FWIW, you might also consider Firefox’s built-in reader view, which can be configured to use a dark theme.

Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.

It’s a pity that its current custodian’s commercial licenses:

• are subscriptions
• are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
• have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project

This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won’t get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can’t help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.

Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.

Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad…

…by abandoning it.

Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.

Or a projector, or a gaming console display.

Their summary of Dodo doesn’t include a link, and a web search finds a seemingly unrelated webmail service. This looks like the right project:

https://github.com/akissinger/dodo

What fascists are ruining OSS?

For anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Debian’s release process, the Testing distribution is not a release. Rather, it is a holding area for packages that may eventually become part of a release.

Some people choose to run it instead of Debian Stable in order to get more recent non-security updates to packages, with the understanding that occasional breakage is normal for Testing.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_practices_for_testing.2Fsid_users.3F

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

https://www.debian.org/devel/testing

The right answer is definitely not landfill.

Most people use their computers to run a web browser, maybe a word processor or media player, and… not much else. Even someone who has only used Windows can figure out those basics on a Linux desktop.

If the charities are unable/unwilling to provide support for Linux, they could give computers away on Craigslist before dumping more e-waste into our environment.

Doesn’t Apple Contacts support CardDAV natively? These sites say it does:

https://sabre.io/dav/clients/ios/

https://devguide.calconnect.org/CardDAV/Client-Implementations/

I’ll never be happy about almost every smartphone user I know happily putting my personal details into their phone, which then sends them to the likes of Google, Apple, and Facebook.

I de-googled my phone and sync my contacts to a trustworthy server. I hope this will eventually be easy for everyone.

Guest computer?

Dedicated server for multi-player games?

Retire the Nvidia card, put the rest in a small case, and make it a Kodi box?

My guess: Because it’s both FRee and frEAkish (atypical) compared to commercial uniX.

There’s some discussion about finding freelance work over at Hacker News today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158262

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

+1 for bringing it up as serious discussion.

The last time I had to ask permission for something like this, the issue turned out to be simply that the IT staff wasn’t trained in Linux and therefore couldn’t support it. I was more than capable of administering my own Linux box and ensuring that it wouldn’t become a risk to our company network, so we agreed that I would do that.

It was a win-win result: I had the tool I needed to be most productive, and IT had fewer machines to support.

maybe don’t just assume all of us knows what ‘GPR’ is. For those maybe wondering, it stands for “General Purpose Registers”.

That is stated in lesson 1. It’s in the first sentence that mentions “GPR” and in the heading directly above it.

(By the way, I’m not the author.)

Couldn’t we implement a non-unixlike userland though

That’s called systemd. :P

non-unixlike

Linux-based

Sorry, friend, but you’ll have to pick one. Linux is Unix-like.

More like, “don’t pick an inflammatory minor excerpt to represent a lengthy and well-reasoned post.”

Similarly, don’t choose a red fruit to represent a pine forest just because there happens to be an apple tree somewhere within. It’s misleading.

I wish this was given a less provocative title. People who read the whole post will find that it’s not all shouting, and Linus’ stance seems pretty even-keeled.