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  • What’s the most terrifying experience you’ve ever had?

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  • I did. I didn't notice anything out of place, the front door was locked, and I live on an upper floor, so getting in through a window is not possible.

  • What’s the most terrifying experience you’ve ever had?

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  • Large footprint on the bathroom floor mat that didn't match any of my shoes. I live alone. Still can't explain it.

  • What do you carry in your pockets or with you daily?

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  • That does look like a Bugout, and maybe the mini, too. That looks really nice.

  • Classic eggs Benedict

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  • Looks amazing, well done. Did you make it? If so, what did you do for the potatoes? They look perfect.

  • I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

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  • Cool, that makes sense. Linux Mint has a reputation for user friendliness, it's got to have one. The author of this article must have missed it.

  • I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

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  • I had to install Steam through the command line [...] Steam is available in Linux Mint’s default repository, so I could get it with a quick “sudo apt-get install steam” in the terminal.

    I've never used Mint before; does it not come with a graphical app store?

    And man, I love how so many articles from major websites mentioning Windows 11 are actually about how to avoid it altogether. :D

  • Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

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  • I'm liking it so far. One thing that I noticed is that, by default, when you add a new source (person, Youtube channel, etc.), it asks you what category that source should go it. Mastodon's web UI has the multi-column layout, and you can use that to categorize people you follow, but I always end up forgetting to do that. Seems like Surf makes categories the first thing you do, rather than an optional thing you do later. I think I'm going to like this more organized feed based around topics.

  • Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader

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  • From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account.

    I haven't tried posting anything yet, but just liking and boosting has been doing it through my Mastodon account. If I'm interacting with a bluesky post, then it uses the bluesky account that it automatically created for me. But since I signed in with my Mastodon account, all of those actions have been done by my Mastodon account.

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  • Probably, if the music was released as a track on the game's soundtrack. Those get included in music databases like MusicBrainz, which is what a lot of those music detection services use.

    Some level themes are popular enough to have covers made of them, and if the cover is close enough to the original, it may get recognized. Some are popular enough to be cataloged on their own. For example, Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/cb389ab1-b08e-4042-ab73-8ff63e8a6205

    I wouldn't count on every level from every game being cataloged in a music database, though.

  • Does anyone know how i can revert to the old UI in firefox?

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  • I was hoping that Waterfox would somehow skip this change, but it just updated a few days ago. Now that the new UI is out of beta, I don't see a way of turning it off.

    For me, the most irritating part is the way that it jumps a little bit if you only scroll a small amount. Small enough to make the Private/Tabs/Sync bar show up, but then immediately hide itself again. That happens in both grid and list mode.

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    How many times is too many times?

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  • Well right now I can see a clock on the wall, the clock on the stove, the clock on my laptop, and a watch on my wrist, and they all have slightly different times. But I'm coping. So that's four. At least four I can deal with.

  • Self-hosting a Pocket alternative using Readeck, Linkwarden, and Docker Swarm.

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  • Thanks for writing that up! I'm curious: what makes you use Readeck for some things and Linkwarden for others? It seems like they have the same use case, and pretty much the same features.

    I've been using wallabag for quite a while, before Linkwarden and Readeck were written, and I haven't felt a reason to switch away from it.

    A thing I like doing with wallabag is:

    1. Select a bunch of articles that I want to read on my ebook reader
    2. Tag them as "exported_on_2026-04-02"
    3. Export them as an epub
    4. The epub is synced automatically by syncthing to my ebook reader (it's like an eink Android tablet)
    5. Once I've read that file on the ebook reader, select all entries tagged with "exported_on_2026-04-02" and mark them as read. Or just mark them as read right away, since I'll definitely get to them once they're on the ebook reader.

    I haven't found any other bookmarking applications that can conveniently tag articles in bulk, export, and then mark as read in bulk like wallabag. From the website, it looks like Readeck can, I'll have to check it out.

  • I don't even know what it exactly wants to be

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  • I'm always amazed when I find a project that is still using Sourceforge. I always assume that it is completely unused by any active projects anymore. MX Linux was the most recent one I came across. Their ISOs are on sourceforge, although they use Github for their main repo.

    And...apparently Sourceforge was bough by Slashdot in 2019?! Wow. Two early-2000s heavyweights right there.

  • TIL that Tom Cruise's character in Tropic Thunder is based on a real guy; he was the producer of The Matrix and co-invented ultimate frisbee

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  • I mean, of course we know who the inventor of ultimate frisbee is, I just didn't know he was a Hollywood guy, too.

  • Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?

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  • I've thought about it, but I like having Bazzite for my gaming PC and Debian for my laptop, so I'll probably keep using multiple distros. For me it's:

    • Gaming PC: Bazzite (it's plugged into my TV, like a console, and goes straight to Steam's big picture mode)
    • Laptop: Debian with KDE Plasma
    • Home Server: Debian (a little single board computer, no desktop environment)
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    what is the most violent, reprehensible, sociopathic way to tie your shoes?

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  • No laces, use cable ties instead. Snip them off with wire cutters after each wear.

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    Looking for a similar dude....

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  • Trevor Wallace?

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  • Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with Iroh to understand what exactly this is, but point #3 sounds interesting. Does this mean that, if a user has linked their identity to this service (and the other special media sites they are using support it), would I be able to see all of a user's posts across multiple social media sites? E.g. filtering the feed by a certain user, and it shows all of that users' posts on Mastodon and Pixelfed?

  • Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

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    1. I like the fact that "batshit" shows up in their mockup screenshot. :P (The first screenshot, that's showing a Reddit comment under Widgets.)
    2. This design looks like it has too many panels in it for my preference, but in general, I do like the idea of browsers looking like something again, instead of just trying to be the most minimalistic window border around a website. I understand the idea of not wanting the browser frame to distract from the web content, but I think it's OK for a browser to have a little bit of its own identity on display. I've been using Zen Browser lately for this reason.