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Ian, is that you? I know things are still in flux, but it's good to finally hear from you!

Dad Jokes @lemmy.world

2y ago

Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus

I learned to follow hashtags, not people on mastodon myself..

2y ago

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

wayDroid does let you do that, in a fairly lightweight way (uses Linux namespaces iirc, similar to lxc.

It's still not full native, which would be even nicer. I play droidfish on my Linux machines using it.

2y ago

Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking

Because hosting costs money, and sustainable services need revenue sources.

News we read was put together by a team of journalists, editors, etc.

Video streaming takes a lot of storage, bandwidth, processing, licensing.

And so on.

Price gouging is bad, but reasonable income is necessary.

Billboard ads that don't target users and don't track effectiveness are dangerous financially for advertisers, and would pay much less to ad hosters.

Anonymous, aggregated tracking is a healthy compromise.

2y ago

Waydroid is pretty awesome

I'll be honest here: I switched my main laptop from slow roll to Linux Mint to install it several months back to install wayDroid. I've been happy with the switch. Here are my thoughts:

I'd installed Linux Mint + wayDroid on the laptop of various family members, and really liked what I saw
Runa-chin has done a great job providing instructions and packages to install it on tumbleweed, but it has quirks that I didn't feel like fighting. It just works out of the box in Mint.
I like having KDE plasma 6 on slow roll, but the cosmetic difference from plasma 5 is minimal (it's more performance/longer term). I'm ok with sticking with plasma 5 if I get a painless wayDroid installation
Slow roll is generally stable, but updates have burned me a few times in the past year. More stability is always nicer
Flatpak + appimage + snap (yes, I don't mind using whatever is officially recommended on the project website of whatever I'm trying to install, though it would be nicer to have more official flatpaks) make it such that while my base is stable, I can still get some pretty recent packages

Linux @lemmy.world

2y ago

Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking

Kudos for putting together good reasons that you don't like PPA, while also acknowledging that Mozilla is trying to solve a problem.

Yours is one of the very few reasonable objections I've read IMO - when the PPA outrage first erupted, I read through how it worked. Unique ID + website unaware of interaction, but browser recognizing, then feeding it to an intermediate aggregator that anonymizes data by aggregating from multiple users without sharing their IDs, with the aim of trying to find a middle ground seems fair to me. Especially with the opt-out being so easy.

However, your points about classes clickbait encouragement, SEO feeding, and the uncertainty that this will solve the web spamminess as it is are valid concerns.

linuxmemes @lemmy.world

2y ago

Is this heaven or is this hell?

2y ago

Oh the humanity!

I wonder if this is heaven or hell 😅

2y ago

Linux Market Share Reaches New Peak: July 2024 Report

It is finally upon us.

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

Terms and conditions apply. It could be the next year, or the year after, or not at all.

2y ago

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Sounds like dogs barking at/with each other in the night back when I was growing up. You'd hear the occasional how-how-hoooooww from one of them, and others would join in. Wolf'ish in some ways. The city I grew up in was much less crowded back then.

Now: I guess self driving cars fill in the void left by dogs not barking at each other anymore.

🐺 --- > 🚗

2y ago

What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse?

Zyppos

2y ago

Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?

vector pinball

2y ago

Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?

supertuxkart SuperTuxKart (A 3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play.

2y ago

FOSS AI painting with Krita

This is the caveat for me for now.

To run locally a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long!

I've got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn't up to par.

2y ago

Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?

Linux Mint Debian Edition would be a pretty solid, pre-customized distribution.

I've had great experiences with Linux on Lenovo over the years: would be my first recommendation.

I currently use a Dell Inspiron, while it's works great, I had to do some extra work occasionally. I love that I can get fingerprint login with it on Linux though.

2y ago

How fast is Plasma on old hardware?

Why not try it for yourself on Linux mint first by installing plasma? Plasma 5 is available on mint - I believe Fedora has plasma 6.

I use plasma 6 on my Opensuse Slowroll laptop and plasma 5 on my LMDE desktop.

Overall, I've found plasma 6 to run slightly better (I was on plasma 5 on Slowroll too for a long time).

Once you install and try plasma 5 on your current install, that will be a much less disruptive way to see how well it works for you.

After ricing, both plasma 5 and 6 are pretty similar on my setup. The cube desktop effect isn't there by default on plasma 5 of course.

Linux @lemmy.ml

9to5linux.com /linux-firmware-update-utility-fwupd-will-use-zstd-compression-for-future-releases

2y ago

Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression

linuxmemes @lemmy.world

2y ago

BRABIX - the Linux Mascot! (Happy April 1st)

Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

goo.gl /maps/wLuEApgAYmyut79n9

2y ago

Commuting across timezones

2y ago

Linux users when

No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.

I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:

Use Ubuntu (if you're not familiar with, and don't want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.

If you're not using Ubuntu, that's your choice, you'll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it's more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.

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If you're on Ubuntu or have snap installed - it's a one click operation to install chirp: https://snapcraft.io/chirp-snap

If you're on another distribution by choice: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

this page has a 3 step install for mainstream Linux distributions:

Install dependencies (they've listed the commands)
Install chirp and Python dependencies (commands provided)
Run chirp

2y ago

Former political power broker Steve Pigeon sentenced to 364 days in jail

Firefox private mode (my default) seems to work fine with the site.

Ublock origin and all doing their jobs too: I see a pretty clean page!

3y ago

Just finished setting up my GNOME desktop. Am I doing this right?

GravelPieceOfSword @lemmy.ca 3y ago

Do the three finger swipe left and right to switch desktops.

Then three finger swipe upwards for overview.

It'll be Gnome all over, I promise you!

3y ago

Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review