Bazzite has a massive issue that kind of pisses me off: if Steam decides to update and something goes wrong, you're just screwed. Games won't launch, you won't be able to go to desktop mode from the UI, and you need to plug in a keyboard and drop into a tty to fix it. I thought this was a one off issue but it happened twice :(
I was planning to give an old pc to a younger family member as a steam console, but now I'm scared that this will randomly happen to them.
"#Jews comprise 0.2% of the world’s population.
Take a group of 500 random people, and on average, 499 won’t be #Jewish.
So you may be wondering what it’s like to be part of that 0.2%.
Here’s a little snapshot:
In May, Jews gathered at a museum reception in #WashingtonDC. A #gunman started #shooting. Two attendees were #killed.
In June, Jews gathered at a park in #Boulder, #Colorado. An assailant threw #Molotovcocktails into the crowd. A woman was killed.
In October, Jews gathered at a #synagogue in #Manchester, #England. A man drove his car into pedestrians and #stabbed them. Two people were killed.
In December, Jews gathered on a beach in #Sydney, #Australia. #Terrorists opened fire. Fifteen people were killed.
That’s just in 2025.
Bottom line: being Jewish is dangerous."
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From the blog of Adam Zimmerman at The Times of IsraelAdam Zimmerman (The Blogs)
I probably wouldn't have gone through the effort of telling the cops anything though. That's their job, and frankly they're terrible at it when they have to do it alone. They don't prevent crime, and they're usually pretty bad at solving crimes. And they're always looking for a reason to turn you into a criminal anyway.
I'm surprised they didn't harass the hell out of this guy when he went in to give an official statement.
RT: friedcheese.us/objects/cc69c3a…
So what I'm hearing now is that the redditor that tipped off the cops to the Brown university shooter is homeless and sleeps on campusI bet they stiff him on the 50k reward
and also the news will probably never widely report that he is a homeless hero because Trump wants everyone to hate the homeless
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@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.
i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].
of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.
however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.
using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.
i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.
over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].
please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?
What fields in the channel definition have you entered?
Also: The channels only look at starting posts, not comments. So your result will vary between following hashtags and creating a channel with tags.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files
OMZ! clearly i had no idea... i thought by ticking those boxes i was merely including all such posts along with text posts, not as you said actively excluding all text-only posts... that's a calamitous misunderstanding! that part of the Settings now desperately needs explanatory text there to guide users like me who had no way of knowing what you just explained.
should use "global community"
thank you! i shall now change that in all three of my custom channels [& ditto untick the three boxes in each].
so now i shall be very keen to see if, tomorrow morning, the behaviour has become much better 🤞 🤞 🤞
ps:
"Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline
well ok, but i repeat part of my OP... atm, & historically, HEAPS of my followed-tag posts that are in my timeline [albeit "lost" amongst all the hundreds of other posts], simply never would also appear in my applicable custom channel for that tag. that said, now that you've also told me about those three ticked boxes, maybe that was causing what i just mentioned...?
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:
* Dragon Launcher: a highly customizable Android launcher focused on speed and efficiency 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Drag is protected speech. Federal courts already said this law is probably unconstitutional. Uthmeier is only enforcing it because of a legal loophole—not because it's suddenly okay. The law is intentionally vague.MoveOn
Do you know when it’s supposed to be your day off but you end up learning Hydra Synth instead?
Ridiculously fun!
Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.strudel.cc
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In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads. A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with where the crosswalk is located.OpenStreetMap
The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖
I support an effort to clarify and simplify.
Recorded during the Mike Douglas Show on KNBC from December 1974.YouTube
How many in Montréal, specifically *MY* borough of Côte-des-Neiges? Asking for myself, really.
Québec’s family doctors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of an agreement that will incentivize them to take on an additional 500,000 patients by next June. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fa… #polQC #QCpoli #santeQC #QChealth #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
So..."TikTok has signed a deal to form a new U.S. joint venture controlled by mostly American investors..."
Does this make you feel more confident that your personal data will be used with respect?
Police called it a case of the drunk leading the blind and drunk. Both wound up getting tickets....UPI
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Hello @matrix 👋 what's the best place to get help with the federation tester?
I have my .well-known server info setup correctly for my instance at matrix.malenfant.net which should redirect everything to port 443.
The federation tester fails though and completely ignores the .well-known server info and still tests port 8448.
Where am I going wrong? 
OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening! Call for volunteers The brand-new MAP – Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is reopening soon, and OpenStreetMap Belgium will be part of the opening festivities! The theme of the opening festiv…OpenStreetMap Community Forum
FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/wir…
Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.Makefile.feld
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The Holiday Special Matrix Live, open sourcing the policy server, and a security release for ESS.
This concludes This Week In Matrix for this year!
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Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please.
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The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the publisher would now be turning to AI: ‘An external contractor, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will put the texts through “automatic translation” software and then recruit freelancers directly to post-edit the machine output in French. The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
A number of French translators have been working for Harlequin for years, often exclusively. This decision places them in an extremely precarious position, without proper notice or compensation.
> The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
It's never about quality. Or people.
Konečně trolejbus, kde je prioritou cestující?
Praha zažívá trolejbusový boom, o kterém se nám před pár lety ani nesnilo. Ale nejde jen o nové tratě, jde i o vozidla. Do pražských ulic vyrazila na testování doposud málo známá turecká Bozankya.
V dnešním pozitivním komentáři se podíváme na to, proč je vnitřek Bozankye SNG 12T prostě jiný a lepší. Kam zmizela ta otravná motorová věž? Jak je možné, že působí tak vzdušně, i když má standardní rozměry? A všimli jste si toho obrovského okna vzadu?
Supposedly, Sonia Bélanger is a trained professional nurse...
We'll see if she puts her professional training/nursing experience before CAQ ideology, eh. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth
protip: If you're going to rip off someone's Harry Potter #fanfic, and have a bad AI voice read it, maybe check to make sure it's not an explicit drary slashfic before uploading it to your Harry Potter Playtime Fun channel, and marking the video "for children".
Maybe while you're at it, consider picking a British voice? And proofreading the titles so they have the correct chapter numbers? And not skipping chapter seven completely? It must take extra work to do crime this badly!
Just a few tips for the scammers out there. I know crediting the original author and doing an actual human reading just isn't possible; you've gotta upload a couple hundred videos a week, after all!
ESS Community Helm Chart 25.12.2 (2025-12-19) Security Fix critical security issue tracked as ELEMENTSEC-2025-1670. This release is a critical security update to address an issue affecting all ve...GitHub
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in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •I wonder if that's a variant or the same issue I'm having with Steam on Fedora: out of nowhere Steam just refuses to launch games until I restart it.
Never checked if it has anything to do with updates..
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in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •Actually it's not "if anything goes wrong". It's "if you let Steam update from desktop mode, it destroys itself"...
And in some scenarios where game mode doesn't launch properly, Bazzite will fall back to desktop mode and Steam WILL update itself. So there's just no escape.
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