Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose
Upgrading my laptop to the new Ubuntu release broke the audio, but that isn't really news - the sound system in many ASUS laptops, specifically the ALC294 chip in these machines tends to be a real pain to get working. This guide is mainly for myself, but I figured other people might appreciate it. These […]
Ubuntu 22.04 runs on Steam Deck fairly well right off the USB. Booting from the drive and getting to a desktop is no big deal, and the "Try Ubuntu" desktop mode starts up and runs. The things that seem to work were: The graphics stack - video is accelerated properly, and the GPU seems active. […]
gamers, talking to Ubuntu devs: we want better performance and access to bleeding-edge drivers Ubuntu devs: snaps? gamers: no, performance and drivers Ubuntu devs: snaps! gamers: bye
And to think part of the reason I've been a Firefox user for so long was because it and Ubuntu gave me a way to escape Microsoft. So so so disappointed. Mozilla is currently experimenting with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine for Firefox, according to a report by Ghacks. A new SUMO search Source: Mozilla […]
Oh Firefox. Oh, my sweet summer child, this will probably kill you. My anger is palpable and my disappointment immeasurable. Snaps suck. They are slow to load, hard to manage, have exactly zero GUI apps for handling them, and to top it off, the second keystroke in every snap I've ever tried to use gets […]
If you've tried to send out encrypted email in Evolution, you might've run into trouble getting it to use the right GPG key, or had problems where GPG can't find or rejects the trust on the key. There's an easy but not obvious way to get around these problems! Evolution will use the GPG certificate […]
TL;DR version of my thoughts: With open source, you own the means of production, which may entail more work but you are NEVER left out in the cold when the company decides you're not profitable anymore. So I got super annoyed by this dude when he started comparing MSDN to the supposedly nonexistent documentation for […]
So, if you're wondering if Shenmue III runs on Linux, the answer is yes. I see. Installation is about as basic as it gets: fire up Lutris, pick the Epic Games Store installer, install and run that, then install and run Shenmue 3 from the launcher. That's it. That's all. It just works. Likely on […]
Not only does it screw up debugging, it also makes it nearly impossible to play games that have some startup time associated with them. EDIT: It's getting fixed. Grr. Source: """ is not responding" dialog caused shell to become unresponsive (#1607) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab
Built a version of Birdie (which is premade for another Debian-based distro) for Ubuntu, that doesn't have a messed up Header bar.