the alternative is manually (and somewhat regularly during your hardware’s support period) searching a manufacturer’s web site for a bios update, hoping that your bios has a built-in flasher or there being at least a boot disk or ‘dos’ flasher you can slap on a usb to do it… lvfs is a good thing.

don’t see 'em loaded here, either. trixie (dietpi) server, aurora (f44) desktop

the qr itself is just a link to a recaptcha web page with a unique identifier in the url.

the magic is all hidden in the required app that’s linked to your google account and device, and the interactions that take place between it and google’s servers once it sees that code or link.

i have a few oem pulls, all a380–cut down by the oem (such as hp) to a measly ~40 watts max to fit within the limits of the little 12vo psu found in their cheapest desktops.

runs on linux beautifully (and easily). runs what games i do play quite well. qsv works great, although it is still a bitch to get working in obs or handbrake with native packages (it’s a breeze with their respective flatpaks, though). it is also working pretty well in ‘incompatible’ (no rebar support) systems. on some configurations, efi screens default to a giant low-res output, but that’s about the only real ‘issue’.

yea, ubuntu ‘failing’ is news to me, too. their infrastructure has been hammered by bad actors, and pre-release daily spins were at-times a bit rocky, but the release itself (barring a few potential issues on the desktop with all the changes) seems to be solid.

much smaller target so far fewer people are looking for holes in bsd, subsequently there are fewer reported ‘issues’.

and if you tasked all the persons and organizations looking for holes in linux to do the same to bsd…

as large hardware vendors, i’m pretty sure they were to getting to the point where they would lose features or even access to the service if they didn’t start paying-in.

if these age checks ask female users to pan the camera down towards their chests, that’s gonna be a problem. a big giant huge problem.

adguard home is foss (gpl3)

firefox did that bit right. the burger menu might be the default–but that menu bar is right there waiting to be called to action or given center stage.

appeal to people sharing a computer with grandparents or children

it’s near perfect for them. fewer options, less things to mess up, and the big fat buttons for the few things they might want to run (and everything else tucked out of the way).

in their search for the ‘perfect’ desktop, i think the gnome design team went just a weeeee bit too far in dumbing-down the interface and elimination of ‘clutter’, and so many ‘gnome’ applications and utilities have like zero options and no menus, and literally no personality. they’re basically unusable on anything that’s supposed to be more than just a browser-launching chromebook replacement.

alternate title: “gnome is actually good–once you get rid of most the ‘gnome-ness’ with these thirteen extensions”

and it is… and it also isn’t. once you turn gnome into a kde clone, the kde is gonna run circles around your extension-laden desktop.

well, they are putting more water in mass market cold cuts these days…

it took over an hour and three tries to download updates to firefox and thunderbird on a system configured to use mozilla’s ppa (thunderbird is not included in mozilla’s new deb and rpm repos)

This new support is just for i686 user-space package support and comes without any i686 ISOs

so… LOL64?

bonzibuddy would be a welcome change from all this ai bullshit that’s getting thrown at us.

canonical is barely in the black–and only recently so. there isn’t anything there, except for the ‘free publicity’ that comes from doing the attack.

perhaps the many, many people who are trying to update and secure their existing systems or install new software or packages on them? the many others wanting to upgrade or install a new ubuntu? perhaps anyone who maintains or uses a ppa archive or other launchpad resource? there are millions of people outside of your sphere that are affected by this ongoing incident.

as long as you’re still a mac user the icloud space and sub isn’t really going to waste. can you do what you want to do on your android phone by just using a browser? i know you can’t do ‘everything’ that way, but basic file and email access should be accessible from pretty much any device’s browser.