Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as “from a US-sanctioned region” and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.
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Here to follow content related to Star Trek, Linux, open-source software, and anything else I like that happens to have a substantial Lemmy community for it.
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I’m not a classic Linuxer (I switched in 2015) but I did once try Mandrake out of historical curiosity. From what I hear it was the recommended “beginner-friendly” distro before Ubuntu came out. And based on how hard it was to get working on a VM, I now understand why classic Linuxers talk about Ubuntu like it was this huge sea change.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Linux@programming.dev•[Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?English3·3 months agoI’d say they all offer different types of customization. It’s less a matter of how much you can do, and more a matter of what you want to do and how much time you’re willing to spend working on it. KDE is for people who want to customize their desktop, and want it to be easy to do so. GNOME is for people who just want something that works, but it still offers a lot of customization, it’s just not as well-supported (their philosophy is “if theming breaks an app, it’s not our fault”).
KDE doesn’t support full CSS customization on its own, but there are theming engines like Kvantum and QtCurve that address the limitations that arise from this. I’d say it’s on almost equal footing with GNOME in that regard, since both GTK4+libadwaita and Qt6+KF6 are designed for color scheme customization, but require various workarounds and obscure settings for anything more than that. If anything the workarounds are easier in KDE.
Similarly, KDE supports layout customization through widgets and graphical menus. GNOME also supports layout customization, but through extensions instead.
And then you can do all of the above and more if you use a window manager, or an LXDE/LXQt-style desktop that lets you disable or replace all its components in settings - just mix and match components like panels, file managers, display managers, polkit agents, etc. You can basically build your own DE that way, and it doesn’t get much more customizable than that. But maybe you don’t want to spend your time choosing every component of your custom DE. That’s what something like KDE is for.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Star Trek@lemmy.zip•What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 02/19/25English2·3 months agoIf you don’t like crude humor or in-jokes it is not for you. If you love those things, it is the best Star Trek podcast out there. There’s also the companion series Greatest Trek which covers the new shows.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Star Trek@lemmy.zip•What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 02/19/25English3·3 months agoENT 2x10 Vanishing Point
ENT 2x11 Precious Cargo
ENT 2x12 The Catwalk
ENT 2x13 DawnTrying to catch up with The Greatest Generation.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Worst examples of TreknobabbleEnglish18·9 months ago“I can’t stop the heterocyclic declination!” (TNG: “Samaritan Snare”)
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Firefox@lemmy.world•Google is now legally a monopoly. Will Mozilla now stop taking their hush money?English5·10 months agoI hope whatever remedies the court decides upon to weaken Google’s monopoly end up helping Firefox, otherwise it’s just making Google a bigger monopoly. But this case was mostly about search, and I don’t really trust the Justice Department or the courts to be this keenly aware of the state of web browsers.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•What still requires stock Android and has no alternative way to access?English0·10 months agoYeah, only thing I can think of is the few banking apps that don’t have web versions.
I was lucky enough to have all my banking and 2FA apps work perfectly on GrapheneOS. The only app that gave me a significant amount of trouble was iClicker, which my school uses for attendance. That was fixed by enabling Google Play location services, and there was a (fairly expensive) alternative anyway.
I did have to buy a new phone to use Graphene, because I got my previous one as part of a carrier’s cell plan, and it had a locked BIOS. Though I think the purchase was worth it, and just moving my SIM card from one device to another was enough to get it working.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•A Space and Time Traveler's Guide to Star TrekEnglish3·10 months ago“Move Along Home” would work so much better as a Doctor Who episode. Has a kind of absurdity that is perfect for Who, but stands out in a bad way in Trek.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Linux@sopuli.xyz•GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"English6·10 months agoNiccolo Ve did a pretty comprehensive summary of all his problems recently: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=mhqeuO9RKKk
He’s been on a right-wing, transphobic, anti-woke downward spiral for years now.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteOPto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux "Anti"-Piracy ScreenEnglish1·10 months agoof course not!
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024English5·10 months agoHandbrake will probably still work if you compile it from source, but it seems like upstream isn’t paying much attention to libdvdcss support.
The version in Debian’s repo still works for me, anyway.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteOPto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux "Anti"-Piracy ScreenEnglish81·10 months agoYeah, it’s fake, and as other commenters have pointed out, it’s also inaccurate to how the GPLv2 works. It was not meant to convince anyone.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteOPto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux "Anti"-Piracy ScreenEnglish121·10 months agoI came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)
Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteOPto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux "Anti"-Piracy ScreenEnglish762·10 months agoTons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it’s just that only one has the term “Tivoization” named after it.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Firefox@lemmy.world•Privacy-Preserving Attribution | Firefox HelpEnglish16·11 months agoThis article seems to assume that advertisers don’t want our identifying information, and are clamoring for an alternative to tracking that lets them measure ad performance anonymously, which is just not true. Being able to uniquely identify users and target them is a feature, and getting more data points from the browser just helps add to their profiles.
f00f/eris@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•It is possible to commit no mistakes and still loseEnglish13·11 months agoSaru and Kelvin Spock would probably get along really well. Everyone else would be having heated arguments that I think would be amazing to witness, if not take part in.
I think I’d most like to sit between Mariner and Pike, though.
I’m not averse to trying new foods, but I have strong aversions to certain foods that I have tried. If I have a bad experience with one food, I will not be willing to try it again for a very long time, possibly ever. And if I have a good experience with one food, and it is easily available to me, it will remain in regular rotation for a very long time.
Just as long as it isn’t a .rar.