Oh, I didn’t even realize it was there. It’s just a button in the sidebar. One can right click on the sidebar, click customize to toggle it.

Search/create issues: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings/issues

Streaming, the new cable - but worse.

limetorrents.lol or TPB search for “top gear complete”

It’s way more configurable/flexible than the very rigid GNOME while still being less complex than Plasma, so it falls in a sweet spot between those two extremes.

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Yes, Jeremy Brett was the best Holmes ever, his personal issues and depression augmented the role and he sunk so deeply into it that he sometimes referred to Sherlock the character as a real person.

Other portrayals shows healthy detectives full of vitality and charm but Jeremy Brett understood the brilliant but self abusive sometimes obsessive character with many layers to his complicted personality.

Did they think nobody would notice?

Very unlikely, they’re doing it openly and they know from experience that all changes are always immediately reported in the community. They operate this way by choice.

Are they going back to the bad old habit of removing features just for the sake of removing features?

Doubt it, DNT is not only useless it is misleading as the user may think it is effective while in reality it allows “better” fingerprinting.

Did the fact that so many of their users have that flag set interfere with their ad tracking ambitions?

Source? I thought reports had usually been that it saw extremely low adoption on the client but maybe I’m wrong. Best rates I could find was <9% on desktop and 19% on mobile but that’s back when it was most talked about.

I don’t believe there are plans for a start menu, it’s not how they envision the desktop. However anyone is welcome to cook their own, like this project.

I believe the team is focused on Flatpak. There’s a community project adding some AppImage functionality.

For feature requests you can search/raise issues on the COSMIC GitHub repositories.

Yeah, my squad was maphopping in WvW and got a new Elon Gnashblade mail for each map change. Quickly filled up the mailbox.

Somewhere, I think it was here Carl mentions it might be early next year as he doesn’t want to pressure devs over Christmas.

I think they’ll release an Alpha update monthly until Beta.

Same, I’ve done C and C++ for several decades and I’ve spent too much time of that hunting obscure memory issus triggered by rare race conditions. No matter how hard we try to use safe patterns we are all too human. The most experienced C++ devs I know are the first to admit this.

In Rust once it compiles much less time is spent debugging and a whole big category of bugs are gone from the production code.

And C++ aient pretty but maybe that’s subjective.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83.

Yeah, the author normally rarely misses an opportunity to complain about KDE being too complex in his articles - and COSMIC aims to fall in that sweet spot between the extremes that are GNOME and KDE, while adding features like optional but native tiling.

The applet concept where applets live in their own process and communicate via Wayland protocols (behind a COSMIC API) is also less likely to break than GNOME plugins that are horribly injected into its bowels.

Given the toolkit, organized development and UX decisions being up-front designed with figma sketches, etc. that are reviewed before implemented, and having both paid developers and community contributors it has a lot of potential.

And I frequently find that items with Prime shipping cost a bit more. At least on the amazon.ca site I use.

I never look at the local feed, only my subscribed. But what you subscribe is very human, we tend to gravitate towards a tribe.

Same, it’s basically installing Arch while I make a coffee and then I come back to a nice desktop with sane defaults. And I don’t have to mess around afterwards installing NV driver or codecs, it’s all done.

Same, I heard about Digg but never went there. Usenet->Slashdot->Reddit.

I still have a low 4-digit Slashdot account I never use. I felt sad when it got sour. In the the beginning when people announced passion projects on Slashdot the comments were “That’s so cool, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. Not something I’ll be needing but I wish them the best of luck.”. In late stage Slashdot it would be “Why! What a waste of time. They should all focus on what I use”. Unfortunately that self centered type of negativity is everywhere these days.

It was not a joke, I’ve worked on Windows and Linux for decades and I’ve worked on Symbian OS and Android as an OS engineer. With the right hardware and stable drivers neither crash. Anecdotally (which admittedly proves nothing) my gaming PC’s only ever crashed because I had bad RAM, which i diagnosed with memtest86.

It’s not the operating system. This is the weakness of Windows/Linux - the many many vendors of PC components and badly written drivers. It’s not the operating system’s fault as such, unless you count the OS’ fault for not running a microkernel with drivers in a less privileged ring like Symbian OS did.

Now, the UI freezing and having weird random slowdown that’s another thing and one of the reasons I prefer Linux. I’m very grateful for Valve/Proton that I have been able to ditch Windows completely now.

It needs a bit of periodic maintenance, the btrfs-assistant and btrfsmaintenance packages will set it up and from then on it’s automatic.