The cifs driver is complex. I haven’t spent time tuning it in quite a while, but I once got rid of a performance problem by mounting with the nouser_xattr option, which can be included in a mount.cifs command or an /etc/fstab entry. That, or something else documented in the mount.cifs man page, might be worth a try.

Good luck!

FWIW, this is more likely Linux-specific than Debian-specific.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it.

Honest and sensible reasoning is in such short supply lately that it’s a breath of fresh air when it occasionally shows up in government.

I wish some of that light would shine upon Constitutional law circumvention programs like Five Eyes.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature.

I probably would have chosen it even if licensing wasn’t a concern. It’s good.

The headline Go Away Microsoft is amusing, because Forgejo is written in Go.

Good news: That spare RAM will become disk buffer cache on Linux, so it’s not useless after all.

This is part of why modern games claiming to need an SSD will often run pretty well from a slow mechanical hard drive on Linux.

It wasn’t snark, but mild confusion.

In that case, I’m sorry for misunderstanding.

I hope you can understand that at least nine times out of ten, a response like yours (instead of simply answering or ignoring the question) turns out to be from someone looking for a fight. I’m glad to find that the last sentence of my reply turned out to be warranted, at first. Lashing out really wasn’t necessary.

Whatever. This is pointless. Chao.

Fair enough. Ciao.

Then try to imagine that some people do exactly that, and the rest of us don’t know you or commenting habits.

My question was therefore reasonable. It was also informative, by letting other readers know they can avoid that kind of paywall without revealing their interests to the dodgy archive site.

Your response reads like snark, which doesn’t help anyone. I’ll try convince myself that you didn’t mean it that way.

Is there a paywall on the original? I don’t see one, but I have scripts disabled.

If I understand correctly, this could be exploited to escape linux namespaces, which which are the foundation of containers like Flatpak and Docker. Those were never very good security boundaries, but running untrusted code in them is now especially dangerous, until your kernel is patched.

I guess I didn’t think of that approach because it wouldn’t work for me. I use a lot of tools that follow the long established convention of putting dotfiles directly under $HOME, so I back up $HOME and exclude things like cache and trash.

I don’t know what you’re referring to. How would changing the location of dotfiles make backups easier?

I don’t mind that one, since .var doesn’t clutter my home dir and is only created if I use Flatpak. It follows unix conventions, stays out of my way, and is only a few lowercase letters to type if I choose to work with it.

Sigh… Yet another thing pushed by the self-appointed nannies at freedesktop.org that I will have to manually undo on practically every new account.

At least it will probably be configurable, unlike Canonical’s infamous ~/snap directory.

To be clear, merely stopping the parent (SIGSTOP) will not do the job. You have to kill or otherwise end it.

Maybe Lubuntu or some other distro using the LXQt desktop environment?

https://lxqt-project.org/

https://lubuntu.me/

Edit: Debian offers an LXQt live image here:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

That makes sense.

It has some font size controls in Settings: Configure Akregator: Appearance: Font Size. I think these sliders apply to the article bodies.

It uses built-in style sheets for the size of other text, like headings, so changing that probably requires the program to be recompiled. In case you have those skills and want to make those changes, have a look in this file: src/formatter/html/style.css

What was the trouble with Akregator? I think recent versions have dark mode, and older versions could be made dark with the right style sheets applied.

It’s not a perfect fit for me, but it works well enough that I stopped hunting for something better.

Never heard of EFF

Congratulations. You’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand. :)

but 0 points for being 10 years late on this very easy and obvious decision.

Once you learn about what the EFF does, and read the post, you’ll (hopefully) understand that this decision was neither easy nor obvious.

In case you want to try some others:

https://simplelogin.io/
https://relay.firefox.com/
https://www.33mail.com/
https://erine.email/

Unfortunately, some misguided (or possibly malicious) people collect email forwarding domains like these and publish them in lists dishonestly advertised as spam or disposable address lists. An unfortunate number of service developers have taken to using these lists, leading to the situation you’re in now.

The best suggestions I can offer:

• Complain to the administrators of each site that does this, making sure to explain why it’s a problem. There’s a chance that some of them honestly don’t realize that legitimate forwarding domains are being swept up into a dragnet intended for spammers, and might stop using those lists if they were made aware.
• When choosing a forwarding service, pick one offering domain names that haven’t been picked up by the blacklists. This might require non-default settings when creating a forwarding address, or paying for access to the more obscure domains.

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been keeping MX Linux in the back of my mind as a possible Debian alternative if I ever need one.

they aren’t letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn’t accept anon-aliased emails for logins.

Ouch. That’s a red flag for me, since it forces people to expose themselves to spam and tracking if they want to participate in the community. Which alias service did they reject? Maybe there’s one that doesn’t trigger their rule?