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It doesn't mean they are pushing flatpaks, but rather for whatever reason they decided to package their own flatpaks.

Flatpak can support different repos, so of course fedora can host its own. The strange bit is why bother repackaging and hosting software that is already packaged by the project itself on flathub?

One argument might me the security risk of poorly packaged flatpaks relying on eol of dependencies. Fedora may feel it is better to have a version that it packages in line with what it packages in its own repos?

I have some sympathy for that position. But it makes sense that it is annoying OBS when it is causing confusion if its a broken or poorly built repackags, and worse it sounds like things got very petty fast. I think OBS's request that fedora flag this up as being different from the flathub version wasn't unreasonable - but not sure what went down for it to get to thepoint of threatening legal action under misuse of the branding.

Fedora probably should make it clearer to its users what the Fedora Flatpak repo is for.

So Bird Flu is coming for humans. The conditions for it moving into humans are perfect in the US: it's spreading rapidly through commerical herds and flocks, with minimal attempts to restrict it due to prioritising public health over money. The more animals it is incubated in and the more contact they have with humans the higher the chances a mutation will successfully jump species.

We have a US President who has already presided over a chaotic and poor pandemic response. Now he is back, and he's withdrawn the US from the World Health Organization, is letting a moronic billionaire disrupt the CDC, and has now appointed a conspiracy theory loving anti-vaxxer.

The conditions are already perfect for a flu pandemic, and now the conditions in the US are rapidly heading towards perfect conditions for a devastating pandemic. And it will affect the whole world as a poorly controlled initial out break will lead to rapid global spread. The only hope left is that a mild version of the Bird Flu mutates into humans, rather than the deadly version we've seen devastating birds and that has caused high mortality in previous small human outbreaks.

Yeah I have a Ser5 as a living room PC, wiped windows and have Nobara running on it. Linux is great - browse the web, play games, stream videos, and all with interfaces that actually work on a TV. I don't miss Windows at all.

Yes: Five has four letters. Nine has four letters.

There are no more.

If you meant to ask if there are any more whole numbers with the same number of letters in the name as the number, then the answer is no. It is fairly simple to check - you only have to look at the numbers 0-30 before it becomes clear no other number will fit this pattern.

If you went into fractions like 20.12325 then there will be many numbers where all the letters added would get close but the fraction itself would mean you couldn't quite reach the exact number as you can't have fractions of letters.

If you included negative numbers then "minus eleven" has 11 letters. Minus thirteen has 13 letters. It seems to again break down once you go beyond 13, and its dodgy to include negative numbers as you can't have negative letters.

So, no.

I'm not aware of an alternative TV App for android tv. On my android TV live tv is also wrapped within the android interface but other sources like HDMI inputs are not.

If you can switch to HDMI sources outside the android apps then maybe the best thing to do is get a separate basic satellite tuner device?

It seems shitty that google are effectively hiding your inbuilt tv tuner behind an app with all their advertising and other crap.

The Bird flu pandemic is coming; withdrawing from WHO is not going to be good for the US and now Argentinian responses.

The lack of effective controls on the spread of bird flu in the American agricultural industry (even pre trump, due to strong vested financial interests in american farming overriding public health concerns) make the US a very strong contender for being where the disease finally moves in to humans.

Trump Flu? Pandemics seem to he a feature of his presidencies.

For your second question, a window manager is the specific system that controls the placement of windows on an X11 desktop.

On a X11 based system, X11 is the windowing system (interacting with the video card) and a window manager is a system sitting on top of that laying out the windows and interacting with the user and other programmes. It is a separate programme on top of the X11 system, and communicates with X11, and X11 is the programme that communicates with the graphics card.

On Wayland, instead of 2 separate systems there can be 1 combined windowing systen that is both the window manager but also directly communicates with the hardware in a standardised way using the Wayland protocols. This is called a Wayland compositor.

Meanwhile a desktop environment is the whole desktop - that includes a window manager or compositor but also lots of other tools and software that together make a full desktop experience.

An example is KDE - KDE is a full desktop environment. It uses its own x11 window manger called kwin (and also able to be a wayland compositor), but it also uses a whole range of other tools alongside that to give you panels, widgets, desktop icons, a clock, menus, settings etc collectively forming Plasma desktop. And then on top of Plasma there is a whole range of bespoke programmes that form the full deskop experience - like Dolphin (file manager), Kate (text editor) and so on. All that software is designed to work seamlessly with the KDE family of tools and systems. The window manager, the desktop tools and the other programmes together form the whole desktop environment. But other desktop environments software will also work - for example Gnome based software can also run with KDE without issue and vice versa.

Gnome has its own window manager/compositor, and it's own widgets and tools to make a desktop, and it's own bespoke software to make a whole desktop environment.

And there are many others.

So in summary:

• Window Manager - the specific system that controls the placment and look of the individual windows talking to X11 which then talks to the hardware
• Wayland Compositor - the system that controls the placement and look of windows, using wayland protocols to speak to the hardware
• Desktop Environment - the whole desktop including the Window manager but also lots of other programmes and tools that form the basic desktop (such as a panel, menus, desktop icons) and the whole environment (other software like a file manager, text editor, calculator etc). KDE and Gnome are examples of popular desktop environments

Being "nice" is not a policy for the UK to follow. It might be lucky to avoid some of the tariffs targetting the EU but when he wants something from the UK he will use the tariff threat.

The UK is far better off trying to improve relations with the EU and liberalise trade as much as can be achieved without reigniting the brexit debate. That might not be much.

Genuinely not had a problem with mods, and I've been PC gaming for decades. Of course sometimes mods don't work but thats life. Just be patient, you'll get it done.

Decent mods have a readme file - follow the steps strictly - no skipping thinking you know better - and they should work.

Also look on YouTube or search online for guides - people often provide step by step guides to mod games purely out of a love for gaming.

Keep going - mods can be great, and its one of the many benefits of PC gaming. You'll get there!

Stop showing off your immense wealth.

Yeah but if you had to search for it you'd have a trouble spelling it. Flowmarked would be how English speakers would hear that I think.

It probably needs an English brand name for outside the germano-sphere - fedimarket?

Can't be swearing on the Internet! I think you mean f***. Possibly even **** or even better fudge. Would hate to upset the Americans! They might impose tariffs.

No source, its satire

Bird Flu is coming - Trump is the president of pandemics, and whose betting he will handle this one any better than covid?

I wouldn't worry, with Trump we'll all soon be infected with bird flu instead. Trump Flu, alongside Trump Inflation and a Trump Drought in California.

The drought in summer 2025 will be Trumps Drought.

Alongside Trumps Inflation.

There is nothing other countries can really do about this except impose tariffs in kind. When american inflation goes up I hope Americans put stickers on gas pumps and more eating "Trump did this"

An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.

Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.

You can use "about:memory" to run a tool in Firefox to reduce memory use in a session. I'm not sure how helpful that will be.

Unfortunately the next best answer i can offer is probably "close tabs and use bookmarks" but I douht that is what you want.

I agree.

They stumbled into a political mess, it was naive and foolish but it doesn't mean the whole of proton should be written off.

I'm not looking for an alternative. Although it is also good that people have other options to share and the freedom to move providers should they wish. I will still recommend Proton to people.