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  • Fedora Linux 42 released

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  • I guess I'm biased because when I first started using Linux some 20 years ago it was considered user friendly for the time. Plus I must have used it hundreds of times since I had a previous job which involved setting up a lot of CentOS servers, which could have blinded me to the problems. Still, I think it's reassuring to do everything from a central overview page for your configuration choices, takes away a bit of self-doubt. I'm not complaining though, as long as the new one does the job.

  • Fedora Linux 42 released

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  • Just upgraded. I think I must have been the only person in the world to like the old Fedora installation UI but everyone complained about it so it must be good news that it's gone, as long as I don't hate the new one.

  • Cryptocurrency entrepreneur eats banana he bought for $6.2m

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  • I thought this happened months ago. Did another cryptocurrency person else eat the banana? That's not that original.

  • What percentage of people you've met do you consider a genuinely good person? Someone you could trust your life with if need be?

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  • I would say the vast majority of people are good, however people are flawed so a lot of people are bad at being good.

  • United States imports eggs from Korea, Turkey to help ease prices

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  • I hope they're very thankful for it.

  • Do you have a favorite Game and Watch game?

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  • Bomb Sweeper. I've not actually played much Game & Watch since back in the day, so this is mostly from childhood memory and I have no idea how well it stands up but that was my favourite at the time and it's nostalgia. It's a multi-screen but the top screen was mostly cosmetic, you had to navigate some kind of maze on the bottom screen. I've still got it, I should dig it out some time.

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • I also think it's a bit odd. If you're using LibreOffice you're not buying it. I think choosing a FOSS alternative to a US-based commercial product is valid in itself regardless of where the organisation is located. If TDF was located in the US what would it change?

  • Time traveler accidentally moves a chair:

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  • I don't think either were perfect designs, they were both pioneering and can be respected for that, neither were a "mess". At the time I personally preferred the feel of the N64's analog stick since it was directionally biased in 8 directions which works better for games of the time, and met expectations of the time. My main problem with the DualShock is that they stuck with it while they should have, in my opinion, swapped the left stick with the d-pad for the PS2 onwards.

  • Time traveler accidentally moves a chair:

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  • I would say the DualShock is worse; never liked the placement of the thumb sticks at the bottom but apparently that's just me.

  • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • I've not seen the video but that's what's on the website.

  • Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging

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  • Wait, why is Fedora making their own flatpaks? I thought the entire point is that they work on any distro and everybody gets the original source from flathub.

    Just to add to the other replies you've got, as far as I'm aware there's no reason why you can't add Fedora's flatpak repo on another distro. Why you would want to is another matter, but I think the fact that anyone can make their own repo is the fundamental strength of flatpak as opposed to snaps; it's not tied to one organisation, Flathub is the de facto central repo but it doesn't always have to be.

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  • Most of those things are kind of a matter of taste though aren't they? If you change those kinds of things you'll get other people complaining who like it as it is now. For example for me I think the default UI is excellent and the alternative ones I've tried are mostly terrible, but I know not everyone thinks the same way.

    Other complaints are instance-specific but that's a good thing; instances can operate how they like because we have a choice, that's the whole benefit to Lemmy and federation.

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  • OK but that's still no explanation. I want to understand the problem deeper than "it's bad".

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  • I'm not getting what the UX problems are, and if you change things aren't there just going to be new problems with the changes? I think the default experience is a lot better than Reddit at least.

  • ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online

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  • What's ICE, that's a difficult acronym to search?

  • TIL when you change your region from US to UK in Mint, "Trash" becomes "Rubbish Bin."

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  • It's "Wastebasket" in the UK on the GNOME desktop. I'm happy enough with that.

  • is proton still a viable alternative?

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  • But the difference is we all have a choice of an email provider, whereas people are socially expected to have a smartphone these days and those are pretty much the two viable choices.

  • is proton still a viable alternative?

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  • Apart from the CEO, I've been a bit concerned with the number of outages recently with quite poor and inconsistent communication or updates - not especially long outages but made much more stressful. There's something really off about the way they communicate things I've found. So that combined with the idiot CEO has made me start the process of moving away from Proton, I don't trust them any more.

    I think the best strategy is to spread thinly, don't become reliant on any one provider.