So basically, Google realized they fucked up by tightly integrating their browser with their OS, and now they’re doing what they should’ve done in the first place by uncoupling them.

It’d be badass if someone used this opportunity to make a ChromeOS fork based around Firefox.

I’ve heard of this before. Stupid question, but what’s the risk of being banned from Discord for using it?

2020 was such a shit year in computing. So many things got killed off. CentOS, Windows 7, Flash, and Python 2.x, off the top of my head, and probably some other things as well.

I mean yeah, most of these things were getting long in the tooth, but they were widely used and it would’ve been nice if they were all supported longer.

I’d love it if the KDE devs made Baloo and Akonadi optional. Their insistence on including them reminds me of Micro$oft’s insistence on bundling Internet Explorer and integrating it into the OS shell in Windows 98.

Here’s hoping that they don’t.

So in other words, we still don’t know yet.

“Them” being Threads or Kbin?

So, is kbin.social not defederating from Threads then? I’ll be really disappointed if that’s the case.

I actually had no idea EVGA made motherboards at all until I saw this. Last thing I bought from them was a power supply many years ago. Whatever the case, it sounds like this has been debunked.

Sounds like it was. From the article:

Update 07:45 UTC: We’ve heard from workers at EVGA Spain “it’s just another day at the office”. So maybe it was only Kingpin/the OC team in TW that has resigned, or the whole story is completely untrue.

Update 16:41 UTC: We just received the following statement from EVGA:

We saw those message and they are rumors.
Our Taiwan office is still operating and Kingpin is still with EVGA.
EVGA is still doing business and supporting its customers.
Thanks for reaching out

I’m surprised the number isn’t higher than that tbh.

As they say, there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.

I like the changes that have been made so far. It’s neat having a positive reputation score for once. 😅

I thought this was going to be a thread debating the merits of the two disc formats, and I’m disappointed that it’s not. :(

I know that particular format war didn’t last very long, but I wonder if there’s anything HD-DVD ended up doing better than Blu-Ray.

As for the actual topic of this thread, I’m not sure if it’s the right analogy. Blu-ray and HD-DVD were incompatible with one another, while Kbin and Lemmy are mostly compatible. I’m not entirely sure what to compare it to, maybe Linux vs. BSD?

Good thing to be aware of. I usually edit fstab manually anyway, but this is worth knowing if I’m helping someone out.

Neat! I usually edit things manually in fstab, but I’ll have to keep this in mind for when I’m helping new users out, or if I just want to set up a drive quickly.

Can gnome-disk-utility set up permanent mounts? I’ve used it for other things before, but I’ve never used it to permanently mount a drive. If so, I wish I knew about that sooner.

I’ve gotten used to adding extra drives in fstab, myself. I do wish adding permanent secondary drives was a more straightforward process though. I understand the Windows approach of making them instantly accessible has security implications, but I feel like that’s something distros could implement as an optional setting.

I think little things like this hinder Linux adoption among end users. The purists may cry foul at this idea, but I think there should be more and better GUIs for system management tasks, so users don’t have to use the terminal or muck around editing text files as much.

EDIT: Apparently gnome-disk-utility might be a solution if you’re looking for something more straightforward than manually editing fstab. I don’t know whether it can do permanent mounts or not though.

EDIT2: Turns out gnome-disk-utility can create fstab entries, but it can’t remove them if you’ve used it to delete a partition.

It turns out it came out in 2016. I was thinking 2018, but I was wrong. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/official-reddit-app/

In a way, it’s been even longer than that, since they bought out Alien Blue in 2014, according to Wikipedia

That makes sense. I thought it was upstream but I wasn’t sure.