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The concept is interesting, but a problem is communicating with others who use iOS/iPadOS devices. They typically can't use this kind of app, because of limitations imposed by the OS[1]. Then, because of networking effects, it becomes very difficult for most people to use.

[1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/685525

One of the more popular terms is now the "Global North"[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_Sout...

Rainmeter[1] is also quite alive on the Windows side.

[1] https://www.rainmeter.net/

The article describes how to change the default:

> Users who want /tmp to remain on disk can override the upstream default with `systemctl mask tmp.mount`. To stop periodic cleanups of /tmp and /var/tmp users can run `touch /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf`.

Looks useful, but the last release was end of 2017.

The GPS jamming map linked to in the article[1] discusses this somewhat, in the "About the data" box:

    - ADS-B messages include position information from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), like GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou, etc.
    - It is not possible to directly measure GNSS interference, but we do calculate the NIC (Navigation integrity category) for ADS-B messages.
    - The NIC value encodes the quality and consistency of navigational data received by the aircraft.
    - Poor NIC values alone might indicate a problem with an aircraft’s equipment or unfavorable positioning. However, when observed in multiple aircraft in close proximity during the same time frame, it suggests the presence of a radio signal interfering with normal GNSS operation.

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/gps-jamming

Related and ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061800

PDF-XChange Editor[1] is a very good PDF viewer and annotator. Unfortunately, no Linux equivalent comes close, IMHO. Fortunately, it runs very well on Wine[2].

[1] https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

XMeters used to be very good, but does not work on Windows 11.

Task Manager is very limited, unfortunately. You only get CPU usage in the notification area.

Rainmeter is quite pretty, but the displays (skins) seem to only work on the desktop.

The author of the article has iStart on the menu bar, so the performance indicators are visible even when application windows are covering the desktop. The GNOME extension system-monitor-next[1], as mentioned in the article, is also similar.

Does anyone have recommendations for something similar on Windows?

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-n...

That's a great list! The website in the original article (daedalOS) is even listed there.

Any suggestions for Windows & Android (tablet)? All the solutions seem to only work with desktop OSes.

PuTTY has now added strict key exchange support to fix this flaw:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.h...

It's now also possible to install any add-on on Firefox by turning on desktop mode.

FWIW, Pop OS just updated to the 6.6 kernel.

Does anyone know how it compares with Shotcut[1]? It's free, open source, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux. I've been a happy user for a while.

[1] https://shotcut.org/

The interactive online version is available here:

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

I feel the Android clients are quite usable. But, for some reason, the iOS clients seem to be less well developed.

Looks good, but as a personal user, €5 per month to be able to call other users [1] feels quite expensive!

[1] https://olvid.io/pricing/en/

Fortunately, the MV3 implementation in Firefox has the necessary tweaks to continue supporting add-ons like uBlock Origin[1]. So, even when MV2 is eventually dropped in Firefox, ad-blocking add-ons written for Firefox will continue to be able to work without restrictions.

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adbloc...

As I understand it, this is now being addressed by ESNI[1] and ECH[2]. Hopefully ECH will continue being more widely deployed.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-encrypted-sn...

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

Things are changing with Windows. Windows 10 will only be supported until 14 Oct 2025[1], and Windows 11 explicitly does not support some relatively recent hardware configurations, e.g. 7th generation Intel processors[2].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

[2] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/08/27/update-...

Fixes a CJK bug[1] that's been around since 2011. The bug was originally tested on Windows XP SP2.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43671

My solution has been to use PDF-XChange Editor in Wine. Yes, this isn't a Linux native solution, but it works really well.

The clock is also pretty cool: https://oimo.io/works/clock/

I'm not the person you asked, but one way would be to mount the backup drive just for the backup, then unmount it once the backup is complete. This would limit the time the backup is exposed to ransomware.

Restoring backups on a 32TB drive would also take a very long time! Other comments have mentioned that it would probably take more than 13 hours to fill the drive.

On a related note, remirroring or rebuilding a 32TB RAID drive would probably take days.

I reckon because it's not possible to pay for the product directly, Firefox is getting less financial support than it could. For example, I may not want to support many of the goals of the Mozilla foundation, but paying for a product that I'm using (Firefox) sounds reasonable.

Is there actually any way to pay for Firefox directly? I don't need their VPN service, but would probably be willing to pay something for Firefox.