Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
Windows App replaces Microsoft Remote Desktop on macOS, iOS, and Android.Ars Technica
Bolagsförmedlare möjliggör storskaliga brottsupplägg. Kriminella nätverk finansierar sin brottsliga verksamhet, tvättar pengar, sprider riskerna och säkrar inflödet av brottsvinster genom att använda bolag som brottsverktyg. Det handlar om systemhotande brottslighet som hotar vår gemensamma välfärd. Bolagen skaffar de kriminella nätverken genom bolagsförmedlare.
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Best-ever 'Cloud Atlas' of Mars showcases stunning cloud patterns (photos)
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Scientists Find Water Molecules in Lunar Rock Sample for the First Time
Scientists Find Water Molecules in Lunar Rock Sample for the First Time
The samples from China's Chang'e 5 mission shed light on lunar resources that could be vital to future missions and habitationsMargherita Bassi (Smithsonian Magazine)
The Revolution Will Be Federated
In a guest article co-written by Heidi Li Feldman and Tim Chambers, the case is made in favor of political organizing in the Fediverse, rather than through corporate social media.
Both authors bring up case studies in their experience in grassroots fundraising and advocacy for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign through Mastodon and Bluesky.
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I was wrong, it's 1024 not 256. It's a soft limit, so easy to adjust once you're aware that you need to.
Thanks.
Please note that the
soft limit still is 1024, as that's what legacy syscalls like select()
can handle.
I guess anything using select() would break with a higher limit?
Software as a public good
Open source software is essential to the global economy, public services, and international organizations, yet many critical projects remain underfunded, highlighting the need for sustainable support.
The United Nations and other public institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance of open source, with initiatives like the Global Digital Compact and various national funds dedicated to supporting open source projects.
GitHub is actively involved in bridging the sustainability gap through initiatives like GitHub Sponsors, the FOSS Sustainability Fund, and resources for open source maintainers, emphasizing the need for collaborative investment from both public and private sectors.
Github is a private company and as such unfit to protect open source.
What is needed is an autonomous, government funded organisation that will allow the world to get rid of companies making money off the FOSS ecosystem.
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get rid of companies making money off the FOSS
I'm afraid if we discourage companies from adopting open source we'll end up with even more closed source garbage.
There are industry sectors where closed source is the norm, and it just leads to more vendor lock-in and less standardization and interop.
I'm a bit young to say for sure, but I believe closed source was the norm in the software world 20-30 years ago and openness was stigmatized. I certainly don't want to live in that world.
I work for a company that makes money supporting FLOSS. Our members pay fairly hefty membership fees because they have a vested interest in their chips being well supported by Linux and the wider ecosystem. That money funds common projects they all benefit from all well as numerous maintainers in projects keeping those projects ticking.
The engineers on the project I mostly work on are predominantly paid to work on it. We value our hobbyist itch scratchers (~10% off contributors) but it's commercial money that keeps those patches reviewed and flowing.
I really like the idea of a distributed and virtual "signing party" and just bought the ebook! (let me know who to ping and how, to vote for a paper version!).
Sadly, the time is not very CEST friendly, so I am not sure I can attend!
Ukraine sits on trillions worth of minerals. US politicians want them.
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ZDNET: 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really
20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really
The work done on real-time Linux has benefitted the open-source OS for years, but it was only this week that Linus Torvalds admitted its last piece into the mainline kernel. Exactly what took so long?Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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The Revolution Will Be Federated
In a guest article co-written by Heidi Li Feldman and Tim Chambers, the case is made in favor of political organizing in the Fediverse, rather than through corporate social media.
Both authors bring up case studies in their experience in grassroots fundraising and advocacy for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign through Mastodon and Bluesky.
The Revolution Will Be Federated
In this final, crucial campaign stretch: Mainstream platforms are oversaturated, while millions on the “fediverse” are perfectly situated for progressive organizing – and largely overlooked. The 2024Heidi Li Feldman (We Distribute)
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[Solved?] Weird Font problems in desktop icons
Hello everyone.
After I changed the default font in KDE Plasma 6.1.4 on Bazzite to Atkinson Hyperlegible, all desktop icons have weird line spacing in the name. Notice how .png is hanging behind tge icon for TextFile sh. Changing the font size does nothing. Only if I switch back to the defaults does it fix itself. Any idea how I can keep Atkinson as a font and fix this issue?
Edit: In edit mode (right click on desktop) I can set the Text lines to 1 which makes things bearable. Still no way to manage the weird spacing issue. Seems that not all icon are affected. Couldn't find a pattern.
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It looks like the png is getting word wrapped. Line spacing is so large that the png on the second line is getting pushed into the space of the icon below, and the icon below is given a higher Z value, so it goes over it. The different font has a different letter width and can influence the line spacing by being taller than the original font.
See if you can find an option to reduce line spacing or an option to increase icon spacing (vertical or horizontal). I would expect these to be advanced settings though. Iirc, most Linux desktops don't use ellipses on long names, like some other operating systems (macOS iirc).
All my google results for line spacing are regarding the terminal, non for my case. I guess there is some config file somewhere that I can edit, but sine I am still nee to Linux, I jave no idea where to start.
If you open /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icon/main.qml and search for line there's a section called PlasmaExtras.ShadowedLabel which seems to correspond with icon text and there's a line maximumLineCount: 2 you could try reducing that to 1 and it might fix your issue.
It looks like KDE Plasma is based on QT6 and the icons I believe are a QT6 Label so you can also add some styling to it yourself. Here's the documentation for it: doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-con…
There is a property called lineHeight so you could just add that to the PlasmaExtras.ShadowedLabel and see if that fixes it.
PipeWire 1.2.4 released
Highlights
- Avoid a crash in cleanup - of globals. (#4250)
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2.
- Some more bugfixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Avoid a crash in cleanup of globals. (#4250)
- Improve RequestProcess dispatch.
Tools
- Improve float parsing. (#4234)
SPA
- Clear the ringbuffer when stopping in libcamera.
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2. (#3539, #3960)
- Queue dropped first buffer in v4l2.
- Unlink pcm devices when moving drivers to avoid broken pipe.
JACK
- Emit buffer_size callback in jack_activate() to improve
compatibility with GStreamer. (#4260)
1.2.4 · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab
PipeWire 1.2.4 (2024-09-19) This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases....GitLab
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pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle
pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggleI was experiencing it with 1.2.3 on Debian Trixie, though I've heard of Arch users experiencing it. I'm updating to 1.2.4 right now.
NegativeInf
in reply to chraebsli • • •Diplomjodler
in reply to NegativeInf • • •I'm a big fan of Mint. It's great for beginners but also for anyone who just wants to run their PC with minimal hassle. Considering those are pretty low power machines, I'd go for the Xfce editions too. Personally, I think Xfce is a bit sparse but it runs well on older hardware.
There are also a few distros specifically for older hardware, but I don't have experience with those. I'd suggest starting with Mint and seeing how that goes.
NegativeInf
in reply to Diplomjodler • • •If you want blazing fast on an old machine, I always keep a flash drive with some good old slitaz. Can't beat that all in ram configuration on the slitaz minimal windowed version. But that's not really the question here. If the cinnamon variant is slow, xfce.
Coming from someone who nuked their grandmas computer and installed ChromeOS Flex on it since she can't screw that up too badly and just needs a Facebook/search machine.
Tho, now I am wishing for a ChromeOS Flex version that is just Firefox since adblock will be dying on chrome with manifest v3.
Diplomjodler
in reply to NegativeInf • • •Feddinat0r
in reply to NegativeInf • • •But i always ask myself
Manjaro or mint..
I am a total noob, but maybe you can clear that a little bit up, why mint and not manjaro
NegativeInf
in reply to Feddinat0r • • •Eugenia
in reply to chraebsli • • •I've got a lot of experience in that domain, since I've upgraded/installed by helping 7-8 friends & family to switch to linux in the last year here in Greece.
So the two most important things here is the speed of the CPU, and the amount of RAM. With 4 GB RAM on both laptops, means you need to aim for XFCe or Cinnamon, not gnome/kde, and not generally heavy distros like ubuntu/fedora. Also, you need to instruct them to not open a gazillion browser tabs, they will hit the swap (and eventually crashes) with 4 GB of ram.
The Acer laptop scores only 600 points on the Passmark CPU test, which means that it's only good for XFCE. So I'd suggest the Linux Mint XFCE edition.
The HP laptop has 1400 points, which are plenty to run Cinnamon (the default Linux Mint edition). For comparison, most new laptops sold today have over 12,000 cpu points, some go to 30,000.
Mint is the easiest to update, and install new software, and it will provide a familiar look to the user. I highly suggest though a few changes done by you before you give them back their laptops (if you'r
... show moreI've got a lot of experience in that domain, since I've upgraded/installed by helping 7-8 friends & family to switch to linux in the last year here in Greece.
So the two most important things here is the speed of the CPU, and the amount of RAM. With 4 GB RAM on both laptops, means you need to aim for XFCe or Cinnamon, not gnome/kde, and not generally heavy distros like ubuntu/fedora. Also, you need to instruct them to not open a gazillion browser tabs, they will hit the swap (and eventually crashes) with 4 GB of ram.
The Acer laptop scores only 600 points on the Passmark CPU test, which means that it's only good for XFCE. So I'd suggest the Linux Mint XFCE edition.
The HP laptop has 1400 points, which are plenty to run Cinnamon (the default Linux Mint edition). For comparison, most new laptops sold today have over 12,000 cpu points, some go to 30,000.
Mint is the easiest to update, and install new software, and it will provide a familiar look to the user. I highly suggest though a few changes done by you before you give them back their laptops (if you're the one making the installation):
[Cinnamon HP laptop]
- Install the Cinnamenu panel addon, to provide a more modern look to the main menu (and then modify it to look nice)
- Install the dconf-editor and disable tap-n-drag. This default behavior can drive mad Windows users.
[XFce Acer laptop]
- Modify the looks of the window manager to not have too many buttons, make it more windows-like.
- Unfortunately, tap-n-drag is not possible to be disabled on XFce
[for both laptops]
- Download Chrome. While Firefox is the preferred browser, Chrome is actually faster (particularly on youtube), and it consumes less RAM (tick its checkbox to consume less ram in the settings). This is seen as an anathema here, but the truth is, in lower end spec PCs, the speed difference between the two browsers is apparent.
- Setup their youtube to play at 480p by default, and disable autoplay. Anything else will be very taxing to the cpu.
- Install games from the repos for them, so they don't waste all their space with flatpaks later. Simple games like: sudo apt install aisleriot ltris gweled xye lbreakhouthd frozen-bubble gnome-mahjongg gnome-chess stockfish
- Second keyboard language if they require it
- Set up the power options to make sense
- Create a webapp launcher for Photopea (using the chrome option, as it's twice faster on photopea than firefox), so they have a photoshop clone easily accessible (gimp won't cut it).
- Set up the distro to be able to run appimages (test it with the new version of kdenlive for example from their website)
- Install OnlyOffice appimage and set it up in the menus. Onlyoffice provides better msoffice file compatibility than libreoffice.
- Install ublock origin or lite on the browsers, to avoid most ads and speed up the experience.
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in reply to Eugenia • • •Wow... thanks for this detailed info & guide! I'll probably use the HP laptop with Mint Cinnamon, cause I don't like that old retro look of xfce. A friend told me to try Lubuntu too, so let's see.
I didn't know about that Chrome/ Firefox performance "issue" on old laptops, so thank you! Isn't there a way to disable flatpak at all? Thought on my Manjaro I could disable it, so eventually there is an option there too. OnlyOffice and uBlock were my guesses too. I'll probably set up NextDNS and KDE Connect too.
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in reply to chraebsli • • •The XFce version of Linux Mint is not the same as the default XFce. It's been modified to look like the default Cinnamon Linux Mint. You can't tell them apart most of the time, so it doesn't look retro. At 600 points of cpu, xfce can run well, and work better than Lubuntu. Lubuntu is great for less than 400 points cpu, but if you have more than that, you are wasting your user experience (the xfce linux mint edition is much better than lubuntu's in user experience).
I suggest you don't disable flatpaks, you just disable it from the menu so it's not visible to be clicked. But let it in, just in case it's needed. Right click on the cinnamenu (if you install that), open preferences, and then open menu editor. There, you can make the flatpack menu entry invisible.
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in reply to chraebsli • • •chraebsli
in reply to beerclue • • •She doesn't have much money for a new laptop and since she won't use it often, it's enough to check mail, e-banking, ... And we have some old laptops at home nobody uses, so we thought we could give it to her as a gift.
Eventually, she'll buy a new ~400$ laptop later with some good specs, but that's not in the upcoming months. But thanks for the help.
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in reply to Eugenia • • •In my experience on low end YT is slow no matter the browser.
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in reply to RageAgainstTheRich • • •RageAgainstTheRich
in reply to Zier • • •You suggested Kubuntu which is KDE. which will be way to slow for them. I never suggested Gnome... 🧐
Xfce or lxde would be way better, like others have suggested.
Zier
in reply to RageAgainstTheRich • • •randombullet
in reply to chraebsli • • •Could I recommend changing the HDD to an SSD?
Really helps the snappiness of the computer.
I have a lot of SSDs at home and I wouldn't mind shipping one to y'all since I also live in Germany
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