jon, to random
@jon@vivaldi.net avatar

So a rather cool video made by my old company Opera.

The video seems to be about my new company @Vivaldi, though, and the browser we make, not about the one Opera makes now, which is all about Web3 and AI.

For reference, Vivaldi is a Nordic company. I am born in Iceland. I think we can safely say that when it comes to tabs, we got it all. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWP4a9pkCnI

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

has technology gone too far? https://www.wubuntu.org/

betalars, to random German
@betalars@chaos.social avatar

TIL: breaks most screen readers, as they are not not intended by design. (they need to interact with other apps)

Wayland is now the default in pretty much all gnome distros.

Orca has workarounds, but they are not merged and not fully working. (And a blind user can't built it without a working screen reader)

I'm not entirely sure if I got this correct, but it seems to me like the community once again booted the .
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland
https://wayland-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/in2sPBfc/making-wayland-accessible

conansysadmin, to random
@conansysadmin@mstdn.social avatar

Tavern patrons will demand entertainments even when seated in the back room. https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/multi-bluetooth-speaker.html?s=mc

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

ManyRoads, to linux
@ManyRoads@kbin.social avatar

This posting is intended to function not only as a tutorial but, also, as a review and commentary on my ‘long-term’ use of spectrwm as my primary window manager (long-term, meaning at least one month of daily use).

https://eirenicon.org/spectrwm-review-tutorial/

Neotheta, to random
@Neotheta@finfur.net avatar

⛧ Computer problems? Using this seal will allow the fox daemon to possess & assist you ⛧

Patuleia, to random
@Patuleia@metalhead.club avatar

Battle of the slashes

RockyC, to random
@RockyC@fosstodon.org avatar

macOS Sonoma is a 13.37GB download.

That’s 15.5 times larger than Arch Linux…

Over 6.5 times larger than EndeavourOS
Over 5 times larger than Garuda, Linux Mint, Feren OS, Pop!_OS, Fedora, & Zorin
Over 3 times larger than Ubuntu, Manjaro & Debian

Over 2.4 times larger than…WINDOWS 11‽

Are you feeling okay, Tim Apple?

lurkjay, to random
@lurkjay@mastodon.social avatar

In the Beginning… Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/4333260-in-the-beginning-wa

One day, another worker leaned a ladder against the outside of the building that we were putting up, climbed up to the second-story level, and used the Hole Hawg to drill a hole through the exterior wall. At some point, the drill bit caught in the wall. The Hole Hawg, following its one and only imperative, kept going. It spun the worker’s body around like a rag doll, causing him to knock his own ladder down. Fortunately he kept his grip on the Hole Hawg, which remained lodged in the wall, and he simply dangled from it and shouted for help until someone came along and reinstated the ladder. I myself used a Hole Hawg to drill many holes through studs, which it did as a blender chops cabbage. I also used it to cut a few six-inch-diameter holes through an old lath-and-plaster ceiling. I chucked in a new hole saw, went up to the second story, reached down between the newly installed floor joists, and began to cut through the first-floor ceiling below. Where my homeowner’s drill had labored and whined to spin the huge bit around, and had stalled at the slightest obstruction, the Hole Hawg rotated with the stupid consistency of a spinning planet. When the hole saw seized up, the Hole Hawg spun itself and me around, and crushed one of my hands between the steel pipe handle and a joist, producing a few lacerations, each surrounded by a wide corona of deeply bruised flesh. It also bent the hole saw itself, though not so badly that I couldn’t use it.
After a few such run-ins, when I got ready to use the Hole Hawg, my heart actually began to pound with atavistic terror. But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it. A smaller tool is dangerous too, but for a completely different reason: it tries to do what you tell it to, and fails in some way that is unpredictable and almost always undesirable. But the Hole Hawg is like the genie of the ancient fairy tales, who carries out his master’s instructions literally and precisely and with unlimited power, often with disastrous, unforeseen consequences. Pre-Hole Hawg, I used to examine the drill selection in hardware stores with what I thought was a judicious eye, scorning the smaller low-end models and hefting the big expensive ones appreciatively, wishing I could afford one of them babies. Now I view them all with such contempt that I do not even consider them to be real drills—merely scaled-up toys designed to exploit the self-delusional tendencies of soft-handed homeowners who want to believe that they have purchased an actual tool.
Their plastic casings, carefully designed and focus-group tested to convey a feeling of solidity and power, seem disgustingly flimsy and cheap to me, and I am ashamed that I was ever bamboozled into buying such knicknacks. It is not hard to imagine what the world would look like to someone who had been raised by contractors and who had never used any drill other than a Hole Hawg. Such a person, presented with the best and most expensive hardware-store drill, would not even recognize it as such. He might instead misidentify it as a child’s toy, or some kind of motorized screwdriver. If a salesperson or a deluded homeowner referred to it as a drill, he would laugh and tell them that they were mistaken—they simply had their terminology wrong. His interlocutor would go away irritated, probably feeling rather defensive about his basement full of cheap, dangerous, flashy, colorful tools. Unix is the Hole Hawg of operating systems, and Unix hackers—like Doug Barnes and the guy in the Dilbert cartoon and many of the other people who populate Silicon Valley—are like contractors’ sons who grew up using only Hole Hawgs. They might use Apple/Microsoft OSes to write letters, play video games, or balance their checkbooks, but they cannot really bring themselves to take these operating systems seriously.

ajayiyer, to random
@ajayiyer@mastodon.social avatar

Gentle reminder to everyone that support for ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly distro like . It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

icedquinn, to random
@icedquinn@blob.cat avatar

i guess we have a ways to go UX-wise :blobcatnomcookie2:

realcaseyrollins,
@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world avatar

@icedquinn
Inb4 veteran users pop in saying a is better than a anyways

koyu, to random
@koyu@kopimi.space avatar

My current Arch Linux desktop running on KDE

icedquinn, to random
@icedquinn@blob.cat avatar

> Write expressive journal entries with emoijs, organized with hashtags (i.e. " rocks 😎️")

needs to support blobs

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

ftp deprecated. okay. what about scp? that is deprecated too. 🤡

moffintosh, to random Italian
@moffintosh@mastodon.cloud avatar

The contraddictions between the quasi-socialist mode of production and private corporations are intensifiying😁

What Comes After Open Source Software?
https://youtu.be/ieFXnvsn3-g

poppyartist, to random
@poppyartist@wetdry.world avatar

-=-=- Xenia on Duty -=-=-

"Hey, bud. Want to see what this cool thing called Linux can do?"

Here's a drawing of Xenia, the Linux fox we all know and love! Originally a proposed alternative to Tux before Linux had a mascot in the 1990s, she is now an unofficial symbol of unity amongst the Linux and wider libre-software community. It's cool to see not only a mascot to a cool, ethical project, but one that represents the people and community behind it. Plus, she represents the often underappreciated trans community in the tech space, which has helped contribute to the technological progress we see today.

BrodieOnLinux, to random
@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online avatar

This NPM Package Has 2.5 Million Dependencies!! https://youtu.be/xnPNKRs5TVo

piggz, to random

New release (2.2) of , the watch companion app. Many improvements for Amazfit and Pinetime/Infinitime devices. See https://github.com/piggz/harbour-amazfish/releases
Available on the chum store, and will come to Ubuntu Touch soon. @PINE64 @JF @jmlich

kaia, to random
@kaia@brotka.st avatar

using ' convert to merge several PDFs results in a huge file. the 10 source files are 150KB, the resulting file is 50MB. I'd just like to merge them without making it into images?

Edit: convert was the wrong command to use. it works with ghostscript

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
Kierunkowy74, (edited ) to linux Polish
@Kierunkowy74@kbin.social avatar

I'm using on and tried to rollback it to previous remaster. However, I had updated the kernel to newer version before.
In effect, the OS "didn't finish up booting", or, rather threw (as I saw after Alt-F1) an (uncritical) error about new kernel unavailable and booted up to CLI. To recover from this, I used the same live-kernel-updater, but rolled back the kernel version instead of updating. This recovered the system.

This should be helpful also for users as both distros share their LiveUSB utilities.

kernellogger, to random
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Annoyed by having to put in front on [1]?

Then use this instead[2]:

$ journalctl -k

It should work if the user executing this is a member of the groups "systemd-journal", "adm", or "wheel".

[1] which is the case if CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT is turned on in your 's .config – which recently switched on, something many other distros did already a while ago.

[2] works for the common case, for some fancier stuff you might still need dmesg

itsfoss, to random
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Let's discuss below 🙂

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boilingsteam, to random
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PicoCAD – A tiny modeller for tiny models: https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

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