Slightly off-topic, but has anyone ever checked if the tri-counts given here are actually correct? The first one, sure, you can count that by hand and it seems to be more or less correct (since we can’t see the backside). The thrid and fourth are too hard too count, so we just have to believe that. The second one though? I don’t see how that can be more than 300 tris or so.

Some routing instance in between your users and your server might.

Although that should only be possible if the user has a hijacked client or you’re not using HTTPS. Or am I forgetting something?

While this is a very special and interestng use of this attack vector, I do think it often gets too much focus, mostly because it’s ignoring a much bigger problem: The average person doesn’t even know what the legit URL of a website should even be, and that starts with the TLD. Was it .com? Or maybe .org? Maybe some country-TLD or maybe one of the thousands of new TLDs like .world or .finance? If you don’t have a perfect memory of every URL of all the websites you’re using, being able to inspect the exact shape of each letter isn’t going to help you.

And for those that care about preservation and ownership: Physical releases on DRM-laden consoles aren’t the solution either. DRM-free products on a free platform are.

Your distro most likely just skipped that version. I distinctly remember getting excited about installing that specific version (on Arch). That said, I think that version was very shortlived due to a printer-bug or something like that.

Agree as well. Some of the hostile responses here are so insane I have wonder if they’ve even worked anywhere at all.

There’s so much to hate about Teams and Microsoft. Them trying to make the work status feature not completely useless isn’t it.

Very much appreciated and actually the kind if open-source news I’d like to see more of.

Many smaller projects like these often don’t have much of a visible online presence, so it’s nice hearing from the actual devs about the state of the project beyond what’s written into changelogs.

Exactly. This was less important before the internet got ubiquitous, but nowadays, when manufacturers can screw you remotely, it’s very important.

This kind of vertical integration, where a single entity controls both hardware and software shouldn’t exist.

Physical cs. digital isn’t the problem though. It’s DRM.

It’s kinda weird that this is mofe or less just a fancy, but regular keyboard/touchpad combo. Would’ve been neat if they reused those modular ketboard modules from their laptops.

Speaking of those, I’m still waiting to see those ortho keyboard modules. I like their laptops in theory, but I can’t switch back to a regular keyboard anymore.

The whole setup actually consists of three parts:

1. Lights: A bunch of different Zigbee-compatible lights with adjustable color temperature: Ceiling lights, a few LED-strips and some ambient/spot lighting.
2. Home Assistant: Runs on my home server with a Zigbee dongle attached.
3. Adaptive Lighting: This is an Addon (HACS) for Home Assistant that does the actual strength and temperature synchronization.

Basically, it’s less about using specific lights, as long as they’re remote controllable. Home Assistant is where the real magic happens. I’ve also set it up so that lights automatically turn on/off based on motion.

Yup. Personally I just don’t like having multiple light sources emitting differently colored lights. I’ve even configured almost all lights in my house to synchronize both their strength and color with the sun.

Bright and energizing light during the day, warm and cozy during the night. Even if it doesn’t do anything, it’s still just neat to be in.

Yeah, I really hope these are just the death throes of a slowly crumbling market segment (walled garden consoles).

Not only has the Steam Deck already blown a small crack into the almost entirely propietary handheld market, so much so that there’s now even a (niche) market with a bunch of different devices competing, but I also wonder what happens once the Steam Machine and whatever is happening with the next Xbox.

I’d usually be the last to root for Microsoft, but if their next device is really something more akin to a PC, then I wish them the best. That said, anything shipping with Linux, e.g. Steam Machines would still be my preferred choice of course.

It’s hard to tell because the actual crime that has been commited here is saving this comic as JPEG instead of a PNG.

Ultimately I’m not very confident, but I think I agree. The text and layout look very human to me. There are some inconsistencies in the ports and the linework on the inner age between the three laptops on the left, but I think that’s just the artist doing some touch-ups on it after already having copied the laptop across the panels.

Edit: Looking at some of the other evidence though maybe I’m wrong. Still somewhat hard to tell for sure. Probably AI assisted and not fully generated or something luke that.

gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora

And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.

If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.

Yup. People need to understand that “stable” is not a synonym for bug-free.

As you said, DEs in particularly move so fast that the rare bug that makes it through and is subsequently quickly fixed is much less problematic than sometimes years of missing features and longstanding bugs that don’t get backported.

I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.

Particularly for gaming, I’d say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you’d see in something slower moving.

Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.

That includes appeals to morality

I mean, you say that, and to some degree you’re right, but you do know that the Brave CEO is the same person that brought JavaScript upon us, right?

^/j

Yup. I’ve heard this first about Home Assistant, but software like this often inadvertently acts like a pacifier for tech enthusiasts. We may have our neat solution for the moment and be content with that, but that doesn’t help anyone else, or us in the long term. Things will get worse with no push-back.

Disclaimer: That’s not to say that we shouldn’t advocate for those tools in the meantime as well. We just shouldn’t lose track of the actual problem.