jlow (he/him)

Yeah, that sounds like the age old “why so many desktops (or other apps)” debate. Because we can. Because doing new things is fun. Because this isn’t all about being effective and capitalist logic.

You have checked Krita? I’m not doing much so it’s more than enough for me.

It does run better on older hardware than Windows, so it’s running great on current hardware as well.

Is it easy to get NVIDA drivers, Vulkan, Cuda etc in Debian? I somehow thought that was kind finicky, not sure why …

Can confirm that the Razer BIOS is absolutely bar bones. Never really minded that and as I said aside of the non-working speakers (apparently a known problem with Razer) it was all good.

I’ve used a Razer Blade 16 last year and could never get the speakers to work no matter what I tried. Tested quite a few distros (Mint, Manjaro, Debian) and ultimately settled on Fedora. Didn’t mind the speakers not working much since I used Bluetooth speakers/headphones mostly anyway. Other then that Fedora worked prefectly.

Oh, that sounds nice! I think it would be very smart of Europe to build their own (open-source) infrastructure just in case someone not reliable were to become US president … Can’t hurt to start preparing (better far to late than never …)

I’m really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I’m also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It’s Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:

https://gnulinux.ch/ciw085-podcast

So I would love if this would be the case (German gov using open soruce software) but tbh this reads like marketing bs to me, sorry. “Aims to transform public administration”, “providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative”. Yes, good. Nice. Cool. But are any government agencies are actually using it? I feel like if they wpild be they’d surely name them …

Not much new for me, already on Plasma 6.2 with Kinoite, but there seems to be an alternative to rpm-ostree coming up (not sure if/why it’s needed/better but if I don’t have to remember when it is “rpm-ostree” and when it’s “ostree” in cli I’m all for it 😸):

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/

You’ve checked out this:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#subtitle-options

? I think I’ve used --write-subs and --sub-langs all and it worked as expected in the past.

Ah, ok. Very nice!

Intro-skipping is build-in now? Did I get this right? I thought they decided against it?

Another cycle game? Fuck yeah!

Would https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ work for you? It’s Osm plus markers etc(?) you can put on top of it. Not sure if you can make it work offline/selfhosted. I used it for marking interesting locations in a city some friends wanted to visit that I know quite well.

I think at this point ot would be more newsworthy if they’d find something or place without microplastics …

Also Blender = Nvidia (judging by Blenderbenchmarks, never had an Amd card so can’t compare in praxis …)

I can’t believe that there’s actually finally some good news in all this horror that has been the last years. Can this be true?

Check the manual (online if you don’t have one). Usually you longpress a (touch)button on the earbuds to get them into pairing-mode, then add them as a new Bluetooth device on your OS.

Yeah, text tool is just awful but I feel like I heard that they’re working on an update quite some time ago …