I'm pretty sure the amarok that introduced plasma did it wrong too (that was 14ish ?! Years ago though, so I'm not sure).

The gnome2 music player handled it wrong too, but I did like it's 3 column filter interface that I think was modelled on iTunes.

I really liked amarok of that era though (forget if it was 1 or 2). In general I think it was the only KDE app I preferred over gnome (I was/am a huge gnome2 fan).

Those were the days, I'm still convinced Ubuntu 7.10 was peak Linux desktop. Everyone got cocky after that and tried to do their own thing and we're just now barely starting to recover.

I really liked amarok.

Of all the music players, it was the only one that seemed to properly support various artists.

Specifically I could have a soundtrack album that was under various artists, but the individual tracks would still have an artist.

Every other player I tried on Windows and Linux did not handle this the way I expected.

They also basically created what became plasma which I thought was pretty cool.

I'll check those out, thanks.

Kagi and DuckDuckGo have great results (I used DDG for years, started using Kagi a few months ago), but they're both infected with "AI" brainworms.

All I want are results that match my query, I don't want "helpful" LLMs burning energy to try to guess what I actually meant, or to summarize something, or to spew out something useless that matches the query but doesn't actually provide the information I was after.

I'm not sure where to look for a "bare" search engine. Everything is polluted with ads and LLM garbage.

Pretty difficult to find a worse choice, I'd say.

Zynga. A name that makes everyone who knows what it means turn around and run the other way. An exploitative evil empire.

If after Unity got extensive flak for trying to push through a hostile pricing model someone asked what kind of person to choose as the next CEO to remove that stain from your reputation - I think "CEO of Zynga" came dead last by a wide margin and then some intern sorted the list the wrong way around.

My confidence that Unity is going to do the right thing just dropped from zero to absolute zero.

I'm really loving my Framework 16, and the market-rate RAM/NVMe I ordered from my favourite local computer store and installed myself. I also love how I can easily replace anything that dies, or even upgrade bits (CPU? GPU? battery? sure why not) to extend the life of the system.

I priced out a Mac with 64GB RAM and 4TB storage and it was almost twice as much. And it's garbage if anything dies. And I'd have to replace the whole thing if I wanted to upgrade in 3-5 years.

I'm not a typical laptop user (I've got a rolling Linux release on it), but surely being able to repair/replace/upgrade bits is obviously a good thing, even for Joe Windows User who never opens their machine.

I mean, there's at least one home-grown search engine trying to get off the ground: https://clew.se/

Currently under DDoS or something though, because we can't have nice things. They're focused on finding non-corporate kinds of information (so personal blogs, open source stuff, etc.).

Hopefully there are others.

I'm currently waffling between DuckDuckGo and Kagi, but they've both been poisoned by AI brainworms.

Maybe we go back to Yahoo!'s hand-curated index? I have no idea.

I've got OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (the rolling release version) on mine, because apparently I want some combo of stable and pre-release?

Works great, required some tweaking here and there (OpenSUSE isn't officially supported; Kubuntu on my previous laptop required tweaking too). Very happy that I'll be able to replace the keyboard/battery/whatever dies on it or gets killed due to accidents... there are dogs in my house, and I seem to drop a laptop every five or so years...

I really wish my phone was this easy to repair; I broke the back of it in a bike accident and replacing the glass is apparently going to cost about half of what the entire phone cost me.

Yeah. I'd expect journalists to know basic grammar and not use present tense when talking about last year.

It's not morons.

It's people overwhelmed with multiple crisis scenarios that they can't handle. Most of us wish for a stable society and environment because it makes it easier to plan a future. You wouldn't build a house if you're not sure it's still going to be there in five years.

Calling people morons instead of understanding the actual problem is also a way to avoid looking at it too closely, probably because the complexity is overwhelming to you, too. Easier to just call people morons and be done with it.

Climate change is very much a social, cultural and political problem and the scientists have only looked at the meteorological and biological side of it.

We don't.

It's just not necessary in 90% of Europe. We didn't build mega-cities in near tropical climate. A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

Maybe some are, but both in my place and where my parents live (1200 km away, that's 750 miles for the metrically challenged) temperatures have plummeted to near freezing at night and single-digits during the day (in Celsius, that's the 35 to 45 range in Fahrenheit for the temperature scale challenged).

I don't doubt climate change at all. But shoddy journalism that creates headlines where those allegedly affected go "what? not at all, why are you lying?" only helps the deniers.

If you look at a weather map of Europe, like this one stuck in the early 2000s - https://www.weatheronline.co.u... - you'll see that at least right now only the very, very southern tips of Europe (in Spain and Greece, that's in the bottom-left corner and the bottom-right corner, no not the very corner that's already Africa, damn where were you in geography?) has temperatures above 20ÂC predicted for today, and that's not unusually hot for those regions.

We did have unusually hot weather 2-3 weeks ago, but they were unusual only for the season and still well below ordinary summer days.

Please get your reporting right, or you're only feeding the trolls that claim climate change is made up.

I wish, and I would welcome it if they did.

However, as one of the foremost SELinux advocates in its early days, I doubt that the government of all places has the capability to do so. Few sysadmins can configure SELinux halfway decently (i.e. beyond the default policies) and the government (outside the military and secret services) isn't a good tech employer.

Also, MS is far more than the OS. With Office and a bunch of other tools, plus lots of custom software made only for Windows, the entrechnment is really, really deep.

which phone has that feature? I've been asking for biometrics distress features for a really, really long time.

Actually, it doesn't. Nothing in the username field has anything to do with identity. I can enter whatever I want there, or where it is an e-mail I can just enter whatever I want followed by @gmail.com once I've registered that as my e-mail account.

These are not two differen things. There's no actual difference between "username+password" and "password1+password2".

Only because passwords are such a stupid idea.

I want my biometric devices to have a distress function. Like "if I try to log in with THIS finger, lock the device, encrypt the drive, flush all secrets and require a password to unlock it".