and a mew nozzle

Glad they were responsive, I’m used to customer support lines just pussyfooting around.

Hopefully they weren’t just trying to prevent you caterwauling

I wonder if the old fan failed due to tin whiskers?

I’ll see myself out

For non-fiction I’ve read Chokepoint Capitalism and The Internet Con. The Internet Con was a lot like his online essays, to the point where it felt redundant, but he does good essays so if you haven’t read them it’s a good way to get around his work. Chokepoint Capitalism was a little more novel (probably in part because he coauthoured). Neither were very dry, which is significant for the genre.

Fiction, I’ve read Walkaway and Unauthorised Bread. Walkaway is good worldbuilding with both fascinating and bizarre ideas, but I don’t think it’s good fiction. Unauthorised Bread is a short story available online and is excellent.

I assume this is specific to his fiction?

Very much my experience with Walkaway. Unauthorized bread (short story) was a little better executed imo.

Conversations.im

Has an onboarding wizard, includes text, voice and video calling, OMEMO encryption, group chats etc.

But more importantly, what have you tried and why didn’t they work for you?

Graphene is focused on security, not privacy

It’s easy to win a war when your enemy is strangling themselves to death.

In some places that’s legal. In no places is that moral

I have this set up and recently transitioned to using the numpad to jump to desktops so it’s always one move

developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible.

What are those letters?

The fall of AI?

This is not open source software, it’s licenced under the Anti Capitalist Software Licence.

I still appreciate it in this list, but the caveat is important

Zotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.

Two days ago Windows Update deleted my Linux EFI boot entry on another disk.

About a year ago an update broke Bluetooth so that I could never add or remove any devices. That had not been fixed last time I tried, several updates later.

About 5 years ago I was flat out unable to update Windows for 6 months, due to what turned out to be a bug when an unknown hard drive was attached.

You may appreciate the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License, though more alternatives are usually recommended.

Open Source has a specific meaning

Why can’t I find any of these (except frontend) going through the website?

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoundation/

It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.

On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.

I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.

I’ve been an Arch user for more than a decade and I’ll usually be first in line to defend it from dodgy claims about unreliability.

But that forum response is bizarre. Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware). VLC is an officially supported package, and surely this change would impact almost every VLC user?

New opt-depends is a nice pacman feature, but it hardly implies that things have been removed from the base package.

You can do this on Arch too and it will work great until it doesn’t. Manual interventions are rare and usually don’t affect everyone.

From a quick search, “sleep as android” seems to have support for both, although people have varying success with it