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lemmy.fmhy.net
It’s even worse apparently. Apparently someone looked at where the coins are going, and the coins are going to the 1337x admins, and the uploader is just getting a cut of those coins. Which explains why the admins are unlikely to really care because they’re profiting off their users. I have severe trust issues with any kind of pirated software so I basically never download it as a result, and shit like this is why. Even private trackers and “trusted” groups aren’t enough for me to download most software.
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lemmygrad.ml
I know that BulldogMuhammad is an easy target, but this joke is so overrated and misleading that I can’t help myself. As surprising as it might sound, the Roman Republic had no formal policing forces at all! An unusual point of unity between an ancient polity noted for its sense of hierarchy, and hierarchy-averse modern anarchist ideology! What’s the problem with this? I’ll tell you what the problem is. Quoting Christopher J. Fuhrmann in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society, page 298: Yet casual readers might form the impression that Rome was completely without police, and rarely intervened in matters of public order. A generation of undergraduate students has absorbed the same message from the lecture hall: Rome had no police. This claim is untrue, and recent work on ancient policing is hopefully beginning to correct that misconception. For our purposes, the working definition of police covers any group of men armed or organised by the state, who compelled civilians to obey laws, or otherwise imposed the state’s will, including official guards, market inspectors, arrest parties, prison staff and Roman soldiers tasked with temporary security duties in civilian areas. Police institutions typically were not planned out as such, but evolved from the accrual of ad hoc administrative innovations. Policing measures were normally motivated by the cynical interests of the state, its rulers and society’s élites, but this unsurprising fact does not preclude incidental benefits to others; in fact, we have some explicit evidence for governmental concern towards ordinary people and their safety. The scattered nature of the evidence, and the unsystematic development of the relevant institutions, makes understanding Roman policing difficult; the effort is rewarding nonetheless for shedding light on an underappreciated aspect of ancient state activity in general, and the practicalities of Roman law and order in particular. No, the Roman Republic did not have ‘cops’ in the modern sense, and there was some self-policing, but it co-existed with Roman élites hiring authorities to protect them along with their property. In other words, formal policing forces did exist to some extent, and joking that the Roman Republic was kinda sorta anarchist because it had no modern police is not funny in the way that you intended; it’s funny only insofar as it makes you look embarrassingly unsophisticated. Rather than admit to cracking a lousy joke based on an oversimplified conclusion, BulldogMuhammad instead defended it to the point of frustration: That was never denied, dipshit, It’s astounding that you can say shit like this No one fucking said Roman society was non-hierarchical as a whole, dipshit, it’s the third fucking sentence in the explanation which you didn’t read, that’s not how Roman law fucking worked an utterly fucking stupid reading of both the explanation and of Roman law. and I again I [sic] fucking quote, Seriously, why keep a topic up if it causes you this much frustration? Are you algophilic? Anyway, if you use Internet memes as substitutes for history research, you may as well go watch The Flintstones if you want to understand prehistoric living better. Read a history book, listen to an audiobook, watch a documentary—whatever you do, don’t rely on Internet memes, especially if they’re BulldogMuhammad’s!
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lemmy.dbzer0.com
As we push more average Windows users to Linux, we need to be prepared for these users to download and run completely untrusted code.
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sopuli.xyz
I am having a bit of a brain freeze here but I would like to install pandoc but I don’t want to disable the default steam deck settings to do so even though using pacman on the command line would be way simpler I don’t want to fiddle if I don’t have to fiddle. https://pandoc.org/ Can I not just download a binary and point Linux towards it? I know this is a silly question but frustratingly I am more familiar with how you are supposed to do this on windows with the $home variable nonsense.
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lemmy.world
Game. Changer. I live my life as FOSS-y as possible. This is the only subscription that I have. $2/mo or $16/yr is not even a blip on most people’s radar. The OG Sync was the most used app on my phone and tablet. So download, enjoy, and pay the dev! He’s phenomenal, approachable, and transparent. This isn’t some Flappy Birds knockoff. This is a polished app that allows us to connect with one another more easily. And I’d like to see what features he comes up with next. It takes a lot for me to trust an app/dev this much. Hopefully everybody else will too and we can help him do even more neat things.
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46379162 The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come. Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world. Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop. Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Four Exciting New Features for Kubuntu Users Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop: Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable. A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond: Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone. Plasma Wayland - The Default, Fully Supported Session: The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive— but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team. Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements: Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own. What’s New Under the Hood Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades: Linux Kernel 7.0: Updated from 6.8, the kernel now enables crash dumps by default on desktop installations, brings the new sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers, and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach on top of linux-generic. KDE Applications 25.12.3: All KDE Gear applications have been updated to 25.12.3, a stable release, including Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Kdenlive, and more. Qt 6 Ecosystem: Qt 6.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 power the desktop. Qt5 (5.15.1cool1.gif and KDE Frameworks 5 (5.116.0) legacy packages remain in the archive for applications that have not yet completed their Qt6 port. Firefox 150 and LibreOffice 26.2: Both core applications are updated, with Firefox delivered as a Snap from the Snap Store and LibreOffice included in the full installation. sudo-rs by default: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage. Rust-powered core utilities: The core OS utilities are now provided by rust-coreutils, bringing performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools. VA-API hardware video acceleration: AMD and Intel users now get hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding by default via the Video Acceleration API — great for media playback and video work. Updated developer toolchain: GCC 15.2, Python 3.14, Rust 1.93, Golang 1.26, LLVM 21, OpenJDK 25, and .NET 10 are all included and ready to use. APT 3.2: The package manager gains a new dependency solver, OpenSSL-backed TLS, an automatic pager for commands like apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool. This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
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sh.itjust.works
Some opinions as someone who has been on the other side of this: Recognize that if she decides to not divorce you, from now on, no matter what you do, how much of a new leaf you turn, etc., there will always be at least a little bit of doubt about you. That feeling when you find out you’ve been cheated on by a long-term partner never quite goes away - it gets smaller and less nagging, but never completely disappears. If you want to stay with your wife, you’re gonna have to accept this. My discovery happened almost a decade ago. I would have been well within my rights to dump her ass and never talk to her again, but I didn’t. I thought it was at least worth trying to stick around and see if we could work things out before doing that, given we made that whole “till death do we part” oath and were still breathing. She was not owed this - I did that for me. Things are better, and we are in a much, much better place than we were. Still, this pops to mind at least once a day, and has every day since it happened. Go see a couple’s therapist yesterday - first, to create a venue where she can express her feelings about all of this, what she wants to do, and what she needs; next to start having an open, 100% honest discussion about where your head is at and behaviours, and finally to start shopping tools for completely transparent communication going forward. Treat this seriously and pay fucking close attention. Follow this up with some therapy for yourself - very few people choose to cheat because they’re loving life. Start identifying where you need to work your own shit out. Again, take this deadly seriously. Encourage her to do the same. 100%, no exceptions, complete and utter honesty and transparency going forward. She wants to see your phone? Hand it over. She wants to know where you’re going/what you’re doing? Tell her, with proof. She wants you to have a tracking app? You download that shit. She wants the nastiest details about what the hell happened? Do warn her you’re concerned it will hurt even more, but if she wants to hear it anyway you tell her. By dint of your actions, you’ve lost your right to both be in the relationship and keep a self-defined level of privacy - if you don’t like it, start looking at divorce. If you two start healing, the need for this kind if stuff may start to diminish as the level of trust comes back up. Check in with her, often. How she’s feeling, what she needs, etc. Pay attention, respect it even if it involves something that may hurt you emotionally. Do NOT throw shit in her face - keep in mind, YOU’RE the one who fucked up, and who now wants to move on with her as your partner. She just discovered her husband did one of the shittiest things a spouse can do to someone they claim to love. It’s a very different experience. You could do everything right, do all the therapy, open communication, working on yourself and the relationship you want. If she decides that she can’t do it, she can’t. Recognize this. Accept this. She doesn’t owe you shit. Not gonna lie to you man - you have a tough row to hoe. I will say, with time and a shit ton of work, it’s possible to remain together, and both of you be happy about it. But there will now always be a pre-cheating and post-cheating division when thinking about your marriage. The goal, if you are remaining together, is to build something much better and stronger than what you had before. That may happen, that may not. But putting the work in gives the greatest probability of success. Best of luck to you - seriously, you fucked up, and fucked up BIG, but we are all human, and therefore liable to fuck up. No matter what the outcome of all this is, learn from it and grow.
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46379162 The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come. Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world. Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop. Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Four Exciting New Features for Kubuntu Users Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop: Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable. A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond: Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone. Plasma Wayland - The Default, Fully Supported Session: The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive— but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team. Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements: Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own. What’s New Under the Hood Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades: Linux Kernel 7.0: Updated from 6.8, the kernel now enables crash dumps by default on desktop installations, brings the new sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers, and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach on top of linux-generic. KDE Applications 25.12.3: All KDE Gear applications have been updated to 25.12.3, a stable release, including Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Kdenlive, and more. Qt 6 Ecosystem: Qt 6.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 power the desktop. Qt5 (5.15.1cool1.gif and KDE Frameworks 5 (5.116.0) legacy packages remain in the archive for applications that have not yet completed their Qt6 port. Firefox 150 and LibreOffice 26.2: Both core applications are updated, with Firefox delivered as a Snap from the Snap Store and LibreOffice included in the full installation. sudo-rs by default: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage. Rust-powered core utilities: The core OS utilities are now provided by rust-coreutils, bringing performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools. VA-API hardware video acceleration: AMD and Intel users now get hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding by default via the Video Acceleration API — great for media playback and video work. Updated developer toolchain: GCC 15.2, Python 3.14, Rust 1.93, Golang 1.26, LLVM 21, OpenJDK 25, and .NET 10 are all included and ready to use. APT 3.2: The package manager gains a new dependency solver, OpenSSL-backed TLS, an automatic pager for commands like apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool. This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
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lemmy.world
I gave Premium a shot. Then the one time I wanted to use the feature Google said I was paying for - being able to download videos - I found out that it was just a glorified pre-buffer. Can’t view the video outside the youtube app or the website, source video file encrypted ✅️ Can’t view the video if you havent connected to the internet in 3 days ✅️ Does less than your average youtube downloader that you can find for free with one search ✅️ Literally just saving Youtube bandwidth because they destroyed every benefit you would get if it was actually reasonable ✅️ Enshittification isnt just limited to free users folks. Slammed that cancellation button right then and there. Good luck earning back my trust, I’m happy to pay if you didnt scream so loudly that even if I paid, you were going to treat me like shit anyways.
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46379162 The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come. Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world. Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop. Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Four Exciting New Features for Kubuntu Users Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop: Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable. A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond: Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone. Plasma Wayland - The Default, Fully Supported Session: The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive— but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team. Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements: Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own. What’s New Under the Hood Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades: Linux Kernel 7.0: Updated from 6.8, the kernel now enables crash dumps by default on desktop installations, brings the new sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers, and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach on top of linux-generic. KDE Applications 25.12.3: All KDE Gear applications have been updated to 25.12.3, a stable release, including Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Kdenlive, and more. Qt 6 Ecosystem: Qt 6.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 power the desktop. Qt5 (5.15.1cool1.gif and KDE Frameworks 5 (5.116.0) legacy packages remain in the archive for applications that have not yet completed their Qt6 port. Firefox 150 and LibreOffice 26.2: Both core applications are updated, with Firefox delivered as a Snap from the Snap Store and LibreOffice included in the full installation. sudo-rs by default: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage. Rust-powered core utilities: The core OS utilities are now provided by rust-coreutils, bringing performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools. VA-API hardware video acceleration: AMD and Intel users now get hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding by default via the Video Acceleration API — great for media playback and video work. Updated developer toolchain: GCC 15.2, Python 3.14, Rust 1.93, Golang 1.26, LLVM 21, OpenJDK 25, and .NET 10 are all included and ready to use. APT 3.2: The package manager gains a new dependency solver, OpenSSL-backed TLS, an automatic pager for commands like apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool. This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
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lemmy.sdf.org
The scam is not downloading Signal. The scam will come later when they say “You just got the job! I will send you a check to purchase your remote work supplies”. Do not deposit the check. At all. No matter what. It is not a legitimate check. It will never be a legitimate check. No matter how real the check looks, I guarantee that no company works like this! Do not respond to them. Block their number and ignore them for the rest of your life. What happens is: The check is fake and you deposit it. By law, your bank is required to credit your account with the check’s value within a couple of days. HOWEVER: Just because your account gets credited the amount, doesn’t mean the check is fully processed. The scammer will tell you to buy WFH supplies from a “trusted vendor”. You are “buying” your supplies from the scammer, using the money credited to your account. Then, in 2-3 weeks, the bank will reject the check as fake. They will subtract the value from your account and you will have paid for your “supplies” using your own money. You will never receive the “supplies” or get your money back. The bank might even suspend your accound because of the fraudulent check. A youtube channel that I follow actually released a video today about employment scams. In the section where he talks about red flags, compare them to the messages you just received. I bet you’ll notice some similarities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9g-y8wVzws
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lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46379162 The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come. Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world. Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop. Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Four Exciting New Features for Kubuntu Users Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop: Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable. A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond: Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone. Plasma Wayland - The Default, Fully Supported Session: The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive— but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team. Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements: Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own. What’s New Under the Hood Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades: Linux Kernel 7.0: Updated from 6.8, the kernel now enables crash dumps by default on desktop installations, brings the new sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers, and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach on top of linux-generic. KDE Applications 25.12.3: All KDE Gear applications have been updated to 25.12.3, a stable release, including Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Kdenlive, and more. Qt 6 Ecosystem: Qt 6.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 power the desktop. Qt5 (5.15.1cool1.gif and KDE Frameworks 5 (5.116.0) legacy packages remain in the archive for applications that have not yet completed their Qt6 port. Firefox 150 and LibreOffice 26.2: Both core applications are updated, with Firefox delivered as a Snap from the Snap Store and LibreOffice included in the full installation. sudo-rs by default: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage. Rust-powered core utilities: The core OS utilities are now provided by rust-coreutils, bringing performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools. VA-API hardware video acceleration: AMD and Intel users now get hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding by default via the Video Acceleration API — great for media playback and video work. Updated developer toolchain: GCC 15.2, Python 3.14, Rust 1.93, Golang 1.26, LLVM 21, OpenJDK 25, and .NET 10 are all included and ready to use. APT 3.2: The package manager gains a new dependency solver, OpenSSL-backed TLS, an automatic pager for commands like apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool. This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
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lemmy.world
If you download and install untrusted code extensions, you’re screwed. Not like it’s rocket-science.
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lemmy.ml
The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come. Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world. Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop. Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Four Exciting New Features for Kubuntu Users Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop: Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable. A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond: Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone. Plasma Wayland - The Default, Fully Supported Session: The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive— but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team. Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements: Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own. What’s New Under the Hood Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades: Linux Kernel 7.0: Updated from 6.8, the kernel now enables crash dumps by default on desktop installations, brings the new sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers, and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach on top of linux-generic. KDE Applications 25.12.3: All KDE Gear applications have been updated to 25.12.3, a stable release, including Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Kdenlive, and more. Qt 6 Ecosystem: Qt 6.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 power the desktop. Qt5 (5.15.1cool1.gif and KDE Frameworks 5 (5.116.0) legacy packages remain in the archive for applications that have not yet completed their Qt6 port. Firefox 150 and LibreOffice 26.2: Both core applications are updated, with Firefox delivered as a Snap from the Snap Store and LibreOffice included in the full installation. sudo-rs by default: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage. Rust-powered core utilities: The core OS utilities are now provided by rust-coreutils, bringing performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools. VA-API hardware video acceleration: AMD and Intel users now get hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding by default via the Video Acceleration API — great for media playback and video work. Updated developer toolchain: GCC 15.2, Python 3.14, Rust 1.93, Golang 1.26, LLVM 21, OpenJDK 25, and .NET 10 are all included and ready to use. APT 3.2: The package manager gains a new dependency solver, OpenSSL-backed TLS, an automatic pager for commands like apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool. This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
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programming.dev
You have the option of piping it into a file instead, inspecting that file for yourself and then running it, or running it in some sandboxed environment. Ultimately though, if you are downloading software over the internet you have to place a certain amount of trust in the person your downloading the software from. Even if you’re absolutely sure that the download script doesn’t wipe your home directory, you’re going to have to run the program at some point and it could just as easily wipe your home directory at that point instead.
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endlesstalk.org
There’s an old saying in computing. “you improve usability by taking away options and features” apple didn’t necessarily invent this mindset. But they perfected it. They took BSD, a security focused, but not very user friendly, offshoot of Linux/unix and made it “popular” by adding several layers of polish and doing a lot of the configuration work for you and made it osx. This was a time when Linux usability/management on the personal/newbie scale was garbage. If you wanted to install a certain distro of *nix, you better make sure you have supporting hardware and the right up to date tutorial, which is managed by an unknown volunteer, which was usually some person bored on the weekend a few months ago and never updated, they’ve made *nix installation and management a lot better though recently. They also did this with music. People used to have large collections of unorganized mp3s in the early 00s, unless you were really anal and had a lot of time in your hands, because you were likely downloading them from several different illegal places, and legally buying mp3s were all over the place. You could buy the album off this weird obscure website that you didn’t want to trust with your CC information, because there were a lot of mom and pop music stores online. Then apple brought out iTunes and allowed both buying and managing (and eventually upgrading, traveling around with) music to be dead simple. For smartphones, they stole a LOT from BlackBerry, but they took it to the next level. Blackberry had email, a private messaging network, and mobile web scrolling waayyyy before anyone. And so many people loved it so much that even Obama famously didn’t want to give his up when he took office. Then apple came out with the iPhone, and blew it away with a bigger screen and again, a lot more polish. Innovation happens in small steps over years. Apple didn’t invent mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, or computing, they didn’t invent security, encrypted audio/video calls, or music management. They’ve done a lot of crappy stuff, and they charge super high amounts of money for less than state of the art hardware. Their innovation could be summed up by this profound statement I remember a friend said to me once around 2003/4. “Osx, because making Linux pretty was easier than fixing Windows”
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lemmy.world
See video attached (if I managed to upload it) - I’m making slow, smooth, regular circles. I have obviously submitted a ticket already, I’ve been just wondering if the issue is global, or it’s just me (and a few other people) because I’m using Linux I’m using an AMD GPU/CPU (…somehow?) the Steam update window stopped at 0%, so I restarted the whole thing and downloaded it again (but it must not be the reason, since I have also identified game file integrity after that) fuck me and my bad luck It’s probably unrelated, but since the latest patch (from ~2 days ago) I’ve been unable to delete the new Embark message in my inbox (top right corner in Speranza). There is also another bug where the weapon upgrade click (from my inventory) takes me to the gunsmith bench, but with a completely different weapon in focus, also totally scrambling the weapon inventory, so first I have to rummage through 30 weapons to find the one in my hand - but that has been the case since the preceding patch. This wheel thing is so frustrating that I just stopped playing altogether. I almost lost some valuable gear because I switched to the wrong item in a sticky situation, and I wouldn’t want to go there again. It’s like the mouse has an epileptic shock every time I move it while the wheel is up. Sometimes I try to pick the item in the bottom left, and after ~12 shakes in half a second it settles in the top section. Even when I’m doing very slow, steady circles it ends up crazy bouncing everywhere. So what I had tried already: Restarting Steam or the entire PC Closing every single program I would normally use Changing compatibility mode: only works once, see below, in the update section Deleting Steam Overlay cache; disabling Steam overlay Deleting shader cache (it should have nothing to do with shaders at all, but see below, in the update section) Every single fucking combination of quitting Steam, starting the game immediately with the desktop icon, starting Steam first - then the game from the library button, all these done after either of the changes above Verifying integrity of game files — UPDATE — First I thought I found the root cause. As it turns out, on Monday, when the patch came out (or at least when I found out about it), there was also a Proton Hotfix update in Steam which I missed first. So I downloaded it, but it was still the same. THEN I quit Steam, restarted it and voilá, I got back my smooth cursor! …Only to run into the exact same shaky cursor (again: only in the emote wheel, nowhere else in the game or any other program). I started to fiddle with things again, and what seemed to be working was to change the compatibility mode to Proton Experimental, and then quitting Steam (running the game straight after the compatibility change would still lead to the same shaky wheel cursor!), and starting it again. HOWEVER, as it later turned out, it’s like every single compatibility mode got corrupted, because after starting the game again (either by staying within Steam OR quitting it, then starting again) the bug returned, often switching to a completely different section of the wheel when I was about to release the button, often leading into unfavourable or straight inescapable situations. What I noticed is that whenever I changed compatibility mode first, the game re-calculated Vulcan shaders. Shaders are responsible for visuals, so in theory they should have nothing to do with this, but I was rather desperate at this point. So I was thinking it could have something to do with the shader cache. Emptying it and re-running the game didn’t help. Or maybe the Steam overlay? Nope, deleting the overlay cache or entirely disabling it didn’t help, either. — UPDATE 2, workaround — I think I’m getting close. I found a workaround (not a fix), but this is still a rather inconvenient bug. I managed to boil it down to one key aspect: Steam Linux Runtime 4 AND Firefox. Again: these issues started this Monday (20/04/2026). I never had this problem with the game before while Firefox was running just the same. What I managed to investigate/deduce this far: Running Firefox while Steam is open will somehow corrupt the game and the issues will persist even after closing Firefox. Or restarting Steam. Or restarting the entire PC. Or asking Jesus to take the wheel. Once the game gets corrupted, it can be reset by closing FF, deleting the game executable (Steam/steamapps/common/Arc Raiders/PioneerGame.exe), then verifying integrity of game cache files. Then Steam will proceed to download/update files for 3 things: Arc Raiders, Steam Linux Runtime 4, and Proton Experimental (I guess it’s Proton Hotfix if I set that as default in Steam or the game). Then closing Steam and opening it again should result in a smooth wheel UI experience (until the next time you foolishly start FF while Steam is running). I need to test it more, but the corruption seems to be able to fix by having a “clean”/uncorrupted copy of the Linux Runtime 4 directory (/home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_4) and simply sudo pasting it back if the user accidentally starts Firefox while Steam is running. Whether the corruption in Steam Linux Runtime 4 is caused by Steam Linux Runtime 4, Steam, Arc Raiders, Proton or Firefox (??), I’m still not sure. However, the only overlap I can think of between Steam and FF is the default Steam browser, which is Firefox at the moment. Either way, changing the default browser would still just be a workaround, but this is how far I got after wasting most of my day on running and quitting the game countless times. I doubt it’s one of the extensions, but for the sake of clarity, here are the ones I’m using (I have tested for the latest addition, Per-Tab Volume Control: it’s not the one causing the issue): ClearURLs Indie Wiki Buddy News Feed Eradicator Old Reddit Redirect Per-Tab Volume Control Simple Translate SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorhips uBlock Origin Youtube-shorts block MoBo: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 OS: Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit Linux Kernel: 6.8.0-110-generic CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor × 6 GPU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT] (7800XT, according to the box) RAM: 16GB DE: Cinnamon 6.6.7 Display Server: X11 Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint mint-001 - 1.0 150.0 (64-bit)
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lemm.ee
Phones and computers are only limited by your ability to understand and use them. That said, the majority of people I know give me shit for my android while simultaneously asking me how I did a thing on my phone like change permission settings, or have YouTube with no ads without paying, or how I was able to send automated text messages at certain times. But it’s cool because their iPhone “just works”… Yesterday at a meeting a coworker (a manager) said he didn’t have that particular app we were discussing so I sent him a link to download, he got frustrated and said, “it says I don’t have a compatible phone dude wtf?” I asked for his phone and he was trying to download an app from the Google play store… I didn’t realize he had an iPhone until then. I said that’s the android app store, and he was like dude I have an iPhone it should work. He truly did not understand why it wouldn’t work. Long story short, it’ll be locked down. Because the majority of people have no idea how the magic box in their pocket works at all, as long as it “just works”
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news.abolish.capital
A coalition of more than 120 US-based civil society groups on Thursday issued a travel advisory ahead of the upcoming FIFA Men’s World Cup over what the ACLU called the “deteriorating human rights situation” in the United States amid the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown, suppression of free speech, and more. Citing the “absence of meaningful action and concrete guarantees from FIFA”—world soccer’s governing body—“host cities, or the US government,” the coalition published a warning urging “fans, players, journalists, and other visitors traveling to and within the United States” for the tournament to “have an emergency contingency plan.” The US, Canada, and Mexico are jointly hosting the tournament, which is set to kick off with group stage matches in Mexico City and Guadalajara on June 11 and Los Angeles and Toronto the following day. “World Cup games will be played in 11 different cities across the United States, which, like many localities, have already been the target of the Trump administration’s violent and abusive immigration crackdown,” the coalition wrote. BREAKING: We’re joining over 120 organizations issuing a travel advisory to warn anyone visiting the U.S. for the 2026 FIFA World Cup of possible civil and human rights violations.FIFA must pressure the Trump administration to protect the people traveling to and working at the games. — ACLU (@aclu.org) April 23, 2026 at 7:12 AM “While the Trump administration’s rising authoritarianism and increasing violence pose serious risks to all,” the advisory continues, “those from immigrant communities, racial and ethnic minority groups, and LGBTQ+ individuals have been and continue to be disproportionately targeted and affected by the administration’s policies and, as such, are most vulnerable to serious harm.” According to the groups, those harms potentially include: Arbitrary denial of entry and risk of arrest, detention, and/or deportation of non-US nationals—even those with prior authorization from the US government; Expanded restrictions and limitations on travel and entry into the United States, given the Trump administration’s ban or severe restriction on entry of people from 19 Global South nations; Invasive social media screening and searches of electronic devices as part of admission to the United States; Violent and unconstitutional immigration enforcement, including racial profiling and other discrimination by law enforcement; Suppression of speech and protest and increased surveillance; and Serious risk of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and in some cases, death, while in immigration detention facilities or custody. The coalition—which includes groups like the ACLU, Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional Rights, Committee to Protect Journalists, Haitian Bridge Alliance, Human Rights First, Legal Defense Fund, Mijente Support Committee, NAACP, National Lawyers Guild, and Southern Poverty Law Center—is urging prospective World Cup attendees to take steps to protect themselves. These include knowing their rights, securing their electronic devices, and informing trusted people about travel plans. Visitors are also advised to download Human Rights First’s ReadyNow! mobile app “to notify trusted contacts in case of possible detention.” Journalists covering the tournament are urged to “consult resources from the Committee to Protect Journalists or Reporters Without Borders for information on how to keep themselves safe while entering the US and while reporting inside the country.” Daniel Noroña, Americas advocacy director at Amnesty International USA, said in a statement Thursday that “fans, journalists, and others traveling to the United States for the 2026 FIFA World Cup risk encountering a deeply troubling human rights landscape, shaped by the Trump administration’s racist immigration policies, mass detention and deportation, and attacks on freedom of expression and peaceful protest." ACLU human rights program director Jamil Dakwar said that “FIFA has been paying lip service to human rights while cozying up with the Trump administration, putting millions of people at risk of being harmed and their basic rights violated." “The Trump administration’s abusive actions continue to threaten our communities, tourists, and fans alike—and it’s past time that FIFA use its leverage to push for meaningful policy changes and binding assurances that will make people feel safe to travel and enjoy the games," Dakwar added. FIFA faced worldwide ridicule for awarding President Donald Trump its first-ever Peace Prize last December amid his administration’s illegal high-seas boat-bombing spree, and just ahead of his bombing of Nigeria, kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, launch of the US-Israeli war of choice against Iran, and threats to attack several other countries. Despite US bombing that’s killed thousands of its people—including hundreds of children—and FIFA’s refusal to relocate its matches outside the United States, Iran, which easily qualified, is planning to take part in the tournament. On Thursday, Iran’s embassy in Italy decried what it called a “morally bankrupt” effort by US Special Envoy for Global Partnerships Paolo Zampolli to ban it from the tournament and replace its bracket slot with Italy, which is reeling from missing its third consecutive World Cup final. From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
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lemmy.world
so i never had the money or home space for a proper office or computer desk, so i’ve always had to run my PC on my HDTV’s/etc. because of this, I have never had proper dimming because HDTVs usually disable screen settings for PC connections (at least mine have). So i’ve always had to choose between bloated/ad-supported/paid apps and smaller clunky apps to achieve screen dimming. well i finally got sick of it and made my own. ProperDim is a lightweight program that lives in your system tray to manage your screens brightness. its standout features are: -custom minimum brightness -hotkeys -quick-set buttons & a quickdim slider in the system tray -scheduler for automation -modern/old school mixed style with an intuitive and minimal design this is the first program i ever made and to be honest i probably should have started with something more simple–but it’s finally finished and I am happy! GitHub info + download here: https://github.com/crustyoldhuman/ProperDim cheers