I watched technical talks (like this) on GNU Taler ages ago so this might be out of date but the most difficult part to me would be the banks being interested in supplying the service necessary. You get money to your browser wallet by transferring it from your bank account.

I don’t live in Switzerland and can’t imagine banks or government supporting anything but their own version that gives them control.

It was mostly a playful comment on my part (indicated by the emoji) - I’ve waited this long so they might as well do it properly.

I would like to buy products/services online privately, “using cash” as it were. I also value software freedom and the Taler client is GPL. The API is LGPL but hopefully I can avoid using proprietary software for transactions.

I looked into setting up a method of donations on itch.io when I was focused on that hobby and the options of PayPal or Stripe just felt icky. I don’t want to use them, or encourage others to do so.

Been waiting for Taler for ages. I’m ready now, you wait 😝

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).

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.

If 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.

As 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.

thanks!

Is 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?

Small 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.

Nice try, dad.

What are the major advancements outlined in the wallpaper?

I’ve seen a wallpaper of linux commands before but this is ridiculous.

If 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?