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I'm still sad that Linux dropped support for i486 and early-i586 CPUs. And more disappointed that distributions especially Debian the "universal operating system" has dropped suppo…

> the project lead, Rudra B. Rudra, has had less time to dedicate to the work recently. As a result, the team could not ship a stable 25.10 release this October. That may not be th…

I think this is premature and a big mistake for Linux. The costs of distros and the kernel steadily dropping older x86 support over the last few years never causes an outcry but it…

Debian's tagline is the "universal operating system". It's a distribution with active ports on a very large number of architectures [1], even incredibly obscure ones. The goal of u…

Gaol is an archaic spelling of jail, that retains the same pronunciation and meaning as jail :)

Highlighting the very popular app enabled by this, KOReader: https://koreader.rocks/ https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Oh finally! I have a Kindle Scribe, and it's really amazing hardware, but it's unusable for reading websites like Wikipedia and sending links to it using the Amazon bookmarklet is …

The entirety of SoMa and Mission Bay are liquefaction zones [1], expected to face major damage during the next major earthquake. I wonder if "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" really is go…

SpaceX and T-Mobile are starting a trial in late-2023 to use unmodified handsets for text (and later, voice and data) with the Starlink V2 network to remove cell coverage dead-zone…

Yes, Patreon's WYSIWYG editor is incredibly buggy. But far worse is Patreon's messaging platform. Write a long message, then accidentally have a window resize event occur and lose …

A much better website is https://alternativeto.net Really great crowd-sourced recommendations with useful reviews. Though while AlternativeTo allows filtering by open-source status…

I'd argue Joe Manchin (Democratic Senator of West Virginia) has single-handedly changed an eye-watering $3.5 trillion dollar spending bill into what appears to be a slightly less e…

Two houses helps prevent tyranny of the majority. Consider the United States. Each state gets 2 senators no matter what, but the proportion of House of Representatives seats each s…

What new features and improvements would you like to see added to Rescuezilla?

Weblate allows anonymous translation suggestions (to accept a suggestion you have to be logged in though). I'm not associated, I just use it for a personal project and find it grea…

For translation, using a Weblate instance makes a lot more sense over using Google Sheets https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate hosted.weblate.org is only free for open-source proj…

Why do you think Intel will succeed in selling leading edge fab services to fabless companies when GlobalFoundries (the chip making business of AMD) was unable to compete? To me, i…

The new Sourceforge team has generally done a great job. Here is a review that might help some people. Pros: For general project discussion, Sourceforge's traditional discussion fo…

I found this article from 2 years a great read: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...

The author of i3 Windows Manager has a series of interesting blog posts about his pain points with Debian project. [1] Well worth reading the blog series. He also has a research di…

Ubuntu at least does it in alphabetical order of the first letter of the codename. Eg, the release after Ubuntu 20.04 Focal was Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy. This means that hearing the Ubu…

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