MrPhibb

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[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Especially as it's easy to do on the desktop

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Try a reboot afterwards?

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

See other comments, you accept through the notification. I've been around Android since before that was something you could do, so I tend to forget about it. Now if only I could get NTFY to stop notifying me that it's running...

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing really, having it installed is really a habit from my desktop where there isn't an app.

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Slaps his forehead, "Doh, forgot you can do such a thing, thanks."

 

I'm getting an alert that BitWarden needs a new permission on my devices, but can't figure out how to do that, clicking on the alert simply opens Firefox and I can't find anything in settings or add ons, so how does one do this?

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

Don't really know, hit something about it elsewhere, but it didn't say anything more than that, but yeah, that seems to be the gist of things.

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think the reason is because apparently a lot of people are unhappy with a deal Nix inked apparently with a company that does business with the US' Immigrations and Customs

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was around $60 for a full set of ink (colour and black and white) when we grabbed some a month or so ago, so about average I think. When you think about printers, what brands do people talk about? HP, Brother and Epson, right? Canon I think isn't really trying hard here, printers are just an offshoot of their camera business, do they make much else that isn't cameras or camera related?

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've got a Canon TS642A that's serving us well here. My Brother was giving me problems, mostly in wireless connectivity so we replaced it with this, which was I think the second cheapest Canon we could find, and we've only replaced the cartridges I think once in the last year, though we don't use it all that much. On Linux, I don't think it even needs drivers, its... Postscript I think? Setting up the wireless was a bit tricky, but once up and running, it's been rock solid.

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

It particularly sucks for desktop use on phones that support it, no right click, no keyboard short cuts, and it clips a bit off the bottom of pages, and they've apparently said they have no plans to support desktop on Android.

[–] MrPhibb@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

No need for an Apple keyboard unless you're looking for extra function keys, a regular keyboard will work fine, and if'n for some reason you need the Mac layout, it's available, I've always used the English (Macintosh) layout so I can get easy access to keys I like to use or sometimes need.

 

Which is a shame as it's a really nice fork of Firefox. That picture doesn't do it justice, you can see the three row tab bar that expands only if'n there's enough tabs, nor the hide away bookmarks toolbar.

So why the thumbs down? Well, for starters it ate all my settings, I closed it, realized I'd forgotten to do something, reopened it, and default. If that were it, that wouldn't be so bad, but while installed Firefox wouldn't work, At first it was some minor glitchiness, but when I closed Floorp and went to use Firefox to research the problem and what the solution is, my three home tabs didn't open, and the one tab that didn't showed Tumblr but the browser displayed the Firefox new tab window, as did any other tabs I opened, it was completely unresponsive.

Really it's a shame, because Floorp is a really nice browser, and the customization is great, not just for eye candy, the vertical Thunderbird like toolbar gives easy access to things you need, the hide away ( like your taskbar can) bookmarks toolbar makes it easy to get to your bookmarks without them taking up space. Unfortunately, it's far too buggy to use.

I do wonder, how many of it's features are available in the config? While the vertical toolbar and built in syncable notes obviously aren't, what about hiding the bookmarks toolbar? Moving the toolbar and tab bar around? Multiple tab rows? Are their extensions to add some of this?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by MrPhibb@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

So, like I needed any more projects or any more computers, but I bought a receipt printer and two POS terminals. Both are Celeron J1900 I think at 3Ghz, 128G hard drive and I'm not sure of the memory. All that cost me a whopping $45, so how could I resist? Right now we've got the POSBANK unit working, you can see me updating LMDE 6 on it, and the touch screen does work fine. That was something that worried me and led to me originally trying unsuccessfully to get Endeavour on it, I figured the vast Arch repository would surely have drivers, but that didn't work, so I went with LMDE. Originally the Bank wouldn't boot from USB, so that led to a little bit of creativity to get it installed, but that worked. And then I realized that I'd installed LMDE 5, so I decided to re-install with 6...

And borked something. That's when I figured out how to boot from USB, had to tweak something in the BIOS. It works fairly well except for an issue with GRUB I've never seen before, it not only doesn't indicate what's selected, it seems to refresh the screen every time I press one of the arrow keys. Well, it all works now aside from some minor ACPI errors on boot, weird ones, but it works, so I'll prolly use it for a few days to see how well it works in basic use, and decide after that what I want to do with it.

Weirdly the other unit, a POSIFLEX doesn't work, while it was my installing unit originally as it happily booted from a USB stick, it's failing with an error that there's no operating system once installed. I don't think GRUB is launching, but I'm not sure why, and it has an odd and very simplistic BIOS, fixing it may mean finding how to launch the real BIOS. One of these units will likely wind up taking over running my laser engraver, while the computer I have on that is better specced, there's something wrong with it and always has been, so might as well replace it.

Lastly the printer... Not sure what to do with this, any suggestions?

EDIT Wound up with a block of text, put a couple extra lines in to break it up

 

So, downloaded this a while ago, and decided to give it a try, and.... Well, if'n you asked me last year, I would've given it a thumbs up, but this year, not so much. I'm on LMDE, and it's only available as a FlatPak, with a choice of one.ablaze.floorp V11.4 or Floorp Lightning V11.7. Considering that their site says 11.7 is current, it made sense to switch. Their big claim to fame is the customizability of the browser, and I'd've agreed with you last week when I was running 11.4, I had the bookmark bar at the bottom, and the tab bar under the toolbar. Problem is that yesterday I realized (yeah, dunno how I hadn't noticed for hours) that those were back in the standard FireFox locations, so I went to fix it... Ummm, those customizations seem to be gone. Other problems do seem to be fixed, in the old version, you'd click a link, and nothing would happen for seconds, and then suddenly the new page was there. Some of my log ins don't seem to stick, which is annoying. Over all though, it does work fine.

So, in the end, without the customization, there's not much point to it, you get a status bar at the bottom of the window that seems to be little more than a waste of space. Sure, I like the Thunderbird like toolbar on the side, and having random pics from my wallpapers folder show up as the launch page background is cool, but... Well, I could live without those, assuming I can't find extensions to add them to FireFox.

Sadly, this gets a thumbs down from me. Any of y'all try it?

 
 

Interesting, you don't usually see unionization at a company like this, since the hiring company will typically just fire the contractor when it happens.

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