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smileyhead , 7 months ago to linux in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?

3 and 4 are nice but as something someone would set themself. Too much character and detail to be the default when Plasma do not target any specific demographic.

1, 2 and 5 are nice abstract wallpapers, but honestly boring as we have stuff like that for years.

6 is the best. This is wallpaper with some style, but not too much character.

Edit: Just in my opinion and for my eye of course.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

I also cannot believe how people looking like doing deep research for the topics cannot find out about different approaches than big corporate apps and old school way of forums/IRC.

As someone who got into Fediverse and FOSS social media months ago I have seen more great things already implemented and working than articles/vidoes like that are just making ideas about.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO

I still don’t like centralized corpo silo nature of Reddit, but must say the new logo looks far better and alive.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs

Imagine a world when instead of

adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named AllowCortana with value 0 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsWindows Search in registry editor,

we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs

Not using products made to milk you to the rescue.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Matrix 1.9 just came out!

Crazy to say this, but what got me into free and open source software was Telegram ecosystem. And what got me into Telegram was stickers, animations and other eye candy.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Matrix 1.9 just came out!

Matrix aims to be a protocol for mostly real-time things like chat and voice/video calls.

It has a data structure called rooms (think: chat rooms) that are spread out across multiple servers and the servers synchronize the content between each other. While ActivityPub (what most of Fediverse uses) is much simpler and just list posts adding API for interactions. Matrix aim to be a fabric to build decentralized alternatives of Discord, Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Jamboard, Google Docs, etc.

smileyhead , 7 months ago to fediverse in Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video?

Unfortunetly for most people “go back to smaller online communities” would probably mean going from XTwitter to a Facebook group…

smileyhead , 7 months ago to technology in Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’

Apple is scary not because what they do, they’re doing great, but what they can do once PR departament allows.

They massively block some kind of apps (like they blocked VPNs in China) and what would houndreds of millions of people do? Throw away their expensive phones? And go buy, what, the one from Google?

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in YouTube is now getting into games

Don’t trust anything that came preinstalled with the device and does not have an option to uninstall.

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

Why would I use a PWA on the desktop?

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

How Freenet declares itself as a replacement of WWW and Internet, while what is does is delivering WWW sites on the Internet…

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

Across all two of them.

I would really like to see how broken the web would be if someone in theory create a new complete implementation of the basic standards.

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

Any website that does not work in Lynx is just bad design.

smileyhead , 8 months ago to technology in Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity

Right, Tor project cannot shut down a relay, but can make most of the network not use it.