@phoronix not sure I like that direction, there are plenty of cases or modern systems that only support EFI, e.g. install Linux on a MacPro T2 with Intel chip. Runs only with EFI boot (Ubuntu installed in my case)
Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of various (non-UEFI) BIOS systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Non-UEFI-BIOS-Scope
Difficult to explain how completely incomprehensible this headline would have been a decade ago.
https://www.africanews.com/2025/07/23/china-condemns-us-withdrawal-from-unesco/
@NekoCWD @vala_lang @WildPowerHammer @alpinelinux @postmarketOS Actually i meant Ubuntu Desktop :P , i tried ti build the plugin for furios FYI but fails maybe due to version mismatch in phosh-plugin requirement (furios usibg debian trixie)
If anyone’s interested: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36303
Off to bed now.
@NekoCWD @vala_lang @WildPowerHammer @alpinelinux @postmarketOS that is amazing having been waiting for player actionable notification on my desktop lockscreen in linux for ages! can this be ported to Ubuntu?
🎉 Beautiful Media Player plugin update!
This is a @phosh plugin written in @vala_lang that makes media player in quick settings/lock screen beautiful 😻
Features:
- Ambient background 🌠
- Control multiple players in single widget (thanks to @WildPowerHammer for inspiration) 🎶
- Ability to use slider to set playback position
I'm going to make final changes, make first release and package it in @alpinelinux to make @postmarketOS users happy
We are making a typeface, and there is one glyph that cannot be missing.
Sofi made it 💕
#typography #fontForging #font #typeface #asterism #FediverseSymbol #Fediverse
Debian 13 »Trixie« rückt noch einen Schritt näher
https://linuxnews.de/debian-13-trixie-rueckt-noch-einen-schritt-naeher/ #debian #trixie #linux
@pi_crew @furilabs https://github.com/FuriLabs/andromeda didnt see a manpage but thats what i was thinking
Why the world cannot afford the rich
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2024/03/why-world-cannot-afford-rich.html
@koitu and I have been working on porting Plasma Camera to have a libcamera backend! I am excited to announce that we have made an initial release.
https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/07/08/releases-25-07/
More detailed blog post on the details: https://espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-camera/
And it only took 19 fucking years. Who says government in this country doesn't work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/travel/tsa-shoes-removal-airport-security.html
Trump’s tax law by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/070825_tax_bill_numbers/trumps-tax-law-by-numbers-1-trillion-less-medicaid-75-billion-more-ice/
President Trump's sweeping tax-and-spending law, which renews tax breaks that largely benefited corporations and the wealthy, also contains sharp increases in spending on immigration enforcement and steep cuts to government programs that serve lower-income Americans.
#Tucson #Arizona
this whole generative ai and vibe coding thing, to me, has this very strong aura of, like david lynch would say, "big sadness"
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