Hopefully things will work with Wayland at that point.

I used XFCE many years because there were bugs and limitations in KDE I couldn’t live with.
Now I’ve used KDE for about 2 years without issues, and they pull this stupid stunt!
I still have XFCE installed, and when I switched to that my games worked fine again. Then when I wanted to switch back to KDE/X11 I couldn’t. It was friggin removed as an option after the latest upgrade, despite I specifically used KDE/X11 instead of Wayland because of a KDE/Wayland limitation that you can’t disable compositing.
I do use compositing, but I like to have the option to disable it if I need to. And it was when I noticed I couldn’t disable compositing, I switched to XFCE to see if that worked.
So long story short, I had to install a kde-x11-session package to be able to switch to it? WTF??
I must admit this incident has made me think of switching to another distro that respect user settings more.

PS:
My short trip to XFCE was quite nice, they have refined the design some since last I used it. But damned I’ll have to port all my hotkeys again, I used top have them in xbindkeys, but I moved them to native KDE to be compatible with both X11 and Wayland. 🙄

Not originally no, at least not here in Denmark in the mid 80’s. Nobody called them floppy among the people and dealers I knew, and I knew a lot of people who were computer enthusiasts. I also knew several dealers, since we used more than a thousand diskettes per month, to distribute software. I think the bad habit of using wrong terms didn’t really happen until the computer illiterate began to use computers too, either for work or for early internet.
People who called them floppy came later, and were mostly people that might as well have called them thingies.

OK thanks. 👍

I don’t get it? Haven’t these assets been frozen for years now?
What difference does this make?

I don’t think cat calling is by old men, on the contrary, it’s overwhelmingly young men or boys.

The black and orange are 8" and 5.25" floppy disks. The blue one is a 3.5" diskette. There was also a 3" diskette that was widely used for instance by Amstrad. It was very similar to 3.5" with the built in shutter for protection of the disk.

But the official name for 3½ inch was “Micro diskette” ergo **diskette" was a short form adopted, and calling it floppy is IMO technically wrong.

There were several differences between a floppy and a diskette, that made the diskette superior in practical use, as mentioned the shutter made the diskette easier to handle, as it didn’t need to be taken in and out of sleeves when used, it was easier to transport in for instance a school bag, because of the more sturdy harder plastic, and the metal shutter is way more solit than the paper sleeve used for floppies. 3 and 3½" also had a tab for enabling write protection and removing it again indefinitely, unlike the clumsy taping over the notch on a 5.25" floppy.

There is no way 3" and 3.5" are called floppy, their correct name is diskette.
Obviously they are not hard disks, that’s even worse than calling them floppies.

But many people already back when they were at their height, misnamed diskettes as floppies, so the more accurate naming scheme never really stuck, and today diskette is called a floppy even on Wikipedia. 🤡

Similarly a drive for 3" and 3,5 inch diskettes is called a diskette drive not a floppy drive, which obviously is for floppies.

BATMAN

It would be nice if we could switch MESA version as easy as we can switch the kernel.

IDK, maybe it’s downvoted because it’s not an article?

Rule 6: All posts must be news articles.

Maybe it’s just my system, but I only see video, and no article.

IDK, maybe it’s downvoted because it’s not an article?

Ruole 6: All posts must be news articles.

to some disappointment is still using Mesa 25.1 series graphics drivers

Good call IMO, my distro just upgraded to MESA 25.3, and I’ve had problems with black screens in games since that. I even tried switching to older kernels and since it’s apparently not the kernel, my guess is on the MESA driver.

PS:
I use a Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and it has worked fine for years before the upgrade.
I checked the cabling first, and that the card was firmly socketed, but they are fine, and it clearly happened after the kernel/MESA upgrade??? It doesn’t happen in desktop, only in games.

EDIT!!!
Turns out it was KDE/Wayland that caused the problem, for some reason the upgrade moved me from X11 to Wayland, and I had to install X11-session for KDE, after switching to that it works fine again.
Sad that Wayland which is supposed to be the better supported option now fails where X11 is still going strong.

They also should have tested for that

Hey safety standards totally undermine profits, why do you hate America? 😋

OK that’s new to me, I have to admit I haven’t been looking at it for years, I do not feel comfortable following Microsoft specifications, as Microsoft has a long h9istory of fucking things up for others on purpose, and their safety record is probably among the worst in the industry.

I 100% agree, but some would consider that a matter of ideology.
The other point about dependency on USA when they are acting with hostility is more pragmatic.

99% of people don’t understand all the reason why open source is better for public services, except if we can say it’s cheaper. That’s the one point they understand, and the one point Microsoft has been attacking most with their propaganda against open source.

This is great, But using Microsoft Windows should be illegal for public services in EU.
We can no longer allow ourselves to depend on American IT infrastructure.

Only as long as Microsoft allow it, and only because a lot of work was put into that shit. The first couple of years it was very flaky.

There are so many graphs where things start to decline under Ronald Regan.

Personally I see the victory of Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter as the turning point, but you make good points about it already happening under Nixon. But at least Nixon was removed for Water Gate, while Reagan came out of the Iran Contra affair completely unscathed.
As I see it, Jimmy Carter may have been the best president USA ever had, he had the right foresight about sustainability symbolized by the solar panels he put up on the White House, and he warned about consumerism, and was 100% a decent human being.
When USA elected Ronald Reagan instead, they abandoned all those values, very much like they did when electing Trump. An obvious malignant narcissists, the most dangerous personal disorder that exist!

And yes the media is a huge part of the problem too, that was already extremely obvious under Bush, where in the beginning there were opposition to a war in Iraq based on false intelligence, that was decidedly contrary to what the UN observers reported. But the media turned 100% one sided to support it, and even questioning it became anti American!
American news media are generally pretty bad, an example of that was when John Stewart on his comedy show provided more accurate news than the actual news! Also like him or not, the firing of Keith Olbermann was a 100% political decision, and American media has systematically weeded out news sources they consider too anti Republican.

Where USA is now is a very sad turn to where we were headed in the 70’s. We do have a bit of the same problem in EU, but nearly as bad, but abandoning traditional values do happen under the guise of pragmatism. Even here in Social Democratic Denmark, the protection of the week is not nearly as strong as it used to be.

OK then make traditional factory jobs pay well enough to own a house and see your children through college again.
A factory worker makes less today than they did in the 50’s!!! Because the 1% has managed to grab all the money in their infinite greed. The money grab of the rich is the biggest heist in the history of mankind.

Also not every billionaire needs to flaunt with how enormously ignorant they are on basic issues of society.
The rich need to be taxed on their fortune. Nobody needs to be as rich as the 1%.

I have always followed USA closely, both regarding culture business and politics. In the 70’s as a child/teen, I really admired USA and everything looked so promising. American heroes were the best heroes back then.

It’s very disappointing to me that it hasn’t turned out better, all the good ideals used to be there, and USA has so much culture.
Europeans that claim USA doesn’t have culture, seem to forget that USA is the biggest exporter by far of cultural content.

I thought that when Bush was elected the second time, it would be a lesson to the American population, so I kind of gave up hope for USA already first time Trump was elected, because he was so obviously way way worse than Bush. Of course Americans don’t have the luxury of just giving up, without having to live with the consequences and without hope.

But people like Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel and Bezos and of Course Trump need to go, and there needs to be a limit to how much money and power an individual or a family like can have, like how the Koch Brothers ruined so much. Also there must be a limit to how much power a single company can have. At least that’s my opinion.