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Meet the New Mastodon Client, Same as the Old Mastodon Client | Trivial Observations
| | balintreczey.hu
Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (and 23.04, 24.04 LTS and later) from .deb (not from snap) | Obsessed with reality
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| | It is now widely known that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ships Firefox as a snap, but some people (like me) may prefer installing it from .deb packages to retain control over upgrades or to keep extensions working. Luckily there is still a PPA serving firefox (and thunderbird) debs at https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa maintained by the Mozilla Team. (Thank you!) You can...
| | major.io
Fix big cursors in Java applications in Wayland · Major Hayden
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| | Java applications under Wayland seemed to have all different sizes of cursors, but some were way, way, too big.
| | blog.craftyguy.net
Quick n' Dirty Mobile IRC/Matrix via Weechat - craftyguy's blog
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| | Due to a current lack of usable Weechat relay clients on Linux that work well with mobile display sizes, and a lack of free time on my part to write one, I've come up with this simple (albeit not elegant) way to "run" Glowing Bear in a way that doesn't take up valuable tab space in Firefox. This essentially just runs a new Firefox window in kiosk mode, so that the tab bar, menus, etc are hidden, and makes it "feel" a bit more like a "native app" than a web thing running in a browser tab.
| | blog.dhsdevelopments.com
Learning Kap during Advent of Code - Elias Mårtenson
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| For the last few years, I've solved some of the Advent of Code problems using Kap. It's turned out to work quite well, and Kap has turned...