Firefox is my tab-hoarding enabler 😍
Firefox is my tab-hoarding enabler 😍
Does it kill Firefox if it tries to go over the limit? I think I tried this once and if there is a memory leak it just closes itself (which is batter than hogging the whole system, bit still)
I’d like to use Rethink DNS (forcefully set to DNS+Firewall) because it keeps a record on-device of the connections that apps tried to establish. So as I understand it’s not possible to have both then?
Do you also have “Block connections without VPN” on like this?
Yes, I believe the issue comes from that(edit: tried disabling it and it was indeed that), ideally one would keep that setting on, I guess there’s no internal Android setting to exclude on an app by app basis unfortunately
Thanks! Will have to come back to this
Those 2 might very well cause issues sometimes, you should try and fiddle around with their settings on the websites that complain, or outright whitelist them if nothing works and you want to use them, other times it really is the browser or even more often an artificial check of the user agent string (dick move on the dev’s side), so if you spoof a Chromium browser it’ll start working right away
But what if my God is a robot?
Real, happened too many times to me. What’s that about configuring the OOM, can you give it priorities?
Based, too bad it’s not as easy to find jobs to feed the family (me) with better languages usually simply by virtue of them being newer and having less adoption
Tell me about it, when the roles are reversed and nor the manager ex-dev nor the older dev care about good programming practices it’s a far west where the junior desperately tries to become the dictator of a ruleless country
Most? Are you sure you didn’t install some extensions that break your browsing?
That’s true, I don’t know how it could be described as a hard rule though
Yes, I feel like some kind of bell should ring in your brain when something needs to be commented, most often if you struggled to write out the solution or you had to do a lot of digging from various places to achieve the final resulting piece of code, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to pressure yourself into thinking you should comment everything, because some knowledge has to be assumed, nowadays you could even add that if someone completely extraneous to the codebase entered without any knowledge, they could feed the parts of code they need to understand into some LLM to get a feel for what they’re looking at, with further feedback from actual devs though, you never know what random bs they might write.
Good one on the variables to store results of expressions, I agree with that method, though I always forget to do that because I get so lost in the pride of writing that convoluted one-liner that I think, “oh yeah, this is perfectly beautiful and understandable 😇”, I have to check myself more on that.
complex portions in some of my projects that would appreciate similar simplification
So I’m not alone on that haha.
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Sorry, what’s the subject of that?
Making up an example on the spot is kinda difficult for me, but I’d look at it this way with a bold statement, you should hope that most code won’t need comments. Let’s exclude documentation blocks that are super ok to be redundant as they should give a nice, consistent, human readable definition of what x thing does (function, constant, enum, etc.) and maybe even how to use it if it’s non-intuitive or there are some quirks with it.
After that, you delve in the actual meat of the code, there are ways to make it more self explanatory like extracting blocks of stuff into functions, even when you don’t think it’ll be used again, to be used with care though, as not to make a million useless functions, better is to structure your code so that an API is put into place, enabling you to write code that naturally comes out high level enough to be understood just by reading, this thing is very difficult for me to pinpoint though, because we think of high level code as abstractions, something that turns the code you write from describing the what rather than the how, but really, it’s a matter of scope, a print statement is high level if the task is to print, but if the task is to render a terminal interface then the print becomes low level, opposite is also true, if you go down and your task is to put a character onto stdout, then the assembly code you’d write might be high level. What I mean to say is that, once you have defined the scope, then you can decide what level of knowledge to expect of the reader when looking at your code, from there, if some process feels fairly convoluted, but it doesn’t make sense to build an abstraction over it, then it is a good place to put a comment explaining why you did that, and, if it’s not really clear, even what that whole block does
Did a bit more research, was thinking it might be a systemd service, so I checked for timers there, but there was just a countme timer enabled that basically tells the server to include you in the count of active systems (how to disable, for the paranoid 🥸).
Then I went on to look at the live logs of rpm-ostree and, as found from this website used this command:
journalctl --follow --unit rpm-ostreed.service
So that I could monitor its activity while I open Discover and so I managed to record when it happens, I also saw from the logs that there is a configuration file at this path /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf
and that you can configure automatic updates from there, by default there a this line about it (usage greatly explained with man rpm-ostreed.conf
btw):
[Daemon]
#AutomaticUpdatePolicy=none
but it’s commented out, so it couldn’t have been that.
Finally there is this one thing that pops up in the logs:
Initiated txn AutomaticUpdateTrigger for client(id:cli dbus:1.1625 unit:app-org.kde.discover@df0f43f8979843c0a34d36ad199c7eda.service uid:1000): /org/projectatomic/rpmostree1/fedora
So it is something triggered by Discover, as I had known already, due to other articles that talk about the integration with Discover, but I wasn’t so sure about it anymore, since I couldn’t find any related settings in the app.
So I found the setting that configures automatic updates in general… in the three dot menu (questionable UX decision?):
which actually just leads to the system settings:
I had this configured to be weekly, there isn’t even a setting as granular as seconds, the smallest span of time is daily, but what I’m guessing is that the “Update frequency” acts on when they should be installed automatically rather than when they should be fetched, so this is a limitation of the system as I understand it
I’m glad that it’s coming natively, but hands down there’s a whole lot of progress they have yet to make to come close to the usability provided by Sidebery, good that they’re also working on native vertical tabs in fact! So I think that if you’re looking for a better system you could try out that extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
It’s a great project yes!