Additionally you could move the git folder to the trash folder. I think it’s usually located at $HOME/.local/share/trash/files/

Moving something to the trash files folder isn’t the correct way to trash it, since the Trash specification requires storing some metadata for each trash item.

You should use eg. trash-cli instead.

they are extra heavy in disk space

While they use more disk space than most native packages, this point is often exaggerated. Flatpak uses deduplication and shared runtimes if multiple apps use the same runtime.

Common libraries like OpenSSL are usually bundled in runtimes. So if my application uses e.g. org.gnome.Platform, I don’t have to update my application if there is a fix in a library of that runtime, I just need to update the runtime.

The runtime is also shared by all applications that use this runtime.

The steam flatpak can’t install udev rules. It works if you install a packacke such as steam-devices on your host system. See https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki#my-controller-isnt-being-detected

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I am developing a new desktop lemmy client and this post just nearly crashed my PC. Thanks for the good crash test

What should be shown if there is currently no playback?

live transcoding (MKV 480p -> MP4

Both MKV and MP4 are just container formats. The container contains an video stream and some audio and subtitle streams which are each encoded using a specific codec.

Converting from one container format to the other is very cheap, it’s the conversion between video codecs that requires a lot of resources. So converting from MKV to MP4 is pretty cheap if you keep the video stream as is.

Personally, I have never bothered with live transcoding. My videos are all encoded as H.262 or H.264 and stored in either an MKV or MP4 container. Direct Play works just fine. Without live transcoding, a >10 years old Intel Celeron is more than enough to run a jellyfin server.

The documentation says:

Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.

To my understanding this isn’t even emulation but regular container technology.

Posting something wrong on the internet is the best form of research.

https://xkcd.com/386/

Will have to switch back to X.Org until this is fixed by the Wayland/XWayland developers

This isn’t the responsibility of “wayland developers”. The developers of an application need to adapt to the new API.

You don’t even need to create aliases yourself. Flatpak creates wrapper scripts for every app that you install. Just symlink them into your PATH.

ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.example.CliTool ~/.local/bin/cli-tool

or if you are using a user remote

ln -s ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/org.example.CliTool ~/.local/bin/cli-tool

(Note: some lemmy clients render the the tilde in code blocks incorrectly)

Snaps are just as “open source” as “Office Open XML” (.docx, .pptx etc.) are open file formats.

If there isn’t a fully open source software stack, it isn’t really open source.

GNOME 46 has experimental VRR support too

GNOME got proper Wireguard support in version 44, unfortunately Debian stable ships an outdated version (43).

Cosmic is a desktop environment, not a distro. So Pop!OS will keep using deb packages and something like a Fedora Cosmic Spin will use rpm packages.

Are you sure this is the only error that you get?

Make sure to check if there is a message Attempt to free invalid pointer. This is a known problem for source games: [Linux] Failure to start with tcmalloc “Attempt to free invalid pointer” and lavapipe built against llvm 16 and workarounds are available.

Tbe documentaion is a good starting point.

https://docs.flatpak.org

https://docs.flathub.org

This is exactly what this change is about. Most blurry apps are blurry because they don’t support Wayland (yet/by default) and are running using XWayland.

The only Wayland native software where I had problems with fractional scaling is Qt WebEngine which doesn’t handle scaling correctly.

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