VLC 3.0 has arrived! Razer snubs Linux, KDE Slimbook receives a hardware refresh and 1080p Netflix is now a thing. All this plus your emails.
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Colour key – Venn Pedro
News
- 4K video decoding at something faster than the speed of smell is a welcome addition.
- Experimental wayland support.
- Support for the Samsung Dex dockable devices.
About time
https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p
- Wow, that’s about two years too late for me.
- Chromecast and Fire sticks are now my thing.
- Mind you, it works.
- Netflix locking down 1080p playback on Linux unless it sees it as ChromeOS.
- You have to be really petty to pull something like that!
- Remember kids, it’s the studios that make these artard rules.
Git the trend
https://github.com/blog/2499-open-source-project-trends-for-2018
- And the trending stuff was… drum roll, please… Electron framework apps.
- Sorry, “cross platform development”.
- Well, there is also a rise in machine learning so with some luck the singularity will realize Electron is a cancer and do something to stop it… or find Sara connor.
Speeking off Elektron
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/7wanme/spellcheck_on_the_canary_version/
- Oh sweet mother of FSM hurry up and enable this.
- Also, Canary #TIL.
- Seriously, I did not realize how dependant I was on Mr. Red Squiggly Line until Discord became a thing.
Default snaps
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-February/040126.html
- Long as I’m free not to use them.
- I like the Snap but it needs quite a bit more time in the oven.
- Have snaps finally stopped spawning a retarded lowercase folder in $HOME?
- Cuz I’m going to keep all the snap*.services disabled until it doesn’t.
- You guys and gals really done goofed on that one KDE.
- I knew the sliding notification thingy was busted because sometimes it would scale the icons to 512×512 when I plugged a USB flash drive in, I didn’t know it was this bad.
- 5.12.0 LTS and 5.8.9 LTS now properly sanitize the name field of the flash drive regardless of where you’re mounting it from.
Apt-file
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7wuj26/yil_theres_a_tool_called_aptfile_that_helps_you/
- TIL indeed.
- Just use auto-apt.
- It picks up on most dependencies.
Slim KDE II
http://kde.slimbook.es/
- Y’all got any of that, Ryzen?
- Power button is still in the worst place.
- Keyboard looks pretty similar, as whole actually.
- It’s about 1K for a usable (8GB RAM) config.
- CPU refresh, DDR4 memory, and better wifi.
- Oh, and a clicky touchpad.
Cutting edge
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/02/11/razer-doesnt-care-about-linux/
- If your gerbil requires special drivers you have made questionable life choices.
- <reee>
- How is this news?
- I have a mouse which while it doesn’t need special drivers, it certainly gains a lot more functionality with them.
- Roccat themselves have never officially supported Linux, they gave Stefan all the hardware so he could try and figure out how to reverse engineer a driver on his own.
- Eventually he just burnt out.
- This isn’t burning out, this is throwing your toys out of the pram and stomping your widdle baby feet, saying “Razer was mean to me”.
- So, this guy learned a life lesson.
- Don’t believe anything said by a soulless corporation, nay!
- Judge them by what they do.
Branding
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
- That’s one way to sort the issue.
- People deliberately doing their own thing and claiming ignorance on the license for the software they’re distributing can be infuriating.
- But the moment you lash out against one of those projects, everyone else is going to think twice about including your stuff in their repos.
- If that’s your intention, kudos! If not… your project will fall into oblivion.
- Openbsd-wip: This tree is to be used to maintain and eventually migrate ports into the official OpenBSD ports tree.
- “You must comply with the directive or you must disable official branding for your builds.”
- *removes project*
- That, ladies and gents is 100% a “I don’t have time for this” move.
Slice of Pi
Knock knock
https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/the-ultimate-smart-door-lock-security-system
https://hackaday.com/2018/02/13/particle-introduces-new-hardware-adds-mesh-support/
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It was not our fault
https://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?bWXpojU
https://github.com/CarolusMagnus/Podcatcher/issues/32
