Sounds interesting, and promising! I'm no expert in streaming videos, but your shell reminded me of mosh [1]. Mosh's auth approach is also interesting - it leverages ssh for authentication, something that you might consider too. Mosh unfortunately has shortcomings though - mainly, it lacks tunneling ability.
> With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.
This is so sad. Something like this already happened two decades ago - when GNOME 3 arrived, and KDE 4 - rough times, things broke and I had to do some distro (and DE) hopping - before settling again. Whenever you start to see a project mature and stable enough in Linux land, maybe even starts to gain unexpected traction, soon somebody decides it's time to "move fast and break things".
I sincerely hope KDE reconsiders X11 support; IIRC they proposed to keep it if the community showed still enough interest. Of course maintaining a dual stack requires double the effort, but if funding comes in, come on, maybe there's enough resources to keep X11 support alive - if feature freezed - a couple years more. There's still a few rough edges around Wayland that prevent me and others to switch.
Sorry, you're right. My assumption was that, given meteorites are metal rich, and two orders of magnitude more mass, the human contribution was negligible. It turns out I was wrong.
LEO satellites come down on their own in a few months/years. 100 tons of metal burning in the atmosphere seems a lot, but it's barely the total mass of meteorites falling in 24-48 hours, actually.
Smooth scrolling also worked on the Amiga Cygnus Editor in 1986 - yes, 40 years ago - on a computer with 512Kb RAM and a ~7MHz 68000 CPU, and from keyboard too. And Zed complains at launch if it doesn't find a suitable Vulkan GPU driver, since the fallback CPU driver does not provide a smooth enough experience, despite 4-5 orders of magnitude more RAM, and a ~3 orders of magnitude faster CPU, than a 40 years old Amiga...
I tried it with Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B UD-IQ3_XXS on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16Gb - the convert step succeeded, but upon loading the converted model I encountered:
Model load deferred: 'Qwen3_5Config' object has no attribute 'vocab_size'
My transformers version is up to date, and using AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() should not raise this exception - what's going on here?
Minisforum, Gmktec also have Ryzen AI HX 370 mini PCs with 128Gb (2x64Gb) max LPDDR5. It's dirt cheap, you can get one barebone with ~€750 on Amazon (the 395 similarly retails for ~€1k)... It should be fully supported in Ubuntu 25.04 or 25.10 with ROCm for iGPU inference (NPU isn't available ATM AFAIK), which is what I'd use it for. But I just don't know how the HX 370 compares to eg. the 395, iGPU-wise. I was thinking of getting one to run Lemonade, Qwen3-coder-next FP8, BTW... but I don't know how much RAM should I equip it with - shouldn't 96Gb be enough? Suggestions welcome!
Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)
Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected
Not much? Google would still have cloud services (which unlike Azure adoption depending on Windows/Office, only basically depend on the Internet), Gemini and Google Drive paid subscriptions, their flagship Pixel line...
WinXP in a (properly configured) VM boots, runs faster than Win7, Win10 - at least under Linux. It is plagued by compatibility issues though - eg. no modern HTTPS, no modern browser, .NET issues, insecure SMB... you really need to know what you're doing.
But armed with TuneXP 15, a recent AVG, CCleaner XP 1.38, sdelete, and WinKeyFinder175 (to be used together with UMSKT, basically the only way to reactivate it when your tweaking efforts inevitably trigger the - now broken - activation), you can start your adventure. No modern browser, mind you, though eg. "supermium 122" works, and don't forget read-only VMs or snapshots are your friends. I couldn't get virtio working, because VirtualBox 7 had a regression with it, so stick with emulated AHCI since VirtualBox 6 is so ...passé
Yeah the real mistake was starting with Endeavour. I wonder just how many people are turned off by their initial Linux experience because they choose stuff like Arch, Gentoo, or some obscure variant rather than Fedora, Kubuntu or Mint. Even stuff like Bazzite is probably an odd choice for a novice - though it would have handled that failed nVidia upgrade nicely.
Not really equivalent to Lightroom, and not remotely a replacement, but there's Corel AfterShot Pro [1]
(source: about 15 years ago, I was one of the (1?) proud Linux users of Bibble 5, its predecessor)
Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with:
sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades
(doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space).
OTOH the real issue with Ubuntu is snap(d). Snap packages definitely do auto-update. You may want to uninstall the whole snap system - it's (still?) perfectly possible, if a little bit convoluted, due to some infamous snaps like firefox, thunderbird, chromium, or eg. certbot on servers
Or just use Debian or any snap-free fork for the matter.