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Re:YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:57PM (#46971031)
Even as paying customers we still the product somehow.
There are community servers, official matchmaking was killed off.
Makes sense as they invested billions into Rivian to get access to their software.
Firefox has vertical tabs now, but they are still behind a feature flag I think. Using them for some time now and it's working great.
What was the issue with your setup? TV not in game mode?
The new screen option for the 13" model has a much better webcam.
Re:Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:47PM (#40567364)
The new Cosmic is written from scratch in Rust with the iced GUI library.
Re:Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:44AM (#39861861)
You don't have to run the web interface on the server.

You can use Cockpit Client (from flathub) to connect with SSH.

Re:The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @02:02PM (#39553530)
Dolphin has "selection mode" for a while now. I like that in combination with single click open.

https://pointieststick.com/2022/08/19/this-week-in-kde-dolph...

Re:Fedora 39 Released on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:49PM (#38181078)
Steam fractional scaling should work since their big UI update a few months ago. Try launching Steam with this environment variable: STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:58AM (#38067073)
It's the same. They dropped the "Next" some time ago.
Which compositor are you using?

If it's Gnome, the very recent release 45 has improvements running the cursor in a separate thread.

I personally run KDE and agree that you can feel a difference between the X11 and Wayland session but it's not terrible.

Re:Spotifyd on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:09PM (#34060680)
For Spotify Connect on a headless Pi I can recommend Raspotify:

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

Re:GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:44AM (#34028135)
With GTK you can at least drag the window by grabbing controls in the titlebar.
Re:Linux Boot Partitions on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:57PM (#33461486)
I set a 10 second timeout for systemd-boot so I don't need to button mash to hit the narrow window of the UEFI bootloader.

Another useful feature would be editing kernel parameters for troubleshooting. Not sure if systemd-boot can do that but GRUB can.

Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:06AM (#33284723)
> Do they still restrict nonfree audio/video codecs?

Yes they do. If you don't like to use RPMfusion you could use something like the mpv flatpak from flathub that has all codecs bundled.

The in-app browsers could use a domain whitelist if parental controls are turned on.
Re:Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:04PM (#30762020)
What forces you to use Wayland? Just curious because usually people are forced to stay on X.
There is a setting to always draw on top somewhere in the menubar. Saved me a couple of times.
> It's a pain to use when working with multiple (source independent) projects simultaneously. E.g. a library project and the main project. Eclipse lets you open anything you want to in the same window and presents them in the same explorer view.

That's a common confusion about IntelliJ.

Eclipse Workspace -> IntelliJ Project

Eclipse Project -> IntelliJ Module

In IntelliJ create an empty Project and import all your Maven or Gradle projects as Modules. Everything in one window :)

Re:Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04 on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:06PM (#22975220)
JetBrains has their own tool called 'Toolbox' to install and update their software (and Android Studio). With Toolbox you are in control when and what to update and you can install multiple versions at the same time.

It's distributed as AppImage for Linux. Very much recommended.

Re:Firefox Replay on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:49PM (#21659423)
You can get every of those devices with Linux support with a bit of research before buying. It's not the fault of Linux if the manufacturer of your hardware doesn't care about the platform.
Re:Electron 7.0 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:30PM (#21348343)
The core of Qt is licensed under LGPL which means you can write and ship proprietary software with it. You just need to dynamically link and provide sources for the Qt libs if a user requests it.