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Cake day: November 16th, 2023

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  • Yes lmao. I use it to save scratch files or random crap I haven’t yet categorized. Sometimes you’re sifting through scripts or software and are going to delete them anyways, or I’m using it as a gallery pane for images I’m sorting before moving to store somewhere more permanent. I know Gnome’s philosophy preaches a sort of importance on data management, but I’m never a fan of something that tries to make that decision for me.











  • Fingerprint sensors have been an interesting hurdle for Linux distros. Not one I necessarily would have anticipated either. The biggest question seems to come down to their security as well, given that there have been exposed flaws in the design of biometric hardware that tries to generalize its compatibility.

    Microsoft has defined SDCP as a strong standard for TPM/Windows, but there isn’t an equivalent for Linux. Match on chip sensors have made things a bit easier, but there isn’t a standard way to communicate the validated authentication to the OS, usually relying on TLS.






  • Plasma ended up being my DE of choice a year ago. Native Wayland support, HDR and VRR, and general adherence to the same Windows paradigm for managing apps/desktop shortcuts made things easy. I don’t think that design is wrong, and it’s been plenty efficient. It was also the only DE at the time that seemed to be prioritizing matching Windows features where they were clearly strongest rather than trying to pretend Windows had nothing to boast about at all.

    Now, if we could talk about letting me enable display outputs without using the terminal that would be greeeeaaaat.