merthyr1831 @ merthyr1831 @lemmy.world

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KDE can't get away with "user at risk" for a DE designed for general purpose users. That means users who aren't technically minded or linux experts. Maybe hyprland and i3 can tell users to RTFM but an embedded store distributed with ALL KDE versions should have some sensible design decisions such as "maybe dont allow arbitrary JS execution as root within a feature people don't expect to be doing more than changing the background pic and some fonts"

GNOME extensions aren't themes, though. They're executable by design and intuition; they're basically applets.

However, GNOME does have themes (hidden in the GNOME-Tweaks app) and AFAIK they're purely CSS.

Wayland is definitely on the side of not breaking userspace, though. The API design, xWayland compatibility layer, and recent focus on protocols to fix missing functionality from xorg are all designed to make Wayland a seamless transition.

Otherwise we'd have been using Wayland as the only option for years now.

Yup, I dont think this is valve shitting on Wayland because they also believe in Wayland being the future, but until their protocol suggestions are merged upstream it does hurt the Linux gaming ecosystem (and therefore valve) if games outside of Gamescope have technical issues.

That being said, I'm not sure what games I play use SDL, let alone Wayland SDL, so can't be sure what issues im affected by

at least with standalone software it's going to work forever as long as the OS supports it. cant say the same for live service software that you can't run at home

even if they keep lifetime licenses for now, it's blatantly obvious how Canva plans to use Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to move people to a subscription service for newer releases.

If adobe can do it with Photoshop et al. without losing its brand reputation, then Affinity will follow suit in due course.

Merricka was someone mishearing her their boyfriend talking about elden ring

I inherited an Canon Pixma MG3600 from a friend who got a new printer of her own, and it's been impressively stable for years now.

A really solid printing experience on Linux; I'd say "plug and play" but I've got it set up for wireless printing and it worked immediately without plugging in!

I've not tried the scanner on Linux but it worked on Mac out of the box without proprietary drivers so I can imagine the same for Linux.

Most of the artists and public figures censored and/or publicly denounced over their anti-zionism have been Jewish. You couldnt write this shit if you tried.

Biden has called for the bombing of women and children in the name of Israel so not too surprised he's happy with that policy now

"bluesky CEO says federation is the future"

look at bluesky

centralised

A few more years until RISC-V is at 1st-gen ryzen levels (though it looks like RISC-V is accelerating every day)

This smells of reductionist "no ethical consumption under capitalism" ideology.

That just means living in capitalism doesn't exempt you from criticising the system, not that you can't and shouldn't use the mechanism of capitalism to help make life difficult for fascists.

It might not "fix" the problems but it sure as hell is making Israel pay while our national governments do fuck all.

Modern Ryzen are fine on Linux. Not sure where they're declaring it happens for "all Ryzen" from.

thank you factory farmers, very cool

Netflix had a Docuseries called "Pandemic" in 2019 that showed how virologists and immunologists worked to locate the next pandemic, and most of them agreed that a new pandemic strain of an influenza-type virus was almost inevitable due to zoonotic transmission and factory farming. Almost poetic.

Americans trying to remind us that China isnt the only country with a poorly regulated and unhygienic factory farming industry capable of producing a pandemic-causing pathogen

IMO: iPhones are the minority in the world apart from North America.

Whatsapp became the main "secure" chat service on Android, but iOS always had its own iMessage feature so WhatsApp isnt needed if you're somewhere with basically zero android phones.

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