I don’t really know how to install something like a beta version of KDE, especially without messing up things on my own computer.

None in particular. Just the totality of the changes. Many of them are small default changes or usability changes, but when taken together it sounds like a nice, somewhat overdue bundle.

Plasma 6 for sure. I’m a Gnome user waiting with bated breath to see if it actually delivers the goods.

Always hoping for Nvidia to stop being bullshit. Definitely not buying from them again.

Some Wayland core folks don’t want applications to know if their window is visible or not because it’s mild information about a user’s attention that should be private.

I do like that. I have encountered a number of bullshit things like HR mindless training videos (ok, the fourth time I’ve seen this guy contemplate accepting a bribe… I get it. Don’t accept bribes! Leave that shit to Clarence Thomas) or ad playbacks that refuse to proceed unless they are focused. It’s annoying as hell. The problem you point out also sounds really annoying.

I will hit the like button on a video I really like. I will comment if I have a question, but not to simply join in on the “discussion” for the purpose of engagement. I will subscribe if the channel is actually good. I won’t do these things because a voice in the video suggests it to me, but because I finally decide, “This content author actually makes something worth watching.”

I have about 50 channels subscribed. Of those, about half are actively uploading videos. Of those, about half upload videos very regularly, and the others very irregularly.

Software decode in iOS17 for modern but recent devices. Hardware decode on the newest devices. No hw encode support yet.

The proper support for AV1 is big. Now that Apple is finally properly supporting it I think we will be seeing AV1 livestreams get normalized within a couple of years. We can finally leave ancient AVC behind.

In my web browser I personally use uBlock Origin to just block all remote fonts and browse with a JS disabled by default policy. It’s an annoying but necessary compromise, in my opinion.

Also, in Firefox v118 a new feature was introduced to curtail the font fingerprint route as well: “The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts to mitigate font fingerprinting in Private Browsing windows.”

I’m sure you know this, but for anyone else scrolling through the comments it is actually ridiculous how much data websites can query and receive to fingerprint users from the web browser. Just look at https://amiunique.org – “WHY IS THIS ALLOWED?” is the question I have asked for many years now.

I still play video games. Sad.

Overall I do think KDE is more cluttered. So I like Gnome’s streamlined appearance (even if it omits too much). I also think the desktop compositor and shell are really well made, (i.e. mutter and gnome-shell), so I don’t really have performance complaints.

I know that cars aren’t the exclusive cause behind this but I hear the traffic situation there is incredibly bad. Every modern city needs a robust public transit system. It’s not optional. The planet is dying.

I’m really looking forward to Plasma6. I know gnome has its fans but I am really just a reluctant user. Every day gnome works against me and I have to resort to workarounds.

Do I want to navigate, inspect, and manipulate my files quickly? I use dolphin.

Do I want to have a convenient panel to get a very quick glance of my currently running programs as well as a place to pin my most commonly used ones? That’s an extension.

Do I want sub-windows to always block their parent window, preventing me from interacting with the parent further? No solution.

Do I want desktop icons? Do I want excessive notifications from common tasks my computer is doing instead of from my own programs?

I have more complaints but I think I am making myself clear. Overall I do like gnome and it has good performance, but there are so many annoying aspects. KDE is itself not perfect. There’s enough reasons for me to continue using gnome over kde5. But that’s why I hold out hope for plasma 6.

why are you posting generated spam?

Interestingly enough, Ubuntu 23.10 enables this by default https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/firefox-snap-with-wayland-enabled-by-default-in-ubuntu-23-10-mantic-minotaur/38660

As an aside remark, it’s really funny how everyone has to elaborate what the fuck they’re talking about when they talk about Twitter.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) Ubuntu explains the situation

could have just been written as

In a tweet, Ubuntu explains the situation

but the epic genius elon decided to destroy all brand recognition. Truly incredible thing to witness. Twitter literally got its own branded terms into common lexicon and he just set it all on fire.

What’s the use case for that? Would mkv solve your need?

What you ask for already exists.
https://opus-codec.org/docs/opus-tools/opusenc.html

The duration of software patents is completely absurd and in a just society would immediately be halved. That said, at any possible point I have totally ditched this ancient technology in favor of the vastly superior Opus.

Edit: just noticed this was published in 2017, which makes much more sense with my understanding of when mp3 was developed.

Alive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.

This is true. It was both shocking and alarming how fast it moved when I first spotted one in my room after moving to the east coast.

Slow relative to what? Any zstd compression, while really fast, will be slower than native write speeds to my nvme. A tiny bit of ratio gain isn’t worthwhile to me.

🫡 stay strong, Mr. Stallman