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Comment I feel sorry for the people in the USoA Using wifi (Score 0) 61

but anything that brings the USoA more in line with the frequency usage in the rest of the world is welcome. You guys go at your own beat, and drag canada, mexico and a fe2w other allies with you, while the rest of the world heeds standars...

Now going back to my channel 13 40Mhz wifi (with higher 5Ghz 120Mhz channel too)

Comment IS a perfectly sensible move from Fedora (Score 2) 61

Fedora's raison d'etre (sorry for the lack of accents), is to be a testing ground of the future evolution of RHEL, I believe that, by the time RHEL11 lands, the RHEL ecosystem will not need 32bit libraries or executables for that matter.

So, better not waste the scant resources RH destines to Fedora in making 32 bit happen. Instead, lobby Valve to move the steam client from 32 to 64Bits.

JM2C YMMV

Comment Advise to Bazzite: ReBase the distro (Score 3, Interesting) 61

Bazzite based on Fedora:

Take inspiration from linux mint. Mint is based of Ubuntu, but they also have a Linux Mint Debian Edition for the sole purpose of validating that, if needed be because ubuntu does something they do not agree with, they can move to debian and keep operating.

Maybe is time to do the same. Rebase the project on another distro. Not necesarily Debian, but something more tenable for your purposes.

Comment Is weird that LinuxSteam is still 32 bit (Score 1) 61

After all, the steam client on Mac is 64 Bit, and porting from BSD-ish to Linux should be relatively easy, dobly so because the Steam client is based on chromium which has both 32 and 64 bit clients.

Granted, Valve took their Sweeeeet time moving the Mac Client from 32 to 64 bits, but hey, it was doable....

Submission + - Firefox 140 arrived, the most important feature: Is an ESR

williamyf writes: Firefox 140 just landed. Some user facing features include:
Vertical Tabs: You can now keep more — or fewer — pinned tabs in view for quicker access to important windows. Just drag the divider to resize your pinned tabs section.
You can now unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab (or multiple selected tabs) and selecting "Unload Tab". This can speed up performance by reducing Firefox's memory and CPU usage.
( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... )

But the most important feature: Is an ESR. Why are ESR so important?
ESR is the firefox version that ships as default with many a Linux distro.
Some downstream projects (like Waterfox) depend on the ESR version.
Many enterprise SW is tested only against ESR.
When features are droped (like older OSs or Flash) ESR keeps the functionality for longer.

And speaking of old operating systems, if you are using Win7 or 8.1, or MacOS 10.12~10.15 please notice that FireFox ESR 115 (the last version which supports said OSs) will be keept patched until at least Sept 2025 ( https://whattrainisitnow.com/r... )

So one can see why the ESR is very important for some people.

Comment Plenty of people have Office 365 or MS-Drive (Score 1) 70

Heck, some people even use MS-Backup by their own volition...

This is good news. Not only because more people will have patched Win10 until 2026, but also, because now the ESU gets to common folk, more SW companies (specially SW companies that deal with consumer SW) will be incentivized to support their software on ESU.

Remember that until Win7, ESU was restricted only to enterprised, and therefore, only enterprise software companies were incentivized to match the ESU support timelines. More mainstream consumer software was incentivized to drop the old OS shortly after the support for consumers dropped.

BTW, I was(I'm still) gifted with a MS-Office family subscription... That includes a 1TB Drive subscription, may as well activate MS backup (currently I backup to a Synology) and get done with it. At least it will be a different backup path.

Comment The "content" industry will adapt. (Score 4, Informative) 183

When westerns fell out of favour in the late '70s and early '80s, the content industry was able to adapt across radio, TV and full lenght film.

and westerns were MUCH MORE prevalent than superhero has been.

do not worry, the content industry will adapt once more...

Comment Re:As long as they keep emiting ESRs I'll use it (Score 1) 240

Imagine waving your workflow disrupted by weird feature changes only once a year, istead of each 4 weeks...

I think I've had my "workflow disrupted" maybe once in the past decade. I honestly don't know what you people are doing with your browsers that your workflow breaks with every version.

In the times before I started using ESR, while my workflow was not disrupted "every time a new version lands" it was certainly disrupted more than once a year.

And since there are so many people with so many workflows and so many plug-in mixes, there will be a sizeable portion of the user base whose workflows will be disrupted by the new version landing.

That's why many linux distros use FireFox ESR and NOT normal firefox as the default browser...

Also, you seem to have missed the next line, where I said: "On a more serious note"

Comment As long as they keep emiting ESRs I'll use it (Score 3, Interesting) 240

Imagine waving your workflow disrupted by weird feature changes only once a year, istead of each 4 weeks...

Bliss...

On a more serious note, until the do something very brutal, I'll stick with the ESR. After all, what is the option today? Chrome? Edgium? Some other Chrome derivative? Projects with usage percentages measured in less than 1% or even less than 0.1%?

Having said that, I am looking at ladybird with the utmost interest (servo too), so, who knows what the future will bring...? ...

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