Tried flatpak steam as well as valve’s installer script; nada.

I don’t generally do flatpaks, I just tried it to see if it would remove the issue

I’ll give it a shot next time I have some time, thank you!

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Tried with root and user perms for the drive, tried with 777 on the folder and whatever permissions steam uses when it creates the folder. The drive is ext4 and mounts fine.

It doesn’t matter where or how I mount the drive, the problem isn’t the drive; idk how I could have made that clearer.

What does any of this have to do with KDE, Gnome, or nautilus?

The problem only happens under KDE and Gnome on Wayland; the nautilus thing was just a curiosity. Did you read my comment?

What white paper?

On KDE I couldn’t get Steam to put my game library on my second harddrive. It would open up the file finder, then simply ignore whatever folder I picked (regardless of drive and folder permissions). I was able to recreate the issue on Gnome under wayland, but X11 works fine. I even tried making a symlink to the other drive in my home directory, no dice. Tried flatpak steam as well as valve’s installer script; nada.

Interestingly, it seems that the “pick a folder” button in Steam opens up a contextual file search window in X, but just a regular nautilus instance in Wayland. I’d say that this is the problem (the regular nautilus/dolphin instance not reporting back to Steam what folder I selected), but it works for moving to different directories, just not drives (in both DEs). Same thing happened on Fedora, so it’s not just “Debian is too outdated.”

But let’s be serious, if I wanted to spend a lot of time tweaking and tuning my graphical environment to be exactly what I want, I’m not settling for Gnome nor KDE. I’m not gonna go with Cinnamon, XFCE, LXQt, LMDE, MATE, nor any ecosystem. I’m going with a window manager and mixing and matching every single program/element myself.

I use i3 on my laptops. I would use Sway (because I don’t have to care about Steam), but for some reason it’s like 5x as resource hungry on these machines (constant freezes and stuttering).

>inkjet

LED printers have been around for fucking ever, and the average person doesn’t need the graphic fidelity that only an overpriced pigment soup, which goes bad in a month, can supply.

Oh, and literally every part of a toner-based printer is easier to replace/repair… so why would a printer designed around repairability and upgradability use ink???

Edit’ And I almost forgot: toner is cheaper per page than ink! Whyyy???

First and foremost: about 10-20 Exabytes worth of storage space, or roughly 4 Petabytes per day.

That’s 4,000,000 Gigabytes of new video per day.

And of course you’d need an efficient way of loading all that video data and streaming it to the end users, so they don’t experience major interruptions, even when hundreds of thousands of people are all watching the same video at the same time. Youtube does this with caching servers/proxies, and highly optimized data delivery algorithms.

Once you have all that infrastructure, just make sure it’s free and ad-free for all the watchers and uploaders. It’s not like you need to pay for all those servers and storage… right?

Mildly Infuriating

Nope, that’s just full-on despicable and the people that wrote that should get serious therapy and not something unspeakable done to them

The controversial opinions come in the form of “GUI is better than CLI” or vice-versa. I prefer the efficiency of keyboard-only navigation/usage, but I think GUIs are cool af and a great way to be noob-friendly

Because privacy is a spectrum, and it makes a good stepping off point for the people that still use text messages and social media chat clients to stay in touch. I can’t convince half of my nerd friends to leave Discord for literally anything less shit, but I can convince even my tech-averse mother to use Signal instead of FaceTime.

A few answers say “they aren’t private by design,” but don’t really go into the “why.” There’s the obvious “it’s an electronic tracking device, duh” reason, but there’s also a more nuanced reason:

Airtags are able to be picked up almost anywhere because they connect to the nearest bluetooth-enabled Apple device, and then send location info across the internet to you. Without this functionality (the ability of any and every Apple device to locate it), they wouldn’t have any way to send their location back to the owner.

Your best “privacy respecting” alternatives are something that uses meshtastic (and hoping there’s enough repeaters near you), something that uses cellular data and GPS (which is about as privacy-respecting as Airtags are), or just a key finder/beeper (which only works within a small radius)

This article was more constructive (suggesting alternatives) than destructive (leveraging critiques), but it did link to several critiques/vulnerabilities with OpenPGP.

Unfortunately, half are about implementation issues (granted, it’s made more difficult to implement something correctly when it’s as convoluted and all-encompassing as PGP)—which are hopefully not applicable to Delta due to their 3rd party, applied cryptography audit—and the rest are obsolesced by the 2024 updates to the standard—RFC 9580, the so-called “crypto-refresh.”

Do you have any critiques that address the current state of the PGP protocol’s security?

Oh, for sure. All it takes is me looking at an Awk one-liner to make my headspin. Give me a simple “for each line in $FILE, reformat MM/dd/yyyy as dd/MM/yyyy” instead of… whatever that looks like in Awk.

The hardware of a computer is not designed to handle natural language parsing. Techbros with just enough knowledge to be dangerous will say it’s a matter of complex-enough software, but it’s more that human brains are not Von Neumann machines

rtorrent!

I didn’t know where he was from, nor had I heard about him until the outrage machine hyped him up. I just assumed he was an immigrant based on the outrage, but I guess that’s asking too much of the racist who can be fooled into liking Kid Rock.