Yeah, HeliBoard or FlorisBoard would’ve been my recommendation. They’re very similar, though (and presumably share most code between themselves).

Multiple people have said that, yeah. But they also said that he did not particularly distance himself from the project, which is definitely something I would do, if I found out about this kind of backing.

Believe what you want, but Drew DeVault has more of a reputation than FUTO.

From a communication viewpoint, that is fair, but to my knowledge (from being a professional software developer), effectively any license that is not ‘open-source’ or ‘free’ is by definition proprietary.

Because those two terms describe licensing standards (the only established ones that I know of). Whereas I believe, “proprietary license” uses this meaning of proprietary:

Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

So, they wrote that license themselves is the point. What it says in there is secondary in meaning.

This is so highly relevant because in legal disputes, there is certain license compatibilities which are known to be possible.
You can take a library licensed under the MIT license and use it in a project that uses the Apache-2.0 license and you’re perfectly fine. This is the foundation of why the open-source ecosystem exists at all.

But you cannot take the source code from FUTO and use it in a differently licensed project, because no legal precedents exist to support this. (I believe, the FUTO license also actively prohibits this in some way, but that’s beside the point.)
This has massive implications. Like, yeah, you can look at the code, but it is useless. If FUTO closes shop or enshittifies, you cannot fork their projects.
And because you cannot legally re-use their source code in other projects, likely no one looks at it in depth either.

Here they started doing such phishing tests a while ago and our IT department had significantly worse stats than other departments, in terms of how often we would click on the link in the phishing mail.

And yeah, the conclusion was that we were just being asshats that decided to poke around in the obvious phishing mails for the fun of it. Rather than getting extra security training, management told us to just stop dicking around, so that our stats look better.

I know it’s a joke, but I did not find it worth worrying about lactose. I mainly had problems with it when eating cereal or drinking chocolate milk. And for both of those, oat milk is absolutely fine, since you probably have oats in your cereal anyways and some of the premixed chocolate oat milks you can find in stores are IMHO nicer than the cow milk ones.

And even with yoghurts, I can get a decent selection of vegan ones that taste virtually indistinguishable.

So, I guess, I tolerate lactose so long as I do not have to talk to it. 🙃

I’m not super deep into Flatpak, but is there such a thing as a “distro’s Flatpaks”? Normally, it uses central repositories like FlatHub, which are intentionally distro-independent.
A distro-specific repository would only make sense, if your distro maintainers are developing custom tooling…

I’d argue that it’s Android’s DE for Linux.

Works fine for me. ¯\_( ᵔ ~ ᵔ )_/¯

A colleague always complains that KDE looks like Windows. She does also get jealous, though, when she sees me using poweruser features.

It’s like flying on a broom. Perfectly logical.

It also doesn’t just look like a tiling WM. OP is using Krohnkite, which actually gives KDE tiling window management.

There’s no way they actually checked that it works. It includes code for:

• XDG
• GNOME
• “GNOME_old”
• KDE

Verifying this would mean logging into several different desktop environments.

It’s also extremely fragile code, running external commands and filtering through various files. There just is no good API on Linux for querying whether the desktop environment is using a dark theme, so it’s doing absolutely inane shit that no sane developer would type out.

Because it’s a maintenance nightmare. Because they almost certainly don’t actually need to solve this. That’s software development 101, to not write code that you don’t actually need. But apparently some devs never got the memo that this is because of the maintenance cost, not because you weren’t able to generate the code up until now.

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Typically, touchpad gestures (particularly multi-touch gestures) will work better on Wayland, because it has libinput.

Man, I looked at this too long, wondering who “9$$” is supposed to be and what a weirdo meme this is. Then I looked at the community this comes from and saw that it really is a weirdo meme.

Yeah, it’s explicitly built to run in a browser: https://agama-project.github.io/

I guess, the idea is mainly that you can also perform the installation over the network. I can imagine this being quite cool for setting up a Raspberry Pi or similar.

For what it’s worth, the dolphin face is a relatively recent addition. I wanna say three months tops.

Well, apparently that is a thing in Dolphin, but if what you actually want is e.g. to just move all .png files, then I prefer to use the Filter bar (Ctrl+i or the fourth entry in the hamburger menu). You can just type “.png” into it and then it hides all entries which don’t contain that substring.