Bookmarks are great if I remember what I want is there. Usually bookmarking is like putting a piece of paper in cabinet that I will never open… A tab is leaving the paper on my desk for me that I will rediscover.
I mention software freedom whenever I can.
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tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Why doesn't the Linux subreddit leave Reddit already?English41·16 days agoIf no one discussed the value of software freedom on proprietary platforms then (hopefully) we’d be preaching to the choir here.
Linux has proprietary binary blobs in it. If any part of a software is proprietary then even if most of it is free why wouldn’t people call “Linux” proprietary? Libre Linux removes those blobs.
As long as you follow the GPL license you can redistribute it, for free or at cost. Linux is mostly free as in freedom and usually free as in free beer.
Wikipedia says ElementaryOS has a pay what you want model. So if your image is from them then you don’t have to pay (a 3rd party is free to charge you for it - bandwidth ain’t free).
AMD made an open source driver for HDMI 2.1 but HDMI forum won’t approve. They locked down the specification for 2.1 and say the driver would reveal it.
https://www.howtogeek.com/hdmi-forum-open-source-drivers-hdmi-2-1/
I don’t know if an earlier version can do 8k@60HD.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Christoph Hellwig steps down from maintaining DMAEnglish4·3 months agoAs long as good actors can still do good work in a fork of Linux then hopefully it’s resistant to corporate vultures.
Communication is difficult. I felt like I gave a useful answer but evidentially it was not an answer for you. I hope someone else can answer your questions.
Has a software update ever changed something in a way you dislike? When it’s proprietary software your choices are to:
- tolerate the anti-feature
- downgrade and keep using an older version instead (if feasible also has demerits)
- hope someone reverse engineers a work-around
- stop using the software
When the software is free (libre) then a communities can change it (e.g. removing an anti-feature) via the source code.
Sadly it’s not enough to simply “then don’t use it” - proprietary software proliferates society (interacting socially, with the government, with banks, etc). Since it’s better to be in control of your own computing anyway then might as well promote the values of software freedom.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packagingEnglish1·3 months agothanks!
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packagingEnglish61·3 months agoIs there any merit to the claim OBS is using an end-of-life (EOL) runtime and that this is a very bad thing for security?
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?English11·3 months agoSmall teams are unable to take web browsers far in another direction as browsers have recklessly grown to one of the largest and most complicated software. Browsers do not follow the “do one thing well” philosophy, to the extreme.
Most functional parts of a browser (text reader, video player) are thankfully resistant to enshitification. That is if they are free (libre), permitting a fork.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•If I enforce some settings for users as root, is there any way they would be able to bypass them?English241·4 months agoNice try, dad.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•It's Very Important to be Able to Use Open Source From Top to BottomEnglish1·4 months agoWhat are the major advancements outlined in the wallpaper?
I’ve seen a wallpaper of linux commands before but this is ridiculous.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI | TechCrunchEnglish3·4 months agoIf you ain’t using version control for your policy, you ain’t a real one.
That’s good to hear. I assume people saying “ZFS” are usually referring to this OpenZFS (and usually not Oracle ZFS)?
How does it work before this release?
Are there other games or events that totally require Ticketmaster?
When I had static on headphones on Mint (20, maybe 21) then killing PulseAudio would prevent it happening again for a variable amount of time (minutes or weeks). I hope someone suggests something better but that might be worth trying that next time it happens:
pulseaudio -k
. [edit: tried that just now and had to re-select my headphones as an output device]I’ve not had to do that for a long time and I don’t know what has changed (fairly sure it had stopped happening before I got new headphones). PluseAudio isn’t even installed on my Mint MSI B450 machine, I assume it didn’t install during boot. I guess my static issues are are hardware related: something causing inference.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•When should we require that firmware be free?English4·5 months agoOne is to view free firmware as desirable but not necessary
I can’t make firmware but I hope the people who can make free (libre) firmware don’t give up, which is what that position sounds like.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's the most obscure distro you can think ofEnglish98·6 months agoWindows 11
You can hide the bookmark bar to save vertical space and then it’s just a more organized, forgotten bookmark list. Using a search engine to find the page again is more likely for me than a bookmaker 😅 (if no tab).