Notices by Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm Excellent, congrats!
I’m glad you found your pace, creating content can be rough!

#Linux Mint 22.1 is now out, and I took a look at what's new in there, it's a bigger release than I expected:

- Updates to Cinnamon
- More options all around
- Better #Wayland session
- Entirely revamped tooling around apt and deb packages, which is going to help keep this format in a good state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyq7PtFKzzs

Meta: « We don’t like moderation, we think it’s censorship, so we’re going to let everyone say what they want ».

People post link to Pixelfed as they leave the soon to be Twitter-like cesspool of fake information and hate.

Meta: « let’s censor links to other services like Pixelfed ».

Very coherent stance there, Zuck.

Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

It's my birthday today, so I'll leave you to it and go enjoy some free time :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQGGQIVlxY

@gamingonlinux @BrodieOnLinux Haha yeah, we’ll see. Ergonomics isn’t an exact science; and doesn’t always work for everyone: AirPods fall out the ears of a fair few people, the PS4 controller was a nightmare for some, and some think the Xbox one controller isn’t good, the Duke managed to get into production, etc..

It can be an awesome controller for a bunch of people, and a nightmare for others :)

@BrodieOnLinux @gamingonlinux The deck is fine, because the grips are horizontal and straight, and the sticks very close to the sides of the device, so the thumb rotation is natural.
On that controller, it seems like the opposite

@gamingonlinux Dépends on how inclined the grips are. They look kinda straight down to me, which means the wrists won’t be rotated in the right portion for the thumbs to lay naturally on the sticks, but we’ll see!
There’s also the issue that my thumbs often bump into one another with symmetrical sticks on a PS controller, because the sticks are too close

@gamingonlinux We’ll have to wait for the size and thickness, and the angle of the grips, but this will probably not work for me. Symmetrical sticks placed in the middle of the controller, with touchpads on the way where my fat hands will likely activate them all the time…

Sounds like a recipe for thumb and wrist pain for me personally :/

@killyourfm @elementary I haven’t heard about that, but I only tried it on an Intel laptop!

@elementary OS 8 is now out!
It's a sizeable update that brings a #Wayland session, tons of accessibility changes, #Flathub by default, revamped system settings, a change in how updates are handled, and a lot more.

I found it has caught up to its counterparts, and now that the heavy work (Wayland & GTK4) is mostly done, I have high hopes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTQ8rUbVqo

@fabyk @kernellogger @tuxedocomputers Maybe, I’ll admit this doesn’t seem like an issue: they relicense everything when upstreaming, so there’s no incompatibility, anyone can still grab the code and build the DKMS drivers package to add it to another distro (done in a COPR repo for Fedora, IIRC), and all the code of these drivers is open source.

Standard practice for stuff they wouldn’t be accepted as-is in the kernel?

Since #Google #Chrome decided to limit developers and users in terms of what extensions they can run, and how good they are, I think it's time to place that browser where it belongs (in the bin), and replace it with anything else, since everything else is better.

Here is a look at some popular browsers, and some new ones I hadn't tried and that suitably impressed me:

https://youtu.be/JaTRtAwL5e8

Peertube mobile app (first version, not finished, all usual disclaimers apply!

If you like Peertube, my channel’s link is in my profile on Mastodon, give the app a test, and give @Framasoft and @peertube some feedback!

https://framaforms.org/peertube-mobile-application-release-candidate-1731599644

Damn, that BcacheFS developer is really unhinged. It’s not just « The rules don’t apply to me », he’s now going « waah waaah codes of conducts are ruining FOSS »…

The only reason CoCs are needed is because of people like him. They’re not silencing YOU, buddy, you’re creating THEM. Learn to be an adult, and everything will be fine.
Funny how the most toxic people always are the ones trying to say community is the most important part… newsflash, you’re ruining these communities, not CoCs.

@cameronbosch They’ve explained it in various discussions. Some people think it’s weird, I don’t: they relicense the drivers once they upstream them, but these drivers are basically staging work that isn’t necessarily ready to be put in the kernel, and might not be accepted as-is. Gpl3 lets them make sure they control when these drivers are proposed for inclusion in the kernel.

In the meantime, it’s open source, and it can be compiled by any distro and added in any repo

And if someone says « but he won the popular vote », I will scream.

Yes, that’s the problem. The problem isn’t that this fringe dictator spewing conspiracies and lies every single time he speaks has SOME supporters.

The problem is that regular, normal people also were convinced by his crazy shit. That’s the problem. Normal people are now falling for this scam, again. More people now think this shit is fine. Preferable, even. That’s what difficult to swallow. Humanity is moronic.

That’s not even talking about how the US tends to reflect what happens in the rest of the world. All the crazy conspiracies and imbecilic notions that Trumpists have?

They also arrive in Europe about 3 to 5 years later. We have people fighting against « woke » in France now, even though it was never a real thing in the US, and even less so in France.

We are already going down, fast. This will harm the entire world by ricochet. This election is a blow for humanity as a whole.

@EUCommission « I warmly congratulate fascism, disinformation and Russian interference for their victory ».

That’s not it, try again and rephrase that.

« But, Nick, you’re not a US Citizen, this election doesn’t affect you ».

Do you know how shit the internet has become since Trump was elected the first time? Do you know how fast and far the quality of online interactions has dropped since that orange fascist opened the gates to let all the trolls from under the bridge?

Anyone who makes content that has even 2% of political notions (and FOSS is definitely political) will be confronted to more brainwashed maniacs and bigots.

I finally got a review unit for the latest #AMD version of the @frameworkcomputer Laptop 13.

It was the DIY edition, so I even got to put some of it together, installed #Fedora 41 on it, and performed a few tests.

Here is my thoughts on this excellent device and how well it runs #Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3fxVIFb3A