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frostyx.cz Do you want to contribute to Copr?

I had a realization at this year’s DevConf. Even if people want to contribute to large open-source projects, they have no idea how. Or they don’t even realize they can contribute in the first place and that such a thing would be appreciated That’s why I wanted to try this experiment and offer 5 inte...

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Switch from Ubuntu to something immutable?
  • I've been using Silverblue and Universal Blue's images for at least a couple of years now and although there were a couple of rare instances I had to manually intervene with my system due to issues, the experience is considerably better than a traditional distro.

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    That is an act of cruelty towards the poor pokémon
  • If you refuse to understand I'll just refuse to engage further then, keep wasting your time on pointless discussions on free software built by volunteers and what they spend their time on. I'll go back to actually working on them in whatever way I can.

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    That is an act of cruelty towards the poor pokémon
  • Is the meme wrong?

    Yes, it is.

    basic functionality that should be in gnome in the first place

    Who gets to decide what's "basic" functionality? Each desktop's team has their vision for what they want to implement. Something that might be basic to one person might not be in someone else's vision or...

    the devs don’t want to implement

    ...is being worked on but needs design. GNOME is design-oriented. It doesn't matter how much you scream that something needs implementing if no one designs how that implementation will work and why it should be implemented in the first place. It's not about "not wanting", it's about making sure that when something is implemented, that it'll work well both now and in the future.

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    Accent colors for GNOME has been merged as well!
  • Sure, it'll be there for those who want it. As an extension. It isn't part of the vision the project has so they won't implement it, they already have the Background Apps section for things like these. Simple as that.

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    VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
  • The thing is, volunteers work on what they want/specialize. Unless you are their boss and are paying them to work on something, you can't force their hand.

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    VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
  • They've been doing quite a bit of work in the past year, on Newton, the future a11y stack, Spiel, for a better pipeline for speech synthesis (basically as an easy way to get more natural-sounding voice models) and on implementing AccessKit (the most recent stable a11y stack that is the same one the folks working on COSMIC are using).

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    Accent colors for GNOME has been merged as well!
  • Simple, they've been working with goals of each release, so most of the things that clearly aren't going to make it to the next release don't get top priority compared to the things that will. It also just so happened that a ton of these year-spanding works have finally being considered done today lol

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    VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
    1. You should, this is a huge achievement that has been worked on for quite a while now.
    2. You can, actually. I live in a pretty small town and it picks up my location quite well for the weather.
    3. Even if it didn't, one issue doesn't mean we're not allowed to celebrate anything, and the issue in this case isn't even with GNOME itself, but with the provider for the Weather app (I believe it's OpenWeather).
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    Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
  • The temptation is hard, but it would be totally against their philosophy, the best laptop is the one you already own, after all. Also they don't ship to Brazil yet, so no way for me to get one, unfortunately.

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    Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
  • Goddamn, every day that passes I hope so much Framework get to expand their sales to more countries. I REALLY want to get one of their laptops whenever mine finally bites the dust.

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    fedoramagazine.org Contribute at the Fedora Linux Rawhide Test Week for A11Y 2024-06-19 - Fedora Magazine

    This article announce the Accessibility (ally) test week for Fedora Rawhide (F41) and provides instructions to participate.

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    Whoa! I just noticed in #firefox Nightly that if I right-click on some text, I can choose to translate the selection. Neat!
  • it's available in the current stable version, just behind an about:config flag, will edit this one later on with the one when I get the time to get back on my machine

    edit: took a while but I believe it's browser.translations.select.enable that enables it

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    Linux really has come a long way
  • It does, I used to set it up during the time I used Arch, it takes a bit of reading to understand how it works, but works flawlessly once you set it up.

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    Linux really has come a long way
  • And there are distros where it works out of the box with no extra steps needed: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE IIRC

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  • who-t.blogspot.com goodbye xsetwacom, hello gsetwacom

    Back in the day when presumably at least someone was young, the venerable xsetwacom tool was commonly used to configure wacom tablets dev...

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    tesk.page Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

    Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments. Despite the good intentions of the author, Clem, many readers interpreted this as an attack agains...

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    arstechnica.com Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges affected users to update ASAP.

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    rostislavjadavan.com Setting up WireGuard client with GNOME

    If you've ever used WireGuard on Windows or Mac, you're probably familiar with the intuitive GUIs that make the setup process a breeze. Unfortunately, Linux doesn't have a WireGuard GUI that's under active development. But don't lose hope yet!

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    smoogespace.blogspot.com Where did 5 Million EPEL-7 systems come from starting in March?

    ADDENDUM (2024-05-30T01:08+00:00): Multiple Amazon engineers reached out after I posted this and there is work on identifying what is causin...

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