jlow (he/him)

I know you’re trolling but I had to look it up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system#/media/File%3AOperating_systems_used_on_top_500_supercomputers.svg

Is that possible without an addon/extension nowadays? I used Gnome and DashToDock / Plank etc for years but got fet up with stuff breaking with system updates.

So what are you using on the desktop and how long have you been using it? I’ve switched to Linux / open source software a year ago and especially learning programs (design / media tools in my case) was super painful for some time. But I had the motivation of not wanting to use an OS that tries to spy on me and getting away from a super shady monopolist (Adobe) as a motivator that kept me going. Sure there are still some things that get on my nerves but those exist in Microsoft’s (and Apple’s) and Adobe’s products as well.

I guess you have checked out Krita? I like it a lot.

Ooops, yes, sorry, Eevee is Blender’s real time renderer (like a game engine) that fakes fakes a lot of stuff while Cycles is the classic “physics-based” renderer. I heard that it took under a minute to Render a frame which is absurd for movie quality. But it makes sense since the look is kinda stylized (only noticed in the cinema that characters are kinda cell shaded) but it still looks so good, the lightning, fog, water, bloom, dephth of field, wow. Was really worth it watching on the big screen. Story is a bit weird but loved the characters and their interactions.

Just saw Flow at the cinema, I can’t believe they rendered this all in Eeevee, wth!

Yeah, seems to be using Google App Analytics as well so another no from me, unfortunately …

Ohhh, that’s what it is! I’ve used a multi-monitor setup recently and was wondering why (sometimes) windows position where nit remembered. Welp, seems like the bug report about this so still open in KDE and will be fixed eventually …

Yeah, I think it depends on how the distro decides to implement it, can’t remember now but I think e. g. in Fedora KDE you need to tick a box somewhere in Discover’s (KDE’s updater) settings (and then it’s Fedora’s own Flatpak repo?). In Bazzite which I’m using atm it’s Flatpaks all the way down anyway 😸

It’s also quite nice in KDE that you can do Flatpak permissions etc in System Settings.

Interesting, I’m super happy on Wayland with Plasma, what problems are you experiencing / what features are you missing?

Ah, ok. Yeah, that could be it, I was wondering why they don’t just hire the devs themselves …

Only skimmed the article, I don’t understand how this works: There are for-profit companies that hire devs to work on open source projects? Are they earning money with something else or how do they make money from this?

I always wanna try Kdenlove (ok, spelling but this is just too good too correct 😸) but whenever I need to do something with video (which is always really basic) I use Blender’s video editor since I already know how to ise it …

It’s interesting and kinda cool that you can’t tell what distro it’s running on when using Flatpak. I would have thought that there’s some way to find out (it would be important for fixing bugs, I guess?)

Ah, yes, “Flatpak”, my favourite distro 😸

Have been on Walyand for a year now, no problems except for a weird big in Inscape so thst runs in X11 mode.

https://tilvids.com/w/fAvzwwK2abKCGUea6FT9va

There’s also bs like this:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/firefox-testing-new-privacy-feature-with-meta/

The browser is cool but Mozilla as a company is an absolute trainwreck of borked public communication (again and again and again) and bullshit products that noone asked for (Pocket, AI etc).

Yeah, haven’t looked into it again but when it came up first it had big “priviliged cishet white dude (as per usual with a lot of open source projects, thanks capitalism) not having enough empathy for others to change behaviour even the tiniest bit” energy. I’m not holding my breath but I have tinsy bit of hope they’ll mature with the browser …

Are there any GUIs for IM?

That’s the (vomit-inducing) beauty of it: capitalist pigs made something useful to you that is build on poor people’s work, makes these people jobless, burns the planet and the rich (probably fascist) white dudes even richer (you’re also paying woth your sweet, sweet data, which is another plus in their book). So its nice for you and bad in about all other aspects.