We went ahead and disabled the X11 session by default and from now on it needs to be explicitly enabled when building the affected modules. (gnome-session, GDM, mutter/gnome-shell).

Aside from a simple flag change and a recompile before Canonical adds the packages to their repo, it doesn’t sound like this will affect Ubuntu at all. They probably already do this anyway to add their own little patches.

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

GNOME 50 is when Canonical will truly need to either move to Wayland or do something else.

Seems fairly reasonable of a timeline from the GNOME team, IMO.

Sadly, Duolingo is quickly becoming AI infested shit. I have been using it for years now, it’s very frustrating to see it declining in quality.

Unfortunately, all the calendar solutions seem to be pretty terrible in one way or another. Your NextCloud server along with DAVx⁵ on Android is the most functional private alternative, IMO.

The setup still sometimes has some of the same issues that all calendars seem to have (even Google’s and Apple’s): occasional sync issues, or old deleted appointments that mysteriously show up again, or calendars duplicating themselves.

I don’t know why calendaring seems to be one of those things that just never really got done well, it seems like it should be a solved problem by now.

I say, keep talking about it until it gets fixed. Reporting it once in 2023 and then never again just enables sweeping things under the rug.

press your eyes real hard

You did say this originally in a way that could be concerning. It’s unsurprising that someone would advise caution.

the mild pressing

Then you understated yourself in response to someone showing care towards you.

gently pressing

In your quest to refuse to graciously accept any kind of good-natured advice, you’ve moved pretty far away from the “press your eyes real hard” that you started with.

You could have just said “Oh, thanks for the warning, I’ll be careful.” and moved on.

Data breaches should always be news, even if it is unsurprising to you personally. There’s literally always going to be someone out there who doesn’t have the same information that you do.

Edit: yes, I do think it ought to be considered a data breach when data is shared with additional parties, even (or maybe especially) when that party is the government.

I used to use Pano for that, but it’s extension page hasn’t been updated since GNOME 45, so I switched to Clipboard History instead. It’s not quite as pretty (just a normal popup menu, no previews) but it is actually nicer to use, in my opinion.

Both options can be bound to Super+V, that’s exactly the key combo I use for it.

Is it? I didn’t tick that box when I made the post, but maybe the app I’m using (Raccoon) has a bug.

Forth of July is a forced special case that we USians have been conditioned into differentiating. Strange shit like that due to nationalism. We don’t do that for most other dates or holidays, though. Like, hardly anyone goes around routinely saying 31st of October to refer to that holiday.

Maybe the UK equivalent would be the 5th of November. (Or was that just popularized because of V For Vendetta?)

I suppose I’ve heard the Ides of March plenty, as well.

I don’t have a singular favorite, but some of the top ones who get me excited just by their casting are (in no particular order):

• Michelle Yeoh
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• J. K. Simmons
• Henry Cavill
• Rosamund Pike
• Adjoa Andoh
• Stellan, Alexander, and Bill Skarsgård (really, the whole family is great, but these 3 especially)
• Anson Mount
• Charlize Theron

I’ve been enjoying novelWriter for a few months now.

It’s FOSS, works on every OS, and is created by a writer who was frustrated with the other options available. She and another writer co-designed it initially, and there’s a respectably sized community built up around it at this point. It’s got the kinds of features that writers actually need, and avoids bloat. So they say, and in my experience that’s certainly been the case.

Additionally, why does age have anything to do with any of these questions? This feels like it was made by someone who doesn’t have much experience with other humans and is unaware of the massive variety of opinions and attitudes among all age groups.

I am one of those people!

As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn’t a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it’s capabilities. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photopea.

But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it’s also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn’t cover all the use-cases, but it’s ignorant to say that it categorically isn’t capable for commercial use.

Ah yes, the liberal mentality where leftists are somehow both completely irrelevant as a voting bloc that politicians need to court, and at the same time leftists are solely responsible for any and all votes not received by whatever incompetent candidate the liberals presented.

They still recommend not using it for anything important:

Bad things may happen if you use it in production.

quoted from the GNOME OS website

They’ve had an image for years, but I don’t think it was a live boot image.

baffled how people see this as sad news

I don’t understand. Are you saying we should be happy to see more online communities being eliminated for the benefit of corporate interests? Why wouldn’t it be disappointing (aka, “sad”) to hear about more of that going on, even if you dislike the platform where it’s happening?

Whatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn’t do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it’s a single checkbox during OS install.

The something that sucks is lack of money. Paying developers to do work definitely helps. It’s unfair to level unconstructive critique at the end result when it hasn’t ever had the same opportunity to thrive that the paid software you’re comparing it to had.

Serif produced a nice software suite by paying developers. They got that money from investors who made it by exploiting people (like every corporation) and then exploited their workers and customers in turn. While this resulted in a relatively nicer alternative to Adobe shit, it still isn’t ideal.

Imagine if GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita all had the kind of financial support that corporations do. Blender and the community supporting them are figuring it out to some extent, and now Blender has essentially either matched or eclipsed the corporate competition. This is absolutely possible for other FOSS software, but we the community need to be there for them financially too.