Not their decision, not their problem. This is a distro decision, not the desktop environments.

Cryptobots don’t understand sarcasm

Public key cryptography tied to physical hardware, so if you lose your phone / usb key, you need to use your backup recovery code; a fairly short one time password that negates the security benefits of Fido in one easy step.

It can also use biometrics, but that requires every device you log in on to have biometric readers.

This has been my favourite tech story for the past few years, I hope the train company gets put in its place properly this time.

Edit: This article is from July last year.

I’m not sure the metaphor works, I’m the only person who uses my computer, I don’t go down to the computer station and wait for someone to drive the public computer along.

A pc is much more like a car than a train; it is something you own and you are responsible for. You get to choose the operating system and the software that is installed, you get to choose the colour of the box.

Linux isn’t public transport, it’s a factory that lets anyone come and help build a car. If you have a better idea for a steering wheel, or think that there’s a problem with the engine you can fix, Linux lets you into the factory to make those changes.

The cartridge is refillable

They also jam at every possible opportunity, the transfer belt stretches, the wheels and gears wear out, any stray toner will create smudges all down the page, and they weigh a tonne.

None of what is considered ‘AI’ is actually AI, it’s just a rebrand of machine learning tech that has been around for a few years now (and is genuinely useful in certain circumstances). It’s all ‘AI’, only the generative AI is worth getting mad about.

Because it means more available games, and more options for gamers. Open source launchers would be great, but any launcher is better than no launcher at all, and first party support shows that GOG are taking Linux seriously as a platform that is worth investing time and resources in. This community is for people who A) Like Linux, and B) Like playing video games. Anything that allows you to play more video games on Linux is a good thing.

Steam isn’t open source either. Bringing GoG galaxy to linux will make it easier for linux gamers to buy and install DRM free games. The games won’t be open source either, that’s not the issue here.

I’m not sure, but they might be talking about Discover, the Plasma software installer. It doesn’t manage arch packages but can be used for flatpaks.

Do you use voice chats in the same way that Discord allows you to? Can you hop in to an empty voice channel without having to initiate an end to end call?

Not quite, he doesn’t demean himself by ‘buying’ anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.

Auto hide the taskbar, burn your wallpaper instead. Oled burn is really is much less of an issue these days thanks to better panels and pixel shifting tech.

Then explain Denmark

Local ML translation was pretty cool

Similar concepts have been developed before, Microsoft and Southampton University were working on glass cubes with 3D laser etchings in the centre around 2015-16

Linux market share is still very small, so it makes perfect sense that devs make their games for Windows: they get Linux compatibility for free. Developing a native Linux build requires extra investment for next to no return. There are lots of bad Linux ports that run much worse than the Windows build running through Proton.

Larian released a Steam Deck optimised build of Baldur’s Gate 3, but only because one of their devs really wanted to make it happen and most companies don’t work like Larian.

If Windows market share was <30% then maybe the economic incentives would be the other way around, but there would need to be a project like Proton that lets Linux games work on Windows.

I don’t think Kubuntu 24.04 had Plasma 6 because it was an LTS release. In Plasma 6.3 they completely reworked the settings page for graphics tablets, and they’ve also changed how fractional scaling works so it should be less blurry (if that was what was making it blurry for you before).

This may just be a usecase thing, but what is the advantage of this over imagemagick? I can already magick photo1.jpg -resize 50% photo1.png and when the process ends it’s not constantly using resources in a webserver.