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> Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today). Why not using Firefox?

The main difference is not in the OS itself, but in the services around. /e/ wants to provide a private set of services such as e-mail, files, etc.: https://e.foundation/e-solution…

China is not a communist country, it's a “communist with Chinese values” country. I don't know what it means, but every time the topic is brought on the table, this is the official…

Thanks! I'll check this out.

I often see comments about how libre and open source applications are ugly or are poorly designed (from a human interaction perspective). What would you (or the design team in your…

I've bought an AMD Radeon RX580 on my desktop for gaming, and it's been working great so far with the default open source drivers that come with Ubuntu (18.04 onwards). Didn't have…

I remember reading this article back when it came out, and it made me think a lot about software licenses. I encourage everyone here to invest some time to read the different libre…

Thanks for pointing this out! I'm currently using a feed reader installed on my web server so that I can access and sync my feeds between all my devices (home computer, work comput…

Thanks for the answer! I've seen this advice before. Keep a streak and practice a little every day.

So, let say you're a developer, but also a pianist, 3D artist, polyglot, rock climber, writer, video maker, dad/mum. (pick a few) How do you find the time to develop all of these s…

I didn't know this! The Blender team is working on Blender 2.8 which will bring a lot of new features, including a lot of UI changes. There was an article about some of these chang…

Not only that, but in China, tech companies are blatantly sexist: http://laorencha.blogspot.com/2018/04/in-china-tech-companie...

Whooo... that 4kb is amazing! Very dark, very different from the usual technical performances, especially in that category! Thanks for sharing!

French newspapers Mediapart and Canard PC have teamed up and released a bunch of articles about the video game industry and its toxic practices. The articles are available online […

> The Dell power connector is a barrel style connector with an LED embedded in it. The LED appears to serve no useful purpose. It’s always on, whether connected or not and doesn’t …

Or just "Reader View" (Ctrl+Alt+R) in Firefox.

Well since January 1st, they cannot give you a plastic bag for free anymore. That's already a push in the good direction!

Yeah but the problem is that in Taiwan, a very popular drink is 珍珠奶茶, bubble milk tea... And you cannot sip the bubbles without a straw!

Wut?! No, they ask you to pay 5% more when you want to pay by card: it's the Visa/Mastercard fees.

I like to ride my bike to work because it's much faster than taking the bus (20 minutes versus 40+ minutes) . However, when it rains, I take the bus. And it rains quite often where…

> it seems control-z does nothing Normally v2.4.0 improves this. As stated in their release notes: “Add undo support for masks and more intelligent grouping of undo steps”. Basical…

I just assumed it was a work in progress... the rest of the pages seems finished, maybe they didn't put the final version of the index page online :)

Gimp and Darktable are very different beasts. Darktable is tailored to work on RAW pictures coming directly, unprocessed from your camera. Gimp cannot do that and only works on com…