So that they can say they have a better screen on the marketing, because they know damn well the actual UX will be inferior, so they need a selling point
Ok, as much as I do not like the esthetics of the new cosmic DE, this is really cool, and it looks like a very good middle ground between Plasma's over complexity and GNOME's over simplicity!
I got a 128GB dual connector usb-c/usb-a drive, and installed ventoy on it. I have my normal files and for my ISOs I simply put them in the ventoy folder. It works really well.
Oh wow, kind of like apple puts an M chip in iPads now, maybe a throttled version of a Snapdragon X chip could be used to make a phone. Didn't think of that but that would be very cool
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
1080p is just fine, but it's not good and definitely not great. If you've tried a high DPI display like the ones on MacBooks, you'll know what I'm talking about. Using a computer at 200% scaling just makes everything so much more pleasing to look at, especially the text. The pixels are gone, so everything looks sharp and smooth. I really cannot wait for 5K 27" monitors with high refresh rates to come out. This will likely be an instant buy from me, except if it's like 2 grand.
General high DPI with the same relative UI scale as 24" 1080p, but with much sharper visuals:
24" 4k
27" 5k
32" 6k
And the good thing is you can always set your game to use half the resolution and it will look as if it was the lowdpi equivalent, because the pixels are simply grouped using 3 neighbors, no fractional scale BS.
My laptop has a 3072*1920 screen that I use at 200% scale on Linux, and I wouldn't buy anything that doesn't work well at 200%. Apple seem like the only ones who understood this with MacOS that is designed to be used at 200% on basically ALL their retina monitors. this is why they have weird definitions, because they need to hit 200%, and based on the size of the display, a standard resolution won't reach exactly 200% and the UI will be too small or too large.
Even though this question has probably been asked countless times in other communities, I still want to know: what tool do you think comes closest to ShareX? I'm particularly interested in features like image capture, video recording, GIF creation, and OCR reading all in one tool for Linux.
They have not made a final decision on packaging it, in fact it's not even distributed at the moment, you need to compile it yourself. From what I've seen they will very likely package it as flatpak when it's out of alpha/beta
Idk for the network stack, but for homed, I think it's because it is up to the DEs to support it. As part of the Sovereign tech fund, GNOME is implementing support for it! I think this will be a great step forward for Linux desktop security when it lands
i swear its some of the worst pieces of software ive ever used. its slow, unintuitive, lacks features, notifications somehow still suck as much as they did 5 years ago, and it does all that while also being a ressource hog.
For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It's nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...
Id really like to use revanced while paying for premium if it means it doesn't get borked every x months and I don't risk getting banned, kind of like Spotify tolerates 3rd party clients as long as they are premium accounts
Maybe Kaspersky is Russia backed and is filled with backdoors. Idk, and I don't care because I don't use their products. But I do know they have great security experts and when they publish analysis like thesez they are generally very complete and informative, like when they discovered the remote hack on iPhones thing: https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-catching-wild-triangle/110916/
I didn't really expect this thread to turn into this, but I have to say I am glad it did XD
For the cursor-size setting, it does not seem to be the issue here, it simply makes it smaller on the normal windows, but about the normal size on the affected apps. Like the person on the GNOME community on here suggested, downgrading the GNOME platform runtime seems to be the issue, and since this only happens on nightly/bleeding edge GNOME apps, I think the issue is there. Thx though!
Yes they are flatpaks, and I am pretty the affected ones are all nightly flatpaks. I should have the portals correctly installed since the file picker is the correct one, and I am also on fedora39 so it would surprise me if the flatpak install wasn't the full one by default.
Yeah android dev and java are very easy to learn and get started with, there's a reason basically every school in existence uses Java to teach programming basics
Couldn't they just find out via triangulation (which is a way that high precision location things work already, by using 3 points of a known location like antennas and looking at the connection strength to each tower)
People on here and on mastodon are really pessimistic overall I've found. I still need to go to Twitter despite all the bots and engagement farming going on these days if I want to learn about new product releases or the newest possibilities of the newest technology that was released just yesterday.
I feel like the only news that get shared here and that actually get engagement are the bad ones about the war in Ukraine or in Palestine, or about anti-minority laws but we never see the good news like the fact that France added abortion as a constitutional right.
Luckily I do not think they will be able to add Ads to federated posts since ads need to be explicitly disclosed, and that means they can be easily blocked even at the server level
They just want to avoid EU regulators. And also that EEE thing is just bs fear mongering "they want to take mastodon away from you!!!1!!!!!". Email still exists and is alive, xmpp still exists and is alive, http still exists and is alive, all open standards and protocols that have been embraced by big tech companies. Big companies using and connecting to other servers can't make them disappear. People who use the fediverse today won't stop using it tomorrow even if the theoretical mass exodus to the large platform happens like described in that one blog post, because the fedi power users of today are there because they don't like meta or twitter. There will always be users on activitypub whether meta uses it or not, and nobody is forcing you to use their platform either.
I have not used Microsoft or Google as a primary email provider in years, only Tuta or Proton. Never had a single issue communicating to either google or Microsoft.
People don't use xmpp because it sucks, the UX is close to terrible and setting up a server is a hassle. The documentation is very lacking and the client options are very scarce. It is plain old and people have moved on to Matrix anyways. But still, I have used XMPP recently a lot thanks to JMP.chat. xmpp is very much not dead and there are very much improvements made regularly. What I'm trying to say is nobody uses xmpp anymore because it's old and outdated, not because it was killed, because it was not.
Most websites are not bloated because they want to extinguish http wtf. They are huge because of stupid JS libraries and frameworks that web devs use for every little feature. I can guarantee you if Google or Facebook could make their website as pretty as they are while being 1kb, they fucking would, the bandwidth costs savings are worth it for them at their scale
In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side....
This is an Xwayland and Electron issue, not a Discord or Gnome or a Display issue. This is because Electron under Xwayland (and also somewhat under Wayland) doesn't behave well with fractional scaling. If you want a true comparison, try opening Discord on Firefox with Wayland. It will be night and day in terms of sharpness compared to regular DPI displays
Did you make sure to disable fractional scaling before setting the 200% setting? If not, then it's not an actual integer scaling and it will have the same issues as other non integer scales
Sucks that 5120x2880 isn't more mainstream for ~27" displays
I've been waiting for so long for a OLED/mini LED 27" 5K display with >=120Hz... Would be an almost instant buy from me... I don't care if I need a new GPU, I can scale my game to 1440p and it will look just like it does now: fine!
having contributors sign a CLA is always very sus and I think this is indicative of the project owners having some plans of monetizing it even though it is currently under AGPLv3. Their core values of no dark patterns and whatnot seem like a sales argument rather than an actual motivation/principle, especially when you see that they are a bootstrapped startup.
Of course, I am not against software being open-source, and I much prefer this approach of companies making their software open-source, but it's the CLA that really bothers me. I like companies contributing to the FOSS ecosystem, what I don't like is companies trying to benefit from free contributions and companies having the possibility to change the license of the code from those contributors
I recently saw the new 550 drivers fixing a lot of wayland issues as well as KDE 6 being a lot better on wayland and decided, you know what, let me try it....
Hyprland and wlroots are pretty small projects in comparison to Plasma and GNOME, which should both be basically flawless on Nvidia Wayland, now. At least gnome has been perfect since driver 545
I was not really referring to the cursor thing as I don't really play games on linux so I don't have experience with that, more in terms of general stability and performance
Android has an option where you swipe down on the navigation bar, and it brings the display down to the bottom half, idk if it's enabled by default though, but it's very useful. iPhones have the same thing as well
Advan X-Play launches with a similar design to Asus ROG Ally but with slightly better specs ( www.notebookcheck.net )
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Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
Looking for ShareX Alternative on Linux
Even though this question has probably been asked countless times in other communities, I still want to know: what tool do you think comes closest to ShareX? I'm particularly interested in features like image capture, video recording, GIF creation, and OCR reading all in one tool for Linux.
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For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It's nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...
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SiFive selects a faster Chinese-made RISC-V CPU instead of an Intel chip for its latest development board ( www.tomshardware.com )
I suddenly have a massive cursor with some GNOME apps. Does anybody else have this? ( sh.itjust.works )
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