Possibly, but I tend to think that only happened on reddit due to corporate influence and trying to use that as a way to take a stand against a corporation. I think the same is unlikely to happen on smaller sites, more likely the whole site could be gone. Anyway, counterpoint is MetaFilter, which has been around since 1999 and you can find comments from waaaaaaaaaaay back very easily, it’s all indexed for searching quite well.

Also, btw, you’re the best kind of question asker, because you figured out an obscure problem and then provided the answer for the rest of us. I learned something and bookmarked this thread in case I ever run into such a problem and forgot how to fix it. Cheers and thanks, mate.

Interesting. I have managed all of mine on a recent Kubuntu 26.04 install through the GUI and it does indeed seem to automatically add that information to the XML file, because I have never run into such a problem but when looking at the file you referenced I indeed see the <Merge type="files"/> a lot of places.

Debian 12 is one of the last holdouts of 32-bit support if you’re like me and have some pretty old devices still kicking. Just a couple years left.

Originally I was an advocate for dropping 32-bit support, but now that getting newer devices is increasingly unaffordable… I actually think it might be a good idea to reverse course on that just a little and keep 32-blt support for just a little longer. At least until after the AI bubble finally fucking pops.

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I guess being severely allergic to doxycycline means I can just go fuck myself.

I’m accepting that I’m becoming a little of a pointy head boss here.

Dilbert fans are almost always as big of losers as Scott Adams was.

Scott Adams once made a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to make positive comments about himself, got outed almost immediately, then claimed that was always his goal. What a fucking loser.

For Lemmy it’s “verification beans” and you’re not allowed to poop for three days.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in making text editors in the first place. And some said that even making operating systems had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have built computers at all.

// This is a Glass class
class Glass {
     filled(halfFull,  halfEmpty) {
         this.halfFull;
         this.halfEmpty;
         }
}

lmao, that actually made me laugh

Also, it’s having the negative effective of a fracturing and lots of instances blocking each other. Which is crazy anyone can be on the side of a someone who literally set up a DDoS, which is a fucking crime in a lot of places.

Once again, this isn’t a bug thread, this is literally me, talking about an issue with the Linux community, which was ignored in favor of… all my complaints.

If you guys can’t wrap your mind around that I don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t need help, I know there’s not currently a solution for me. I need people to not be asshats and assuming I must be doing it wrong because I have a problem to begin with… because it couldn’t possibly be Linux that has an edge case! No, it’s the users who are wrong!

Fucking jackasses.

Look, you have zero attempt at self reflection here, this conversation is over. You made an assumption that the user was at fault and were wrong. Eat it. We aren’t in a fucking bug thread with my logs. Developers got no fucking social skills.

I’m sorry you made an ass out of yourself for making an assumption.

The thing is, Grandma won’t know what the fuck is going on or what DCC/CI even is. Grandma is poor and using pieced together old systems and shitty old monitors.

I’m not looking for a solution, I’m looking for people like you to stop making ass assumptions and get off your high fucking horse assuming the user must be at fault only realizing you’re wrong and being an ass after you already did it.

I like to explain it as Windows and Mac spend their time babying the users and making things easy for them, it takes away your agency.

Linux demands your agency because you are in full control no one is there to hold your hand, no one to stop you from doing something stupid.

Windows demands very little, Linux demands a lot of attention and care and consideration.

Hey look, it’s one of the folks I’m talking about:

I’m assuming you’re trying to turn your monitor off while there is still an active HDMI signal for some reason? Otherwise why wouldn’t you just let the monitor put itself to sleep when it detects no signal like everyone else I know?

Nah, I’m trying to let the monitors put themselves to sleep, genius. That’s what’s not working. There shouldn’t still be an active HDMI signal. Disabling DCC/CI doesn’t fix the problem, either, it just goes back to the monitors not actually ever shutting off, just turning off for a moment and then coming back on, with plasmashell crashing instead of the power monitor. I don’t care at all about controlling monitor brightness with DCC/CI but when the defaults cause crashes that’s an issue.

This is an out-of-the-box fresh install with no old dotfiles moved, complete refresh. These were the defaults I was given. Deciding to set your monitors to power down after 10 mins of inactivity shouldn’t be causing crashes. i shouldn’t have to manually turn my monitors off or do hacky shit with xscreensaver to get it working in fucking wayland just to not have monitor burn-in

If you really want me too I can go digging for my downvoted comments from six months ago where all I was doing was politely cautioning people against thinking Linux is a cure-all, I can go find it for you. There were numerous people in that thread all claiming as much. “It’s easier than Windows now!!!” yeah, sure.

Biggest. Oof. Possible.

Hats off for this poor soul.

That’s really only enough power for some small devices like a Router/Modem and maybe a Pi-Hole or two.

For something that runs my desktop for 10 mins before power-down it’s about $200, bare mimum.

As someone whose monthly income is about double $200, I’d say that’s pretty damn expensive.