Windows has something called the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate API which enables apps with long running operations to prevent a shutdown to avoid corruption or losing work.

Is there an equivalent for Linux? When used appropriately, it makes shut downs even more graceful.

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I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I’ve closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.

I scrape my own bank and financial aggregator to have a self hosted financial tool. I scrape my health insurance to pull in data to track for my HSA. I scrape Strava to build my own health reports.

Just an update. Firefox 146 just dropped with:

• Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

After upgrading to 146 and natively using Wayland, it feels faster. Some fade animations are still choppier, but on average it’s at least tolerable.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

• MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
• MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It’s hard to tell.

It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.

Yep, both are plugged into the graphics card. Other programs and games are a lot faster.

Rebase still means you have to resolve conflicts, but it can be worse because you may have to resolve conflicts across multiple commits that you’re rebasing on top of a conflict.

For what it’s worth, they reversed that policy

That probably makes sense. Most people don’t have the risk of a malicious actor sniffing their TPM bus and those that do can opt in. Everybody else can still benefit from a TPM

I’d prefer if the Steam app uses the 64 bit libraries so I don’t have to install a bunch of 32 bit dependencies too.

Yeah this isn’t even human readable even when it’s in YAML. What am I going to do? Read the floats and understand that the person looked left?

bash doesn’t have a main function either and no one is fucking complaining.

I don’t complain about Bash’s lack of features because I choose not to write Bash scripts and instead use saner languages.