It’s great that this article linked to the original journal article. Nice that it’s open access, too! So good to see that it’s becoming more common. The academic publishing business is just so… well, in a word, fucked.
I apologize if my english isn’t perfect in how you would say it daily, but I hope it’ll help with Linux popularity and as a reference for future days....
This 100%. Even if you don’t like canonical, you can get Ubuntu for free and then later pay for support if you need. They have experience managing fleets of systems.
There’s a post on Reddit where a Brazilian state government org is testing out Ubuntu at scale.
Well I finished my taxes this year and they are finally accepted. Every year, we look at the market and the issues and decide on what provider to use. So here is a summary of our experience. Happy to hear your experiences too....
PC version. It had some weird bugs when it came to me putting in our income and looking like it duplicated stuff, but at the end it showed everything just fine.
Got my tax return recently, was a good chunk too compared to last year which was nice
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
I use Linux mint on my old Thinkpad and for the most part it works great. I use Kubuntu on my desktop. Asides from from weird hardware issues I had when initially setting it up, works great as well (Wayland too).
I agree with others: Linux mint, fedora, Ubuntu. Honestly, whatever gives you the least number of issues
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
I didn’t think that the market share was actually changing much? Like it’s low but it’s still used, especially on Linux workstations with nothing else pre-installed
Cleaning house which is good. Selling old smartphones is turning out out to be a pain. Got my windows desktop turned into kubuntu! Overall been pretty happy with it
also trying out mastodon again, will see how that goes
How to send a fax from an Android phone
I put in a credit card application for Bilt and they want address and id verification via fax. They really want me to send a fax apparently...
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
Archived link...
The bird that came back from the dead by evolving twice [LiveScience] (www.livescience.com)
It’s great that this article linked to the original journal article. Nice that it’s open access, too! So good to see that it’s becoming more common. The academic publishing business is just so… well, in a word, fucked.
Help me choose linux's best option for public school lab (distro, desktop, etc.)
I apologize if my english isn’t perfect in how you would say it daily, but I hope it’ll help with Linux popularity and as a reference for future days....
My Experience with Tax Filing Software (Spring 2024)
Well I finished my taxes this year and they are finally accepted. Every year, we look at the market and the issues and decide on what provider to use. So here is a summary of our experience. Happy to hear your experiences too....
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California is set to start Monday (apnews.com)
Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence (www.context.news)
We are closing in on zero-carbon cement (www.volts.wtf)
Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge (arstechnica.com)
Thailand Could Soon Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. It Would Change Lives. (www.them.us)
Florida abortion rights amendment proposal looks likely to appear on ballot (www.theguardian.com)
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8149733...
Activision Blizzard settles sex discrimination lawsuit for £44m (www.eurogamer.net)
how's your week going, Beehaw
just finished part one of my latest big project. not much to report; this has kept me very busy for the past week and change
Manjaro OS
So I’ve been iso live testing Manjaro KDE Plasma lately and it looks very polished....
The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)
Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
Just recently started using thunderbird to see how it would help managing múltiple Gmail accounts. Has anybody used the app version? Is it good? Bad?
CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months (www.eurogamer.net)