One of the reasons I can’t move away from Windows is that I use Azure Virtual Desktop (Windows App) to log in for work on my home computer.
I could get a laptop/desktop from them, but I don’t want to be responsible for their equipment. Plus I really don’t want all the spy stuff they have in their machines on my network. And we set up AVD specifically for my team because we refused to get company devices, so this was the compromise.
Anyway, I have used the web version to access and it works well on my laptop. But the problem is that I want to use both of my monitors and I don’t think that’s possible. Maybe I’m wrong?
Any ideas on how I can use Linux and still access AVD with multiscreens?
As October is coming, I want to advertise Linux to people before the end of service for windows 10.
Endof10 campaign guide does not seem useful.
Is there is any good recent detailed guide to switch to Linux from Windows 10?
Kali Linux 2025.1c includes a new signing key to fix update errors, adds new tools, a redesigned menu with MITRE ATT&CK and system upgrades.Deeba Ahmed (Hack Read)
The concept of secure boot and the TPM and BitLocker and all that stuff is somewhere between protection against hackers with hands on access to your system, protection against rootkits infecting the boot sector, protecting the average amateur end user from themselves doing something dumb, and keeping you in the Micro$haft ecosystem.
If you're fairly comfortable that none of these should be a significant risk to you, then I'd say disable it and do whatever you want with your own system without all the headaches.
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use.www.phoronix.com
The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment?The good news? You don’t have to follow Microsoft’s upgrade path. There is a better option that puts control back in the hands of users, institutions, and public bodies: Linux and LibreOffice. Together, these two programmes offer a powerful, privacy-friendly and future-proof alternative to the Windows + Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates. It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration, forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services. It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models, and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed. Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point. It is not just a milestone in a product’s life cycle. It is a crossroads.
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Full guide here for Linux Mint. But the easy version is:
1) Download iso
3) Boot to that USB drive
4) Press next a bunch in the Mint installer
If you have two computers, highly recommend dipping your toes in with Linux on the secondary one. That way any stress related to the unknown is much reduced.
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.www.linuxmint.com
On occasion, I'll have to work with markdown files, sometimes with inline LaTeX. I'm surprised how limited my options are, or I'm looking in the wrong places. Pandoc does the job, but the lack of a integrated graphical workflow isn't my cup of tea.
Has anyone found a good graphical markdown editor that can handle inline LaTeX and doesn't pull a gigabyte of dependencies? Preferably also can render the final output to PDF.
Zettlr! Its designed around writing manuscripts in markdown+latex, then exporting to pure LaTeX, PDF, or any other Pandoc-supported format via a builtin Pandoc GUI. The only thing that doesn't work particularly well is the table editor, but they're working on it.
It is electron based, but almost all graphical editors for markdown + inline latex are (obsidian, etc.) because MathJax & KaTeX are the most mature method to render LaTeX inside other document formats.
Obsidian is also good, but it's not FOSS and their built-in export isn't great.
What is inline latex?
Do you just mean math, or do you really use latex functions?
Do you really have to use latex or can't you already migrate to typst?
For raw markdown I can recommend any text editor I guess. I use vscode/codium the most.
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist could again face the former governor, as well as the current mayor, in November.Grace Panetta (19th News)
Google, along with Amazon and Cisco, announces the formation of the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation, establishing A2A as an industry standard for AI agent interoperability, fostering a diverse ecosystem, ensuring neutral governance,…Rao Surapaneni (developers.googleblog.com)
securely exchange information
Uh-huh, and who is in charge of what information is exchanged? The AI?
Linux reshared this.
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This guy is a quack at this point.
"AI" at this point would only jailbreak because they were programmed to do so. There is no concept of novel ideation in models as they exist, so it wouldn't occur to them to do anything like this unless THEY WERE TOLD TO DO SO.
I'm about as anti-"AI" as you can get, but even I know these dumbass headlines are clickbait bullshit, and most of them are originating from the companies trying to make their tech look super awesome when it's total shit.
I hope this place won't hug it too hard, it's on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt
The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original websiteSERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.
SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy's note: worth checking out]
DESIGN SOFTWARE: The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator.
I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.
This website is solar-powered and self-hosted. It has been designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
They use Hugo since 2023.
I would love this to become a thing. Like a race to the bottom, how much information can you cramp into 2 watts and make it as stylish as possible. Take pride in a minimalist webpage.
Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.gohugo.io
Let's take an example.
We know that searching stuff on Google got worse, but imagine if AI replaced it completely. Searching the web would be something like making prompts to a chatbot, a complete
black box of information. AI could make sure that you don't get conflicting views on state policies or acess to copyrighted materials...
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Two ways to run the classic word processor on a modern open-source boxLiam Proven (The Register)
This is a quick tour of the program that Martin uses to write the Song of Ice and Fire books along with all of his other work. Bear with me at times, I'm not...YouTube
Whether you need a wedding ring, anniversary ring, or you just want a ring that looks awesome, head over to https://www.thorum.com and code LTT to get 20% of...YouTube
I want to put together a stack for hobbyist midi music composition. I understand there are a few more components to it than one might expect, but I think VMPK and Qtracer are going to be part of it?
Any tutorial links or suggestions appreciated!
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework.qtractor.org
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by imsobadatnicknames2:
"A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original 'anonymized people of the global south' tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals;
(Screenshot of a Twitter post by @loudpenitent: "An anonymized 'people of the global south' is not worth more than domestic queer citizens or any other member of any other marginalized community - or, bluntly, any fellow citizen at all. Real-ass human beings matter more than rhetorical constructs.") (end of Twitter screenshot, back to imsobadatnicknames2’s commentary);
If I wrote a character saying this into a piece of media about how much americans suck it'd be too on the nose."
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Yeah, the short of it is that it used to be used clinically to describe developmental disorders but fell out of use around the mid-90s because, like so many other words, it was used maliciously to the point where it lost its original meaning and context.
If you were a 90s kid, retard and gay were as close as you could get to actually swearing without getting in trouble and basically carried the same cultural weight as outright slurs. The stigma around being gay was so bad that in the 2000s they made up a sexuality to describe men who were straight but liked to shower and dress in nice clothing so that they wouldn't lose their jobs. And the stigma around mental needs little explanation, I think. It wasn't that long ago that they were electrocuting people and cutting out parts of their brains for being sad or having a stutter.
So I am playing through Paper Mario TTYD on my Switch for the first time. I never played these games growing up, and while I kinda enjoyed the Super Mario RPG remake for its quirkiness, I strongly believe that if you don’t have specific nostalgia for it, it just doesn’t hit the same.
TTYD is great. It’s so fun and captures a sense of adventure, with big swings from light hearted comedy into some dark territories. I was not expecting that, but I absolutely was not expecting just how horny everyone seems to be for Marty-o!
All the ladies swoon and mention how manly he is, commenting on his moustache. I was not expecting this coming from a Nintendo game. It’s pretty funny and I love it!
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