I’m trying to use Peertube but network effect is big on YT (not sure if that’s the right expression here, noone is using Peertube, everyone is on YT).

There was a time “noone” was on YouTube.

Yes, go ahead and file the bug. And as others mentioned already, the custom screensaver modifications of XScreensaver like for LM may have bugs. The author of XScreensaver has been complaining about this several times.

• https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver

The bug you found looks similar to this one :

• https://linuxreviews.org/Xfce4-screensaver_0.1.9_Is_Released_With_A_Critical_Security_Fix

Unlocking a machine locked with Xfce’s screensaver xfce4-screensaver has long been a simple matter of turning two monitors on at the exact same time. That makes Xfce4-screensaver versions prior to 0.1.9 segfault and crash - leaving the machine unlocked. This very unfortunate Xfce bug #16102 has been open since October 29th 2019 and we have pointed fingers at it several times before. Xfce developer Sean Davis has finally closed this gaping security hole. He explained that the embarrassingly long delay before this security vulnerability was addressed was due to “real life conflicts” in a brief comment on March 22nd. He did not elaborate and we did not ask for further details since it is likely none of our business.

Twitter had a TOR service last time I checked, I haven’t seen a single Mastodon instance available as TOR service.

TIL Mastodon can be run as tor service : https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/tor/

I think you need to take a break and get some perspective.

Besides, the Twitter link was already posted by the OP, why would it need to be posted again?

Posting exTwitter links without a screenshot in a privacy community feels like a kind of oxymoron to me, especially after exTwitter made API changes and what not which made third party apps and software like Nitter kind of useless.

lost+found :

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQCodkyWEAAqTlc.jpg

I think I’ve read somewhere that xrandr only works with Xorg and not with Wayland.

Simply install debian 12.5 again, the easiest choice.

Good choice.

Install linux mint, so I get ubuntu but without them throwing their subscription services down my throat. I’m unsure about other advantages, as ubuntu is debian based, maybe the more frequent program updates? Kernels are also updated more often than with debian as far as I know. Do you know of other advantages?

There’s LMDE, Linux Mint Debian version.

Go for FreeBSD: this might require a learning curve, because this is an OS I’ve never used. Are commands that different from debian?

Yes, commands are different (For example ifconfig and not ip. And watch on Linux is something different on FreeBSD) and you can expect several things to not work out of the box. Also, mounting removable devices is different. Documentation is very good though unless your reached a niche problem. I’d suggest to first toy around with FreeBSD in a VM (Qemu or VirtualBox) if you want to sneak preview it and learn more.

I guess KDE means using SDDM. Would this help ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Login_session_appears_on_an_unexpected_display

We’re doomed!

• Skiff = Notion now, I doubt that it will be open source, but happy to see source code.
• Lavabit open source ? Where’s the code ?
• Roundcube is webmail software, not a webmail provider.
• Mailpile is email software for desktops, not a webmail provider.

but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.

Probably because most of the openSUSE users talk in German elsewhere.