Ah yes, clearly an admirer of the fine arts and a very detailed appreciation of my work!
If you can’t even bothered to replace the various placeholders, I don’t think you’re doing your job very well, David.
Ah yes, clearly an admirer of the fine arts and a very detailed appreciation of my work!
If you can’t even bothered to replace the various placeholders, I don’t think you’re doing your job very well, David.
I can’t overstate how relieved I am with the election results in France.
It’s still very worrying, the far right is growing in terms of influence, but at least it’s still widely considered as the most dangerous option by everyone else, and it’s still being effectively blocked.
We won’t get an efficient government with how the parliament is split, but at least it won’t be run by the far right. Congrats to all the people who voted to avoid running the country into a totalitarian wall!
Hey everyone!
I'm working on a video to see what the Linux community (or at least people who follow me) actually use.
So, I created a little form, hosted on my Nextcloud (hopefully it's up to the task...)
It's only up for 2 days, so don't hesitate to share it around, it will help me "touch grass" and see if my preconceived notions are confirmed, or invalidated!
https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/XQRzMrs8QTtCjDfSyP4koA9o
Of course, it's all anonymous, no personal data, it's just for the purposes of creating the video.
It always kinda scares me when I read certain comments. They’re not numerous, but I see more of them each year. They say things like « the woke EU », or the « EUssr », or « socialist EU ».
They’re generally there when I talk about the EU regulating big tech, or fighting abuses of dominant position, and I just don’t understand how anyone can link that kind of activity to being « woke » whatever that means today, or being « socialist » (which in these people’s minds probably means « commie »).
Time to look at @kde #Plasma 6!
So, after a full year, was it worth the wait? Spoiler, it was!
The amount of misogynistic comments on my latest video is just off the charts.
You can doubt the new CEO for her skills, her vision, experience, or the companies she worked at. But saying « another woman CEO, Mozilla is dead » is just… wow.
It’s 2024, people. Seriously. WTF.
A bunch of comments requested an explanation on #Linux graphics drivers, so I decided to take a look at the topic, and explain Mesa, kernel drivers, the Nvidia drivers (Nouveau, NVK, the official #opensource modules, and the proprietary driver), as well as AMD drivers (with RadeonSI, RADV, AMDVLK and AMDGPU, plus AMDGPU-Pro), and Intel drivers (with i915, i965, ANV and the new Xe driver).
I hope it helps make things a bit clearer!
If you’ve ever navigated any form of forum or online community focused on #Linux, you probably saw someone mentioning #SystemD as either an advantage, or, more likely, a problem. While it’s used by virtually every major Linux distro, it seems like there’s a strong core of people who dislike this system,so I thought I’d give a look at what systemd is, and at why some people seem to really hate it:
Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".
If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.
No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.
If, like me, you like to talk about Linux over and over again, annoying your friends and family and complete strangers on the process, I’m here to give you some ammo for these unwanted conversations, with 15 facts about the history of Linux, it’s mascot, the kernel, Linus Torvalds, and more (and I promise you probably didn’t know all of them already!):
We all have preconceived notions about #privacy on our desktop operating systems. But how much data does #Windows, #macOS, and even #Linux really collect?
Let’s look at all the things they know about you, what they do with the data, and how you can disable most, or all of that:
Also, this is why I can’t wait for deb, rpm, .run or .bin formats to die, at least for applications. If Resolve was a Flatpak, a Snap or an Appimage, it would have had no issues surviving the upgrade. It would have come with the versions it needs. It would install and run on any distro without additional packages to install manually.
App Developers: use these new formats, you’ll do yourself, and your users a favor.
Spoke too soon, Resolve doesn’t run, it throws a symbol lookup error linked to libpango. So I won’t be upgrading the desktop just yet, I guess!
I upgraded my main laptop to #Fedora 38. One click in the Software Center, it downloaded everything in about 5 minutes, and the upgrade itself took around the same amount of time. Everything works after rebooting, except the Quick Settings Tweaker and Dark mode switcher extensions, which are not crucial, so I’d say it was pretty damn smooth! I’m always amazed at how simple our desktops have become these days…
Will upgrade the desktop today as well!
@joshix I much prefer using multiple copies and losing about 1Gig of space in total than having to check each program I use after each distro upgrade ;)
Couldn’t agree more with the sentiment and arguments here. The FSF is failing hard at making any impact on anything.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html
Today, I offer something a bit different: a plunge into the 70s, 80s and 90s as we look at how #Linux replaced #Unix as the biggest operating system in the world.
How did a scrappy little #OpenSource clone manage to replace an installed, commercial powerhouse people learned in Universities, and why wasn't #BSD chosen instead?
Let's dive in:
The more I learn about AI tools for writing, generating images, etc… The more I think they should all be put on pause while regulation is put in place to decide who owns what and how you can decide to not have your stuff used to train an algorithm, or what you’re entitled to if it is indeed used.
Datasets used should be fully open and accessible and it should be possible to say you don’t want your creations to be included, and have them « unlearned » as well, if that’s even technically feasible
Out of curiosity, I went back on Twitter’s website to look at the replies to my last Tweet (the one saying I wouldn’t be posting there anymore). And wow, leaving WAS justified.
The amount of Elon bootlicking, of people coping badly with someone leaving their platform and using that as a pretext to just be offensive, and just pure conspiracy nutjobs or people flat out ignoring documented facts… It’s insane.
Don't know to code? Still want to contribute to a free or #opensource project, or a #Linux distro? Here are a bunch of ways you can! (Warning: includes jokes on people telling to RTFM, people who pester others with their preferences, and project managers)
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