I think that a lot of the recent GNOME design choices are merely because they’re trying to improve usability on mobile devices. It also just so happens that Apple is trying to make the macOS desktop closer to iOS to encourage people to move from Windows. They have similar goals, which leads to similar design choices. And all design is derivative, anyway. Who cares.

It’s sort of annoying that they removed that feature in the first place. Recently, I’ve been using the Nala frontend for APT, since it maintains history similar to DNF/yum, so I try to install all packages through the command-line. The Ubuntu App Center has always been a mild disaster…

I’ve been using AdBlock Plus for at least ten years. Never had an issue

There are instances where the user is implied, but there is always a user. As far as Git goes, the user is almost always git.

I can provide my two cents regarding Point One only. Throughout my day, I am likely to read news on multiple devices. I use FreshRSS to keep my subscriptions, read status, and favorites in sync; and I treat it like a backend. That is, I prefer native clients compatible with one of the supported APIs (FreshRSS supports several). On Apple devices, NetNewsWire. On Linux, NewsFlash.

Ollama provides a Python API which may be useful. You could have it generate the story in chunks, having it generate a list of key points which get passed to subsequent prompts. Maybe…

I read a comment on Reddit a while back that pointed out how much of the open source community has no issue hosting projects on GitHub while also lampooning Snap for having a closed-source backend server. However, since Snap (and GitHub) are open source themselves, nothing is stopping curious and concerned users from auditing the codebase or hosting their own servers. I removed Snap from my Ubuntu installation and use Flatpak instead, but I do not hate Snap. And for what it’s worth, I always go for the native DEB when possible…

I run Ubuntu and use the Nala frontend for APT to keep a log of my package installs. That way, I can easily remove everything if I no longer need to work with a particular language or set of dependencies. For anything too complicated, I like to drop into a Docker container (which integrates nice with VSCode/Codium)

Hot take from a Blogspot site with no theme… Jokes aside, it’s a nice interpretation of the xz story

Interesting. I didn’t realize XCursor predates most image formats XD

Thanks for all the good advice. I’ll look into these solutions.

Yes, I do think you have a point. That’s what I’ve done for several years, but I think it’s time…

I use Jekyll too. It’s got to be one of the easier solutions out there. Not to mention, integration with GitHub/Cloudflare pages is great.

Ate em up

Sounds like a major security risk. All it takes is one “hallucination” (and an overly trusting engineer) from the latest and greatest bullshit generator to compromise an entire network

I’ve been using Ubuntu since 12.04 LTS, and old habits die hard. There have been many attempts by my peers to steer me toward Arch and NixOS, but Ubuntu suits my needs and I am used to it after a decade

It’s possible that the issue you’re running into is with Proton and not your GPU. My anecdote is that running Ubuntu 22 LTS (which Linux Mint, Pop! OS, etc. are all based on) with my 3060 has always worked just fine—usually for machine learning and video rendering. I’m not a gamer, but the occasional Minecraft session does get the GPU kicking.

Unfortunately, pcscd is running… At this point I am thinking it is a hardware issue with my setup

I do not get any messages. I’m starting to think there is an issue with my motherboard’s USB-C port. If I can get my hands on a USB-C to USB-A adapter, I can test this theory…

I am in the habit of writing verbose comments in my source code, which includes attributing the algorithms used and where I found information thereon. Unfortunately, this is not common practice… Be the change you want to see!