Posts by weladenwow

AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it

#!/bin/bash

thunderbird&&echo

pidVal=$(pidof thunderbird)

sleep 600

# 10 mins

kill -s15 $pidVal

#pipPIP!

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

and an electorate that bothers

to turn out. 60% in 2024.33%voted Labour. Pathetic Apathetic. You get what you deserve like that.

Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing

I use Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Desktop. For the last three years as volunteer Sec for a mens shed. It's brilliant. It works. It's x11. It's updated continuously. On my 10-year old HP with 16 G and 2Tb it keep going with many tasks in a very usable way. I'm sure that when Wayland desktops can equal that, I will be as happy as I am now. When. It will take a long time I believe, and will be xwayland on Wayland for a long time. Hand-crafting text Configs is not my bag. Doing documents, e-mails, PDFs,

That's my bag.

What's yours?

Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up

Then I guess the answer will turn out to be 42.

Ireland fines Meta for 2018 'View As' breach that exposed 30M accounts

Re: Greed vs. Greed

Fines are fines imposed by the regulator, accruing to the regulators treasury. Class actions are far easier to pursue, on behalf of the user, if the regulator has already investigate, found a case to answer, arived at a verdict, and imposed a fine.

Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

ethernet to usb for mobile devices

ethernet to usb for mobile devices search duckduckgo or other srch engine

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Re: Migration update

" I have used dozens and dozens of distros in the last 30 years. " Surely you did a minimum of research before 'trying' yet another one ...

I have used 3, starting in 1996 with Coral, moving to Ubuntu, and settling on Mint 11 and upgrading since.

Maybe its because I was doing serious work. It sounds like you weren't ....

Re: No Bedrock choice without KDE!

Have you tried MX-Fluxbox? Have you tried Fluxbox with Wbar? With Plank?

Windows home users are traumatised by their experience, to the point that they are terrified to try anything else like linux. Also, mint cinnamon or xfce have Win98 in common, not Win 10 or 11. That's a plus. And a minus at the same time.

The plus is usability. The minus is that new users are terrified to use it, in case they bork it.

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store

Other than Firefox. I've seen no examples of where any of the above have even tried to persist with attempting to keep an application they were more than fond of. My Flightgear, an AppImage 2023, still can access a great moving map, last updated 2006, which I rescued via imaging a Ubuntu 12 Install & launching via QEMU. Can anyone else who posted above tell me their story? And no TL;DR 'ers. My bet is that none have really tried.

Snap is brilliant. Canonical put in a huge effort, and then handed it over to you. You're still not happy & you never will be.

Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing

Re: Gnome and systemd

You can have exactly what you want.

This is open-source. This is LINUX.

YAIRR!

Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux

Re: So much waste ...

Ah but you don't have to worry about all that.

Intall the version / distro that suits your circumstances, and off you go. Sumple as. No?

Not a GNOME fan, and like the look of Windows? Try KDE Plasma or Cinnamon

Re: Similarly, if you have a touchscreen

Re: "."Linux is, historically, bad at this. I am happy to see it getting closer."

We are used to the Windows paradigm (the way it does things). Windows is the kernel AND the desktop, and never the twain shall part.

Linux is a kernel. Linux is bound to no desktop. What you get on the desktop is your choice (by choosing a particular desktop).

We can say "Cinnamon is getting better at that." We cannot say "."Linux is, historically, bad at this."

Pip pip!

Afraid of the big bad Linux desktop? Zorin 16.1 is here

Re: Zorin, Ideal for beginners

Famari it does you have not installed Linux Mint? - codecs. are just a scary tickbox.

Why we will not have a unified HPC and AI software environment, ever

Re: Companies? No, people.

Companies? People? No, it's communities of interest. In this case it's Government-funded research organisations such as CERN, and JPL. When it becomes too costly to adopt 57 different ways to do one thing, common standards will happen.

Some Windows 10 Anniversary Update: SSD freeze

Re: Leaving Microsoft

Last time I checked the books work from day one.

Last time I checked you get to keep the books when you leave school.

Adobe preps emergency Flash patch for bug hackers are exploiting

The article says that Adobe is moving to HTML5.

I visited http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-social/adobe-social-demo/ to view a video. The video uses Adobe Flash.