Why Wayland is a Bad Idea™
Most people who have been involved in Linux development/administration/advocacy already know that Linux operating systems are in the middle of a big shift (or actually, almost at the end of it) in the...
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Things Samsung consider essential
Apparently, Tiktok is an essential application that everyone needs to have and cannot be removed – so said Samsung.
View ArticleImported Rant – Why I Hate MacOS
I’m starting a new thing on this (otherwise quite dead) blog, mostly as a service to myself: “Imported Rants”. Its going to be basically copies (sometimes maybe better edited) of rants I posted as...
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Chrome Applications and the cursed CSD
I’ve ranted before about Client-Side Decorations (CSD), here and elsewhere, and here’s another one – mostly as a reminder to myself about how to disable CSD on Google Chrome web application windows....
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Is This An Elon Musk’s Upgrade?
Trying to register for the Twitter API (for personal use and mucking around), and this is how the “accepts our terms of service” page looks: Mind you, the “I accept” and “Submit” buttons still work...
View ArticleIsrael and Russia, an interesting geopolitical analysis:
This YouTube channel is mostly about military hardware, but this video I think covers a wide range of geopolitical issues quite well.
View ArticleScript day: check the currently set Plasma desktop wallpaper
I like to have some kind of slideshow as a desktop background wallpaper, and there are various ways of doing that – using your local picture library or multiple variations of remote image sources...
View ArticleWelcome to the Fediverse
Did you know that this blog is also on the Fediverse? Follow me @oded@geek.co.il.
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Why I Switched Firefox from Snap to Flatpak
This – this is the reason: Snap update notification Unlike other software packages (which includes, I believe, Flatpak) Snap packages will not update if the application is already running. Instead you...
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Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey
The 2023 Stack Overflow developer survey results are in, and here’s my (likely controversial) take: Rust developers are the most self-centered, with Go developers close seconds. Here are screenshots...
View ArticleImported Rant – Why Redis and MongoDB licenses are open source
This post was originally written in response to The Linux Experiment’s “Redis ditches FOSS” item, where Nick, the presenter, was critical of the recent Redis license change where they moved from the...
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