I’ve seen fewer failures in their stand-alone laser printers than their all-in-one printer/scanners, but yeah, I second Brother.

Let’s not make things complicated when they don’t have to be.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

:(

All the more reason to call attention to an easily overlooked alternative, especially if it’s able to serve a blind person’s needs better.

Running ALSA as root had one huge benefit

Huh? ALSA is not a sound server, but a collection of kernel components and libraries. You don’t run it.

With PipeWire or PulseAudio, audio is bound to a user session.

PipeWire has a system-wide mode of operation. It wasn’t well-tested when I last asked about it, but it might be worth a try.

GTK3 broke accessibility for years.
GTK4 released with no accessibility support at all.

This whole article is focused on GNOME and other GTK-based desktops. The only mention of KDE Plasma at all is to say that a certain GNOME fork (MATE) isn’t like it. This seems like a rather large oversight given that Qt, upon which Plasma is built, has accessibility features built in.

So, nearly every criticism here is not about Linux after all, but about a specific desktop family. I hope the author eventually notices that others exist, tries them, and discovers things that work better in them. (And it would be nice if they were to post a more comprehensive follow-up article, or at least rephrase this one so that it doesn’t mislead people into thinking it represents the Linux desktop ecosystem as a whole.)

This is the first time I’ve read of fwupd having firmware that’s likely to be useful to individuals, rather than data centers. Nice!

I’ve had good experiences with Brother laser printers. The price tag is higher than an inkjet printer’s, but the cost over time is far less, and they keep working.

(FWIW, mine have all been black & white. I can’t vouch for color laser printers.)

Everyone should have a short wave of some sort and a good portable antenna.

Do you mean a two-way radio, or just a receiver? Why?

Mine has saved my sanity a couple of times out in Nowhere, West Texas.

How?

Looks similar to Firefox with Multi-Account Containers, but with a different browser engine (one that is not from Google). Maybe cool?

!business@lemmy.world

Peer review is for scientific papers, not lab results. If you have reason to question the lab that produced the results, then please share it.

What was Crash?

https://tamararubin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Toothpaste-Chart-April-18-2025-Update.pdf

It’s nice to see that their Debian edition isn’t being neglected. If I were to use Linux Mint, that’s the edition I would want.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I expect it will be nice to be able to compare our own hardware performance to the benchmarks we see in reviews, and do apples-to-apples comparisons with the results reported by Windows users when performance tuning.

These are the three that the article refers to:

• KeePass
• KeePassXC
• Bitwarden (Self-Hosted)

Why is he so interested in Greenland? Is it just the natural resources?

Nope. They are not.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475407-no-the-dire-wolf-has-not-been-brought-back-from-extinction/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apt+3.0

Edit for those who couldn’t be bothered to click through the first result:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/debian/changelog