It’s kinda weird that this is mofe or less just a fancy, but regular keyboard/touchpad combo. Would’ve been neat if they reused those modular ketboard modules from their laptops.

Speaking of those, I’m still waiting to see those ortho keyboard modules. I like their laptops in theory, but I can’t switch back to a regular keyboard anymore.

The whole setup actually consists of three parts:

1. Lights: A bunch of different Zigbee-compatible lights with adjustable color temperature: Ceiling lights, a few LED-strips and some ambient/spot lighting.
2. Home Assistant: Runs on my home server with a Zigbee dongle attached.
3. Adaptive Lighting: This is an Addon (HACS) for Home Assistant that does the actual strength and temperature synchronization.

Basically, it’s less about using specific lights, as long as they’re remote controllable. Home Assistant is where the real magic happens. I’ve also set it up so that lights automatically turn on/off based on motion.

Yup. Personally I just don’t like having multiple light sources emitting differently colored lights. I’ve even configured almost all lights in my house to synchronize both their strength and color with the sun.

Bright and energizing light during the day, warm and cozy during the night. Even if it doesn’t do anything, it’s still just neat to be in.

It’s hard to tell because the actual crime that has been commited here is saving this comic as JPEG instead of a PNG.

Ultimately I’m not very confident, but I think I agree. The text and layout look very human to me and it’s looks all pretty human to me. There are some inconsistencies in the ports and the linework on the inner age between the three laptops on the left, but I think that’s just the artist doing some touch-ups on it after already having copied the laptop across the panels.

gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora

And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.

If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.

Yup. People need to understand that “stable” is not a synonym for bug-free.

As you said, DEs in particularly move so fast that the rare bug that makes it through and is subsequently quickly fixed is much less problematic than sometimes years of missing features and longstanding bugs that don’t get backported.

I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.

Particularly for gaming, I’d say a rolling release distro is much better because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you’d see in something slower moving.

Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.

Yup. I’ve heard this first about Home Assistant, but software like this often inadvertently acts like a pacifier for tech enthusiasts. We may have our neat solution for the moment and be content with that, but that doesn’t help anyone else, or us in the long term. Things will get worse with no push-back.

Disclaimer: That’s not to say that we shouldn’t advocate for those tools in the meantime as well. We just shouldn’t lose track of the actual problem.

Even if it’s only a thing that needs to be done once: Either the one-day delay has to go, or Google.

There’s nothing redeeming about their plans.

I’d say most of that is just outdated opinions based on a time when archinstall wasn’t yet included in the live ISO and using it was also more frowned upon and seen as a “cheat”. Thankfully we mostly got over that second part.

Wait, just two weeks ago I was looking for a new GPS logging app and didn’t notice that there’s now an official (and non-official) dedicated Android app available. I’ll have to try it out.

I’ve been using Dawarich for a while now and the biggest problem was always finding a way to get a good app that can do both accurate, and battery-saving tracking.

Anyway, love the project and seeing it continually improving.

Fully agree on that. Always better to start fully fresh, even without such problems.

That said, it’s still important that it will ship pre-installed. That way app-developers who block GrapheneOS cannot excuse their actions anymore by saying that it was your decision to use another OS, and therefore not their problem.

Same. I always find it weird how apparently most people don’t make use of their own custom feeds and instead rely on r/all, or, even worse, let what they consume be dictated by an algorithm. And this goes far beyond Reddit. This place, YouTube, Twitter/Bluesky and pretty much any of the big platforms.

I wish it was only limited to support forums. I’ve seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.

Even worse, those stats are also probably just a leftover from a giant spike coming from Singapore around that time:

That one eventually got cleaned up, although a lot of the spillover into other countries remains.

I did some math at the time, and it must’ve been about 1000 fake machines for every real one. And considering this was kept online for several weeks despite making news: Yes, stop using statcounter.

Depends. This happened at a German conference and I assume that this person is most likely German as well. Probably shouldn’t think about getting anywhere close to the US though.

There’s still the possibility of facing prosecution in Germany. Not sure how probable that is though.

Em dashes, weird quote marks are always a giveaway

In a random comment or blog? Sure. In a professionally proofread document? No, adding those might as well be part of the job description. After all, the LLMs picked also have to have picked that behaviour up from somewhere.

Anyway, OP should have included the source, but it can be found pretty easily: https://bsky.app/profile/sanders.senate.gov/post/3m7izwntr322z

What I don’t understand is why the person that owns the device wrote the following in their blog post:

How could a simple IP block disable a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to work offline as well? - Source

This seems like that device was sold to him as “offline” capable. Where does that claim even come from? From a cursory glance I don’t see that product advertised that way anywhere.

Now, I’d be totally in favor that such devices working offline should be the norm, but then again, the person writing the blog should know how these devices currently work.

My assumption is that it probably uses the same mechanism that most other SSDs already have where it always saves the data with internal encryption and simply overwrites the encryption key when a wipe is requested.

This same mechanism already allows SSDs to be formatted quickly while still being secure without having to zero out everything, which would cause a lot of additional wear.

The additional complete wiping would just be the cherry on top.