What I’m currently missing is a simple app for keeping contacts synced between my android phone and Linux desktop.

Excited to see what you do!

Is there an easy way to download Wikipedia for offline use and periodically update it? I realise it will be a lot of data.

Would you be able to subscribe to those things via your account if they hadn’t made it across to your instance though? I’m no expert but perhaps this is side-effect of controls for moderating federation i.e blocking or allowing content from other instances.

I do agree that it should be easier to browse any instance though. Some Pixelfed instances browser home pages seem to allow it and some don’t - I’m guessing it’s an admin option somewhere.

Sad to see that every single primary comment on this post is cynical and negative right now.

How about this instead: child sees a problem and has the hope, passion and courage to make a positive difference to something. Makes a positive difference to something.

If we genuinely want to the world to get better wr should be getting behind kids like him coming up, not looking for ways invalidate them.

“Move out of the way if you can’t lend a hand”

Star Labs Starbook 7, Coreboot.

It looks like you’re right - just checked and it only seems to happen when Power Saver is selected in GNOME. Do you know if anything can be done to prevent dimming in this mode?

I use Pixelfed by subscribing to hashtags that I’m interested in and artists/photographers who I come across via hashtags or my instance feed.

I’m guessing that this is how Pixelfed is designed to be used as users and hashtags are what makes up your home feed.

I’ve never felt the need to browse by instance but I can see that this could be a cool feature to add if there are any which are dedicated to a particular subject or style. Of course the same functionality can be accomplished simply by users adding unique and specific hashtags to their posts e.g #celticsculptures or #seeninplymouth.

Firstly - buy laptops that are more linux compatible

This is the thing: The laptop is from Starlabs, supposedly made for Linux…

In what way? I haven’t upgraded between major releases on Debian before.

Intel Arc integrated graphics.

Are you using the liquorix kernel?

I can only see one downvote and four upvotes from here - I think you’re good!

I had problems with waking from sleep/hibernate, audio issues (total dropouts as well as distortion in screen-recording apps), choppy video playback and refusal to enter fullscreen, wonky cursor scaling, apps not working as expected or not running at all. I’ve managed to fix most of these or find temporary workarounds (grateful for flatpaks for once!) or alternative applications. But the experience was not fun, particularly as there was only a 2 week return window for the laptop and I needed to be sure the problems weren’t hardware design/choice related. And I’m finding it 50/50 whether an app actually works when I install it from the repo. There’s a lot less documentation for manually installing things as well and DNF is slow compared to apt…

I don’t want to say for certain that Fedora as a distro is to blame but I suspect that it is. I miss my Debian days.

What makes Debian 12 a painful distro to upgrade?

Another option for some Kobos is Inkbox/QuillOS. It’s a full open source OS replacement and is very cool. It was very usable last summer when I tried it out on my Kobo Clara HD and is probably even better now.

The machine doesn’t belong to me. I’ve had this experience on other computers running Windows.

I have to use Windows at work and by early afternoon if I’m not forced to reboot for an update I have to reboot because the machine has basically ground to a halt.

Why does Windows slow down the longer it’s been booted?

Is Foliate available for android?

Nice, I will have a look 👍

No doubt the hipocrisy of relaxing copyright enforcement for AI while doing this will go unnoticed.