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thomholwerda

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social

osnews.com managing editor. Dutchman living in Sweden. Dumb fuck.

You can support OSNews and my work through our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/osnews), Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda), and now also our merch store (https://www.bonfire.com/store/osnews/).

Trans rights are human rights. He/him. Also, praise be the catgirls, trans people, and twinks that keep Fedi running. 🏳️‍🌈

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thomholwerda, to random
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I can listen to this accent for hours. You know how they say nobody is 100% straight? This is my few percent not being straight. :flan_tongue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxOB5u9kaE

thomholwerda, to random
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They only just now added black baseball players to the record keeping thing for best stats and all that?

...everywhere you turn, there's new racism to learn about in the US. Every time you think "okay, now I am aware of all institutional, societally rooted racism in the US", like 24 more pop up.

0x4d6165, to random
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fuck, what's the name of that 90s-style retro UNIX operating system? Not Haiku, and it has a ladybug as its icon

thomholwerda,
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@0x4d6165 SerenityOS.

https://serenityos.org/

thomholwerda, to random
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Opening a desktop folder on Android (Pixel) has an animation for moving the folder name up slightly to fit the folder flyout. It lacks such animation for closing the folder, making the name snap back jarringly.

You will now not unsee this.

Cheers.

thomholwerda, to random
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Nobody makes proper workstation PC cases anymore. It's all gamer shit, glass panels, and so, so, so much plastic.

thomholwerda, to random
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Google could've made a serious play at laptop and desktop dominance had they optimised Android for desktop use, and integrated Proton and Steam in close cooperation with Valve.

Google always has the right tech and the right people, but broken incentive structures and braindead management. It's sad.

thomholwerda, to random
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We're already at war with nazi Russia. Western armchair cowards just haven't accepted it yet.

thomholwerda, to random
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I really want a tablet again, and the only tablet that's a valid choice is, of course, the Google #PixelTablet. Does anyone have an unused one lying around they'd like to sell? Pixel Tablets are kind of expensive in Sweden so new is just not an option.

Boosts equals love.

thomholwerda, to random
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Any laptop larger than ~10" is a desktop.

Fight me, nerds.

thomholwerda, to random
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With Qualcomm taking Linux support for its new Snapdragon X Elite/Pro chips very seriously, I really, really need a laptop with one of these chips.

I've got some serious desires here, boys and girls.

thomholwerda,
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@mntmn I'm trying to find the contact information for the person who wrote the blog post about Linux support, since he's been working at Qualcomm for almost a decade, and TI before that, and seems to be a huge engineer. I have no idea if that's the right person to ask (for your or my questions), but I figure it's a better shot than talking to PR people.

thomholwerda, to random
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Rate my homelab. 🥴

thomholwerda,
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@h3artbl33d We are a Google household. Google WiFi, Android phones, Google TV (two NVIDIA Shields), several Google Homes, a Google doorbell...

...I embrace the hypocrisy.

thomholwerda,
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@h3artbl33d Yeah it's a thing. We like some of the modern conveniences, especially with two small toddlers, and choosing between Google and Apple is easy (Google is the far lesser of two evils).

As much as I prefer open source etc., there's no open solution that can compete with this without being a massive hassle for both me and my wife.

thomholwerda,
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@aral @h3artbl33d Understand their business models, and you will realise where your data is safer.

Google's core business is selling insights based on user data. That user data is the goose, the insights (ads) are the golden eggs. Unlike what a lot of people think, Google doesn't sell user data - Google would be stupid to do so. Why sell the one goose, when you can endlessly sell golden eggs? Google will protect the goose - your data - with its life, because its very existence depends on it. Ergo, I use Google products (Android, Google Home, etc., but my Gmail account is corporate to no email scanning).

Apple sells you devices and services. It needs to keep selling you devices and services to survive. That's why Apple's services revenue is so important to it... But that services revenue is 80% income from gambling "games" in the App Store. The more people are addicted to gambling in the App Store, the more money apple makes. The more services Apple can get you to sign up for by pestering you with ads in iOS, the more money it makes.

Even worse - Apple's devices business model is built on genocide. Afraid of TikTok? You should be afraid of just how cosy Apple is with with the CCP.

Google over Apple every day of the week.

thomholwerda, to random
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OSNews submission about a new 8bit computer. It's the Commander x16.

🚮

soller, to random
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I love seeing people go through COSMIC for the first time. It is always useful to see what worked well and what needs adjustment. If y'all have any questions about COSMIC, don't hesitate to ask, I wrote the editor, file manager, store, and terminal.

https://youtu.be/aorVb1SNR7Y?si=5D-hw0bDs3m1R8cC

thomholwerda,
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@soller What are the odds we'll see a COSMIC web browser (using an existing engine, of course)? Or is that just entirely unrealistic?

As great as Firefox is, its integration into Linux desktops is only so-so, at best, and I'm not comfortable with how much the Linux desktop relies on Firefox for Linux continuing to exist. 😐

thomholwerda, to random
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It's not a GNOME application, it's only adopted by the GNOME project and hosted on the GNOME Gitlab which is entirely different.

It's not a GTK4+Libadwaita application, therefore it doesn't count as a GNOME application.

It's not even maintained anymore, despite an active Gitlab with new releases and fixes.

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thomholwerda, to GNOME
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To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you with Geary.

  1. This is the minimum size of the window. If I make it any narrower, the email portion will disappear and the email list will expand to cover the entire area.
  2. But! You say, you can use the column dividers, to resize the individual columns, right? Nope, the GNOME/Geary people think you should not be able to resize the columns manually like you could before. No explanation, just fuck you.
  3. So. Much. Whitespace. The amount of whitespace wasted in Geary is absolutely batshit insane. This window could present the same amount of information while taking up half the screenspace and still be 100% clear and usable.
  4. Related to 3, no options to change density or other options to reduce this whitespace hellscape.

This one fucking email client takes up nearly my entire 2x 4K display. I can't believe we let these people define the 'default' Linux desktop and let them get away with it.

acejacek, to random Polish
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Piteälven. Entering @thomholwerda territory.

Moskosel lake at sunset.

thomholwerda,
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@acejacek Yup, getting up there!

thomholwerda, to random
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I just, like, live here.

Wild.

thomholwerda, to linux
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Attention all , , Intel graphics driver, and experts - if you have any free time, please take a look at this issue we're facing:

https://github.com/sonnyp/linux-minibook-x/issues/7

Loading the edid should've worked in enabling 90Hz, but it did not. Any help or insight would be so, so appreciated.

thomholwerda,
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@vwbusguy For sure, but since this is not really specifically a Fedora issue, but more likely a kernel/driver/Wayland issue, I want to focus there first before bothering the lovely Fedora people. :flan_laugh:

thomholwerda, to random
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Happy #caturday!

thomholwerda, to random
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Don't make me do this just to try ThinOS, Dell's FreeBSD-based thin client operating system.

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