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Re: Firefox Adding Google Lens, Stock Data and AI "Page Buddy" Features - OMG! Ubuntu

slumbergod — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:56:27 -0000

the bloat surge continues, as does the AI infection.
I doubt even waterfox will be able to strip out all this junk.

Re: Review LibreOffice 5.0: LibreOffice 5.0

slumbergod — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:48:57 -0000

LibreOffice is a solid replacement for Microsoft Office in Linux but it is also an example of how bugs never get fixed in open source software. I only use Draw. When it works properly it is great. But since version 7.2 it hangs while saving changes to documents. If I am prepared to wait 5-10 minutes it will eventually complete the save and unfreeze LibreOffice. That makes Draw completely unusable. This is a regression of a bug that used to plague the office suite a few years ago.

So I though hmmm I will report this bug only to be unable to create an account to report it because of a bug in their registration process. Epic failure.

In the past I used to have an account and I reported some bugs in Draw only to be told by LO fanboys that they were in fact features!! Hard to believe.

If you criticise LO you'll draw the ire of the open source fanboys yet this does highlight glaring issues in LO's development system.

Re: Xfce 4.16pre1 released!

slumbergod — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:01:24 -0000

Congratulations on all the hard work!! This is going to be an awesome release with so many new features to look forward to!

Re: Remote Desktop Connection to Windows from Linux using RDP clients

slumbergod — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:21:43 -0000

And if all of these fail just install a DW agent on your windoze machine and connect using https://www.dwservice.net
It's a little slow but it works well enough as a backup.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client Gets Its First Update in 2 Years

slumbergod — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:58:01 -0000

Hmmm it wouldn't work for me in Xubuntu 18.04. It starts with a small window and when I go to maximise it, it hangs. In the end I had to purge it and go back to the older repo version. So 2.0.2 may not work for some I guess

Re: Some users report Android notification issues, especially w/ Bluetooth devices

slumbergod — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 19:42:11 -0000

I've been plagued by volume related bugs like this for ages. I simply put it down to Bluetooth and Android both being crappy.

Re: U.S. Places 36 Countries on Annual ‘Piracy Watchlist’

slumbergod — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:35:38 -0000

As usual, the US World Super Police try to force their neoliberal bullshit on everyone else. Hey Trump, why don't you build a wall around USA to protect us from you!

Re: Telegram privacy features likely to prove controversial

slumbergod — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:56:22 -0000

I actually find their whole privacy set-up confusing. More annoying for me is the stupid way they rename long file names using underscores. If you send multiple files with numbers you often lose the order they are supposed to be in. They should automatically copy the original file name to the comment so it is preserved but no, they prefer to work on other things

Re: Cast Local Media From Ubuntu to Chromecast

slumbergod — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 17:53:04 -0000

don't forget gnomecast. I had to install it with "pip install" but it works and it let's you include subtitles.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.6 Release

slumbergod — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:44:24 -0000

Has anyone else experienced system freezes with 56.2.6? I only every have 10-15 tabs open but in the last few days waterfox seems to be eating all 8gb of my ram forcing me to have to hard reset my system (or if I am very lucky I can open a new login and kill the waterfox processes).

Downgrading to 56.2.5 didn't resolve it so it must be related to an addon update. I haven't installed any new addons so that's all I can think of.

Now testing disabling of multiprocesses.

Re: Hangouts Chat & Hangouts Meet will open to consumers before ‘Hangouts classic’ shuts down

slumbergod — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:19:19 -0000

Too late Google. Most of us bailed on your messaging products years ago. I'd never use one of them again because I know that in a year or two you'll kill them off in favour of the next stupid idea.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:44:29 -0000

Is there an alternative download site I can grab the latest linux version from? No matter what I try at my end (Vivaldi, Chromium, clearing cache...) there is no option to grab the latest release from my Xubuntu 18.04 machine. It is still only showing 56.2.4

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 12:53:59 -0000

Hi Alex, I've checked a couple of times again today and I'm still only seeing .4
I've cleared my browser's cache and tried to see what is offered when I load the page in Vivaldi.
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Perhaps another linux user can confirm whether they've been able to grab .5 yet so I can determine if the problem is at my end.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 05:55:50 -0000

Just tried again and same thing. I also loaded the page in vivaldi and it is also only seeing .4
I've reloaded the pages bypassing my browser's cache and I am getting the same.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:33:08 -0000

Thanks for the tip. Gave it a shot but 404 error so I have to wait longer.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 05:31:08 -0000

My Xubuntu linux distribution has never managed to update automatically for me. That doesn't bother me because I am quite happy to download the update and install in manually but I have to admit it was getting very frustrating being reminded by Waterfox several times a day that there is an update only to find that there isn't one. I don't really understand why this problem exists. When I update downloads on one of my websites it is instant and the new file is available.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:14:04 -0000

Thanks Graham!! Much appreciated!

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.5 Release

slumbergod — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:11:30 -0000

I'd like to disable the constant pop-up telling me that waterfox can't download the latest version and do I want to download it manually. I go to do it and there is still no update for linux-64bit so I'd rather not be reminded.

How do I do it?

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

slumbergod — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:47:00 -0000

I had to update to 56.2.4 manually because the autoupdate wouldn't work for me in linux. Now, everyday I get a waterfox notification stating that it is unable to update to 56.2.4 and do I want to download it. Is there a way to disable this annoying popup?

Re: IBM Just Bought Red Hat for $34 Billion

slumbergod — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:32:20 -0000

And the corporates just keep getting bigger.

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.4 Release

slumbergod — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:04:58 -0000

When do you think the new version will be ready for download? I've been checking regularly since your post about 56.2.4 but I'm also only seeing the current version

Re: The Waterfox Blog | Waterfox 56.2.3 Release

slumbergod — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:09:39 -0000

Heads-Up: back up your tabs *before* you update to the latest. On this occasion I lost all my tabs.

Re: Telegram updates desktop app with chat export, night theme

slumbergod — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:55:05 -0000

So Telegram Desktop doesn't have encrypted chat? Is that only in the Android app? How is that "way ahead" of WhatsApp where encryption is on by default? I'm not trying to troll anyone because I have looked closely at Telegram as an alternative to WhatsApp for a couple of years but without encryption I don't see how it is better.

Re: Run Windows 95 on Your Desktop as an Electron App

slumbergod — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:14:01 -0000

Now that it's in the news, m$ lawyers will be after him. Because, you know, Windoze 95 is valuable intellectual property.

Re: GNOME’s New ‘Desktop Icons’ Extension Enters Beta

slumbergod — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:35:02 -0000

What's next? removing keyboard support? This is as stupid as Mozilla's decision to remove support for XUL addons. Time for Canonical to migrate away from GTK?