Manjaro 25.0 is among the recent wave of Linux distro releases!
Manjaro 25.0 'Zetar' Joins Fedora and Ubuntu Release Party
The Manjaro 25.0 release has arrived with updated desktop environments and a newer Linux kernel.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Hey fedi, so I have this cheap doohickey for using computers away from a desk. It's got a touch pad and keys and is absolutely the right solution for the problem
But it sucks. The keys start bad and if used too much stop registering reliably, the touch pad ain't great, and it keeps losing connection to the dongle despite it being like 8 feet away
Is there some kind of premium version of these that exists? So far I've only ever seen the terrible dirt cheap ones for sale anywhere
(If you don't mind plz boost for reach I am *desperate*)
EDIT: to be clear the handheld/gamepad-like form factor is what makes this work so a more traditionally keyboard shaped device with an additional trackpad isn't really a suitable replacement
Is there a reason to be honest that will actually stop us from lying?
In his book, "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty," Dan Ariely offers evidence that we believe we're honest — even though we lie or cheat — by only doing so in little ways.Alex Lickerman M.D. (Psychology Today)
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Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about this exciting new adventure. We want to assure you that:
1. You will enjoy computing.
2. You will find it easy as well as enjoyable.
3. You shouldn’t be afraid of the computer. You are smarter than it is. So is your parakeet, for that matter.
4. You will make mistakes as you learn. The computer will not laugh at you.
5. Your mistakes will not do any harm to the computer. You can’t break it by pushing the “wrong” button.
6. You are about to take a giant step into the future. Everyone will soon be using computers in every part of their daily lives, and you will have a head start.
-- Steve Vickers, Timex/Sinclair 1000 Instruction Manual (aka the US ZX81 manual)
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Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads | TechCrunch
Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky's social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led bySarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Kicking off today: join (m)otherboard's book club for open source legend @CoralineAda's new book, “We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present and Future of Responsible Tech”!
A fascinating exploration of how speculative fiction has repeatedly shaped our technological reality
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Book Club: We Just Build Hammers
Greetings (m)otherboard friends and allies, What if we told you the ethical questions facing AI today were first asked 100 years ago? We’re writing to invite you to join a collective time travel journey as we kick off our inaugural book club with W…(m)otherboard
• Connection Assist now on Android
• Added Belarusian, Bulgarian & Portuguese
• Improved log readability
• Better performance when quitting the app
Update today! #PrivacyMatters
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New Release: Tor Browser 14.5 | Tor Project
Tor Browser 14.5 is now available, introducing Connection Assist to Android for the first time, and including the Belarusian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Portugal) languages for all platforms.blog.torproject.org
"Nextcloud crushes Microsoft 365!"
XDA strongly endorses Nextcloud as the leading #MS365 and #BigTech alternative! 🌟
"If you value data ownership and privacy... Nextcloud delivers unparalleled control over your digital environment."
Thank you XDA!
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6 ways Nextcloud beats Microsoft 365 entirely for free
Nextcloud is the ultimate free Microsoft 365 alternativeParth Shah (XDA)
Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored For It
For the past 11 years, the Breakthrough Prize awards have “celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientkottke.org
Moonsigil Atlas is a deckbuilding roguelike with tile-based energy that's Tetris meets Slay The Spire gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/moon…
#MoonsigilAtlas #IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming
Moonsigil Atlas is a deckbuilding roguelike with tile-based energy that's Tetris meets Slay The Spire
Now this blending of ideas looks damn cool. Moonsigil Atlas looks like it really warps deckbuilders into something quite unique, and I can't wait to check this one out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Horripilant is a chilling incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/horr…
#Horripilant #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
Horripilant is a chilling incremental dungeon crawl through the horrors of a forgotten underworld
Pas Game Studio recently revealed the freaky looking Horripilant. A game that combines elements of an idler, puzzle and autobattler that sees you fight, mine, and think your way through the depths of a forsaken dungeon.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA 575.51.02 Beta driver brings NVIDIA Smooth Motion support to Linux, GeForce RTX 5060 series announced gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nvid…
#NVIDIA #Linux #GeForce #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
NVIDIA 575.51.02 Beta driver brings NVIDIA Smooth Motion support to Linux, GeForce RTX 5060 series announced
Nearly a month since the last stable update, NVIDIA have today released the 575.51.02 Beta driver that brings with it support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on Linux along with various bug fixes. NVIDIA also formally announced the GeForce RTX 5060 series.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a new driver-based AI model that delivers smoother gameplay by inferring an additional frame between two rendered frames. For games without DLSS Frame Generation, NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a new option for enhancing your experience on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs."
Wait, so is this basically AMD Fluid Motion Frames / Frame Generation but actually available on Linux!?
If Nextcloud were a superhero, what would be its main superpower?
Discover all Nextcloud’s superpowers in the Features library: nextcloud.com/features/
Nextcloud features that put you in control
Discover all of the Nextcloud features, self-hosted collaboration platform designed to empower your productivity and collaborationNextcloud
- Data protection shield ❇️ (42%, 85 votes)
- Team sync power 💫 (19%, 38 votes)
- Time-saving magic⏳ (5%, 10 votes)
- Privacy cloak🕵️♂️ (33%, 67 votes)
A large, rare, 225 kb deletion containing six snake venom metalloproteinase genes in eastern diamondback rattlesnake adds to the striking venom diversity shaped by structural variation.
Find your Flow with Nextcloud's new data automation tools!
Discover how Nextcloud Flow streamlines your business processes, improves customer interactions, and enhances digitalization efforts in your organization
See #NextcloudFlow in action!
You say ##NextcloudFlow but the video only shows #Windmill Automation. windmill.dev/
Could you please elaborate on that? Because what I can see in (my) Nextcloud Flow is nowhere near what the Video advertises.
Is Flow getting replaced by Windmill?
Windmill
Turn scripts into auto-generated UIs, APIs and cron jobs. Compose them as workflows or data pipelines. Build complex, data-intensive apps with ease.www.windmill.dev
Valve's SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview improves support for Asus and Lenovo handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/valv…
#SteamOS #SteamDeck #Steam #ASUS #Lenovo
Valve's SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview improves support for Asus and Lenovo handhelds
After Valve announced in January that a public beta of Steam Deck's SteamOS is coming for more handhelds, the initial SteamOS 3.7 Preview added the start of it and now the latest SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview brings more improvements for other handhelds.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Another Linux distro has gone away. 😓
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8 Years, One Last Goodbye: ArcoLinux Bids Farewell
After 8 years, ArcoLinux has come to the end of its journey.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
yay!
Hope builds as plan to catch missing dachshund Valerie nears next phase
"She has become confident entering the large dog trap which has been set up like her own little room with her toys and bed from home, mum's clothing, hidden food and challenges to keep her entertained," Kangala Wildlife Rescue wrote in a social media post accompanying the video.
"We have seen an amazing change in Valerie’s demeanour recently as she begins to remember all those familiar smells, tastes and sounds."
Hope builds as plan to catch missing dachshund Valerie nears next phase
A trap upgrade could finally end the mission to capture Valerie — the miniature dachshund who has been missing on Kangaroo Island for more than a year.Yasmine Alwakal (SBS News)
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Ugh.
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Super cis perspective here, but I've come to find optional pronoun marking to be a really useful form of quasi-universal design—once again, a gift in which the struggles led by marginalized communities make life better for everyone. Quite often one just really can't assume to know someone's pronouns, especially if their name is from a different culture from yours or (like many names) is nonbinary. It never hurts to get some extra information.
Pronouns in some reporters' email signatures get a stony response from Trump administration
According to some journalists’ accounts, officials in the administration have refused to engage with reporters who have pronouns listed in their signatures.The Associated Press (NBC News)
Fedora 42 has landed! 🔥
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-42-rel…
Fedora 42 Released! 6 Things I Like Here
Fedora 42 delivers major upgrades like GNOME 48, a COSMIC spin, and more.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
I’m so grateful for PBS & NPR. 🌈
If the programs & people of public media have also enriched your lives, *now* is the time to show your support.
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What elephants’ unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
Be sure to watch the video in this article. It's very sweet!
I remember someone commenting after my play about elephants that she thought I might be laying on the sweet a bit much, but then in the middle of the show is projected a short video of actual elephants. She said then she realised that I had held back, because actually they are extremely sweet!
What elephants’ unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities
Cells that transmit nerve impulses in the part of elephants’ brains responsible for functions such as learning and memory are structured differently from those of any other mammal.The Conversation
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This release is an emergency release to fix security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and the implementation of the Perl programming language.
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🌍 Shaping Europe’s digital future – Live at the Nextcloud Summit
🎤 We’re proud to welcome Alexandra Geese, MEP & digital expert for the Greens/EFA group and a key negotiator of the Digital Services Act.
#NextcloudSummit25 #DigitalSovereignty
nextcloud.com/summit/
"Preguntas urgentes ante un data center en tu comunidad" es un podcast realizado por el Instituto Latinoamericano de Terraformación, en el que buscan informar y entregar recomendaciones a las personas que se están enfrentando a la construcción de un centro de datos en su territorio.
Dedicado a todas esas comunidades que buscan comprender cuales son los impactos de la #IA y los espacios que se necesitan para albergarla.
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Preguntas Urgentes Ante Un Data Center En Tu Comunidad : Instituto Latinoamericano de Terraformación : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Preguntas urgentes ante un data center en tu comunidad es un podcast realizado por el Instituto Latinoamericano de Terraformación, en el que buscamos...Internet Archive
Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Using the Tara Oceans dataset, this study describes global patterns of diatom diversity, abundance and adaptation. The authors identify 25 distinct communities, with the Arctic as a hotspot, and highlight diatom transcriptional features.Nature
Ludaro puts a roguelike deck-building twist on the classic board game Ludo gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/luda…
#Ludaro #Ludo #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Ludaro puts a roguelike deck-building twist on the classic board game Ludo
Whatever will developers turn into a deck-builder next? Ludo, apparently. The classic board game has been warped into Ludaro.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The final Baldur's Gate 3 patch is out now with cross-play, photo mode, new subclasses gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/the-…
#BaldursGate3 #BaldursGate #RPG #Gaming #SteamDeck
The final Baldur's Gate 3 patch is out now with cross-play, photo mode, new subclasses
It's done, finished! The final Baldur's Gate 3 content update is here along with a special animated short to mark the occasion. As expected, is a rather large enhancement to the game with some very long patch notes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Your Linux desktop deserves more than just a terminal. Level up with these AI tools. 🚀
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11 Vibe Coding Tools to 10x Your Development on Linux
Want to vibe code and chill on your Linux system? Here are the tools you can explore.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
AI directly harms Open Source, Android goes private: Linux & Open Source News
Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: a Daily Linux News show, a weekly patroncast for more thoughts, your name...TILvids
D.O.T. Defence is a fast-paced gamepad-friendly RTS now on Steam with co-op and versus modes gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/d-o-…
#RTS #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming #IndieGames
D.O.T. Defence is a fast-paced gamepad-friendly RTS now on Steam with co-op and versus modes
Real time chaotic strategy simplified to make it work well on a gamepad? With single-player, versus and co-op modes? D.O.T. Defence is out in Early Access with Native Linux support made with Godot.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Video and article from our lab about our latest giant virus paper
"Researchers discover large dormant virus can be reactivated in model green alga"
news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/r…
And link to original paper
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#viruses #science #virology #microbes
Researchers discover large dormant virus can be reactivated in model green alga
Frank Aylward and Maria Paula Erazo Garcia discovered the largest virus ever recorded with a latent infection cycle in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti. Their findings were published in Science.news.vt.edu
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in reply to Muse • • •I find honesty to be like a good credit score - it opens doors to opportunities.
I tend to hew towards honesty, in part because I'm not good at lying. But I do try to use colored words and phrases to induce a bit of subtle (or not so subtle) leanings - or rather more like flavorings - to things I say or write.
I was surprised (and appalled) when I was on the ICANN board when I was accused of being too honest!!!!
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in reply to Muse • • •That bit of knowledge goes a long way, if "properly" used, potentially improperly too. I find it easier to remember the truth, rather than recalling a fabrication in detail.
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