Robotic vacuum pioneer iRobot files for bankruptcy, Chinese firm Picea to acquire 100% ownership
Robotic vacuum pioneer iRobot files for bankruptcy, Chinese firm Picea to acquire 100% ownership
iRobot, widely regarded as a pioneer of robotic vacuum cleaners, yesterday formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the US BankruptcyTechNode Feed (TechNode)
Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada's Grocery Monopolies
Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada's Grocery Monopolies | Dominion Review
Recent Question Periods in Canada's House of Commons have been dominated by the issue of food prices, with the Conservative Party mounting a sustained ...Riley Donovan (Dominion Review)
Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada's Grocery Monopolies
Liberals And Conservatives Avoid Mentioning Canada's Grocery Monopolies | Dominion Review
Recent Question Periods in Canada's House of Commons have been dominated by the issue of food prices, with the Conservative Party mounting a sustained ...Riley Donovan (Dominion Review)
‘Extremely offensive’: B.C. premier’s plans to change Indigenous Rights law met with frustration
B.C. premier’s plans to change Indigenous Rights law, explained | The Narwhal
B.C. Premier David Eby’s plans to change Indigenous Rights law following the Gitxaala ruling has some concerned about the province’s futureShannon Waters (The Narwhal)
Alexander believes the premier’s plan could have the opposite effect, potentially triggering more court cases from First Nations and thereby creating more uncertainty for resource extraction and other industries in the long run, while also damaging the province’s relationship with First Nations.“People have very fragile trust in the government of the day, but when they so intentionally change legislation to ensure that there’s no objective party reviewing how they perform reconciliation, it seems very insidious.”
This year, B.C. passed legislation to fast-track the North Coast transmission line, renewable energy projects and yet-to-be-defined “provincially significant projects.” The B.C. government admitted it had not fulfilled its consultation obligations before introducing the legislation, which many First Nations forcefully criticized.
Which Linux distribution do you recommend for beginners?
1. Nice design and easy to use
2. Customizable
3. Focused on privacy and security
4. Easy to install
5. Best for Linux beginners
Which one do you recommend? Which one do you use?
- ZorinOS (especially for Windows users)
- LinuxMint (especially for Windows users)
- Fedora (if users want something radically different than Windows or macOS, it's closer to macOS than Windows tho)
- Bazzite (Fedora-based atomic distro, if most of usage is gaming)
The only thing MacOS and Gnome have in common is a top bar and app grid. Other than that, MacOS is closer to Windows than Gnome.
- Windows and MacOS have always visible panel showing favorite apps and open apps, Gnome dosen't
- Windows and MacOS have appindicators on panels, Gnome doesn't
And to further differentiate Gnome from MacOS,
- Gnome's UX is closer to Windows. There are many, many reasons why, but some are: don't need to click a window to focus it before you can interact with it, fullscreening behaviors, assumes Windows-style keyboard layout
- No global menu, Gnome doesn't even use that paradigm.
Honestly the closest DE to MacOS is Cosmic. The launchers work similarly, the overviews work similarly, it has the option to handle minimized windows similarly to MacOS, uses menubars (but not global).
Maybe I don't remember the defaults on macOS and assume my setup is macOS UX but it's quite tweaked yeah. I find my config closer to Gnome than my memories of Windows. But I agree that Gnome is radially different and that's what I've write in my comment.
Isn't Cosmic based on Gnome? I have to try it, I was hyped when they announced it and now it's realeased.
What about the DE used in ElementaryOS?
ZorinOS Pro has some macOS themes and KDE is heavily flexible to replicate macOS's UX.
The old Cosmic was built on top of Gnome using extensions, but the new Cosmic was written from scratch. It largely mimics the look of old Cosmic, but has introduced a few new things.
There are desktops try do mimic the look of MacOS, but none I've used actually felt like using MacOS. The first time I used MacOS, I was shocked at how many quirky things it does, the way it operates. No Linux desktop prepared me for that.
Anything with Cinnamon Desktop or KDE Plasma is going to be the most 'Windows-like' in how the UI works.
If they're coming from Windows, but they prefer macOS-like interfaces, GNOME or COSMIC fit that bill.
It doesn't matter what distro you select, for the most part, as Linux is Linux. The only differences are immutable or not, desktop environment, and package management type, for the most part.
That said, Mint, an Ubuntu flavor, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE......all good options.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Doug Ford shrinks Ontario Science Centre to fit in temporary home at Toronto Harbourfront
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/56994590
See also: canadianarchitect.com/ontario-…You can also submit comments on a motion to save the original Science Centre building: secure.toronto.ca/council/agen…
Ontario Science Centre Opening Interim Location at Harbourfront Centre by Summer 2026
The temporary home at Toronto’s waterfront will allow the Science Centre to continue programming, support jobs, and boost tourism.Lucy Mazzucco (Canadian Architect)
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I remember, surprisingly, wondering wtf.
"It was just a garish choice, in case somebody out there liked ugly bright red and yellow.
The 'Fluorescent' theme was also pretty ugly, but it didn't have a catchy name, so I've never heard anything about it."
i'm starting to think that i was the only one who liked it. lol
it was so bright that it made the office were i used it a little bit more cheerful to me.
The article doesn't really explain why except "maybe someone would like it" but I think the real answer was CGA. CGA was a predecessor color technology to VGA with a different 8 bit color space. So if you took a color scheme for CGA and rendered it on VGA you'd end up with a really garish scene.
When I was a kid I had a DOS game that I played the hell out of. I ended up ruining the disk, and stupidly didn't have a backup, but the box included a CGA version of the game. It played just fine on my computer except that the colors were trippy on my VGA monitor.
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Peter Nowak: Doug Ford shrugs as Fans get scammed
Peter Nowak: Doug Ford shrugs as Fans get scammed
As other jurisdictions move in to crack down on ticket scalpers, some Canadians are left prey to bots and scammersDo Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (The Line)
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. Waterfox won't include them. The browser's job is to serve you, not think for you.Alex Kontos (Waterfox)
It’s been 10 years since the TRC final report and it’s time to tackle denialism says regional chief
It’s been 10 years since the TRC final report and it’s time to tackle denialism says regional chief
Ten years ago the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report on the residentialTiar Wheatle (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)
'Disturbing' Canadian MP shoved multiple times by two Israeli officers, NDP MP witness recounts
'Disturbing' Canadian MP shoved multiple times by two Israeli officers, NDP MP witness recounts
Watch now | I just got off the phone with NDP MP Jenny Kwan, who is in Jordan after being denied access to Israel and the occupied West Bank.Rachel Gilmore (Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore)
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I think the bigger question mark from me, is just.... why are our taxes sending MP delegations of like 30 MPs + staff off to Israel?
Feels like a waste of money to me. We can see with relative certainty the conditions there, based on reports from EU sources and the UN. At this point, they're not tending to 'pretend' its all good. Like these aren't even majority-party MPs, but minority parties with very little say in the house, who represent ridings that have almost nothing tying them to Israel. Businesses/the economy is sputtering back at home guys, maybe spend some more of your focus there.
MidnightBSD 4.0 Brings Many Changes To This FreeBSD 13 Derived OS
While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system.MidnightBSD 4.0 incorporates the latest updates from the FreeBSD 13 series, updates many third-party libraries, and features the latest iteration of its mport package manager. The mport verify functionality is now more robust, improved color handling for the TUI, and other changes.
BC’s hospital crowding problem isn’t improving, data shows
BC’s hospital crowding problem isn’t improving, data shows
The Royal Jubilee and Saanich Peninsula Hospitals were both listed in the top 20 most crowded BC hospitals.Michelle Gamage, Local Journalism Initiative reporter, The Tyee (Capital Daily)
Calgary police shoot man at northwest LRT station
Calgary police shoot man at northwest LRT station - LiveWire Calgary
One person is in serious but stable condition after being shot by Calgary police at a northwest LRT station. Calgary police responded to the Dalhousie LRT Station parking lot around 11:30 a.m. on Dec.Darren Krause (LiveWire Calgary)
Require the Big Banks and other financial institutions to cut the pay of their CEO and top executives to no more than 40 times their lowest paid employee (as in some European countries).
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •For anyone paying attention to the American side e.i. Conservatives' wet dream. They've probably noticed that the tariffs has been a lot worse for small businesses compared to the corporate counter parts.
It's a large reason why they've been such willing participants in the whole thing since to short pains for substantial consolidations of the market.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Honestly, all the brands under Loblaws and Sobeys should be split up again. Consolidation of markets to this point is wrong.
We need to do this with tons of industries, but especially gas stations too. Phone carriers, internet, etc. need real competition, and 3-5 companies isn't sufficient.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Why isn't it a requirement that all sub-companies don't have to have the parent company name somewhere on their store and advertisements?
Like, instead of just "No Frills" on the store it should be required to say "Loblaw's No Frills" or soemthing so it's more obvious where your money is going.
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