A fall back of “kwin_x11 not found, let’s boot into kwin_wayland instead” is an upstream thing.

users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login

You’d think Plamsa would just offer a fallback to log into a Wayland session instead of completely failing.

MKVToolNix has a great cropping feature that completely lossless because it just writes an information into the file how many pixels to leave out.

The massive problem since quite some time is that I’m not aware of any media player respecting this. VLC used to support it but a decade ago suddenly stopped: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13982

If you have the originals, maybe encode them again. HandBrake has a nice preview feature.

Discord is just a website.

sadly, there are a lot of important newer x86 patents that are still years off

Basic x86_64 in hardware and software emulation of extensions is a more viable path than full x86 emulation on ARM. What we don’t know if anybody is working on independent x86_64 CPUs.

x86_64 patents lapse sometime this year, btw

Politicians enact tougher trade rules on China:

China steps up their game and fills the voids of remaining western products.

Western companies meanwhile bitch moan how reversing some outsourcing to China is impossible.

DeX is pretty cool. Google should have gone that route from the beginning instead of that split strategy with ChromeOS. More Android apps would support big screens were it not for ChromeBooks running a different, web based OS.

Are the desktop components now finally fully localized?

CLA and copyright assignment are different things. In some jurisdictions copyright assignment is impossible. That was among the clashes European FOSS contributors had with the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallmann in the 1990s and 2000s.

MIT license already allows this, with or without CLA.

That’s why you can also take Microsoft’s MIT code and make proprietary software out of it.

No, Windows has various subsystems. This one is for Linux.

When Windows NT 3.5 launched, it came with subsystems for POSIX, OS/2, and Win32 because in the WinNT world even the Windows frameworks are a subsystem. Disclaimer: I didn’t check if in Win11 this is still the case but I guess so.

Mass downvoting is bad for Lemmy as a whole, it makes the entire ecosystem hostile for participation

Nah, spreading lies is the bad thing, not downvoting them.

At least they disable the monetization features of Brave but making stupid Google Meet such a hard requirement to compromise of all ethics? WTF?

Just get rid of everything Nvidia. Problem solved.

Why are you even using flatpak if its core usecase offends you?

All power to you. Take your time and feel free to announce it properly to the whenever you’re ready.

My completely non representative opinion is that a WebKitGTK browser that works well and feels fine across desktops is a niche looking to be filled.

Probably too bare bones for what I would look in a web browser, though. Still refreshing to see someone with a WebKitGTK browser not mimic Gnome Web.

Looks good