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Valve’s Debian based SteamOS

Not to confuse with the Arch based SteamOS running on the SteamDeck which is very functional.

I haven't dig into it but I'd check https://lucaweiss.eu/post/2024-06-24-esim-manager-for-mobile-linux/ i.e. yes, in theory "normal" distributions as you list "should" support it... but rarely do modems on desktop (or even laptops?) support eSIM. Consequently it's more on other devices, e.g. phones, and those tend to have dedicated distributions, e.g. PostMarketOS on a FairPhone but not on PinePhone as it doesn't have eSIM support.

Angry update.

Nice, how does it compare to Kdenlive?

oculus software for my vr

Check https://lvra.gitlab.io/ for plenty of options. I'm playing VR on Linux but it's using SteamVR with the Index.

the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not

It doesn't and we don't like it anyway.

PS: to clarify, yes GitHub is wildly popular but, and the kernel is a particularly interesting example, it does not host ALL projects, only a lot of popular ones. A lot of very popular ones are also NOT there but rather on their own git, mailing list, GitLab instance, Gitea, etc. It's a shortcut, I understand that, but by ascertaining it as "truth" it's hiding a reality that is quite different and showing that reliable alternatives do exist.

It's federated, so one can setup whatever instance they want on whatever domain they want.

If the admin feels ".wtf" is edge, cool. If someone else believe it's NSFW or wouldn't help promote the cause, they can setup another instance on another domain. If the content itself is federated, they might share that link instead.

True, in fact I've done so myself (simplifying a curve resulting of hand sketching). Still I'd argue that's not the expected behavior of storing the vector file but rather explicitly modifying it.

main difference between raster graphics and vector graphics was the quality

It's not. The primitives, the most basic constitutive building blocks, are different, for raster it's the pixel (a mix of colors, e.g. red/green/blue) whereas for vector it's the ... vector (a relative position elements, e.g. line, circle, rectangle or text start with).

This is a fundamental distinction on how you interact with the content. For raster you basically paint over pixels, changing the values of pixels, whereas for vector you change values of elements and add/remove elements. Both can be lossless though (vector always is) as for raster can have no compression or lossless compression. That being said raster does have a grid size (i.e. how many pixels are stored, e.g. 800x600) whereas vector does not, letting you zoom infinitely and see no aliasing on straight lines.

Anyway yes it's fascinating. In fact you can even modify SVG straight from the browser, no image editor or text editor needed, thanks to your browser inspector (easy to change the color of a rectangle for example) or even the console itself then via JavaScript and contentDocument you can change a lot more programmatically (e.g. change the color of all rectangles).

It's a lot of fun to tinker with!

Switched from iOS (iPhone XS) to Android (/e/OS on CMF Nothing, installed by Murena) and 0 regret.

I switched the same day but I didn't transfer all content, only contacts, 2FA auth and installed most apps I needed. Transition was very easy thanks to Firefox Account and because most of what I really is Web based anyway (e.g. HomeAssistant for my self-hosted IoT setup). KDE Connect was indeed a great surprise, I thought it'd be the same as on iOS but it's a LOT more functional. Also using Termux (rather than iSH on iOS) with access to the storage made tinkering way easier and powerful.

My new phone is actually 1/3rd of the price of the flagship I bought 6 years ago.... but they feel the same. I like that a lot because I do NOT want my phone to "feel" special, I want it to "just" be a functional piece of tech, valuable only for what it does, not what it "is". It's not a totem, it's just a thing I rely on. So yes switching made that very striking.

Overall if you want to "just" move away from iOS or Googled Android I find Murena value proposition to be on point.

Meanwhile https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/0729%252F2024/html/Linux%2Bstatt%2BWindows just closed with 2474 Supporters

I also have a SteamDeck and it's IMHO one of the best device to promote Linux. Just hand skeptic the device, let them play and ask them how the experience then if they can guess the OS.