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The problem there is "presentism". People have this tendency to see the present as somehow different or more real than past historical events. Slavery will be bundled with the Spanish inquisition in their mind as old things from before times. Before we had our modern thinking. They can mentally compartmentalize slavery. Maybe Jim Crowe would be a better example since there are still people alive today who remember it. Women in the US weren't generally allowed to get a credit card or bank account in their own name until 1974.
I don't think anyone does, saying "x is illegal/legal" just lets them obfuscate their actual desires. Nobody calls the police on themselves because they did something illegal and it would be moral for them to be punished according to their own ethical code, they call police on people they want punished when they have a convenient justification.
Conversely if someone is driving 5mph down a street, and just says "its not against the law, I have every right" as if that was a reason, they're simply too much of a coward to admit their actual antisocial motivation.
Here’s the connection: I couldn’t think of much to write. It’s hard to connect with writing right now. But I’m still taking photos. So I am sharing a few with you today.
These days of physical distancing are surreal. Perhaps that’s why the realness of nature is so predominant in these images.
At some point, it became obvious that a storm was brewing. Some regions responded quickly and appropriately. Some are reeling with the dangerous repercussions of not being prepared.
All of these photos were taken within about six miles of each other. Like so many of our friends, neighbors, and family, my wife and I are “sheltering in place“.
Well, sort of. We find solace in the beautiful lands around our home, so we hike and connect with friends out in the open where being two meters apart is easy.
Gorge Love
The Finger Lakes region of New York is famous for its gorges and waterfalls. One of the most spectacular is an easy hike from our home: Taughannock Falls. This waterfall is so amazingly beautiful and powerful that it can be challenging to turn away. But like the pandemic, being riveted by a single thing distracts us from all of the other things that could catch our attention or inspire us.
That’s right: looking the other way can prove to be a very powerful shift. In the case of Taughannock Falls, when I turn around, I find that there are very different and deeply inspiring scenes. Here’s a view of Cayuga Lake from above Taughannock gorge.
The Sunrise Is Real
My wife and I have begun to notice what’s good. This noticing does not mean that we aren’t challenged by this time. Grief and fear are real, too. They are gripping so many of our friends as the health and financial repercussions of this pandemic begin to sink in.
In the face of all this, we realize how important it is to take stock of the hopeful moments. What is your hope?
The truths of this time in human history can propel us to do good and heighten our connection with each other. That is where our attention is drawn now.
Taughannock Falls in the Finger Lake region (Cayuga Lake specifically) of upstate New York, USA.
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While i think the /usr/bin merge is a neccssary adaption to modern usage, and while i see the uaecase of /usr/bin over /bin in immutable distros, i'd rather go closer to hardware personally and rather have /bin as real directory and /usr/bin the symlink.
So i copied /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin (which is also in $PATH) in preparation, because used tooling like rm, ln, cp, is also in /usr/bin. Turns out, in my PATH the later comes before the former path, having preference. Which lead to su complaining about not having access to a authorization server.
Which leads me to my question: is security and boot/bootstrap tooling ok with symlinks or being on a different path, or is that a compile time option of the distro (Artix)?
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Sponsor: Internxt 02:12 Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now 03:53 Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite 07:35 Flathub now accepts apps that used AI, with disclosure 10:18 Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions 11:35 Steam Frame now has 200 verified games 13:03 More Kernel and AMD performance improvements 15:43 Digital Ocean stops hosting credits for FOSS as they donate to Omacom 17:50 Gentoo asking for help for hosting after sponsors dried up 19:14 Orion stops development of its Linux browser 20:45 EU Commission doesn't seem pleased with their Teams replacement 22:31 Googlebooks don't look like they'll help Linux much 24:23 Mesa looking at a more formal governance model 26:53 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
@The Linux Experiment Is this the Adobe Suite pirated, Adobe Suite you get to purchase, or Adobe Suite on the web rented? I purchased photoshop and premier until they made them subscription only and then dropped them.
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V.
As I reported back in June, when the first daily build images for Ubuntu 26.10 were made available to download, there was a new RISC-V desktop image available too, but now Canonical is making everything official: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) brings desktop images to RISC-V computers.
That’s right, if you have a RISC-V computer and want to use Ubuntu on it, you will be able to do so with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release, due out next week on October 15th, 2026. Even better, it looks like there will also be a RISC-V image for the Xubuntu flavor featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.
“The Xubuntu variant exists for a practical reason: the Xfce-based minimal image is far more manageable under emulation,” said Canonical. “The images are experimental: they carry no official support yet, and there are still known issues that we are addressing for the release. Bug reports on Launchpad are very welcome.”
Canonical recommends testing the Ubuntu Desktop RISC-V images on SpacemiT K3 hardware since official support for this platform is coming with Ubuntu 26.10, and they even have a guide on how to install Ubuntu on the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX. On the other hand, the Xubuntu Minimal images are recommended for testing in virtual machines.
Testing the Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images will require you to copy your own first-stage bootloader, such as U-boot, as well as the relevant Device Tree Blobs (DTBs), onto the ISO before booting it on real hardware like the SiFive HiFive Unmatched, which is supported by Canonical.
Canonical promises to deliver a complete desktop experience on RISC-V computers with the Stonking Stingray release, especially on RVA23-compliant hardware like Milk-V Jupiter 2 Mini-ITX, DeepComputing DC-ROMA, and SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX.
Ubuntu 26.10 is expected to ship with the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment by default, which will be released on September 16th, 2026, and the soon-to-be-released Linux 7.3 kernel series, which should be out later this month. I’m hoping that more Ubuntu flavors will pick up RISC-V support in the long run.
Without further ado, you can download the latest Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop images from here and the Xubuntu Minimal RISC-V image from here. Once again, please keep in mind that these images are considered experimental, so don’t use them for any production work.
Flathub has replaced its blanket ban on AI-generated applications with a disclosure requirement. Reviewers can still reject submissions, and manifests remain off-limits for AI-generated content.
This suggests that it has to be disclosed to the reviewers, which is a good thing, but how will end users be made aware?
I only use 6 flatpaks (due them not being available in the arch official repo's) and I get them via a gui package manager. I'm assuming I am going to have to modify how I do this for any future installs, and check my existing ones, but then what about future releases/updates?
Yes, I'm also aware that is redundant to this conversation. There is no reason for decent people to just give up on decency just because one layer (even the top layer) of something is f*cked up.
If people gave up that easily, we would all be working in coal mines 14 hours a day, living in trash societies, with slave labour, and trash governments... oh
Hopefully someone forks the kernel, and there is an increase in anti ai distro's, de's etc.
i would strongly prefer a label to easily filter with as a first pass plus not all slop has an agents.md or claude.md but can still be riddled with bugs and security vulnerabilities
Probably the right decision given there's no way to truly tell what level of AI generation or effort within the project itself with AI has taken place.
I understand the willingness to ban low effort low quality one shot projects, but given most software nowadays incorporating some level of LLMs, I can't ever see a blanket ban working out anywhere.
that's like saying that because we can't all always 100% tell if someone is cheating at an online game we should forget about banning cheaters - you can prohibit a behavior you aren't always able to sus out and use a combination of detection heuristics and making that behavior unwelcome (i will say i believe the correct policy is to label projects which discernibly use llms rather than banning them)
I think they should just create a policy where unmaintained software gets removed? Or flagged where it's easy to filter out.
Most AI slop just gets abandoned, but a real developer who wants to maintain FOSS software long term with some AI assistance is quite a different thing.
An unforeseen consequence from AI Slop is that normal people can now create quite handy software for niche use cases, but the barrier to entry is so low that those people often abandon it quickly too. Rather than security risks, abandonedware is starting to become a bigger problem.
I don't know about other normal people, but I'm certainly actively maintaining my own vibecoded apps as long as it's affordable to do so. By that I mean they give me the niche functionality I want & new features are not added anymore, but if a pillow or pyqt update breaks my app, I'll may figure out how to fix it even on my own.
By and large flathubs metadata has allowed for pretty transparent overviews. Stick the same filtering that safe and unsafe containers have and everyone retains a clear choice.
I've been using tiling WMs for some years now (mostly sway, but also tested cosmic a bit). I really love them: you theme workspaces and organize everything into them, and no window is ever hidden, which makes finding them trivial. But the cost of having every window displayed in that workspace is that they start getting way too small when you have a lot of them. This is usually not a big deal, since you can create tabs or just open new generic workspaces.
But what has been bugging me are windows that need to be big, otherwise they are unusable (like gimp, kdenlive, libreoffice, sometimes firefox). Tabbing them in fullscreen messes with the workspace layout, and if you dedicate an entire generic workspace for them, you surely will lose it.
That's where scrollable WMs enter the scene. They respect window sizes at the cost of their visibility.
::: spoiler niri.gif :::
NGL, this is not a good idea. It's easy to lose windows that are off-screen. But what if you only use it sometimes? Think of it as a regular tiling WM, but when you need it, it creates more space off-screen.
To achieve this, I've been using Niri with the tilemod script. It helps make Niri behave more like a regular tiling.
::: spoiler tilemod.gif :::
It's been a good experience over the last week. My workflow is mostly unchanged, but when I need to work with a window in fullscreen, it's always a relief that I'm using Niri.
Has anyone else here tried scrollables? I'm in this excitement phase so I want to read more about it (even from people who tried and didn't like them) 😀
I use Niri. It just feels right to me, having lots of space to stick windows (scroll horizontally, switch workspaces vertically).
It takes some getting used to, but tthe overview is helpful, and here's always the window switcher if you "lost" a window. But what really changed the game for me were special "focus-or-spawn" keybindings with nirius, e.g. when I press Meta+B my browser opens, or if it is already open it is focused.
If you only want to use scrolling for some workspaces, you can have a look at Umbriel. It looks really interesting, I haven't had time to try it out.
Umbriel is a Wayland compositor for daily use, with scrolling and tiling layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
Interesting. I haven’t had trouble finding windows so far, but I set up the niri_search_window script from niri_tweaks as mod+tab just in case I need it.
Me also a tiling guy, and since a few years I switched to KDE and use an extension called Krohnkite to tile windows automatically. I personally don't like the idea of endless scrollable desktops. To get a taste, I tried a scrollable window manager extension for KDE, just to see if the workflow would click with me. To me it doesn't feel different from (classic) floating style of managing windows. Why? Because I have to scroll and search for the window.
To me it doesn’t feel different from (classic) floating style of managing windows. Why? Because I have to scroll and search for the window.
This is precisely the same feeling I had when I first tested Niri. It only changed once I started treating it as a tiling that sometimes expands when needed.
I have to say, I would like to have a "layout" that expends like a scrollable type. I mean by layout the tiling logic (Quarter, Monacle, BTree and so on). I think there is a use case for having that, but I don't want to lose the tiling worklow as it is right now. You know what, I got curious again and will try that extension again.
Edit: Sadly it was bugged for me. Had to use the TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F2) to disable that Karousel extension. I remember when it worked, not sure what happened. Seems to dislike something about my current setup. I'm not ready to switch to an entire different window manager yet, but I'm also quiet happy anyway. Maybe its because I have two screens now, and it does not support multiple screens.
I've used it ever since riverwm had its 0.4 update or whatever it was.
Someone described it as objectively better than i3-like tilling because every window can be full size or tiled more traditionally with the same ergonomics, and they were right.
Anyone using it with multiple screens? I haven't tried it out because it didn't look like it would be great for that.
I want something really lightweight where I can assign things to workspaces and then pull workspaces easily onto any one of my screens.
XMonad was my favourite, but I've moved to Sway and I've got it set up pretty well now. Workspaces still have a home screen so it's a bit more clunky to move them around between screens.
niri dank material shell (dms) is nice for that too. But yeah if you want something super lightweight you may just want to just config base niri yourself.
I use it and I like it. For me, I use a second monitor just to keep an app open constantly so I can use my main monitor for the interactive stuff. If I'm feeling fancy I make a second workspace on the second monitor to keep a split screen of my music player and messaging app.
I don't remember the default way that workspaces are organized with multiple screens, but for me I prefer each screen to have their own workspaces, and I use them sparingly and that works great for me.
I've gotten used to using the noctalia-shell dock to unify my on-screen and off-screen windows / tiled window groups. Even if a window from my dock is active in a different workspace, clicking it in the dock from any other workspace switches to it immediately. Fundamentally it's similar to managing floating windows. But now having different workspaces for different tasks makes sense to me for the first time. It lets me maximize space for groups of tiled windows. My whole life I've just disabled that shit immediately.
I'm now using Omarchy so yes I used hyprland and quickshell and I used artix before and I used Kubuntu lubuntu Ubuntu Linux mint Arch Linux Fedora Bazzite CachyOS Void Linux Linux from scratch
With more and more kitchen utilities gaining touch screens and capable microcontrollers it’d be inconceivable that they do not get put to other uses as well. To this end [Aaron Christophel] i…
It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around. It's been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It's easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There's no bullshit. I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural. So please whoever is here because you're contemplating switching: do it yesterday.
Lemmy because of the Reddit API debacle. The Linux community because I'm a far-left activist who needs to get away from BigCorpo out of general principle, but I'd been using Windows since 3.0 and it was daunting.
Congrats, that's almost exactly how I felt when I switched a year or two ago. I did a bit of distro hopping after a few weeks, and quickly resettled on Bazzite, but it was a universal experience of stuff just working better without any bullshit I didn't add myself.
same here and it's lead to me having a job for the last 24 years -- i would have been a factory worker like my brother, cousins and father if it weren't for my computer dying on me.
Tire pyrolysis projects face regulatory risks across feedstock handling, thermal processing, emission control, and by-product management. A plant may meet its production targets yet encounter delays or penalties if its operating practices conflict with environmental permits or waste management requirements. A systematic compliance audit helps identify these weaknesses before commissioning and maintain regulatory control during commercial operation.
Feedstock Acceptance and Waste Classification
End-of-life tires are the primary feedstock for tire pyrolysis plant. However, their collection, storage, transport, and processing may fall under different waste management requirements. Project developers must confirm how local regulations classify waste tires and whether the facility holds the necessary permits to receive and process them.
Feedstock inspection is an important first step. Incoming loads should be checked for prohibited materials, excessive contamination, and unexpected waste streams. Mixing tires with municipal waste, electronic waste, or other unauthorized materials may alter the project's regulatory status. The facility should maintain supplier records, weighbridge data, delivery documents, and inspection logs to establish traceability.
Storage conditions also require attention. Large tire stockpiles can create substantial fire loads and obstruct emergency access. The audit should examine storage limits, separation distances, fire prevention measures, drainage, and procedures for managing damaged or contaminated tires.
Reactor Integrity and Process Safety
Tire pyrolysis machine relies on thermal decomposition under oxygen-limited conditions. The reactor, feeding system, gas pipeline, condenser, and residue discharge equipment must operate as an integrated system. A defect in one component can create both safety hazards and environmental noncompliance.
Sealing, Pressure, and Temperature Control
Air ingress can disrupt the intended reaction conditions, while combustible gas leakage can create fire or explosion risks. Auditors should inspect reactor seals, flange connections, valves, feeding devices, and discharge points. Pressure indicators, temperature sensors, alarms, and emergency shutdown functions should also be tested against documented operating procedures.
The audit should verify whether inspection and maintenance schedules reflect actual operating conditions. Repeated seal failures, unstable temperatures, or unexplained pressure fluctuations should be treated as warning signs rather than routine operating issues.
Preventive maintenance records, equipment inspection reports, and operator training documents provide evidence that process risks are being controlled. Safety procedures should cover startup, shutdown, abnormal pressure, power failure, and emergency isolation.
Emission Control and Exhaust Monitoring
Air emissions are among the most consequential compliance risks in tire pyrolysis. Potential pollutants depend on feedstock composition, reactor conditions, gas treatment, and the final combustion system. They may include particulate matter, sulfur compounds, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and other hazardous substances.
A compliance audit should assess the entire gas pathway, from reactor outlets to condensation, treatment, and final combustion or discharge. The presence of an emission control device does not automatically demonstrate compliance. Its capacity, operating condition, maintenance history, and effectiveness must match the actual process load.
Verify Monitoring Against Permit Conditions
Environmental permits may specify emission limits, sampling methods, monitoring frequency, and reporting obligations. The audit should compare these requirements with available test reports and operating records. Where continuous monitoring is required, the system's calibration, data retention, and alarm response should be examined.
Gas leakage, bypassed treatment equipment, and untreated exhaust during startup or shutdown deserve particular scrutiny. Auditors should also verify how the plant manages non-routine emissions and whether corrective actions are documented when results exceed internal or legal thresholds.
Pyrolysis Oil and Solid Residue Management
Tire pyrolysis produces liquid oil, non-condensable gas, and solid residue that commonly contains recovered carbon black and steel. Each output requires a clear management route.
Pyrolysis oil should not automatically be classified as a finished commercial fuel. Its legal status depends on applicable product specifications, waste regulations, and the intended end use. Before sale or off-site transfer, the operator should verify the relevant quality requirements and any permits governing storage, transport, and use. Storage tanks should have suitable containment, leak prevention, fire protection, and inventory controls.
Recovered carbon black and other solid residues also require characterization. Their composition and potential contaminants determine whether they can enter a specified reuse route or require further treatment. Steel recovery may create additional value, but contaminated material must still be handled according to applicable rules.
The audit should reconcile production volumes with sales, internal consumption, storage changes, and disposal records. Unexplained discrepancies may indicate inadequate inventory control or an undocumented waste stream.
Permit Consistency and Environmental Records
A frequent compliance weakness is the gap between the approved project design and the facility's actual configuration. Changes to processing capacity, feedstock composition, operating hours, emission treatment, or product destination may trigger additional review or permit amendments.
Auditors should compare environmental approvals, construction documents, equipment specifications, and current operating practices. They should also check whether required environmental impact assessments, fire safety approvals, occupational safety procedures, and waste transfer records remain valid.
A practical audit prioritizes findings by severity, likelihood, and regulatory consequence. Immediate hazards require prompt intervention. Permit discrepancies and missing monitoring data need assigned corrective actions and clear deadlines. Lower-risk documentation gaps can be addressed through a controlled improvement plan.
Establish a Repeatable Compliance Review
Tire pyrolysis compliance is not a one-time commissioning task. Feedstock sources change, equipment wears, emission systems deteriorate, and product regulations evolve. Periodic internal audits help detect these changes before they lead to enforcement action or operational disruption.
A reliable review combines physical inspection, document verification, emission data analysis, and staff interviews. Each finding should identify the underlying cause, the required correction, the responsible person, and the evidence needed for closure. This approach turns compliance from a collection of permit documents into a measurable part of plant management.
Wood chips are a widely available biomass resource that can be converted into charcoal for industrial heating, barbecue fuel, agricultural applications, and other uses. However, producing high-quality charcoal from wood chips requires more than simply heating the material. Variations in moisture content, particle size, carbonization temperature, and residence time can significantly affect the final product.
For businesses planning to establish a commercial charcoal production line, maintaining consistent product quality is essential for meeting customer specifications, improving production efficiency, and reducing material losses. By controlling several key factors throughout the carbonization process, operators can achieve more stable and predictable results.
1. Control the Moisture Content of Wood Chips
Moisture content is one of the most important factors affecting wood chip carbonization. Fresh wood chips may contain substantial amounts of water, depending on the wood species, storage conditions, and processing methods.
When wet wood chips enter the carbonization system, part of the available heat is consumed in evaporating moisture rather than decomposing the wood. This can extend the heating period, increase energy consumption, and make temperature control more difficult.
To improve consistency, wood chips should be dried to a moisture level suitable for the selected carbonization equipment. The appropriate target depends on the feedstock and process design, but a moisture content of approximately 10–15% is often a practical starting point for many systems.
A reliable drying process also helps reduce fluctuations between batches. If moisture levels vary significantly, operators may need to adjust the feeding rate or heating conditions to maintain stable carbonization.
2. Maintain Consistent Wood Chip Size
Wood chip size influences heat transfer, material feeding, and the uniformity of carbonization. Large pieces may heat more slowly at their centers, while excessively fine particles can increase dust generation and affect material flow.
When the feedstock contains a mixture of very large chips and fine particles, different portions may reach the required carbonization conditions at different times. This can result in uneven carbonization and inconsistent charcoal properties.
Screening and size reduction can help establish a more uniform feedstock. The appropriate particle size should be determined according to the reactor structure, feeding mechanism, and material characteristics.
Consistent feedstock preparation also reduces the likelihood of feeding interruptions, bridging, or uneven material distribution inside the equipment.
3. Optimize Carbonization Temperature and Residence Time
Carbonization temperature and residence time directly influence the physical and chemical properties of the resulting charcoal.
At relatively low temperatures, the wood may retain more volatile matter and produce charcoal with a lower fixed-carbon content. Increasing the carbonization temperature generally promotes further decomposition of organic compounds, but excessive temperatures may reduce the solid charcoal yield and increase energy requirements.
The optimal conditions depend on the intended application. Charcoal intended for barbecue fuel may require different properties from charcoal used as an industrial reducing agent or a soil amendment.
Residence time is equally important. The material must remain under appropriate thermal conditions long enough to achieve the desired degree of carbonization. If the residence time is insufficient, partially carbonized material may remain in the final product. Excessive residence time, however, may reduce throughput without providing a meaningful improvement in quality.
allows operators to control heating conditions and material movement according to the feedstock and target product specifications.
4. Ensure Uniform Heat Distribution
Even when the average reactor temperature appears correct, uneven heat distribution can lead to inconsistent charcoal quality.
Areas receiving insufficient heat may produce incompletely carbonized wood, while excessively heated areas may cause unnecessary material loss. These differences can become more significant when processing large quantities of wood chips.
Reactor design, insulation, heating arrangements, material movement, and temperature monitoring all contribute to thermal uniformity.
For continuous carbonization systems, stable feeding and controlled material movement help maintain consistent exposure to heat. Multiple temperature monitoring points, where appropriate, can provide a more representative picture of operating conditions than relying on a single measurement.
Operators should also monitor temperature fluctuations during startup, normal operation, and shutdown to identify conditions that may affect product quality.
5. Control Oxygen Exposure During Carbonization
Carbonization requires heating wood under oxygen-limited conditions. If excessive oxygen enters the reactor, the wood or the resulting charcoal may undergo combustion rather than controlled thermal decomposition.
Uncontrolled combustion can reduce charcoal yield, increase ash content, and create uneven product characteristics. It may also introduce additional safety risks.
Therefore, the reactor and its feeding and discharge systems should be designed to limit unwanted air ingress. Sealing arrangements, pressure control, and appropriate operating procedures help maintain stable process conditions.
Operators should follow the equipment manufacturer's instructions for managing combustible gases, monitoring pressure, and preventing air from entering hot process areas.
6. Cool Charcoal Before Exposure to Air
Charcoal leaving the carbonization reactor may remain hot enough to ignite when exposed to oxygen. Improper cooling can therefore affect both product quality and operational safety.
If hot charcoal comes into contact with air, partial combustion may occur. This can reduce the amount of saleable product and create inconsistent ash content or particle characteristics.
A suitable cooling system lowers the charcoal temperature under controlled conditions before the product is exposed to the surrounding atmosphere. Depending on the equipment configuration, cooling may be achieved through indirect cooling or other engineered arrangements.
Operators should also avoid introducing cooled and hot materials into the same storage area without appropriate controls. Stable cooling conditions help preserve the quality achieved during carbonization.
7. Monitor Finished Charcoal Quality
Process control should be supported by regular product testing. Visual inspection alone cannot reliably determine whether charcoal meets the required specifications.
Important quality indicators include:
Moisture content: Influences storage stability and usable energy content.
Fixed-carbon content: Helps evaluate the degree of carbonization and suitability for specific applications.
Ash content: Indicates the proportion of inorganic material remaining after combustion.
Volatile matter: Helps characterize the charcoal's thermal properties and degree of carbonization.
Particle size and strength: Important for handling, packaging, transportation, and end-use performance.
Sampling should follow a consistent procedure so that results can be compared across production runs. When quality measurements change, operators can investigate possible causes such as wet feedstock, temperature fluctuations, uneven particle size, or insufficient residence time.
Maintaining production records also makes it easier to identify operating conditions associated with better product quality.
Conclusion
Consistent charcoal quality from wood chips depends on controlling the entire production process, from feedstock preparation to final cooling and storage. Moisture content, particle size, carbonization temperature, residence time, oxygen exposure, and heat distribution all influence the properties of the finished product.
For commercial producers, investing in appropriate drying equipment, reliable temperature control, effective cooling, and regular quality testing can improve process stability and reduce avoidable losses. A properly configured wood charcoal machine, combined with standardized operating procedures, provides a practical foundation for producing charcoal with more consistent characteristics and meeting the requirements of different markets.
Recliners are mechanically complex pieces of furniture, and the upholstery must cooperate with that complexity rather than fight it. Failure concentrates in predictable areas — the footrest lip, the headrest, the arm pads, and the seat seam — and each one demands specific countermeasures.
Most upholsterers will tell you that furniture with moving components sits in a category of its own. Recliner sofas are the clearest example. A fixed-frame couch asks little of its fabric beyond staying taut and attractive. A recliner asks the material to stretch, compress, cycle thousands of times, and still maintain a clean silhouette when everything is at rest.
This guide works through the three areas that matter most: the underlying mechanism, the zones where wear concentrates, and the fabrics that survive the demands of motion.
What Makes Recliner Mechanisms So Demanding
Every recliner is built around movement, and that single engineering choice alters the entire upholstery process. Imagine pulling a fitted sheet across a mattress that keeps changing shape — that is roughly what the fabric on a recliner experiences. Too much tension and the seams split when the footrest swings out. Too little and the chair looks rumpled the moment it returns to its upright position.
Inside the frame, a network of steel linkages, springs, and glide tracks does the actual work. These components require clearance. Experienced upholsterers intentionally build extra fabric — known in the trade as "ease" — around every pivot point. Welt cord reinforcement and boxed-corner construction further reduce the risk of stitching failure at high-tension intersections.
The removal of hardware is non-negotiable. Anyone performing sofa upholstery services on a recliner must unbolt the seat assemblies, detach the release cables, and recover individual panels on the bench. Trying to staple new fabric around a mounted mechanism is a shortcut that leads to visible wrinkles, restricted movement, or both. Each component should be handled as its own project within the larger job.
Electric recliners add wiring to the equation. The fabric path must avoid every motor and cable run. A single misplaced staple that pierces a power lead can disable the chair entirely. Clearance around the motor housing is equally important — if the fabric presses against the actuator during travel, the motor strains, draws excess current, and fails prematurely.
Where Wear Concentrates and Why
Pattern recognition makes a huge difference in recliner work. Failure almost never happens in random spots. The same four areas account for the vast majority of damage.
Footrests take the heaviest beating. Metal edges grind against the fabric every time someone reclines and sits back up. The front lip of the footrest absorbs this abuse directly. Reinforcing it with a doubled layer of material and double-stitched seams extends its life considerably. Some technicians also bond a strip of thin protective fabric to the hidden side, creating a sacrificial surface that bears the brunt of the friction.
Headrests fail through chemistry rather than mechanics. Scalp oils and sweat penetrate textile fibers and break down the sizing and dyes. The result is a stubborn dark band across the top of the chair that no amount of cleaning eliminates. Sunlight makes matters worse by degrading fibers through UV exposure. When the recliner sits in a bright room, choosing a UV-resistant fabric for the headrest area is a practical decision, not an optional one.
Armrests suffer from body weight leverage. When someone pushes up out of a recliner, significant force concentrates on the arm pads. The foam compresses, the fabric stretches, and the arm develops a permanently sunken look. Operators of sofa upholstery services who skip foam inspection during the tear-down phase almost always get a call back within a few months. Batting wraps can restore slight losses in loft, but flattened foam offers no substitute for replacement.
Seat seams endure the most combined stress of any joint on the furniture. This is where the seat back panel meets the seat platform, and it flexes with every cycle of the mechanism. Thread choice here is critical. Cotton thread breaks down under repeated pulling and humidity, leading to seam separation. Bonded nylon resists both forces and remains strong through years of daily use.
Matching Fabric to the Job
A recliner's fabric must satisfy three requirements simultaneously. It has to resist abrasion, tolerate repeated flexing, and recover its shape between cycles. The Martindale and Wyzenbeek abrasion tests provide a quantitative basis for comparison. For recliner upholstery, the general guideline is a minimum of 30,000 rubs before the surface begins to thin.
Leather has its advocates, and for good reason — it is durable, simple to clean, and ages with character. The caveat is flexibility. Rigid top-grain hides tend to crack along fold lines where the mechanism moves. Bonded leather performs poorly under any amount of cycling; its laminated surface separates and flakes, often within a year. If leather is the chosen route, it should feel soft and supple. Sewing leather also demands specialized needles to avoid perforating the hide in the wrong places.
Synthetic performance fabrics are widely considered the strongest choice for recliners. Olefin and polyester blends combine stain resistance with inherent stretch. That elasticity allows panels to follow the mechanism without stressing seams. Compared with natural fibers, these materials also resist fading from light exposure over much longer periods.
Microfiber is another strong candidate. The tight weave structure gives pet claws nothing to grip, so the surface stays free of pulls and snags. The fabric offers enough mechanical give to accommodate a moving frame. It also forgives minor cutting errors, which is a relief during complex pattern work.
Materials worth steering clear of include heavyweight canvas and stiff linen. Both lack the stretch a recliner demands, so the moment the footrest extends, rigid fabric hammers against the staples until something gives. Velvet, while attractive, loses its nap quickly on the footrest lip and other contact surfaces. Silk snags on the first movement and offers no compensating durability.
The Role of Foam and Padding
Surface fabric is only half the equation in sofa reupholstery. What lies underneath determines whether the finished piece feels right or still sags. Recliners built more than a few years ago almost always have degraded foam by the time they reach the workshop.
Polyurethane foam loses density with age and compression cycles. Placing fresh fabric over old, collapsed foam produces a piece that photographs well but disappoints in daily use. High-resilience foam restores the original comfort profile and maintains its loft far longer than standard grades. For recliners, a density rating of 2.5 to 3.0 pounds per cubic foot is a proven specification.
A Dacron polyester wrap serves two purposes. It rounds out cushion edges for a more finished look, and it separates the fabric from the foam surface. That separation matters because foam — especially open-cell polyurethane — acts like fine sandpaper against the inside of a cushion covering. Over time, that internal abrasion wears through fabric that never sees a single moment of visible contact.
Beneath the foam, springs and webbing carry the structural load. Sagging in a recliner often traces back to stretched sinuous springs rather than worn-out foam. While the frame is apart, replacing tired springs costs a fraction of what the same repair demands once the piece is fully reassembled.
Weighing the DIY Route Against Professional Help
Can a dedicated hobbyist reupholster a recliner at home? The short answer is yes — with significant caveats. Sewing multiple layers of heavy upholstery fabric requires a machine with real power. Most domestic models simply cannot push a needle through the material without skipping stitches or stalling.
The alignment requirement is where most amateur projects go wrong. Every panel must fit correctly in two positions simultaneously: fully upright and fully reclined. Cut too short, and the mechanism strains against the fabric on every cycle. On electric models, that resistance can overheat the motor. Cut too long, and the excess material bunches unattractively during normal seating. Adjusting either error after attachment is tedious and often imperfect.
Frame disassembly presents its own difficulties. Hidden fasteners, tight wire channels, and spring clips all need to come apart in the right order. Tooling matters too. A pneumatic stapler drives fasteners flush into hardwood frames with minimal effort. Hand-stapling a recliner frame for an entire afternoon is a test of endurance, and the results rarely match.
Because of these factors, a large number of furniture owners engage professional sofa upholstery services in Singapore rather than attempt the work themselves. A trained technician understands exactly how much slack to leave at each joint and operates industrial equipment that handles layered seams without hesitation. For households looking to extend the life of a well-built recliner, professional sofa reupholstery is often the more sensible route, particularly when electric mechanisms are involved.
Vetting a tradesperson requires asking targeted questions. Recliner experience specifically matters — an artisan who specializes in antique dining chairs may never have routed fabric around a motor. Ask how they reinforce the footrest edge, what thread grade they use on load-bearing seams, and how they verify clearance around moving components before final assembly.
Wrapping Up
Recliners are mechanically complex pieces of furniture, and the upholstery must cooperate with that complexity rather than fight it. Failure concentrates in predictable areas — the footrest lip, the headrest, the arm pads, and the seat seam — and each one demands specific countermeasures. Fabric selection matters as much as technique; a material rated for heavy commercial use and flexible enough to follow the mechanism will outperform a stiffer, more decorative alternative every time.
Internal components deserve equal attention, since new fabric over old foam and tired springs produces a result that looks better than it feels. Whether the project happens in a home garage or on a professional bench, patient measurement, disciplined seam reinforcement, and a full mechanical test before reassembly determine whether the finished recliner performs for years or disappoints within months.
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Canonical recently added the Myna orchestrator snap and speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store, and made a new desktop Myna Settings tool available to install from a PPA.
Ubuntu 26.10 also comes with another component preinstalled, as the gnome-shell-ubuntu-extensions package has a GNOME Shell extension that triggers an on-screen HUD when the Myna local AI speech-to-text tech is listening or transcribing.
While a formal call for testing hasn’t been made, all the pieces needed to test Myna are available – for those who care to put them together. The feature has changed quite a bit since I previewed it back in August.
If that includes you, read on for how to do it – but don’t expect things to work perfectly just yet, mind.
How to try Myna on Ubuntu
To test Myna on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS or Ubuntu 26.10 you need:
myna-config desktop app from a PPA
myna snap from the Snap Store
myna-* AI model from the Snap Store
If you’re on Ubuntu 26.10 you also have:
Myna Shell extension (preinstalled)
As of writing, the Myna Shell extension (which triggers the on-screen HUD) is only packaged for GNOME 51 and 26.10. Desktop notifications are used to convey status on Ubuntu 26.04 instead.
The on-screen HUD will only appear after pressing the trigger key to activate Myna, when listening or transcribing, or conveying error states (like ‘background noise is high’ or ‘focus lost’).
There are different visual styles available for the HUD: default (a plain bar using the system accent colour); vumeter (think volume) and ribbon (but as animated as the original one, alas).
Update: the latest update to Myna Settings only includes 2 options: Default and Vumeter.
Here’s how to install each component. Installing the Myna Settings desktop app The Myna Settings app for Ubuntu
Install the Myna Settings app by adding the following PPA (maintained by a Canonical engineer working on Myna) which provides packages for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and 26.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:charles05/myna-config
sudo apt install myna-config
Installing the Myna client snap
Enable an experimental snap feature Myna requires before it will install:
sudo snap set system experimental.user-daemons=true
Install the Myna speech-to-text client from the Snap store:
sudo snap install myna --edge
Installing a text-to-speech AI model snap The first-run wizard doesn’t work (yet)
Finally, to tie it all together, you’ll need the “brains” of the operation: an AI model which will actually transcribe your audio to typed text.
The Myna Settings (myna-confg) app has a first-run wizard to install the various components, and this suggests a model suitable for your hardware.
You’ll can also install your preferred speech recognition model from the Snap Store via the command-line – but which one should you choose?
Whisper, Parakeet and Funasr are the AI models on the Snap Store. The models run entirely locally, on your device, but aren’t small. You’ll need 1-2GB of free disk space1, depending on the one you choose.
I tested two. Parakeet I found better at accuracy (even spelling my surname correctly, which most don’t), but Whisper seemed faster, if prone to homophone errors.
Install Parakeet, NVIDIA’s fast, open-weight ASR model supporting 25 languages and punctuation:
sudo snap install myna-parakeet --edge
Or install Whisper, OpenAI’s multilingual, open-source model:
sudo snap install myna-whisper --edge
Or install Funasr:
sudo snap install myna-funasr --edge
Now, open Myna Settings and it should now skip past the setup screen and show you options. Backend settings
You can, via the Myna Settings tool, set a model size (the number of parameters it uses) to favour speed or accuracy: smaller variants process audio faster on low-end hardware, while larger ones reduce transcription errors and handle tricky words better.
Checking Myna works
With everything in place, you can go ahead and test. First thing: make sure your microphone is enabled and working (check in Settings > Sound > Input). You then need to assigned a hotkey shortcut in the settings app2 which you will press to activate the feature.
When ready, open an app and focus a text field (I tend to use Text Editor), and press your hotkey.
When activated, the Myna HUD will appear on the desktop (26.10) or in a notification (26.04). Begin to talk and, if Myna says “listening”, continue rambling until you’re done. Press the same hotkey to transcribe your spoken words in to text that will appear in the focused app.
If you click out of the text field you began dictating into (or another app opens and steals focus) the HUD will say “focus lost”. You’ll need to repeat the process again.
Is Myna any good?
Myna is a boon to Ubuntu’s accessibility, for sure. Offline AI-powered dictation that’s more accurate than what’s previously been available.
Whether dictation proves popular beyond that, in day-to-day usage, is an open question. Offline speech recognition has shipped on smartphones and smartwatch for years, but most people still type their WhatsApp messages, e-mails and (welp) ChatGPT prompts.
Dictation is remains best suited to longer-form text entry than, say, barking “Firefox” at the App Picker. Myna can lose focus easily (an app opens, you press a button, you mouse away), and thus lose any “spiel” it was in the middle of processing.
It’s also optional; it only “listens” when you press a button, and recorded clips never leave your device nor get stored on it. It also can’t be triggered with a “hey myna” – not yet anyway.
Ubuntu didn’t have any of this before Myna, so it’s great to see Canonical experimenting. Myna is even being developed as a desktop-agnostic tech, even if this first pass focuses on a GNOME/Wayland/Mutter stack.
Snap is configured to keep one “good” backup of everything you install, so when it gets updated the only one stays behind, meaning each snap uses twice the amount of space. ↩︎
On one of my laptops Myna defaults to super + j but on another it uses super + t. You can see/change it in the Myna Settings app. ↩︎
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI.
Not to be confused with the i386 ABI, the Linux x32 ABI is the little adopted model of using 32-bit integers, long, and pointers on Intel/AMD CPUs but making use of the larger set of CPU registers and other benefits of x86_64. Linux x32 came too late and hasn't seen much industry interest or adoption. With Linux x86_64 going comfortably, Linux kernel developers have been retiring the x32 ABI.
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior has been leading the efforts this year for proposing the x32 ABI retirement. With the end of 2026 approaching and Linux 7.3 or 7.4 being this year's LTS kernel version, the topic of retiring x32 has once again reignited on the Linux kernel mailing list.
start removing x32
The Linutronix engineer sent out a new set of patches today to begin removing the x32 ABI. Sebastian argued in the patch to initially block x32 behind the "BROKEN" Kconfig option:
"The x32 ABI was introduced in v3.4 to leverage the additional registers which were available on x86_64 but not on i386 while keeping the smaller 32bit pointers.
This did not take off. The memory usage usually knows no limit and the better performance did not reach a point where certain workloads widely move to x32 and use it exclusively. In the meantime Debian introduced a patch to disable x32 by default (so it has to be enabled at boot time on the command line) because they are afraid of the increased attack surface. Fedora as far as I tell has X32 disabled (looking at 7.0-rc5 rpm in rawhide).
The syscall range >512 used by x32 can not be reused because on earlier kernels (before v5.4 with x32 enabled, see commit 6365b842aae4 ("x86/syscalls: Split the x32 syscalls into their own table") it is not obvious if the syscall is for x86-64 and not implemented or meant for x32.
What can be removed are the special compat cases due to different alignment.
Since there is practically no real use for x32, start removing it by marking the symbol as BROKEN so it is not possible to enable by default. It will remain around in the last LTS kernel of this year and then it will be removed."
We'll see if the patches begin to land initially marking x32 as "BROKEN" and then eventual removal, following the declaration of the Linux 2026 LTS kernel version.
Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu is once again facing a distributed denial of service "DDoS" attack against its web infrastructure. This isn't the first time they have experienced this issue and Canonical's IT team is currently working to mitigate the attack.
Ubuntu down
The Canonical status page is currently tracking the incident. Confirmation of the Ubuntu DDoS attack was also posted to the Ubuntu Discourse.
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028.
The data=journal mode for EXT4 is where all file data and metadata is written to the file-system's journal before being committed to the main file-system. In the event of a crash or power loss, the journal can then be replayed to recover the data.
The EXT4 data=journal mode is great for those very concerned about data integrity and safety but comes with significant hits to the write performance compared to the default ordered (data=ordered) mode or data=writeback. Using the journaled mode also disables delayed allocation and Direct I/O support.
EXT4 journal deprecated
Per today's Git merge for Linux 7.3, the EXT4 data=journal feature is deprecated and support for it will be removed in early 2028 following the 2027 Linux LTS kernel version.
Yeah, but I thought the philosophy was not to break userspace. I'm fine with the removal if absolutely nobody uses it, but some have commented here being users of the feature
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.10 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.
COSMIC 1.10 comes two weeks after COSMIC 1.9 with support for mapping drawing tablets to specific displays, support for setting environment variables in ~/.config/environment.d, support for using custom SSH agents, and support for remembering sort options in file open/save dialogs.
The COSMIC Term terminal emulator received keyboard shortcuts for moving tabs left (Ctrl+Shift+Left) and right (Ctrl+Shift+Right), COSMIC Store now adds a gallery mode after clicking screenshots and caches screenshots locally, and the cosmic-settings-daemon is now in charge of setting the interface font when syncing font settings with GTK/GNOME.
COSMIC Player has been updated as well with support for keeping the controls visible when hovered, COSMIC OSD no longer shows volume OSD when started, COSMIC Monitor now features separate app and process searches, and COSMIC Launcher now uses WGPU for rendering in order to improve performance.
COSMIC Greeter display manager was improved as well in this release with kmscon support to systemd service on Fedora Linux, a fix for a panic when the keyboard layouts are empty, and support for cancelling the PAM session when the wrong password is used to ensure that pam_faillock remains functional.
On top of that, COSMIC Compositor received fixes for issues with window context menu items being selected when clicking outside the menu, focusing windows on touchscreen events, screen capture using an inefficient pixel format, resizing not working in some cases while tiling, and focus not being removed from unfocused windows.
Last but not least, COSMIC Files now ellipsizes the full path in search results to keep it from being truncated and includes trailing ... to menu items that open a context drawer, cosmic-idle can now handle system suspending on AC correctly, and COSMIC Initial Setup now only shows the Wi-Fi page if a Wi-Fi device exists.
Various smaller issues were fixed as well, so check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories of your favorite Linux distro for the COSMIC 1.10 update and install it as soon as possible for a more reliable, stable, and bug-free COSMIC desktop experience.
The Q4OS team announced today the release and general availability of Q4OS 6.10 as the tenth update to the Q4OS 6 “Andromeda” series of this Debian-based Linux distro featuring KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktop Environment.
Based on Debian 13.7 “Trixie” and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.111 LTS, Q4OS 6.10 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop environment for the flagship edition, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.13 software suites, all compiled against Qt 6.8.2, as well as the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) 14.1.5 desktop environment on the TDE edition.
Q4OS 6.10 updates the KDE Plasma edition to no longer include any packages from the Trinity Desktop Environment by default on the live media or when installing the distribution, as the Q4OS tools now come with their own Qt 5 frontends. Of course, the Trinity Desktop Environment remains installable side by side.
The live Q4OS media now comes with the basic desktop profile and the live-session extras, which include the installer, web browser, Q4OS Imager, CJK fonts, VirtualBox guest additions, and language packs. The devs removed the old KDE Frameworks libraries on the TDE edition, as well as the QtCurve and old window styles.
Q4OS 6.10 introduces a new Q4OS Wi-Fi connect tool that will be displayed during the first login on both KDE Plasma and TDE editions, replacing the old Trinity-only dialog, to make connecting to a Wi-Fi network easier. Also, NumLock is now enabled at first boot on desktops and laptops with a numeric keypad, while it stays disabled on laptops without a numeric keypad.
On top of that, this release splits the Q4OS Setup application installer into a Trinity and a Qt 5 frontends, so each Q4OS edition gets the native one, and the fail-safe entry of the live boot menu now starts the graphics in nomodeset mode for machines whose graphics driver fails to start.
Among other noteworthy changes, the Q4OS Software Centre no longer offers the Mozilla Firefox web browser on 32-bit (i386) systems, since it’s no longer supported upstream, while Q4OS 5 i386 users are offered Debian’s Firefox ESR instead. Check out the release announcement for more details.
Q4OS 6.10 is available for download as KDE Plasma and TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) editions for 64-bit systems from the official website. Existing Q4OS users can update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands in a terminal emulator.
So I made a community called c/learninglinux I wanted to name it learningLinuxtogether but the server didn't accept so anyways this community will be where experts send guides or help beginners and where Beginners ask for help so lemme know your opinion in the comments Edit: I'm sorry for problems in my English it's not my native language
Is it open to everyone? I have to ask, since yesterday I was accused of being a rapist in an instance with a beef against "tankies", and their behavior was really shitty and shady.
Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside support like cash, donated hardware, or someone else covering the hosting bill.
This kind of support rarely gets much attention, but these needs are some of the most foundational aspects of any project that's serious about growing.
Gentoo falls in the second group. The source-based Linux distribution, built around the Portage package manager, runs largely on sponsored infrastructure, as it can only manage to maintain a few vital machines.
Sadly, many sponsors that had backed Gentoo all these years have decided to stop making contributions. The project is now looking for replacements and has put out a call for infrastructure sponsors.
Currently, its sponsors page lists names such as Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, CDN77, HP, and Hetzner, but it may not yet reflect the dropouts.
There are five ways to help, as laid out on the sponsorship page of Gentoo's wiki, with preference being given to supporters who share the project's vision of software that respects choice and stays open to user-driven changes.
The first way is to accept donated machines for the project's hosting locations in the US. They are not asking for much; anything good enough to handle server-focused tasks in today's time is a good offering for them to use.
Next is Colocation, a type of physical hosting. The sponsor would provide rack space, power, and connectivity, while Gentoo finds the hardware to put in it. Capacity outside the US is their most urgent need at the moment, though offers from the US are welcome too.
Third are virtual machines, with a minimum of 2 vCPUs, 4GB of RAM, and 25GB of storage. The project says that it is leaning more on the cloud wherever it can, but many of its services are monolithic, and that Kubernetes would suit them poorly.
The fourth way is full-package hosted physical servers. The wiki gives two examples: a root server like the ones Hetzner offers, or a sponsor's older or unused servers with Gentoo getting full remote access.
In that second case, the sponsor would still own and manage the hardware, whereas Gentoo would take care of the operating system and remote management, only asking for advance notice before any migration events.
The last is plain old money. Any donated funds would go toward paying for colocation and hosting.
A call to act
Gentoo is far from the only project that needs this kind of backing.
Take LVFS, the firmware update service for Linux. It leaned heavily on the Linux Foundation and Red Hat, with Framework and the Open Source Firmware Foundation pitching in $10,000 a year.
Then Lenovo and Dell joined at the Premier tier, at $100,000 a year each, along with HP and NVIDIA, who followed soon after. I would call that a win for LVFS and a sign that sponsors are out there for projects that go looking.
Maybe your organization has spare rack space, or you have money lying around and want it to do some good. Either way, someone has to host the servers behind projects like this, and Gentoo's infrastructure team is available at infra@gentoo.org for any infrastructure sponsorship-related queries.
I have been donating for many years. Small amounts surely, but it's the least that you can do for such a project like Gentoo.
It might be niche and pretty peculiar, but it's unique and probably the truly most open Linux out there. And also, pretty important, zero drama.
Also one of the few alternatives that let you freely choose if you want/need to use systemd network manager Wayland or whatever tech stack you prefer. Without holy wars, stupid preconception or fussiness.
I hate Google, but considering chromiumos is based on Gentoo, maybe it's time they sacrifice some millions they made to Gentoo. Only pocket change right? Who am I kidding, selfish companies will stay selfish.
Klassik brings the KDE 3 desktop to Plasma 6: reimplemented panel applets, the KDE 2/3 application style, ports of the KWin window decorations, and the original color schemes and wallpapers, with Wayland support.
That’s was weirdly aggressive. I’m trying to understand motive and you respond with dismissal, which means you either considered the inquiry an attack or that this project is actually dumb and that is not a satisfying answer.
Instead of chasing the dismissal and turning this into an internet slap fight among the most limp-wristed on Lemmy, let’s get back to my question: why do this?
Does this solve a UX issue? Is there some incredible performance advantage? Does it solve a problem? Is it an interesting technical challenge where something shouldn’t be possible but a neurodivergent paused his Minecraft videos and said hold my beer unconvincingly? Why was this done? Help me tune into what makes this impressive.
As per the title, I am having a conflict on my computer, running Debian, with two sound controllers being found.
One is a Raven/Raven2/FengHuang controller and the other is the Ryzen sound controller.
The Raven is not even returning any sound, I've tested it, but it is to this controller the system defaults to. I've even manually selected the sound controller I want to use and the moment I close the GUI it defaults to the Raven and loses sound output.
I have managed to find a few posts on the internet from 2020 reporting it was a known issue and it was due to be solved but I wasn't able to find any solution to address the problem.
As anyone had this problem and found a solution for it?
Edit
I feek the need to add this here, as it makes no sense whatsoever to me.
I have a cheap, basic, USB camera connected to the pc. The moment I added the PulseAudio soubd control, it immediatly showed the camera as being a sound input hardware. It does not have a built in microphone, to my knowledge.
Also connected to the computer, on the front port, is a combined head/microphone single jack headset, of the kind where the microphone is built into the wire. It is not recognized as a sound input device if the camera is disconnected, although it still allows output.
Added to this, under Audacity, unless I set Pulse aa the default input and output device, no sound is played or recorded.
I sincerely don't know what is going on but after installing that package I was made aware that apparently the camera I have connected to my computer has a built in microphone. But which is apparently not useable as a recording device. So I have to wonder to where is that sound going.
Edit: something is seriously wrong. The microphone I have built-in to my headphones started working when I first added the package. After I disconnected the USB camera, it stopped registering on the system. And now it does not pick uo sound to record on Audacity.
This entry was edited (Thursday, October 8, 2026, 9:36 PM)
fucking called it when the first batch of millions started rolling in. not that it was too difficult to see. disappointing to see many open source folks being like "who cares?", which is just the head-in-sand reaction i'm used to encountering when talking about fascist politics with locals. it seems to me that the users who are ready to welcome large amounts of institutional capital into open source projects don't understand that it comes with strings attached. maybe they think more money = more eye candy = growing userbase = better video game support on linux? idk, hate to see fascism creep into every aspect of my personal interests
I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.
I swear the move to replace the GNU ecosystem with Rust tooling has more to do with a corporate EEE push to remove all libre licensing than with memory safety or anything else.
Which is very frustrating, because retiring C & C++ is long overdue IMO, but for reasons unknown to me, the Rust community is strongly against copyleft licensing.
Wouldn't surprise if Creative Commons had something to do with this. The copyleft licenses of it, of anything more restrictive basically than MIT and "attribution", are listed as "restrictive" and "not open" or something. I think coupled with the complicated legal language versus "idk, whatever man" doesn't help for lots of new projects.
That said... Most of the stuff I've done has been so "idk, man, I made a thing for me and figured others might benefit" that I just gave it the MIT license for that reason. And it may just be as simple as that reasoning.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. The Rust community prefers that corporations have the freedom to embrace, extent, and extinguish open source contributions. Or maybe they don’t prefer it so much as they’re ignorant of it.
God fucking damit, so many open source projects struggle for money and yet, that fascist jackass' dot file distro gets all the support. That's maddening...
Seriously though... I wouldn't want fascists' money anywhere near my pet distros, regardless of volume. As they say: "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
Its almost as if DHH and those transphobes over at Hyprland(not to mention Lunduke, Luke Smith, Distrotube, and the various cadre of right wing little bissh boys on YouTube) all forgot about Linus Torvalds.
As far as I'm concerned Linux is for the left. But heck when an ideology like fascism is born out of grifting off left wing ideology (i.e. See Mussolini's socialist/anarchist father), the right can just appropriate whatever they want...but they'll still always be little bissh boys to me.
He lives in the US though so should we be using European or American terms? In American terms he absolutely is a liberal, based on all the stances mentioned, whereas in European terms, liberal more or less means capitalist
While I agree Linux is inherently anti fragile and can survive enshittification by corporate goons, that amount of money that this dot file Linux installer will have a heavy effect on what projects get funded and which ones are left to their own.
There's a nice donate page on the archlinux site and let me guess how much they'll get from this foundation when afaik the arch team had turned down whatever partnership the dot file installer guy wanted. Should come anyways no strings attached right? Considering they're funding hyprland. So using arch as a base would imply they would fund them no strings attached.... Right? lol
I hate the phrase "X$ in compute" so much. What does that even mean? It could mean a 1.5 million dollar value worth of donated time on one of their servers, or it could mean a hardware donation, or it could be a cash donation that is earmarked for server upgrades/chip purchases. Ever since AI took off it's become such a common turn of phrase to use "compute" like this. As if the amount of money spent tells you anything useful about the amount of things they can "compute" now. Costs are so variable and spread out across many different areas that it changes day by day, and by which vendor you use, or what part of the world you are in, or all kinds of other things.
Maybe I'm just behind the times and it has some specific meaning now I'm not aware of. Either way it annoys me.
So what does "1.5mil$ in CPU/GPU time" mean then? It doesn't make sense. That's not a standardized unit of time. Are we talking tokens like with AI? Whatever SpaceX's going rate is to use their servers? Some other commercial service? That's why I don't like it being used like this. It would be like me saying I am donating 1.5 million dollars of "food" to the homless. Like that's great right, but what the fuck do I mean by food? I could be giving them rice and beans, caviar, or anything in between. Meal vouchers to mcdonalds, or working with soup kitchens. It's just vague.
lol some bigot loser 'we're not political! 'who never used Linux before getting all this money and surprise he has little understanding, hence still a shitty release.
I tried it for a few weeks unfortunately just so i can see the trash first hand. and it is buggy, not intuitive to use, full of shit webapps for crap platforms and worthless because all of that agentic crap that you'd want can be easily done on a base arch install.
After Chis Titus video, I am only going to ransack the quickshell configs. I really need some references on how to structure it. Don't worry, I also read some other configs and I am not aiming for ultimate eyecandy.
What happened or what information was the issue in that said video? I stopped watching Chris Titus for a long time (when he ditched Linux and went back to Windows, its years ago now).
Oh, he just made a point, that for him, it is worth to take some of its ideas and implement them into his own config. And I kinda feel the same about my sway setup.
Basically, it has cool stuff and you can read the configs and take what you like.
Everyone seems to be hyping Omarchy. I'm not switching to it, but some of its ideas are absolutely worth stealing.In this hands-on review, I dig into DHH's t...
omarchy really doesn't make any sense as a distro. If someone really wants an agent, Why have all that slop prepackaged when you can just generate it yourself and have swim in your own slop.
Are they really pegging their success on attracting people who can't even copy paste a basic Hermes agent install script?
Yeah these people don't stay with Linux and they're attracting short lived attention and that's it.
I kind of enjoy seeing these corporations donators burn their money and also their reputation.
I have seen many scan entries on nginx while sharing links on Teams recently. At first I thought its some type of brute force. Even abuseipdb reports categorize it as web attack.
I don't know any of the technical details behind, but what I've noticed there's at least couple things that seem to happen when you send a link in teams;
Microsoft defender scans that linked site and tries to figure out whether it may be "harmful"
Attempts to scrape the site, render, screenshot it and embed a picture of the site contents to show to the recipient
Replaces the link with defender link that forwards the user to the website
That link safety thing is probably quite intrusive when scanning the destination webpage
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If you're running out of RAM you can use the faster CRAM instead of ZRAM which itself is already much faster than swap. Basically you can fit more data into your RAM
(Note: I could be wrong) Games would run worse if you needed to access this memory. This technology is for making a more efficient swap space than a hard disk, not for speeding up regular memory usage.
There's at least one game I definitely know which benefits from zram, and will probably also benefit from cram.
If you run star citizen on a 32gb or lower linux system you'll need to enable zram, otherwise the game will grind to a halt. Setting zram to 0.5*ram it ends up being playable. I had to go that route before I changed to 64gb physical ram.
Zram compression isn't that bad, I don't mind a faster method tho 😀
So, from what i've got from the comments; instead of doing swap shenanigans except in RAM like ZRAM (which slows it down), it just compresses content to a separate portion of RAM and points there?
Whenever big tech companies like Meta do useful things like support Overture Maps Foundation (which is also supported by Microsoft and Amazon) they are doing it to blunt some competitive advantage another tech company has, such as google in this case. They support open source insofar as they can't monetize whatever they are open sourcing.
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Does it count as optimization? For supported hardware, it's certainly cool. But it's not making inefficient software better, it's making better use of the hardware.
As we move into Spooky Season, we can’t look away from what is going on today with women and children and the double standards warping society today... This one may get grim. You have been warned.
Just wondering as ive been told many os's online and then told to not use certain one aswell, i feel confused on what linux os to try someday. i come from windows 10 and i always find i need windows on atleast 1 device, and put linux on the "outdated" devices, but i keep hoping around, i cant seem to make up my mind.
Everyone has their preferences. That's why there isn't one answer. The problem is almost every distro compares themselves to Windows, and so they all have the same "pros" from that perspective. Personally I have 2 recommendations, and I'll tell you which ones and why:
Zorin: Makes a good mesh of familiarity and ease of use. They maintain a database of different apps and will automatically point you to the most appropriate option. They greatly simplify the process of installing and using WINE. I happen to just like GNOME (looks more modern than KDE), and I like their modified version of it. Comes with a lot of what I consider "obvious" tweaks "out of the box" so you don't have to figure out how to implement them. Their GNOME is also super outdated though, so some extensions don't work.
Bazzite: If you want a console/PC hybrid, this is probably the best way to get it. If you just want a desktop gaming PC you can get that also. Either way it comes with a lot of gaming utilities pre-installed. Best of all is their "Bazzite Portal" which makes a bunch of common apps and tweaks that are otherwise complicated to install, easy, with the click of a button. There's also an app for updates that upgrades everything all in one place, with the click of a button, and also will run automatically in the background if your system is idle.
But if you need support I hope you're comfortable using corporate shithole platforms like Github, Discord, and Reddit, because if you don't want to, they don't give a shit.
Ubuntu is a solid option to start, and stay. Llm's know it well, everything targets Ubuntu and the ecosystem covers server, workstation, IoT, containers and various architectures.
For non-corporate stuff I'm a fan of the antiX and MX ecosystems, Debian with rims on and a lot of user choice, control and toolkits to make things easy to manage.
I'd be wary of peeps saying 'distro XYZ is shit', try stuff and see what you think. Arch is a fragile restrictive toy ime, but loads seem to love it.
If it's just a basic workstation most distros likely fine, pick something you like the vibes of and see how you go.
I've been on Arch or Arch based systems for 13+ years now. It used to be an incredibly annoying joke. I mostly saw it used to mock Arch users. But since Arch is more accepted now it seems to have morphed into a (mostly) funny meme. I never ever said it until this year though lol.
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eh, i think arch is the more usable of the "diving deeper" distros. arch, gentoo, and lfs(if you can call that a distro) are good for trying to understand the deeper parts of the system.
When I was looking into replacing W10 on my old laptop around 5 years ago, everyone on Reddit said Linux Mint. I ignored them and tried lots of different distros. I finally tested Mint, it worked so I installed it. I've been using it ever since. For me, I have Nvidia GPUs so Mint gets the correct driver without any hassle. It does have options for customising, but it's minimal which to me is useful if you have work to do. I have a standard set-up for my Mint desktops. Upon initial installation, Mint actually looks basic, simple and, to be honest, outdated. There are enough options to modernise it!
The only other one I use is Kubuntu (on a Huawei Matebook 13 2019) and that's for KDE's better screen scaling on my 2K 3:2 screen.
The “want to learn” is gonna carry a lot of weight here but I think and arch based distro like cachy works well for this. Cachy was my first distro and I really wanted to learn so it gave we a working starting place from where I could tinker and replace parts one at a time until they fit my liking. If I were to reinstall today I’d do plain arch since I know what I want and don’t need Cachy’s defaults anymore. Obviously everyone has their preferences but I think cachy is a really solid approachable distro for beginners, there’s a reason it just passed steamOS to claim the throne of most used distro on the steam hardware survey
An alternative to this kind power users who want control and learn everything, would be EndeavourOS instead CachyOS. I wouldn't recommend anyone starting with bare Archlinux, but depending on the person it could be the right choice, but its hard to know who the person is you recommend it.
You mention hopping, but you don't say what you have already tried, what you dislike about them, and what you mainly want it for, or your hardware config.
Hopefully you have already settled on a Desktop Environment or WM) though?
Ignore everyone who suggests ubuntu, mint, or debian; even though that will be many people (except for the debian suggestion, which is not a common suggestion, and it's bizarre that someone has already suggested that).
Understand that most people will just suggest what they use, even if they have little experience with other distros, many of these people just went with what is marketed well, but they will often be adamant fans of it anyway.
It's easier to remove ones that you do not like (for whatever reason), to reduce the options. That might be to do with: gui vs terminal focused, where they are from, their politics, commercialisation, their community attitude, ai, whatever. I would suggest trying to pick a base (arch, fedora, debian, ubuntu etc) and work from there. Something like the advanced search on distrowatch.com/ can help with that
Ignore everyone who suggests ubuntu, mint, or debian; even though that will be many people
Yeah good advice, ignore anyone who actually recommends a distro. Only listen to the person whose only advice is what not to do. The only valid distro is the hypothetical perfect Linux distro that exists in your head.
Why/how would I recommend a distro to someone who has used multiple distros, but doesn't even bother saying what they are, what they didn't like about them, or what they are looking for?
Looking for the best distros to start with is like looking for the best youtube tech channels, you do not get a list of the best, you get a list of the biggest, that are recommended because they are the biggest, that just become bigger because of that.
Flavour of the week distros are also a thing, zombies following each other and trashtubers to a distro, and then claiming it is the best ever.
mint is the 1st distro I used, it is terrible, and backwards. I looked at it again a couple of months ago, it still sucks.
debian... seriously?
ubuntu, that has a certain amount of merit, partially as just a reasonable way to test different DE's via kubuntu, xubuntu, lubuntu etc, and partially because a lot of sites online give instructions for ubuntu
Why/how would I recommend a distro to someone who has used multiple distros, but doesn't even bother saying what they are, what they didn't like about them, or what they are looking for?
You can just recommend something you think is good, but again, there is no such thing in your head. The only good distro to you is the one that doesn't exist.
It depends what the person wants to do, how "learning Linux" is interpreted and what it is installed on.
If someone is technically versed, likes commandline, wants to have the newest software and complete control and learn how Linux works, then something like EndeavourOS might be the right choice. If the focus is GUI tools only, maybe a laptop just to browse the web a bit and learn slowly what "this thing Linux" is all about, then something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu might be a good starting point, or even Fedora KDE. Is the person going to play games mostly, is experimenting a lot and wants to tap into the wild west of Linux, maybe Bazzite with its immutable concept.
There are a few more distributions I could recommend, for certain use cases. There is no single operating system that fits best for everyone.
Learn basic desktop Linux? Mint. Learn how Linux works and really interested in more of the ins and outs? Arch (Artix if you want systemdless) Learn how Linux works in great depth and are very committed? Gentoo.
I think their are many great options. But I do think a few shut be excluded at least in the beginning. Anything arch based I would not recommend you start on, Yes that includes CachyOS. They are great distros dont get me wrong. Also their is NixOS. And again a amazing distro but not something too start on. It is fundamentally so different then other distros it can be harder to fix issues if you are new.
Instead of giving you a "pick this" distro I will recommend you some flavors 😋. Most Ubuntu based distros are a good start as well as Fedora. Loads and loads of info online.
Maybe a odd choice but if I hat to recommend 1 distro. It is Opensuse Tumbleweed. She isn't the faster but she is a solid rolling release (so very updated) Distribution.
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start with debian if you want a stable release update style or arch if you want a rolling release update style
the vast majority of other distros are just nonsense stacked on top of one of those two
most of the big distros that isn't true for are corporate (open suse, fedora, etc.) and should be avoided unless you have a pressing and specific reason
save yourself a headache and just start with debian or arch. what you learn with one of those two will be the most transferrable and they both have huge (comparatively) communities with well developed resources for learning and troubleshooting.
people like to joke about arch being hard but that's mostly just a holdover from installing it being a chore that required a lot of careful manual reading - just use the built in archinstall and it's straightforward while also being a breeze to customize how you want
once you run archinstall and have arch installed it isn't any different than any other rolling release distro in difficulty - just use timeshift (or an equivalent, if you know enough already to pick one) in case you need to roll back an update in the future easily
the advantage is having easy access to the most recent versions of all your software all the time - just, if you use the aur for the additional community managed packages outside the official packages you admittedly need to learn to read the package files to make sure they aren't doing anything funny but otherwise you can just get software you trust the way that the developers recommend
if that all sounds overwhelming instead of exciting, just use debian
My number one recommendation is Fedora. Extremely stable, popular (so there are lots of q&a online), easy on resources. If you go Debian please don't go Ubuntu, its buggy for some people (me included) and snaps are 💩. If you want Debian go Linux Mint, which is very beginner friendly.
If you want to go rolling, try Tumbleweed or Slowroll from openSUSE, the former is right on the bleeding edge and the latter rolls a bit behind. They get a lot more testing than Arch so are less likely to have problems. The advantage of rolling is that you don't have a periodic big update. If rolling doesn't rock your boat, try Fedora or Mint. Fedora is more up to date.
The thing that will influence how you feel about a distro more than anything is the choice of desktop, so try a few out, at least Plasma, Gnome, Xfce, and Cinnamon. They can all be made to look different to a greater or lesser extent.
Edit: You can even test 100s of them out on distrosea.
i don't disagree with /that/ but i think picking a sensible, truly non-corporate distro as your base is important: hence debian as a truly solid option (or arch if you want rolling release)
When friends or family ask me to install Linux for them, I always use PCLOS. Texstar, Bill Reynolds, runs a tight ship and everything is really stable. Linux with training wheels.
Today I learnt that PCLOS is still going. Back in the day, it showed me how good a distro could be. Unfortunately, I was an inveterate distro hopper back then.
I suggest Linux Mint, it just works. I have moved over 10 people to it in the last 2 years. Basically, giving life to their old laptops. Never heard a complaint! Here's the latest one, my niece: mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/1…
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If you want to learn Linux, install Gentoo. That'll give you a pretty good understanding of what's going on. It'll be an intense process though.
If you just want to install and use Linux, pick one of the usual suspects: Mint, Fedora, openSUSE Leap/Slowroll, whatever. If you come from Windows, picking KDE Plasma as your desktop environment (DE) is a good choice. Mint's Cinnamon should be good too. Picking a popular distro usually means troubleshooting is easier, since someone else out there most likely has the same issue you have, and documentation is more comprehensive.
Remember that many distros provide a live environment you can run from a USB stick. Try a couple with different DEs and see what fits your needs. Honestly, the distro doesn't matter that much, they all do the same thing, more or less. Maybe try to pick your DE first and then just go from there.
Fir desktop use I personally think Fedora has the best balance between stability and being up-to-date, while staying fairly easy to use and with a large community. If the person wants something even harder to break and doesn't mind a bit of an extra learning curve, atomic variants like Silverblue are alo a nice pick. My cousin went for Silverblue and loved it.
I use and recommend CachyOS. PikaOS is cool too. So try either of those. I hear good things about Fedora as well. Whatever you do, use something with the KDE desktop environment. It's the best.
CTT had a video about it I found quite nice: youtu.be/hnNjFysodRo In shortv - if you want to game: bazzite - if you are a power user: cachy - for office/regular computer usage: mint
New to Linux and don't know where to start? Skip the overwhelming tier lists — these are the only 3 distros you need to know. Whether you're a gamer who want...
I know people that have been using Windows for like 10 years and still don't know how to navigate directories. I think that people using Arch-based distros need to be a little tech savvy to be comfortable.
Long time arch user, and I've recently switched to bazzite because maintaining an arch system reminds me too much of my actual job. Bazzite is great for daily use and has excellent support for gaming. I would recommend it as its update system makes it exceptionally hard to break your system and has built in stable rollbacks. As a new Linux user I would say just get stuck into either mint or bazzite. Try to learn more about how updating software works to decide between those, the, UI is entirely customizable and separate to the OS. The main Linux desktop UIs are gnome and KDE, both look nice and don't really need strong resources. KDE used to be really hungry but they've made it a lot leaner in recent years.
I recommend not asking for recommendations. Linux is an exercise in learning how to learn. It is a different paradigm of computing than the OSes people are coming from, and you will find it rapidly frustrating if you can't figure things out in large part for yourself. So I recommend that folks hop on wikipedia, do some reading, and then pick whatever strikes their fancy, secure in the knowledge that you can always switch to a different distro and that the learning process is the fun of it.
I think the best approach is to completely step out of Windows. Don't use a desktop environment that is "Windows-esque". Choose something that feels completely off the rails but fun/interesting.
Arch seems intimidating? Try it out. Windows is all floating windows? Try tiling through hyprland. Don't like the look of base hyprland? Rice it with caelestia or noctalia shells. Find the quirkiness that feels too good to pass up.
Debian based systems for systems you need more stable. Generally not a big concern for me unless you are setting up servers or really depend on specific software.
I wouldn't recommended Ubuntu, I would recommend something like mint if you're going that route. But Ubuntu is a safe feeling first choice and i get why people chose it. If you google a problem and just add the word Ubuntu generally speaking the google result or even googles ai summary has got you covered pretty good.
If you are more into gaming I would suggest something like bazzite, cachyos. Often they handle drivers for you super easily and comes with things like game scope too. Often you want more bleeding edge operating systems for gaming/newer hardware as updates seem to happen more frequently and with more noticeable improvements in the past 5 years.
If you just need a basic computer the choice doesn't really matter all that much its just kind of what looks good to you. You said its just for older computers so something like mint would be a fine choice in this scenario.
Generally speaking you are either picking a arch based system or a Debian based system. And all the distros are kind of the same, they just give you preinstalled software, technically you can pick any and get the features you wanted yourself.
Hopefully I didn't confuse you more or give you too much decision paralysis.
To friends I usually recommend the distro I run myself, as I'm most familiar with it and troubleshoot it the best.
If it's someone who won't get constant tech support from me, I'd probably go with Mint.
As a power user Ubuntu sucks, but if you've never used Linux before it could also be a good starter distro. The vast amount of tutorials online are made for Ubuntu.
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People keep saying Mint, and now that it runs on Wayland at least they will be able to watch a movie without screen tearing. But I do feel like KDE Plasma is a much better first impression, since it doesn't look like a desktop from 2013 (no offense), and has so many customization options that showcase the freedom of a linix desktop.
So for gamers, Bazzite, otherwise Fedora KDE or something
Ubuntu or Mint is quite okay, I have used both of them in the past and set it up for a friend with little money, little time, and very little PC expertise. Worked perfectly for them for over 10 years without a problem.
Today, if you can get a little help with setting up, I'd recommend Debian stable with either GNOME or KDE. It is more stable and has longer and better long term security support, which did become more important.
Also, it is now easy to set up with disk encryption, which matters for keeping private data secure on Laptops which can get lost or stolen.
@Grumpy404 Go for Linux Mint. You really need stability. So many Linux OSes are unstable and can take a very long time to repair. Linux Mint has the best hardware support while the underlying package manager is the most supported of the bunch and you can explore from there.
For beginners stay away from these, from bad to worse:
Controversial distros, Ubuntu and Manjaro (unfortunately, because I had fun using this)
Breakaway distros, NixOS
Niche distros, Red Star Linux, Alpine Linux, PostmarketOS, Artix, Hannah Montana Linux
Downsized or Abandoned distros, Slackware, Knoppix, OpenMandriva
Build-up distros, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Linux from Scratch
I'm sharing this one because I'm curious what more knowledgeable people think about this one. Please take a peek at the article before joining the discussion, as my limited quote might have dropped useful information
The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: "we don't keep logs." You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down.
For a lot of privacy-minded people, that promise stopped being good enough a while ago. A no-logs policy is only as honest as the company making it, and even an honest company can be hacked, subpoenaed, or quietly acquired.
Obscura VPN is trying to answer to that problem. Instead of asking you to trust its word, it splits the job across two independent companies so that neither one can tie your identity to your browsing. The first hop is Obscura's own servers; the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden. Your traffic is end-to-end encrypted to Mullvad's keys, so Obscura literally can't read it, and Mullvad never sees who you are.
Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.
The pinky promise to not look at who you are on the tech side is only useful if it's also accompanied with the promise to not know who you are on the business side ie.: not requiring any kind of payment data.
Easily pay using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for better privacy, instant payments, and lower transaction fees. We also accept Monero.
As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever been identified by a Monero transaction or a Bitcoin lightning network transaction without getting verification from the other party, e.g., you send money to a company that retains records and gets subpoenaed. Bitcoin transactions made on the lightning network aren't even recorded on the blockchain, so it's completely immune to chain analysis.
Yeah but that still means you have to get into crypto which is a well-known scam (and from what I gather even if there might be "legal" crypto exchanges, that "legal" carries its own implications there).
Crypto is not a scam. Crypto is an unregulated transfer mechanism, which has many scammers. If you're just buying crypto to fund your vpn, you're not getting scammed unless the VPN itself is a scam.
There are a TON of scams in crypto, no doubt about that at all. I don't think Bitcoin is one of them, though. I don't think Monero is, either, but I don't think it'll thrive long term. Most of the rest is bullshit just chasing dollars.
I doubt I'm more knowledgeable but the argument made is reasonable. I'm not totally convinced that trusting 2 providers is an improvement on trusting one. The point not canvassed in the article is that if Mullvad is the encrypted end point with keys then it doesn't really matter if they don't know who you are from account info, it's not very hard for them to have an unencrypted data flow split off for inspection which sooner or later will provide sufficient info to identify you.
Tl;dr if you trust mullvad deal with them directly. If you don't trust mullvad this doesn't actually fix that although it makes it harder and more effort to identify you it can still be done.
I wouldnt pay a premium over mullvad's price for this. No real value added.
Hallo, ich suche nach einem Router mit Ethernet Wan Anschluss. Der Router soll möglichst gut konfigurierbar sein, also am besten sollten zb auch so Dinge wie Sendeleistung anpassbar sein.
Große Ansprüche an die Leistung habe ich keine, da meistens 5 Geräte oder weniger verbunden sein werden, ein Gastzugang ist optional, wäre aber trotzdem ganz schön zu haben.
Ich hab mir bereits ein paar Geräte von Tp link angeschaut, allerdings habe ich viel schlechtes über die Marke gehörz, zb das Nutzerdaten weitergegeben werden oder wenige Software updates und daraus resultierende Sicherheitslücken.
Am liebsten wäre mir ein europäischer Hersteller. Ich habe leider wenig Ahnung von Routern, weshalb ich hier frage. Ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn jemand eine gute Empfehlungen hat.
Wenn Du keine besonderen Profi-Features brauchst, nicht groß basteln willst, das Ding "einfach laufen" soll, dann wäre vielleicht eine Fritz!Box etwas für Dich. Einfach zu konfigurierende Oberfläche, Sendeleistung/Kanal/etc. konfigurierbar, Gastzugang, deutsche Herstellung, deutscher Support, gibt lange Updates.
Ansonsten evtl. was von GL.iNet. Da läuft ein OpenWrt drauf und GL.iNet pappt eine benutzerfreundlichere Oberfläche drüber. Die sind oft vergleichsweise günstig für das, was sie können (wenn man weiß, wie). Die Firma sitzt in Shenzhen, China.
Ansonsten ist was von Ubiquity UniFi auch sehr beliebt - kann i.d.R. bis ins kleinste Detail konfiguriert werden. Die sitzen in den USA.
Danke, basteln tu ich schon gerne, ich hab nur nicht viel Erfahrung mit Routern bis jetzt. Ich lese mich aber gerne in die Materie rein. China und Usa sind eigentlich ein klares Nein, aber mit openwrt wäre man damit zumindest nicht abhängig von der einen Firma.
Fritzbox sind leider etwas teuer, weshalb ich nach alternativen dazu schauen wollte. Spricht aber vieles für,die Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten scheinen ausreichend.
Die Fritten sind halt etwas teurer, aber dafür kommt eben alles aus Deutschland, die haben oft auch noch eine VoIP-Telefonzentrale und DECT mit an Bord. Bis auf das 2.4G-WLAN-Malheur bei der 7590 hatte ich eigentlich nie Probleme.
Du kannst sonst auch erstmal mit z.B. einem Mango 1 V2 oder Mango 2 herumspielen. Oder einem der anderen günstigeren Reiserouter (nur nicht den "Opal" - der hat eine steinalte OpenWrt Version).
Wenn Dir das zusagt, reicht entweder das Gerät sogar für Dich, oder Du kannst mit gutem Gewissen ein teureres Modell kaufen und hast noch einen praktischen Reiserouter für unterwegs (lässt sich auch als Repeater für daheim verwenden).
[English]Heute noch eine Nachlese zum Thema Ausfall des 2.4 GHz WLAN bei der FRITZ!Box 7590. Ein Leser hatte mich darauf hingewiesen, dass dies nach ca. fünf Jahren passiert.
Today, with the help of our partner the Interledger Foundation, we are announcing a new program of grants for multimedia software and creators. In this program, we are asking software developers and publishers to partner to make new and better content on the Fediverse.
Multimedia, such as audio, video, and images, provides an engaging experience for Fediverse users. It can give a more visceral social and media experience than text alone. Multimedia software, however, can be difficult to develop, host, and use, and integrating it with other ActivityPub services takes time.
It’s also challenging to produce engaging media on the Fediverse. It can be hard to develop an audience, work with unfamiliar tools, and understand the different dynamics of a federated architecture.
Our intent with the Fediverse Multimedia Grants program is to bring more, and newer, rich content to the Fediverse for people to enjoy. We want to give creators a chance to get their feet under them, develop an audience, and make a permanent home on the Fediverse. We also want this program to help developers concentrate on creators’ needs — authoring, editing, organizing and publishing rich, engaging content.
For this program, we are offering grants of up to US$20,000 to developer/creator teams to start new publications on the Fediverse. We expect the teams to work in close cooperation, providing mutual support and feedback. Our expected outcome is ActivityPub-enabled software that’s better fitted to the needs of creators, and new publications with a foothold in the Fediverse.
Applications are open today at the Fediverse Multimedia Grants round of our grants portal. Applications are only for developer/creator teams. For publishers who aren’t familiar with Fediverse software, or developers who don’t have a good idea for a publisher to work with, please feel free to contact us and we’ll try to point you in the right direction to make a match.
Important dates for the program:
Applications open: 7 Oct 2026 (today)
Applications due: 4 Nov 2026
Decisions announced: 18 Nov 2026
Projects start: 1 Dec 2026
Please ask questions in the comments and replies for this post, or contact us privately. I (Evan) will also be organizing a session on the grant program at Fediforum today, 7 Oct 2026.
Thanks so much to the Interledger Foundation who generously funded this and other programs at the Social Web Foundation and who have been excellent creative partners in crafting this program.
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Grant for the Web to Make the Fediverse More Sustainable, Democratic, and Fun
Thanks to the Interledger Foundation for their generous Grant for the Web to the Social Web Foundation. With the help of ILF, we are launching a new program area focused on economic issues on the Social Web. In particular, we’ll be producing three reports: one on sustainability for social web instances; one for the Fediverse and the creator economy; and one for cooperatives on the Social Web. In addition, we’ll be engaging multimedia Fediverse apps for using the Web Monetization standard. You can read more about grant on our shared announcement: Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media.
The Interledger Foundation is a global nonprofit grantmaking foundation, leading the next revolution in payments through Interledger, the global network for inclusive digital financial service providers.
With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening.
@thelinuxexperiment What I like about Epiphany is that it uses a different engine [WebKit] to most other web browsers. I like to use it as a secondary web browser.
I use LibreWolf and Brave, although Brave is quite similar for me as Ungoogled Chromium for you, I'd probably put it in the "There's better" category. I just need it for some sites which don't work well outside Chromium, as for Ungoogled Chromium, the lack of MV2 is kind of a dealbreaker for me, and even though the browser itself is more trustworthy than Brave, it doesn't have proper ad blocking anymore, so it's basically up to whether I prefer a browser with less tracking or websites with less tracking, I went with the latter, although it's quite a tough choice, so I still put Ungoogled Chromium in the "would use it" category I guess. There's also Helium browser, based on Ungoogled Chromium, but the devs seem to be the same who developed some shady Chrome extensions before, as Switched to Linux pointed out in his video, so I can't trust them that much, but the MV2 support makes it maybe a bit better, and since the browser itself didn't do anything shady so far afaik, I can't recommend against it, but I'd put it to the "wouldn't use it" category. Same for Waterfox. Chrome, Edge, Opera go to bottom, telemetry is telemetry, no matter which nation's big corps do it imo, I agree on Orion, it being discontinued can make it insecure to use, also agree on GNOME Web and Falkon, although I'd make a bit of correction here, because Falkon uses QtWebEngine, which is a fork of the Blink engine. Firefox can be decent with some heavy hardening, debloating, but I personally don't do that, because there can be some more features, settings added in new releases, so it would require constant manual work to keep it actually private, so it still goes to "wouldn't use it". Vivaldi I don't have much against, other than not being fully FOSS, plus doing too much, I'd put it in "wouldn't use it". Floorp isn't bad, but it seems to ping a ton of Ablaze domains on startup, which is kinda sketchy to me, not sure why is it necessary, I'd say it's a "there's better", Zen isn't really for my taste either, and their privacy policy used to mention some connection to Microsoft as I remember, but not anymore, maybe I'm mistaking it with another browser idk, but based on their current privacy policy and track record, they seem trustworty, it isn't as good though as LibreWolf, because it doesn't remove that much stuff, e.g. the Sync, so idk, somewhere between "would use it" and "there's better".
I use LibreWolf and Brave, although Brave is quite similar for me as Ungoogled Chromium for you, I'd probably put it in the "There's better" category. I just need it for some sites which don't work well outside Chromium, as for Ungoogled Chromium, the lack of MV2 is kind of a dealbreaker for me, and even though the browser itself is more trustworthy than Brave, it doesn't have proper ad blocking anymore, so it's basically up to whether I prefer a browser with less tracking or websites with less tracking, I went with the latter, although it's quite a tough choice, so I still put Ungoogled Chromium in the "would use it" category I guess. There's also Helium browser, based on Ungoogled Chromium, but the devs seem to be the same who developed some shady Chrome extensions before, as Switched to Linux pointed out in his video, so I can't trust them that much, but the MV2 support makes it maybe a bit better, and since the browser itself didn't do anything shady so far afaik, I can't recommend against it, but I'd put it to the "wouldn't use it" category. Same for Waterfox. Chrome, Edge, Opera go to bottom, telemetry is telemetry, no matter which nation's big corps do it imo, I agree on Orion, it being discontinued can make it insecure to use, also agree on GNOME Web and Falkon, although I'd make a bit of correction here, because Falkon uses QtWebEngine, which is a fork of the Blink engine. Firefox can be decent with some heavy hardening, debloating, but I personally don't do that, because there can be some more features, settings added in new releases, so it would require constant manual work to keep it actually private, so it still goes to "wouldn't use it". Vivaldi I don't have much against, other than not being fully FOSS, plus doing too much, I'd put it in "wouldn't use it". Floorp isn't bad, but it seems to ping a ton of Ablaze domains on startup, which is kinda sketchy to me, not sure why is it necessary, I'd say it's a "there's better", Zen isn't really for my taste either, and their privacy policy used to mention some connection to Microsoft as I remember, but not anymore, maybe I'm mistaking it with another browser idk, but based on their current privacy policy and track record, they seem trustworty, it isn't as good though as LibreWolf, because it doesn't remove that much stuff, e.g. the Sync, so it also goes to "there's better" I guess.
LibreWolf as best privacy respecting browser for daily usage. Not bloated, not supporting Google (due Chromium usage), not proprietary as Vivaldi (absolutely NoGo). TOR as second browser for more sensible stuff. Servo from time to time to track progress to hopefully replacing Firefox-based browsers one day.
@thelinuxexperiment I love @zenbrowser 's out of the box minimalist approach: no bloated page when opening a new tab, vertical tabs are a plus for me, it lets you choose the search engine you want during initial setup, it's Firefox based (compatible with extensions)... Love it. My chromium-based fallback is Brave, but I honestly never have to use it. I started using Gnome Web more. Maybe I'll download my password manager's desktop app and give it a real try. But for now happy with Zen.
Echoing what others have said with Helium. It ships with uBlock Origin by default and the setup is fantastic (it lets you choose the layout, search engine, password manager, etc. so super easy for beginners). It is the one I use when Firefox doesn't work for a pesky website (of which there has only been one, and it was some locally hosted thing a friend of a friend made)!
FF shipped with EndeavourOS so it's my main, I have tried Librewolf and Zen, and they are both very good too! On the Android side of things, IronWolf is what I use, a community spin of FF. Fennec is another one and is essentially the F-Droid build of FF with telemetry disabled by default.
It doesn't get past plymouth (I can still get to the console with ctrl alt functionthing ofc)
I've tried setting the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 (i did xbps-reconfigure -fa after that) in console thing in /etc/default/grub. I've enabled elogind as a service. I obviously did
Hey, use namei with some flags to find out if the directory lets the socket be created by that user and if there’s a directory in the tree that keeps that user from traversing it.
Eh, I mean I did look at some tutorial but also some forums and at the archwiki for xorg, Idk if I looked at the one for sddm but it doesn't say anything different from what I saw, I kinda looked into the gentoo wiki for rootless xorg too or whatever but that didn't help much.
I am not expecting you to 100% know everything and help it's like well maybe someone might know what's wrong. idk.
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Shouldn't you replace "x11-user" with your username?
If you still can't get it to work, take a look here and try the startx comand on a tty first (a display-mamager is yet another layer of complexity and potential blockers). If you get permission errors, try adding your user to the video group.
If you want to do it manually (without some limitations of startx), take a look at sx.
No apparently you don't need to replace it, if you do it just starts it as root. I can start xfce4 with startxfce4 as user but i can't start sddm as user from console, only as root. I did try changing it to x11-(username) and just (username) it was the same as just doing x11 or not having the file, although I could also have done something wrong there.
At this point just changing the dm might be easier tbh. Although idk if that woulf actually work. I believe it starts x with the sddm user and not your actual user because, well, you're not logged in
I had bought an MSI laptop from Costco. Even though I was happy with the performance and with CachyOS I had to return it. Lucky for me that Costco has such a generous return window, 90 days. My main issues were that it lacked adequate cooling for the X7 358H, had no UEFI support from MSI on their website, and the build quality was atrocious.
I was looking at the System76 Lemur Pro, but I can't seem to find any reviews on the newer models. Build quality and performance is really important to me as my daily driver for the last several years has been a MBP14 with an M1 Pro.
I'm not buying anything from Frame.Work as I've had two issues with them already which prompted me to cancel both orders, once for the desktop and once for the 13 Pro. Their customer service is lacking in my humble opinion.
EDIT: I mostly use my rig to code, game, and to tinker with private local models. In the US currently.
that was the first thing I looked into, but Asahi is very much still in alpha and barely hanging on. If I could install properly supported linux on a MBP I would be all over that. I would not mind paying the Apple tax if I could get the performance, build quality, and battery life without using macOS.
I’ve been daily driving my Asahibook for over a year (as in “I’ve not booted MacOS except one time for demonstrating something”). Other than DP-over-USBC not working, it’s as been as stable as any other computer I’ve used. Even the DP stuff is working on test branch, and I did try it, and it worked almost flawlessly.
I second that, I've been running an M2 for almost a year as my main (and only) PC. Standby battery life is not great and DP over USB C would be nice, but there's an HDMI port.
OP, if you already have the hardware, I would at least give it a try. Linux on Apple hardware is a great combo IMO.
What are you looking for? What are your requirements? I mean, gaming? Programming (if "yes", do your projects require lots of running services/containers?)? Which country are you in?
In Europe, I like using PCSpecialist a lot. They offer thorough customization of the hardware, and their prices are good (they start low, and it gets even lower because they allow you cutting Windows out of the bill). In the US I've bought a ThinkPenguin and was happy with it. I didn't really like my custom-configured Toshiba back in the day. It had weak cooling and was thus very noisy, and it wasn't done well, deteriorated with time a bit too much.
Thinkpenguin is just rebranded clevo stuff. Most small company laptops are like that. Everything from system76, to sager, to eluktronics. Basically if you find a laptop you like through a Linux hardware company, maybe find the chassis model and save a bit bc there usually isn't much different between them. If you play your cards right, you can get software support through another vendor bc they sell the same laptop. (Bios updates etc)
PCSpecialist is sometimes also rebranded Clevo, for notebooks at least. Saying that from personal experience. But that's not necessarily a bad thing for me. Their support is really good. E.g. once the delivery people f**ed up, PCS offered a discount due to the chassis damage or, because I didn't want it, accepted the product back and even paid me 50'EUR for the inconvenience. Not every company would do that. But it's a choice, digging up and buying the underlying hardware (cheaper) is also sensible.
I think that's more than fair. But then there's companies like linuxpusher selling laptops at a 100% price markup (refurbished business machines). Also thinkpenguin calls it something else and linuxforlaptops sells it by its real names so looking for parts is easier.
But that is awesome that PCSpecialist did that for you.
A new laptop with a dvd drive? Sign me up. Not a fan of the ath9k wireless card (I know why they did it, Ive never had particularly great performance from the one I have, even accounting for the fact that mine is 1x1 )
Now I want to know who makes their hardware.
Edit: it's a clevo nj50. Well good to know that.
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You're speaking about ThinkPenguin right? Haven't touched it in quite some years, admittedly. Don't know how things are now. I do like how they used to offer disabling Intel ME during purchase. And that notebook worked out-of-the-box fullly, no exceptions such as keyboard backlight or internet or you name it. But again, dunno about the state of things now.
I was also skeptical with newer ThinkPads, but at the end I accepted the risk and bought one last year: T14s Gen 6, the one with AMD CPU. It is perfect IMO except for one small issue that affected me in the first few months and got resolved with a firmware update: battery drain during sleep was significant. It lost around 15-20% charge overnight. After the updates it loses at most 5% in the same duration.
And yeah it can update its firmware on Linux, just like Windows. Pretty rare thing to see. It has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora. I myself tried Arch and it works perfectly as well.
I had feeling I knew what you meant before looking it up. I guess I can appreciate trying to do something different in a laptop, but the detachable keyboard and kickstand just seem like too many moving parts to me.
Like when they added a screen that pops out above the keyboard or the laptop where the top half pivots lower than the base when it's open to angle for airflow. But I'm also the dummy still trying to use a laptop in my lap.
I recently got a last gen HP Omnibook ultra flip. Macbook level build quality but with a flip touchscreen, pen and oled screen. Really happy with it and everything works in fedora.
I recently grabbed a Framework 13 on eBay that "needed to be plugged in to boot and probably needed to have the mb replaced" for $500. Got it, replaced the CMOS battery and laughed all the way to the bank ;)
I can’t give any firsthand recs at the moment, but I’ve had my eye on the ASUS Zenbook A16.
I’m a weirdo who likes ARM Linux, and this is the first non-Apple ARM SoC that has a decent memory bandwidth for LLMs. Not exactly blazing, but should be usable.
The snapdragon X elite chips don't have driver support for linux. From my research, it will not work. I also want a thin and light laptop with good battery life and would have loved the A14 if Qualcomm had not butchered linux support.
I was looking at the System76 Lemur Pro, but I can’t seem to find any reviews on the newer models. Build quality and performance is really important to me as my daily driver for the last several years has been a MBP14 with an M1 Pro.
i've had a galago pro and the build quality on system76 seems to be better than average, but well below the competition at their price points -- they are all clevo/tongfeng rebadges.
however the build quality on the ultra high end models does mirror the build quality and this probably matters to you since you're considering framework, which also has a high price point.
system76 makes sense if you're doing for the support as well as the capabilities like the ones you're looking for (coreboot mattered for me back then) and my experience was overall positive w them; but i learned recently that their support made things so easy for me that it made my linux skills get antiquated.
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I've been using Thinkpads since the late nineties... I've only ever had Thinkpads. I'm using my latest as a Steam Deck (Steam OS, AMD throughout) as I'm still using the X260 as a daily driver though I reaaally wish I had maxed out the RAM while it was possible. The old one runs KDE Neon.
The old ones are better than the new ones but the new ones you can charge with USB-C.
Honestly, that laptop is probably better than you'd think. A lot of laptops have really poor performing thermal compounds. Repasting to even when new will improve performance. My personal laptop got repasted and it dropped 10C under load. Mind you this is a 5825u laptop so not much power draw.
Instead of contributing to (fascist) US companies I'd love to see people looking at alternative to the big companies we have right not.
We should look at manufacter are actually trying to be better, more considerate with people (all the people not just the west) and the environment.
In the tech space no one cares or no one dares to raise their voice against the big companies, their anti-consumer policies, their green-washing and definitely their genocidal fascist ideology.
Yes probably thinkpad are good laptops. If you're on a budget just do whatever you can, if you buy System76 you are not "on a budget".
2 companies I know of that seems to go on a better path than most I see in comments here are slimbook (slimbook.com/) and maybe Tuxedo (tuxedocomputers.com/).
Laptops and desktop computers. Elegant & powerful computers with the best customer service. Servers, powerful workstations.
🇪🇺 EU brand born in 🇪🇸 in 2015.
Go for fully Linux compatible hardware. Refurbished business laptops are very good value for the money. For normal tasks, it does not matter if they are five to ten years old.
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries.
Red Hat's Lightwell open-source software supply chain initiative that relies on specialized AI agents was able to accelerate the discovery of 400+ vulnerabilities affecting popular Java code. They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their customers to submit open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation.
From today's announcement:
"The milestone addresses a growing business risk. As autonomous AI agents become capable of combining several lower-risk software weaknesses into a more serious attack, companies need to do more than identify vulnerabilities. They need a practical way to develop, test and deploy fixes in the software that supports critical applications."
Details are light on all the specific vulnerabilities uncovered. They appear to be ramping up fast in their Lightwell efforts as in the embargoed press release days ago was at 300+ vulnerabilities and then increased to 400+ vulnerabilities. Their AI laden press release announcing these 400+ vulnerabilities can be found on the IBM Newsroom.
Most modern operating systems (including iOS, Android, macOS, and ChromeOS) have been using image-based architectures for a while, and in recent years we’ve been making progress towards this on the...
Jokes aside, I don't see why this would exclude those languages. Just because they need a runtime doesn't mean the runtime can't be bundled (even if it is annoying to do so). I would imagine for runtime-dependent tools, they would just make a generic runtime bundle that can be shared between packages, similarly to how it's done with flatpak.
I think "tools [bundling] all their dependencies" is more likely to mean that you need to ensure that third-party libraries your tool depend on are bundled, which is good. End users, even if they're developers, shouldn't need to hunt those down just to use something.
On the other hand, I feel like many of the headaches of packaging and using packages could have been avoided if static linking were the default. Sure, things like openssl should probably be dynamically linked for more immediate updates when security issues arise, but most of the other third-party libraries for applications should be statically linked.
Otherwise, we end up reinventing static linking for decades, which is what things like Flatpak, AppImages, Snaps (🤢), and presumably Toolpaks exist to solve.
Yes, Flatpaks and Snaps (🤢) also provide application sandboxes, but it would be much better if they could focus more on sandboxing than also having to worry about dependency management for application libraries.
Arguably, if static linking were the default, Toopaks wouldn't be necessary either, even for immutable systems, because static binaries can be easily installed to a mutable part of the system.
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Today, the Raspberry Pi project released today an updated version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS, the new Raspberry Pi OS release ships with battery and squeekboard widgets for the new dock, support for automounting encrypted drives, Control Centre debug code, and new, better-quality Raspberry Pi menu icons.
The updated Raspberry Pi OS also adds tooltips to indicate the function of widgets in Control Centre’s Widget panel, a new color for inactive window titlebars to match window backgrounds, and a hook to update the list of shortcuts in Control Centre’s Shortcuts panel when the defaults are reloaded.
On top of that, the Screens panel in Control Centre has been updated to apply system file changes immediately on confirmation rather than when closed, and setting the size of the taskbar and dock, and the location in Control Centre now automatically sets desktop top and bottom margins appropriately.
Furthermore, the Main Menu will now only reload on cache update rather than before opening, the screen lock button was removed from shutdown options, the old source for standalone control panel applications was removed, and switching between taskbar and dock layouts no longer resets the system appearance.
Numerous bugs were fixed in this new Raspberry Pi OS release to improve various functionality, such as the PCmanFM right-click option to open a terminal from the file manager, dropping files onto list views in the file manager, menu shortcut keys, panel pop-up windows, and local PCmanFM automount configuration overriding global settings.
Also fixed are issues with system tray icons not displaying correctly on scaled screens or being hidden, an icon menu crash, swaybg desktop wallpaper files not loading, panel menus displaying off-screen, icon menu category view crash, a hotplug crash in the panel when no monitors were detected, and a crash when updating notifications.
The new Raspberry Pi OS release also fixes possible segfaults on various Control Centre panel initialisation functions, LibreOffice icons in launchbar sticking after close, keyboard activation of top-level menu item not closing the menu, and application pop-up menu text in new window list containing literal markup.
Last but not least, the updated Raspberry Pi OS release fixes a GTK4 colour representation manager reporting error, window count digits not shown correctly on new task list in Japanese locale, as well as an issue with opening of windows when mouse forward and back buttons were clicked in the file manager’s list view.
You can download the Raspberry Pi OS 2026-10-06 release right now from the official website for all supported Raspberry Pi models, including Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B, 400, CM1, CM3, CM3+, CM4, CM4S, Zero, Zero W, and Zero 2 W.
Existing Raspberry Pi OS users can update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands below in a terminal emulator or by using the built-in graphical package updater. If your system is up to date, you’re running the latest Raspberry Pi OS version.
Canonical is about to release its interim version of Ubuntu, the Stonking Stingray, a.k.a. Ubuntu 26.10, and they are doubling down on security with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, a slimmed-down GRUB bootloader, and more.
Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) is scheduled for release next week, on October 15th, 2026, with the latest and greatest GNOME 51 “A Coruña” desktop environment, the unreleased Linux 7.3 kernel series (yes, Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with an RC (Release Candidate) kernel), OpenSSL 4.0, OpenSSH 10.5, and Rust-based core utilities.
To beef up security, Canonical implemented a signed, slimmed-down GRUB bootloader with a reduced attack surface, TPM-backed encryption support on machines that don’t have a hardware root of trust, and dbus-broker as the default message bus with AppArmor mediation intact, using an event-driven architecture with better accounting, reliability, and scalability.
On top of that, Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with ntpd-rs, a memory-safe time daemon that will be enabled by default in Ubuntu 27.04, certificate revocation with upki, authd support for MS MFA and identity-provider-based accounts, hardware-token VPN sign-in support in NetworkManager, and on-device speech recognition powered by AI.
“Ubuntu 26.10 introduces Myna, a desktop speech-to-text feature. It’s designed to bring cutting-edge accessibility, without compromising security,” said Canonical in a blog post. “Myna performs speech recognition locally through an inference snap. Once the required models are installed, dictation works without an internet connection.”
Linux kernel 7.3, which will be released later this month, will also bring numerous updates to the Landlock, AppArmor, SELinux, and Smack security modules for Ubuntu 26.10, along with TPM driver updates and BPF verifier fixes to prevent pointer leaks on speculative execution paths, NTFS3 security hardening, memory-safety fixes, and Rust support for PowerPC.
Last but not least, Canonical doubles down on firmware updates via fwupd, which now asks for a recovery key only when the running system uses TPM-backed encryption and a firmware update could affect the measurements used to unlock the disk, instead of prompting unnecessarily on systems where the update doesn’t affect the TPM-backed unlock policy.
As mentioned before, Canonical plans to release Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) on October 15th, but if you’re eager to try it right now on your personal computer, you can download the beta release. However, please keep in mind that it’s a pre-release version, not suitable for use in production environments.
Is there a way to upgrade from 26.04 to 26.10 without reinstalling everything? I have a plex server I would prefer to not re-index if I can help it.
Bonus points if it reinstalls GNOME along side my KDE Plasma desktop environment. Can’t decide on which desktop environment I like more but the Kubuntu look is slightly jank after I uninstalled GNOME which generally feels more polished imo.
Why not use Gummiboot instead? It's now called Systemd-boot, but the name is giving false impressions of being integrated into Systemd. In fact, one can install and use Systemd-boot without Systemd at all. It's a very slim and basic bootloader without complicated code and features. It's the default on EndeavourOS and I use it as my default since years.
À la une des derniers jours, en ballotage défavorable contre l’extrême-droite suite au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle brésilienne, Luiz Iniacio Lula da Silva, 80 ans, a demandé des conseils électoraux à Joe Biden. En Espagne, le Premier ministre Pedro Sanchez a promis en cas de victoire aux législatives de nommer Maricarmen ministre du Logement.
DE VRAIES SOLUTIONS
Mobilisation des lycéens. Face au blocage de nombreux lycées et à un mouvement qui se maintient malgré la répression féroce, le gouvernement semble incapable de trouver la réponse. Sébastien Lecornu, bonjour. Lecornu — Bonjour. Journaliste — Sébastien Lecornu, vraisemblablement la répression policière violente ne fonctionne pas, peut-être qu’il serait temps de trouver des solutions, non ? Lecornu — Bah on a une solution, on a demandé à tous les lycéens de mettre leurs idées dans des boites à chaussure et ensuite on leur promet qu’on regardera. Journaliste — Non mais Sébastien Lecornu, je veux dire qu’il serait temps de trouver de vraies solutions. Lecornu — Ah, sérieusement, de vraies solutions ? Journaliste — Bah oui, ça semblerait raisonnable. Lecornu — … Envoyer encore plus de flics. Journaliste — Bon j’ai rien dit.
LEÇON DE VIE
Le ministre de l’Intérieur Laurent Nunez est par ailleurs accusé de n’avoir donné aucune consigne de retenue aux forces de l’ordre alors même que la majorité des manifestants est mineure, et que plusieurs d’entre eux ont été gravement blessés. Laurent Nunez, bonjour. Nunez — Bonjour. Journaliste — Laurent Nunez, au début de la mobilisation, un adolescent a pris un tir de grenade en pleine tête, complètement illégal, qui l’a laissé défiguré à vie. Une adolescente a été étranglée par un autre policier, illégalement aussi, un autre encore a été noyé dans une rivière, un autre encore a eu la moitié du bras arrachée, un autre encore n’est plus capable de parler et devra communiquer par écrit toute sa vie- Nunez — Oui bon bah ça va j’ai compris ! Journaliste — Bah visiblement non parce que vous avez eu plusieurs jours et même des années pour prendre des événements aussi atroces en compte et qu’ils continuent de se produire ! Nunez — Mais ça leur fera du bien, à ces jeunes ! Ça leur apprend la vie, bon sang ! Journaliste — Ça leur apprend la vie d’avoir la vie ruinée ? Nunez — Ah bah oui comme ça au moins ils sont sûrs et certains que quoi qu’ils fassent rien ne changera plus pour eux. Quelle meilleure leçon de vie que celle-là ? Journaliste — Euh…
LES INSTIGATEURS
Journaliste — Le parti de gauche La France Insoumise est par ailleurs accusé d’être l’instigateur du mouvement. Mathilde Panot, bonjour. Panot — Exécutez l’ordre 66. Quelqu’un — Bien madame. On entend des explosions. Journaliste — Bon ben je vais vous laisser moi.
PRÉPAREZ-VOUS
Journaliste — Pendant ce temps-là, la primaire des socialistes entre dans sa dernière ligne droite, et l’affaire Glucksmann qui vient tout juste d’éclater pourrait bien rebattre les cartes. Mais au profit de qui ? … … Le sketch c’est une chanson.
Si seulement tu t’souvenais Qu’elle était centriste dans le passé Tu serais effrayée Si seulement tu t’souvenais comment elle traitait ses employés Elle pourrait t’engueuler
Mais laisse laisse le temps Elle compte pile sur le fait que t’auras tout oublié Même s’il faudra du temps pour oublier la bravitude qu’elle conquerrait
Et tu veux voter Ségolène ce soir Même si 15 balles pour ça c’est cher payé Tu voudrais qu’elle soit ta Royal ce soir Toi Glucksmann tu t’en fous c’est pas c’qui t’plaît
Mais je pense qu’un jour tu verras que toi aussi tu l’aimes un peu plus fort Moi je crois aux histoires auxquelles les autres ne croient pas encore
Et tu veux voter Ségolène ce soir Même si 15 balles pour ça c’est cher payé Tu voudrais qu’elle soit ta Royal ce soir Toi Glucksmann tu t’en fous c’est pas c’qui t’plaît
Pour notre entretien du jour, nous nous retrouvons avec la ministre de la Santé Stéphanie Rist. Stéphanie Rist, bonjour. Rist — Buvez de l’eau. Journaliste — La canicule est finie, vous savez ? Rist — Ah oui c’est vrai. Mais buvez de l’eau quand même. Journaliste — J’y manquerai pas. Donc, Stéphanie Rist, la semaine dernière, des millions de tomates produites en France ont été rappelées en urgence à cause d’une teneur extrêmement élevée en acétamipride. Vous confirmez ? Rist — Euh, ouais, ptete. Journaliste — Vous… Vous êtes au courant, au moins ? Rist — Bah moi vous savez je mange que des tomates bio, donc savoir si les tomates normales sont pourries ou pas, ça m’est un peu égal. Journaliste — … Ah. Mais enfin vous savez, le bio, tout le monde ne peut pas se le procurer, notamment parce que l’industrie agroalimentaire pratique des marges beaucoup plus élevées que sur l’agriculture conventionnelle qui fait augmenter artificiellement les prix. Rist — Oui mais moi je m’en fiche, j’ai les moyens. Jouranliste — Mais la question c’est pas vous, c’est les Français. Rist — Ah bon ? Journaliste — … Vous êtes ministre de la Santé, pas vrai ? Rist — … Euh… Ah, peut-être. J’étais pourtant persuadée que j’étais ministre du buvage d’eau. Journaliste — Bah remarque ce serait peut-être mieux. Nous vous souhaitons une fin de journée. À bientôt !
Creating brand guidelines takes a little time, but it pays off every day. You do not need an agency to do it for you. You just need to write down who you are and how you want to look. Pick your colors, choose your fonts, and set your rules. When you finish, share it with your team.
How to Create Brand Guidelines That Unify Your Brand
A brand that feels familiar everywhere it appears earns recognition. Its website, social channels, and emails all carry a consistent identity. That consistency is not accidental. It comes from having brand guidelines in place.
These guidelines serve as a playbook for your company. They tell everyone how to present your brand. You do not need a huge budget to create them. A clear plan is enough. Let's walk through how to build your own brand guidelines from scratch.
1. Establish your brand's core identity
Begin by defining who you are before any visual decisions. Write down your mission, vision, and values. Your mission captures what you do today. Your vision outlines where you want to go. Your values are the beliefs that shape your decisions.
Then determine your brand voice. Are you formal or informal? Witty or serious? List a few adjectives that describe your tone. Also note what you are not. For example, if you are casual, you avoid corporate jargon. Documenting this sets the stage for every design choice. A cheap website designer can use this to align visuals with your personality.
2. Set logo usage rules
Your logo is the central symbol of your business. You need clear rules for its application. Begin by showing your primary logo. Then display any secondary versions, like horizontal or stacked layouts. Explain when each version should be used.
Most importantly, show what to avoid. Do not stretch the logo. Do not change its colors. Do not place it on a cluttered background. Provide visual examples of incorrect usage. This prevents people from weakening your brand identity over time.
3. Choose your color palette
Colors trigger emotions, so select a palette that matches your brand's personality. Pick a primary color that people will see most often. Then add secondary colors to support it. Finally, choose neutral colors for backgrounds and text.
When listing colors, do not just write "blue." Give exact color codes. Include HEX for digital, RGB for screens, and CMYK for print. This detail supports affordable web design by keeping colors consistent across media. Your chosen shade should look the same on a business card and a laptop screen.
4. Select your typography
Fonts matter more than many people think. A poor font choice makes a brand look unprofessional. Limit yourself to two or three fonts. Choose a bold primary font for headings. Then pick a clean secondary font for body text. It should be easy to read on screens.
Set specific rules for font sizes. For example, headings might be 36 pixels and body text 16 pixels. State which fonts to use online and which to use in print. Keep it simple. Too many fonts make a brand look messy.
5. Set imagery and graphic standards
Photos and graphics tell a story. You want them to tell the right one. Decide on a photographic style. Do you prefer bright, natural light? Or dark, moody shots? Are your photos of people or products? Show examples of images you like and dislike.
Apply the same approach to illustrations and icons. If you use flat icons, ensure no one uses 3D ones. Consistency is the goal. When someone visits your website, the visuals should feel cohesive.
6. Apply guidelines to your website
Your website is often the first place people interact with your brand. Your guidelines should cover web design rules. How do buttons look? What color are links? Where do images go on a page?
If you hire someone to build your site, these rules save time and money. When you seek an affordable web design option, clear guidelines make the process faster. A designer can build quickly when they know the exact fonts and colors to use.
Even a cheap website designer can produce great work if you provide a solid rulebook. They do not have to guess what you want. They just follow the rules you wrote. This keeps your site looking professional and on-brand.
A cheap website designer can also work faster with these rules. They spend less time asking questions. They spend more time building.
7. Cover your social media presence
Your brand also lives on social media. You need rules for how things look on Instagram or LinkedIn. Create templates for your posts. If you post quotes, what font do you use? What background color do you use?
Provide these templates for your team. This way, anyone can create a post that still looks like it came from your brand. Write these rules down so your social media does not become a random mess of colors and fonts.
8. Gather everything into a document
Now you have all your pieces. You have your mission, logo, colors, fonts, and image rules. Put them in one place. You can use a simple Word document, a Google Doc, or a PDF. Some people use Canva to make their guidelines look nice.
Organize the document logically. Start with the brand core, then move to visuals, then web rules. Use headers and bullet points. Make it easy to scan. An affordable web design project benefits from a well-structured document. No one wants to read a giant wall of text.
A cheap website designer will appreciate a clear, scannable document. It helps them follow your rules without confusion. Keep your sentences brief and your examples clear.
9. Share the guidelines
A rulebook is useless if no one reads it. Send the document to your team. Make sure your employees know where to find it. Tell them to use it every time they create something for the brand.
If you work with freelancers, send them the document before they start a project. This includes writers, designers, and social media managers. A Singapore cheap website designer will follow your guidelines more closely when they receive them upfront. When everyone follows the same rules, your brand gets stronger.
10. Update the guidelines over time
Your business will change. Your brand guidelines should change too. Maybe you rebrand in five years. Maybe you just add a new color to your palette.
Set a reminder to review your guidelines once a year. Check if the rules still make sense. Remove things that do not work. Add new things that do. An affordable web design strategy stays current when your document is updated. A brand guideline is a living document that grows with your business.
Wrapping up
Creating brand guidelines takes a little time, but it pays off every day. You do not need an agency to do it for you. You just need to write down who you are and how you want to look. Pick your colors, choose your fonts, and set your rules. When you finish, share it with your team. From that point on, every piece of content you make will look consistent. Your brand will look professional, no matter your budget. Start today, and you will build a brand people remember.
This was the first time F-Droid had an official presence at IndiaFOSS, and I honestly did not know what to expect. We actually had quite a lot of people comi...
Basically. I have separate drive for my windowsOS/media etc. And one of my nvme drive now is completely empty.
Is there a way to install Linux onto that empty nvme with windows and then like turn the PC off remove my windows drive entirely, and then have it just boot with the linux drive without needing to do a whole bootable usb through the motherboard uefi?
I don't have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.
Like if there was a linux installer that Ibcan run while logged in to windows that would be amazing...
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
I make a partition on my main drive which I load any .iso on to it. Usually I keep a Linux Mint .iso there in case I need a basic set of tools outside of my main Operating System for when I mess up my main OS. I can load that .iso partition at boot through the BIOS menu.
I'm sure you can do the same with an NVME drive. You may need to check the BIOS boot order to make sure you start your preferred OS when booting your system.
I used to do this too, I confirm this works and is a good idea, it is convenient especially if you plan to distrohop a bit or know you will reset a couple times to experiment a bit
Yes there are lots of methods to do this. Format the disk to something like ext4, untar a distro to it, then with wsl chroot into the disk, finish installing and configuring everything, then reboot to the new disk. You will need specific time to do an this, but should be fairly straight forward.
I essentially did exactly this for my current setup.
There are other ways to.
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You can use a raw disk in VirtualBox. Just make sure you install an initrd and kernel which has drivers for all of your hardware. If you let something autodetect hardware, it will detect the virtual hardware, not the real one.
I had tricks using native disks reliably in VirtualBox which I had been dabbling with for more than 15 years, and I had to move to using QEMU for my NAS disks. I quotient recommend these paths for noob level project.
This is a tricky question, mostly because you tagged it as "Noob"... It is technically possible, but it does require jumping through some hoops I would not normally recommend to a novice. Attempting through a VM is probably the safest option, but pointing a VM to an entire physical disk isn't typically something I would recommend, but is likely much safer than doing live partition editing manually and on the fly.
So...I'm not a noob to computers, I run my own jellyfin server, minecraft server, I almost had a comp sci minor in college, but I've just been so in the windows ecosystem that I don't really know what applies for linux and rather than act like I "know computers" I'll be honest, linux is something I know nothing about, windows I can do basically all my troubleshooting on my own+internet access
Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.
Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it's an open library. You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free. You can look at the source code of anything you're interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code. And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.
Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn't explain anything to you. 😅
In that case, I would advise you read the unetbootin wiki about "hard disk install modes" and see how much of it you feel comfortable with. It is a bit of hoop jumping but if you are comfortable with partition editors it seems to be the most straight forward method to me.
Someone mentioned netboot.xyz, but reading their docs I couldn't (quickly) find a way to set it up from windows without having some sort of boot media, and it would require another entire device on the network to boot from, which seems way more expensive than a USB drive.
Just to point it out: Having a USB stick with a Linux ISO laying around can be a lifesaver.
Even if you decide to go back to Windows or whatever.
Because you can actually boot off of the USB stick into a practically fully functional OS, so without installing, and then access the files on the hard drive, in case your installed operating system bites the dust (so long as the hard drive and filesystem is intact).
I and others agree... It's funny when someone says "I want a solution besides X" and we all kinda have to say "uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer" - - also another shout out for Ventoy. Complete game changer. I have a 16GB drive with Win10 IoT LTSC, new install apps and drivers for Windows, and 2 or 3 Linux distros.
Edited, typos
This entry was edited (Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 12:58 PM)
I'm not doubting a usb is better, i uaed those to install windows in basically every PC I've built for me or friends. But...usually I am borrowing other ppls. Now I work seasonal jobs and don't have a permanent home so...can't really quickly access a store if I'm in the middle of nowhere in a national park
It's funny when someone says "I want a solution besides X" and we all kinds to to say "uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer"
I mean, yeah, you kind of have to point it out. Newbies won't be able to judge how much they're making their life harder by wanting to do it their way. 🫠
If you are not afraid of the command line, then there is dd for windows(or in wsl) which you can use to write an .iso file to any disk. Command usually is dd if=path\to\iso of=path\to\disk bs=4MB
This entry was edited (Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 3:56 AM)
There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix's comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don't need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.
I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.
If you care about Linux it's worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough) If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you'll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you'll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.
*If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it's unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 6:04 AM)
People are making this to be much more of a fuss than it really is. It’s actually fairly easy:
You can write the linux iso to the NVMe, boot the NVMe, then write the linux install onto the same NVMe. This requires the linux iso load itself into RAM on boot, which is most of them, but not all.
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I've been working on reverse-engineering Grindr and creating an open source client implementation for it since March.
When GrindrPlus closed, my project turned out to be its de-facto successor and immediatelly several thousands of people started following it. Now it has 70k+ downloads on Forgejo and the authorship is dedicated to public domain 😀
MIT licensed, no ads, no analytics, no trackers, no diagnostics, no statistics, no telemetry, only opt-in updates checking
Signed releases, reproducible builds on all four platforms, full transparency
And it's now in Google Play (for the time being) and being reviewed for F-Droid!
Already applied for Apple developer enrollment and going to publish this to EU alt stores as well as in the TestFlight. Then a classic unsigned ipa and also going to attempt Apple AppStore just for completeness.
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Use the correct parts and calibrate the system afterward. Keep accurate records for future reference. These steps help return the crane to safe service. They also support longer periods of reliable operation.
When a Manitowoc crane stops working, the Moment Control System often gets attention first. This system, also known as the Load Moment Indicator, protects the crane from unsafe lifting conditions. Understanding its parts and behavior helps technicians diagnose problems faster. This guide reviews system generations, common failures, and replacement options.
MCS Fundamentals
The Moment Control System calculates safe working load from boom length, angle, and radius. It uses electronic sensors and a controller to compare actual conditions against a stored load chart. If the lift exceeds safe limits, the system interrupts the lifting functions. That action helps prevent tipping and structural damage.
The system operates in harsh conditions. Sensors face vibration, moisture, and temperature swings. Wiring can rub against metal edges. Connectors can corrode. These conditions explain why periodic inspection matters. A small fault can grow into a lockout.
Determining Your System Generation
Manitowoc has used several LMI designs across its crane families. Older machines may carry the EPIC system. Newer units often use CRCS or CAN-bus architectures. Each design performs similar safety functions. Their communication methods differ significantly.
Older systems often run dedicated wires from each sensor to the controller. Newer systems share data over a network. That network connects controllers, displays, and sensors. Troubleshooting steps differ between the two approaches. Testing a digital sensor requires different tools than testing an analog one.
Knowing the generation prevents wasted effort. It also helps when ordering components. A part that fits one generation may not fit another.
LMI Components Most Likely to Fail
Several components within the MCS are prone to wear. Recognizing them helps narrow down a fault. The list below covers the most frequent trouble spots.
Length and Angle Sensors: These units mount near the boom head. They report boom tip position to the controller. An angle sensor may use a pendulum or inclinometer. Weather, dirt, and vibration affect its accuracy.
A length sensor uses a mechanical reeling system, and its cable can stretch, break, or wear. If the controller receives a false boom length, the load chart becomes incorrect. These crane parts endure constant movement, which eventually causes wear.
Pressure Transducers: These devices measure hydraulic pressure to estimate load weight. They connect to the hoist cylinders. Moisture, shock, or age can cause failure. When they fail, load readings may become erratic.
The Controller: This unit acts as the system's brain. It receives sensor signals and compares them to stored load charts. Then it sends commands to the display and cutoff valves. Controllers rarely fail without cause, but water intrusion or short circuits can damage them quickly.
Displays and HMI: The cab display shows critical lifting information. Backlights can burn out, screens can crack, and buttons can stop responding. If the operator cannot read the display, safe operation becomes difficult.
Early Indicators of a Problem
An LMI does not always fail with a clear error code. Sometimes readings jump around. Load weight may bounce by several thousand pounds while the load is stationary, and boom angle may drift by a few degrees. These symptoms deserve attention.
Operators often notice subtle changes before a full failure. If an operator reports unusual behavior, investigate promptly. Waiting can lead to a lockout on the job site.
Start with basic checks. Inspect wires near the boom hinge for chafing. Look inside junction boxes for moisture. Corroded crane parts and connections cause many apparent sensor failures. Cleaning or replacing a connector may solve the issue.
Sourcing Replacement Components
When a component fails, replacement speed matters. Correct selection matters just as much. The wrong component can waste time and create new safety concerns. Use the following guidelines to improve outcomes.
OEM and Aftermarket Options
Original Equipment Manufacturer components are built for specific crane models. Genuine Manitowoc parts match the system's electrical and software requirements. They reduce compatibility risk in safety-critical applications. Aftermarket alternatives exist, but quality varies.
Some Manitowoc parts from aftermarket sources may work correctly. Others may not meet output specifications. A pressure transducer with the wrong milliamp output can produce inaccurate load readings. Buy from suppliers who understand crane electronics and ask about warranty and return policies.
The Role of Serial Numbers
Manitowoc updates systems over time. A 2012 crane may have a different LMI setup than a 2016 model. The crane model name alone does not guarantee compatibility. Serial numbers and old part numbers provide the details needed.
Record the crane serial number before calling a dealer. Also note the part number from the failed component. This information helps confirm the correct replacement. It also reduces the chance of ordering the wrong item.
Firmware and Software Considerations
Hardware replacement is only part of the repair. Controllers require correct firmware to read sensors properly. A used controller may not arrive with the right software. A Manitowoc dealer may need to load load charts and configuration files.
Do not assume a replacement controller will plug and play. Even genuine Manitowoc parts may need programming. Confirm software requirements before installation. That step prevents delays after the part arrives.
When Parts Are No Longer Available
Dealers sometimes report that a component is obsolete. This situation is common with older cranes. The original sensor may be out of production. Several options remain available.
You can search for rebuilt or used crane parts online. Verify the seller's reputation and the part's condition. Ask for test results when possible. Another option is a retrofit kit.
Manitowoc and some third-party companies offer upgrade kits. These kits replace older analog sensors with digital equivalents. They may cost more upfront, but they can simplify future maintenance and improve diagnostic capabilities. Some rebuilders specialize in Manitowoc parts for discontinued systems.
Installing and Calibrating Electronic Safety Components
Mechanical installation is often straightforward. Electrical work requires care. Follow these practices to avoid damaging new components.
Disconnect the Power: Remove battery power before unplugging or connecting electronic parts. Hot-swapping can destroy a new controller instantly. This simple step protects the equipment.
Protect the Connections: LMI connectors use small pins that carry low-voltage signals. A bent pin, dirt, or moisture can cause intermittent faults. Use dielectric grease to keep water out. Take time when mating connectors.
Route Cables Carefully: Length sensor cables must follow factory routing. A cable rubbing a sharp edge can chafe through quickly. Use proper ties and guides. Poor routing can cause repeat failures.
Calibration Is Mandatory: A new angle sensor cannot simply be bolted on and used. The system requires calibration. Certified test weights and a calibrated angle gauge are needed. Skipping calibration compromises safety and puts the crew at risk.
Recordkeeping Practices
After repairs, document the work performed. Record the part numbers used and calibration values entered. Note the date and the technician's name. Keep this log with the crane's maintenance records.
This record saves time during future diagnostics. It also helps the next technician understand prior repairs. A clear history supports better maintenance decisions.
Closing Thoughts
The Manitowoc Moment Control System is a vital safety layer. When it fails, repair pressure is high. Avoid rushing the process. Diagnose the exact failure before ordering components.
Use the correct parts and calibrate the system afterward. Keep accurate records for future reference. These steps help return the crane to safe service. They also support longer periods of reliable operation.
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Mobile devices generate more than half of all web traffic. Treat those visitors as your primary audience. A site that works well on a phone generally works well everywhere.
Many site owners carry a quiet assumption that their website performs fine on phones. The pages render, the text adjusts, and nothing crashes. For them, that settles the matter.
It doesn't settle anything. Mobile-friendliness is a question of usability, not mere display. A visitor should be able to read comfortably, tap accurately, and load pages quickly on a typical cellular connection.
Testing is the only reliable way to find out. What follows is a clear framework for doing it well.
Separating Responsive From Mobile-Friendly
These two labels get used interchangeably, but they describe distinct qualities.
Responsive design molds itself to the available screen width. Resize a desktop browser window and a responsive page will reflow to match.
Mobile-friendly design reflects a deeper intention. It means the site was planned around handheld use. Text remains legible on narrow displays. Interactive elements suit a thumb. Navigation tucks away cleanly. Nothing hijacks the screen with an intrusive overlay.
A layout can respond to screen size and still be awkward on a phone. Real usability is the standard.
The Manual Walkthrough
Set the software aside and take out your phone. Open the site on that device rather than a desktop browser. Then attempt to use it as a customer would.
Readability comes first. Is the text comfortable without zooming? Small fonts push people away.
Tap targets come next. Tap every link, menu item, and button. If you keep hitting the wrong one, spacing is inadequate.
Then review your images. Do they scale correctly? Do they crop badly on a tall screen? Desktop monitors are wide, phones are narrow. An image that looks fine on a laptop may lose key details on a handset.
Forms deserve a close look. Open your contact page and complete it on your phone. Are the fields easy to select? Does the keyboard obscure the submit button? A cumbersome form means lost messages.
Finally, watch for pop-ups. If a signup overlay covers everything and the close button is too small to hit, that fails. Google penalizes intrusive mobile interstitials.
Frequent Problem Areas
As you review by hand, keep an eye out for these recurring issues.
Image carousels often malfunction on phones. The navigation arrows may be too small, or slow slides may push content down the page.
Sticky headers create another problem. A header that stays fixed while scrolling can eat up a large share of a small display. That leaves minimal room for reading.
Infinite scrolling is a third concern. It makes reaching the footer nearly impossible. If your contact details or privacy policy sit down there, visitors won't find them.
Google's Free Diagnostics
Once the manual check is done, move to technical evaluation. Google offers free utilities that reveal how its systems read your site.
PageSpeed Insights is a sensible starting point. Enter your URL and study the mobile report. The tool scores speed and usability while listing concrete defects. It might flag undersized tap targets or weak text contrast.
The report also measures how long the largest visual element takes to appear. That measurement is Largest Contentful Paint. Anything beyond 2.5 seconds calls for image compression or code cleanup.
Cumulative Layout Shift matters too. It describes how much the page moves while loading. Have you ever reached for a link, only to have the page jump and send you to an advertisement? That's a layout shift. It's deeply irritating on mobile, and Google treats it as a ranking factor.
Keep in mind that Google relies on Mobile-First Indexing. Its crawlers evaluate the mobile version of your site before the desktop one. A polished desktop experience won't compensate for a poor mobile one.
Simulating Devices in Chrome
A physical handset isn't always needed. Chrome provides a device simulation mode. Right-click anywhere on your site and select "Inspect." Then click the icon that resembles a phone and tablet side by side. The Device Toolbar appears.
Use the dropdown to pick a device. Options include various iPhones, Galaxy models, and tablets. The viewport resizes, and you can interact with the page as if you were on that device. This is convenient for catching layout issues during edits. You can also rotate the simulated screen to check landscape orientation.
Speed Under Realistic Conditions
Speed is central to mobile usability. A page might look flawless on office Wi-Fi, yet struggle on a busy 4G network. Slow loading drives mobile traffic away.
Return to Chrome's Developer Tools. In the "Network" tab, you can throttle your connection. Choose "Slow 3G" or "Mid-tier mobile" and reload. Watch how the page assembles. If the screen remains empty for five seconds, something is wrong. Visitors will abandon it.
Mobile users are impatient. When a page takes longer than three seconds, most of them leave. Compressing images, trimming code, and using a content delivery network can correct these delays.
Involving a Professional
Testing sometimes uncovers problems that quick fixes can't resolve. If your site is slow, confusing, or broken on certain devices, the cause may be an outdated theme or poorly written code.
An aging platform might justify a full rebuild. That's where a capable website designer Singapore becomes valuable. They can restructure your layout, optimize your images, and tidy your code so the site performs well on any screen. A professional works mobile-first, ensuring everything functions before adapting to desktop.
For businesses that rely on online traffic, a broader approach may be warranted. Engaging a web design agency gives you access to a full team. They can manage ongoing performance checks, browser compatibility, and the technical SEO details that influence mobile speed. A dependable agency validates on real devices, not only emulators, so nothing slips through.
Build Testing Into Your Routine
A single test won't stay accurate for long. Every new post, image, or button change alters the mobile experience. Testing should become routine.
After any update, pick up your phone and click through the new material. Confirm that images load promptly. Verify that formatting changes haven't disrupted the layout.
Mobile devices generate more than half of all web traffic. Treat those visitors as your primary audience. A site that works well on a phone generally works well everywhere.
Don't assume your site is fine because it opens on a smartphone. Test it carefully. Run the manual checks, use Google's tools, and simulate slow connections. Repair whatever you find. If the issues exceed your ability to solve them, seek professional help. Visitors will stay longer, and your search rankings will reflect the improvement. Take a few minutes to test your site today. The results might surprise you.
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I'm trying to avoid creating a larger problem for myself, so I figured I'd call in help. Still fairly novice with Linux (especially Fedora), but I'm determined to finally migrate from Windows.
I'm running the XFCE spin of Fedora with a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and Samsung Odyssey G9. I kept my Win11 partition during migration and confirmed the monitor setup still works in windows, just not Fedora. I'm currently typing this on my Fedora install, on a second monitor I set up to troubleshoot (HDMI on the 5070).
"nvidia-smi" returns the following: NVIDIA-SMI 615.71.09 KMD Version: 615.71.09 CUDA UMD Version: 13.4
Did I mess something up in my install? I followed Fedora's official instructions on Nvidia driver installation (sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia -y). As always, I appreciate the help. While frustrating as a start, I'm excited about making the leap.
I spent 10 months building an AI VTuber named Lumi. I trained her on 8 months of manually scraped X shitposts because I refused to pay Elon $200 a month for API access. The result was an AI with the personality of a chronically online shitposter. So I applied her to a real $500,000 job at Coinbase. She passed the resume screen. She passed the AI screening. She passed the online assessment. Then, in the real interview, her speech-to-text hallucinated "Hi Lumina" as an ad for a beading website and ten months of work died in real time. This is the full story. Resume, interview footage, the borrowed US phone number from an immigrant friend who has been rehearsing the line "she's in a meeting" for three months, the VoiceGate bypass I tested three times, all of it.
What company should Lumi infiltrate next? Comment below.
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it's clocking in just above 3%.
The Steam Survey results for September that were published this evening indicate a rather steep decline of 0.85%, down to 3.05%. Meanwhile macOS is at 1.92% and Microsoft Windows at 95%.
As with most months where Steam Survey indicates an abnormally large decline for Linux use, the second stop is checking on the language use... Once again a case of a big spike in Simplified Chinese use. Steam's Survey reports a 7.42% increase in Chinese use, up to 31.39% overall of the Steam population. Usually with those large month-over-month swings where Steam China use shoots up dramatically is a boost to Windows and a detriment to Linux. Some attribute the large increases in Simplified Chinese use to being a reporting/sampling issue.
When diving into the Steam Linux data exclusively, CachyOS has spiked by another 2.65% to now account for 18.12% of the sampled Linux gaming population. That even outperforms SteamOS Holo coming in at 17.37%.
Among Linux gamers on Steam, AMD CPUs still account for the high 60 percentage space thanks to the Steam Deck and Steam Machine using AMD APUs and their open-source/Linux support being popular with enthusiasts.
Those wanting to dive in to all the Steam Survey stats for September can find the fresh data on SteamPowered.com.
China plans to drop Windows earlier than planned in favor of Linux for some government bodies. The move comes as part of China's broader push to reduce dependence on foreign products and services, especially those of US origin.
Not exactly what I meant. They ban for the government, similar to what is happening in Europe. It won't have any effect on gamers, as no one is forced to give up Windows (other than the government bodies themselves).
It's extremely hard to believe that someone that has had a taste of Linux would switch back to Windows, if this is what the stats imply, which I'm not sure. I would need to be paid thousands to willingly use Windows again.
Yeah, you have a point, but still, twice in three years? I don't know how representative it really is, ESPECIALLY when you see 50-100% ups and downs in the Linux user base. 5 to 3 percent and back cannot be the actual stat, that has to be unreliable selection of users.
It happens when they survey China. I don’t know why China isn’t included in the regular survey runs, but if they know the parameters of their surveying, they can make more accurate analysis of it than us.
To be fair, the spike up in the noise in march was reported widely. Now the "correction" can be as well IMO. But oh well, lets hope there is a tleasr a larger trend to Linux
I even ensured I refused survey data on my Windows machine but that it ran on my Linux machine to help game the numbers as I'm sure other Linux users do.
I'm convinced Microsoft would have to mandate sticking a probe up your ass when creating a user account/setting up a computer before significant switching among average users would take place and even then a huge 50% of the population would say it's not that big a deal and switching is a larger hassle and they have no choice, blah, blah.
Linux is kind of still stuck in the doldrums of tech and privacy enthusiasts and a few of their friends and I'm just not sure what if anything can change that in terms of individual actions and markets. Now sure if China or the EU made it harder to sell Windows computers and really pushed people onto a version of Linux that could bump the numbers but in both cases they're just trying to gain some sovereignty by putting government systems on Linux and that transition alone will probably run for a good part of a decade.
Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C. One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows — on Windows from the Microsoft Store.
Northstar Browser version 1.0.12 released! A sunny ark comic on about:start, a classic Mozilla-style toolbar with address-bar suggestions, relayout and repaint that only redo what changed, popovers per the HTML standard, the Microsoft Store package, an 8 MB engine stack, and a build on Fabrice Bellard’s original QuickJS
I can not tell you how tired of seeing these vibe coded projects I am.
You didn't give nearly enough of a shit to write the application, why should I give enough of a shit to use it? Could you explain, in detail, line by line, what the happy path of a standard web request is in this thing? Could you walk me through the specific engineering decisions that were made and why? Could you point to the specific regions of code that reflect those engineering decisions?
I'm beyond exhausted with these things and honestly I've gotten to the point where I'd like for us to ban non-codeberg repos
Kagi has announced it will stop developing the Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, ending its direct work on these platforms. The good news is that instead of dropping the project, the company plans to open-source both versions so other developers or organizations can keep them going.
For Linux users, this is a big shift for a browser that had just started to show real promise. Orion first came to Linux in early alpha at the start of the year, then officially entered beta in August.
Now, only a few months later, Kagi says the current Linux Beta will keep working, but it will stop getting updates from the company after October 2, 2026. Kagi also warns users not to use the beta as their main browser. The main reason is limited resources.
Kagi says only a small team of developers works on Orion, and the project is funded entirely by Kagi users. Expanding Orion beyond Apple platforms was always a big challenge, especially since the company chose not to use Chromium as its base.
Instead, Orion uses WebKit, which makes it one of the few browsers trying to offer an alternative to the many Chromium-based ones.
Kagi says that keeping a browser running on multiple platforms usually requires either a lot of funding or a big open-source community. Since Kagi has neither, it will now focus its limited resources on Orion for macOS and iOS.
The work done on Linux and Windows will be released as open source instead.
Kagi plans to publish the source code for both versions and share more details within 30 days of the announcement. The company has also reached out to open-source foundations and organizations about possibly taking over the projects in the long term.
However, Kagi makes it clear that it does not plan to be the main maintainer of either open-source project. Any future updates will depend on developers or organizations willing to take over the code.
In short, Orion for Linux’s future depends on what happens after the source code is released and whether a community forms to maintain it. For now, the current beta still works, but without future security updates or maintenance from Kagi, it likely won’t be a good daily browser for long.
This browser was really cool because, despite being WebKit, it was compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. That alone made it more worth trying than any non-FF or non-Chromium browser.
I hope that any other WebKit browsers (like Epiphany/GNOME Web) take that from Orion and adopt it in their own browser. That would make them viable.
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency.
X.Org vs. Wayland latency across different compositors and desktop environments has been a heated topic among passionate Linux desktop enthusiasts. Some argue in favor of classic X.Org delivering the lowest latency while others routinely share their own personal anecdotes and argue in favor of modern Wayland solutions. NVIDIA engineer Kamil Łysik took to a Wayland vs. X.Org latency comparison from key press to presentation. For ensuring accurate measurements, a micro-controller was used along with a light sensor for end-to-end measurements. Paired with software for repeatable and automated testing.
Testing with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card and using the company's R610 driver branch, tests were done on KDE KWin 6.7.4 and GNOME Mutter 49.7 and the X.Org Server tests using v1.21.1.24.
NVIDIA latency Wayland vs. X.Org results
NVIDIA's findings were that the latency results between X.Org and Wayland are very close with it being hard to conclude a clear winner. Some notable takeaways include that XWayland no longer introduces extra frame delays where it had in the past with an extra frame latency. Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) was also measured to "drastically improve" responsiveness and deliver roughly the same latency between both X.Org and Wayland based sessions.
Those interested can find the NVIDIA presentation this X.Org vs. Wayland latency topic embedded above.
Seemingly Xorg ever so slightly beat wayland, objectively from the results, but I think given a larger sample size it could just as easily have gone the other way. So that's good. Although if Wayland was way better than Xorg that would also be good of course.
XWayland not sucking as much as it used to is also good news.
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@SocialistVibes01 Latency of either is not an issue for me, what IS an issue is the lack of networking support in Wayland, i.e., I can't do ssh -Y server, then say xclock on that server and have it display locally because Wayland isn't meant to be useful, it's meant for gamers and to try to be as fucked up as Windows.
On my really old gaming laptop, I had to force X because Wayland refused to use the video card drivers for games, so everything would end up on the CPU.
On my main gaming machine, I have to manually run nvidia-smi to make Wayland recognize the video card is still there before I start a game, otherwise it attempts to run games on the CPU.
There's definitely some work that needs to be done. That being said, when it does work, I have no gripes. I just hate the fact it really really wants to use the CPU instead of the (Nvidia) graphics cards for graphical things by default.
[FR] L'An 01 est un film français de 1973, réalisé par Jacques Doillon. Il est adapté de la bande dessinée L'An 01 de Gébé, dont le scénario avait été enrichi par les propositions via le courrier des lecteurs, lors de ses publications dans Politique Hebdo, puis Charlie Hebdo.
[EN] The Year 01 (French: L'An 01) is a French comedy film, directed by Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais and Jean Rouch released in 1973. It is based on the eponymous comic strip by Gébé and has gained cult film status.
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[FR] Le film narre un abandon utopique, consensuel et festif de l'économie de marché et du productivisme. La population décide d'un certain nombre de résolutions dont la première est « On arrête tout » et la deuxième « Après un temps d'arrêt total, ne seront ranimés — avec réticence — que les services et les productions dont le manque se révélera intolérable. Probablement : l'eau pour boire, l'électricité pour lire le soir, la TSF pour dire “Ce n'est pas la fin du monde, c'est l'an 01, et maintenant une page de Mécanique céleste” ». L'entrée en vigueur de ces résolutions correspond au premier jour d'une ère nouvelle, l'An 01.
L'An 01 est emblématique de la contestation libertaire des années 1970 et aborde des thèmes aussi variés que l'écologie, la négation de l'autorité, l'amour libre, la vie en communauté, le rejet de la propriété privée et du travail.
[EN]The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions, beginning with "Let's stop everything," and the second "After a period of total stoppage, let's bring back — reluctantly — just the services and products we can't do without. Probably : water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the radio to say 'This is not the end of the world, this is Year 1, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics." The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 1. L'An 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
After 5 years, Minecraft: Java Edition (version 26.3+) can finally run out-of-the-box on the Rockchip RK3588 ARM SoC using a fully open-source graphics pipeline!
My setup: + Operating system: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion (Linux kernel 7.1) + Drivers: Mesa PanVK (Vulkan 1.4)
If you read scientific papers, you know how hard it is to keep up with the hundreds of new ones published every day. So I built a private app that learns your interests locally on your phone. Your data never leaves your device, and the app shows you the relevant new papers in your field: computer science, engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, law and more.
Here's the website and the code under GPL-3.0. I hope you find it useful as much as I do!
Aftergleam ranks the day's new papers from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and five more preprint servers on your phone, and says why it picked each one. Free on F-Droid, open source, no account.
"His" and "GKH" refers to Greg Kroah-Hartmann, who is maintainer of the stable kernel series and the speaker in the video.
I've included a few slides into text that i thought were eye-opening to me:
From his Kernel Recipes 2026 slide on Mythos
<br /> Mythos's 79 vulnerabilities:
24 - no detail at all "something crashed"
14 - not a bug at all
3 - totally made up data
15 - already fixed in latest release
- 11 by others
- 4 by anthropic
20 - fixes were needed
- 7 "assume a malicious filesystem image"
- 2 "assume you can inject a malicious network packet into the middle of the stack"
- 2 "NOMMU"
- 6 sctp networking issues for untrusted devices
- 2 ipv6 minor network issues
- 1 gpu driver for local malicious user
GHK called this "10 'real' bugfixes", which to me sounds like there's a wild hype machine around these companies and uncritical parroting of every press release they make that falls apart when you engage the affected real experts.
KDE plans to tackle that through two already ongoing projects: Ocean and Union. Ocean is the new design system, while Union is intended to provide a unified theming engine across applications, Plasma, window decorations, and Plasma Login Manager.
I don't think they are the same category of thing. Ocean is a design system. Breeze is a theme.
Edit: now I'm less sure. This seemed to say it is both a style and a "design system" which I took to mean a technical mechanism for styles, but now i'm less clear what they mean.
Throughout this new process at KDE, I believe I have failed to clearly state what Ocean is and what it means for the future for Plasma user interface and experience. In this post, I will try to she…
"Design system" is a way for designers to organize what they are doing with emphasis on structure and central definition of different components, colors, etc. This allows designers to create UI mockups more easily and programmers to implement the designs without guessing.
My guess is that that the new theme will be designed using this new system and then implemented using Union.
Finally, the theming in plasma is powerful but still quite a mess. The settings list a bunch of categories and one global theme, but I am never sure what settings can get saved in a global theme
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar 02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now 05:20 What's the job of an OS? 06:51 Updates break systems. Often. 10:53 You have to adapt to it 15:14 It's highly intrusive 17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good 20:19 Windows fails at being an OS 21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect 27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS
I’ve been a Unix maximalist since I can remember, but I’ve never convinced my peers to follow.
Since windows 11 has dropped, every single one of them now has a Linux machine for one purpose or another. Some are now considering a complete purge of MS products, as I have.
Only thing I’m having a little trouble getting away from is are some office products and email hosting.
Once Gmail has the equivalent of shared inboxes, I’ll switch to them for my business hosting.
In case people here are not aware, I can create free email address with my domain name for receiving only.
This is great because I don’t really need to send mail for each account I receive mail at, but with Gmail you have to pay for each one as far as I know.
In case people here are not aware, I can create free email address with my domain name for receiving only.
You should be able in gmail, under the Accounts tab in Settings, to add accounts to "Send mail as". Not sure how much of your problem that solves, though, if any.
That works to some extent, although certain receivers like Yahoo will bounce messages because it breaks sender authentication protocols. I had to switch from Gmail to Proton (paid, the free version doesn't allow it) to fix that.
Maybe there's some way, but Google didn't want me to know about it. All their docs made it seem like I would have needed to have an enterprise version (no clue what they call it but you know what I mean) of Google services to get it to work, not the free version. I tried for a couple days anyway and couldn't solve it, so I figured it was a good opportunity to de-google my email. Once I switched to Proton I had it set up in hardly any time at all, and all the different authentication protocols too. Longest part of the process was simply waiting for record propagation.
That would actually be better than what I can do with Outlook shared inboxes as that is receiving only. Someone else said, I can send emails as another address, so that might be better.
Your right, but it’s for my business and my understanding is that other email providers may have their emails marked as spam even when it’s just confirmation email, receipt, or appointment reminders.
I don’t want to risk having mail not delivered and having it translate to a lost sale or a poor customer experience.
Of course there is. It's compatible with almost any software and hardware (if you ignore their arbitrary W11 "requirements" which you can in most cases) that you can get your hands on. Microsoft and Windows deserve most of the flack they're getting, but we should be honest.
Take Linux as a comparison. Compatibility is pretty good nowadays and is only getting better, especially with all the work going into Proton from both Valve and the community. But certain things are simply not supported which can make it either difficult or straight up impossible to get to work. Not that Linux is to blame for that, of course, but it is reality.
The depths you have to sink to to get what honestly feels like an attempt at a charity point, but if that wasn't assumed it wouldn't have become the product in its position.
If there was an actual push to get compatibility worked out, it very well could. Seems more like a corporate holdback than a technical issue.
Uh yeah there is. Which that my games and software run without issue on Windows whereas on Linux I have to constantly fiddle with shit to make it work. But no one's ever honest about that.
For me, a decade of Linux user, having been forced to work with a bunch of Windows laptops recently, even the difference between 10 and 11 was palpable. Not only in resource usage but also in just getting around the system, running updates, trying to disable the stock ticker (?WTF?) etc.
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Lately I often reminesce on the time SSD has become available. My previous laptop would take 5 minutes to fully open the system, and suddenly BAM! SSD and it was 30 seconds. I remember being blown away. How the fuck did we end up back here. How is it 5+ minutes to start a stupid OS again.
And yes, the story above was about getting them all up to Win11. It's sad that IT-illiterates see "let's do what M$ says" as the only option wrt security.
I boot my work PC when I get in, then go off to make a coffee. It boots to log in reasonably well, but then takes a good five minutes to run the start up script that connects it to the company's shared drives.
When I could use Linux at work the machine mounted the drives at boot so they were available immediately. I've gone backwards despite being 'upgraded'.
I recently dumped W11 off my wife’s ROG Ally handheld and replaced it with SteamOS. It’s a day and night difference in performance. ASUS is absolutely fucking themselves by shipping it with this vibe-coded trash OS. W11 is total dog shit. The only good thing it does is drive a lot of people into the arms of Linux.
So I am a linux user, but use Windows 11 for work. I am an accountant in the school system.
Windows works fine for my work purposes. Especially when a lot of applications are being removed for web clients. I still use quite a bit of desktop applications, but I see the writing on the wall; soon all my work can be done on any device.
When the desktop application in work spaces finally die, I am curious if industries will switch to linux since its free and can be run on any hardware essentially. That or maybe owners will force their workers to use their own devices (phones, like Samsung DeX) to do work.
Dont get me wrong, linux never been this useable ever. But still not complete in my opinion.
I am working 12 hours a day plus 2 hrs commuting, when I get home, I want to chill.
I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network/gpu drivers and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
Honestly, windows isnt that bad for me. I never saw a blue screen in my life or some kind of error takes more than 10 mins of tinkering. I believe what I see. (I daily drive fedora w kde btw)
I forgot the name but there was a website calling every software shit, I agree with that guy.
We need more professionals working fulltime on linux and distros, more real tech support. Community support doesnt mean anything if no one maintaining it well...
We need more funding on desktop like how tech giants funding ubuntu server.
You cant tell a company that, oh this software is free but you are depending on a community which isnt promised to be existed in 5 years, but you can still fork it and maintain a whole desktop os.
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I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network drivers
Have you tried running Linux without tinkering any of these? I’ve installed Debian on numerous machines, the distro known for its outdated packages, and never had the need to tinker any of these to get them to work out of the box.
It just works
gpu drivers
This you manage for literally any operating system, certainly not a Linux exclusive.
and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
It’s okay, just trust the random Asian guys blog instead to fix Windows issues, much fancier experience.
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I am working 12 hours a day plus 2 hrs commuting, when I get home, I want to chill.
I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network/gpu drivers and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
I also work 12 hours a day (not a 2 hour commute though that's insane you need a new job) and I don't want to deal with broken windows update, bluescreens, advertisements, re-disabling some bloatware that windows re-enabled without my consent, permissions issues, the goddamn fucking registry
Annoyingly, as of a couple of months ago I now have to use Win11 at work, and it really is fucking horrible compared to every other machine I use. And the version I'm using is corporate as fuck, so has very little of the bloatier shit.
It's just so sluggish on the low spec hardware I have to use (a Dell desktop with 8gb RAM and an i3). I have Debian running on an older machine with the same specs which is SO MUCH faster in every way.
I used Macs for 20 years, so like to be able to click the mouse wheel to expose all windows. It's a fiddle to set up in Linux, but works well once it's set up. It's also a fiddle to set up in Win11, but it also feels like it's going to crash the machine every time I use it.
Similarly, I'm used to tapping the Win key, then immediately typing in the menu for the app I want. Every time I do it in Windows I end up dismissing the Start menu because I've begun typing too soon. Every. Time. I want to put the fucking thing through the window.
OH, and because it's a bloated mess that can't run on 8gb of RAM, it's taken up 22gb of the 250gb SSD as a sysfile.
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week, Plasma 6.8 continues to pass through the bug-fixing process in preparation for its release on October 14th, including the release of a second beta version.
The verdict could, "in theory," result in an award of about $219 billion in civil penalties, Attorney General Raul Torrez said in a news conference Friday.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released 03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible 05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools 08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app 10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme 12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS 14:35 PostmarketOS changes name 16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions 18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops 19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser 21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation 24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
i just love to wiggle mouse in my free time when i am on my Manjaro kde VM. It just feels so good but them my GNOME based fedora 44 didnt have it because jiggle and wiggle are outdated...and weell wiggly...it just doent work with the similar physics of KDE with incremental size increase.
So , to give myself a break from my work I VibeCoded this.
Yes i openly am stating that this is a VIBECODED project and welll i made it for myself and am sharing it here. It was a break from my sullen work and also from testing and debuuging my main project which i have to do manually , ScreenGuard , which well some people here must know atleast by now after my vigourous campaign about what this is...but nevertheless getting into this topic, I can atleast assusre u one thing, I will continue updating it atleast once every month if i find any bugs or any issues are opened in the repo.
So please feel free to use it, or even contribute. I will be adding the contibuting.md after a few hours, its been a looong day.
Thank you all for co-operating and Please donot tag it as AI slop because yes i myself am stating its vibecoded a lot eventhough i ask people not to do it...So if you really want the kde-ish wiggle, u can try it out, if you dont feel good about the vibecode then dont , completely upto you .
System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.
I had the same experience with cosmic. It was prone to crashes. I really like the idea of combining gnome with i3wm/hyprland though. I currently have one box using gnome with a tiling shell extension, but the issue there is extensions not being well supported between gnome versions.
I wouldn't be opposed to retrying cosmic now. It's been a few years.
A lot of people have convinced themselves that kdes new policy is that you can now submit full claude vomit prs no questions asked. Its not, but thats how social media goes.
There's literally no change to their policy. They opened a discussion about stricter policy for PRs, but it got derailed by a few non-devs. That's my understanding of it at least.
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released 03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible 05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools 08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app 10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme 12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS 14:35 PostmarketOS changes name 16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions 18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops 19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser 21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation 24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
I feel like Firefox should give uses a toggle whether they want the rounded aesthetic! Personally, I like it a lot, and it just so happened when I switched from boxy KDE Plasma to Niri + Noctalia (which has more rounded UI as configured with default settings), Firefox updated to the new rounded aesthetic at the same time! What are the odds? A lot of people love their boxier UI bits though, so it kind of sucks that disabling the new UI requires going into about:config
I still love KDE Plasma, and it's definitely the GOAT desktop environment in my opinion (GNOME and others are great too!), but being able to try stuff like Niri is one of the reasons why I love Linux!
for me pills and jetbrainsmono and borders around everything just screams to me "this was designed by Claude."
I don't like the look. I think it looks amateurish. doesn't look clean. looks slapped together at the last minute by an LLM. Also the corners of my monitor are not round, they're square. if I was back on a early 00 area Apple Cinema Display it would make sense. hell if I was using any screen from the early 00's it would make sense. to me pills on everything does not make sense.
In terms of bad OSS project names, I feel like one of the worst is RawTherapee's fork, called Another RawTherapee, or "ART". No search engine can find it, because search ignores capitalization and it just thinks you're searching for art (as a common English noun). So when you look up "how to do x in ART" it thinks you're searching for regular art tutorials, and when you look up "how to do x in Another RawTherapee", it answers with the non-fork version of Rawtherapee because indexing rules make that come up first, but the UI in the non-fork version is totally different because that's the entire point of the fork, so the tutorial does not apply. In any case, this naming scheme is bound to give you a good headache when you need to look up anything.
About the sponsor #Proton, what does "zero access" mean?
As #eMail is not #e2ee encrypted normally, they will get unencrypted emails and encrypt them before storing them.
This is not zero access in my opinion, as they could access everything if they wanted. But the data is encrypted at rest, which is nice also if law enforcement would subpoena them, as that is all they can do most of the time.
@mailbox_org is pretty open about how they do that, they just use #PGP. I guess Proton and Tuta does something similar.
Hey ! I don't think Nick reads peer tube comments, but does anyone know why peertube videos are 720p, despite the original youtube one being 1080p ? Thanks !
"Hilbert verteilt gerade allen Beigeordneten, Amtsleitern und Verwaltungsmitarbeitenden einen pauschalen Maulkorb gegenüber dem Stadtrat. Beigeordnete und Verwaltungsmitarbeitende informieren uns in Ausschüssen, dass Stellungnahmen, die wir explizit angefordert haben, durch den OB nicht freigegeben werden. Sie informieren uns auch, dass real existente, finanzielle Mehrbedarfe im Zuge des Haushalts nicht mal mehr erfasst und freigegeben werden dürfen.
especially since they're mostly coming about as a rule change that says any attempts to patch will get a cve of it's own in addition to the one that they were responding to.
Every operating system is a buggy mess with tons of issues (from coding perspective). With Ai finding a lot of these issues (not counting false-positives, but only real fixed issues) is actually a good thing.
All of our work laptops just updated this month and everyone's having all sorts of bizarre issues. My KVM switch is fucking up now but only on the work machine, my personal desktop is fine. Classic Microsoft.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the military has outlined near-term long-range priorities and that strikes on Russia’s oil industry are continuing to have an impact.
Ok. There is much work left to do. Oil refineries results are below satisfactory level. Looks like those 100-200 kg charges are incapable to cause really serious damages. So, methodical toil it is...
Well now. Oil refineries tend to be made out of thick steel pipework and vessels, to contain unpleasant chemicals at high temperatures, and they're designed with blast panels and pressure release systems as they're somewhat likely to go boom without external assistance. But the whole site isn't like that
The control room tends to be just a plain old brick building somewhat removed from the main site - you don't want to incinerate your ops team if there's a fire.
The Motor Control Centres (MCCs) tend to get warm due to all the switchgear that they contain, which means they're kept aside, generally in quite thin-walled structures.
Hit either of those, the plant is going to be down for a long time.
If you're looking to render the refinery unusable, you either need enough boom to wreck inch-thick steel to the extent you can't just weld it up again, or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
Haven't they been doing that? I can't remember where I heard it. But I heard they were mostly targeting storage tanks until they talked to a petrochemical engineer. They told Ukraine that there's some critical bit that Russia can't manufacture and they've been targeting those as much as possible since.
More like vibe security engineer spamming their claud subscriptions to discover breaches not even hackers cared about.
And then they'll make a story about how ai agent breached out of human control when they specifically prompted "breach this by any means necessary, no I don't care about safeguards you're a security pentester"
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You're mistaking me I guess. I'm not blaming ai, I would even be fine with linux maintainers using ai tools, as assistant, not as vibe tools. Even though I know people dislike even just the idea.
I'm blaming cybersecurity people and corps to make a big deal out of every single CVE. They'll use AI tools to search breaches and no one will say anything. But dare a maintainer touch IA and then it's hell on earth.
Most of the time, the CVEs are irrelevant to any real life situation. It's not a bad thing these get fixed, but in the end stories get inflated that softwares are not protected, and cybersecurity gets into big success story talks, thinking they contributed to something when really they mostly waste people time.
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I just love how Americans think they're the whole world, and that everybody has to care what's happening in their shithole of a country. Truly the most demented nation on the planet.
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This is actually a list of resolved CVEs. The sender has an email address at debian.org so they're clearly not just some random script kiddie with an LLM subscription.
Yeah, it's funny when people shit on Linux just because people care enough to disclose vulnerabilities. Trust me that any proprietary system has just as many; they just get silently patched in this month's security update.
Computers are finicky things; the amount of known CVEs is simply a measure of how many people pentest the software and how big the project is, rather than any statement about its security.
Any insight into the most severe ones, eg is remote exploitation possible and likely?
The Linux project request CVEs for any memory safety bug just in case some turn out to be vulnerabilities, in which case they may be exploited given enough effort. Many are likely not exploitable or unlikely to be, and/or low severity.
There are some higher severity ones given the following message. But this doesn't mean all CVEs listed are severe issues.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
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I was curious too, so I did a quick search & replace to view them on the NIST CVE database. There are so many that I can only post about a quarter before exceeding lemmy's comment limit. I put the full list here: paste.page/debianalertdsa-6528…
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C'est probablement un des sujets qui obsède le plus les médias mainstream français : le voile. Les femmes qui portent le voile, la signification du port du voile, les raisons cachées du port du voile... Tous ces débats polluent notre espace médiatique depuis maintenant plus de 40 ans. Dans cet épisode nous allons essayer de comprendre les raisons de cette obsession, les raisons historiques qui ont poussé le débat public français à se concentrer sur la question du voile. Nous allons aussi nous intéresser aux violences et discriminations auxquelles sont exposées les femmes qui font le choix de le porter.
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So maybe people don’t want to hear this but as a hunter I have to say this area is likely to become a wildlife disaster.
If humans are a regular predator and the predator is removed the fight for food resources among the prey species is going to result in a lot of animal deaths and suffering. This will cause ecological devastation to the area, waste meat that humans would have used, and potentially cause other shifts in wildlife that are harder to predict.
The government, in addition to taxing this land heavily, should procure an easement for hunters to maintain ecological stability.
If this guy is planning to tear everything down and install data centers out there we should build a rocket and yeet him into the sun.
redlib is an interface you may use if you want to read content from reddit but without ads, bloat, tracking and java. You cannot post but you can read.
I found some videos I'd like to download but I don't know how.
To download videos from elsewhere I run yt-dlp and that works fine, but pasting the redlib url where the video is posted returns "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests"
To get the best quality version, I had to copy the video address from the default reddit site and feed that address to yt-dlp. The alternative is to inspect the redlib page source, get the video link source and give that to yt-dlp.
Someone else said you should try the most recent version. They’re right. You just copy the file into some place like ~/.local/bin/, set it executable with chmod +x and add its location to your $PATH. You will need to apt remove yt-dlp from your system to get rid of the old apt version. From that point forward using the -U flag when you invoke yt-dlp will first check for and install an update if needed before doing the thing you asked for.
Someone else said Reddit is closing off their api. This is so.
You’re getting 429 so try changing your vpn endpoint and see if that helps you out.
OpenMandriva has published refreshed installation images for ROME, its rolling-release edition, combining the distro’s current software stack in the new 26.09 snapshot.
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 ships with Linux kernel 7.2 by default, while kernel 7.3-rc4 is also available for users who want to test the upcoming series. The distro also provides kernels in both Clang-compiled and GCC-compiled variants.
On the desktop side, KDE Plasma has been updated to 6.7.5, accompanied by KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29. GNOME users get version 50.3, while LXQt moves to 2.4. Xfce remains on the 4.20 series, and MATE 1.28 now includes an experimental Wayland session.
The repositories also contain newer releases of Hyprland, COSMIC Desktop, Niri, Sway, i3, IceWM, Qtile, and several other window managers and desktop environments.
Under the hood, a significant change is the move to RPM 6.1. OpenMandriva has extended it with an optional %pgo section for spec files to simplify Profile-Guided Optimization when building packages. Several packages already use this feature alongside broader Link-Time Optimization.
The development toolchain has also moved forward. LLVM/Clang 23.1.2 is now the default compiler, GCC has been updated to 16.2, and the distribution ships glibc 2.44.
Graphics support comes with Mesa 26.2.3 and ROCm 10.0, including patches aimed at extending ROCm support to older Radeon GPUs. For NVIDIA hardware, the open NVIDIA kernel module has been moved directly into the kernel, avoiding situations where it becomes out of sync after kernel updates. The proprietary driver has meanwhile been updated to version 610.57.
Interestingly, another notable addition is Snap support. OpenMandriva already supports Flatpak with Flathub enabled and AppImage, but users can now install snapd from the repositories. The project stresses that native RPM packages remain its preferred format due to tighter system integration and reduced duplication.
The Plasma and LXQt editions have a new default browser. Helium 0.17.2 replaces ungoogled-chromium and is based on that project, restoring selected Chromium functionality without reintroducing Google services. OpenMandriva has adapted Chromium Embedded Framework to use Helium, allowing OBS Studio to use a CEF plugin based on the browser.
For gaming, ROME 26.09 includes Wine 11.18 with WoW64 support, Proton 11, DXVK 3.0.2, vkd3d 2.0, and vkd3d-proton. The Steam installer available through the non-free repository has also been updated to version 1.0.0.86.
Moreover, the release brings Qt 6.11.2, GTK 4.22.5, PipeWire 1.6.9, FFmpeg 9.0, GStreamer 1.28.6, Firefox 156, Thunderbird 155, LibreOffice 26.8, GIMP 3.2.4, Blender 5.2.2, and Krita 6.0.4, which has now moved to Qt 6.
OpenMandriva has also expanded the selection of local AI software available from its repositories, including Ollama, llama.cpp, Whisper.cpp, Stable Diffusion.cpp, ComfyUI, KoboldCpp, Aider, and several other tools. Many use the system-wide GGML library with GPU acceleration through ROCm, Vulkan, or OpenCL.
For additional details, see the announcement.
The refreshed ROME 26.09 images are available in Plasma X11, Plasma Wayland, and GNOME Wayland editions, with community-maintained LXQt, MATE, and Xfce spins also offered. Plasma and LXQt images are available for regular x86_64 systems as well as optimized znver builds for AMD Ryzen processors. An AArch64 server image is available too.
One exception is COSMIC Desktop: a ROME 26.09 COSMIC installation image was held back because of an issue with the login manager. Existing COSMIC users can continue updating normally, while new users can install it from the repositories.
Unfortunately, OpenMandriva's president (warning, lunduke link as evidence) has declared the project "non-woke" and "anti-DEI", which has resulted in it attracting a hard right community.
The Sequoia PGP is part of the default seed, with the sq package in the main repo and officially supported. It’s said to provide a “modern, and memory-safe OpenPGP implementation”.
Ubuntu isn’t making Sequoia the distribution’s default OpenPGP toolchain. It ships preinstalled, but lives alongside the standard implementation.
However, the goal is to make Sequoia PGP Ubuntu’s default in the near future, with sq and sqv replacing gpg and gpgv.
For now, gpg will still invoke GnuPG, while sq (or an app configured to use Sequoia’s libraries) calls on Sequoia. Users can run e.g., sq sign or sq verify instead of gpg from the command line to try it too.
Canonical says adopting Sequoia will enable Ubuntu to maintain OpenPGP interoperability while benefiting from a “more maintainable and memory-safe foundation”.
It’s not the only Rust-related change in the new Ubuntu release, either. Ubuntu 26.10 ships a full set of Rust-based core utilities out-of-the-box, completing work that began in 25.10. GNU-versions of cp, mv, and rm are now provided by uutils.
Canonical’s engineers plan to ‘oxidise’ more foundational packages in future releases. A Rust rewrite of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) being eyed for inclusion as the default time sync client in Ubuntu 27.04.
The company is also a gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, paying €40,000 a year to help fund work on Rust software.
Η ΕΕ υπόσχεται διαφάνεια για τα data centers, αλλά κρατά μυστικά τα στοιχεία για την κατανάλωση ενέργειας και νερού. Μετά από έναν χρόνο έρευνας και αιτημάτων πρόσβασης σε στοιχεία και στα 27 κράτη-μέλη, αποκαλύπτουμε πώς διαμορφώθηκε αυτό το καθεστώς μυστικότητας — και μια πρωτοφανή νομική προσφυγή που το αμφισβητεί.
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seriously I still have an old laptop running windows 10 for convenience and it amazes me how right clicking a file will then take like a min for the drop down to appear. its absolutely nuts how messed up and slow it is even compared to early versions much less compared to linux.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
Prior to Manjaro I was using Linux Mint, which borked on an Version upgrade.
Manjaro has been incredibly stable (the testing version as well). Oddly it reminds me of Mandrake which I began using in 2000.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
(I'm gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that's mainly why I'm making you do it instead), but I basically want something that's funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I'm also on kde plasma wayland btw
I had a hard time understanding, so I asked a local Ai bot. I think a low effort reply for a low effort question is appropriate. This is the answer:
::: spoiler Question In a Linux forum, someone made a post. I have a hard time understanding, so help me out here to help him.
Post Title: (asshole post but oh well) help making a funny/weird/meme(???) rice cause I lowkey don't know what to do
Post Body: (I’m gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that’s mainly why I’m making you do it instead), but I basically want something that’s funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I’m also on kde plasma wayland btw
I honestly don’t know send help 😭 :::
::: spoiler Thinking (worked for 1m 2s) * Context: A Linux forum post. * Tone: Casual, self-deprecating, slightly chaotic, internet slang-heavy ("lowkey," "rice," "eya eya eya," "meme-ish"). * Goal of the user: Help the poster by explaining what they want and how to achieve it. * The Poster's Request: Wants a "funny/weird/meme-ish" desktop "rice" (customization) on KDE Plasma (Wayland). They mentioned "wobbly windows" as an example.
* *Rice:* In the Linux community, "ricing" refers to customizing the appearance and workflow of your desktop environment (themes, icons, fonts, window managers, etc.).
* *KDE Plasma:* A highly customizable desktop environment (DE).
* *Wayland:* The modern display protocol (important because some old customization tools only work on X11).
* *Wobbly Windows:* A specific desktop effect where windows stretch/jiggle when moved.
* *Funny/Weird/Meme-ish:* The user wants a desktop that looks ridiculous, non-standard, or humorous rather than "clean" or "minimalist."
* *Step 1: Explain the terminology.* The user needs to know what "rice" and "KDE Plasma Wayland" mean in this context.
* *Step 2: Interpret the request.* What is the person *actually* asking for? (A chaotic, fun, non-serious desktop setup).
* *Step 3: Provide actionable advice/suggestions.* How can someone make a "meme" rice on KDE?
* Desktop Effects (Wobbly windows, magic lamp, etc.).
* Themes (Obnoxious colors, weird icons).
* Widgets/Plasmoids (Funny clocks, weird system monitors).
* Wallpapers (Memes).
* Cursor/Fonts (Comic Sans, etc.).
* *Introduction:* Acknowledge the difficulty of reading internet slang.
* *Glossary:*
* "Rice": Desktop customization.
* "KDE Plasma": The software they use.
* "Wayland": The technical backend.
* *The "Translation":* "I want a desktop that looks silly, chaotic, or funny. I don't have a specific vision, so I'm looking for ideas that make my computer look non-serious."
* *Actionable Suggestions (The "Help"):*
* *Visual Effects:* Mention "Desktop Effects" in KDE settings. (Wobbly windows, Magic Lamp, Desktop Cube).
* *Themes:* Suggest looking for "Retro," "90s," or "Bright/Neon" themes.
* *Fonts:* Suggest "Comic Sans" (the ultimate meme font).
* *Icons:* Suggest something weird (e.g., hand-drawn icons).
* *Wallpapers:* Obviously memes or surreal art.
* *Widgets:* Suggest adding weird widgets to the desktop.
* *User's Goal:* Help him.
* *Tone of Response:* Informative and helpful.
:::
::: spoiler Answer To help this person, you first need to understand the "slang" they are using. Linux forum culture has its own vocabulary.
Here is a breakdown of what the post actually means, followed by some actual advice you can give them to help them achieve their goal.
Part 1: Translation of the Post
"Rice" (or Ricing): This is the most important term. In the Linux community, "ricing" means customizing the visual appearance of your desktop (changing themes, icons, fonts, colors, and window behaviors) to make it look unique.
"KDE Plasma": This is the name of the Desktop Environment (the software that provides the taskbar, menus, and windows) they are using. KDE is famous for being the most customizable desktop in existence.
"Wayland": This is the modern "display protocol" (the engine that draws things on the screen). It’s important because some old customization tools only work on the older protocol (X11), so they are specifying that they need things that work on Wayland.
"Wobbly Windows": A specific visual effect where windows act like jelly or rubber when you move them. It’s a classic "fun" effect.
The Summary of their request: "I want my computer to look silly, chaotic, or funny instead of the usual 'cool/minimalist' look. I don't have a specific theme in mind, but I want it to feel like a meme. I use KDE Plasma on Wayland. Help me find ideas."
Part 2: How to help them (The Advice)
Since the user is asking for "funny/weird/meme" ideas, you can suggest the following specific directions for their "rice." You can copy and paste these suggestions to them:
1. Lean into "Chaos" with Desktop Effects Since they mentioned wobbly windows, tell them to go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and enable: * Wobbly Windows: (The "jelly" effect they asked for). * Magic Lamp: Makes windows shrink into the taskbar like a genie lamp. * Desktop Cube: If they have multiple workspaces, they can make their screens rotate like a 3D cube. * Blur/Translucency: Set everything to be extremely see-through or extremely bright/neon.
2. The "Meme" Aesthetic (Theme Ideas) * The "Windows 95/98" Look: Suggest they look for "Retro" or "Classic" themes. It’s a huge meme in the Linux community to make a modern computer look like a computer from 1995. * The "Comic Sans" Special: Suggest they change their system font to Comic Sans MS. There is nothing more "meme-ish" than a high-tech Linux machine using the world's most mocked font. * High-Saturation/Neon: Suggest "Cyberpunk" or "Vaporwave" themes with bright pinks, purples, and blues.
3. Weird Widgets (Plasmoids) In KDE, you can add "Widgets" to your desktop. Suggest they find: * A giant, obnoxious digital clock. * A system monitor that shows weird stats. * Funny/weird "Sticky Notes" scattered everywhere.
4. The "Meme" Wallpaper The easiest way to make a rice "funny" is the wallpaper. Suggest they find a high-resolution version of a classic meme (like a distorted cat, a deep-fried image, or something surreal) and set that as the background.
5. Icon Packs Suggest they look for icon packs that aren't "clean." They could look for hand-drawn icon packs or even icons that look like emojis.
A suggested reply you can give them:
"Since you want a 'meme' rice on KDE Plasma (Wayland), stop trying to make it look 'clean' and lean into the chaos.
Effects: Go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and turn on Wobbly Windows and Magic Lamp. It makes the UI feel less serious.
Fonts: If you want to be truly cursed, change your system font to Comic Sans.
Theme: Look for a 'Retro' or 'Windows 95' theme to give it that old-school meme vibe, or go full 'Vaporwave' with bright pinks and blues.
Widgets: Add some weird, oversized widgets to your desktop so it looks cluttered and funny.
Wallpaper: Just find a high-res deep-fried meme or a surreal image. That does 90% of the work." :::
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Sunsets are beautiful. So are sunrises. Every sunset and sunrise in this photo series is on my Instagram feed. Please follow me there for lots more beautiful nature photos. The Changing Light Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera. Shining Through #sun #sky […]
Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera.
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Lake Sunrise & Sunset Views
In the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, we have wonderful views of the rising and setting sun against water. The reflections add loveliness to the natural beauty.
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Does It Matter If It’s a Sunrise or Sunset?
Though I try to be careful to tag photos as specifically a sunrise or sunset, when it comes to loveliness, I’m not sure that it matters which one it is. Certainly, in upstate New York there are very frequent marvels when the sun is first rising above the horizon and when it is sinking out of sight.
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in reply to CobraCommander • • •Always hit them with the slavery card.
"but it's legal!" so was slavery.
"but that's illegal!" so was assisting escaped slaves
A little hard to argue against slavery being immoral.
Whether they can connect the dots and do the right thing from a morality standpoint is up to them.
JillyB
in reply to Courtney (she/her/they) • • •kurt_vonnegut2
in reply to Courtney (she/her/they) • • •In today's political climate, I'm not so sure anymore.
alcoholicorn
in reply to CobraCommander • • •I don't think anyone does, saying "x is illegal/legal" just lets them obfuscate their actual desires. Nobody calls the police on themselves because they did something illegal and it would be moral for them to be punished according to their own ethical code, they call police on people they want punished when they have a convenient justification.
Conversely if someone is driving 5mph down a street, and just says "its not against the law, I have every right" as if that was a reason, they're simply too much of a coward to admit their actual antisocial motivation.
Kn1ghtDigital
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