Darn, that looked really interesting, but I missed the bundle by a day. I guess I'll look the games up individually on Steam; and maybe buy them later.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTungsten might be good?

If you do something to make it less brittle, you'd probably decrease the melting point.

You couldn't use modern steel-bridges sort of techniques, but people used to make bridges out of stone, which is pretty brittle. Just use great big chunks stacked up and base the solidity on arches and stuff, rather than tension and flexibility. It would require ludicrous, unrealistic amounts of tungsten, but we're talking about building bridges over lava here.

Tungsten could work, you are right. It just depends o the depth at which you place the inferno, as well as the ambient pressure.

Assuming 1atm, it wouldn't melt before the outer core, which is 3000km deep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient [External Link]

Stone... obviously would get melted in lava, unless you actively cool it down, which is what I was initially thinking about :)

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: ripper81358I tried it and it worked on my end with Kubuntu 22.10 and Plasma 5.27. As of now some Apps are only working with it when installed as native packages. There seems to be a problem with universal packages (Snaps and Flatpaks) in some cases.

Developers of Electron based Apps should upgrade to newer Electron releases and enable pipewire. Pipewire runs on Wayland and X11. There are also other reasons besides linuxspecific stuff to keep Electron up to date. Older Electron releases have a very long list of security issues. This should have been fixed for a long time.

Looking at how browsers need constant and swift updates to avoid hackers,it's pretty obvious Electron apps should be using an OS-provided electron component that gets updated regardless of any effort by each electron-based app dev... but then they'd probably break all the time because those apps usually do hackish things instead of strictly adhering to standards and use browser-component version freezing as if it were a valid solution to those breakages and not a menace.

Well, PWA are also a thing :)

I was pleasantly surprised to see that homeassistant provides one, for instance. They are a good middle ground between my "only foss apps" policy and "you must use the app" services.

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I'd be interested in a serious version of this. What would it take to build a bridge on lava? Steel pillars? With heatsinks? Heatpipes? Active cooling? :P

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: MayeulCAnyway, hopefully I'll open it in about a week :P

And…?

Lol, not yet unfortunately. I'll post an update here if you are curious :P

I feel this is either asymptotic (Ninety-ninety rule [External Link], or I'm very bad with estimates (could be both...)

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Quoting: melkemindWill this finally allow steam remote play to work properly in Wayland?

It should already work if started with -pipewire :) (or -pipewire-dma-buf for more efficiency, but please double check as this is from memory).

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Quoting: LinasSomething like that should really be built into Wayland.

I'm not sure if you mean screensharing or that video bridge? If the former, well, there's pipewire, just not supported by Discord (the "app", it works in browsers).
If you mean the bridge itself, it's difficult while still honoring Wayland's security guarantees, and it would be more a part of XWayland than wayland.

Should it be in XWayland? Maybe, but this modular solution is good as well.

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Finally! That small change (at least o the surface) will make a huge difference in usability. IIRC, some artists have stopped using Gnome because of that.

It's very annoying when I want to pick an image in my picture gallery that contains hundreds of files, named after date and time or just an increasing number (worse for iphone pictures since apparently those are UUIDs), to have to open another program and look up the file name, before selecting the right file(s).

Most things are too dumbed down for my taste in Gnome, and this dialog is a prime example. You can't open or rename a file from it, IIRC, nor perform simple file operations (move, create folder).

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Re-reading the title, I understood it as a new default boot animation during the sale event. That would be a nice touch (if can be disabled).

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: MayeulCEdit: for more context, I received it about one year ago.

I've got questions: You didn't open it to test if it works? Are you sure that setting a daily time limit to spend on the SD wouldn't have been a better idea?

Interesting suggestion. Perhaps, but then it wouldn't work as a carrot anymore. I also made that choice before purchasing it (initially it was "I'll finish before receiving it").

Anyway, hopefully I'll open it in about a week :P

Edit for your other question: No, I haven't opened it at all; I've actually considered if it was worth keeping like that as a collector item, but the lithium battery won't last. Technically, I think manufacturers should honor a 2-years warranty, so I'm still in the green if it doesn't work.

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