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I hope this doesn't violate the low-quality rule. For those who don't know, when you right click an archive in Dolphin, the extract menu has a "Extract archive here, autodetect subfolder" option and its absolutely brilliant! If you've ever extracted a zip, tar, etc and ended up with files splattered everywhere this feature will prevent that. Basically when you choose this option it will:

• Look to see if the archive has a top level folder, if it does, it will extract it normally
• If it does not (so all of the files are at the top level), it will automatically create a folder for the archive and extract those top level files into it

It's something I really wish other file managers had, and is just another one of those features from the KDE team that gives me the "The developer(s) who created this also use this in their daily lives" impression (which is not to say that others don't). You can of course just open your favorite archive utility and manually check, then manually make the folder yourself and extract the files into there, but this lets me skip those couple of steps and I appreciate that so much.

Microsoft is ending Xbox Live Gold, and it will be replaced with a new tier of Game Pass called "Core", starting September 14, 2023.

Most things will remain the same (such as the price), but there are a couple of notable changes:

• The "Games With Gold" program will not be continued (1)
• Instead, members will gain access to 25 games from the Game Pass library, as selected by Microsoft (with supposedly a few being added every year)

Subscribers of Xbox Live Gold will be automatically moved over to Game Pass Core when it starts on September 14th.

(1) In regards to members with previous GwG items in their libraries, any claimed Xbox One titles will remain in their library as long as they continue their Game Pass Core subscription, and any claimed Xbox 360 games will be available regardless of subscription status - just like how Games with Gold worked previously.

It certainly feels like an end of an era with the Xbox Live Gold name going away.

Hello folks!

My apologies if this is not the appropriate place for this, I'll take it down if so. I spent the better part of the last 11 hours getting this project put together.

The README in the repository goes over just about everything regarding what this tool is about (and how to get it up and running), but the quick elevator pitch is that I wanted a way to monitor the stats of my instance because of the bot spam issues that have been going around in a lot of places. As of now, Lemmy keeps track of a lot of data that could be useful to at least be cognizant of what is going on, but doesn't actually expose it on the UI side.

Originally my idea was to just read the database info straight into Grafana, but of course due to my very little experience with Grafana I didn't realize that this wasn't going to quite work out the way I wanted, as the data in Lemmy's table isn't super well suited for what Grafana expects in terms of time-series data. Which then lead me to wanting to connect it with InfluxDB - another thing that I "knew of" but didn't have any experience with.

The end result was building a tool that could export/stream data from Lemmy's PostgreSQL database over to Influx, allowing me to then make some really nice visuals in Grafana! There are a couple of screenshots at the bottom of the README (I don't know how to scale images when inlining them into posts here and don't want a massive image in the post), along with a link to a snapshot/demo version of the dashboard.

Maybe it'll help some other instance admins, or maybe everyone will think its terrible (I do mention that I'm quite new at Rust), but either way its been frustrating, yet fun, and a good learning experience thus far!

Plasma 6 looks to be shaping up quite nicely already! Some really nice quality of life style updates, and I'm quite shocked (though the reasoning makes sense) to see them moving to double-click actions by default instead of single-click.