FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
We will have old, otherwise unsupported #computers and #smartphones for visitors to try, as well as some new ones, all running #FreeSoftware.
The oldest, Dell Latitude D600, would have become #eWaste in 2010. If it were human, today it could legally drink alcohol in the USA ... it is that old and, with a little patience, still quite usable!
I am pleasantly surprised that @kde Itinerary handles Indian railway tickets very well. I kinda knew it would, but I'm still surprised at how well it does.
#KEcoLab is a KDE tool for measuring software's #energy consumption, but it needs robust testing to ensure stable functionality after code changes. Sarthak presents his work in Season of #KDE 2024 implementing dedicated test builds with #Kate test scripts.
Also, it is interesting to observe the strong reaction by so many to this exploitation of the #OpenSource supply chain. Of course, it shows a weakness in the model of trust for maintainership. There are big questions to answer. What if this had not been stopped as early as it was? What if it breached #EnterpriseLinux?
Yet at the same time, the most practical way this could have been discovered is the #FreeSoftware way. Someone was literally testing a database and said "huh this is odd."
KDE will participate Google Summer of Code 2024 with many new projects
From frameworks to translations, from Krita to KStars, GSoC recruits will work on improving performance, boosting interoperability, and adding features to a long list of KDE projects.
I still don't think that participation of any free project in the #GSoC is a Good Idea. After all this is a cheap recruitment opportunity for the #GAFAM and drains the source of #freesoftware hackers for all non-monopolists. YMMV
We all are pretty annoyed at how the printer industry is screwing customers over. There are a few printers that are really good but most of them suck and try to suck out your money by demanding ink when none is needed....
Bipta had it right. The people are to blame not the corps. The corps are doing their job. Any corp that does not do everything possible to generate profit for shareholders is failing to do its job. It’s our job as consumers to reject junk products. To boycott the worst (#HP). The consumers have failed to do their job.
Voters have also failed. We’ve failed to elect lawmakers who respect a #rightToRepair, to ban the practice of dropping support for hardware that has no #freesoftware.
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
The power of free and open source software is the community behind it, the people that spend their time to create this software, and to contribute to this software.
Are you a game developer who isn't a professional, and/or do you develop games mainly for fun?
Or are you a player who enjoys to see games that done as their creator think they should be, rather than what sells best?
FOSS-Firmware for printers?
We all are pretty annoyed at how the printer industry is screwing customers over. There are a few printers that are really good but most of them suck and try to suck out your money by demanding ink when none is needed....