Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
Ah yes. And he's also against supply management. And he's not a big fan of Québec.
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Carney taps business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Canada's new top diplomat is a longtime friend of Carney's
Well, I finally gave in and bought an iPhone battery case. I actually like this thing. I bought it for times when I am out and rarely near a phone outlet. This often happens when I am staying at someone else’s house.
🇺🇸 as every now and then the question comes up: "when does $foo run?"…
🇩🇪 da hin und wieder die Frage aufkommt, wann bei uns welcher Prozess läuft …
Daaaaaaaamn! Why are Kontakt libs so expensive! Battery 4 alone is like 200 bucks!
Sad to hear that Chris Rea passed away today. I haven't heard Driving Home for Christmas yet this year, so I'm dusting off a cover I wrote and recorded a few years ago on a fundraiser album. This version is what might happen if a blind person decided to drive home for Crimbo, with everything you're hearing being done by actual blind people. Well, everything apart from the driving (didn't have the budget for a car or good lawyers).
Credits:
David Eagle did the lead vocal.
My guy Dwight Brady did the angry drivers/traumatic adlibs, was also the tiny child at the end.
@technowitch was the police dispatcher.
Ché Martin was the swat team commander.
Satauna Howery was the news reader near the end.
Dwight again on drums.
Me on bass, all the button-pushy production stuffs and writing stupid lyrics (before AI could do that BTW, mentioning so you know who to blame).
@daygar on piano/keys/strings.
Chris Faelnar on guitar.
All told, the production went to 7 countries.
And all that to say, RIP Chris, you bloody legend.
Enjoy! x
Lyrics:
I'm driving home for Christmas
Oh I can't wait to feel those faces
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Driving even though I'm blind
And it may seem wrong
But I will get there if I push on
It's like the end of days
When I'm borrowing your car
Driving home for Christmas
It's gonna take some time, but I'll get there...
Caused a 10 mile tailback
Oh I hear sirens all around
But this is kinda freeing, yeah
Making people go to ground
So I facetime you
'cos Aira said they can't guide me through
Don't fear, it's just me
Borrowing your car
And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, making memories...
I hear the shout of a driver next to me
He's up in flames...
I made it through the tailbacks
There's a police convoy in bound
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Laying waste to every town
Now I'm on the news
There's helicopters, a swat team too
I hope you'll forgive me
Borrowing your car
And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, with a thousand casualties...
Say a prayer for the family next to me
They've all been mamed...
I do actualy have a Motability car which my wife drives (can't think why they won't let me). I've had plenty of dreams where I'm driving it and everything's going just fine until I remember I'm blind. lol
Garmin “Autoland” aka “Safe Return,” has been used for the first time, successfully.
Autoland is an emergency system, where a passenger can hit a big red button if the pilot is in incapacitated, which causes the airplane to make emergency radio calls, navigate to a nearby airport with a long runway and medical facilities, and conduct an instrument approach and landing, followed by a full shutdown when the aircraft comes to a stop on the runway. Large screens and voice announcements keep passengers updated along the way.
The nature of the medical emergency on Saturday, involving a King Air with an unconscious pilot, has not been disclosed.
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Autoland Saves King Air, Everyone Reported Safe (Updated) - AvBrief.com
Aircraft landed safely at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver on Saturday afternoon.Russ Niles (AvBrief.com)
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Would love to hear more details about what exactly happened, sounds amazing!
"We look forward to sharing additional details at the appropriate time", says Garmin. Well, I hope I don't miss that! :)
The problem with saying "Linux doesn't work" is that it's incorrect.
Folks are always surprised to hear that I've been doing music, videos, and gaming on Linux for decades.
Biggest thing is that I *only* buy hardware that works on Linux, and I *only* use software that works on Linux.
What you mean when you say "Linux doesn't work" is that "Linux doesn't work for me." But that's not rage-baity enough to attract attention.
A problem I have with every "I tried Linux for two weeks and could never make it work" video thing is that folks position themselves as the default, everyday computer user.
But they're not! Jeeze folks! They're already knee deep in Windows/Mac software if they have a YouTube channel where they make videos on Windows/Mac!
These folks have production workflows that they don't want to change. If that's not you, you can disregard their rage-bait!
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I don't "make Linux and FOSS work for me." Years ago, I *chose* to work with Linux and FOSS.
I just switched, and if things required Windows or a Mac, I didn't do those things. I did other things instead.
My priorities welcomed that choice. Yours might not. That's OK! But it doesn't mean Linux can't do it.
It'd be like saying "my bicycle can't haul a tractor, therefore bicycles are worthless." You'd sound absurd. That's what they do. Because rage sells.
So every Christmas, @lulu_bear makes me something she calls the Munch Mix. A huge jar with all kinds of things in there, such as Peanuts, twiglets, pork crackling and other things. She's just preparing it now. Looking forward to getting into some of that later on.
Sounds like my kind of snack. I remember when she did her audio recording of making that a couple of years ago and your very enthusiastic reaction.
The Ghost D-Pad and Why “Good Enough” is Failing Android Braille Users accessibleandroid.com/the-ghos…
The Ghost D-Pad and Why “Good Enough” is Failing Android Braille Users - Accessible Android
The TL;DR: Between a specific TalkBack 16.2 update that breaks essential Braille navigation and the system-wide clutter introduced by Android 16, Google isDevin Prater (Accessible Android)
Such an insightful article. As for Google and its half-baked accessibility efforts, along with its extremely closed and inefficient beta cycle for TalkBack, let me keep quiet - LOL!
VHSky.cz – ohlédnutí za rokem 2025 🎬
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VHSky.cz – ohlédnutí za rokem 2025 🎬
VHSky.cz vzniklo jako PeerTube instance pro komunitní videoobsah. Rok 2025 byl prvním rokem, kdy se ukázalo, že má smysl projekt dělat dál. Proč vlastně PeerTube? 🤔 YouTube se stal faktickým monopolem na video hosting.archos (Oscloud News)
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in reply to elementary • • •In OS 8 we kept the Classic Session as default with the option to try a Secure Session. Since then we’ve released updates fixing issues, app developers have updated, and hardware makers have fixed issues in their drivers. The Secure Session now provides a better experience for most people and supports a broader range of modern hardware
In OS 8.1, the Secure Session is now the default session, with the option to fall back to the Classic Session if you still need it
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in reply to elementary • • •When we ran our desktop survey 75% of you told us that you expected to see background apps in the Dock, so we now have support for the Background Portal!
You can always manage app permissions in System Settings → Applications and choose which apps are allowed to run in the background
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in reply to elementary • • •In AppCenter we now show a simple percentage-based app rating when ratings are available from ODRS—the same ratings server used by apps like GNOME Software. When developers provide screenshots for multiple platforms, we now show you the ones intended for elementary OS. We’ve added support for app addons, and we now show when a game supports playing with controllers
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in reply to elementary • • •This year @zersiax joined us again for another round of accessibility testing. Installer views should all have much improved accessible labels. Thanks to this feedback, OS 8.1 can be installed and set up completely blind in most cases.
Thanks to feedback from @fireborn, Notifications and the Shortcut Overlay both added screen reader support. We’ve also improved screen reader labels in Calendar, In System Settings → Firmware updates, and in AppCenter to name a few cases.
#Accessibility #Linux
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in reply to elementary • • •For the first time we now also offer ARM64 builds for devices that boot with UEFI. This means you'll be able to run OS 8.1 on M-series Apple Silicon and devices where you can load UEFI-supporting firmware like Raspberry Pi. This version of Linux also supports certain Qualcomm and Rockchip processors, for example
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in reply to elementary • • •Many notebooks and tablets now ship with displays that aren’t quite HiDPI, but are more pixel dense than traditional displays. In OS 8.1, we now support fractional display scaling in the Secure Session
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in reply to elementary • • •We love hearing from you and take pride in a tight feedback loop where we push updates in weeks not years. Since the release of OS 8, we’ve been able to address over 1,100 of the reports you filed!
~72% of them were fixed bugs—unexpected or disruptive software behaviors
~18% were new features or enhancements that you requested
The last 10% were things like project management tasks, tech debt, and code cleanup
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in reply to elementary • • •In OS 8.1, you can now directly deny access for apps to send notification bubbles in System Settings → Applications alongside other app permissions
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in reply to elementary • • •A system monitor app has been one of the top requested default app additions for quite some time, and we now ship with one!
We’re also now shipping Maps, which currently covers the basics like Explore and Transit maps, showing your current location, searching for locations, and handling `geo://` uri links. Plus Application settings now has a setting to select your default Maps app.
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in reply to elementary • • •elementary OS 8.1 is available as a pay-what-you-can purchase at elementary.io now! Localized direct downloads and a torrent magnet link are provided.
OS 8.1 will receive additional feature and bug fix updates on a monthly schedule that will be reported on here and on our blog, so stay tuned for even more updates in the future!
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