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  • KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

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  • Right now it's not packaged up for easy use but KDE has supported Raspberry Pi's for ages so I wouldn't be surprised if you ran Plasma desktop, it'd be simple to build and install. I'd wait until they got it back onto the KDE release cadence with everything else though for simplicity

    For anyone who wants to test this out, you can do as Devin did by installing Plasma Bigscreen on a Raspberry Pi using postmarketOS, though you would have to compile it yourself or pull from the nightly repos to get the latest changes.

  • [OC] What People Think Privacy/Security Is

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  • The hardest online privacy is not operating in a way that just links all your "private" activity because you logged in around enough places to link them together and at least one place somewhere can be linked to your real identity

  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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  • Any bit of user base growth helps get the ball rolling for future MS/USA missteps. Linux has just been getting better and easier year after year. It's been a 30 year marathon ready for another 30+ years of development

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time

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  • I still have mine. Bought it when it was new but never got used to it. I do like the idea of the touchpads though. Be nice to see a new iteration on it

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • I'm happy to use Flatpaks but the annoyances I've had are like when one application says to use you'll need to point to the binary of another application that it depends on but very understandably doesn't package together, figuring that out to me can be annoying so I'll switch to a regular installation and it all just works together no fuss, no flatseal, no thinking about it really. Also some applications where it's really nice to launch from the terminal especially with arguments or just like the current working directory and with Flatpaks instead of just right off the bat it's application name and hit enter, Flatpak hope you remember the whole package name

    org.wilson.spalding.runner.knife.ApplicationName ...

    Ya alias but got to remember to do that. So far anything I'd ever want to run from terminal, no Flatpak

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • I would guess Telegram if the users hit the toggle wherever it's not default. After what you've listed and Telegram, I'd guess Matrix/Element

  • 8BitDo’s controllers will work with the Switch 2 after a firmware update

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  • Sweet. I already have 2 Ultimate 2C controllers. Way back I bought a Switch Pro controller and I'm never buying official gamepads again. Third party stuff are great now

  • Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"

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  • They released EGS Android game store without a library view, still none. They're really bad at making a good first impression. PC it's been 7 years. 7 years of bad impressions

  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Massively Outsold the Original Oblivion in the U.S. in its First Month

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  • Definitely. I got Oblivion in April of 2006 about a month after the game came out. Xbox 360 had just come out months prior in November 2005. Morrowind was not a mainstream hit. Oblivion also not being a mainstream game yet. Mainstream for the series was Skyrim with the arrow in the knee and fus roh dah viral stuff

    Steam started supported 3rd party games in I believe 2005. Peak concurrent users on Steam was probably in the low hundreds of thousands compared to today's ~40 million. PS3 would launch end of 2006 and Oblivion wouldn't show up on it until some time after launch

  • Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains?

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  • I don't know if it's the same law but they've already said they'd move countries, anywhere with laws suitable for the service

  • Switch 2 Has to Face a Problem the Original Didn’t: Handheld Gaming PCs

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  • Current ones are too heavy and the only one that can make a price competitive device is Valve and the question will be can they do so in volume that can sell in Wal-Mart. Maybe a Steam Deck mini that still manages to improve performance at ~10w compared to what it can do at 15w and designed to size with that peak chip TDP in mind. Nothing is ever going to beat the breadth of library that is on Steam. All the games from the 90s to present that are solid to great games which at this point are probably thousands of games, but the main kicker will be how it performs with multiplatform games that target the Switch 2

    A Steam Deck won't be a AAA exclusive game platform. At this point the Xbox and PlayStation haven't been those this gen. But PC does get all the surprise indie hits that go viral on twitch/etc that may take years if ever to show up on consoles

  • That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

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  • The more users on Jellyfin the better shot it has at getting more developer attention and users willing to contribute financially even if just occasional one off donation. How it goes with any open source application. More users, more developer interest, more feedback from users, subset of users willing to financially support the project

  • Can really recommend LM Studio Local AI with Phi-4 or Gemma for privacy ChatGPT like LLMS.

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  • COSMIC Alpha 7: Never Been Beta

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  • I do really like it now. It has quirks currently compared to gnome and kde but it's shaping up well. I think it'll be pretty stable by 26.04 LTS and a good foundation for the future

  • I have an Asus laptop from 2007

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  • It's been a long time since I've used 2007 class laptops. In my mind I'd lean towards like Lubuntu or Xubuntu. LXQT or Xfce. It won't look as modern as GNOME, KDE, Cosmic but they're good

  • System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

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  • It's a lot more stable than September. I switched permanent to it in February and it's solid. The only reason I'd consider system76 hardware in support of cosmic development

  • What was your first Linux distribution?

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  • I think Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever mint version around then

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Ubuntu at work since it's well supported and we can expect any IT people to be able to deploy our packages.

    Pop 24.04 because I think it'd be cool to see how performant and maintainable and customizable a desktop that isn't GTK or QT based. Something sparkly without the legacy choices of the past to consider in the codebase. Plus even though I've never touched Rust, it's so hyped that I'm interested to see how it all works out. It's my gaming desktop that also has a Windows VM for occasional trying something out. Also process RAW photos with Darktable. Every now and then use Alpaca to try out free LLMs, handbrake, ffmpeg, image magick, compile something

    Fedora, stable to me and it goes on my minipc. I run Jellyfin on it and occasionally SAMBA or whatever. I like to see how GNOME changes.

    On a Legion Go, Bazzite with KDE. Steam and seeing how KDE Plasma progresses over years. Bazzite introduced me to distrobox and boxbuddy which I now use on the gaming pop_os machine too.

    An old laptop with Linux Mint on it. I like to see how Cinnamon is. Used to favor it when I first tried Linux from Windows.

    It's been a long time but I also used to really like Budgie but I feel like everything is pretty solid at this point and I no longer care to chase modern GNOME 2 or Windows XP/7 UI design