It’s a good point. However it is worth noting that conservatives are like this. Not sure how it can be used to rehabilitate them or whatever, but maybe it could be
I would suggest pop os instead. I can’t remember all the specifics but when I used elementary, they ended up changing a lot of stuff in an upgrade that didn’t float my boat.
What I do remember is that there is no system tray and the creators are philosophically very against having one (despite that still being a somewhat common design pattern that apps rely on), theming support got janky with the upgrade, and Nvidia support was not great.
Of course, Nvidia on Linux has a lot of issues all around but at the time I had one of those cards and pop os worked mostly fine despite that. I’m still on pop os due to what I perceived as a bad direction that elementary took back then. That was around 2021 iirc.
On the plus side, pop os is wonderful! It’s like Ubuntu minus all the bad parts and plus a lot of good ones. It feels very fast and I don’t really recall the last time I felt like I was fighting against it as a distro.
Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately....
“We have a conversation about racism that is led by the global south and people of colour from Germany, which the German state is trying to brand as antisemitic,” Younes added. “And if we present our relationship to race, racism and European genocides from a non-European or non-white perspective, we get cancelled.”
1984 has been a reality for a long time. People intentionally pay hundreds of dollars to give Amazon (and other companies) a direct wiretap into their houses.
Think about the mentality required to believe in trickle down economics. The belief that rich people getting richer helps the poor! It’s better than any satire ever could be.
Then there is the fact that the US government recorded every single communication possible, and built a million square foot datacenter to upgrade their spying operations. A whistleblower called it out and he can never return to the US again in exchange for his bravery. I actually heard someone working with me at a tech job say “wait, who was Edward Snowden?”
VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2…...
A lot of people would get “its” wrong anyway, but my autocorrect on my phone changes it basically every single time. Including just now. I sometimes don’t catch it, other times I don’t feel like fighting a touch screen to go back and fix it. Having said all that, it’s a pet peeve of mine too lol
Interesting you put Ubuntu above pop os. Besides snaps, I always feel like Ubuntu kind of gets goofier all the time, and its descendant OSes have to do a lot of un-goofifying. I love pop os. I’ve had a lot of little issues on other distros that I don’t have in pop os. Ubuntu itself in the other hand, I’ve tended to have weird problems on that caused me to hop to something else.
I was a noob to Linux when I started using pop os. Still kind of am a noob. I’ve found it pretty easy to find solutions online most of the time. If a search query doesn’t find what I need when including “pop os” then I swap out for “Ubuntu”. You get basically all the compatibility of Ubuntu but no snaps and less jank overall
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
Yeah I don’t understand that at all. I thought car free meant a place, usually a part of town, where cars are not allowed. Those places exist. So to call places nothing like that “car free” seems pretty useless imo
If Firefox could allow their engine to be packaged like this I’d use it. The problem I see here is chromium. Everything is a trade off and we need more ways to build maintainable cross platform applications.
Slack, for example, is Electron and it runs great. One of the best apps I’ve used. And it works better than the browser version…
The hate on Lemmy of electron is a bit of an overreaction if you ask me. Yeah it uses more ram than is necessary but again everything is a trade off. Not everything can be a hard to maintain rust app. Let’s try to embrace cross platform solutions, though yes fuck chrome/google, so sure criticize that part of it.
I realize Firefox business practices aren’t total garbage for humanity and that they are constantly working to improve it on like .1% budget of Google. And that they are the only real competition which keeps us in a situation where we actually have a choice in browsers. So yeah let’s only care about the technical aspects, or something
I’m a web developer. I think there’s a misunderstanding here. The person I responded to said that slack purposely made the web version worse than the desktop app, which I’m doubting.
Because I have used both versions of slack and they’re almost exactly the same. The desktop version only works better imo because of small factors such as having its own window so it does not get buried in tabs, and the notification options are (or at least were) more robust. Have you not used the two versions?
I don’t really understand your comments. Are you implying that there would be an advantage for slack to “cripple” the web version, when they are essentially running probably 99% of the same code in the electron version? They’re never going to get rid of the web version, and if you’ve used slack for ~9 years like I have, you can easily observe they’re actually one of the few app makers out there to make mostly positive changes to their app. They aren’t suddenly going to make the web app shitty.
Also, obviously yeah when it makes sense to, app makers in general make the web app version shitty on purpose. Reddit mobile for example. But just because that’s a thing in the world doesn’t mean it is what slack is doing…not sure why you seem to be implying it’s a universal practice.
I don’t often have trouble with slack being slow, or buggy. Been using it like 9 years myself. Interesting you’re comparing slack to icq. Are you referring to a current version of icq, or the one that existed in the early 2000s?
I am not sure I understand comparing an app designed to do video/audio chat seamlessly, threaded conversations, channels, filesharing, plus has dozens of subtle nice features that make for a rich experience and a… Chat app, that worked fine for sending plaintext messages but didn’t really do anything else.
Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’ (fortune.com)
Better late than never! 🥳
Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well (www.theverge.com)
Discord👏Is👏Not👏A👏Replacement👏For👏 Websites
Lemmy is growing and they are coming (lemmy.world)
UPDATE! Any reason not to use Elementary OS?
Update: I chose mint. I can trust Mint to update the backend....
Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech (news.itsfoss.com)
400,000 species (lemmy.world)
******** has been compromised. Please ***** and ******** to ensure your continued security (lemmy.world)
JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law (www.politico.eu)
It was no April Fool’s joke....
Well? (ani.social)
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
Exclusive: Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Pierogi were good though (lemmy.world)
Looking for a simple, time-based night color control
I used to be on KDE. It had night color control integrated. Then I switched to XFCE, and it did not. So I installed Redshift....
The Jewish settlers who want to build homes in Gaza (www.bbc.co.uk)
Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately....
‘Free speech is a facade’: how Gaza war has deepened divisions in German arts world (www.theguardian.com)
“We have a conversation about racism that is led by the global south and people of colour from Germany, which the German state is trying to brand as antisemitic,” Younes added. “And if we present our relationship to race, racism and European genocides from a non-European or non-white perspective, we get cancelled.”
VLC - App stores were a mistake (archive.is)
VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
Daily updates (sh.itjust.works)
Dad (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down (www.issmmbeatenyet.com)
UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2…...
A handy reference (lemmy.world)
I need a distro that can work right out the box without too much hassle to configure it, which one would you recommend?
Thx in advice.
Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One (www.wired.com)
Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)