Idk about other sources, but I get my apk directly from GitHub via Obtainium, and my app recently changed from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird. Icon, app name, and app theming changed. This has been in the works for a while but seems like they’re officially switched the apk.

I don’t have many so I just put them all in ~/own_repos (as opposes to another directory I have for other people’s git repos). Maybe if/when I have more projects I’ll have a more elaborate system.

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

No worries, was just confused lol

I… never said it only synced with Nextcloud? Or are you just providing additional information for people?

Recently started using this synced with my Nextcloud. Really happy with it, only complaint is the fact that I can’t remove their “Regular event” calendar

I don’t think the bottom of the meme suggests that dropping support for old versions is inherently bad. It’s part of a larger image; in combination with the other screenshots it suggests people being forced to have Recall/other Win11 enshittification.

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe…

Out of curiosity what’s your use case for dual booting? I know it’s a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I’d be missing something I need Windows for, but I’ve been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

For games, Steam’s Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

I’ve also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

I don’t think the issue is dropping support, but the ridiculous requirements to upgrade to Win11, plus the fact that more recent Windows have serious enshittification that means users don’t want to upgrade in the first place.

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that’s a kinda silly comment to leave. That’s a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it’s not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it’s kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.

Hosted by someone else: Codeberg or Sourcehut.

Self-hosted: Forgejo

Well “AI” is a broad category. Usually used to refer to GenAI, so:

• Creating quick stand-in art for a game before I’ve got proper sprites for it (not because “muh art theft”, just because the AI art I’ve generated does not look very good to me)

• Summarising articles, like you said so I can decide if I want to read them in full

• Formatting text I’ve copied from pdfs

• More complex searches that require comprehension of grammar and natural language syntax. Any answer I get to these I then fact check using search terms a classical search engine can understand.

I read a paper a while back that found that people who used AI assistants for coding, who only used the assistants to generate small functions where the prompt already included the function declaration and the programmer already knew how the function should be written but just wanted to save time, in these cases the use of an AI assistant did not negatively impact the “correctness” of the produced code. So I guess I might one day use an AI coding assistant like that, but thus far I’ve never felt the need to use AI-generated code.

Article link not requiring you to sign up: https://archive.ph/Th1Sq

Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid russian troll of course. Nobody would oppose blacklisting people based on nothing but their nationality unless they were getting paid for it.

Aside from the fact that it’s pretty insane to suggest to kick someone off a project for no reason other than their nationality (the article doesn’t say any of these maintainers supported the invasion or had any ties with the government), even if these people actively supported the government, as far as kernel development is concerned… I don’t really care? If their contributions are good then I want their patches to be merged. Tor was made by the US government, which I in no way condone, but I still use Tor.

Yeah. I use it for ctrl, shift, enter, etc.

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Anna’s Archive has some torrents they ask people to seed. I’m seeding a smaller one right now. You can look into that if you want to help out—nobody’s expected to mirror the entire archive!