I used them on Windows to manage a handful of websites. I’d have a Websites folder with sub folders for each site, and a few portable apps in each one. I’d have Thunderbird and Firefox at least, and they’d keep everything separate.
For me at least, it made things a lot easier than trying to remember to log in to profiles etc individually :)
I use Firefox with Ublock Origin on Android, and if I watch youtube in the browser, it filters pretty much all ads. Sometimes I get one at the start of a video, but closing the tab and starting again has got rid of them so far 👍
Nice!
Just remember to check the price. I’ve seen Cex selling things for above retail if they’re popular
Slightly off topic, but this site has a good graphic that explains some photography basics, like how ISO and aperture affect the shot.
Depending on the project, absolutely yes. I’ve got a load of maintenance projects that need doing on my house that I’ve been putting off because there’s a huge time investment, or they need to be done in nice weather. I wouldn’t be learning anything that would be particularly useful to me in the future, so getting them done instantly would be a massive help.
As an example, my garden is very overgrown and needs a few days of dry weather to complete. It’s mostly going to be cutting everything back with strimmers and hedge trimmers and then clearing the cuttings away. I already know how to do it, but even if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be difficult to learn so that I can keep on top of it going forward.
I did look at changing the DE, but apparently KDE doesn’t work well with Mint. I want to change distros anyway though, as some of the problems I’m having are from the outdated repos. I’ve only been on Mint properly for a few months, but have had to manually install a few programs already
Thanks for replying, it looks like I’ve got some homework to do :D
I did look at the fstab page, but I didn’t understand enough to get an answer. I’ll look at the mount page tonight, thank you :)
I thought that might be the case, but do you know if changing the group would help at all?
That could work really well then, especially as I’m looking to change distros. Mint is great, but it’s got a few issues that are getting in my way now.
Thank you :)
That could work then. I tend to have to use the same sites for the various sites, like Facebook for example, but it’s rare that I need to use the same site for different accounts on the same site. Most of the sites use Gmail for now, but that does work well with multiple accounts.
I’ll have a proper look when I get home later. Thank you :)
Unfortunately that won’t work for me, I need them to be completely separate. I’ve got physical and mental issues that mean I get brain fog, and then get things muddled up. If the tab groups share things like bookmarks or saved logins, there’s a chance that I’ll open the wrong link, or log in to the wrong email.
That’s interesting. I knew that Firefox had options for different profiles, but last time I tried I couldn’t get it working the way I wanted. I’ll have another look, thanks :)
Thanks for replying :)
I think there’s some confusion though, none of the sites are hosted locally, PortableApps just lets me use a separate browser and email client for each website, effectively sandboxed from each other so that there’s no chance of accidentally editing the wrong site or posting from the wrong account. Each PortableApps instance has its own set of logins and bookmarks etc. to manage one website and the associated emails.
I essentially just want to run a program in a Windows 10 VM that’s stored on the Linux host but on an NTFS drive. As far as I can tell, the permissions on the NTFS drive are interfering with that, as the files are in the root group on Mint, whereas I’m in the tippon and vboxuser groups. I’m not sure how to change that without risking breaking something, but the way the NTFS drive is mounted through fstab seems to be the answer.
I think that changing fstab so that the drive is mounted under my user and group will fix it, but I don’t know how that will affect anything else on the drive, or any Linux programs that access those files. I’m stuck with NTFS for now as I occasionally need to dual boot, and need these programs available while I’m in Windows too.
Ideally I’m going to move away from using PortableApps to manage the sites, but I haven’t found a better way yet.
OP:
Is green
Sees the error of their ways and rectifies it
Heart grows three sizes
OP is the Grinch
I just used Swift Backup with Shizuku to move an app from my old phone to the new one. It had an apk, but had some other files with it too. I don’t know enough about it to know whether the app can be used without those files, or if they’re linked to me at all, but the app works on the new phone :)
Mr The Grinch? I can see it. It would probably at least partly explain why he hated everyone too.
‘The grinch had a heart that was three sizes too small.’ It gets ambiguous very quickly
This heathen dares to suggest that The Hand causes collateral damage!?! The Order Of The Deliberate And Benevolent Hand finds this extremely offensive!
The Most Pointiness From Above only Squishes those who deserve to be Squished!
I’ve got the G86 5g. The live lockscreen can be disabled, there’s an option in the settings. You can tell it not to ask again too.
Mine came back after a system update, but that’s when I found the don’t ask again checkbox, and it hasn’t come back since 👍