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VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/vr-gโฆ
VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux
While the Linux support of ALVR is still quite rough due to various issues with SteamVR, ALVR is a very promising way to stream VR games to your headset via Wi-Fi and a new release is out now with v20.9.1.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Very happy to share another collaboration with @codethink ๐ค
A new way to develop on Linux โจ
codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/โฆ
A new way to develop on Linux
Continuing our collaboration with the GNOME Foundation, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), we have been busy on multiple fronts since our last update.www.codethink.co.uk
You can now get three kinds of #PureOS subscription from @purism!
Each of them:
- Helps maintaining releases and bug fixes
- Helps pushing code to other projects
Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) developers also need an #income!
Consider subscribing if you want to advance #Linux #privacy friendly computing or if you are using #MobileLinux.
shop.puri.sm/?s=pureos+subscriโฆ
#opensource #phone #librem5 #pinephone #chatty #mobian #linux
KDE Plasma is great. GNOME is awesome. Window managers are wonderful. Everything has quirks but I love all these options we have. I can't wait to see where we take them.
Me, naively: "I think I'll spend some time troubleshooting this minor Linux sound problem. Surely Linux sound support has improved over the last few years."
[...]
Me, several hours later, wearing torn and filthy rags and screaming on a street corner: "AND THE LIVING SHALL ENVY THE DEAF!"
Onlooker: "'Deaf?' Don't you mean 'dead'?"
Me: "DID I FUCKING STUTTER?"
Call for proposals
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.linuxappsummit.org
#Linux #UX bugs like this are frustrating: starting a drag action pops the window forward, obscuring the target window. I'm using latest #Fedora but apparently this happens on nearly all DEs.
The smaller your display is (and the more nontechnical you are) the more likely you'll hit this. Apparently this has been known for a long time and no one cares to fix it? I'm just curious why.
"Not enough programmers" isn't a good excuse, this is a fairly easy fix. @cassidy Devs only use Terminal?
The Fedora Accessibility Working Group presented to our highest decision-making committee on the state of accessibility in our distro. It's packed with information, context, and perspective for where we are today and how we can change things for the better.
If you would like to contribute after learning more about this priority, please join the matrix room!
Presentation: youtube.com/watch?v=fovBYceMCXโฆ
Accessibility WG Matrix room: matrix.to/#/#a11y-wg:fedoraproโฆ
#Fedora #Accessibility #a11y #Linux
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
#tech #accessibility #disability #disabilities #disabled
โ Achievement unlocked - Got a minor credit in a CVE.
mcphail wrote:
"I recently found a bug in Snap, a package manager for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, which allows the snap to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code (as the user) if the home permission is set. This exploit could be run on a vanilla install of Ubuntu and was patched in commit aa191f9 on 13th March 2024."
gld.mcphail.uk/posts/explaininโฆ
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.โฆ
CVE - CVE-2024-1724
The mission of the CVEยฎ Program is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities.cve.mitre.org
My mom had another computer she let me put Linux on. It's not as good as the other and only has 4 gb of RAM and 64 gb storage, but I can't afford anything better. I tried #Ubuntu and #LinuxMint, but I didn't like how out of date software was. Now I'm on #Arch and like a lot of things about it. My biggest issues are that I wish #Braille support was better and there are one or two apps I haven't been able to find equivalents for, or what I've found isn't as good. I love the customizability though, and the way you can put just what you want on the computer and no more. I also like the #commandLine. On #Windows, I was a #JAWS user, and there are some features I miss from that, particularly #PictureSmart, #SplitBraille, and being able to configure profiles for websites. The one Windows app I haven't found a good equivalent for is one called Perky Duck. It's an editor that lets you create Braille files using six keys on your computer keyboard. There's a Linux app called BrailleZephyr, but it has far fewer features and isn't as easy to use. This is needed for the #BrailleTranscription course I'm taking. I'm using BrailleZephyr now because it's my only choice unless I want to write my lessons with a Braillewriter and mail them in. I'm also trying to find an #accessible #Telegram client. I tried the web and desktop apps and they were both inaccessible.
I also tried some #gardening a while back. We were doing it inside but it had to be moved outside and my mom wound up caring for the #plants because it's usually too hot for me out there, but a couple nights ago, she took me out there to pick a #cucumber. I got to pick it, she cut it up, and we ate it. It was so much better than storebought cucumber! There are more growing, too, so that won't be the last one we pick. Helping grow and then picking that cucumber was really satisfying.
#accessibility #technology #gardening
Booting Linux off of Google Drive
On the brink of insanity, my tattered mind unable to comprehend the twisted interplay of millennia of arcane programmer-time and the ragged screech of madness, I reached into the Mass and steeled myself to the ground lest I be pulled in, and found my magnum opus.
Booting Linux off of a Google Drive root.
โซ Ersei
That's not... You shouldn't... Why would...
Not sure if I've talked about this here, but there are like, tons of stuff here. I'm gonna try that Linux distro through Crostini on my old ChromeBook that I don't do anything else with anymore. The VM's over the Internet are really cool too! The AT Museum is cool. And I'm curious to see if the Windows 2000/XP on **Android** works. That'd be trippy.
#accessibility #blind #AssistiveTechnology #Linux #gaming #TTS #VirtalMachine #foss #Android
๐ repost: No More postman just use cURL + vim = โค
maw.sh/blog/no-more-postman-juโฆ
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No More postman just use cURL + vim = โค โ Mahmoud Ashraf
Well documented api and easy to use and share with your team with simple tools cURL + vim + git (optional)https://maw.sh
I finally published my app to Flathub!
Echo is a GUI ping utility. Give it a try, but go easy on me as it's my first real project :))
Bonjour! Sziasztok! ์๋
! I've released version 2.0 of Keypunch, the modern typing trainer for GNOME. Get ready to practice typing in many new languages!
โข Text generation support for Bulgarian, Hindi, Korean, Nepali, Russian, Swiss German, and Ukranian
โข More accepted ways to type certain characters, such as โoeโ for โลโ
โข Better handling of scripts using intelligent input engines, like Korean Hangul
โฆand more!
Get it on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/dev.bragefuglโฆ
#GNOME #Keypunch #Flathub #Linux
Interesting ๐ค how #CVE are leveraged as resume items, putting #programmers #developers & project leads under pressure by #bogus CVE reports or unnecessary high CVE ratings.
Popular and obscure programs are affected in the #OpenSource #POSIX world e.g #Linux #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD
#Curl โฐ by #Daniel #Stenberg and #IP by #Fedor #Indutny are popular programs hit by this #phenomena which can lead to unwarranted #panic in the users space
Pred pรกr dลami sme vฤaka @Zvonimir Stanecic a ฤalลกรญm dobrovoฤพnรญkom zverejnili prvรฝ slovenskรฝ ลพenskรฝ hlas pre #rhvoice. Hlas dostal aj peknรฉ netradiฤnรฉ meno Jasietka. K dispozรญcii sรบ hlasy pre #Windows #nvdasr #android aj #linux . Aktualizรกcie sa zรกroveล doฤkala aj celkovรก podpora pre slovenฤinu, vrรกtane uลพ skรดr zverejnenรฉho slovenskรฉho hlasu Ondro. Ak potrebujete #tts #textToSpeech k ฤรญtaฤu obrazovky, na ฤรญtanie knรญh, inลกtrukcie pre GPS navigรกciu, pozrite si prosรญm podrobnosti na jednoduchom webe.
Irgendjemand hier hat mir das "#TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen4" #Laptop gezeigt und das geht mir nimmer aus dem Kopf...
(tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-โฆ)
Bin ja versucht eines zu bestellen...
Hat das zufรคllig schon jemand?
Wie laut ist der #Lรผfter von dem Ding denn so im normalen Tagesbetrieb (ein externer Monitor dran und vielleicht ein Browser offen)?
Unter einem aktuellen 6.x #Linux Kernel natรผrlich...
Das wรคre der Grund von meinem #Dell wegzugehen - der Lรผfter ist immer an und nervt mich gewaltig.
Pulse 14 - Gen4: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS + Bright 14-inch 3K Display + Radeon 780M + Very quiet cooling + 32 GB LPDDR5X-6400 + max. 8 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD + 60 Wh battery - TUXEDO Pulse 14 - Gen4 - TUXEDO Computers
Pulse 14 - Gen4: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS + Bright 14-inch 3K Display + Radeon 780M + Very quiet cooling + 32 GB LPDDR5X-6400 + max. 8 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD + 60 Wh batterywww.tuxedocomputers.com
Adding something to a first-run tour doesn't seem to be a good solution; weโve seen most people skip/close that on Endless OS, at least.
I sort of hate to suggest it, but maybe something _similar to_ (but distinct from!) what Windows does to direct people to Edge instead of another browser is actually viable?
Think: a pre-installed browser add-on that has a list of known download sites and displays a message to direct people to the app store.
#Linux #Flathub #Flatpak #GNOME #OpenSource
โฆLike, โThis app may be available in App Center. Installing from App Center is preferred for improved integration plus security and privacy features. [Check App Center]โ
If a user gets as far as trying to download a .deb or .rpm (or even .exe/.msi!), we have a utility in Endless OS that kicks in and does a decent job here directing them to the app store. But I get the feeling that weโre losing/confusing people before they even get that far.
#Linux #OpenSource #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME
The sad state of app distribution on Windows and macOS continues to trip up first-time Linux users. It's still wildly prevalent to ignore the platform app store in favor of going directly to a companyโs website to download apps on those platformsโand that makes it confusing to new Linux users who would be best served by using their OSโs built-in app store, instead.
The problem can can also be approached from the other direction: ISVs *please* stop promoting .deb/.rpm filesโor at least relegate them to a nerdy section down belowโand adopt Flatpak!
You can easily target Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, Fedora, elementary OS, Endless OS, Steam Deck(!), Arch, etc. with Flatpak, all with minimal-to-zero user setup.
โฆMaybe do that?
We do some thingsโlike Flathub badges for the webโto help combat this, but itโs still a losing battle: major ISVs show downloads for โDebianโ and โRPMsโ which new users donโt understand. Iโve seen new users across elementary OS, Endless OS, and Fedora all get decision paralysis: โI don't know if I need the Debian or Red Hat versionโ or, "It doesn't show Endless OS so I guess I canโt get itโ
I wonder if itโs something we can combat more proactively.
#Flatpak #Flathub #Linux #OpenSource #GNOME
Last night i tested some apps with text to speech just out of curiosity. Just listening that the things it depict sound right at all.
I can't fully test things because i am not in a spot to do so, but this is something anyone can do really. Enable text to speech, click around your app, make sure that all fields, buttons, texts and things are described. Make also sure that you can use keyboard only to move around.
If you want to help with #Linux #accessibility this is something anyone could try to do and fix! It will not make things perfect necessarily but it really does help. You dont have to even write code, you can document things and then make a bug report!
I learned a lot from this @LateNightLinux podcast episode and i highly recommend anyone who makes apps and websites to listen it! Even if youre not on linux!
linuxafterdark.net/linux-afterโฆ
we shouldn't only strive for Linux to be as accessible as Windows, we should strive for it to be MORE accessible.
Windows accessibility is shit. I still remember having to upgrade a blind collegue's device to Windows 10 due to corporate requirements, only for us to find out that some of the Windows 7 accessibility shortcuts were dropped.
not only can we do as good as Microsoft, we can do better.
there's no reason for Linux not to be the most accessible OS out there.
Resources 1.5 has landed on Flathub yesterday with battery monitoring along with other bug fixes and improvements! ๐ฅณ
Check it out! :)
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS but the real problem is me
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-beโฆ
#fedora #accessibility #a11y #ableism #RedHat #IBM #Linux #OpenSource
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.Aral Balkan
It's 2028. The year of the Linux desktop happened 2 years ago. Well it began 4 years ago, but whatever. Microsoft turned on Recall for every single Windows PC, running their language model no matter how much RAM it needed to take up, which CPU you have, and if you don't have enough space, deleting "old" files to make room. Local news started talking about alternatives, and computer repair shops started advertizing that they could easily give people a system that doesn't spy on them or use AI, and it'd work with even very old computers. Rich people jumped on MacOS of course, but people who already had a PC switched to Linux.
Now, the only people who use Windows are blind people. We've tried to switch, and more people successfully have switched to versions of the Mate desktop that don't rely on Wayland. But when people try to use Wayland, they start uncovering the issues of an unfinished system of accessibility. In 2024, there was this new accessibility system, Neuton, being developed, but the creator's contract ended before he could finish it, and no one has taken it up ever since. Oh, and when you press Alt + F1 in Gnome, it still just says "Window". When I'm helping new Linux users, who understand the issues but still need to be away from Microsoft for privacy or work-related reasons, I always have to tell them what "Window" means, how to navigate that interface, all that mess. And it stresses me out, each and every time.
Now, when we bring up accessibility issues, FossBros, enboldened by the year of the Linux desktop, now loudly fire back at us that we just don't want to. They say that we, blind people, just choose not to use Linux, that we're just too lazy to learn a new system, and that everything has been proven thousands of times to work correctly. When we point at issues that users spent an hour or so learning how to use GitLab in order to create, they tell us that Linux was created so that people can scratch our own itch, and to do so, and that since the FossBro does not suffer that itch, they cannot fix it.
The biggest issues right now are the desktop environment and the web. The Neuton system has pretty much made Wayland work, but it can't connect to the core of the Gnome desktop, so Orca has to use Wayland more directly. So, the Alt + F1 screen, the notification panel, all that, is still how it's been for the last 10 years. A few days ago, no one was surprised to learn that since no one uses the Mate desktop anymore, it's being retired. Blind people who have been using Linux for the past 20 years crowed that at least they know how to build from source and tape the shaky foundation together. I just sighed and continued playing Pokemon Emerald on Windows. Linux folks still don't have all the scripts and mods for games that we Windows users have. Oh, they also still have to check the Assistive Technologies checkbox to enable all the environment variables blind people need. Isn't that nice?
This article discusses the main features of mini PCs and what to look for when shopping for one. Which is what I'm doing as I'll replace my Chromebox with a Linux mini PC.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0โฆ
What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop
Pi 5 is still an odd fit for day-to-day desktop use; cheap mini PCs come closer.Ars Technica
We are joined by Florian Beijers @zersiax who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.
linuxafterdark.net/linux-afterโฆ
#linux #podcast #opensource #a11y
A thread I just responded to got me thinking about open-source software in general. Something I've seen being pretty pervasive is that when a user files an issue, asks a question or points out a bug, they'll often be told to go fix it themselves. And given how this kind of tool/app/what have you is developed, that makes sense up to a point. People building open-source software can do whatever they like, accept whatever contributions they want to accept and lead the project in whatever direction they see fit. And this model works great when the users of the project are themselves developers, which particularly in the past used to be the case.
Where this falls over entirely, however, is a projec that's being used by a whole bunch of people that are not developers, perhaps not even techies. #linux is an easy target to pick on for this because that's exactly what we're seeing today: People who don't like Windows or Mac get told to " Just Swith To Linux, It's Superior, What Are You Even Still Waiting For".
So the user does, finds out something isn't working for them/their circumstances, and look for a fix, or support, or some kind of other way to work around the issue.
User: This is a problem for me. I've even had others in my circle tell me it's also a problem for them. Can it be fixed?
Dev: Sure, feel free to fix it yourself and make a PR.
User: ...nani?
In all fairness, open source projects often just don't have the resources to set up things like tech support channels outside of a Slack/Discord/IRC server, but users new to all this won't know that. They'l feel blocked, unheard and uncared for, which can act as a bit of a gatekeeping mechanism.
Add to this the problem of #accessibility often being an afterthought and you now have a perfect storm of circumstances where huge numbers of users are stopped in their tracks with no way forward because of this kind of culture. I don't have a solution, I'm just calling it like I see it.