I'm happy to see people mention donations. I also do some to KDE from time to time. If you work at a large company, you should see if they do charity matching. There are some open source orgs that are filed as non-profits and can get approved for a donation matching program. $10/mo turns into $20/mo, and is a lot more than $0/yr if you weren't giving anything previously. It's also convenient and not something you have to feel bad about forgetting if it's recurring.

As far as Plasma 6 goes, I'm hoping its release will be the Wayland milestone for me and I switch to it for regular use on my desktop. Wayland has been good on the laptop for at least a year, but some unpleasant things were on the desktop. I'm hoping I can say goodbye to X11 with Plasma 6.

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Apparently, if the PC can't compete with the consoles in the living room, it can win in the hands.

I miss my old PS Vita, but I still can't justify a handheld at this time. Despite enjoying Breath of the Wild on the Switch, I still have yet to complete it after all this time.

Deck news to me is like tech pop culture -- fun to watch... hard to resist.

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I think I gotta get that Marvel one at some point even though I'm pretty tired of Marvel stuff specifically. A friend of mine told me how great it was, wrote a Steam review for it (he never does that), and put over 70 hours into it. I can't ignore it. I think he played it on the Deck as well.

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I'm surprised the developer didn't mention EVE Online as an inspiration to the galaxy and structures design. That's all I could think about.

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Quoting: 14RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?

That's what I was asking earlier. Like how many people use it as their actual workstation. Likely the ones that due use it for nvidia cuda stuff... and since nvidia and Wayland still don't play 100% together... I guess Red Hat is wanting a more 'Red Team' friendliness?

People that use CUDA are using recent software, not RHEL... generally speaking of course.

Nvidia went through all the trouble to have repositories for 8 / 9 for RH, so I'm assuming 'someone' must be using it for that. I'd think most people that would buy Quadros would do such things.

People think "RHEL has old software", sure, but the vendor stuff is going to be packaged specifically for RH (and based systems) which is why EL exists at all. The software that these guys use are going to be perfectly recent, just built for a long supported base so they don't have random breakages.

Where I work, software developers and DevOps type people complain often of the repos having older software, and when they're not given a solution (they usually ask for Ubuntu), proceed to compile and then manually install from source. Heh. Annoying. So that's my experience.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: 14RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?

That's what I was asking earlier. Like how many people use it as their actual workstation. Likely the ones that due use it for nvidia cuda stuff... and since nvidia and Wayland still don't play 100% together... I guess Red Hat is wanting a more 'Red Team' friendliness?

People that use CUDA are using recent software, not RHEL... generally speaking of course.

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Came back to say I played a few more rounds before the free weekend ended. I lost a couple more matches but the other players were either silent or nice enough to say "GG." And then I finally won a couple matches in a row. Like anything new, it takes several rounds to get familiar with which units are good counters to other units and all their possible upgrades. It kind of feels like playing with kid toys. "I'm going to set up my army this way!" "And I'm going to set mine up this way!"

"BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!"

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Freelance journalists and private contractors are same as "indie" in the media world. Once you are not managing and paying yourselves, you're no longer independent, inherently.

Can you be considered independent if you don't self publish? Depends on the contract I'd say, which is private. To define the term in a strict sense, I think you have to self publish to be indie.

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RHEL distributions have got to be 95% headless (complete guess), so how big is this particular Wayland announcement anyway?

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I'm hoping the GA release will be a good time to try Wayland again.

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