And the keyboard & mouse freeze issue sadly continues to occur with Cinnamon under Mint, Ubuntu and Debian....
Posts by lamp
40 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2021
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late
Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA
A good thing
It would provide a cost-effective solution for many people, and could be a disruptive technology as far as the hearing aid industry is concerned. The Android industry had better step up, I think! I say all this, even though I don't use an iPhone and I personally dislike the look of these...
Australia drops legal action that aimed to have X take down stabbing vid
Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories
Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs
Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little
Re: Repeat after me:
The Thunderbird calendar is excellent. It works with our company calendar server and also Google calendar. So Linux desk is taken care of! On my Android phone I can sync with both of them using davx5. So much better than Notes calendar which we once used during our IBM partner days, but it wouldn't talk to anything...
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI
Untangling Meta's plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year
Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon
Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
HCL modernizes Notes by adding 2023's hot new item ... mail merge?
How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges
Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process
Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft
They rang once and spoke to my wife. They were adamant that we have a problem with our Windows. She gave them short shrift and explained that we certainly didn't. But my non-technical partner of almost 50 years didn't need to explain that we don't use Windows. We use Ubuntu exclusively (and some Linux Mint) for two decades.
Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion
He buys ridiculous numbers of very expensive houses as well - but I guess he can afford it. To his credit, he has also purchased a significant shareholding in AGL, gotten rid of the board, and is accelerating the shut-down of their coal fired power stations. Also building a cable to pipe solar power to Singapore from a vast solar farm. Pretty impressive in my view.
After a clean and inclusive Ubuntu-based desktop? Elementary, dear user
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech
With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language
LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity
Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors
Re: What were the alternatives?
Actually, the Indian defence forces are significantly larger than the Munich authorities and would have more influence on software suppliers in their porting decisions. They might even fund the porting (that has been my experience when working for a leading database vendor years ago). Note also that a lot of software runs in the cloud nowadays so would only need to be deployed into an Indian data centre. I think this development is a great advertisement for Ubuntu, which is so much more secure than Windows. Personally, I have been using it exclusively for 20 years as my desktop environment, and I'm a big supporter.