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[SOLVED] how do I recover tbb/ff bookmarks from a jsonlz4 backup file on xubuntu 24.04?

due to reasons I only have my tbb/ff bookmarks saved as jsonlz4 files, 10 backups....

Retirement Twist: Gabe Newell Bundles Company in the Valve Complete Pack and Sells It to an Unsuspecting Gamer

What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be?

What is the first thing you notice in this image??

What did you notice at first site?

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

am I depleting my embedded notebook's battery by leaving the power cord constantly plugged in?

notebook is a 10 year old macbook pro without macos I installed xubuntu 24.04 in. It comes with an embedded battery....

Noob question about wine

Looking up guides on how to install wine can vary. Some say, “sudo apt install wine” and others have you install the 32 and 64bit versions. My machine is 64 bit, but some guides tell you to enable 32bit....

Cloud Storage with smart/on-demand sync Linux client?

Like OneDrive for Windows or iCloud on MacOS. So files only her downloaded when needed and you can specify directories/files to be available offline....

An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

So I’ve been grabbing a few shows I want to watch reruns of while playing Balatro that don’t have good blu ray releases. My piracy is fairly limited these days so I don’t bother with private trackers (do have a VPN though). In the past, I never really had an issue with grabbing a few one offs off the popular, maybe...

Best way of pirating printed magazines?

What is considered the best/safest way to pirate printed magazines? On the Awesome Piracy-repo, there are some links, but they either don’t work or look sus (except for maybe magazinelib.com)....

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Elevate privileges between Python program ( and Inter-process_communication )

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[Help] How to change the ports for a Bitwarden server before installing?

The ports 80 and 443 are already used by Adguard Home. I didnt find any way to change those ports for Bitwarden.

Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?

It felt like it was uncool to have even a touch of racism when Obama got elected and through his presidency. But since the MAGA movement, I feel like subtle and out-right racism has increased. Like a gateway was opened....

Smallest Security/Privacy Focused Distro Help?

I’ve been doing some scouring and my search results are coming back confusing. Usually either incomplete information, or some kind of sales spam, so I’m reaching out in the hopes of recommendations for actual linux users and fans. I am looking for a very small, tiny even, security/privacy focused distro. I don’t mind doing...

Hide LSPosed

Will Zygisk + PIF + Shsmiko hide LSPosed?...

You wake up from a coma that started back in 2004. What music artist/band/group are you most surprised (good or bad,) by the direction they took musically over the last twenty years?

Do apt and snap use the same numbering system?

sometimes, if I want to install a program from the terminal, I get 2 options: apt and snap....

[Debian 12] Laptop screen remains off after sleep on graphical session

Hi guys! Hope this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but here it goes....

Using btrfs compression as a backing device for Zram

So, I’m sure some of you know. If configured, you can use a backing device for Zram for scenarios where Zram can’t compress the data, e.g. when it’s full. For this you can use pretty much any supported partition format, including btrfs, what I realized is that you can used btrfs disk compression on top of that. Question...