When the feds want all your data just for them.
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With Linux 6.6 expected to be this yearâs Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version, there was the proposal recently to drop Itanium in Linux 6.7 and indeed itâs successfully happened.
Due to the IA-64 kernel code being unmaintained and no one willing to step up to keep it going, the 65k lines of code for supporting it have been removed.
The asm-generic pull cleared out all of the IA-64 architecture support for a âwell-earned retirement.â Anyone still with IA-64 hardware around will want to stick to Linux 6.6 LTS.
Also significant is performance work to reduce reservations for checksum deletions, which on a sample workload for a file with many extents led to the deletion time being decreased by 12%. There is also work to make extent state merges more efficient during insertions and that led to a run-time of critical functions being reduced by 5%.
A broad 4~5% performance improvement for MMC with 4K random writes via just 26 lines of new code to the core MMC host code isnât bad at all.
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Noooo!
LibreOffice 7.5.8 is here one and a half months after LibreOffice 7.5.7, which was an emergency, unscheduled update that addressed a security vulnerability in the WebP codec. LibreOffice 7.5.8 contains a total of 21 bug fixes, according to the RC1 and RC2 changelogs, to make the LibreOffice 7.5 series more stable and reliable.
However, this is the last planned update to the LibreOffice 7.5 series, which will reach end of life on November 30th, 2024. If youâre still using LibreOffice 7.5, you should consider updating your installation to the latest LibreOffice 7.6 series. At the moment of writing, the latest version is LibreOffice 7.6.2.
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My main issue with libreoffice (for my bare uses, just 1 excel page, hehe) is that every time I start it, I have to ârecover the documentâ. WTF is with that? or WTFIWT?
Gonna try OnlyOffice if it is open source.
Maybe they care about us and only want our best? 
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I canât remember having seen that issue lately. Used to be standard practice, though .
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Not even close!
KDE6 will nothing be like kde3->kde4 or even gnome2->gnome3.
Switching from kde5 and kde6 is super easy right now, doesnt even mess the config settings, and usuability is practicly the same. One might even not notice if using kde5 or kde6.
And the porting of widgets, well, I have a fairly long window managing stack/tiling script for kwin and it was super easy to port it to kwin6. I suspect plasma widgets will be the same.
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Anyone suffering through KDE & GNOME major chords has my respect! Myself, I suffered just long enough each time to switch to GNOME, which was a shocking, barren wasteland in comparison (to say the least), then back to KDE once the dust had settled. Then rinse and repeat. And again. 
Desktop users were the biggest group of test-bunnies, to! Maybe even more so than Windows users. It was the Wild frigging West, but gawd it was fun. When something broke we hacked away at it until that changedâsometimes even for the better! 
I know Archâs developers are kicking ass porting everything over and [kde-unstable] is starting to be pretty appealing. I may say screw it and make the pacman.conf changes during the clean new Arch install this weekend (or today). And if âswitching from kde5 to kde 6 is super easy right nowâ doesnât pan out, Iâll remember who said it.
Hey, thanks for the heads up, alex, I really mean it. 
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LOL Hope I am still in time to say this: I said it was easy, didnât said it was a good idea
What do you mean âwereâ ? Its much worse now! I remember back years <2000, all I had to worry would be the nvidia drivers. Afterstep, Enlightenment, and WindowMaker were ROCK SOLID STABLE!
Oh, those! Installing in a rooted environment became tiresome real damn quick. Yeah, I remember those days. I never bought nVidia again. But we didnât know they were the bad, old days. I remember them as the most exciting days ever!
But that was after Slackware. Earlier on, my mentor made me install it before heâd talk Linux any further. Slackware wasnât all that much fun, but a good place to learn more than just how to install something.
I get PTSD over Slackware to this day.
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Microsoft is not alone in forcing users onto a disposability treadmill to get users to replace hardware. Gutterman noted: âMany manufacturers, including Apple and Google, are using software obsolescence to push us to replace perfectly functional devices.â
As these companies are not banks that we have to rescue now and then, this is the only solution to make their shareholders happy.
Perhaps breaking up monopolies would help after all?
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imo some black hats should hack M$ and delete all their shit.
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From my observation regarding PC HW for over 10 years.
At some point, there is more to be gained than lost , by breaking up these near Monopolies. If company A deal with hindering its competition, getting its âunfairâ advantage, then whats the reason for real innovation?
Take AMD vs Intel. I dont remember better case of competition in ~ 2 decades. AMD totally refreshed the market with the introduction of Ryzen⌠Regarding valuation look at market cap growth. It was nothing now its a winning equal next to Intel.
This side of the lake, we should ask what do we want and value the most? I definitely do encourage competition, I am not sure its positive that a few companies should own the majority of smaller companies. Microsoft owns GitHub now⌠Is this âgoodâ? I have no idea in the big picture.
Think of it this way. If a pool of x billions is going to be shared with 100 + companies compared to one, is the net effect for the market better or worse? I think smaller companies in IT can be more flexible and provide more innovative products. Their limitation would be massive amounts of capital to invest in AI and similar but they might be better at doing product X than the big company.
I mean, a good question is. Does supporting mega corps move us in the direction we want to go? I am going to support and use smaller, flexible and actually client facing companies because I like it this way.
People underestimate that decisions matter. Mainstream is like making everything from concrete and not looking for other building materials. Its every ones decision.
I ask myself, Why I dont buy Apple products? The answer is simple. Honestly, I do not see the value there. If I had to buy Noise canceling HPs I pick Sennheiser Momentum 4 over Apple Air Pods Max not because I hate Apple, but because I find more value in the competitive products. I do dislike the locked down eco system of expensive Apple trinkets. It makes no sense for people who want flexibility unless Apple services really fit their needs.
I am unable to use new Apple Macbooks and Macbook pros due to the low travel KBs they make now. I mean, what makes me choose apple now, when at the store every other competitive product has better feeling keyboard? Its quite simple from the clients perspective. Mostly logical decisions.
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I love a how an ad made in Sweden countered the idea behind Metaverse platform.
Something like: " Nah⌠Metaverese? What? Real life is good. Yeah no, real life is better" It proceeded to show outdoors life and hiking with nice views.
Sometimes no product is better.
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Baah! You people know nothing. Nothing!
Gaming has historically driven hardware development. It was that way when I started pounding keyboards in 1988, and is has never changed regardless of the platform. 
You people need to educate yourselves. Youâre apparently too young to know when history hits you in the ass.
3:30 AM, canât sleep, all the world sucks.
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