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smileyhead ,

Does it ended? On all distros I know of, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, we can swap the desktop environments like gloves. The only exception being immutable things like Fedora Kionite, but they are made to be untouchable and for specific users.

Wayland does not change anything there, only that the desktops with less developers must take more time to adapt. What makes desktop interoperable are FreeDesktop standards, which are now in full swing to Wayland.

smileyhead ,

Yes, what we need is another chat.

smileyhead ,

I remember when Apple was obligated to replace a text on app download button from “free” to “get”, because many apps are free of price to download but make money by in-app purchaces.

Maybe we could do something like that for streaming services.

smileyhead ,

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 ,

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

smileyhead ,

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 ,

Not using products made to milk you to the rescue.

smileyhead ,

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

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smileyhead ,

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 ,

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

smileyhead ,

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

smileyhead ,

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 ,

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

smileyhead ,

Why would I use a PWA on the desktop?

smileyhead ,

The way Windows buil-in text editor colors and formats JSON files in 2023…

smileyhead ,

Yes, should escape from using Windows if can. But this is just news, why automatically there must be a comment like that?

smileyhead ,

Makka Pakka

smileyhead ,

Matrix is great but in very much Work In Progress state. Many things are rewritten or not complete because of the low budget Matrix foundation has for all their ambitions.

I use it everyday, mostly without problems, but sometimes there is an error and my app cannot decrypt a message, sometimes calls do not ring… It seems like the best base for universal chat, but I don’t know if showing it to my friends and family instead of waiting a year or two more was a good choice.

smileyhead ,

I like to explain protocols like that:

ActivityPub (read: Fediverse, Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.) is a way for social media site you use to ask other social media site what posts there are for another profile and proof you like or comment it. Something like two-way RSS feed.

SMTP (Email), XMPP and others are working soft of a way that you request from your email/chat provider to send a message to username@server

Matrix is also a different thing. It create a data structures called rooms that are spread across many servers, that those servers synchronize between each other pulling and pushing latest changes and then your client (app) is synchronizing latest messages with the server.

smileyhead ,

On Discord you are forced to use single proprietary app from single provider (that btw is really close with China’s Tencent) and to use their infrastructure. Basically using Discord is trapping yourself and friends into the will of giant company because chat systems are hard to switch.

With Matrix you can choose between many apps, but most importantly you can can choose a server or even create your own.

smileyhead ,

What’s Matrix?

A communication protocol with main focus on chat applications. Sort of a specified and documented way how apps communicate with servers and server with each other.

In other words: A network on which you can chat with app of your choice on server of your choice. In other words: Fediverse, but for real-time synchronized things.

short question by an aspiring user

Hello, apparently hanging out in Lemmy inadvertently makes you thinking about using Linux. I am planning to install Linux Mint cinnamon on an older laptop, which I want to bring to LAN Parties. From what I read I can just format my C:\ windows disk, install Linux via bootable drive and from what I understand, proton is basically...

smileyhead ,

Yes, you flash the installation system onto the USB stick, boot the laptop from this USB and then it should be a simple graphical installation wizard. There are plenty of tutorials online and even if all computers can be slightly different it is basically the same scheme.

Once Steam is installed Proton is automatically downloaded for games that by default use it. Games that are not officially using Proton can have it enabled in Steam’s game properties. Most would point you to protondb.com, site showing what games you can suspect to work.

smileyhead ,

It can be, in some way. For example when content is exclusive to video streaming platforms which are only available through these devices.

smileyhead , (edited )

May we think about one more question also?

Why is this even possible? We should have this thing called software, that should be replecable without changing the hardware, right?

smileyhead ,

People would ask what guy is it

smileyhead ,

SFTP.

smileyhead ,

As someone who needs to do initial installs on computers with 10-20, I celebrated. It is much easier to type names of the programs and the manager do anything instead of manually downloading installers. But turned out WinGet is really badly done.

As for preferences, for some this is actually Nintendo vs Sega unfortunetly. But don’t underestimate moral decitions too.

smileyhead ,

Change is hard.

smileyhead ,

Better teach yourself what ADHD is if you ever want to get out of your basement.

smileyhead ,

KDE Plasma is an desktop environment.

The kind of thing you interact outside of installed app/programs. Like the panels, window decorations (titles, close buttom, maximalize button), the way windows float and behave, system settings, etc.

Unix systems (like Linux) are very modular and you can install different desktop environments if you want. And even within those desktops are modules, like you can install different “start menu” or file manager on KDE Plasma.

smileyhead ,

Just use some unknown program in binary form downloaded from random site that require adminstration access and God knows what it does, because Windows don’t have an option or config file to change simple thing👌.

smileyhead ,

As far as you are aware. Only author knows what code is in it.

It’s basically like giving computer to a random guy on the street for a day as he promise to disable Windows update for you. Maybe he do it, maybe not, for you it worked, would it work for me? Will there be anything additional in the background running after, I don’t know.

smileyhead ,

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

smileyhead ,

AnyType is lying about open source, it is just “source available”, as their licence call it: github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/…/LICENSE.mdYou can see the source, but the licence restrict you from any commercial use, even if you want to use AnyType in a company.

smileyhead ,

I can recommend Notesnook. Relatively cheap premium plan, everything is open source, with clients available on F-Droid and Flatpak and end-to-end encryption.

For server code they already published the source. Option to use self-hosted servers is on the roadmap: notesnook.com/roadmap/

smileyhead ,

Microsoft post -> Linux comments

smileyhead ,

There is a iMessage<>Matrix bridge available. github.com/mautrix/imessage

smileyhead ,

Ah yes, what we need is another chat app, but this time with bundled badly done social media and cloud storage.

smileyhead ,

Rase ≠ economy region Human ≠ electronic device What are you talking about?

smileyhead ,

I would rather use netcat command to send massages than Google Product.

smileyhead ,

Why you think this is bad for software freedom?

smileyhead ,

Quite the opposite. Synapse was licenced under Apache licence, which allowed everybody to make proprietary fork.

Now only Element can do proprietary fork, as they are the copyright owners and owner of the work can relicence the software as they want.

The CLA that Element require to contribute changes to their Synapse version is the controversial thing. Because if you contribute, the lines of code you made are your copyright, so if Element takes at least one community contribution the would be locked to AGPL. What CLA does is that you sign off those rights.

smileyhead ,

I think that in SMS there simply is not more to have, they have everything needed.

smileyhead ,

The fact we need Google and phone carrier approval to use the system is a reason to drop it.

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I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I...

smileyhead ,

The OS we use on computers and servers was originally called GNU, from GNU project. Linux is one program GNU systems uses, the kernel that communicate with hardware, manage memory and more. But Linux kernel stick.

Most people now call it Linux and Linux kernel. Android only has Linux kernel, an important piece of the system but only one and not the one that user directly interact with.

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