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gnuplusmatt

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  • How Times Change...

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  • Qnx Unix still technically kicking

  • Are OLED monitors worth it without HDR?

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  • there's plenty of up to date, feature rich distros on the scale between mint and arch. Fedora or ublue/bazzite are also good options for example

  • TIL the generic but world famous 'Happy Birthday to You' song was actually copyrighted until 2016

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  • that Futurama DVD commentary is where I learnt that Happy Birthday was Copyrighted

  • Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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  • they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled

  • SSH managers on Linux?

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  • in my terminal I press ctrl + r and then type the name of the machine

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  • Australia has a small amount of this type of slang, but its usually more offensive than the mother british type

  • Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland?

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  • Does input-leap do what you need? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap

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  • For the non-Australians, Yank rhymes with Septic Tank, thus seppo

  • Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS

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  • Organise Settings better, put common features front and centre?

    Why is finding my IP address so hard on a Windows machine? Its either open settings app and click down 3 layers deep or open a pwsh prompt and either ipconfig or Get-NetIPAddress.

    Linux click network applet in most desktop environments. Even MacOS option + click network icon

  • "This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies.

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  • no it works on wayland, but not unattended. You also need an h264 encoder, so depending on your distro's stance on nonfree software you might not have hardware acceleration without extra steps or repositories being added

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • If you run it in a rootless container, expose it through a reverse proxy and keep it updated there's very little risk

  • Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux

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  • OEM interoperability/functionality guarantee

    The last big game dev holdouts will agree to target Linux if the PC userbase jumps significantly and Valve guarantees a standard expectation with technology with things like rolling kernel, latest libs, steam functionality, etc.

    A general image for SteamOS is not going to solve this. If you buy a PC from Dell and install SteamOS on it, there is no difference than if you installed Fedora. Secondly Valve is building from the the same sources as every other distro, if SteamOS supports it, every other distro does. In the cases of things like gamemode and gamescope, you can install these or they come with Bazzite and friends too, because Valve already devs these in the open with community and groups like Collabora.

    There’s still a lot of stupidly annoying things that are missing like proper wayland (valve->frog) and its resultant features like HDR, VRR, etc.

    Gamescope is open so any distro can use it. Desktop compositors are shipping these features already (SteamOS already uses upstream KDE). Not sure what the problem is

    The linux packaging problem from 20 years ago is still a problem (albeit much less) which Torvalds himself mentioned Valve would just say “screw it” and bypass/solve the problem via Steam (which they did). The issue is the remainder. Kernel updates are all over the place depending on distro. Everything Ubuntu is technically out of date because SteamOS uses Arch. Fedora gets you closer at least.

    SteamOS uses flatpak, every other distro uses flatpak. Ostree atomic distros (Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. ublue (bazzite and friends) use flatpak. Modern kernels are on every distro, especially Fedora and Arch. Non-existant problem IMHO

    It’s really just that OEM guarantee that would get it moving quicker. Although it might not even happen tbh, Valve said they weren’t that interested in competing against Microsoft which makes sense because its still the primary OS of their customer base.

    Again, a SteamOS general release is not going to get you any more OEM support than installing any other distro

  • Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux

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  • Why would they do that when the community already does? - nothing valve is doing isnt already in Fedora/ublue or Arch, people who say they are going to switch when Valve puts out a general SteamOS image are just wasting time and procrastinating

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  • "we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"

  • GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch

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  • Emulators for them but not for us

  • Krita is so KOOL, but how do i Verify the current AppImage?

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  • if you're worried about the integrity of the sources you're installing from why are you using app images? Use a repo, or flathub

  • A "Sign in with fediverse" button?

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  • Id rather just sign in with my gpg key

  • Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is

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  • does anyone buy a product for AI or Assistant features?