“Just because we don’t consider lack of accessibility to be a blocker doesn’t mean we’re ableist.”

– Open Source folks in my mentions.

#openSource #linux #accessibility #a11y #ableism #fedora #gnome #redHat #IBM #wayland

Dear #Linux friends,

I'm working on my #GUADEC talk and I have a note (I think from talking to @cassidy ) about:

"A new approach to systray by #Gnome"

But I'm having a hard time finding much (other than it is a very old and rather contentious topic) *Is* there a new version of systray and has anything been written up about it?

For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!

EIGHT YEARS!

(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released in 2016.)

And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.

What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.

#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux fosstodon.org/@soller/11264637…

Awesome presentation about enhancing Linux accessibility by Lukáš Tyrychtr (@tyrylu) and Vojtěch Polášek! I found the screencast in the presentation to be especially insightful.

youtube.com/live/64aeub7qPuI?s…

pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/ta…

#a11y #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Linux #DevConf_CZ #GNOME

Enhancing Linux Accessibility: A Unified Approach DevConf.CZ

Join us for a discussion aimed at supporting Linux distribution developers in enhancing accessibility. As blind software engineers, we believe we can bring a unique perspective to this essential endeavor.

^pretalx.com

The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!

Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users. If you want to put your advocacy to action, consider participating!

The Accessibility Test Week runs from Jun 19-25, starting tomorrow.

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/announcing-…

#Fedora #FedoraA11yTestWeek #FWD #Accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource

Two Silverblue systems here got hit by the secure boot signature bootloader bug on the upgrade that brought in a new kernel. Good thing there are rollbacks (to boot an older version) and a workaround.

Issue: github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

Workaround to keep using secure boot (run these commands on a working boot): github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

Hopefully there's an automatic fix soon? ('bootupd' should be the long term fix for this.)

#Silverblue #Kinoite #Fedora #Atomic #FedoraAtomic #Linux

Boot fails with "vmlinuz has invalid signature" or "bad shim signature, you need to load the kernel first" · Issue #543 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

Current workaround See #543 (comment) Original issue text Describe the bug Trying to rebase an existing SB39 to SB40 fails to boot showing vmlinuz-6.8.1-300.fc40.x86.x64 has invalid signature. you ...

^GitHub

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project ✨

blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…

Great work @matt !

Looking forward to work with you again next year and ship this!

Thank you @sovtechfund ❤️

#Wayland #freedesk #Linux #GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #accessibility #a11y

FFS, GNOME! Just wasted a day of editing video because the built-in screen recorder records screencasts at such a low quality that I ended up with keyframe artefacts / ghosting in my captures.

Bloody hell…

And is there any way to set the quality? Is there ever!

[Edit] Use OBS. (Thanks everyone in the replies.)

(Don’t use GNOME’s built-in screen recorder if you’re posting HD+ videos.)

vimeo.com/957970626

#gnome #video #screenRecorder #quality #linux #foss

The quality of the screen capture in GNOME’s screen recorder

Just wasted a day of editing thanks to this. See the ghosting in the latter part of the video and the low quality in general.

^Vimeo

Build the greatest car parks ever in the retro-tycoon styled Car Park Capital gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/buil…

#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming

Exciting talk alert! Marta Lewandoska from Red Hat at #DevConf_CZ is presenting a game-changing solution to replace GRUB: nmbl (No More Boot Loader).

Join on 06/15, 09:30-10:05(CEST), E112 to learn more about using the Linux kernel as its own bootloader. Say goodbye to complexity and security holes!

More info: pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/ta…

#redhat #Linux #bootloader #OpenSource #linuxkernel

No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead DevConf.CZ

We are working on a new scheme to replace the GRUB bootloader with a fast, secure, Linux-based, user-space solution: nmbl (for no more boot loader).

^pretalx.com

I wrote a Dart package for speech-dispatcher, enabling TTS on Linux. It also works with Flutter for Linux. The package supports most features of speech-dispatcher, with additional support for less commonly used functionality like history coming soon. It still needs broader testing, so feel free to open any issues you encounter. My hope is that one of the TTS packages for Flutter will start using it to add Linux support, as most, if not all, currently don't support Linux.

You can find the package on GitHub at github.com/the-byte-bender/dar… and on pub.dev at pub.dev/packages/dart_speechd.

#dart #flutter #tts #linux

GitHub - the-byte-bender/dart_speechd: Dart bindings for speech dispatcher, for text to speech on linux.

Dart bindings for speech dispatcher, for text to speech on linux. - the-byte-bender/dart_speechd

^GitHub

TUXEDO tease an ARM Snapdragon X Elite Linux notebook is coming gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/tuxe…

#Linux #ARM

Interested in tooling for development and QA on immutable / image based Linux?

Checkout discourse.gnome.org/t/towards-… by @tchx84

Feedback welcome ! This is a collaboration between @gnome @codethink and @sovtechfund ❤️

#Linux #systemd #Silverblue #GNOME #freedesktop #KDE #Ubuntu #SUSE #Fedora #NixOS #postmarketOS

Towards a better way to hack and test your system components

Introduction Hey everyone, I recently joined Codethink and I am contributing to the improvements being made to GNOME OS, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), to make it easier and more useful in day-to-day development and testing tasks, among othe…

^{GNOME Discourse}

#MajorasMask running natively with 60 FPS on #Linux #PC , no emulation, with an improved #N64-like controller by #Retrobit. What a time to be alive. 🥹

#RetroGaming #Zelda #Nintendo64 #Nintendo #Gaming

Update on #Actions, my desktop automation app

I've added some basic actions, variables, input/output values and documentation for each one.

#Linux #GNOME #Libadwaita

didn't know this before, and didn't have to because i haven't installed windows in the past 10 years. but for those who need to do this, this workaround should be known:

Thankfully, there remains another way to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. When you’re at the log-in screen, you can hit Shift + F10 and type OOBE/BYPASSNRO, which will let you create a local account instead if you do not have an internet connection (so disconnect the internet for this).

#computer #internet #instgallation #windows #windows11 #linux

Tom's Hardware: Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround (Jowi Morales)

a@a.com is redundant but Shift + F10 OOBE/BYPASSNRO comes to the rescue.

a@a.com is redundant but Shift + F10 OOBE/BYPASSNRO comes to the rescue.

How fast can you type? Find out with my new app, Keypunch!

I've worked on this for the last couple of months, and it's finally out. Keypunch lets you practice your typing skills with automatically generated pseudo-text in your language of choice. Alternatively, you can supply it with your own text, such as song lyrics, Wikipedia articles, and quotes. Get ready to accelerate your typing speed!

Get it on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/dev.bragefugl…

#GNOME #Keypunch #Flathub #Linux

Shout out to Text Pieces! I needed to URL-encode a big ugly string (creating a template form from URL parameters, yay!) and yep, sure enough, it made it stupidly easy.

The next time you need to encode, transform, or convert some text on Linux, reach for this pretty little offline app instead of pasting your data into some random website. 👍

flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.lif…

#Flathub #GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxApps #GNOMECircle #Flatpak

Install Text Pieces on Linux | Flathub

Developer's scratchpad

^Flathub

I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.

So I started working on one myself

#Linux #GNOME

#linux

#Tutanota and #protonmail
#protonvpn
#dashlane and #protonsecurity
#portmaster
#joplin and #standardnotes
#firefox and #duckduckgo #brave
#signal and #element
#duomobile #authy

#cybersecurity

New article: "Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language"

tesk.page/2024/06/03/libadwait…

#GNOME #GTK #Libadwaita #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GTK4 #Development

Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Happy Pride Month! Especially grateful to the LGBTQ+ members of the Fedora community. :)

We hope to see you on the Fedora Week of Diversity on Jun 17-22!

➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

#FWD #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Join Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) 2024 – Fedora Community Blog

Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD) from June 17–22, 2024. We come together to honor diverse voices, perspectives, and skills that enrich Fedora.

^{obazeeconsole (Fedora Project)}

After 2 days of cursing, @alatiera got graphics driver working with Flatpak apps in Asahi

#Linux #Asahi #AsahiLinux #Flatpak #GTK #Qt #freedesktop

✅ Custom Account Colors
✅ Linux System Tray Support
✅ Rust-Enabled Builds

And that's only half of the good news! This month's Thunderbird Development Digest from @alecaddd has some great updates as we step closer to the next ESR.

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/t…

#Thunderbird #Development #Rust #Linux

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: May 2024

In the new Thunderbird Development Digest: Linux tray support, custom account colors, Exchange support, and more.

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}

#GNOME 46.2 Desktop Environment Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes 9to5linux.com/gnome-46-2-relea…

@gnome #Linux #OpenSource

Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!

Blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1030/deb…

#linux #x11 #wayland #debian #fedora #krita #plasma #kde

Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype!

#linux #accessibility #blind

With #Microsoft introducing #Recall which will screenshot your screen to monitor all activities on your device, this begs the question...

What #Linux distro will you be switching to?

Since I've migrated from screen to tmux years ago, I always felt that missed screen's excellent support for serial devices.

But recently I found github.com/tio/tio which was developed exactly with that use case in mind and I couldn't be happier. Such an amazing tool.

#linux #kernel #embedded

GitHub - tio/tio: A serial device I/O tool

A serial device I/O tool. Contribute to tio/tio development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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Since Microsoft announced their latest spyware, sorry, #ReCall, People want to jump ship to #Linux so I'm gonna give the community some solid advice. The biggest hurtle new users will have to deal with is the community because, to be honest, they are extremely obnoxious FOSS Bros that can't stand newbies or Windows users or non technical people in general, but here's your chance! Here's a chance to really guide people, not badger them into picking Linux just because.

Don't tell a new person to Google the term. Give them a video, a book, a tutorial, something to help them along. Think it's hand holding? Tough luck.

Don't ask them to register to a forum and provide feedback. Offer to give feedback on their behalf.

As for any Disabled person in your life? Just don't recommend Linux yet at all. It's still not ready for non technical Disabled people. Just no! No!

I wrote, briefly, about that at this link, but really, I haven't even scratched the surface yet as to issues with Linux adoption for Disabled users. I run Linux on a VM. I Debloated my own windows, so I stick with that. Just listen to the Disabled community without telling them they don't know why Microsoft is shit. Listen, and then code based on their answers. tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter… #Microsoft

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Am I downloading a #Linux distro?
Do I have time to toy with it?
Is it worth it?
So many questions 😃

#kubuntu