What application have you recently discovered?

As far as proprietary apps go, Obsidian is relatively safe. If you really don’t trust it, you could launch it without net permissions.

pacman -S firejail
firejail --net=none obsidian

If you’re using a shortcut to launch apps, you can use that exact command for the shortcut, and if you use an app menu, then you can either edit the launcher in the menu editor or create an obsidian.desktop file with the command.

Also, what is the name of said daemon process? How did you find it or hear about it?
I’ve never heard about it before.

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Firejail is a good mention if there is concern. I currently have opensnitch on my PC, there is nothing Obsidian could do that would ever leave my PC. ( So far all it does is ping to it’s github page and releases.md file when opening and nowhere else)

You do realise it offers Obsidian Sync, and for that to work, it needs the ability to operate with an online account. Unless you’ve actually created an account and signed in, it won’t even be active.

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A TUI application for managing systemd services.

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BBC Script Smart

These are Word (97, 2000) document templates for writing (manu-) scripts for movies, TV sitcoms, radio drama, stage drama, as well as novels or comic books.

They’re from the late 1990s, early 2000s, and I’ve seen forum posts looking for them.

Fonts and spacing are formatted such that one printed page equals roughly 60 seconds of play, if scene description, directions for action etc. are included.

In practice, a fly-on-the-wall documentary script has very little text one a single (60 seconds) page, while a talkative interview uses too much.

I recommend to use:

  • Script Smart Gold (2004b) for European A4 pages

Carless, Matt. 2003a. “SCRIPT SMART PLUS [2000].” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20050107015450/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Plus.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2003b. “SCRIPT SMART PLUS [V8].” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20050107015450/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Plus.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2004a. “SCRIPT FORMATS.” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20041204194521/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/formats.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2004b. “SCRIPT SMART GOLD [UK V2].” http://web.archive.org/web/20041209032729/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Gold.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2004c. “SCRIPT SMART GOLD [US V1].” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20041209032729/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Gold.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2004d. “SCRIPT SMART PROSE [UK V2].” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20041209033238/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Prose.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2004e. “SCRIPT SMART PROSE [US V2].” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20041209033238/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_Prose.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2005a. “FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20050206084001/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/faq.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2005b. “SCRIPT SMART ’97.” BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart. http://web.archive.org/web/20050107014218/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_97.shtml (June 26, 2025).

Carless, Matt. 2005c. “SCRIPT SMART DOWNLOADS.” BBC - writersroom - Downloads Archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20050107012737/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/downloads.shtml (June 26, 2025).

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It’s called Cif here now, I wonder if this was why. :laughing:

Proves how much housework I (don’t) do! :rofl:

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A widget, actually. KDE Control Station. I like it. It just sits up in your panel if and when you want it.

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Kontainer

It is a simple distrobox management GUI to make it easier to create, update and manage distroboxes.

It is available in AUR as kontainer or as a flatpak.

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Looks like windows Action center. KDE Control Station does not appear to be from the KDE Dev team. Rather it appears to be from someone outside of KDE Development team

Yeah, it’s a 3rd party widget. The link I provided goes to the KDE Store. And that page has a GitHub link.

Memerist: A meme generating app https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/memerist-meme-generator-app-linux

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‘PAleontological Statistics’, PAST 2 with WINE , offers more statistics in a few megabytes than gigantic R and Rstudio installations of 1 GB. (The 2013 version is the snappiest and works on old laptops.)

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Cortile. Tiling for “all” WMs and DEs.

Fortunately, it still works in Openbox. Haven’t tested it in KDE/Cinnamon yet.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated in a while. Don’t know if that is due to abandonment, feature completion, or something else.

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it no bad . i use for over 6month on xfce, so far zero problem

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What is the recent fad with windows tiling?

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Don’t think it’s a recent thing at all.. Tiling window managers exist for a long time now, reason being, if you know how to use it, it will speed up productivity as you dont use your mouse much (I’m not shure if my brain can handle so many keyboard shortcuts, but I find it interesting).

The reason for them to be very popular now is hyprland and niri (niri is a scrolling wm) because you can make them look very nice + all the animations that are appealing. So people are now getting interested in it as it just looks cool and there are many videos on the internet.

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That is often mentioned but in my experience a minor thing (unless I try to multitask which is always a bad idea). The best is that I got rid of that constant annoying little things like window resizing and placement (the corner of one window overlap another one or part of the window is out of the screen). And since the windows have a defined position on the screen it is easy to switch to the one I want instead of alt+tab several times (guess how many times) to find the correct one.

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I recently discovered the very excellent Temporary Containers browser extension has been forked and is receiving proper maintenance and updates (the original extension had gone several years without an update due to the maintainer passing away). The fork is called Temporary Containers Plus:

In addition to bug fixes, the UI has been overhauled and more features have been added. :partying_face:

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