Thanks to the heroic efforts of law enforcement, several mass murderers have dramatically cut plans to increase the rate at which they murder people.

All other avenues have been exhausted, let’s try giving a billion dollars to lawyers and see if that fixes everything.

Either way the beard is looking good.

I’m sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying “it’s worrying.”

One more idea… If you’re willing to temporarily add the Debian testing “deb-src” repository to your sources.list, which should be slightly safer, then there’s a chance that this might work: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

Seems not completely crazy, unless MX has its own way to do that.

Yeah, I see that MX test is not based on current debian testing (trixie) but also bookworm. So I guess you’ll not find the package in MX repos until it makes it into AHS. Apparently there’s a PPA that some people use, that might work.

Ok, it didn’t seem clear if you were on Debian 12 or MX. I’m not sure what the relationship between them is, but mesa 25 seems to be in trixie only since 13 march.

Maybe you could use that package from debian testing on the MX version of testing if you wanted to live dangerously.

At this point in the debian release cycle your easiest course of action would probably be to switch over to debian testing. It’s quite easy to do if you’re in debian 12 and wanting newer packages is a legit reason to do it. It should be getting reasonably close to being stable by now I would guess.

You’ll need a newer kernel than is currently in debian stable as well, but that is actually quite easy to build and install. Building mesa I don’t know about, but it will have many more dependencies and could be a lot of work.

The world has moved on. We tried doing nothing and it just didn’t work. Everything in life involves trade-offs and the cost of not fucking around with the composition of the atmosphere is just too high.

Calm down activists, my private jet is carbon neutral. I pay five times the price of fuel to a carbon offset broker to be absolved of all responsibility if it isn’t.

“not that bad” — a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can’t blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.

That has its place too I guess, but personally I’d point in the opposite direction and say there’s also room for more general-interest news sources aimed at the kind of people who already know at least enough about Mauna Loa to be aware that it’s famous for producing the most widely used measurements of atmospheric CO2.

Good luck GNOME users! If Xfce ever added a donation button I would not be donating again.

Oh yeah, I remember debian’s Firefox used to be called something else for trademark reasons some years ago. I wonder how much linux market share firefox lost as a result. Not sure what changed, I guess in that case Mozilla must’ve come to their senses. I was mostly an ubuntu user in those days.

… lwn has the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

Telemetry can be turned off without modifying the code. I don’t know about the legality of it, maybe in the case of Firefox the other things they do are also at most build options rather than code changes. But generally distros are allowed to make changes to the packages they distribute, that is how free software works.

I wonder if mine would’ve been counted there. Even before I switched to Librewolf, Debian disables most of the telemetry.

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

the standard basically just looks better

Place your bets everyone, has OP ever looked at either standard?

Looking at the Firefox Librewolf “print preview” it does actually look quite easy to read.

I wonder how many of my stupid comments on lemmy have been converted to PDF, printed on paper, and stored in a filing cabinet.

The plan seems to be to wreck everything and rule the rubble with an iron fist. I think that’s really all there is to the plan.