This is common in the IT world. Printers are such painful devices and installing drivers on every Windows desktop just adds to the pain, but by doing this you don’t need to install drivers, as Linux can serve something that doesn’t need drivers to print to.
Wasn’t privacytools the original, before they were bought out and the original people moved to privacy guides?
only to be shutdown by corporate before it gets much steam.
So I guess you just completely ignored the part where I mentioned how they are readding support for site-specific-browsers (the ability to install a PWA as an app) and also officially adding vertical tabs? If that’s your definition of “shutdown”, then I don’t know what to tell you.
But I’m sure the fact that features that explicitly affect the UI being added only after a rewrite/refactor of firefox’s UI is completely coincidental.
EDIT: To me, it’s clear that they didn’t want to add these features officially since all the work would get wasted and overwritten if the UI rewrite happened. But there was always unofficial support, like this browser extension, and for PWA’s with service workers, they would work offline as well (which was built into the browser itself).
That’s not quite true with the pwa thing. Many of the features of pwa support, particularly the interesting ability to have them work offline, were and are still supported in firefox.
What doesn’t work is the ability to view websites as their own “app”. This feature was most likely dropped because Firefox had to basically rewrite their UI engine, but now that it’s done, we are seeing things like native sidebar (instead of topbar) tabs, and web apps (2025 article) get added again/officially.
Yeah I just did a quick test with photopea.com and it worked offline in firefox.
You’re right, my bad. Dynamic linking and dynamic compilation are different thinks.
The library inter operation is a part of the translation layers that, like fex-emu which is becoming more and more supported by Fedora.
https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX/blob/main/ThunkLibs/README.md
Yes, you can run games. See my other comments in the thread, it’s now possible to use Arm translation to play PC games on android devices.
Should be awful for gaming. It’s possible to run x86 things with emulation, sure, but performance (especially single-thread)
Most modern software (games excluded), is dynamically compiled. This means that it’s not all one “bundle” that runs, but rather a binary that calls reusable pieces of code, “libraries” from the binary itself. Wine is dynamically compiled.
What makes modern x86 to arm translators special, is that the x86 binary, like an x86 version of wine, can call upon the arm versions of the libraries it uses — like graphic drivers. It’s because of this that the people on r/emulationonandroid managed to play GTA 5 with 30 fps via the computer version. There definitely is overhead, but it’s not that much, and a beefy machine like this could absolutely handle it.
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall
The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.
ut I honestly doubt ARM can with the overhead of emulation
Most modern software (games excluded), is dynamically compiled. This means that it’s not all one “bundle” that runs, but rather a binary that calls reusable pieces of code, “libraries” from the binary itself. Wine is dynamically compiled.
What makes modern x86 to arm translators special, is that the x86 binary, like an x86 version of wine, can call upon the arm versions of the libraries it uses — like graphic drivers. It’s because of this that the people on r/emulationonandroid managed to play GTA 5 with 30 fps via the computer version. There definitely is overhead, but it’s not that much, and a beefy machine like this could absolutely handle it.
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall
The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.
Yes:
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/scale-22/#exhibition-hall
The Facebook/Meta table had a booth where they had an ARM macbook that was running steam and they were installing games on it.
They are not explicitly designed to boot ISO’s?
Also, price. I’m not gonna pay quadruple the price for something that can be done entirely in software.
The current problem with ventoy is that proprietary blobs are essentially an unauditable possible security backdoor.
This product is entirely proprietary, including the hardware, and even worse.
It’s very possible that the digital Euro will be a GNU taler system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
n 2020 the project received a grant from NLnet and the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Next
The European Commission is the Executive Arm of the EU.
The original version of synapse is written in python, which still has issues with single threadedness and the global interpreter lock.
This helm chart is not just matrix/synapse, but also element (web ui), and “matrix authentication service”, which adds SSO/OIDC support to a normal synapse instance, which is pretty neat. I haven’t seen any helm charts that include the full matrix stack, just separate synapse or element helm charts. And helm definitely makes deploying services to Kubernetes easier than other ways of deploying applications.
The other reason why I like an official helm chart, is because I have seen unofficial one’s be stopped being maintained by the community member(s) maintaining them. With an official one, it will (probably) be maintained indefinitely.
Damn. Yast had some really unique features like the ability to configure grub, which cockpit doesn’t have.
Licenses like SSPLv1
The SSPL requires that all software used to deploy SSPL software is open sourced. If I deploy my software on Windows, do I have to provide the source code for Windows? What about the proprietary hardware drivers, or Intel Management Engine?
The SSPL is not the next generation of licenses, it is effectively unusable. And both Redis and Mongo, dual licensed their software as the SSPL, and a proprietary license — effectively making their entire software proprietary.
make money without risk of a cloud vendor snapping up their software (think Redis, MongoDB, etc) need a place at the table.
Except Redis, and Mongo were making money. They had well valued, well earning SAAS offerings — it’s just that the offerings integrated into existing cloud vendors would be more popular (because vendor lock in). They just wanted more money, and were hoping that by going proprietary, they could force customers away from the cloud offers to themselves, and massively increase their revenue… They did not get that.
Another thing is that it’s not “stealing” Mongo/Redis’ when cloud vendors offer SAAS’s of Mongo/Redis. Mongo/Redis, and their SAAS offerings, are only possible because the same cloud vendors put more money than Mongo/Redis make yearly into Linux and other software that powers the SAAS offerings of Mongo/Redis, like Kubernetes. Without that software, Mongo/Redis wouldn’t have a SAAS offering at all.
I definitely think that it’s bad when a piece of software doesn’t get any funding it needs to develop, especially when it powers much more modern software, like XZ. But Mongo/Redis weren’t suffering from a lack of funding at all. They’re just mad they had to share their toys, and tried to take them away. But it didn’t even matter in the end.
I switched to Incus for my homelab.
Blogpost: https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/projects/build-server-6/
I use a wacom intuos + xournal++.
The wacom is nice because it has bluetooth and pretty much “just works” on Linux.
Xournal++ lets me edit pdf files and/or export stuff as pdf. I also like that I can add text with xournal++.
I’m pretty sure it’s possible to use timeshift to create backups on another drive using rsync (instead of btrfs). They are incremental, and deduplicated, as well.
But the other commenters are correct, timeshift is not a backup tool, it’s more for snapshots to undo system changes you may not want. In addition to that, it doesn’t do user files by default — because again, it’s not a backup tool.
btrfs send/receivetechnically does what you want, using btrfs to do backups to another drive, but I don’t think any GUI app supports it. Plus, you would have to create snapshots for btrfs from the command line.Your best bet are apps explicitly designed for this usecase, like someone mentioned pika, or borg or restic are good choices. They don’t do BTRFS, but they do incremental, deduplicated updates in a user friendly way.