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aral, 16 days ago to DuckDuckGo

“Choice.”

#alternatives #choice #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Qwant #ecosia #bing

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

tuxdevices, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to apple German

I just received my new work laptop (#Apple #Macbook Pro M3, ~€2000) just to discover that it does not support dual-monitor output despite having multiple video ports.

For a feature that even the cheapest laptops (and older MacBooks) have had for years, Apple now asks you to buy the MacBook Pro M3 Pro (€2500) or M3 Max (€4000).

This is essentially €2000 #ewaste. Not so "pro" after all.

sonny, 1 month ago to GNOME

Retro; the customizable clock widget is now available on Flathub in v2

What's new:

• 24/12h support (follows GNOME Settings)
• Energy usage optimizations
• Better support for round clocks
• Controls moved out of the way

What do you think of the floating header bar?

https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Retro

#GNOME #GTK #CSS #Flathub #Flatpak #Linux

A screenshot of Retro. It shows a round clock with a transparent background and powered by white digital segments.

tuxdevices, 2 months ago to random

I didn't turn off my laptop since my screencast demo at #GNOME46 Berlin, and realized i walked away with a piece of @cas 's display with me, forever :ablobcatbongo:

tbernard, 2 months ago to random

Some impressions from the GNOME 46 release party at @offline yesterday. Thanks everyone for joining, it was great 🫶

A huge pan full of onions and peppers in the kitchen.
Raffaele giving a talk on his Mirror Hall app.
People hacking at a large table.

tuxdevices, 2 months ago to random

Serious question: Which do you consider to be the least unethical among very-big-tech companies (let's say top 10 only), and why?

No judgement, just for statistical purposes! :ablobcatattention:

tbernard, 2 months ago to GNOME

By popular demand we're moving the GNOME 46 Berlin release party by one week, to Saturday April 6th and Sunday 7th.

Everything else remains the same, we're still going to do hacking, cooking, and talks at @offline on Saturday and more focused hacking on Sunday :)

#gnome #gnome46 #berlin

tuxdevices, 2 months ago to GNOME

#GNOME must be on some ancient curse. I bought my laptop in 2018 when 3.28 was out and it was quite laggy at the time. Then it became progressively faster with every new release, so as the laptop gets older, it feels newer and gets more features.

I thought computers were meant to feel like bricks within years, and that UIs had to grow inexplicably heavier in spite of no changes in their technologies? /s

tuxdevices, 2 months ago to random

Startups love to claim that art and creativity is obsolete thanks to AI, in comment sections as well as in real life.

But they are nothing more than aggressive microwave salesmen walking into restaurants to bother clients and convince them that chefs have been replaced by their magic tool

tuxdevices, 2 months ago to Nvidia

#NVIDIA may be artificially reducing your laptop's performance if you're using #Linux

Since driver version 530.41, NVIDIA has locked out some laptop GPUs out of their maximum power limit to a lower value (source - Arch Wiki). With this driver, they also removed the ability to manually change the power limit using nvidia-smi so you cannot change it back as you could before.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1bbdig6/psa_nvidia_may_be_artificially_reducing_your/

tuxdevices, 3 months ago to linux

The #cutiepi is for sure a loyal companion...

#linux #raspberrypi #linuxtablets

tuxdevices, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Europe

European Court of Human Rights (#ECHR) bans weakening of secure end-to-end #encryption - the end of EU‘s chat control #CSAR mass surveillance plans?

https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/european-court-of-human-rights-echr/2024/02/14/european-court-of-human-rights-bans-weakening-of-secure-end-to-endencryption-the-end-of-eus-chat-control-csar-mass-surveillance-plans/
#e2ee #europe #privacy #csar

tuxdevices, 3 months ago to linuxphones

Some proprietary streaming apps such as Prime Video seem to work well on #Waydroid over #postmarketOS. There are still bugs with media playback clocks sometimes, but the streaming itself is flawless.

#linux #mobilelinux #android