I believe (and this just a believe) that one Linux-first phone with actually working hardware could tip the nonstopping swing. Not for “average” user anytime in maybe even next decade, but there are a lot of people bored with current smartphones, tinkers or just wanting more privacy above than unverificable and unproven promises from Apple and Google.
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
And since when recommending operating system is weird? People recommend YouTube channels, productivity apps, TV shows, tech gadgets… Recommending something that is second most popular thing is not weird.
I got a friend who was constantly downloading shit from shady “gratis” software sites injecting adware. Because of common reinstalling I had to do for him I had to create second partition for his personal files to not constantly transfer them back and forth the USB disk. But then he struggle to manage his files, because I couldn’t just put his /home directory on separate logical volume, no. Windows required him to juggle files around C: and D: drives with fixed sizes and with Desktop and Downloads being on C: anyway. People using Btrfs or LVM know what I am talking about. As he mostly used a browser, LibreOffice and games from Steam/Epic, why I shouldn’t suggest him another OS?
Another example can be my grandpa with older computer (talking 2GB of RAM) that is perfectly happy with lightweight but modern system. Or my nephew who loves playing with painting programs, webcam and Minesweeper-like games without additional popups or TikTok shortcuts being placed in app menu.
It is part od the Fediverse, so commenting, likes, following, etc. should regarless of what ActivityPub-enabled service you use for interactions (for example can comment from Mastodon account).
The “Peer” part of “PeerTube” means that the video player itself is based on torrent technology. It is not saved on your device (unless you decide to), just when you watch you also send the video to cut off some of the server’s bandwidth. Videos are not shared between servers, only the information that they exists, only on uploader’s server and between user’s devices.
It is not to preserve videos online, for that we have other tools like proper torrents, this is ment to be alternative to YouTube. TLDR Here ActivityPub is for statuses, Torrent is for helping the servers.
It uses just the same as other video sites plus some upload bandwidth that is usually unused anyway. Also there is an option to download the video purely by HTTP without torrenting if someone wants to.
No wonder when installing anything on Windows have so much friction compared to Linux and MacOS. Every program have it’s own installer and updater, bundling dependencies with no deduplication making simpliest program heavy. Like, when writing a Python program you are supposed to bundle Python or user would need to install it manually.
GNOME created awesome app ecosystem recently. I have hundreds of them installed, no slowdowns or problems with space, all updated in single menu with quick search which one I want. Apps on desktops have even more sense than on mobile, as they can benefit from less isolation and more integration with rich filesystem and system functions.
Can completely agree. On Apple systems I can find a ton of productivity and editing software, but no luck doing things like file operations or automating. On Linux I can find absolutely anything related to processing data, customization, science or protocol clients, but no luck finding good note taking tool.
recently I bought a Chromebook, I love it so much, it has Linux container enabled and I downloaded Firefox, GIMP, and Krita, but my Chromebook is only 64GB, so that can be a lot!!! So what web apps or low storage alternatives can I use?? I know Photopea, but what about drawing? Thank you!!
Does it ended? On all distros I know of, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, we can swap the desktop environments like gloves. The only exception being immutable things like Fedora Kionite, but they are made to be untouchable and for specific users.
Wayland does not change anything there, only that the desktops with less developers must take more time to adapt. What makes desktop interoperable are FreeDesktop standards, which are now in full swing to Wayland.
3 and 4 are nice but as something someone would set themself. Too much character and detail to be the default when Plasma do not target any specific demographic.
1, 2 and 5 are nice abstract wallpapers, but honestly boring as we have stuff like that for years.
6 is the best. This is wallpaper with some style, but not too much character.
Edit: Just in my opinion and for my eye of course.
I also cannot believe how people looking like doing deep research for the topics cannot find out about different approaches than big corporate apps and old school way of forums/IRC.
As someone who got into Fediverse and FOSS social media months ago I have seen more great things already implemented and working than articles/vidoes like that are just making ideas about.
Matrix is great but in very much Work In Progress state. Many things are rewritten or not complete because of the low budget Matrix foundation has for all their ambitions.
I use it everyday, mostly without problems, but sometimes there is an error and my app cannot decrypt a message, sometimes calls do not ring… It seems like the best base for universal chat, but I don’t know if showing it to my friends and family instead of waiting a year or two more was a good choice.
ActivityPub (read: Fediverse, Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.) is a way for social media site you use to ask other social media site what posts there are for another profile and proof you like or comment it. Something like two-way RSS feed.
SMTP (Email), XMPP and others are working soft of a way that you request from your email/chat provider to send a message to username@server
Matrix is also a different thing. It create a data structures called rooms that are spread across many servers, that those servers synchronize between each other pulling and pushing latest changes and then your client (app) is synchronizing latest messages with the server.
On Discord you are forced to use single proprietary app from single provider (that btw is really close with China’s Tencent) and to use their infrastructure. Basically using Discord is trapping yourself and friends into the will of giant company because chat systems are hard to switch.
With Matrix you can choose between many apps, but most importantly you can can choose a server or even create your own.
A communication protocol with main focus on chat applications. Sort of a specified and documented way how apps communicate with servers and server with each other.
In other words: A network on which you can chat with app of your choice on server of your choice. In other words: Fediverse, but for real-time synchronized things.
Hello, apparently hanging out in Lemmy inadvertently makes you thinking about using Linux. I am planning to install Linux Mint cinnamon on an older laptop, which I want to bring to LAN Parties. From what I read I can just format my C:\ windows disk, install Linux via bootable drive and from what I understand, proton is basically...
Yes, you flash the installation system onto the USB stick, boot the laptop from this USB and then it should be a simple graphical installation wizard. There are plenty of tutorials online and even if all computers can be slightly different it is basically the same scheme.
Once Steam is installed Proton is automatically downloaded for games that by default use it. Games that are not officially using Proton can have it enabled in Steam’s game properties. Most would point you to protondb.com, site showing what games you can suspect to work.
Also, Linux is not an operating system upon itself, but a kernel operating systems can be build upon. I don’t see the point of merging GNU and Android systems into one number.
This meme have sense for servers, but for mobile devices it’s so simplified that it’s wrong. 99% of mobile devices is also wrong, iOS does not use Linux kernel.
As someone who needs to do initial installs on computers with 10-20, I celebrated. It is much easier to type names of the programs and the manager do anything instead of manually downloading installers. But turned out WinGet is really badly done.
As for preferences, for some this is actually Nintendo vs Sega unfortunetly. But don’t underestimate moral decitions too.
The kind of thing you interact outside of installed app/programs. Like the panels, window decorations (titles, close buttom, maximalize button), the way windows float and behave, system settings, etc.
Unix systems (like Linux) are very modular and you can install different desktop environments if you want. And even within those desktops are modules, like you can install different “start menu” or file manager on KDE Plasma.
Just use some unknown program in binary form downloaded from random site that require adminstration access and God knows what it does, because Windows don’t have an option or config file to change simple thing👌.
As far as you are aware. Only author knows what code is in it.
It’s basically like giving computer to a random guy on the street for a day as he promise to disable Windows update for you. Maybe he do it, maybe not, for you it worked, would it work for me? Will there be anything additional in the background running after, I don’t know.
JavaScript as it is today also need to be thrown in a trash of history. Website should not contain additional code. If someone wants to send me an app hacked on top of website rendering, it should be a popup asking me first if I want to run this.
This is absolutely not true and just a myth. Images, video playback, “show more”, forms, tabbing, animations, custom icons, hover effects, popups, background images and videos, light/dark mode, hamburger menus…
It’s hard to count things you can do with advanced format that is HTML+CSS. Saying JavaScript is nessesary for anything other than block of text is like saying that in Minecraft command blocks are nessesary for anything other than making voxel art.
For basic things like interacting with your bank or goverment, running any additional code should be unnessesary. And I believe this needs to be a law targeting accessibility and compatibility.
For maps, dynamic updating, OK. But look at the web now, most sites are apps requiring 99% of web standards implemented to work. No wonder it’s now impossible to actually make a new browser.
HTML was made to last. If browser do not support some tag it would try and render it anyway. Meanwhile with today’s webapps browsers in 2033 will be required to have so much technical debt that for now was exclusive to operating systems.
No problem with sending some JavaScript module extending browser’s capability. But the problem I see is sending whole sites this way, sometimes even rendering HTML on the visitor’s browser, yack…
As much as I would prefer to donate by bank transfer, Bitcoin or something like that to avoid additional fees, the LiberaPay model is simply best working for me.
I think of a sum wanted to spend on donations this month. I choose projects I mostly want to grow or stay in share, divide it and click like “you, you, you, you and you”, sometimes going even above my plan.
Love how the sum can be spread out for more things, instead of one big paymant like on Pateon.
RCS is open protocol, but has no open implementation and Android has no native support (only by Google Messages app that act as a bridge to Google Jibe RCS servers).
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....
Google Messages is a proprietary chat app that connects to proprietary Google Jire servers on phone carrier’s site. It does not use barebone RCS protocol, this is why only Google is now able to make such app even if the app does not use any permission that other apps don’t have.
Native support for Android was planned for Android 11, soon we’ll get Android 14 and still no support in sight.
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected (www.phoronix.com)
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
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Make a Linux app. Stop making distributions.
web/low memory alternatives to Krita and GIMP please
recently I bought a Chromebook, I love it so much, it has Linux container enabled and I downloaded Firefox, GIMP, and Krita, but my Chromebook is only 64GB, so that can be a lot!!! So what web apps or low storage alternatives can I use?? I know Photopea, but what about drawing? Thank you!!
Zorin OS 17 Beta Released with Quick Settings, Spatial Desktop, and More (9to5linux.com)
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Who went "full fedi" yet?
Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like....
short question by an aspiring user
Hello, apparently hanging out in Lemmy inadvertently makes you thinking about using Linux. I am planning to install Linux Mint cinnamon on an older laptop, which I want to bring to LAN Parties. From what I read I can just format my C:\ windows disk, install Linux via bootable drive and from what I understand, proton is basically...
Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)
Selecting the New Face of openSUSE is Underway (news.opensuse.org)
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Fully open source version of Intellij IDEA?
Hi. Is there some fully FOSS version of Intellij IDEA CE? Because the official download includes some proprietary bits.
Google Messages prepares a feature that will do your ears a favor - (www.androidauthority.com)
Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone (9to5google.com)
Apple gets the message, RCS coming to iPhone in 2024 with same Universal Profile as Android (9to5google.com)
It’s happening!!!
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....