cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/42263587

Of the desktop environments i've tried, i prefer Cinnamon overall. But i find that i'd rather use the KDE or Mate versions of some programs. I don't need Nemo when i'd rather use Thunar, or Gnome Characters when i prefer mate-character-map or kcharselect.

Is there any reason i can't start with nothing that's specific to any one DE, then install whatever i need to have Cinnamon applets with the Mate and KDE programs i want? I don't expect this to be easier than picking one DE and sticking with that, but is it so much harder that it's not worth the trouble to have my computer so customized? How common is it to use a custom blend like this?

This was sparked when, while cleaning up my system that still has similar programs from several DEs, i accidentally broke Cinnamon and had to reinstall it, complete with everything i'd removed in favor of some other DE's version of a program.

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What window managers are recommended for situations like this? I've always used whatever comes with my DE, without really being aware of the window manager. How does that affect what display manager i need?

With the launch of its all-new, all-electric EX60, Volvo has put lessons learned from the EX30 and EX90 to use. The EX60 is built on Volvo’s new SPA3 platform, made only for battery-electric vehicles. It boasts up to 400 miles (643 km) of range, with fast-charging capabilities Volvo says add 173 miles (278 km) in 10 minutes. Mega casting reduces the number of parts of the rear floor from 100-plus to one piece crafted of aluminum alloy, reducing complexities and weld points.

Inside the cabin, however, the real achievement is Volvo’s new multi-adaptive safety belt. Volvo has a history with the modern three-point safety belt, which was perfected by in-house engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 before the patent was shared with the world. Today at the Volvo Cars Safety Center lab, at least one brand-new Volvo is crashed every day in the name of science. The goal: to test not just how well its vehicles are protecting passengers but what the next frontier is in safety technology.

Senior Safety Technical Leader Mikael Ljung Aust is a driving behavior specialist with 20 years under his belt at Volvo. He says it’s easy to optimize testing toward one person or one test point and come up with a good result. However, both from the behavioral perspective and from physics, people are different. What’s not different, he points out, is how people drive.

“We’re shaped into a very similar automated behavior when we drive, so that makes the collision prevention side of things a bit easier,” Ljung Aust says. “But on the injury-prevention side of things is where the seat belt comes in, we’re working on the principle of equal safety for all. The idea is that independent of who you are in terms of size, shape, weight, all of these things, you should have exactly the same protection.”

Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits that seek to punish Meta and other platforms for allegedly prioritizing profits while downplaying child safety risks for years.

Social media companies have faced scrutiny before, with congressional hearings forcing CEOs to apologize, but until now, they’ve never had to convince a jury that they aren’t liable for harming kids.

This week, the first high-profile lawsuit—considered a “bellwether” case that could set meaningful precedent in the hundreds of other complaints—goes to trial. That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay to push her down a path that she alleged triggered depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidality.

TikTok and Snapchat were also targeted by the lawsuit, but both have settled. The Snapchat settlement came last week, while TikTok settled on Tuesday just hours before the trial started, Bloomberg reported.

Police officers are being told to “be as vague as permissible” about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request. The warning originated from a Houston-area police intelligence center that includes members of the FBI and ICE and suggests without evidence that people are using a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com to “potentially retaliate against law enforcement.”

The warnings were shared with 404 Media by researchers from Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure and Lucy Parsons Lab after our article about police unwittingly leaking the details of millions of surveillance targets nationwide due to public records redaction errors made by several Flock automated license plate reader system customers. This data was aggregated into a searchable tool called HaveIBeenFlocked.

Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harm’s way. The data released by police departments includes the agency doing a search, the officer’s name, time of search, the license plate searched, and a “reason” field, which is the justification for doing a specific search.

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flatpak run org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
bwrap: Unable to open lock file /app/.ref: No such file or directory

I tried flatpak repair, with --user and --system, that did not fix it, and I did a system re-install, or rather reinstalled all the packages
Nothing worked.

I am using nixos on unstable, recently I broke the nix part of my system, and was advised to do a re-install, I did a re-install which involved usb booting into nixos, and running a command to reinstall all the packages and rebuild in my nix directory, but afterwards, no flatpak is running. There is a possibility it broke beforehand and I didnt notice that, but i think it might have been after the re-install.

Flatpak version:
1.16.1

Distro:
NixOS

Distro version:
/nix/store/8hx8jwa24q6rkzhca9iqy5ckk9rbphi1-source

Architecture:
x86_64

EDIT:
Some flatpaks run but alot of them dont with the same error

EDIT (x2) SOLVED:
I think the issue might have been the kde platform, as the apps that crashed were on kde platform 6.8 or 6.9, possibly some broken version, most likely the platform and bwrap didnt play well with nixos, these commands worked, I ran this for users (not system). Possible system might work, point is, I dont have the issue anymore.

flatpak uninstall org.inkscape.Inkscape org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent com.obsproject.Studio org.kde.kdenlive org.wireshark.Wireshark com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer com.rafaelmardojai.Blanket io.github.seadve.Mousai net.codelogistics.clicker org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

flatpak uninstall --runtime org.kde.Platform//6.8
flatpak uninstall --runtime org.kde.Platform//6.9
flatpak uninstall --runtime org.gnome.Platform//48

flatpak uninstall --unused -y

flatpak repair --system
flatpak repair --user

flatpak install flathub org.inkscape.Inkscape
flatpak install flathub org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio

If you're already renting content access, why not rent your TV as well?

LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, soundbars, monitors, and speakers.

LG Flex customers can sign up for one-, two-, or three-year subscriptions to get lower monthly payments.

“At the end of your subscription, you can apply for a free upgrade, keep paying monthly, or return your device,” the LG Flex website says. Subscribers will have to pay a £50 (about $69) fee for a “full removal service,” including dismounting and packaging, of rental TVs.

LG also claims on its website that it won’t penalize customers for “obvious signs of use, such as some scratching, small dents, or changes in the paintwork.” However, if you damage the rental device, LG “may charge you for the cost of repair as outlined by the Repair Charges set out in your agreement.” LG’s subscription partner, Raylo, also sells insurance for coverage against “accidental damage, loss, and theft” of rented devices.

As of this writing, you can buy LG’s 83-inch OLED B5 2025 TV on LG’s UK website for £2,550 (about $3,515). Monthly rental prices range from £93 ($128), if you commit to a three-year-long rental period, to £277 ($382), if you only commit to a one-month rental period. Under the three-year plan, you can rent the TV for 27 months before you end up paying more to rent the TV than you would have to own it. At the highest rate, your rental payments will surpass MSRP after nine months.