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[KDE Plasma] Blurry Catppuccin
re-publicado de: lemmygrad.ml/post/9464517
- OS: Bazzite 42
- Global Theme: Vapor
- Colors: Catppuccin Macchiato Sky (modified to add transparency)
- Application Style: Darkly
- Plasma Style: Breeze
- Window Decorations: Darkly
- Icons: Fluent Dark
- Cursors: Breeze Dark
- Fonts: Inter and Iosevka
I'm also using Better Blur for the window blur, Panel Colorizer to change the opacity of the Plasma Panel and change some icons on the tray to be monochrome, and I'm using Lucidglyph for better font rendering.
Felt like showing off my new customization comrades!
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Thank you!! I got this Gagarin wallpaper from here.
Also how’re you finding Bazzite? Considering a switch and opinions would be nice /nopressure
Honestly, I absolutely love it. I started my journey with Manjaro, quick moved to Solus where I stayed for a couple of years, then moved to Nobara when Solus was going through a lot of problems, and then finally moved to Bazzite nearly a year and a half ago.
It's the most seamless and stress-free experience I had on Linux so far. At the start it felt a little bit too much to had to learn brew, distrobox and rpm-ostree, but it's way easier than it looks like and made me appreciate it all being in place. It has a few limitations if you need to mess with system files, but that's something I haven't had to do in a while now, so for me it's just nice all around. Almost everything pre-installed is something I use or pretend to use and everything else I needed has been easy enough to find as a Flatpak or AppImage, and in the off chance I need something installed through the package manager, like VSCodium and Zed, since they suck as Flatpaks, I just layered then enabling the terra repos that come disabled and using rpm-ostree. Being able to use TPM-Unlock and Secure Boot is great too.
The only issue I have right now is that my controller doesn't work on games running Proton 10. To make it work I have to use Proton-GE with the PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 %command%
launch option, which is fine, but disables Steam Input and since my controller is a Vader 3 Pro, I lose the ability to remap my 6 extra buttons. I reported this issue, but the devs couldn't reproduce it and so it is still unfixed. There are a couple other people with the same issue but we're too few. The weird thing is that this is not an issue on my laptop running Bazzite, and isn't an issue when I tried another distro like Fedora Kinoite, so it's definitely some issue with Bazzite and my hardware.
Since my system is basically customized to my liking, I really don't want to change distros just for this issue alone, so I'll continue using it.
Yuri Gagarin, crowds, people, USSR, digital art | 2560x1600 Wallpaper - wallhaven.cc
Yuri Gagarin, crowds, people, USSR, digital art | 2560x1600 Wallpaperwallhaven.cc
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Thanks for the extensive answer, it's really appreciated, and for the image too!
I'll keep Bazzite in consideration then, I was looking at Fedora but this might fit better for my needs, hoping my TurtleBeach controller's extra buttons work.
My switch would be the long awaited switch from Windows, so here's (water) to a successful install for myself
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Mahmoud Abu Foul, freed after the ceasefire, lost a leg in 2015, was kidnapped in Kamal Adwan hospital last december, and is now blind after the beatings and lack of medical treatment in israeli jails
https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1978860897201197412
Other mentions of prisoners from today on this community :
- lemmy.ml/post/37589373 ;
- lemmy.world/post/37423140
Others :
- lemmy.world/post/37491370
O&O ShutUp10++: Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
O&O ShutUp10++: Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
With this tool you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 and Windows 11 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far.O&O Software GmbH
why not just ...not use windows?
it's like trying to wear hats as shoes. at some point it just sort of feels stupid.
Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs
No matter what, since these features are cloud-based, your data will need to be processed on a foreign server, not on your device. Microsoft promises it isn’t storing or abusing your prompts or whatever appears on your screen. After the Recall snafi, it’s increasingly difficult to trust the Windows maker. Now that Microsoft wants you to put privacy concerns aside for the sake of its ever-present AI, it’s going to have to offer a more compelling use case than an AI that hums on command.
yeah no thanks
Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs
Thought Copilot was invasive before? Watch it completely take over your PC.Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)
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Gov. Greg Abbott sending state troops to Austin for upcoming 'No Kings' rally
Gov. Greg Abbott sending state troops to Austin for 'No Kings' rally
Abbott previously deployed 5,000 Texas National Guard troops and 2,000 Department of Public Safety officers during similar demonstrations in June.Benjamin Wermund (San Antonio Express-News)
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Democratic Women’s Caucus Marches Through Capitol Demanding Rep.-Elect Grijalva Be Sworn In
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Barones Free Space Cleaner: Pulizia Sicura dello Spazio Libero su Linux
The project looks a bit sketchy being in big part written by some Manus AI agent, I wouldn't trust probably lightly reviewed code to take on the task of data erasure on my device.
It's also unclear from reading the documentation if it treats SSD data erasure correctly as you can't simply overwrite data a bunch of times anymore on most SSDs.
Of course, both things can be checked from reading the source code, I'm just giving a heads up.
Being written in big part by an LLM the question of copyright is also important, can it really be released under any open license as is?
That aside, you might want to post to !scienza@feddit.it for Italian content.
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
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A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.
By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html
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Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629436
by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm
In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.
Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm
In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.
Nate Soares, winner of “most sunshine in book title” and co-author of AI critique If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies suggests “people should not be banking on work in the long term”. Math tutors, cinematographers, brand strategists and journalists are quoted by the New Yorker, freaking out.
The consolation here is that if you are among those panicking about being forced into the permanent underclass, you are already in it. Inherited wealth makes more billionaires than entrepreneurship, the opportunity gap is growing; if your family don’t have the readies to fund your tech startup, media empire or eventual presidential ambitions, it’s probably because they were in a tech-displaced underclass, too.
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push backVan Badham (The Guardian)
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Some threads of my kbin.earth account are missing their bodies
Fedia.io seems to have issues with federated content from kbin.earth. Most of my threads are missing their bodies (examples: fedia.io/m/thighdeology@ani.so…, fedia.io/m/helltaker@sopuli.xy…) but some have one (fedia.io/m/konosuba_megumin@an…).
They are all created the same way (which involves creating an image entry and immediately editing it via the API to add the body), so maybe this might be a cause? A similar issue was with Piefed, which also got hiccups with the fast edit activities.
@jerry@fedia.io
Also pinging @melroy@kbin.melroy.org as it might be a problem of Mbin and not only fedia.io.
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Mike Johnson's Nazi remark gaffe called out by critics—"Freudian slip"
However, when addressing the principles of the Republican Party, Johnson said, "We fought the Nazis. We've defended that evil ideology."
Johnson was addressing an incident where a staffer of Republican Representative Dave Taylor appeared to have a swastika in the background of a video call.
"He says that that's not his, and there's a proper investigation ongoing," Johnson told reporters. "And the congressman did exactly what he should have done and that is report it."
Johnson said he could not comment more until the investigation has been completed, but "obviously, that is not the principles of the Republican Party."
Mike Johnson’s Nazi Remark Gaffe Called Out by Critics—’Freudian Slip’
House Speaker Mike Johnson made the gaffe while trying to defend the Republican Party amid the government shutdown standoff.Peter Aitken (Newsweek)
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US judge blocks Trump's plan to lay off thousands of government workers
A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by unions that the job cuts are illegal.
During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies while the case proceeds.
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
The crisis Alaska has drawn attention to Republican cuts to grants aimed at helping small, mostly Indigenous villages prepare for storms or mitigate disaster risks.
For example, a $20 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to Kipnuk, which was inundated by floodwaters, was terminated by the Trump administration, a move challenged by environmental groups. The grant was intended to protect to protect the boardwalk residents use to get around the community as well as 1,400 feet (430 meters) of river from erosion, according to a federal website that tracks government spending.
The group said no single project was likely to prevent the recent flood. But work to remove abandoned fuel tanks and other material to prevent it from falling into the river might have been feasible during the 2025 construction season.
“What’s happening in Kipnuk shows the real cost of pulling back support that was already promised to front line communities,” said Jill Habig, CEO of Public Rights Project. “These grants were designed to help local governments prepare for and adapt to the growing effects of climate change. When that commitment is broken, it puts people’s safety, homes and futures at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-typhoon-halong-flood-b95379dc3b4700d620abd92f70240c5e
Judge orders Chicago deportation agents to wear body cameras
District Judge Sara Ellis said Thursday she was “startled” by images of law enforcement actions after she issued her initial order last week. “I’m getting images and seeing images on the news, in the paper, reading reports, where at least from what I’m seeing, I’m having serious concerns that my order’s being followed,” she said.
She then ordered agents to wear body-worn cameras during the so-called Operation Midway Blitz, “and they are to be [turned] on,” she told the court.
A lawsuit from press associations, protesters and faith leaders accuses federal officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection of “a pattern of extreme brutality,” with agents “indiscriminately” firing on protesters, including an incident captured on video where officers defending an ICE facility struck the head of a Presbyterian minister with pepper bullets that knocked him to the ground.
Judge orders Chicago deportation agents to wear body cameras after seeing ‘startling’ images of arrests
ICE and Border Patrol must now wear body cameras during ‘Operation Midway Blitz’Alex Woodward (The Independent)
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What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?
I'm talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something. A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes, or someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.
I'm working on a Windows - > Linux guide targeting people like this and I want to make sure it can be understood by just about anybody. A problem that I've noticed is that most guides trying to do something like this seem to operate under the assumption that the viewer already knows what Linux is and has already made up their mind about switching, or that they're already pretty computer savvy. This guide won't be that, I'm writing a guide and keeping my parents in mind the whole time.
Because of this there's some things I probably won't talk about. Do these people really need to know that it's actually GNU+Linux? No, I don't think so. Should I explain how to install, use and configure hyprland, or compile a custom gaming kernel? I dont think that's really necessary. You get what I'm saying? I don't want to over complicate this and scare people off.
That being said I also want to make sure that I'm not over simplifying by skipping on key things they should know. So what are some key concepts or things that you think even the most basic of Linux users should understand? Bonus points if you can provide a solid entry level explanation of it too.
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everything is a file lol, unlike on Windows where a lot of things are GUI based:
- Want to change your grub font size? Heres a file.
- Your python gives dependencies errors? Well, because the libraries (aka files) are in a different directory.
- want to change your password and username? Heres a file to change
.....so on and so forth
On Linux you have a lot of power, can use sudo to make changes to a file. If you know what youre doing, great. If you dont, system can break. Even without sudo, a misplace / mistype of files in the /home directory can cause weird stuff.
So TLDR is: be careful when make changes to files on Linux. Dont listen to stranger on forum who gives out command to paste and run. Do your research what the command does.
Your keyboard, and every other USB device? That's a file.
Random number? this file here
Ned some Zeroes? That's this file
(nsfd)
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The best advice is don't be an autistic retard. Learn pragmatically by experience. Take your time and have fun. Don't do (or not do) something just to fit in with losers on the internet.
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Dismantling the Anti-AI Bubble Case
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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On World Food Day, Israel continues to restrict aid into Gaza
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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push backVan Badham (The Guardian)
Analysis: ‘America First’ is becoming ‘Trump First’ as the president eyes global power
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/trump-argentina-milei-israel-gaza-ukraine-putin-analysis
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Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown
Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown
Homes have been raided over the use of illegal streaming using 'dodgy' Amazon Fire TV sticks, including London, Kent, Sussex and Norfolk.Jasper King (Metro)
US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say
“According to maritime law, if you see a boat, you are supposed to stop the boat and intercept it, not just blow it up. That’s our Trinidadian maritime law and I think every fisherman and every human knows that,” she said.
Burnley said her son was planning to return to Trinidad and Tobago after spending three months with family in Venezuela, just 6.8 miles (11km) away.
Local media reported another Trinidadian victim from Las Cuevas, known as Samaroo to locals.
US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say
The Trinidadians were believed to be on a boat Donald Trump alleged was carrying drugs from Venezuela to the USGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
We compiled and reviewed every case we could find of agents holding citizens against their will, whether during immigration raids or protests. While the tally is almost certainly incomplete, we found more than 170 such incidents during the first nine months of President Donald Trump’s second administration.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
Immigration agents do have authority to detain Americans in limited circumstances. Agents can hold people whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.
Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.ProPublica
User identity and Activitypub
Re: User identity and Activitypub
phi maybe this is a social layer problem rather than a technical problem.
Your issue means a lot in a world where we have amateur hobbyists setting up social network servers and allowing the general public to join. Those hobbyists get overwhelmed or bored after a while, or they do a bad job and your server gets defederated.
In this case, it makes a lot of sense to move from one server to another. But this is not the only way we could organize the Fediverse.
Email isn't like that. You (probably?) don't use an email address from a server you found on a list on joinemail.org. You probably, instead, have an email address from your employer or university, and maybe a personal one from a well-known and reliable cloud service. If you're very clever, you may use your own domain for email, and share it with your household or family.
In those cases, you rarely change email addresses. We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs. And yet we have a lot of email going around, even after 50 years.
I think we should be putting our efforts into getting Fediverse services from organizations we have a lot of affinity with, like employers or universities or the city you live in or the post office.
Another option is using the extremely portable identity system we already have -- domain names. It should be a lot easier to bring your own domain name to a Fediverse server, and to move your data between servers by backing up and restoring and then repointing your domain name to the new server, like you do for blogs. This is really hard right now.
I think LOLA is doing a good job with online moves, but we should also be encouraging more server developers to support BYOD, and we should encourage Fediverse users to get a domain.
> We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs
yes they are, though? in IMAP, you can just copy your messages and folders from one inbox to another. in SMTP, we have email forwarding.
using your own DNS name can make things easier, but the main challenge in fedi is that we don't have a common storage/access abstraction (equivalent to IMAP folders), and we don't recognize HTTP redirects (equivalent to SMTP forwarding).
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”
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I hate this argument that people use. Technology has fundamentally redefined what it means to be observed. Someone casually glancing at you in public is a completely different thing to having your movement tracked, permanently stored, and linked to you wherever you go. People absolutely have a right to expect a degree of privacy even in public settings
I don’t know about the particulars of other countries, but in America you’re mistaken.
The goal of my comment was not to “well actually” but instead to point out that, relevant to the post topic and concurrent with your recognition that technology has fundamentally changed in our lifetimes the understanding of privacy and anonymity we apply in everyday life, if you want privacy you have to take active steps to ensure you can go in public and maintain it.
That doesnt mean using graphene and libreboot, it means covering your face in public.
No worries and no apologies necessary.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is the historical circumstances around traditional dress in the Arabic speaking world, Muslim religious proscriptions about clothing and how those could converge with outcomes in the present day.
Giant wraparound shades with a punisher skull veil dangling off em.
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in reply to Liljekonvalj • • •Apps won't be able to delete accounts since they're 3rd party interfaces. You have to go to the site directly in a browser.
If that's not an option, you just abandon it.