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Surprisingly, this is what the Webkit project uses for Linux, so that's why they chose it too.

antnispon Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd

What you describe does not reflect the situation where Hetzner is located.

antnispon Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

Meanwhile the BASF complex exists, which is basically Mordor-on-the-Rhine.

It is not about the time spent looking at the time, it is about being unable to ignore shiny stuff when you get out of fullscreen.

antnispon Window Activation

I just checked and assigning the shortcut in "System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts" will open Firefox and put it in focus.

antnispon American megachurches are thriving by poaching flocks

Calvinism has entered the chat.

antnispon Blank turns your TV screen black until you press any button on a remote

You can move it to the first layer. I can do it without looking at the remote now.

I don't remember how I dit it though.

antnispon 'Dieselgate' trial opens in Germany without ex-VW boss

OTOH executives can't hide behind the company as an entity.

antnispon Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

What's so weird is that all those sound rudimentary rather than innovative to my european ears.

antnispon When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too

Because they're not both illegal under all jurisdictions. IANAL but breaking DRM for personal use is legal in the US.

antnispon GNU Octave 5.1.0

Both Octave and MATLAB have had a symbolic toolbox for ages, and can export to many vector graphics formats, from .ps to .svg.

Mathematica is way more targeted to the "general public" though. It's fairly obvious that MATLAB started its life as fronted to FORTRAN.

antnispon A Woman Who Harvested a Two-Acre Wheat Field Off Wall Street (2018)

Ironically, there is little confrontation between a skyscraper and a wheat field, in the sense that they are both extremely artificial and totally man made.

antnispon Regarding EGLStreams Support in KWin

Using a laptop with a nVidia graphics card, where they have a monopoly, would also make you rage at them. For a year installing their drivers would prevent some laptops from even using text-mode because of improper PCI-E initialization, something that was only worked around on the latest kernel release.

They only care for Linux CUDA farms and it shows.

antnispon Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking

And legal.

antnispon The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR

The Pixel Night Mode begs to differ.

antnispon Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors

Not only should not all fruit be stored in the fridge, but some, like tomatoes and bananas, need room temperature to develop their flavour.

antnispon How America lost its love for the stick shift

You will when you have to have your disks changed.

antnispon Hello Qt for Python

Isn't the licensing LGPL3? How is this confusing?

antnispon No “Material Difference Between 5G and LTE”

European landline operators ARE the networks.

antnispon Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide

Power generators connected into a grid, pool their production and then consumers draw from that pool. A consumer can't claim "My electrons came only from "green" sources". Ones electrons came from the nearest sources. What a consumer can do, is pay a producer connected to the grid, to supply "green" energy matching the consumer's draw from the pool.

It's like balancing a checkbook. When you act as a producer, your windfarm puts 1MW into the pool. Logistically, you have to buy it back to claim you consume green power, otherwise you run on the grid's energy mix.

(This is broad strokes, and may vary depending on your location.)

antnispon MacOS finally gains external GPU support

https://www.apple.com/de/shop/product/MJ1K2ZM/A/usb%E2%80%91...

Here it is. Right from the mother-ship.

antnispon LG launches open-source version of webOS

SCO vs Novell will be litigated till the heat death of the universe, so you can't really blame them.

antnispon Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released

Clion will choke on anything that touches boost.

antnispon German Engineering Yields New Warship That Isn’t Fit for Sea

OTOH what business does the BundesWEHR have in the Mali heat?

antnispon Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)

MPI is availabe for C too. It even had C++ bindings but there were deprecated since not even boost used them.

antnispon IGN acquires Humble Bundle

To be honest DreamWorks had been stuck in the sequel mud for some time before it's aqcuisition.

antnispon Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?

One of the richest and largest polities on earth doesn't have the resources to guarantee basic sanitaion for all residents.

antnispon Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Every A4 owner is crying over his repair bills reading this.

antnispon Kotlin doesn’t need an LLVM backend (2016)

Linux is famously GPLv2.

antnispon Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released

Upstart not only came before systemd but is the init system of the still supported RHEL 6. I am not qualified to judge which one is better but let's agree on the facts.

As far as the marketing goes, it is a larger trend. See Fedora Workstation/Server, elementaryOS. In fact, on the CentOS homepage there is nary a mention of Linux.