KDE Connect

Allows connecting to other devices with KDE connect and sharing files, controlling media players, sending text messages, controlling the mouse and keyboard (if the device has that), and much more.

I install it by default on every device I have and even setup a computer as a media player in my living room that I control with my phone. Just connect an old laptop or desktop with Wake On Land or with autosleep and autologin and you won’t need a firestick or whatever.

How are people still on xitter? Is this dude a nazi?

Doesnt Germany, like the UK have a formal and official petition platform? Petitions that reach the quorum have to be discussed in the second house of government. Stop Killing Games did the same.

This is a great ides, but why not use the formal channels?

I don’t think we will ever be able to prove nor disprove intelligent design. We simply do know how much we don’t know and it is therefore impossible to rule out or confirm that. It also creates the paradox of if a creator existed, they’d have to exist in something which then begs the question whether they have a creator, which could easily enter infinite recursion.

As for the number of parameters that make habitable universes possible, we think to have found 26 but who knows how many actually exist. He pointed out the electric dipole moment of a neutron having no bearing on habitability, but how can he know that to be true 100%? It’s like how we believed our DNA was 98% junk only to find out it does have a function.

I like the thought experiments but they stay just that, thought experiments - at least until they can be tested.

In fact, I would encourage more unsupported maintainers to do just that. Stop rushing to fix bugs for people without a support contract. Patch security flaws at a more leisurely pace unless someone is willing to pay for greater urgency. Take your time and enjoy your hobby more, since that is what unpaid software maintenance is. Collaborate with other people only so much as it brings you joy.

💯 times this. Pay or it will be fixed when the maintainer has time. They have no obligations to fix or implement shit. Pay up or square up.

https://github.com/Moritz72/tomachess-gui just works. It’s written python. Might not look nice but that isn’t what you need it for, right?

Signal, unfortunately, doesn’t have good group support. Herr are only 2 privilege levels: admin and user. It seems like it will take a long time before signal upgrades group chats.

26 dimensions?

I’ll say it again: make it actually embeddable instead of just advertising it as embeddable. Once people can actually embed it and use it, maybe then will it get more sponsors. They don’t even have a crate one can easily find, no tutorial, but they do have an undocumented example of winit.

Sounds like a good bloke. He tried his best and it’s very appreciated. Dealing with the Twitter escapees and their demands to have a second twitter only opensource can be extremely taxing, I imagine.

Good luck to Eugen.

Why not on peertube ? 😢 Opensource conferences posting videos to either closed source platforms (in this case Ubicast, which I cannot find any sourcecode of) is just sad. They would instantly have more reach on peertube than on ubicast and contribute to the fediverse too. Why is it so difficult for opensource conferences to use opensource themselves?

Fuck Apple. Good that somebody’s liberating their shit. It means less ewaste

Why do you think it’s AI?

Tainted and unsigned module it says. Have you tried undoing some of your modifications? They might be the root of your problem.

That makes sense. Congrats on getting it up and running. I need to finish at least one project I started! Much respect for doing so.

Why not GrayJay?

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

They’ll somehow get Google to pay them to make it the default search engine for the alliance.

Snaps and DEs are what drove me from Ubuntu. Gnome2 was actually nice to use and unity was too Mac for me. Then came snaps and things kept breaking. The breaking point for me was going “sudo apt chromium” and it installing snap, then chromium through snap.

Oh, and I have never had a stable update experience. Every single update lead to me being dropped into a shell or TTY session without a functioning display manager. I tweak my system in many ways to develop software (many PPAs) and updates always meant going on the hunt for new ones to be able to develop again.

Now I’m at NixOS and although the community forums are a constant slugfest with nonstop drama (so I dont visit them anymore), the system has actually been stable for my entire usage period. A friend audibly gasped when I switched channels and updated. They too had never seen a smoother update experience between multiple different major versions (20.05 - > 24.05).

If all you do is develop in devcontainers, have no PPAs, dont modify your system in major ways and just are stock, yeah, pretty much any distro can be pleasant.

I’ve met Arch users who will confidently tell me untruths about Linux in general and have no idea how to even approach solving problems beyond copypasting instructions from the Arch wiki or forums.

“What happened?” I dunno

“What did you do?” I just ran “echo…” (Or some other meaningless command)

“Do you have logs?” No, what are those?

“Please at least tell me the versions of the things you are running” How do I get that information?

I guess it speaks to the stability of Arch that it can attract users who have no idea what they are doing and still work. But it does also speak volumes about the image it has as an elite distro that makes you look like a Linux expert without actually being one.