What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
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    1mo ago 100%

    Timelinize... description from GitHub: Organize your photos & videos, chats & messages, location history, social media content, contacts, and more into a single cohesive timeline on your own computer where you can keep them alive forever.

    There's also Delta Chat, FairEmail and DEFINITELY LOCALSEND.

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    Facing Issues With Installing Flatpak Packages... Help?
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    I don't think mintinstall lets you change where you're installing the program... Interestingly, I ran flatpak search libreoffice again and it quickly returned some packages, which it didn't do before. Still can't install anything though...

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    Facing Issues With Installing Flatpak Packages... Help?
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    Linux Mint is supposed to come with Flatpak support by default. Running flatpak remotes shows that I have flathub configured:

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    flathub system
    

    That said, thank you for answering! I appreciate it, even if it doesn't solve my issue.

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  • Hello everyone; I'm trying to install some flatpak packages, but have been unsuccessful. For example, when I run `flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice` it gets stuck on `Looking for matches…`. I tried running the command with `sudo`, and it worked after 3 minutes of hanging on `Looking for matches…`: ``` user@JustThinking:~$ sudo flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice Looking for matches… Required runtime for org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/23.08) found in remote flathub Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y org.libreoffice.LibreOffice permissions: ipc network fallback-x11 pulseaudio wayland x11 dri file access [1] dbus access [2] bus ownership [3] [1] host, xdg-config/fontconfig:ro, xdg-config/gtk-3.0, xdg-run/gvfsd [2] com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar, org.gtk.vfs.* [3] org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0 ID Branch Op Remote Download 1. [|] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.08 i flathub < 172.2 MB 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.08-extra i flathub < 172.2 MB 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale 23.08 i flathub < 360.2 MB (partial) 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 23.08 i flathub < 13.4 MB 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.2.0 i flathub < 944.3 kB 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua 3.22 i flathub < 114.8 kB 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 i flathub < 227.5 MB 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale stable i flathub < 84.8 MB (partial) 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice stable i flathub < 323.1 MB Installing 1/9… ``` It stayed like this for a while (the [|] didn't change either), until... ``` ID Branch Op Remote Download 1. [—] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.08 i flathub 1.0 kB / 172.2 MB 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.08-extra i flathub < 172.2 MB 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale 23.08 i flathub < 360.2 MB (partial) 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 23.08 i flathub < 13.4 MB 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.2.0 i flathub < 944.3 kB 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua 3.22 i flathub < 114.8 kB 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 i flathub < 227.5 MB 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale stable i flathub < 84.8 MB (partial) 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice stable i flathub < 323.1 MB Installing 1/9… 0% 0 bytes/s ``` It will certainly never install with *this* speed. I stopped it with Control+C. I tried to install it from Software Manager (mintinstall), but it presents me with a time out error after some waiting: `While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/23.08 from remote flathub: Socket I/O timed out`. I'm on Linux Mint 21.3, updated just today. I accidentally installed an older version (installed just a few days ago) and updated two times, didn't work on the older versions either. Any help would be appreciated. (BTW, does anyone know why there are two graphic cards in my system info, the second being `Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub`? That is certainly *not* a graphics card.)

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    If you owned a magic library people donated to in order to preserve media for eternity but which was going through overpopulation, what criteria would you use to decide which media survived/discarded?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearQU
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    5mo ago 100%

    This is not a good method, but...

    I think I'd specify an a number... let's say, 2/3 of the books get to survive, the others will be thrown away. Then I'll start seperating them into three groups; the ones I become immediately sure are great books, the ones I'm sure are trash, and ones I'm unsure about. Then I'll go random: if I chose too many books as good ones, I'll randomly take some of them out, unless I'm sure they are all great books that should stay in the library. Or start randomly adding books from the unsure pile to the ones that get to stay.

    Well. Not a great method.

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  • Looking for some Android apps
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearQU
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    5mo ago 100%

    If you might need to share anything to Windows devices (unlikely), Localsend is much better. Also I think Warpinator couldn't share text (maybe I just didn't see that option or it has been added), but Localsend can do that. But they're not that different.

    I personally use KOReader for EBooks. You can download a dictionary on it and it'll tell you the meaning of any words you select. I suggest you give it a try. Oh, and if you wanted to read PDFs MJ PDF is great.

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