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Today I discovered Garuda's BTRFS assistant and it's a total game changer. (github.com)

Was looking at how to set up snapper on Fedora 39 and came across the ever knowledgable Stephens tech talks video. It does balance, setting up snapper, sub-volume management in a really cool GUI tool....

Shadow Cast: GPU accelerated screen and audio recording for Linux (github.com)

I created Shadow Cast after becoming disillusioned with the lack of simple, performant display recording utilities for X11. All feedback welcome.

The Paperweight Dilemma: Original Pinephone might lose future kernel updates if devs can't pay down tech debt (blog.mobian.org)

I think I’m reading this blogpost correctly: Mobian devs working on maintaining Linux kernel support for Pinephone painted themselves into a corner with tech debt, and may not be able to continue porting new kernel updates. Pinephone Pro runs a different chipset with wider community support, so it’s not affected....

In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)

COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....

Fedora 40 Will Enable Systemd Service Security Hardening (fedoraproject.org)

Summary...

Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube! (framablog.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9483559...

Very low resources but reliable Wayland Desktop? (www.omglinux.com)

When recommending people Linux Desktops for very low hardware in the past it was always stuff luke Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppylinux (and way more I know) etc....

Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland (www.theregister.com)

We met project lead David “Fossfreedom” Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it’s caused by Wayland....

Minimal, debloated, configured Windows 11 QEMU image for software support (cloud.uol.de)

Hey people!...

Linux Audio Nerds, Take Notice — The Fedora Audio Creation SIG is being revived (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

If you use Linux to edit audio, mix songs and work with audio in general, including having trouble making certain audio hardware work, it’s your chance to join a community effort to make Linux audio creation better and more accesible....

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid will be released "very soon" (discord.com)

Original message from the Vanilla OS Discord announcment, from @mirkob1:...

Binder (Android's core IPC) Rust rewrite posted to LKML (lore.kernel.org)

Performance is basically the same (in microbenchmarks), they went as far as preserving the use of red black trees for an apples to apples comparison, but it’s going to improve security as binder runs inside every process....

Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (aus.social)

plan for the now completed port of fish to rust

Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support) (github.com)

"We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop." (floss.social)

Hello Fediverse, We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop. :linux: 📣 Please reach out or boost :boost_love: Thanks! #Linux #tts #accessibility #a11y #GNOME #KDE #FreeSoftware #freedesktop #ml...

How far away is GIMP 3 from GIMP 4? (www.gimp.org)

I tried the Flatpak development release of GIMP 3 and there are already big problems with UI consistency....

This week in KDE: changing the wallpaper from within System Settings (pointieststick.com)

GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. (github.com)

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for gen...

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