@Linux_Is_Best@mstdn.social
As far as I'm concerned after at least 23 years #liberachat might as well be IRC itself. At least then they could innovate and diverge from the constraints of the origin protocol and modernize.
Like for example the commands, help and other barriers are pretty strong, not ideal for new users. Command schema like "/msg nickserve register xyz" is not aligned with current simpler technologies.
I've stopped going there, matrix has its own problems but the barrier to entry "gate" is more in line with Average Joe type users. And it does pictures, video and voice.
Still compared to Discord there are some convienience nuances and the over promotion of a single server.
All in all, it would have been great to see a new text based IRC style chat take its place with less intellectual gates. But it is what it is, and the old people like me don't want to learn new things, its doomed to not grow but has tradeoffs.
I hope to see innovation someday, I am thankful to rust for so much innovation in coreutils and TUI.
Drumroll, please! ๐ฅ AlmaLinux 9.3 is here for all supported architectures:
๐ Intel/AMD (x86_64)
๐ ARM64 (aarch64)
๐ IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
๐ IBM Z (s390x)
Thanks to everyone who tested and helped make the release a success! https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-13-announcing-93-stable/
#Linux #OpenSource
I never had a OLED handheld, Display or TV. I guess it helps brightness in direct sunlight? I hope it can be turned down indoors at night enough that it is comparable to the old Deck. I'm not trying to burn my retinas.
Its Special Edition, I expect it to sell out. WiFi 6 sounds nice and I do love the look how it reminds me of the Xbox 360 glory days and even Xbox Y2K and 90s Nintendo tech too.
I may have to sell my Deck and buy the upgrade. Valve is a champion for us after all.
๐น๏ธ Title: Gaia Sky
๐ฆ๏ธ What's: A libre RT 3D astronomical visualization tool
๐ก๏ธ https://www.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/
๐ฃ๏ธ https://codeberg.org/gaiasky
๐ฆ๏ธ https://mastodon.social/@jumpinglangur
๐ #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #Flagship #Astronomy
๐ฆ๏ธ #Libre #Bin #Arch #RPM #Deb #Flatpak #AppIm
๐ Our entry: http://www.lebottindesjeuxlinux.tuxfamily.org/en/online/lights-on/
๐ฅ๏ธUpdate: 3.5.7
โ๏ธNew features ๐
๐๏ธChanges: https://www.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/news
๐From: https://mastodon.social/@jumpinglangur/111368498410336071
๐๏ธ(3.2) https://www.youtube.com/embed/cA2EH48KWyg
๐๏ธ (3.5.6) https://www.youtube.com/embed/UHardwLcPvA
๐ https://www.youtube.com/embed/NQ_a27iB0CI
๐ฆ๏ธhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/9sQWLmmo6FI
@forteller
Whatsgreat is they are funning #fsv 3d file manager in #kde in their screenshot as a tounge and cheek with the #steamdeck in the background. Valve always does things as a labor of love.
@thelastpsion "Viglen Connect 9 tablet" was interesting. SFF tablets 7-9" are great for linux mobile phone research & dev.
GNOME the popular Linux desktop environment got โฌ1M development boost ๐ฐ
They will:
โบImprove current accessibility
โบDesign / prototype a new accessibility stack
โบEncrypt user home directories individually
โบIncrease hardware support
โบInvest in quality assurance / dev experience
โบExpand / broaden freedesktop APIs
โบConsolidate / improve platform components
GNOME is in top Linuxes such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian..
=> https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure
Props to #valve for crediting #archlinux and #kde on their new Steam Deck OLED page out today. #gaming #linux
Diversification is good and not putting all eggs into one basket. I hope to see the rise of peertube and other federated video tech platforms. Tilvids has done a excellent job.
LibreOffice Poll:
Do you want LibreOffice videos available via PeerTube?
PeerTube is a video platform for the Fediverse and is an alternative to Google's YouTube.
TILvids will give LibreOffice video space on their decentralized platform that is powered by PeerTube.
LibreOffice has 20.2K subscribers on their Google YouTube channel...
Please BOOST for greater exposure.
#LibreOffice #OpenSource #Fediverse #PeerTube #Privacy #TILvids #FOSS #FLOSS #Video #LibreSoftware @peertube @tilvids
I thought that #controlburns made sense in #california after hundreds of millions of trees were killed due to the bark beatle invasive species the last few years.
I trusted fellow humans would show intelligence and not have controlled burns 365 days a year on windy days and only when it was sane, boy was I wrong, turns out many humans optimize profits over intelligence, safety and ethics. Sad.
I wish that file managers like #dolphin and #nautilus would thumbnail files based on their File Unique ID and not path, I have 150GB on 650 files from my photo shoot and the thumbnail generation takes a lot of resources where the thumbnail is thrown out when I rename the directory, or move the file into a sub-directory which can take 10 minuets just to create thubmbnails.
Also, when someone makes a #systemd #kio thumbnailer to automatically thumbnail paths let me know as it would really speed up my workflow to have the thumbnails ready to go when I enter the directory.
GNOME is (Gradually!) Dropping X11 https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/211aaf61-4716-4885-9e2e-5c13dcfbd8e0
@YaLTeR
This is very interesting, I really do like the idea of visual cues and just enough animations to communicate what is happening. I daily drive sway, and have had a watchful interest in hyprland for this reason, I do think there are a lot of ways this tech could innovate like having existing layouts with dead space blocks until filled with a new window, and resizing the parent container to not use 100% of the screen similar to 0:50
By the way what is the name of the paint app on the left? I'm not sure I've seen it before.
Decided to make a new demo video for niri, finally. The last one was so old that niri didn't even have cursors implemented, it showed an orange rectangle instead. ๐ซ
Here's the link again for the curious: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
Very happy I've come this far writing my own compositor from scratch. Honestly thought my motivation would only last for two weeks max, but here we are.
Learned a ton in the process, and now this experience helps me with Mutter & Shell profiling.
#purism #librem11 #linuxmobile I was able to get #gnome #snapshot #camera app to open via flatpak, it would start with a black sceen, and then when I clicked switch app the Librem 11 front light would come on and after about 10 seconds it would snap a quick image before freezing.
It didn't save that image. But I was able to take a screenshot to show the quality comparison between #cheese and `gnome-snapshot`
I also tried to load #megapixels camera app, but it said
`Could not read device name from device tree. Could not find any config file.`
I decided to break out my commentary on the audio into it's own 2nd post (see profile). I also created a 3rd post where I decided to take 4 indoor example photos -- 2 with the front camera, and 2 with the back camera.
#cheese camera app for #gnome has pretty bad ms feedback for pretty much any webcam I've used, even the $200 logitech 4k cameras. And of course I doubt if there is a color profile added to these photos, maybe something that will change with the new Gnome Snapshot app.
Overall again, I am pleased, having a hobbyist farmiliarity with photography I am sure that this thing would shoot some great photos during the day, indoors and outdoor under more optimal cloudy lighting conditions.
I will definately be keeping an eye on what cameras are in Generation II devices in the #linuxmobile space, but until then this will do just fine for me like if I want to do a video call or whatnot.
Maybe I'll take those other example photos tomorrow if I remember.
#Developer #Programmer #WebDev #DevOps #Linux #LinuxMobile #LinuxGaming #Photographer #Fedi #Admin
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