Notices by Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@linuxrocks.online), page 2

Shout out to whoever in the North Korean government is using Flathub

Today we have part 1 of 2 of the FUTO podcasts, today we have @danb on to discuss his stance on why #OpenSource is important, this was recorded prior to the recent FUTO statement so keep that in mind #Linux

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhCcvzT3IaE

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/The-Importance-Of-Open-Source--Dan-Brown-e2l4ug2

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Can The Linux Kernel Blow Up Your Speakers? #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/3-rKeP-3Ty4

The biggest cultural barrier in FOSS is getting people to pay for the software they like, I think there's 2 major issues with resolving this.

1. At this point people are so used to not paying for anything that the idea that you would pay for software seems completely alien

2. A lot of developers are very shy about asking for money, hiding donation links on a website instead of putting it front and center in the app.

Thunderbird is the prime example I always go back to, they decided to include a banner and a browser pop up and surprise surprise funding shot through the roof. There is a lot of money in the FOSS world if you know how to get it

This YouTube Change Broke 3rd Party Clients #YouTUbe https://youtu.be/n_hSdCMRE10

@tyil Free software just means software I don't pay for, free software has this exact same baggage

What a bad start

@tyil Free software by it's very nature is less free for the developer, so the users have more freedom

@tyil It's not bad persee, but Open Source and Free Software serve very different goals. But to the main point, open source does not just mean access to the source code, this is explicitly stated in the Open Source Definition

Throwback to the good old days, it has been a long time since I've had a new comment like this

So is the current Linux Youtube meta making videos on Kaspersky that feel like undisclosed ads

Don't forget that the MV3 deprecation hasn't gone anywhere,

June 2024 is when Google will begin to disable MV2 extensions, this is supposed to start happening during Chrome 127 which is currently making its way through the dev channel https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3

YouTube actually added a good feature for once, you can now set 3 thumbnails for a video and it will automatically A/B test them for you, you could already do this manually but this massively stream lines the process.

I've seen a lot of people rightfully discussing the privacy implications of Windows Recall but not as many mention that this "feature" is going to lead to people unintentionally breaking NDAs when their Recall data gets leaked from a malware.

If any of you are aspiring product developers and you contact me or anyone else, please do not suggest a paid review. If you are being paid directly by the company it is an ad not a review, I'm not against doing an ad but don't expect me to call it a review

I told you I'm not crazy and there is a giant stuttering problem with Plasma desktop effects like alt tab and window overview, along with the tiling editor locking up the entire desktop, I'm talking with @acidiclight and he's diagnosing the exact same issue on his end, this was never a problem with the Arch Linux package lol

I've seen a lot of interesting discussion regarding Mint's choice to downgrade some apps to the GTK3 version, later fork them. Whilst a lot of people have been critical let me provide another perspective

Projects like Mint do not like the state of GNOME/where it is going, instead of just sitting around whining about how much they don't like it they've taken it upon themselves to fork tools and maintain them for their own project. You may disagree with that choice but this is the spirit of FOSS

The same can be said about COSMIC from System76, they have had serious disagreements with the direction of the project so they said "fuck it, we're just going to build our own desktop and run it the way that we want to run it".

Could problems just be resolved upstream, maybe. But they have decided that this time has passed, any attempts made didn't go the way they wanted so they've decided to go off and do their own thing.