... so I take it that plaintext indexing & search already works flawlessly on windows, that they're now expanding their horizons to indexing images, & user actions and the like?

... and that the promised indices won't take up half of the user's boot drive, and perpetually occupy half of their cpu & ram? (which of course they won't because all the processing and storage will be 'in the cloud')

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Quoting: EagleDeltaI think we need to be careful here. During this mess Sony blocked over 170 countries from buying the game that contained users that already could buy the game. As part of this they have NOT reinstated sales in those territories. As some game devs, users, and streamers have noted - this is not "won" unless that is also undone.

Why? Because they can just bide time and try to enforce the login again, just this time without the bite of the pushback relating to users losing access as "those countries can't buy the game now".

Which is an indication that data gathering & surveillance is more important to them than sales ... which is supremely odd, since Sony is not an ad broker & influence peddler like Google.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, I've never really used flatpaks, except maybe one or two that were actually in my distro's repository. So I'm wondering--If you install stuff from Flathub, how do you keep it up to date? Is there some mechanism or do you just have to sort of remember that you ought to, application by application? Do you update, or do you just reinstall a newer version?

On the cli, it comes with a package manager of sorts; otherwise it integrates with gui managers like KDE Discover, or GNOME Software via packagekit transparently. I use `flatpak update` on the cli, whenever I check for stuff on the regular package manager.

One thing that does require a bit of manual tinkering is the permissions; there's an app called Flatseal that makes it a lot easier: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal [External Link]; KDE system settings also has a tab nowadays towards the same end.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't think there's an English world "libre". There's a French word, but in the context of open source software it's almost always the Spanish that's being invoked. Don't know why--either there's more Latin American involvement in open source than French involvement, or US Americans sometimes speak Spanish but rarely speak French.

AFAICT, the usage of 'libre' stuck after a suggestion by Stallman to differentiate between the 'gratis' (free as in beer) and the 'rights and responsibilities' (free as in speech) conceptions of freedom: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html [External Link]

Though somewhat ironically, the latinate 'liber' doesn't quite capture the sense RMS has in mind either; because it designates freedom from constraint in both its Latin origin, and how it's been taken up in the Anglophone world in notions of 'liberty', 'liberalism', and so on: Being 'freeborn', as opposed to a slave; freedom to trade, travel, etc., without being tied to some 'lord', 'king', whatever. -- whereas RMS's conception is more 'contentful', so to speak, in that it involves being part of a system of mutual constraints among equals, that is, having rights as well as responsibilities.

So, 'libre' software would better describe MIT & BSD licensed software if we were being more pedantic with our terminology.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIt would have been nice if the naming schema could have followed the other Libre names.

Libre Chat

Libre Office

Libre Worlf

Libre tro ;P

But in all seriousness in my opinion LibreVoxe is way better than VoxeLibre and easier to remember and rolls off the tongue better IRL speech.

There's a free (public domain recordings, by volunteers, of public domain books) audiobook site called 'LibriVox' https://librivox.org/ [External Link] -- they may have wanted to avoid the names getting conflated.

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In all fairness, though, nft syntax is quite a bit more readable compared to iptables.

The documentation is also helpful: https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Netfilter_hooks [External Link]



... unless ... oh, never mind.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: SalvatosI don’t know what Sui, Web3 or Playtron are, but I like how the shoulder buttons seem to be labelled to be readable by people not using the device.

Just like the tops of seemingly all laptops in the world - to my never-ending irritation.

Ah, that one makes sense to me since you can't be looking at the top of a laptop while using it (plus there's no need to since it's just a brand logo).

I'm using a laptop for some years now (not too many though), and I still expect it to open for me when the logo is turned correctly, not when it's on it's head... :)

For me it doesn't normally matter, but if I buy a cool laptop, like say one from System76 or something, I want passersby to see the logo right way up so they can bask in the coolness. :grin:

Apple tried the 'user-facing' logo for a while in the late 90s, & were universally ridiculed for it:


https://web.archive.org/web/20170803142512/http://kensegall.com:80/2011/12/apples-upside-down-thinking/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the plus side, I have to admit that picture does kind of look like a spaceship from Star Trek. That's something, right?

Yeah, it'll activate its cloaking device ... and won't be seen ever again.

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Oddly reminiscent of 'Tri-Optimum'.

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Yeah OK, I'm reinstalling it after a *very* long time.

I had enjoyed it even in its barren initial launch state; & in the meantime I got a taste of Minecraft as well -- which I like a lot. Now that NMS is a lot more 'minecrafty', I'm curious how the base building aspect works. Though I suppose there's no analogue to 'redstone' in NMS now, is there?

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