This has been a long time coming and needed. If you don't know what HDR is modern TVs and monitors are equipped with this to increase the range of colors that can be displayed. GNOME has been sorely lacking on this feature as Plasma has at least been integrating it in bits and pieces.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-HDR
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-HDR
Phoronix
GNOME 48 Lands HDR Support Bits At The Last Minute
On Saturday was the GNOME 48 feature freeze and landing during the final moments of this feature development period was new High Dynamic Range (HDR) code for Mutter and the toggling within the GNOME Control Center.
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Something we often don't think about. Most of our use cases will just involve ext4 for our filesystem but when should you use something else?
https://www.howtogeek.com/filesystems-on-linux-when-should-you-not-use-ext4/
https://www.howtogeek.com/filesystems-on-linux-when-should-you-not-use-ext4/
How-To Geek
Filesystems on Linux: When Should You Not Use Ext4?
Ext4 is essentially the default filesystem on most distros, but is it always the right choice?
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If you have problems seeing your screen icons due to vision issues consider a dock or adjusting your fractional scaling.
https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-docks-to-make-your-desktop-beautiful/
https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-docks-to-make-your-desktop-beautiful/
UbuntuPIT
10+ Best Linux Docks To Make Your Desktop Beautiful
If you are looking for the best Linux docks to get an eye-watering desktop, this article will guide you through the finest available docks.
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If you use VLC player and encounter issues with "seek bar", "seeking with FF" or using the "Chapter buttons" causing VLC to Crash. disable "Hardware-accelerated decoding". Close and relaunch VLC and you should now be able to "seek" again. There is a bug that has not been worked around in the latest Intel video codecs. HTH
MrDeploarable
MrDeploarable
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On Linux we generally smirk at these complaints as one of the things we have is the power of choice. The freedom to choose how our system looks and functions is entirely up to us.
https://www.xda-developers.com/design-flaws-windows-11-microsoft-still-hasnt-fixed/
https://www.xda-developers.com/design-flaws-windows-11-microsoft-still-hasnt-fixed/
XDA
7 design flaws in Windows 11 Microsoft still hasn't fixed
What is Microsoft waiting for with these?
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if you are looking for a much simpler self hosted cloud experience than Nextcloud.
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-casaos/
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-casaos/
Pi My Life Up
Installing and Running CasaOS on a Raspberry Pi - Pi My Life Up
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install CasaOS on to your Raspberry Pi. CasaOS makes it even easier to turn your Pi into a homelab.
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This is a positive trend. Games aren't the only thing that are produced as shovelware many phone apps are like this too.
What's really at play behind 'early access' is a lack of a proper production budget that floods a market with substandard products. Knock offs of popular apps and games just for the purposes of fleecing uninformed consumers. Valve called it early access, in app stores on phones we have no such warning.
https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-new-update-wasting-money-dead-early-access-games/
What's really at play behind 'early access' is a lack of a proper production budget that floods a market with substandard products. Knock offs of popular apps and games just for the purposes of fleecing uninformed consumers. Valve called it early access, in app stores on phones we have no such warning.
https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-new-update-wasting-money-dead-early-access-games/
XDA
Steam's new update will stop you wasting money on dead Early Access games
Look before you leap.
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Sometimes you have to use what you have to use. For school and work people are often forced to use Windows. When the choice is yours there is a better one.
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-helped-me-avoid-spending-money-on-a-school-chromebook/
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-helped-me-avoid-spending-money-on-a-school-chromebook/
How-To Geek
How Linux Helped Me Avoid Spending Money on a School Chromebook
Money saved is money earned. Wait, does that mean my kid made me money?
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Forwarded from Hacker News
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Always a good tip to preserve battery life.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-apps-draining-android-phone-battery/
https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-apps-draining-android-phone-battery/
Make Tech Easier
How to Find and Stop Apps from Draining Your Android Phone's Battery - Make Tech Easier
Do you often wonder, "what is draining my Android battery?" We have the most accurate answers to prevent battery drain in this updated guide.
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For those who might have been aware of the resignation. Another steps up to continue working for Linux Kernel maintenance on Apple Silicon.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-New-Co-Maintainer
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-New-Co-Maintainer
Phoronix
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel
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Nope you are not Arch Linux users if you use Windows WSL.
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-wsl-image/
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-wsl-image/
It's FOSS
Windows Users Will Soon be Able to Say “I use Arch, BTW”
After much discussion, an Arch Linux WSL image is finally on the way.
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