Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?

I liked hyprland for about one month this August, wasted a lot to make the configuration how I liked. Then they changed the config suddenly without warning. Installed GNOME as a fallback because I needed to do actual work, wasted another weekend to fix the configuration. Nice, I used it for some other time and… broken again within a month. At least deprecate the configuration and give one version of tolerance…

You need to mount / as /mnt/disk in the VM to have the trick work

Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.

I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…

A scrub usually takes less than an hour…

I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.

Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:

From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.

For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)

can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?

gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:

it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag

gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:

i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem

finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed

I told myself “with this 4 days of holidays i can easily rebuild the btrfs array”. 3 days later it’s still crunching numbers at 50MB/s… (but with all this time passed at that speed the drives would be able to fully rewritten multiple times…)

And then you just go to extensions.gnome.org and tell to run the extensions anyway by ignoring the GNOME version

Don’t have much experience but I run extensions designed for 45 on 49 without any problem

Unfortunately for me GNOME without extensions it’s unusable and I don’t have the patience to stay 3-4 versions behind to ensure compatibility

Edit: I wrote the wrong URL, it was .org and not .com

at least you get something, on my work computer, i get an empty window when i search

Yes but when it’s too much… The poor SSD in my 8gb laptop was constantly at 65°C because of all the activity. And it seems without reason. I would hear the warning sounds from crystaldiskinfo when “idle” in another room

Problem that powertoys are becoming bloated too. Before switching my 8gb RAM laptop to Linux, it was constantly swapping memory. I investigated and it was powertoys slowly eating everything. The two almost identical launchers, 300mb each. The eyedropper that you gonna use once a month 200mb, the help that comes out when you long press the windows key, another 80mb. Same for the screen ruler. Then the accent helper, and so on. My 8gb laptop only had 1 GB free Memory After a clean boot

2025? I don’t remember the search in the start menu working correctly since windows 8

The short description seems to be written by a LLM, why?

while not technically allowed by cloudflare TOS for the free plan, it’s possible to host jellyfin under a cloudflare tunnel

It still doesn’t do chunked uploads, right? For who has a low memory proxy or uses cloudflare

It’s the name of a publisher famous for overpriced courses full of typos and inaccuracies

Afaik don’t need to uninstall yet, f-droid won’t automatically get new builds from this repo until the situation is cleared

No.

In my case I was using syncthing to backup /storage on my phone and turns out there are faster ways to do that

My alternative:

1. Ente for photos
2. Borg via termux for the full /storage backup (including the photos)

Maybe it’s actually true that catfriend1 knows the new owner in real life but… this is not a calculator app, this is something that has complete access to the phone storage… handing the keys without any communication is concerning…

And the issues are locked so if something nefarious happens, discussion will only occur somewhere else instead of the repo

I think everyone misses the upgrade except new installs, how users (including power users) can know that they have to uninstall the old app, potentially lose all the settings , then reinstall and reconfigure?

Google decided to start asking for my drivers license

I wish it was only the drivers license, I had to give up my Android dev account too because having my private home address + phone number + email publicly available on the dev profile page is completely unacceptable