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thehatfox@lemmy.worldOPto Apple@lemmy.world•Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software designEnglish3·6 days agoI think I remember running that on a Live CD that came with a Linux magazine.
Bloody hell I’m old.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Looking for the Best KDE Distro – Fast, Stable, and Feature-RichEnglish3·10 days agoI would also recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m usually a Debian/Debian-based person but I’ve been running Tumbleweed on my desktop for a few years now and it’s been great.
It has a few peculiarities like any distro but it’s been very stable, with few issues even with things like Nvidia drivers. Docs and community seem good too.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•3D Printing A Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You WantEnglish14·10 days agoThe owner’s phone:
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Mastodon@lemmy.world•Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organizationEnglish18·1 month agoThe problem with microblogging platforms is they revolve around following users and not topics.
Mastodon has tried to change that by encouraging following hashtags but with limited success.
They are great platforms for people who are already (internet) famous and want a soapbox. But for ordinary folk tooting or tweeting or whatever else it’s called is just shouting into the void. There’s no discussion because nobody ever sees what others post.
I like Mastodon but it seems it can’t escape the inherent problems of the platform model itself.
These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.world•Anyone here rocking the Linux Format magazines?English7·2 months agoI used to read them, they often had good in depth tutorials. The Format branding has been going for a long time, I can remember reading Amiga Format.
There were a few other Linux magazines as well, Linux User, Linux Magazine, Linux Voice. I think there’s still a Raspberry Pi magazine as well which covers a lot of Linux stuff.
There are 4 bay units that would fit on a 10” inch shelf. I’ve seen some DIY projects too.
Using SFF/mini PCs is also popular, there are models that can take multiple SATA/NVMe drives
There are few if any 10” UPS units available anyway so weight is less of a worry. It’s one of the biggest weaknesses of the 10” system currently.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's ConsciousEnglish16·2 months agoIn the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 saysEnglish11·2 months agoLabour chose to take this particular stance today. There are many other approaches they could have taken, they could have also tried to dodge the matter and kick they can down the road, but instead “trans women are not women” is what they have chosen to actively embrace.
(Further) pandering to the transphobic lobby is not necessary, and what’s been said today is far beyond pandering.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldOPto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson saysEnglish31·2 months agoEven by the low standards I had for Labour’s approach, this is depressing.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto UK Politics@feddit.uk•UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updatesEnglish11·2 months agoAlready happening sadly, and not by accident either. It’s not just about rolling back trans rights, it’s about dragging us back to narrow and restrictive ideas of sex and gender in general.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen?English7·2 months agoBut Pokemon was a show about a fantasy world of made up animals with magic powers. 4Kids felt kids would be able to grasp that, but not rice balls.
Kids could accept a weird yellow mouse that could shoot lightning bolts, they would have accepted some weird food they hadn’t heard of either.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study showsEnglish48·2 months agoThe platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.
If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldto Casual UK@feddit.uk•UK weather: Temperatures set to reach 22C on Friday amid wildfire warningsEnglish6·2 months agoNice to see the sun I suppose but unfortunately for me it also comes with triggering my pollen allergies.
My parents got a fridge freezer via Facebook, from a house that was moving and didn’t want to transport it. Might be worth looking at local marketplace groups.
My local recycling centre has a resale and reuse area, I think a lot of local councils have something like that set up.
There was a big scandal at secondary school when it was exposed that a group of school staff and teachers had been stealing school funds. They had some scheme going involving fake invoices for school supplies and building maintenance that never existed.
Quite a few heads rolled for that, even the headmaster left soon after despite not being known to be involved.
It’s a feature that’s often been requested, but hasn’t appeared yet. The best option out of the box is creating non-Administrator users and then creating custom dashboards and panes per user with only the controls they need.
But that doesn’t stop a user from poking around still, because they can still access all devices and entities through features like the Logbook - which is always accessible because sidebar items can’t be controller per user.
There are some HACS bits that might be able to lock things down a bit further, like Kiosk and Guest modes.
I’ve heard some people get round this by setting up inebriations with Apple/Google/Amazon ecosystem, only exposing the desired entities/devices, and then giving others access to those and keeping them out of Home Assistant altogether.
It’s a feature set I wish they would add/expand, I’m sure anyone with a home office and mischievous children would agree.
thehatfox@lemmy.worldOPto homeassistant@lemmy.world•Home Assistant 2025.4 Time to continue the dashboards!English20·2 months agoIt’s something I often hear complaints about. Several of the Home Assistant users I know love the way it integrates all their smart devices together, but say they find making good dashboards difficult.
Improvements like proper drag and drop and better auto categorisation and population will go a long way to help them. The old default dashboard that just lumped everything in one screen isn’t a great way to get started.
The new windowing system looks like a big improvement.