IrritableOcelot @ IrritableOcelot @beehaw.org

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I think those are actually mole crabs. Sand fleas are usually about 1/3" long everywhere I've been.

It's...not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.

I use zettlr -- it's pretty good! The only issues I've run into are with the table editor, and with occasional lag on large documents; the latter just comes with the territory on an Electron app. I know Nathan's working on both, though.

I'm not familiar with fwupdmgr, so I'm not sure either about it delivering bios updates. A good tool to know about for sure, though!

I don't mean use the RSS feed to actually deliver, I just mean a blog-style announcement. Of course, to be security conscious you shouldn't follow any links in that announcement to download it, but still.

I don't think I've ever gotten bios updates via apt...not sure if that's a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.

The latest blog post says it should be just a few days, which is nice!

I wasn't trying to call you out! I was more responding to Jcreazy, but I wanted to emphasize what NaN said.

As far as I know, the xapps are largely updated in line with when Mint gets updates -- Mint doesnt get super frequent updates on those either, they often get bundled with a new Cinnamon release.

Yeah. Everyone should be clear that both Mint and LMDE follow about the same release spacing as their upstream, but offset by a couple of months. Mint's upstream is Ubuntu LTS, LMDE's is Debian. Both release about every two years. Mint and LMDE cannot possibly do major version updates faster than their upstream!

The point of these distros is stability and polish. If you want the absolute newest updates, mint/LMDE is not the right distro for you, and getting the newest updates inherently sacrifices some stability.

Yeah! I only discovered them a couple of weeks ago through this community and they're fantastic.

Specifically to make something which is not mission-critical reliant on any underlying software...but that's almost impossible. Not reliant on the base operating system would be a nice start.

While it is true that the ad business model is changing as you describe, Google's strategy with respect to it is also absolutely about monopolizing the ad market.

I mean any technology solution can suffer the same fate, but you would hope that it wouldnt be an issue at the same time if they're separate tech stacks.

So all their products are breaking...

To be honest, I'm not sure if it would be more concerning for them to have just one fatal issue with their process, or two unrelated ones.

Yeah the issue is that so many companies were at the intersection of two monopolies -- either one failing has catastrophic effects, and there's no backup plan.

I mean yes they did "formally request" it, but given the power dynamic between a FOSS project and a large technology company, openSUSE is not in a position where they could possibly refuse. So is there a difference between a request and a demand?

To be honest, their demand that OpenSUSE rebrand left a bad taste in my mouth. I get the logic behind it, but the time for that passed a long time ago (probably about 15 years ago).

Tenacity looks great, and I didn't even know about it! Thanks for the reminder, we should definitely be supporting the fork thats actually proper FOSS.

Ahhh I see. At least from Wikipedia, it looks like the auto-opt-in telemetry was dropped, which is good.

Wierd that it's owned by Muse group now, but glad it's alive and well.