Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
It doesn’t really matter if you make piracy more difficult if you don’t make it impossible. Only one person has to figure out how to rip it, then everyone else can watch it
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
You can get the switcher in KDE, but you can’t get a real equivalent to gnome’s view. In gnome you can press super to get the overview, but you can also type to open programs. There’s no way to do that in KDE afaik. It’s the main thing keeping me from KDE
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Yeah when you’re downloading from sites like those, there’s not a security risk anymore. The thing is that Linux software generally expects you to be using a package manager, so it doesn’t update itself. When you download and install debs, you lose auto update functionality. But when you’re on a distro like mint with old packages, that doesn’t really matter since you’re not getting up to date software through the repos anyway
I believe instances generate the preview as soon as it’s federated. The problem is that if you have many followers, each of their instances will try to generate a preview at the same time
I’ve run passwd and sudo su; passwd to change password for root and my account. Password is set correctly when using sudo and su but whenever I get prompted by pkexec it accepts only the old password. I’ve rebooted my system to make sure it was not an issue....
Bro tried to divide by zero (sh.itjust.works)
Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. (www.businessinsider.com)
My most ridiculous solution yet, completely solving citrix clipboard issues
bindntr=CTRL,C,exec,hyprctl activewindow | rg -q "Office365 Desktop" && alacritty --class 'alacrittyclipboard' --title 'Office365 Desktop' -e sh -c 'sleep .01879 && xclip -o | wl-copy'...
RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address (variety.com)
New Teslas might lose Steam (www.theverge.com)
Tiddy rule (lemmy.world)
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xkcd #2932: Driving PSA (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2932...
Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores (lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21284770...
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Uuh grub? (programming.dev)
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
Boeing 737 skidded off runway in Senegal airport, injuring 10 people (apnews.com)
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....
someone tell them (lemmy.world)
Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
Unfinished rule (lemmy.zip)
tenpo suli pi lanpan telo a*
Gnome developers in a nutshell (lemmy.world)
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ? (news.itsfoss.com)
The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems:...
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How to change password in Ubuntu
I’ve run passwd and sudo su; passwd to change password for root and my account. Password is set correctly when using sudo and su but whenever I get prompted by pkexec it accepts only the old password. I’ve rebooted my system to make sure it was not an issue....