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    Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle - Part 5: Introducing Permissions Prompting

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  • This is a good thing, it is much needed for Snap and Flatpak and will make sandboxed applications less confusing for those who don't grog flatseal/kde-settings/etc. and adds convenience for everyone.

  • Man Arrested for Sharing Copyright Infringing Nude Scenes Through Reddit.

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  • Yeah Denmark is very relaxed about bodies and public nudity in general. Denmark was the world's first country (in the modern world) to legalize porn. However, consent matters and consenting to one type of exposure doesn't mean consenting to everything.

  • How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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  • Greybeard here. I can use vi, emacs, nano, etc. and use whatever is available if it suits the job. For many years I did dev in emacs on my computers and on other systems used vi for quick edits. Currently on my own laptop I have micro as default term editor now. For Rust development - code, though I have hopes for Lapce.

    They're all just tools and so are people who get tribal about things.

  • Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

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  • Well, yes use-case is key. But interestingly ext4 will never detect bitrot/errors/corruption. BTRFS will detect corrupted files because its targeted users wants to know. It makes it difficult to say what's the more reliable FS because first we'd have to define "reliable" and the perception of it and who/what do we blame when the FS tells us there's a corrupted file detected?. Do we shoot the messenger?

  • Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

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  • For a few years I used a distro that had btrfs as default, including scheduled automatic maintenance. Never had to bother about manual balancing or fiddeling with the FS.

  • [Discussion] Acrobat PDF forms support

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  • Yeah I gave up and installed Windows in a VM, I use it for those annoying forms and some old tax software.. My kid also wants to use powerpoint occationally. It's quick and easy to install in a VM though and doesn't take up much space but I got a lot of room on my SSD so everything is relative.

    I'd like a Linux solution for the forms but it's still convenient to have a Windows VM once in a blue moon.

  • GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

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  • ...and new font handling, several layer features - including tools working on multiple layers, new and improved tools, wayland support, widows Ink support, new plugin architecture, dynamic guides, improved file handling (formats, bigger files, etc), I think some gesture stuff as well? The non destructive editing is implemented for some things, not others (e.g. if adding a shadow to text and changing the text, the shadow will change too). I probably forgot some stuff..

  • Asahi Cinnamon

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  • Wifi workaround here.

  • How was your experience using Linux in college?

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  • Ah, I see thank you for the reply. I was under the impression the Mint team favored Flatpak over Snap.

  • How was your experience using Linux in college?

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  • I haven't used either, just curious; what kind of difference is there between regular Ubuntu based Mint and LMDE? I thought it was mostly just more recent packages with the Ubuntu base?

  • What percent of torrent users have open ports and are connectable? What would the speed difference be?

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  • They also have port forwarding without static IP, but you have to renew the port every 7 days. Which is what I use, I don't mind changing port once a week.

  • M1 Macbook Air

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  • Well, when it comes to laptops these days lots of brands can practically only be serviced/repaired by bringing them back to the Apple Store/manufacturer’s repair shop. Especially when it comes to lightweight models.

    I miss my old Sager/Clevo gaming laptop where I could replace practically everything, I even upgraded the gfx card.

  • Zed on Linux is out!

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  • You seem upset. Blink twice if someone is forcing you to use it.

  • OpenSUSE is the best

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  • It might be a bit tighter than Fedora, I haven't tried Fedora so I wouldn't know but Flatpaks can still be installed as user, no pw. All mine are, by default.

  • What email client are you guys using?

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  • I'm lazy - just gmail pinned in a tab on my browser on my Linux desktop, the browser is always open anyway. Default mail client on iOS/iPadOS.

    I've used Thunderbird in the past. The redesign was nice but it's still a bit cludgy to use somehow, compared to gmail web.

  • 9 year hardware upgrade, running arch 😱

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  • It's fixed. In general no distro is fail safe, recently even an immutable distro (our current hopeful advance in update reliability) had a hickup on an update that required manual intervention. It basically boils down to that it's not possible to test for everything, we can only hope to continually add more test cases and improve human procedures based on post mortems.

  • Anyone using OSMC

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  • I’ve been using OSMC on two of my TVs for years. First on RPis, then on Vero boxes. They connect via SMB to my NAS for content. OSMC/Kodi can play almost anything without needing wasteful transcoding. I use them daily.

    For Netflix/Prime it’s either built in on the TV or running on a Firestick. Interestingly one can sideload Kodi on a Firestick, so an OSMC device isn’t necessary in that scenario.

  • Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month | Asahi Linux

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  • Meh, if just wanting a lightweight laptop that's fast even when unplugged there's people who would be OK paying $700 for a M1 MBAir or a bit more for a 16GB version. They're great laptops, the Rust compiler is very fast on M1/2 and with no fan noise. If buying Apple Refurbished they're like new.

  • Favourite DE

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  • Yeah, I am comfortable with most DE's, I'm flexible but I prefer KDE+Wayland.

    Dolphin is poorly threaded though. For example: If I drag a large file from a network share to the desktop I can not drag another one to the desktop until the first copy have completed. If I connect my VPN or just an away-from-home wifi, Dolphin freezes, probably because it can't find the local SMB connections in the "Remotes" group.

    I'm also watching COSMIC, it has a very well thought out architecture though I suspect the first version will be too simplistic in terms of features - for example vs Dolphin.