Posts by wjl

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

Re: Their profits

See here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/

AlmaLinux shows off its new Kitten

You could have a look at the component section in https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList - try to search their non-free stuff. In that regard, Debian is far more open than Red Hat (which I also never liked, right from their start many months ago)...

GNOME 47 brings back some customization options, but let's not go crazy

The point against KDE...

... it's not only incoherent and IMO butt ugly (sorry), but it also has a lot of problems with simple and old stuff like Conky - well Gnome has problems with that one too lately, but that's mostly because of Wayland; under X.org that still works much better.

Also, KDE - and also others like Cinnamon - look too much like Windows IMO; even XFCE is far better in that it has more of an own "personality". Gnome *is* the market leader here for a reason, I just wish those devs weren't that stubborn...

Made my peace with it, mostly

Like pretty much everyone else, I was put very off when they changed from v2 to v3. And like Linus, I was angry. Made my peace with it again over time (also like Linus IIRC), but what still gets me that even for minor upgrades like from 3.46 to 3.47, we still need extensions - which break pretty much with *every* upgrade, just because those Gnome devs don't care about things they threw out. For me, this time it was GSConnect - and no, like Liam I think that KDE is no option as well. A modern desktop should try to integrate people's phones in my opinion, both Windows and MacOS (and KDE) try to do that, so why not Gnome? It's always "My way or the highway" for Gnome...

You OK, Apple? Seriously, your silicon lineup is … a mess

First world problems... they're all more than adequate, no matter what the imprint on the CPU says...

Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

Re: Mmmmmm

Try https://divestos.org/ which is a hardened fork of LineageOS. I run that on a Pixel 3a and love it as much as GrapheneOS on the Pixel 6a. I also have DivestOS on an old Nexus 10 tablet, not really secure anymore with Android 7.1, but it still gets monthly updates, unlike Google would do...

Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for

Re: Pipewire... didn't work correctly... Re: re: Much as I love Linux ..

I was wondering about this as well, as Liam wrote:

> "Bookworm does, however, default to using the Pipewire audio server – which in our test installation was the single component which didn't work correctly, and left us without working sound."

I installed freshly on a separate partition, and mine worked out of the proverbial box. What I *did* do afterwards, however, was to check if things like pw-jack were installed, since I use my Debian system for recording with Ardour. Works very nicely for me, and with qpwgraph I can do all the cabling just like I did before using Carla, Catia, and so on.

I had tried Pipewire in Arch before, which worked as well. So thumbs up to the Debian team to get this right.