I was asked yesterday if I could remove the background distractions from this photo. The gallery app on my phone did a really good job. It made the driveway look wider than it is, though.
SideParty 0.81! Upgrade NVGT. Adjust pan and volume step. Remove the experimental older buggy occlusion. Somehow, it had become even more broken than it already was. Replace with newer occlusion code. Potential fix for door switch sounds playing at the wrong spot. Add note in readme about potential choppy audio. masonasons.itch.io/SideParty
I have an idea for immutable desktop-focused Linux distro/OS projects, like the various immutable versions of Fedora. The OS consists of multiple root filesystem layers (like the layers in an OCI container image): an irreducible core, plus layers for drivers, localization packs, assistive technologies, and desktop environments. The user selects the layers they want, and can change that selection by editing a file, copying layers to their boot media if needed, and rebooting. 1/?
The OS layers are loaded into RAM on boot. That means the individual layers need to be minimal enough and fine-grained enough that the user can load just what they want. Once the layers are loaded, the boot media isn't needed for the system to keep running. Then for applications, when a Flatpak-packaged app is launched, the necessary Flatpaks are loaded into RAM, and kept resident while the app is running. This part is handwavy because I don't know enough about Flatpak. 2/?
The point is that on a machine with only one SD card slot, the system can boot from SD card, then the user can swap cards if needed, like we did with floppies on early personal computers. 3/3
As I think about it, though, I think current desktop environments might be too tied to the single OS installation on fixed storage, with /etc and $HOME always available, to allow persistent storage to be swapped while the system is running like we did on early personal computers. But the Macintosh was a GUI desktop environment that originally booted from floppy and then let you swap the floppy, so I guess it could be made to work again.
All right, time for me to put up or shut up. Before the year is over, I will switch to Linux as my primary desktop OS, Firefox on Linux as my primary browser, and Orca as my primary screen reader. Then I'll see what I need to fix to make that combo pleasant for me. I'll run Windows in a VM only as necessary for my work.
@vol4life8657 Haven't decided yet, nor which desktop environment, though for the latter I'm leaning toward GNOME, so I can do things that scale (blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/…) rather than retreating into my own super-custom environment.
There was a point in my life when I ran Arch, had an elaborate personalized terminal prompt, and my own custom icon theme. I stopped doing all these things at various points for different reasons,...
How can I talk about wanting kids, blind or otherwise, to have unlocked general-purpose computers where they can "hack everything without fear" (see this old blog post by Drew DeVault: drewdevault.com/2018/03/17/Hac…), if I'm not willing to do the work to switch to such an environment as my own daily driver? I'm sure I have the technical skills to make it work for me, and hopefully make it work for others in the process; I just have to set aside some time.
That's really cool to hear. I've tried it a couple times, but could never really make it work for me. Random sites wouldn't work, or strange bugs got annoying, or the distro I chose turned out to have a version of Orca way behind the latest. Nothing ever felt comfortable. If things improve, I'll happily try again. I mostly need a solid browser, VSCode, email, terminal, and a good text editor.
my *hope* is that you will find great success here and come back with stories of how this might be accomplished.
my *prediction* is unfortunately that you will discover a laundry list of reasons why this is currently technically impossible a paired social, structural list of reasons that none of those issues can ever be fixed.
as I have said several times recently I wish I were more often happy and less often correct
How about building a pure console environment, using Fenrir as screen reader, and use GUI applications only where there are no alternatives, e.g. the web browser?
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).
All i've heard at work for the last fortnight is 'iPhone release'. I thought I had escaped it off the job, too. But it seems that even checking out my groceries I am pursued.
a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC "Global Encryption Coalition" mailing list):
"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.
The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.
After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.
What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."
They need to make a Kitchen Nightmare style show called Datacenter Nightmares and the person yelling at them for doing things badly can by Bryan Cantrill
Oppo, Honor, Xiaomi, and more are using silicon-carbon batteries to slim phones down without compromising on battery, but the biggest players in the US are yet to catch up.
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