My parents are almost completely technological-illiterate (i.e. due to old age my father doesn’t even have a cellphone nor knows how to use it, and my mother barely can know how to do calls in her phone - both of them don’t know how to use a computer) but they know they don’t know about stuff - so hearing stories like that kind of make me be thankful they’re like that and that they will hear me when needing some advice or need to do something involving something tech-y
Honest question, what use has data transfer graphs?
I got a Logitech MX Mouse Master 3s. Not sure if it can fit into what you want or need because I’m no gamer (like, not even minesweeper) but it has more than 5 buttons.
I set it up with logiops so you could customize its buttons - for example I set up one of its buttons to open KDE Plasma’s overview.
Good mouse overall though the bottom cavity where the wheel resides can get dirty so I have to open it like every couple of months to clean it.
Falkon, because it’s fully integrated to KDE. Though I wish an actual Qt web browser running Gecko (or Servo, maybe one day) existed.
In my third world country the real issue is about costs. At this very moment cooking with gas is cheaper than cooking with electric.
The gas provider company mandates an inspection on every home gas apppliance and the installation every 5 years to check for good connections and correct ventilation (if a home does not pass the checks the service is suspended), so I guess at least it diminishes the risks to some degree.
But still since gas is going to be a lot expensive in the following weeks, maybe the tables will turn. But then you’ll need to get an electric stove.
You can’t just throw money and devs at it and expect the problem to be solved.
Then nobody will throw money at any project at all, because everything eventually will be solved by “magick”.
Destinating more resources to that quickens and makes better that process, though, incentivating people to work on it and test it.
It seems like you’re thinking about “customization” as “customizable look and feel”, but “desktop customization” goes way beyond than that.
Phoronix’s comment section is as toxic as it can be, but i found out a comment that puts into words better similar thoughts I have on this:
How about the Linux Foundation forks over a few million to fund the thing in its name?
They could hire more engineers, more testing, more QA. Yet they don’t.
And while at it, maybe Mozilla or any other stakeholder with resources could revamp Rust to produce lightweight binaries, have a stable compiler and for it to be way quicker in compilation?
No? Okay, but then why do all these foundations/organizations exist? And why do they hold such vast amounts of resources, while extorting the projects they claim to help?
I’d only add that it’s not only about the kernel - they are home to a project that could be in the medium-long term a serious alternative to Google’s blink/Apple’s webkit, and of course an alternative to the hegemony of Chrome, but they actively chose to just not give them a single cent. Yes I am talking about Servo.
They should just talk wayland directly. Using GTK just for desktop integration is not what GTK is for. The friction will only increase over time.
I recall reading a comment from (allegedly) a Gnome dev on Reddit a few years ago saying that Mozilla should port Firefox directly to Wayland (?) so to make it toolkit-agnostic.
I don’t know if that is actually a possibility, but that would be great. You can’t use Firefox if you don’t have GTK installed, not even an appimage of it - but apparently you can get stuff like Inkscape running without it just fine:
Well I wasn’t thinking about memory (and maybe that’s the reason some people downvoted that comment…) but because in my experience NetworkManager takes time starting at boot and with months/years it was taking more and more time. I reset it once and kept doing the same thing.
As you said you’re planning on a home server kind of thing I’d think setting up a static ip is a good idea and NetworkManager is just an overkill for that - you could very well go along with Gentoo’s netifrc.
If you can live without Networkmanager, I’d disable it and move your network setup to a static ip. Networkmanager can hog resources.
I know at some point in history there was talk about going to C++ but Linus brushed it off because he didn’t liked it. This time he thinks otherwise.
So trying to get Linux into another language is no new talk.
And Zig is becoming a thing. I do not know if it will be ever suitable for such task, but it seems like moving on from C or complementing C’s kernel development with Rust, Zig or whatever comes with the future is just a matter of time.
It will not happen overnight as a fork will not happen overnight so the only way forward seems to be patience.
Mannah Hontana
If they did Hannah Montana Linux and Biebian and they were not much else than Debian with some wallpapers and themes I can create Billie EiLishnux or some shit like that and prove than I’m more capable than your average ai and you can’t stop me.
Wait until you learn what “GNU” stands for.
Friendly self-reminder to never open the comment section on Phoronix ever again.
I’m “stuck” with an Apple Thunderbold Display. Can’t deny it’s great, sturdy, integrated mic, camera, usb ports and ethernet are actually a great thing to have and everything in it looks great despite it being “old” - but I have a super annoying issue where at like 70% of the times I turn on the computer the display won’t turn on - I have to restart the PC with the REISUB thing, then turn it on, then press f9/f10 like wanting to go to the boot/bios screen, then turn the PC off, then turn it on again - it’s until that time the display turns on. All I just know about this is that this is most probably due to the Titan Ridge driver in the Thunderbolt adapter my PC has, an HP Elitedesk 800 g4.
So I was looking forward to this and, if they ever have success/luck and I have money, potentially getting a Mac Mini M4 new/second hand to replace the PC. But maybe I should be looking forward to another monitor brand that offers the same features and quality.