Notices by Jeremy Soller 🦀 (soller@fosstodon.org)

MPRIS and album art is implemented in cosmic-player now. Be aware your music files need to have ID3 data, which can be added if missing using MusicBrainz Picard. More features for playing audio files will be added soon.

@BrodieOnLinux All I am sure of, is there will be an alpha 6. Many of us had quite a bit of time off with vacations during November and December, so I expect alpha 6 to have a long list of added features compared to 5 and 4. If we hit all the important features for MVP, we will do a feature freeze for the beta, then as many betas as needed to resolve issues. During the beta, we will bring in QA and focus on bug fixes and polish. I don't know how long it will take to hit these milestones.

COSMIC Alpha 5.1 was tagged today, and among the improvements it brings are across the board reductions in memory usage of all COSMIC components. This has been done through optimizing font and icon caching, which was overly aggressive. Future releases will continue to drive down resource usage!

COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available! https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-5-released

Redox OS now boots on real ARM hardware, and RISC-V can boot to a GUI in QEMU!

See the many other changes as detailed in our news post here:

https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-241031/

This kind of treatment is exactly why I started @redox from scratch and written primarily in Rust. There is a lot of resistance to even minor beneficial change in Linux and related projects. I don't even try to contribute to the Linux kernel anymore.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down

The first alpha release of @COSMIC_desktop is here!

https://system76.com/cosmic

@thestrangelet @lucasmz It isn't the opposite. Aral is twisting words to claim people are not supporting accessibility. Everyone involved wants it to be better, so why throw around words like ableist?

@thestrangelet @lucasmz It doesn't feel genuine when someone targets others who are supposedly on your side, calling them things like "ableist" for not having finished their work. It reminds me of having been called a racist by Lunduke for supporting DEI...

@lucasmz I disprove of his comments in this thread and others: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112638000448055991

I am unfollowing @aral. No matter my disagreements with GNOME folks in the past, COSMIC and GNOME are going to end up with the same accessibility backend, @accesskit, developed by the amazing @matt. Thanks to funding gathered by @gnome from @sovtechfund, rapid advances are being made in Wayland-compatible accessibility features. Let's stop concern trolling each other and instead work on building a better free software world for everyone.

There's this guy on Phoronix who swings around to many articles about things I work on and insists that System76 will fail if we don't close source everything and I think it is some of the dumbest stuff I have ever heard.

If you are a #KDE developer, I want to talk to you about:

- How can COSMIC apps better fit in when running a Plasma session
- How can KDE apps better fit in when running a COSMIC session

Please feel free to reply or DM!

COSMIC Terminal next to COSMIC Editor both using the COSMIC dark syntax theme

The Maine fucker was a firearms instructor and in the Army Reserve. Being both trained with firearms and in the military, he fits the stereotype of a "good guy with a gun". Somehow, despite this history, he decided to end the lives of dozens of innocent, unarmed people including children.

Will conservatives continue the flawed narrative of the "good guy with a gun"? Will they say all bowling alleys need armed guards?

"Nothing we can do about this, says only place where this regularly happens."

Redox OS 0.8.0 is now released! https://www.redox-os.org/news/release-0.8.0/