Pinephone is extremely slow and the Pro variant is a work in progress software wise. Rest is way too expensive. Hopefully PP Pro will bu usable one day.
PP is pretty manageable if you downgrade your needs. It works, if you just want a phone. Just downgrade your needs. Web browsing works ... enough.
The PPP is really usable already. Camera works, mic works, screen works, really everything you need to daily-drive that thing works. I've been using it for quite a while now.
I agree. It would probably be better and cheaper to get one of the slightly older Google Pixel phones, which are all supported by most of the linux phone OS's.
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I’d get a cheap iPhone like an SE or something. Apple imo are much better when it comes to privacy than Google
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Nate Graham outlined a number of new default settings planned for Plasma 6.0.Among the new defaults would be double-click by default for opening files and other actions, Wayland by default, floating panel by default, accent-color-tinted header areas by default, a new default task switcher, no more scrolling on the desktop to switch virtual desktops by default, and more.
Mesa 23.1 features RadeonSI Rusticl OpenCL support in providing a new alternative to ROCm OpenCL, smaller single file disk cache, continued refinements to the AMD RDNA3/GFX11 support in RadeonSI and RADV, RADV enabling Graphics Pipeline Libraries (GPL) support, initial AMD GFX940 support, numerous Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan enhancements, Intel Meteor Lake graphics IDs have been added, initial LoongArch CPU support. various gaming optimizations to RADV worked on by Valve developers with Steam Deck in mind, improved EGL support for Haiku OS, Intel Vulkan Video support, Intel compute-based transcoding to DXT5, shader disk cache for the Asahi Gallium3D, many new Microsoft Dozen "Dzn" features, and many other changes.
The researcher states that the impacts multiple Linux kernel releases, including the current stable version, v6.3.1. However, to exploit the vulnerability, it is required first to have local access to a Linux device.
A Linux kernel source code commit was submitted to address the problem by engineer Pablo Neira Ayuso, introducing two functions that manage the lifecycle of anonymous sets in the Netfilter nf_tables subsystem.
By properly managing the activation and deactivation of anonymous sets and preventing further updates, this fix prevents memory corruption and the possibility of attackers exploiting the use-after-free issue to escalate their privileges to root level.
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Concerning as well is the scope of the new CPU microcode for the security update(s) are basically all supported CPU families. From Gen8 Coffee Lake and Whiskey Lake Mobile up through the latest Xeon Scalable Gen 4, Xeon Max, and Gen 13 Raptor Lake are all updated. Plus this is the first time seeing updated CPU microcode published for Alder Lake N CPUs as well as Atom C1100 "Arizona Beach" platforms.
Given the Friday afternoon drop following Patch Tuesday, security updates for an unpublished Intel Security Advisory, and the wide range of processors affected, I'm quite curious about this CPU microcode update. I'll be testing it over the weekend on some Intel CPUs to at least see if there is any performance impact of the new microcode. On Saturday I should have up an initial assessment if I find any measurable performance impact as a result of the new CPU microcode.
Linux users can find the new Intel CPU microcode files via this GitHub page.
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details in link below.
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i guess i'm a day late? lmao
sorry for posting in the wrong thread too.
You are never late if you post a news that has never been posted before in this thread.
And of course you are in the right place.
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You see the post above his post? 
Yeah, I moved it 
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You can already do floating panels in 5.7.xx. Right-click on task manager, select it, etc.
Plasma 6 frightens me. There are always so many glitches when they reach a major upgrade. 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-???
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I think floating panels is now active in a default/new setup...bada-boom! (insert the scene in Whoville of the Who's singing "Fah Who Doraze".)
I hear you regarding a major upgrade, and in "glitches" that includes someone forgetting to add or activate something that they previously fixed, rinse and repeat goes the bug reports. 
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They can certainly try.
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With this release, we’re adding back the ability to run games with Proton. While this can be an useful thing for testing compatibility, it is still recommended to stick with the builds provided by Lutris. We are now using @GloriousEggroll’s Proton based builds by default, which makes using Steam’s proton an even narrower edge case.
For players with very large libraries, Lutris will be a lot more responsive thanks to the performance improvements by @danieljohnson2, along with loads of other UI improvements!
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