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submitted 4 weeks ago by stuner@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

The source tweet from Carl Richell:

COSMIC and Pop 24.04 Beta will be released September 25th.

I'm looking forward to COSMIC reaching beta and then hopefully a stable release :)

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, the former is not possible due to asinine requirements by the HDMI Forum: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected The only option is to use DisplayPort instead (or perhaps an adapter).

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Your changes can't hurt me!

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

AFAIK, this corresponds to the snap package of Steam.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 132 points 4 months ago

Players can only access the lowest rank of competitive gameplay for free, and access to any higher levels costs a subscription fee of $2.50 a month. That's right, you'll need a subscription to play GeoGuessr on Steam, for some reason.

Not only is this price point bizarre for a game that you can literally just hop into similar browser versions and play for free, but [...]

GeoGuessr has required a subscription to actually play for a while now. I think they had a very limited Free tier until 2024, but it was not a great experience. The developers claim that they need to charge a subscription fee because they need to pay Google for the Streetview API access. To me, that seems plausible and would justify a subscription model (as opposed to a one-time purchase).

On the other hand, OpenGuessr seems to be a free alternative that offers a very similar game. That certainly seems like a better alternative if it's sustainable.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

Both KDE Discover and Gnome Software offer similar functionality. You should also be able to use them without their respective shells.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

It sounds like the criterion is "is newer microcode available". So it doesn't look like a marketing strategy to sell new CPUs.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

This seems very one-sided. Sure, the disclosure was not handled perfectly. However, this post completely ignores the terrible response by the CUPS team.

The point on NAT is certainly fair and prevented this from being a much bigger issue. Still, many affected systems were reachable from the internet.

Lastly, the author tries to downplay the impact of an arbitrary execution vulnerabilty because app armour might prevent it from fully compromising the system. Sure, so I guess we don't need to fix any of those vulnerabilities /s.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

The main downside of double-decker train cars is the time it takes passengers to to board them. And, since this is one of the main factors limiting metro frequencies and thus capacity, they're not that suitable for subways. To maximize metro capacity, you want long trains with many doors and very high frequency.

Double-decker cars are much more suitable for lower-frequency service (S-Bahn, regional, long-distance,...) where they're also commonly used.

Of course, you could still use double-decker cars in a metro (and maybe some places do), it's just suboptimal.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Raindrop energy harvesting is a rubbish idea. The raindrops simply don't have a meaningful amount of energy to begin with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36907674

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I understood Matthew's position as "this should be discussed in the Workstation WG first", not as a "no":

in favor of the process outlined above (tl;dr: talk to the Workstation WG, and if that does not come to a satisfying outcome, file a Council ticket for next possibilities).

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It also seemed more likely that they would promote KDE without demoting Gnome.

But was there a follow-up on that (e.g. in the Workstation WG)?

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Given that Fedora is a distro that aims to be on the frontier of new features and technologies, the inclusion of KDE seems like a much better fit than Gnome.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Of course it was patched in all affected Debian versions: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0160

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Switzerland has since introduced a law that changed this to self determination.

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