Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Please do not bother responding with things like "you can probably find a broken Pixel for under $100 and then repair it" because then you really have not understood the assignment, and this is completely unrealistic for poorer folks in particular

Are there any Android distributions that work on cheap, easily-available smartphones, and that still try to do the best they can to protect the user's privacy and security, without being absolutist about it?

("Cheap" here means "$100 or under", to be clear)

And of course the usual personal safety PSA, for those who need it: you don't post about doing crimes on the internet.

If you want to draw attention to some kind of illegal action, then *at most* you have observed that the action has taken place, by some unknown individual at some unknown time, and are sharing that information with the world. But you were definitely not involved, because that would be posting crimes.

Of course I'll leave the nature of said 'hassle' undefined, I'm sure you can all come up with some creative ideas!

O...kay. A NATO jet flanked by three fighter jets just flew over.

Hey, so it seems that most of Rowling's money is coming from licensing deals nowadays. And you can be pretty sure that most of the companies paying for those deals don't believe in Rowling's hateful politics anywhere near as much as Rowling herself does.

Which is to say: if you create continuous hassle and reputation damage for any place that has such a licensing deal, and for any place that stocks the licensed stuff... I bet they're going to reconsider extending those license deals real quick, as it becomes a toxic asset.

More for the list!

When you add too many columns in Mastodon's advanced view, the columns become so narrow that some of the UI elements fall off.

In Bottles, there seems to be no consistent ordering criteria to the launchable-executable list for a given Bottle, and if you rename an entry, it jumps to a seemingly random new place in the list.

The Bottles feature for creating a desktop entry for an executable sometimes just doesn't work and provides no error feedback or progress indicator whatsoever.

Running a compression task with p7zip nearly freezes up the system; it does not seem to deprioritize its work in any way.

Almost all Plasma icons are black-and-white line icons, and very difficult to distinguish from each other.

In multi-line display on the Plasma icons-and-text taskbar, pinned applications take up an entire application slot even though all that's being shown is an icon, and they could definitely be collapsed into a smaller space. They're not collapsed even when there's multiple unlaunched pinned applications that could collectively take up one application slot without disrupting the item grid.

Element Web takes sometimes several minutes to load my account after opening the page, and if I move focus away from the tab in any way, then it will never load fully and instead ends up showing a partly-loaded page, requiring me to refresh and wait several minutes again (without being able to do anything else in the meantime).

Mastodon's (advanced view) timeline jumps away as new posts come in, while I'm trying to click something, when it should be pausing the movement while hovering over the column.

Going to keep a list of frustrations that I run into while using my computer. Started making the list 15 minutes ago and already have 9 items...

(*Do not* scattershot advice to 'fix' this stuff at me unless you're willing to see it through to the end, up to and including filing bugs with projects and/or submitting patches. If these things were trivial to fix, I would have done so already, and I am not planning to spend the rest of my day telling people "yes I have already tried that".)

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The list so far:

Things stealing focus. So many things stealing focus. Plasma's “focus stealing prevention” has several levels ranging from Low to Extreme but does not explain what these mean.

When trying to open a .exe from qBittorrent, expecting it to be opened with Bottles, I instead get an error from “KIO Client” saying “For security reasons, launching executables is not allowed in this context.” So I have to "open folder" and run it from there and then it's suddenly fine apparently 🤷

When doing a drag-and-drop, there's like a 50/50 chance that something bugs out, and at least one application now forever believes that I am in a dragging state (long after I've dropped the thing) until I restart it; often it's something involving a browser engine.

When trying to drag-reorder running applications in my auto-hide Plasma panel, it starts bugging out, rapidly showing and hiding the panel constantly, and if I release the item at the wrong moment, some other application seems to receive it and shits the bed.

Ark frequently fails to correctly open or extract several archive types (particularly RAR and 7z), especially when password-protected, even though these types are nominally supported. Extraction progress is almost always broken, seemingly regardless of archive type.

“Extract here” in Dolphin fails even more often than Ark does.

If you're accessing a network filesystem through Dolphin, and that connection breaks for any reason, good luck; you'll need it, and your entire Plasma session might end up crashing.

Or if the connection is slow, and something tries to access it, all sorts of stuff around the system starts lagging, also outside of KDE things.

Some installers, when run under WINE in Bottles at least, are impossible to focus from their taskbar icon; they will always stay in the background, and instead you need to minimize everything that's in front of it to be able to see and interact with it.

How are there already 16 DLCs for Cities Skylines 2?!

#AskFedi: I'm looking for games with similarly satisfying building and management mechanics to Project Hospital and Airport CEO. :boost_requested:

Please only reply if you've actually played either of these games; this is not a genre question, it's about the *feel* of the games!

Anyone is welcome to boost, though - and it's much appreciated, these are obscure games and so it'll probably be difficult to find folks who have played them!