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- Wed May 01, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Ubuntu 24.04 released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 232
Re: Ubuntu 24.04 released
This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 63
Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: The weather has been crazy
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 167722
Re: The weather has been crazy
We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
- Replies: 3
- Views: 126
Re: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Beware of Phone Scams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 123
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Beware of Phone Scams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 123
Re: Beware of Phone Scams
Cue Bob Marley!
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Kubuntu powered by Trinity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 152
Re: Kubuntu powered by Trinity
There's Q4OS version of 22.04 Quark + Trinity https://sourceforge.net/projects/quark- ... o/download
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: When did the UK go metric?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 131
Re: When did the UK go metric?
It's not so much a process of conversion as gradual slide. For example our road distances are in miles, but the BBC have decided that for broadcast purposes we use metres/kilometres as well. We buy fuel in litres but still use mpg (miles per gallon) as a measure of fuel efficiency - well lets face i...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Wubuntu Windows Ubuntu OS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 602
Re: Wubuntu Windows Ubuntu OS
With October 25 looming I can see that they're possibly trying to tap in to the potentially huge market of folks who would like to get off the M$ adver-go-round and keep using their perfectly good hardware for a few more years. I would not be surprised to see other attempts in the coming months. Tro...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Wubuntu Windows Ubuntu OS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 602
Re: Wubuntu Windows Ubuntu OS
Well, I had a look and it was quite an experience. Had a look at the Cinnamon/W10 version as these days I'm running Mint LMDE6. To my mind Wubuntu is a waste of time, energy and effort. Oh and the font rendering sucks big time. That may be because the fonts are not actually defined....but it was not...