Great, now all it needs is an Android/iOS client to be one of the best cross-platform file transfer apps out there

Give them time.

Total Cookie Protection also was recently introduced as a “Strict mode-only” feature for a while and just with the latest version it became part of the default, same as every new big privacy feature they introduced.

Absolutely yes. Obviously having clear guides and help is good to narrow those choices down, but if we go beyond the basic example of Linux distros, just check out the phone market. There are hundreds of new choices each year, without counting the ones from previous years. It’s absolutely impossible to get a good deal without tons of research or luck.

Had to deal with that experience personally these last couple of days, after years of not following the smartphone consumerism hype machine.

So Mozilla can do something right!

always has been (apart from the few moments where they don’t) 🌎️ 👨‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀

Developer gets hired and get to work on it without relying only on donations, plus the name recognition of Thunderbird.

With Fedora 36 isn’t anymore true you can just turn on the switch for third party libraries and than you have RPM Fusion also enabled

False. Just like F35, all it enables is the “Fedora third-party repos”, which include Google Chrome’s and PyCharm’s repos, as well as Steam and NVIDIA Driver filtered RPM Fusion and filtered Flathub.

You still need to use the terminal to enable RPMFusion and there’s nothing the Fedora team can legally do currently to make it available to users in an easier way without putting themselves to some level of risk.

It is a great game with a timeless art style after all.

We really need to teach children self-defense

Yes, but that by itself doesn’t end bullying, because bullying isn’t just physical assault. I’ve been through it myself for three years, during a time where bullying was juuuuuuust starting to come to the public discourse, but not taken seriously enough.

Of course there was physical assault involved, but also in a lot of other ways, like mean comments and gossips, being excluded from everything related to your colleagues, humiliation in many ways as well, like mean nicknames and making fun of the things you like or pulling pranks.

And also it usually isn’t an individual thing, it also depends a lot on the other people around the victim “looking the other way”, which happened a lot with me, with the point of other classmates acting as an alibi for the bullies and trying to gaslight me.

There’s not a lot that can be done about those if there isn’t an actual effort from the school.

They just implemented a systemd feature, systemd-oomd. To be honest, it can cause issues in some edge cases, but it works pretty well in any distro (that uses systemd).

TIL pipewire added a working version of module-echo-cancel.

Been waiting for that for such a long time, how long has it been that they added it?

Yeah, that’s the way they went back on it. Originally it was going to be opt-out instead of opt-in.

A couple of months back there was a huge fuss about Audacity adding telemetry to the program. There were a couple of forks spawned from it and after the backlash they went back on it.

Banned is harsh way of saying they didn’t expect it to be recommended.

To be fair, the Audio Editing and Audio Workstation mix a lot. I personally use Ardour to do everything I could with Audacity. Audio recording and editing.

Shame. To NewPipe we go then.

Also Ardour in the same category

“The default is not attractive but there are some that are very attractive.”

And that’s precisely why most people will be turned off by it. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use it because of a lack of a good UI, I’m saying that recommending it to people while it doesn’t offer a good default experience for the average user is certain to end in either confusion or disappointment for those people, which will probably end back to Google or DDG after giving it a shot and finding it ugly to look at.

The worst part is the work is all there. The new simple theme looks amazing, it just needs to be the default for most instances and maybe having a better logo and that’s it. That’s all you need.

searX is that good.

Yes, but again, not all instances have the newer theme as an option.

The newer theme I’m talking about is a newer, more modern version of the already existing simple theme. Most instances still use the older version of it, that looks terrible in comparison.

yes you can, but most instances don’t use the new, nice looking theme

those that used it by default were the only ones at least, and I don’t have the funds to host my own instance, which I’d certainly like to do tho

Decided to try Fedora for the first time after a year and a half of using Linux, having hopped through quite a bunch of distros (Pop to Manjaro to Garuda to Arch, where I spent most of my time), and man… I don’t think I’ll switch distros soon.

Even had a chance to do so when I accidentaly “broke” my system (which I later found out it was literally due to my .bash_profile having some conflicting stuff), but every single distro I tried after it never felt quite the same:

• No SELinux on Arch without using a lot of AUR versions of essential packages;
• No pipewire or BTRFS on both Pop and Ubuntu without having to do a lot of stuff manually, and it uses an older version of GNOME and apparmor instead of SELinux, which I haven’t learned how to create profiles for;

Even the pain points I had with Fedora are being dealt with, little by little:

• FFmpeg will be part of the main repos with F36 (although a little gimped due to H.264 patents);
• The secure boot patches to kmodtool and akmods will come with F36, which means secure boot can still be enabled even with custom kernel modules if you create and enroll your own keys, which is easy enough to do;
• Waydroid has a compatible COPR repo now, without the need for a custom kernel, which I hope gets in the main repos in the future;

The only pain point I have left is having a working and compatible version of Timeshift in the distros without having to do a manual install or a proper GUI to snapper.

I love how people simply decided that he was complaining when he talked about that.

He literally said that that’s how he found out Manjaro uses a different package manager. Before that, he didn’t understand that different distros use different package managers. It’s wasn’t a complaint, it was him talking about his learning process.

I personally went with paulgo.io just because of the high quality ranking in searXNG lists the really clean UI.

UI/UX is currently the Aquilles’ heel for searXNG and I really want to see it improve.

Oh, I had no idea it existed, I stopped using searX around that time.

I admit some instances have a design that looks MUCH better than before, but it’s still not good enough for the general public, since most larger instances still use searX instead of searXNG and not all instances have a nice looking interface still.

That said, I’ll give one of the instances a shot as my main search engine.

Still needs better UX/UI if it ever wants to get close to being used by average folk. That’s how DDG and Startpage grew so much.

Right? We tend to overlook a lot of the problems with Steam due to the respect they got with all their efforts into improving Linux in general, but if you look at it it’s pretty clear that the app was made 10 years ago and not improved much when it comes to proper Linux desktop standards ever since.

Just a reminder that HGL is also written in Electron.

It’s just a matter of well written code and UI/UX.

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I’ll just stop feeding the troll, if anyone else wants to indulge in the internet equivalent of talking to a brick wall, feel free to go on.

Yes it absolutely is, because “woke culture” is nothing but a strawman to justify LGBTQIA±phobia and racism. Let’s not forget that “traditional values” are forged in a lot of those things.

Just for a bit of context, this guy is mainly famous in the Linux community for his “Linux Sucks” series he used to do annually, with a light-hearted but pinpoint approach to tackling the main problems with the Linux desktop in general. That is, until the pandemic hit. Then he just unleashed his inner fascist that was probably always there.

Then his content became mostly complaining about “woke culture” mainly in Mozilla and the GNOME team, “cancel culture” after the whole schtick with RMS and his behaviour and probably his worst take yet to this day, reducing Linus Torvalds himself to a “vaccine passport company employee” when he yelled GTFO to another guy spreading misinformation about vaccines in the Linux kernel mailing list.

tl;dr the guy got famous for good content and then became publicly the complete ass he probably always was

Man, Lunduke can create some good content every once in a while, but fuck that guy.

He can’t even proceed to tell news without disrespecting Danielle’s transition and consistently calls her by her old name.

always has been 🔫

Why exactly? It seems like they are investing further and further in Linux support, probably for their server customers.

Not at all, it’s just a balance between convenience and security.

While having both your LUKS password and your user password is techincally more secure when it comes to physical access to your system, since an invader wouldn’t be able to avoid the LUKS password prompt, this approach still gets most of the benefits from it.

• An invader wouldn’t be able to have access to your files even in a live boot/external system, since they’d have to wipe the drive out to be able to use it without the LUKS password;
• They’d still have to crack your user/root password anyways, so if they don’t have that they wouldn’t get very far, unless there’s some ultra powerful unpatched vulnerability out there that allows privilege escalation with no access to any account, which is unlikely;
• They’d still wouldn’t be able to use your system even if they managed to temper with your firmware/bootloader, since the TPM chip detects that and secure boot deals with unsigned kernels and kernel modules.

Also it’s more convenient for people that want to shave some seconds of their boot and don’t like having to type two passwords instead of one. This doesn’t affect a lot for people that leave their desktops turned on for days and days, but for people that usually turn their PC/laptop off before sleep, those extra seconds start to pile up really fast.

Kailh Box Switches are my thing.

Currently using box whites and I think if I ever need to switch this board I’ll try to go with Box Jades

I’m trying not to get too hyped for it, since I can’t buy one, but holy hell… I am hyped.

right? it went from fedora being the only distro putting proper effort into using and supporting it to more and more distros using it as the standard

Oh, it’s firefox-gnome-theme mixed with firefox-vertical-tabs. I usually use the dark mode variant, but switched to the light one for the screenshot for a better contrast.

I do wonder how much the aesthetic will change.

I can really talk about the aesthetic changes due to using the shell-theme-upstream “theme”, which now gives the option to have or not the rounded corners. It looks weird at first, specially after years of being used to having one, but we’ll get used to it. It’s not a make-or-break thing for the desktop.

To be honest it just looks a bit more like macOS now.

I also wonder what those corners will look like when a window is maximized

It always filled the corners whenever a window was maximized, but the rounded corners of the top bar were drawn over everything the desktop shows, like a GIMP layer that sits on top of every other one. Now that it is gone it just shows a the regular corners of the window, like this:

tbh having a powerful video player here would probably bring in a lot of people from reddit just from how utterly fucked its player is

Yeah, I tried to use it for quite a while, but simply couldn’t without quite a bit of zoom, and a couple of extensions to make it look usable for me.