To shed some light on this new project, I would like to warn anyone still using Organic Maps to read this open letter:
Just so you know that Organic Maps is not as transparent as I thought it was, and you can make a value judgement on whether or not to continue using it.
The widget is great, I canāt wait for the app.
Oh good to know, thanks. Yeah, canāt wait, I love finding internet radio stationsā¦and it is for KDE 
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Fans of tiling window managers which arenāt Sway, Hyprland or i3 may be keen to kick the proverbial tyres on the latest version of miracle-wm, which is now available.
Miracle-WM 0.6 is a bumper update to the Mir-based Wayland compositor developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek, who aims to create āa flashy, cozy tiling window managerā in the vein of Hyprland but with less up-front complexity.
In a blog post titled āBottles Needs You: A Transparent Look at the Projectās Future,ā lead developer Mirko Brombin revealed that Bottles has now been downloaded more than three million times from Flathub alone; yet, monthly donations hover around ā¬100ābarely enough to cover server bills, let alone sustain development time.
A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Googleās verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victimsā web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers.
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of todayās stable kernel releases are picking up the mitigations for the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigations that were disclosed this week for AMD processors.
Anubis is named after the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god who weighed the heart of the dead, to determine their fitness. To protect websites from AI crawlers, the Anubis software weighs their willingness to do some computation, in what is called a proof of work challenge.
A human visitor merely sees a jackal-styled animƩ girl for a moment, while their browser solves a cryptographic problem. For companies running large-scale bot farms, though, that means the expensive sound of the fans of a whole datacenter spinning up to full power. In theory, when scanning a site is so intensive, the spider backs off.
Europe has been ditching MicroD__K far far far far far faster than those in North America for over a decade.
For me its how non mac laptops are built they all just feel cheap, no matter if they make it out of metals they all have deck flex. And for me the left ctrl and fn key is always in the wrong spot. It has to be fn ctrl option(alt) command(meta) and small arrow keys. Or the laptop is out.
Hits me in the feels. Ctrl-fn-super-alt, here (fn/ctrl swapped via BIOS setting, for my actual hardware), and I wouldnāt know what do with command or option. I was not looking for quite the unicorn he is, but I feel his pain. Keyoard layout, FI, I agree with him 100% on, that is a big fail Starbook (and Dell), and a big reason I have a history of Thinkpads. I had saved my last laptop, which was kind of crappy, from the landfill, and just dealt with it. When it died, I had quite a time finding one that I felt good spending money on, and no new one that I could find at the time would have fit the bill. I ended up with a Thinkpad T14 G2i, 4K, upgraded to a glass touchpad. I didnāt worry so much about long battery life, as I find 3-5 hours with light use and brightness OK (I can get over 5 hours from 90% to 20%, with a 4 year old factory battery, so Iām very pleased). The glass touchpad, which was not offered on this model when new, should have been standard. If they actually did any user testing, it probably would have been, as the plastic ones are only slightly better than what comes on the average craptop. Itās a night and day kind of improvement. High DPI adds some effort, on my part, especially on Linux, but itās worth it. I have a bit of dyslexia going on, so fonts and their rendering is a big deal, and not seeing the pixel grid is wonderful.
If there were a glass touchpad upgrade (I donāt know is there is or not), the T14 Gen 3 AMD w/ 1400P or UHD display would probably fit the guyās needs pretty wellā¦from 2022. The newer Thinkpad models donāt get near the light usage battery life of the Gen 2 and 3 AMDs. I can get over 12 hours on a T14 Gen 3 AMD w/ the 1400P panel, on Windows (work machine, so stuck with Windows). Oh, and the newer Thinkpads are making all high res displays be 300Hz OLEDs, I guess to spite customers. The tech should always be moving towards less eye strain, not more. I donāt know if they use CC or just fast PWM, but LG has been offering OLED Gram laptops with no visible flickering, in the same price range, for a few years, so thereās no technical excuse for such regressions (even if there were, it would excuse staying on IPS LCDs).
The larger x86 players want to cost-optimize themselves into mediocrity, with most of their product lines, and not build them around the users, even though they have the means. Thatās fine for $500 machines, but not $1500-3000 ones. OTOH, the smaller players canāt afford enough risk to go for excellence, as one bad product launch could doom them. Iām not a fan of many of Appleās design choices, but they get a lot done better than the industry at large.
I didnāt plan for a long rant, but I guess this isnāt the kind of thing I get a chance to vent about, very often.
The Spacedrive file manager looks amazing! I tried it but it failed to compile from AUR.
Personally Iām not that wrapped up in how my file manager looks. To me itās all about functionality and being customizable to the way I want things. Way back when I was a Window user, I used a freeware file manager named Qdir. It was a quad pane file explorer that was ugly as all hell. 10X the power of the Windows file explorer, I loved it, one of the few things I missed when I dumped Windows.
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I tested spacedrive. To me its worse then something from 20 years ago. Thereās no option to have folders first and hidden last. Like every other file manager. I get that its probably sql based with some glitter on top. But functionality wise, it brings nothing to the table other then a overview button. The sharing bit might be nice but then why do I need it in a file manager and not a nice simple cool app.
But the deal breaker for me more then the bad ux inability to change the size of the sidebars, and that its gtk and some how still looks worse then other gtk apps. No File.. Edit.. View.. ETC menubar support.
But mainly, I do not need a LLM in my file manager that is a security nightmare. No matter what they say on privacy since its not handled locally its not private. What was wrong with a normal search algorithm that just works. Macs done it for years Linux as well.
they say its for creatives but as someone whoās both done music and photography even with llm labels it hinders a workflow I would have already made.
At the end of the day tech like this makes me want to stop using tech. I want something that fixes a problem not something that tries to make up a problem up and push it out like its new and imaginative. Itās worse then windows file explorer with recall in my eyes.
I know this rant is directed at no one lol but I feel it needed to be said.
Yeah, the default Windows explorer felt like beta software at best. I started using Total Commander, and at some point the heavily tweaked Ultra Prime edition (which actually seems to still exist after all those years: Download - Total Commander Ultima Prime). For me it was mostly about having a keyboard focused file manager, although I loved the (S)FTP plugin as well. Back when I was still young and foolish I used to copy PHP files from server to server that way. Which inevitably meant I used to break things, but at least I felt empowered 
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Doublecmd as filemanager + mc for konsole + konsole itselfā¦rdyā¦ more ..for me..why ?