You probably know this already, but X11 hasn’t been dropped completely. You can still install what you need from the distros, and then the X11 option will be present and correct in SDDM.
To be honest I like the idea of being able to move my account from a server which is offline to a different one. We should have it with ActivityPub too.
A lot of people did jump to Mastodon, and apparently it had had another large influx of users yesterday after all the Twitter shenanigans. Not everyone stays though, obviously.
I think part of the issue some have with Mastodon is the lack of Twitter’s algorithm. It’s absolutely true to say it’s harder to find people and topics to follow on Mastodon for the simple reason that you’re not getting anything shoved in your face, which is a massive plus point for many (myself included) but can also make it appear initially less appealing.
I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA....
Sometimes I feel like I'm part of the minority who actually enjoyed Enterprise. Sure, there were some stinkers but the world was incredibly interesting and in Series 3 / 4 I really felt like it scratched that Trek lore itch for me....
I loved season 3 of Enterprise, and while I didn't think as highly of 4 as some, it was still a decent show at that point. It was a shame it was cancelled.
I'm not sure there's much reason to pick up where the show left off though, unless it's for a one off limited series covering the Romulan War or something. Strange New Worlds is doing the regular Star Trek thing and doing it well, so it would need to be something that really justified returning to the setting.
If I could wipe Enterprise from history and start over, I think I'd have liked it to lean more into the low tech stuff and make that the hook. The show very quickly seemed to drop that side of things, and even early on it mostly just replaced later Trek stuff with other stuff that did the same job. Polarised hull playing replaced shields, lasers replaced phasers etc. They even had a transporter. I'd like to see humanity taking its first steps to the stars without any of that stuff.
I like DuckDuckGo, but as others have said it's a shame it's using Chromium. I'd probably recommend this to someone non technical as an all in one privacy focussed browser, but it's not for me.
That looks rather nice. My Pixel 6 should be good for a few years yet, but I'd like to think my next phone will be a Fairphone if they keep improving like this.
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but......
I think the bubble has certainly burst. COVID resulted in loads of new consumer investers, and the visibility of crypto had never been higher. Exchanges were being advertised by major celebrities on Superbowl ads!
Then the market crashed, and all those investers realised what a mistake they'd made. I don't think it's a mistake many will make twice.
It was such a bizarre time, with major governments talking about minting their own NFTs or even their own digital currencies. That all seems to have quietly gone away now, thankfully.
We have a cat called Groot, for no other reason than we'd seen Guardians of the Galaxy and my wife really took to the character. Our Groot's a girl, but that's okay because all Groots are Groot.
We also have two rabbits. One's called Peanut because he looks like a peanut (well, less so now he's older), and one called, err, Jim. My wife's a vet, and was looking after him at home on behalf of a pet shop during COVID due to a respiratory issue. Jim was the name the shop gave him. We both decided we wanted to keep him, and the name had stuck by that point. We got ourselves Peanut to keep him company.
If you were on the web in the 00s, you remember web sites saying things like "This site works best with Internet Explorer" or, even worse, using technology like ActiveX which meant "this site ONLY works with Internet Explorer on Windows, the rest of you can get stuffed." (There was an Internet Explorer for Mac at that time, but it was garbage and couldn't run ActiveX content).
Today, that's Chrome. But this time it's different. It's not driven by web sites who explicitly make a tech choice to only support a single browser. What's happened is that all the developers, testers, and frankly the end users have all just decided they'll only use Chrome. They only test web sites on Chrome and all their users who report problems are reporting them on Chrome.
At work I am increasingly using enterprise software that throws errors if I use Firefox, but magically just works if I use Chrome. It's different this time because the developers don't seem to care (the web site/software doesn't include non-Chrome accommodations the way web sites used to include "if IE6 do X" code) and the business isn't even advertising "this only works if you use Chrome." I don't find this in FAQs like "Q: X doesn't work, A: Try using Chrome." It's just that a lot of stuff breaks in weird ways if I use Firefox, and doesn't break at all if I use Chrome.
Monopolies are bad for the end user/customer. Diversity forces innovation. We need significant numbers of people using something other than the same thing most people use.
I switched to Firefox from Brave a while ago, partly due to Mozilla's Mastodon announcement and their general approach, and to be honest it's been fine for the most part.
That said, I've absolutely run into some minor issues on a couple of sites that were indeed fixed by using Brave again.
you've probably seen me all over the place here already because I am very much enjoying beehaw. but I just figured i'd introduce myself formally as one of the new /r/gaming mods. so, henlo gamers (affectionate).👋...
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 40 (tim.siosm.fr)
A Look at Bluesky - An overly complicated social networking platform (juliette.page)
To be honest I like the idea of being able to move my account from a server which is offline to a different one. We should have it with ActivityPub too.
Wefwef for Lemmy feels exactly like Apollo. (wefwef.app)
I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA....
What would a modern Enterprise series look like?
Sometimes I feel like I'm part of the minority who actually enjoyed Enterprise. Sure, there were some stinkers but the world was incredibly interesting and in Series 3 / 4 I really felt like it scratched that Trek lore itch for me....
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (www.theverge.com)
Exclusive: Here's our first look at the Fairphone 5 (www.androidauthority.com)
The joy of slow living in Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Is Crypto Finally Dead?
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but......
How did your animal friends get their name?
What is the story behind how your pets got their name?
Meta will be releasing a Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join? (www.theverge.com)
Here's everything we know about it so far:...
a new moderator approaches (beehaw.org)
you've probably seen me all over the place here already because I am very much enjoying beehaw. but I just figured i'd introduce myself formally as one of the new /r/gaming mods. so, henlo gamers (affectionate).👋...
Star Trek: Infinite Is a New Grand Strategy Game From Paradox - IGN (www.ign.com)