That depends on the install date. If you installed Mint 22 when it was released you’re not on the HWE kernel. If you install a later version of Mint based on Ubuntu 24.04.2 or later you’ll get the HWE kernel which auto-updates to newer versions during the lifetime of the distro.

Some links explaining this topic:

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/150
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/84
• https://blog.tingping.se/2019/09/07/how-to-design-a-modern-status-icon.html

The performance issues are because of Adblock and Adblock Plus: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919#m

It affects more sites than just YouTube.

Only if there would be one casting a shadow of spinning blades on my face every day. Otherwise I don’t mind them.

Adblockers will still be allowed, they will just be crippled a lot. It will probably be the same as the adblocking situation on Safari.

If any 3rd party browser vendor wants to maintain a Chromium fork with Manifest V2, they can do so, but with the risk of code maintenance hell. They would also need an extension store for Manifest V2 extensions. Otherwise V2 extensions needs to be installed manually.

Browser vendors can also create their own separate ad blockers that aren’t affected by the changes. For example Brave Shields, Vivaldi adblock, Opera adblock, etc.

By doing that you’re wasting bandwidth on all the CDNs that hosts ALL your filter lists. Updating the Quick fixes list should be enough. (Which updates every 5 hours automatically on uBO 1.54).

How to manually update Quick Fixes (Manual updates push back automatic updates.)

• Click 🛡️ uBO’s icon
• the ⚙ Dashboard button
• the Filter lists pane
• the 🕘 clock icon next to the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list
• the 🔃 Update now button.

Also for anyone wondering how to set the default quality for videos.

Edit your mpv.confand add ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720] to play all videos in 720p for example.

Lemmy can’t display some characters correctly. replace < with a left pointing arrow <

Use farside when recommending alternative front ends. This way users will be redirected to a random working instance.

For piped you can use: https://farside.link/piped/

And for a video: https://farside.link/piped/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

They target accounts, not logged out users.

NewPipe from F-Droid. (Do not download any of those from Google’s store.)

Not only that. Pay to get even more ads and tracking!

Linux Mint do not use the HWE kernel like Ubuntu. However, be on the lookout for a Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO. It’s not released yet, but that ISO will use a newer kernel.

There are plenty of userstyles and userscripts inspired by old reddit If you don’t want to use mlmym. See !plugins@sh.itjust.works

I’d recommend going into the settings and enabling all the extra filters as well.

I’d recommend sticking with the defaults unless you have a specific use case where extra filters are needed. More filters = higher chance of breakage.

If you are on Linux you should be able to create a shell script that change your system color to dark or light depending on the time. On gnome there may even be some extension that do that already.

If you use Windows there may also be options to do the same with task scheduler.

They turn white for me (or green for sticky posts). However, there may be some combination of dark mode and theme setting that I’ve overlooked. The #app id should have the attribute data-bs-theme="dark" if you use darkly. If your entire system use dark mode it should also work by default if your system tells your browser that you prefer dark themes. (But data-bs-theme will still be set to light unless one go to the settings and change the theme to darkly.)

Rather than manually adding communities, could it be made to fetch active/hot communities from for example: https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?sort=Active ?

Try with the invidious instances or piped instances that are the closest to you.

While talking about alternative front ends.

I’m wondering why websites keep using fake paywalls when they can use a real one where the content isn’t available until user verification.