Hominine

Hominine , 10 months ago to linux in Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.

What I don’t get is why. What with the recent Red Hat debacle one would think Canonical would make a stronger case as opposed to force feeding the issue.

Hominine , 10 months ago to fediverse in Sup is a New Messaging App by the Creator of Pixelfed

Feels like Jabber has been around for a long time. If I’m not mistaken I remember my buddy pimping it as an AIM alternative back in the Napster/mp3 days.

Hominine , 10 months ago to linux in What to know before Dual Booting Windows + Linux?

Jumping in to parrot the arch install script advice. It’s easy, has a fair amount of flexibility, and gives you a rock solid base to build on.

One other thing to mention once you’ve grown comfortable is looking into systemd-boot. I got fed up with dual boot issues and moving away from grub solved for them.

Best of luck.

Hominine , 10 months ago to linux in Remote Desktop using the RDP protocol for KDE Plasma on Wayland

Tried getting RDP working ~a month ago and it was eating too much time (probably related to Nvidia peccadilloes,) so I fell back to sunshine over VPN. Looking forward to trying this, thanks for the share.

Hominine , 10 months ago to technology in Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri

…similar to what? SIMILAR TO WHAT!?

Hominine , 10 months ago to technology in New algorithm spots its first "potentially hazardous" near-Earth asteroid — and it's 600 feet long

I walk on my hands.

Hominine , 10 months ago to fediverse in It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million

Also, there is approximately 50% of postings reserved for whinging about the speculation of activity on Lemmy.

Hominine , 10 months ago to technology in New algorithm spots its first "potentially hazardous" near-Earth asteroid — and it's 600 feet long

Pretty much. Gotta pay those bills too.

Hominine , 10 months ago to startrek in What Star Trek Mannerism or Phrase Do You Often Use

…it’s insidious!

Hominine , 10 months ago to fediverse in It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million

Engage this! 🤜

Hominine , 10 months ago to technology in How about donating to The Center for Countering Digital Hate, now that Elon Musk has sued them?

Thanks for sharing!

Hominine , 11 months ago to world in How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

Reading comprehension issues abound.

Hominine , 11 months ago to technology in Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments.

Wow and in Reuters. What an embarrassment of a company to do business with.

Hominine , 11 months ago to world in How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

No shit, it is almost as if the article is about gun exports specifically. They should put that in the title.

Hominine , 11 months ago to technology in Recommendations for medium-distance trackers

Neat!