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Their finance reports are public. You should look at those, if that’s what you believe.

Yeah, they renamed it a couple months ago. The core team got tired of copying MineCraft 1-to-1, as there’s just no creativity involved in that and you’re hardly allowed to improve on the original.

I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Them announcing something like this looks good PR-wise, so they’ll do it, even if they don’t actually expect this effort to lead to anything.

But even if they do implement such an API, companies won’t start adopting this API until its capabilities are roughly comparable to the kernel-level solution AND it’s available on most Windows systems in the wild. So, we’re likely talking more than a decade before this sees sufficient adoption…

Many people grew up playing Flash games and may want to revisit those. I doubt, there’s many websites out there, which still require Flash…

At first I thought, they’re releasing this news now to drown out the Concord news, but 30 year anniversary, maybe they did have this planned a little longer. 🙃

It’s a slang word to mean the outfit or accessories. I believe, it started out regionally, but it’s been popular with the current teenager generation.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drip

Sounds like it, yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

Yes? Again, I’m not saying there’s not going to be disagreements or politics, I’m just saying that it’s going to be less loaded than Linux kernel politics.

Yeah, I did read that, admittedly after making my comment, but thanks for pointing it out anyways. 🙂

You don’t need to always be of the same opinion for it to be much less loaded than Linux politics…

There’s Redox OS already headed in that general direction.

There’s also this tutorial: https://os.phil-opp.com

It is already a thing for 2 years, since this is just an update to an old blog post to say that they’ll do even more now.

Aside from that, it wasn’t a thing, because as per the usual something on the web breaks when you change behavior like that, because some webpages rely on third-party cookies to provide their core functionality.

Someone (in this case the Tor Browser devs) had to come up with a way to have third-party cookies and eat them, too but isolate them from the third-party cookies that got created on other webpages.
On the technical side, this is called “first-party isolation”, and basically each domain you browse to gets its own cookie jar to store first- and third-party cookies in.

If you happen to be on Linux, then it’s likely one of these: https://askubuntu.com/a/1148258

Uh, well, I kind of already wrote most of what there’s to say in the comment above, it hides your mouse pointer when you don’t move it for a few seconds.

In most distros, it’s available as the unclutter package, directly from the repos. On Debian-based systems, the package you want is called unclutter-xfixes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unclutter

It is built for X11 and won’t work on Wayland.
But KDE recently shipped a built-in feature as part of Plasma 6.1 (a Desktop Effect called “Hide Cursor”), which also works very nicely. That one does not cause hover elements to disappear.

lol

Man, I know US food is …something else, but still, what the hell is this thing?

Apparently, the 5 layers are:

• Beef
• Cheese
• Beans
• Nacho Cheese Sauce
• Sour Cream

A.k.a. 5 times protein for no fucking reason. That’s going to taste like garbage, unless you make it entirely too greasy, too.

I guess, it being called “beefy”, that’s its whole gimmick, but that still doesn’t explain why it exists in the first place. When you could be eating something with a multitude of flavors, which doesn’t sit in your stomach like a brick either, why do you choose just a lump of meat?

Normal users don’t have VM images…

I like to use unclutter to hide my mouse pointer after a few seconds without being moved.

Now, the thing is, it doesn’t just visually hide the cursor, it actually removes it, so UI elements triggered by hovering disappear. Sometimes that’s great, other times it’s infurriating, like when reading a tooltip or menu.

I mostly use a touchpad, and so I developed a habit to wiggle my finger while I’m intentionally hovering something, so that there was enough mouse movement for unclutter to not remove my pointer.

Then I found a setting for the jitter threshold of the touchpad. Basically, with the threshold on, it ignores tiny movements, because the hardware reports finger wiggling, even if you hold your finger perfectly still. Which is perfect for me to turn off.

Now when I have my finger on the touchpad, it automatically wiggles and allows me to read hover elements. If I take my finger off, it stops wiggling and removes the cursor.
It’s almost like someone designed an OS with touchpads in mind, rather than them being an afterthought.

It annoys me in particular, because AI builds on top of open-source pretty much in every aspect. If they’re just going to use this money to buy LLM licenses, that money will not go to the people doing most of the work.

3. Are there any distributions that come with the minimum pre-installed apps ? … I mean not even a video or music player

You would not believe the obsession the Linux community has with minimal distros. Yes, there are many variants of “nothing” pre-installed.

Problem is, that many of the minimal distributions are more difficult to use, because they might not have a GUI, for example. Or they don’t have handling for Bluetooth out of the box. Things like that.

For someone new to Linux, I would not recommend jumping straight to a minimal distro. The pre-installed apps are typically decent on Linux (like a recommendation by the folks who create the distro) and if you don’t know much of the ecosystem yet, it’s a good way to start learning about it.

If you do find, you really just don’t need any video or music player, you can also separately uninstall them. Which, again, is easier than installing missing things that you never heard of.