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AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL (www.phoronix.com)
Nothing like that "new distro" feel (lemm.ee)
Linux Statistics 2024 - TrueList (truelist.co)
Some snippets from the article :...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Is Now Available for Download with GNOME 46, Linux 6.8 - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)
Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it’s still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game....
Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC (www.digitimes.com)
Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out.
I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front....
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Lidarr++Deemix - A service to automatically add albums from Deemix
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13897128...
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?
I’m in the marked for a used 4TB for my offsite backup. As I’ve recently acquired four 12TB drives (about 10000 hours and one to two years old) for 130€ each, I was optimistic. 30 to 40€ I thought. Easy....
It Appears Users Are Getting Bored With TikTok (www.techdirt.com)
4k80
Hey everyone, I recently acquired the 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83. However, the 4k80 one looks grainy. 77 and 83 look clear in comparison. Did I just get a bad copy, or does 4k80 have issues?
Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is (www.businessinsider.com)
Audiences attending the SXSW premiere of “The Fall Guy,” starring Ryan Gosling, were not happy about having to watch a sizzle reel before the movie that touted the promises of AI.
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
Movies too dark in HDR?
Since KDE plasma 6 with hdr support came out recently, I decided to check how some of the hdr tagged movies I’d watched previously look with that. I was surprised to see that they are rather dark, even in scenes under direct sunlight. I ‘tested’ the brightness by opening the movie in hdr and sdr at the same time and...
Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. (www.ghacks.net)
These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!...
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” (arstechnica.com)
What are these all caps, bad subtitles?
For this one show (John Oliver) I download, I always get ALL CAPS and poorly synced subtitles. The text seems OK, but it’s barely usable because very off-sync. I’m curious: where do these subs come from?
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data (www.theverge.com)
Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B (go.theregister.com)
Apple ends block on EU app store for Fortnite-maker Epic (www.france24.com)
GitHub - omegaui/linux-voice-control: Your personal, fully customization, Linux Voice Control Assistant. (github.com)
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft, doing it’s part to make the world a better place.
Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs (www.carscoops.com)
Users of early Nissan Leaf and e-NV200 vehicles in the UK will no longer be able to remotely set off-peak charging routines or climate control schedules
Nintendo doing the smarting (slrpnk.net)
Settlement for the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator also resulted in takedown of the Citra 3DS emulator created by the same developers. (overkill.wtf)
The Citra website has been replaced with the same statement made on the Yuzu website, and the GitHub repository is now gone as well....
Ente - Open sourcing our server (ente.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12624334...