This is your friendly reminder, that the Stop Kiling Games campaign is still running. I haven’t been posting updates for a while, because progress has slowed considerably over the last month and there hasn’t been anything to write about. But it feels relevant here.

https://stopkillinggames.com

(Campaign only running in select jurisdictions, the US is not one if them)

I have my non english language content seperated in a different library. This allows you to set the language of the meta data to German so you get German episode titles and descriptions. Downside is that the two versions won’t be showing up in the same list (at least not on the web. Some clients might combine libraries)

Years ago I tried Ubuntu which used GNOME and assumed that its desktop layout was “the default” GNOME.

Ubuntu never provided a “default” GNOME experience, or at least not since the early 2000s. At one point Ubuntu had it’s own desktop environment, unity, and when they abandoned the project and switched to gnome shell, they modified it to look similar to that. So we went from this:

to this:

I later tried PopOS which also uses it and it was the same

I doubt that. Pop_OS was never the same as Ubuntu. In the beginning it provided an experience that was arguably much closer to vanilla gnome than Ubuntu:

later they started to add their own flare customising the desktop a lot and rebranding all of this as Cosmic Shell:

I installed Mint I saw that it’s still fundamentally the same

Mint never used Gnome. They have their own desktop environment called Cinnamon, which uses some of the same underlying technology, manly the GTK toolkit but is it’s own independent project.

Well, few days ago I installed Bazzite (Fedora) which is also GNOME. It doesn’t look anything like anything I’ve seen before

It still should be familiar in some aspects. The grid-view of all apps for example should be something that you know from Ubuntu (Pop replaces that part in more modern iterations - kinda). Bazzite still does modifications, they’re just a lot more subtle than the ones from Pop and Ubuntu. But I agree with you: Gnomes workflow doesn’t agree with many users. There are those who like it and they tend to really like it. Gnome wants you to heavily use keyboard shortcuts and virtual desktops and I found that casual users aren’t really a friend of either.

So what is the default Gnome experience? try it out. There is an extension manger installed that ships with bazzite (and if not use the software store to install it). In it you can disable all the modifications. You can also install extensions to fix some of the usability problems. “Dash to Dock” tends to solve like 90% of them (It’s also what Ubuntu uses for their modifications)

It’s worse than that. The numbers I originally posted was only the exit poll. Now we have a preliminary result and it’s not looking good.

Here are the results:

Parties with less than 5% of the vote share don’t get any seats (there are exceptions but these don’t apply here, resulting in this makeup of state parliament:

You need 45 seats to have a governing majority. SPD and CDU together have only 44. There is no majority without either the fascists from the AFD or the tankies from the BSW.

Der SPD-Ministerpräsident ist tatsächlich extrem beliebt mit Zustimmungswerten von 61%. BEI EINEM SPD KANDIDATEN! Das muss man sich erst einmal vorstellen! https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2024-09-22-LT-DE-BB/umfrage-aktuellethemen.shtml

Datenschutz ist Herausforderung

Fotos vom Straßenverkehr sind auch eine datenschutzrechtliche Frage, einer der Gründe, warum es dauerte, bis das Projekt anlaufen konnte. Im vergangenen Jahr lief bereits ein Testbetrieb.

Der hessische Datenschutzbeauftragte hat mittlerweile die Kameraaufnahmen durch die Busse genehmigt

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/hessen/hr-kameras-an-bussen-sollen-falschparker-in-wiesbaden-erwischen-100.html

Irgendwer wird es vermutlich trotzdem versuchen

He’ll, even an Intel based thin client would probably be enough. You can get them on eBay for like 30 bucks, which is about as much as a pi costs. You’ll probably have to replace the ssd though. That’ll set you back an additional 30 bucks.

There is BigBlueButton. It’s more focused in educational usecases (online classes and the like) but it works just fine for everything else. You need to host it yourself, but there are hosted instances out there. I for example use senfcall.

But I think we are talking about different things here. What Chanuk was talking about (I think) is a ms-teams or slack alternative, not a zoom or oracle WebEx alternative. Basically Discord but for business. Sidenote: there is a open source Discord clone called revolt