What’s the vibe in Switzerland about the upcoming quarter final against England?

That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

I saw a youtuber once reviewing the distro that the Russian military uses. It had some crusty retro desktop environment iirc.

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.

Just enjoy buddy.

I actually think that it wouldn’t take too many more people using GIMP for the name of the program to be considered the primary meaning of the word in English.

No worries :) It’s a big release and is gonna really bring GIMP up to date. I’m super excited about it!

GIMP 3.0 should be out this year. If you’re interested, you can already use some of the new features (like true non-destructive editing) by running the development version.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

OK thanks, will check it out :)

A good kit IMO, in order of priority:

• Cherrytree; nominally for making hierarchical lists but you can basically use it as a wiki for your entire life. You can theme it yourself too, if you think it looks too retro out of the box.
• Syncthing, for keeping files synced between devices without having to use a server.
• Qbittorrent, for getting files you need. Remember to install search plugins.
• KeepassXC. Password manager (local, not on a server, use in combination with Syncthing).
• Convertall, for unit conversions.
• Calibre, for managing an ebook library, converting formats, removing DRM, transferring to ereader etc.
• Rhythmbox, for music library, podcasts, internet radio.
• Shotwell, for photo and video library. Easy to use, supports tags (metadata written to image files).
• GIMP, for image manipulation. It’s extremely versatile, comprehensive and versatile. 3.0 is due out soon and will include non-destructive layer effects. Heavyweight piece of software, so expect a learning curve.
• Ardour, for music production. Heavyweight, steep learning curve.
• Flowblade for video production. Lightweight, easy to learn.
• Libreoffice, desktop publishing.
• Librewolf; privacy-focussed web browser.
• Thunderbird; highly organisable email client.
• Freetube, for watching youtube videos without all the ads and tracking. Local subscriptions and playlists, which you can export to use with Newpipe on Android. Also lets you download video and audio.

If you like the terminal also add:

• ranger; file manager
• newsboat; RSS feed reader
• yt-dl; download videos from youtube and many other sites ;)
• w3m; command line web browser. I like to use this in combination with newsboat.

Enjoy!

They’re not actually intended for washing your hands but rather for ticking the ‘customer hand-washing facility available’ box and providing jobs for interior designers nephews.

You just need to loosen off the grub screw, which is now in a data center in Ireland.

If they were really professional actors then their Kiwi accents would be more convincing.

Yeah DDG was struggling for me too.

Both are great but I find Organic better for searches and has a simpler UI (so a good replacement for google maps) but OsmAnd has more technical features and better for using offline, importing GPS tracks etc. I use Organic maps in the car and OsmAnd for hiking, cycling and sharing GPS coordinates.

I haven’t yet, although I may do in future. If they were hosting my own videos I would certainly be giving them a cut of sponsor revenue though.

Yeah it’s a shame about that. I wonder if a customer the size of the NHS could make it worth releasing Linux versions of the software though. I mean, if I can get an appimage or flatpak of some small open source cross-platform project surely someone like Canon could release one for their new ultrasound stuff. Especially if they’re being offered an order to roll it out across an entire nations health service?

It would be pretty funny if they just ran it using Wine though!

Some of the youtube channels I watch also have channels on Peertube instances or on Odysee. Both options allow me to follow using RSS. I prefer my views to go to these platforms, so hopefully more content creators see these as viable hosts for their videos.

Peertube is also federated, so you can follow channels from your Mastodon account (and I think Lemmy too). You could also spin up your own instance if you like too.