I mean, sure - why not? Like Ada said, if it isn’t going to cause any negative impact on me, there isn’t a reason for me to object that I can think of.
I would be a bit concerned about the hazards of drawing a lot of attention to yourself on the internet, because of the vile people on the internet - but aside from a brief note about it (if they asked for my opinion), that’s really all I’d have to say on the matter.
I feel like most people (assuming you’re not on Reddit) don’t really care, so long as you’re not being spammy with them (or not just reply with only an emoji).
Every now and then I’ll tack one on at the end of a comment if I think that my tone might come of a bit more passive aggressive than I intended it to be, but most of the time I just see it as “I might need to rewrite this so that it doesn’t come off that way” instead.
That green that you’ve got there is very easy on the eyes, nice!
I quite like the look! Though, I know that design is subjective to people, so hopefully the old version is still available to choose.
Just to note in general to add onto this, it may take a couple of days for instances to update once 0.19.5 comes out - especially since I believe AFAIK it can break third party applications using the API if they’re not updated. So some instances may wait for the bigger apps to update, before they update.
And of course, in general most instances like to test the update on say, a replica, just to ensure that there is no breakage during an update.
There’s a huge difference between GPS which is effectively a rootkit, and Steam which is a userland application however. To actually remove GPS requires that you have a device with an unlockable bootloader (or an active exploit to gain root privileges) so that you can flash a ROM without it - Steam is one simple uninstall away.
Sure, a monopoly on the gaming market isn’t great, and while I hope I don’t bite my words anytime soon - Valve/Steam is the lesser of the two evils. Especially if you consider that it wasn’t really all that long ago where Linux gaming was an absolutely crazy idea that resulted in the pool of games available to you to be very very small.
Valve runs the DRM that runs Steam. They are making the platform desktop agnostic, but that may not be sustainable.
Sure, but they can’t force Linux users to use Steam. It just so happens that most Linux gamers use Steam because it works well for them, thanks to the hard work of the various open-source devs (along with Valve, Codeweavers, etc) behind WINE, DXVK, and Proton. Microsoft can theoretically force Windows users to use only their store, if they felt like that was a good idea for whatever reason.
Steam may push users to Linux, but still run the Steam walled garden.
The Steam Deck has both a Desktop Mode which lets you run any application you want (so long as its Linux compatible of course), SteamOS is built on top of Arch (which you can build on top of), and lets you run whatever OS you would like (you can even go as far as removing SteamOS if that is what you want). I’m not sure how it’s a “Walled Garden”. A walled garden would be the Xbox / PlayStation / Switch and basically any other console, along with most mobile phones, where you cannot install the OS that you want - you’re forced to use what the manufacturer provides.
Continuing on what Rolling Resistance said (sorry for the delay, had to step away for a while), I know plenty of people who do use a password manager and still use a static password in some places (hell, I’ve been guilty of that in a few places - but generally on network-isolated systems). Some people also don’t use 2FA because they find it inconvenient.
Passkeys are more or less very similar to how SSH keys work if you’re familiar with those, your device (or password manager) generates a secret key that it only has access to, and then gives the public key to the website (and a new keypair is generated for every single website). When you login to a website, the website sends you a challenge which you sign with your private key, that the website can then verify using the public key that you used when enrolling the passkey. This way, a website never has any form of secret - making say password hash leaks less relevant, whereas in theory you could give your public key(s) and post it on Google’s homepage without any repercussions… but don’t quote me on that one.
So even if you use a password manager, if you still have a few websites that share the same password, and one of those gets compromised - those other websites may still be vulnerable which wouldn’t be possible with a passkey.
Oh, nice! Doesn’t look like it’s hit the Firefox Addons repo yet, but I’ll be looking forward to it when it does.
If you don’t use any XWayland apps, yeah - this is still a major blocker unfortunately assuming they didn’t make any significant changes between the beta from a couple of weeks ago and now.
No, thankfully that was resolved with this update.
Well, I know for a while Steam only officially supported Ubuntu, and on their developer page It still mentions that they only support Ubuntu, though I don’t know if they’ve just forgotten to update the page:
Steam only officially supports Ubuntu running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or newer and SteamOS, but the Steam for Linux community is extremely resourceful and has managed to run Steam on a large variety of distros. Valve approves of these efforts but does not officially endorse or provide support for them.
They really should have linked the main page which does have a screenshot (and a few partials): https://cinny.in/
Yep… I was about to say “Oh just watch me try not to!”
And you really don’t want it to either. That could cause all sorts of privacy issues if you accidentally include private information in the conversation - and as far as I have heard it is harder to remove information from LLMs than it is to “add” information to it.
Also Microsoft’s Tay could adapt itself based on conversations and that went real well…
I never got the chance to use NeXTSTEP and that sounds great! Would be an excellent middle ground and is definitely one of those “I didn’t know I needed this until now” sort of thing!
Websites that do not let me copy/paste my password in from my password manager, and break the auto-fill functionality.
Additionally, the ones that make you change the password every sixty days because they don’t let me copy and paste the newly generated one in… It just feels like they’re begging me to try to use an insecure one.
About the bonus peeve, it’s definitely a double edged sword for me. I know exactly what you mean, and I hate those moments.
But at the same time, one thing I’ve come to dislike on GNOME is when I click a link in Thunderbird expecting it to open right away, and instead get a “Mozilla Firefox is ready” notification. It makes it feel a bit clunkier/slower when I’ve come to expect that interaction to be instant (and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s precisely why it hasn’t changed in most places).
So now instead of being bothered by one case, I get bothered by both cases lol. I wish there was more of a middle-ground, like middle clicking the link (or holding control/some other modifier key) would bypass that notification and just directly open/focus it.
Not the original commenter - but it’s definitely not in mine at least…
I haven’t checked my desktop though, perhaps it is there.
They might’ve done so out of necessity. I don’t know if the dev(s) of the Simple Tools apps were working on it full time, but if they were and just not enough contributions were coming in from it… Well everyone has to eat.
As the saying goes, “everyone has their price”. It’s easy to condemn the developers for their choice until you’re in the exact same scenario as they were. Whether that’s because they were starving, or even just offered enough money to make their lives a lot easier - not too many people would turn it down.