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  • Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Fixes Drag and Drop Quirk on Linux

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  • Why not just drag a tab out as a separate window on one side of the screen and the other tab at the other side?

  • 2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready?

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  • I've got the complete opposite to you. I'm in a household of 3 gaming desktops and 3 laptops, plus family who need help. I've been daily driving Linux for about a decade now and keep duel boot around just for Adobe products.

    On all these machines, Linux hs been rock solid and never had issues that wasn't user caused. Windows on the other hand drives me crazy with how much it fucks out. I have next to no control over it. It updates when it wants. I have no control over what's updated. I hate the gods damn ads (and that's on Windows 10) despite running de-crappifying software. I hate how many errors it has and how long it takes t troubleshoot them. I hate that if the system borks itself enough, it's faster and less insanity inducing to just reinstall the whole os than try and fix it. I hate that Windows just gets progressively slower and laggier over time whereas my 6 year running Arch install was as fast as the day I installed it.

  • Which Linux Distro is best for dogs?

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  • Steam Deck is modified Arch with KDE desktop so probably not beginner friendly.

  • Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor

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  • Actually being paid is one of the biggest reasons for a lack in volunteers (the other is people working more than they used to). So many volunteers have been replaced with paid workers. Many charities aren't volunteer run organisations anymore but run more like not-for-profit businesses. As a result it's harder to get funding and donations. And people are less interested in volunteering unless they can be paid for it.

    It's a vicious cycle and I'm watching more and more local, community organisations get eaten up by massive, centralised non-profits; and more and more local volunteer organisatns struggling to get off the ground. 😞

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  • Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor

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  • ”Finding a co-maintainer or passing the projects completely to someone else has been in my mind a long time but it’s not a trivial thing to do. For example, someone would need to have the skills, time, and enough long-term interest specifically for this.” - https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00571.html

    As someone who runs a charity almost completely solo because of a lack of volunteers, I feel this so much in my bones. It's one thing to say, "Hey folks, I can't run this on my own, I need help" but it's another to find people who actually have the level of skill, committent, passion and integrity to contribute in a meaningful way. I can get people putting their hands up but I've lost count of the number of people who have then turned around and said, "Oh, actually I realise now I don't have time for this" or start in great and then just ghost me. It also takes more of my own time and energy, on top of what I'm already doing' to onboard and train people and it sucks so hard when I do that and then people disappear shortly after - I constantly have to question whether the time it takes to do that will be worth it vs just continuing the struggle by myself.

    When you get consumers being arrogant and demanding, getting angry at you for taking too long to respond to their messages or not work fast enough.... it's soul crushing. Way too many people take volunteer work for granted or assume you're getting paid for your time and can therefore treat you like a working-class pleb or are plain just fucking rude and entitled. :( APPRECIATE YOUR VOLUNTEERS FOLKS! We need more volunteers, and appreciation. Many hands makes light work.

  • Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor

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  • You realise that this comment is exactly part of the problem of why this happened, right? 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • DistroWatch has been banned in Turkey

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  • Microsoft probably has a whole team in Turkey to make sure no one accidentally blocks their crap.

  • Economic explanation for piracy and the prisoner's dilemma

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  • This only really works in cases where people are making a free choice. But since people don't live in a vacuum where consumerism, capitalism, advertising, greed, power imbalances, class divides, poverty, platform decay, planned obsolescence, geoblocking, price gouging, etc. don't exist, a significant portion of piracy comes from either having little choice (I'm poor and I either pirate or I miss out) or making a choice based on ethical considerations (such as not giving money to a corporation that is known to engage in unethical behaviour). Or that we've had decades, if not hundreds of years of elites/corporate propaganda telling us that poor people are poor because they're bad and we must listen with zero critical thinking to our capitalist overlords who are wealthy because they're smart and know what's best for us stupid plebs and here you go, have some bread and a circus so you can ignore your long work hours for pittance pay which is totally your fault for being dumb and not because the system is rigged against you, also don't ever cross us because we control the politicians that make the laws that say piracy is worse than corporate fraud, even though corporate fraud and tax evasion costs countries and communities infinitely more than piracy ever did....

    Yeah, piracy isn't simple.

  • Your first distribution

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  • Red Hat back in the 1990s. I had to buy it from a local stationary shop because being in a small, isolated country and the internet being in it's infancy, it was all I could find. Came with a manual bigger than a phone book and cost about the equivalent to these days $200.

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • Surprised it's not being suggested more here

  • I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?

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  • I'm a long time Arch user but it is 100% NOT out of the box. Love Arch but it's not the answer to this question.

  • thinking of trying linux,

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  • Also can confirm. Been using Arch, which most people consider requires more fiddling than other distros, for almost 10 years now and have had few issues with it. I've had to fix my Windows install more than my Linux.

  • Firefox looks so much better than Chrome

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  • There's no need to lie when I can tell the truth lol.

  • Firefox looks so much better than Chrome

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  • I have the inverse - where Windows is so fine and pixelated it looks blurry. Linux is sharp and legible. It may be to do with with sub-pixel rendering. And this has been the case for across multiple computers and laptops, windows versions and Linux distros.

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  • My use case is probably a bit more niche but I have Memory Impairment and bookmarks don't work that well for me. I'm a very organised person and did previously use things like bookmarks extensively. But since my memory has gotten really bad I need more visual representations. Visual bookmarks could kinda work for this but I am yet to find something that's private, easy to set up (or just works out of the box) and isn't fiddly to use. Bookmarks that aren't visual, don't stay in my memory so I forget about them. Search bar helps a bit but sometimes I also can't think of the right words to use to get Firefox to bring up the right bookmark (even with extensive keywords - because I also can't always think of the right keywords to set).

    So I have heap of tabs open. I need things to stay in my recent memory and recent use, otherwise they just get forgotten. It does mean over time more and more tabs get left open. But I do fairly regular sort throughs where I go through each tab to make sure it's something unimportant where I've just forgotten to close the tab or something I am actually using/working on.

    It's not ideal but it's the only thing that works for me right now. I have so many things going on at once, it sucks that I have to remember so much at once when I have memory issues but such is life when disabled folks aren't properly supported, lack of volunteers means I have to take more volunteer work that I should, western society sucks for supporting parents, and sexism means that I'm still default parent (mother) despite my husband being more progressive than most hsubands/dads are (he's also woefully disorganised which is in part just him and also in part how boys and men are socialised). Anyway, this isn't meant as a commentary on the differences in organisations levels and how that affects tab usage between mothers and fathers lol.

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  • Ditto KDE

  • Firefox looks so much better than Chrome

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  • No offence, but I used to think Windows had good font rendering while I was using it. That was until I started using Linux distros. Now every time I boot into Windows, I again remember how awful Windows looks in comparison - washed out, pixelated, gives me eye strain....

  • Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges

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  • I think you may be way underestimating the number of people who have no idea the software they use is spying on them.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Thorned_Rose @kbin.social

    Firefox not taking focus when opening links from (EDIT) some apps but not others on Wayland (KDE)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Thorned_Rose @kbin.social

    Is there any self-hosted version of Microsoft's Family Safety/Parental controls?

  • All Orange Cats Share One Brain Cell @lemmy.world
    Thorned_Rose @kbin.social

    The belly is a lie 😼☠️