I had the same happen on the root folder on a SATA SSD. The SSD was dying (don’t remember if there was SMART errors, but the dmesg log showed write-errors. I cloned old SSD to a new SSD and haven’t seen the problem since. That was years ago.

When there are multiple consecutive write errors, Linux will re-moumt the partition as read-only to protect the data. (There usually a statement along the lines of “on-error:remount-ro” for the partition in the /etc/fstab file)

It’s a bit of a sad state of Europes electric car manufacturering that the only two mentioned manufacturers are Volvo/Polestar, both wholly owned by Chinese Geely, with production in China.

The ChargeUp organisation consists of charging infrastructure providers (including gas station companies like CircleK, BP, Total). The only manufacturer is (American) Tesla, presumably because of their charging infrastructure division. https://www.chargeupeurope.eu/membership

EmobilityEurope organization is mostly driver-associations and supply chain companies. The actual manufacturers are:

• Lucid (American)
• GM (American)
• Tesla (American)
• Polestar (Chinese/Swedish)
• NIO (Chinese)
• Rivian (American)
• Smart (initially German, currently Chinese)
• Volvo (Chinese/Swedish)
  https://www.emobilityeurope.org/our-members/

So not a single European (electric) car manufacturer is involved

KDE Maui does, but Microsoft Maui doesn’t .

(Sorry, I know you were referring to Microsoft Maui, I was just annoyed at being reminded how Microsoft stole the name: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-KDE-MAUI )

Another reason is when developing the Web version first. Draw.io is a good example, where we get a bonus desktop(electron) version “for free” though the product was developed as a web app.

Thanks for reminding me why Maui doesn’t support Linux. I saw Maui mentioned in an earlier comment and was baffled why KDE would make something not working that doesn’t work in Linux. It’s because Microsoft stole the Maui name from KDE: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-KDE-MAUI

AMD already spent a significant amount of effort implementing HDMI2.1 in their open driver in such a way that it would be compliment. The suits from HDMI consortium still said No.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

AMD Linux engineers have spent months working with their legal team and evaluating all HDMI features to determine if/how they can be exposed in their open-source driver. AMD had code working internally and then the past few months were waiting on approval from the HDMI Forum… Sadly, the HDMI Forum has turned down AMD’s request for open-source driver support.

AMD Linux engineer Alex Deucher commented on the ticket:

"The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements."

For jpg’s, no they will not get smaller. Maybe even a smidge bigger if you zip them. Usually not enough to make a practical difference.

Zip does generic lossless compression, meaning it can be extracted for a bit-perfect copy of the original. Very simplified it works by finding patterns repeating and replacing a long pattern with a short key, and storing an index to replace the keys with the original pattern on extraction.

Jpg’s use lossy compression, meaning some detail is lost and can never be reproduced. Jpg is highly optimized to only drop details that don’t matter much for human perception of the image.

Since jpg is already compressed, there will not be any repeating patterns (duplicate information) for the zip algorithm to find.

There’s nothing wrong with Mint, it’s solid. If it works for you don’t stress about it

The only thing is that it’s based on Ubuntu LTS so it’s packages can be a bit old. Doesn’t really matter much unless you have very new hardware and need the hardware support. Then something Fedora based like Bazzite would be better.

For getting newer software you can use flatpak/Flathub.

Bazzite is also “immutable” which makes it harder to break on a system level, but also harder to tinker on a system level. Mint is a “normal” distribution in that regard. Mint does have Timeshift for taking system level snapshots, on the off chance that an update or your tinkering breaks something. Its worth checking that Timeshift is set up for automatic snapshots

… You need Windows to use government websites? What kind of dystopian nightmare is this

Also its probably a lot easier to handle for performing testing on equal conditions through the tests for all their cards. Sounds like ideally they want to freeze all their versions for at least a quarter of a year or more

I think Mint does this out of the box, but check if Timeshift is set up for automatic backups. It’s meant for system-level snapshots (basically everything outside the HOME-folder), so you can easily revert if an update or something breaks the system.

Also consider some form of periodic external backup of her files and documents in the home folder, to protect against hardware failure.

While a blow to the Fediverse community, Rochko’s decision is understandable.

This looks more like healthy sustainable growth than “a blow” . Reducing the risk of burnout of the project lead, and transferring ownership of trademarks from an individual to a non-profit are good things for the long term

Oh good point, these are modern times, exFAT is a thing now.

I remember years ago having issues that Ubuntu could mount exFAT, so avoided it ever since. But that was many years ago, with an old kernel.

The day after seeing this post I came across the exact same format searching for something unrelated on DuckDuckGo. The AI Sloppening is real

Word of warning on “Safe removal” of external harddrives: You really want to click “Eject” or “Safe removal” every time before unplugging. This is much more important than on Windows, due to the way Linux handles buffers and caching. A copy operation will be “finished” but still live in the write-cache and not securely written to disk.

NTFS is no problem (But as mentioned earlier in the thread the permission system is different). I usually format all my external devices with NTFS so they’ll work on both Linux and Windows machines without any fuss.

Sounds a lot like EEA (Iceland Norway Lichtenstein)

It’s not, unless you know the keys.

Keys are created by the software/app made by the service provider, like WhatsApp / Meta or Google. How is the key created, and is a copy sent back to WhatsApp? “Securely” and “No” they claim, and you just have to trust them.
That can change if WhatsApp need to comply with new laws.

Signal is a bit different because of the app is fully open source, so the code can be audited to verify the integrity of the encryption. They would still need to comply with laws or exit that market, but whatever they do would be 100% transparent.

Input devices (including tablets) is one of the 3 current overarching Goals of the KDE project, so now might be a good time to get involved with testing.
https://community.kde.org/Goals/Input
https://kde.org/goals/

If you’re on KDE there is kdotool , kdotool - a xdotool clone for KDE Wayland that works in conjunction with ydotool

The main one is KiCAD (electronics design).

They have a good article on the challenges they’re facing on Wayland, worth a read https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/