Yes, that's exactly what I did,

I'll be very interested to find out whether the gimp snap has the same problem as the Firefox snap: it does not work in a VNC session. Like at all. There's a known workaround involving futzing some environment variables, but it is not a complete solution: although it gets the main Firefox window to come up, additional popups (like the Save As dialog) are still broken.

This was always a problem right from the beginning, since Ubuntu replaced its native Firefox package with a snap, 2-3 years ago. Initially I grinned and beared it, expecting the issue to be fixed soon. It is still not fixed, and nobody appears to be interested in fixing it. When I brought this up on the Ubuntu users list I got a very indignant response from a snap advocate, along the lines of "it's not a snap problem, it's a [some-obscure-library-related-to-desktop-integration] problem". Well, wonderful, but it's a distinction without a difference. The bottom line is that the Firefox snap does not run in a VNC session, and which specific library is responsible for the problem is a distinction without a difference.

I live in QLD. Writing this and the spot price for power is
-$33.73 / MWh, largely because of solar deployments in the state.

The sun is, as usual, beating done - we're the "Sunshine State" here, and in fact we're having the driest spring in almost 40 years at the moment. Solar is having a great time.

Battery prices are tumbling, so now it's possible to make decent money being paid to charge your battery for several hours off the grid during times like this then sell it back in the evening at peak time. People are building businesses around this while our dipshit (conservative) government is doing this posturing for our wealthy coal mining magnates and companies.

Everyone else that can is just going solar, and batteries are next especially with more incentives to deploy them in homes. It's possible to be almost completely independent of the grid for a one off spend of about 2 percent of the value of the median home here now.

Yeh, yeh, not everyone can do this. I rent and just asked my landlord if she'd put solar on and she has refused (she doesn't yet know there's a government programme about to drop that incentivised landlords to deploy solar, which may change her mind, but I want to be out of here before then anyway).

Coal is still a core part of our grid but it's clearly on life support.

When you can buy and sell cryotoassets and meme stocks and never lose money?!

Seriously, how much of gambling is being eaten up because of the hype around stonks from the last few years, and the US administration pumping crypto scams?

You have this backwards, they aren't trying to push people to 2.0.
The current version is 7.5.

2.0 has been deprecated for more than 5 years, it was just the "default shipped" one for ages.

This is how most "AI" tools that deal with PDF seem to work. Format is too janky but OCR is a mature field, one which has been enhanced by modern ML techniques. Says a lot for how awkward a format PDF is for exchanging data.

Crypto doesn't always mean PoW

... how do people pirate these days? Is Pirate Bay still a thing? Usenet?

Already +5 so I can't mod you up any further but this is art

... what actual open source maintainers think about this.

  So far they've not been very positive about AI generated reports, like this scathing post from the curl maintainer: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/20...

So a few counter discussion points to that -

What 50 billion devices are you referring to? If you're counting android in there you shouldn't, you can't upgrade the kernel yourself and you're stuck with the vendor's decisions to update or not

What are you calling linux? The kernel only?
If the whole system, most distros require you to reboot with updates to core services/software, especially to the desktop environment.

Microsoft are idiots with this whole win10 to win11 debacle (what happened to win10 is the last version ever?), and they should simply disable the few features that require new chip features in a slightly cut down version (mostly security related, let the users choose, just like you can choose SE Linux or not).

Is it possible that some photons move as waves and others as particles? Are there just... different types of photons?

Are you talking about this article, or other articles?

Because this article says that linux is faster on one bespoke and fully integrated handheld.

If other articles, care to share them?

I'm not sure which side of the discussion you're on from that reply, I was fairly balanced. I can try to restate again..

- linux gaming on amd is awesome with steam/proton

- linux gaming on nvidia is generally substandard but works well for some people

- Gaming is still generally more performant on windows

- The article title is misleading. A few specific games on a specific device ran faster on Linux than on windows. This isn't a large win for anyone except the people who optimised proton for this very specific chipset + processor + video combination.

- SteamOS will be great when it's fully out as a standalone thing and lead to more and more of the above scenarios as it's tuned for more and more devices, but right now it's only out for a handful of VERY specific devices

Which of those are grasping at which straws, from which viewpoint?

It's two guys whose other project was an iOS collaborative whiteboard app. I'd guess they are iOS developers in their day job.