jpetso

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by jpetso 5mo ago
If you pay for beach accommodation instead of a dwelling in some higher-priced metropolitan area, sure. As an add-on though, still more expensive. I'd wager that most people are working towards a home base in the lands they're use
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by jpetso 6mo ago
Apparently it's possible to download a whole load of books illegally, but still train AI models on them without those getting pulled after you get found out. The same reasoning may apply here :P
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by jpetso 6mo ago
That's not even the most recent iteration, there's also Deskflow now which is maintained by the main Synergy developer and a very active independent dev. Works fine on Wayland afaik. Also has a wiki page with the history of all th
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by jpetso 6mo ago
> To put a positive conspiratorial spin on the recent Wayland push: maybe they think that taking away the option to fall back to X11 will finally get enough eyes on Wayland to fix its remaining issues. Yes, and I also think it's imp
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by jpetso 7mo ago
Free books for you as an individual, not free for the library and the city backing it. What's in your library still ends up paying authors (and their publishers).
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by jpetso 7mo ago
> But humans have evolved to socialize thinking, haven't we? An overwhelmingly large number of people keep saying that socialism is bad, individualism is where it's at. I trust they're right.
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by jpetso 9mo ago
A not-so-insignificant number of FOSS developers are well able to make quality UIs, but decide to charge for their more polished creations. Between having to make a living somehow, and not reaping a whole lot of other personal benefits from
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by jpetso 9mo ago
Zynthian (a RPi-based synth collection & groovebox) lists some of the most prominent ones on its website: https://zynthian.org/engines Its install recipes directory may yield a less fancy, but probably more comprehensiv
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by jpetso 9mo ago
The Steam client has to restart in order to pick up the newly added external titles, at least last time I tried. In gaming mode, restarting the client means restarting the system, which is ever so slightly annoying. Apart from that though,
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by jpetso 9mo ago
You don't feel like the Steam Deck does a pretty good job with suspend and resume, even while playing games?
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by jpetso 9mo ago
It's a little more nuanced than that. Software and gained freedoms survive not because they exist, but because they are being actively maintained. If your original, never-taken-away software does not get continually maintained, then: *
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by jpetso 1y ago
Another take, from a more recent Blue Systems / Techpaladin developer: https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/
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by jpetso 1y ago
No. Jonathan was co-maintaining KDE neon, which now has one developer left and is about to be joined by KDE Linux, another take on a Plasma-based distro. He also handled release manager duties, which have been transferred and running smooth
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by jpetso 1y ago
It's not open source anymore once you add this; open source is defined as having equal terms for everyone. That said, a few entities are advocating for something like this, e.g. Bruce Perens with Post Open ( https://postopen.
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by jpetso 1y ago
Phabricator had its task tracker open to everyone, but the company behind it would charge for prioritization of tasks being tackled. If you want your bug fixed or feature implemented before whatever else is on the maintainer's inherent
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by jpetso 1y ago
Until monopoly, or until 15-20% when companies start offering widespread Linux support for applications and peripheral management, and retail stores start selling some devices with a Linux desktop preloaded? I'd do the math, but it rea
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by jpetso 1y ago
About 4-6% in US and other Western countries, depending on analytics source. Increases in the past year or so by a full percentage point or so. More in India, less in South America, barely any in China. The increased visibility due to Steam
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by jpetso 1y ago
Bookworm stayed on Plasma 5.27.5 when Plasma shipped bugfix releases up to 5.27.12. Debian may have cherry-picked a handful of patches from there, but that's a lot of bugfixes missed on a release that was already super old. Even at thi
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by jpetso 1y ago
All of the cloud providers are already in on BSD-licensed Valkey, so which community is realistically going to take over AGPL Redis next time around? The much smaller group of Redict proponents? There's only so much manpower to go arou
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by jpetso 2y ago
There is no end goal. It's just a bunch of independent actors who are all trying to get ahead of their competitors a step at a time. Two steps if they're lucky. The collective system steers into whichever direction was determined
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by jpetso 2y ago
Qt hasn't been terrible in terms of upgradeability between major versions for many use cases, but Krita got the short end of the stick. Krita's scope and architecture requires both cross-platform compatibility and deep integration
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by jpetso 2y ago
He added an edit that the tablet software in Plasma 6 still works as it did before when run in X11. Only if you switch to Wayland, or your distro does it for you by removing X11 packages, will you get the (for the time being) less capable v
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by jpetso 2y ago
Imagine you have a portable laptop that works for 95% of all your use cases except those days when you need a cluster of GPUs training a ML model or doing some large-scale scientific calculation. Imagine having a fridge that isn't cold
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by jpetso 3y ago
I am an owner if I can exercise control over the software at hand. That's entirely my point - there is open source that a rando like me can hop in and improve, sometimes requiring difficult discussions about how to go about it exactl
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by jpetso 3y ago
If we're going to ignore the "official" meaning of open source, then let's take a step back to consider why open source is worth supporting in the first place. Open source guarantees to me, the user, that competition amo
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by jpetso 3y ago
Inflation isn't great for people with stocks, and high interest rates are the main thing that can apply downward pressure to housing prices. People with lots of debt have it rough right now. The little guy with no house or stocks, but
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by jpetso 3y ago
KDE is not going Wayland only with the upcoming Plasma 6.0. It's merely switching the default selection, while continuing to support X11 for much longer (no end date announced at this point). I agree with the remainder of the parent co
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by jpetso 3y ago
This angle makes me think that we're going about the whole inheritance tax thing the wrong way. It's not the parent's estate that should be taxed. They have indeed earned all the money fair and square, and should be able to p
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by jpetso 3y ago
My big concern with large companies is cross-selling. For the sake of argument, let's assume that Google rightfully won the Internet, Apple rightfully won smartphones, Microsoft rightfully (?) won operating systems, etc. All of them tr
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by jpetso 3y ago
It seems like on PC one would want to use Opus instead of the older MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It has a number of performance-related improvements in addition to better audio per bitrate, although the higher-quality codec out of its two internal mo

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