Thank you GabeN for making me feel grateful, if only for a fleeting moment, that I don't even have a wallet to run away from me.

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Quoting: sarmadWhat's with the "Sexual Content" label? 🤔

David & Solomon, you know.

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The reddit thread is interesting. The guy who made this claims he couldn't find an audiobook, or an accessible version for visually impaired people ... which is pretty implausible by itself; but then he goes on to tell how that gave him the impetus to prepare 'translations of the text into as many languages as he could', & hire voice actors in various languages to record his (?) translations, and so on.

Doesn't sound terribly serious (or even sane) to me.

I mean, pro-level bible software costs a ton (because it comes with pretty amazing interlinked text, Greek & Hebrew translations, historical commentaries, and so on), but basic e-book/audiobook type releases are a dime a dozen.

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I tried to do the dnf system-upgrade yesterday, though I got stack due to the gpg keys for the postgres 15 repo being absent (somehow). I'll try in a few more days, I think. I hurried a bit since I wanted to get a system-compiled build of Python 3.11

In any case, as far as the 'above the hood' elements are concerned, Fedora 38 will be a more interesting release for Xfce users, since a huge upgrade is in the works for 4.18

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It looks like they're releasing new versions under whatever license, then putting them under a less restrictive license afterwards.

Free as in beer, for physx 3, in 2015: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2015/03/nvidia-physx-source-code-now-available-free-on-github/
BSD-3 for physx 4, in 2018: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2018/12/nvidia-have-now-made-physx-open-source/

- & now this. Who knows what they're thinking? I mean, this is the company that released firmware that 'called home' to spy on overclockers.

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This is really well put:

Quoting: KithopTo be able to find small, close knit communities - makers, gamers, artists, musicians, photographers, etc. who can finally afford to drop the 'brand' pretense and be a lot more genuine, to not be abused by a platform's shadowy algorithms, is way more like the Internet I remember, of fan forums and webrings and without draconian advertising and pages that would make any dial up connection cry over their heft.

Though I can't get my hopes up about the kind of people I mainly follow - academics - because some of those fellows are all about the 'brand pretense'; and those who aren't are scared of missing out on something important that the other party may say, so they'll stay whereever they are.

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Best of luck to the Nextcloud app, though I have to say (& I hate to say it) that one should take 'new feature!!!' announcements from Nextcloud very, very cautiously.

At the very least - don't expect to self-host *and* be able to use any 'new features' before they mature in a couple of years' time. If a paid provider with dedicated staff to fix the constant breakages offers said features, then it's all right of course.

... & I see that nitter.net is down. I hope it's not related to this acquisition. It's a great way of keeping up with twitter feeds from people you like over rss, without even logging in to twitter itself.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: StalePopcornAs far as computing is concerned, thank God for Linux for end users—true freedom, true choice. IMHO

Big THANK YOU to everyone in Linux, the digital freedom of humanity is made possible because of all of us. We may have even averted a Digital Dark Age and incalculable disparity & suffering in the future because of what we've done here today in the now.

& the CS department as UC Berkeley who unleashed proprietary AT&T UNIX into the world as BSD (without which the trajectory of commercial/household internet in the 90s would've looked a lot different); & the Free Software Foundation whose anniversary is coming up in a week or so. - an annoying pedantic point to be sure, but I think it's worth keeping in mind.

... though the comment I really wanted to make was that it's a little odd to see Linus receiving an award from Intel. He's been pretty vocal about their 'crap products', & recently too.

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I reinstalled it -- to find that I'm horribly rusty, as I can't survive beyond 12 seconds on Hard (the easiest difficulty is called 'Hard', btw). My record is 87 seconds on Hard, & 20-something on Harder.

I imagine this would be really fun to play on Steam Deck.

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It's also a pretty bold ... if not reckless ... move to have the KDE spin launch the Wayland version by default. Plasma Wayland has been making great progress lately, but a few serious 'showstoppers' are still intact: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers [External Link]

I've been using Fedora KDE on intel graphics for the past week or so; and I absolutely love it. In my experience nvidia has been a bit iffy on Fedora KDE even with X11.

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