So basically, Google realized they fucked up by tightly integrating their browser with their OS, and now they’re doing what they should’ve done in the first place by uncoupling them.

It’d be badass if someone used this opportunity to make a ChromeOS fork based around Firefox.

2020 was such a shit year in computing. So many things got killed off. CentOS, Windows 7, Flash, and Python 2.x, off the top of my head, and probably some other things as well.

I mean yeah, most of these things were getting long in the tooth, but they were widely used and it would’ve been nice if they were all supported longer.

I’d love it if the KDE devs made Baloo and Akonadi optional. Their insistence on including them reminds me of Micro$oft’s insistence on bundling Internet Explorer and integrating it into the OS shell in Windows 98.

So, is kbin.social not defederating from Threads then? I’ll be really disappointed if that’s the case.

I’m a Linux user, but I like having control over my own hardware, and I don’t want my next PC to be an underpowered thin client designed only to work with a commercial cloud OS. I hope this doesn’t take off any time soon.

Hot peppers. Whether it’s jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, Thai chilis, ghost pepper, or even the milder ones like banana peppers, they’re all great. :D

Good thing to be aware of. I usually edit fstab manually anyway, but this is worth knowing if I’m helping someone out.

Neat! I usually edit things manually in fstab, but I’ll have to keep this in mind for when I’m helping new users out, or if I just want to set up a drive quickly.

Can gnome-disk-utility set up permanent mounts? I’ve used it for other things before, but I’ve never used it to permanently mount a drive. If so, I wish I knew about that sooner.

I’ve gotten used to adding extra drives in fstab, myself. I do wish adding permanent secondary drives was a more straightforward process though. I understand the Windows approach of making them instantly accessible has security implications, but I feel like that’s something distros could implement as an optional setting.

I think little things like this hinder Linux adoption among end users. The purists may cry foul at this idea, but I think there should be more and better GUIs for system management tasks, so users don’t have to use the terminal or muck around editing text files as much.

EDIT: Apparently gnome-disk-utility might be a solution if you’re looking for something more straightforward than manually editing fstab. I don’t know whether it can do permanent mounts or not though.

It turns out it came out in 2016. I was thinking 2018, but I was wrong. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/official-reddit-app/

In a way, it’s been even longer than that, since they bought out Alien Blue in 2014, according to Wikipedia

That makes sense. I thought it was upstream but I wasn’t sure.

I felt Reddit’s quality started going downhill around 2021, which is not long after they introduced the official app and started allowing Google logins.

EDIT: Looks like the official app’s been around longer than I thought. :O

What’s the TL;DW version?

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Unless you happen to use Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or Oracle Linux. It doesn’t affect Debian, or Ubuntu, or openSUSE, or Arch, or anybody else.

So, stupid question, but would Fedora be affected at all? I know that’s related to Red Hat, but I’m guessing it’s not affected since it’s not based on RHEL.

It’s not a question of legality really, but more one of an ethical nature. It sort of depends on you, as to whether or not you’re bothered by RedHat doing this or not.

I’d say I’m bothered by it, but there’s not really anything I can do about it. I’m disappointed the GPL doesn’t have stricter rules regarding the distribution of source code though. I feel like it kinda defeats the purpose if sources aren’t freely available to anyone who wants to use them.

Tried that a while ago. I found a preset that was supposed to be similar to Windows’ audio equalization, but I wasn’t satisfied with the results.

Fuck Meta. We need to vehemently oppose their presence in the Fediverse.

This is why I think dynamic range compression should be a standard feature for TVs, phones, stereos, PCs and other consumer devices that output audio. Something to even out quiet dialogue and loud explosions would be a godsend for movie watchers everywhere.

I know Windows has a compressor of sorts built in, the audio equalization feature, and I wish there were a good equivalent for this on Linux.

Truth be told, with my auditory processing issues, I’d probably still be using subtitles in tandem with compression/equalization if it were an option. BUT, it’d still be nice to have for watching things late at night without waking other people up.

I thought voxels were neat back when they were a niche thing, before Minecraft really popularized them.