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In case missed out on spending $90 the first time...

 

A solid preview using some new and old addons to change the UI back to something we are more familiar with.

 

UN Security Council passes US resolution backing Gaza international force | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/unsc-approves-us-resolution-mandating-intl-stabilisation-force-in-gaza

Totally disregarding what Palestinians want. However, there is this:
"... which envisions a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood."
which is pissing off Israel big time - so that's a plus. ;-)

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #UN @palestine@fedibird.com

 

The Budgie desktop developers released today the first Developer Preview of the upcoming and highly anticipated Budgie 10.10 desktop environment, which will only work on Wayland systems.

Work on Budgie 10.10 kicked off more than a year ago, and many of Budgie’s components have already been ported to Wayland. Expected next year, Budgie 10.10 aims to be the first release of this modern desktop environment to be Wayland-only, which means that it won’t support X11 sessions.

 

At the end of last month, I introduced Solseek, a new TUI wrapper for Solus’s eopkg package manager, which offers a fast and streamlined way to browse, install, and update software on Solus Linux. Since then, it has been moving quickly, with rapid development introducing new features and improvements.

The recently released Solseek 0.3.2 brings a key expansion by adding full Flatpak handling alongside several performance and quality-of-life improvements.

 

How a mysterious frontier island peopled by "barbarians" became one of the four main islands of Japan - and how the original inhabitants suffered as a result.

There's also an interesting video about some of the subjects, like the Ainu (about the Kurils, just north of Hokkaido) from Mark's Expedition.

 

Israeli settlers torch homes and vehicles in Palestinian West Bank villages | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/israeli-settlers-torch-homes-and-vehicles-in-west-bank-villages

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel @palestine@fedibird.com

 

LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana homeowner accused of killing a house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at his front door was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Monday in a case that could test the limits of stand-your-ground laws.

Curt Anderson, 62, could face anywhere from 10 to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if he’s convicted. He was being held in the Boone County Jail pending an initial court hearing.

 

We have an announcement about the future of Cities: Skylines II. Cities will journey on with a new developer at the helm.

After more than a decade of successful collaboration across numerous titles that we’re both immensely proud of, Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have mutually decided to pursue independent paths, and Iceflake Studios will take the reins on the development of Cities: Skylines II at the start of 2026. The decision was made thoughtfully and in the interest of both teams - ensuring the strongest possible future for the Cities: Skylines franchise.

Before year-end, the Bike Patch and a first implementation of Asset Mods will be available to you as a player.

You can read more about it here: https://pdxint.at/49QDwfo

We have also shared an FAQ that you can find here: https://pdxint.at/4nQPSYh

 

Saucebox plural: sauceboxes [ソースボックス] noun Definition: A saucy, impudent, or impertinent person; someone who speaks or behaves with forwardness, cheek, or boldness beyond what the situation warrants.

Example Sentence: “He started telling everyone how to do their jobs, and I knew he was being a real saucebox.”

 

Ryan Finnie announced today the release and general availability of Finnix 251 as the latest stable version of this Debian-based live GNU/Linux distribution for sysadmins.

Coming almost eight months after Finnix 250, the Finnix 251 release bumps the kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS to Linux 6.16 to provide users with better hardware support on newer systems when running Finnix from a USB flash drive.

Finnix 251 is the first release to distribute official OCI container images, which incorporate the same packages as the ISO image. The official Finnix container image can be launched from Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, and similar container management tools. Here’s an example:

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