Google kills the Plus, Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio, Firefox on Wayland adds support for PipeWire and Albert is the neatest launcher, ever.
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- And there goes the one social network I didn’t hate.
- Ah, the classic nuke it from orbit approach.
- A lot of people use G+ because the average person is unaware of its existence.
- BTW, if you have a Google account you have/had a G+ account.
- Considering they have done nothing but strip it for parts I’m surprised it took this long.
- Guess you will just have to join https://mast.linuxgamecast.com
- You can blame Cybik for it.
- First Google kills Google Wave and now they kill G+ :-(
- It is the best social network where all us nerds and techs hang out.
- The posts can be long format, thoughtful discussions occur, and the picture sharing is wonderful.
- G+ will become an enterprise communications tool, and we know that Googlers use it as their in-house communication platform.
- It will become like Microsoft’s Yammer.
- Over 90 bugs that were in 2.2.2 fixed.
- Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.
- Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision.
- Improved saving of projects with “Save Lossless Copy of Project” option which allows you to make a backup of the project while you are working on it.
- Unlike “Save As…” which closes the project you are working on.
- One launcher to rule them all.
- I started building it from sauce and realized it was already in the Solus repos.
- Holy cow! How did I not know about this launcher?
- Albert can even launch a VM, search wikipedia, run google translate and search the internet!
- Awesome! And you can even logout or shutdown your system.
- Wimp has an older PPA and I can’t be arsed to build it.
- Features GNOME 3.30 as the default desktop which includes patches fixing memory garbage collection and it uses fewer system resources.
- Faster installs and 10% faster booting with new compression algorithms developed by Facebook, called Zstandard and LZ4.
- I love the new default wallpaper featuring the Cuttlefish mascot.
- I’m glad they’re taking clues from Fedora and improving battery life on laptops.
- It’s possibly also a good idea since both these distros now ship GNOME 3 out of the box and Fedora has been doing that for a lot longer.
- Reduce boot time by altering grub configuration from 10 seconds to 2 or 0.
- Been using a lot of these tricks for years, but the best one is to use a much lighter desktop like XFCE or Fluxbox.
- Replace spinning rust drives with SSDs or NVMe drives.
- A whole lot of this.
- You can get a fast SSD for $40 in 2018.
- That will be the biggest, most noticeable improvement in terms of desktop speed.
- Using fast apt and setting your mirrors is also highly recommended.
- Preload is mostly a matter of use case.
- For me it’s never really done anything to speed up my use case.
- WebRTC on Wayland with Foxfire using PipeWire.
- HiDPi and Vsync, it’s like we’re living in the future!
- In May we talked about Raptor Computing Systems releasing the Talos™ II Lite workstation for the lowest price you can buy an IBM Power9 RISC workstation under $15,000.
- Now the low cost and low powered Power9 Blackbird MicroATX motherboard will soon be available!
- Both of Raptor Computing Systems previous Power9 motherboards have been server sized ExtendedATX boards costing $1,099.99 and more.
- I am curious, but the price tag will dictate just how curious!
- If they can ship a bare-bones system for under 1K they might have something.
- The Pixel Slate has high end specs and an x86 CPU ranging from an 8th Gen Celeron to a CoreTM i5 or i7, 4GB to 16GB of RAM and 32GB to 256GB SSD.
- Price ranging from $599-$1599.
- Google seems to have done a good job of converting Chrome OS from tablet mode to laptop mode when detaching and attaching the keyboard.
- No 3.5 inch audio port, but an adapter is in the box.
- This things starts @ $599 PLUS whatever you are willing to spend on a keyboard.
- Mark, my, words, you will need a keyboard for Chrome OS.
- Also, X86? Really?
- It’s a Chrome Surface!
- I like the 3:2 aspect ratio.
- But I do not like the price.
- As much as I dislike MS, can’t find anything wrong with this.
- Submit one pull request to any Microsoft open source project and get a Hacktoberfest shirt.
- In contrast to the 5 pull requests needed for all the other open source projects on GitHub to receive a Hacktoberfest T-shirt that we talked about two weeks ago.
- That’s one way to keep the numbers up for Github, get that Microsoft Money going.
- Huh, guess I need to schedule a snowball fight.
- RIP Pedro’s favourite Android whipping boy.
- Microsoft is bringing 60,000 patents to OIN.
- Skype, open source Skype.
- I… I didn’t see that happening any time soon.
- So, what exactly is in the other shoe and what happens it drops?
- Now the real question is after this, what will MS have to do to earn our trust?
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- The Argon ONE case is an aluminium-alloy case that is sleek looking, has a small footprint, easy access to GPIO, has good heat dissipation, great cable management, and a proper shutdown button!
- A Raspberry Pi case with all the bells and whistles akin to it’s larger computer case brethren of a microATX or ATX computer.
- Only $20.00.
- All its missing are the RGB LEDS which you can case mod later ;-D
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