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Wayland is necessary because Wayland will be necessary in the near future, if it was next year then that would put a lot of people who don't know about X.Org and Wayland through a major shift which could rock-the-boat a bit too much and cause them to go back to Windows for the "just works" experience.

Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] HW07@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I think we need rock-solid Wayland before we can expect TYLD. So I'm feeling 2026 minimum, then add a couple for some padding; so 2028 realistically. Think of how far we've come in 5 years, then imagine 5 years more.

If Nvidia's consumer GPU market share dropped a bit too, that'd help.

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[Coreboot] Can I coreboot my laptop? Acer Aspire A515-47 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by HW07@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm quite interested in putting coreboot onto my laptop, if that's possible. But first I want to know if it's reliable as I'll be using this laptop for school, and if I can even do it in the first place.

I have an Acer Aspire A515-47, AMD Ryzen 5 5625U. I don't know any detailed information about the motherboard, nor northbridge or southbridge. I did try to find them but I couldn't find anything online. I mention these as they were mentioned on the coreboot docs.

Also from the docs, I'll be doing the internal method as my laptop already, obviously, runs Linux (Fedora Silverblue).

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Question about VPNs, VMs and interfaces. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HW07@lemmy.world to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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So on my host I run Mullvad VPN all the time due to living in one of the X eyes countries and being over-paranoid, but when I torrent I do almost no uploading due to Mullvad blocking port forwarding. I had the bright idea to create a VM then attach it to my network in a way to completely bypass my host (also running Linux) connection and in-turn bypass Mullvad, I'd then connect this VM to my own Wireguard server that I rent overseas and configure port forwarding on that. I think I'm almost there however I seem to have hit a roadblock that I think the only workaround is attaching a second ethernet cable to my host, in order to get another interface so that the VM doesn't steal my host's connection.

Doing the dual ethernet setup isn't impossible, but it is extra cables and dongles that I'd rather do without, so I was wondering if I could create a second IP address on my host and pass that into the VM to use? I'm using qemu and virt manager for my virtual machines, Artix on my host and probably Linux Mint on my torrent VM.

Again I have no idea if this is possible or not, I simply don't know enough about networking yet to know for certain. I feel like it is but I wanted to ask some people who know what they're talking about :D.

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[Plasma] Everforest KNOME (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HW07@lemmy.world to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

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Konsole with neofetch on the left, Dolphin on the right and Elisa just below Konsole

I've always quite liked how Polybar / Waybar look with WMs but I've never been bothered to fiddle with all the config files that come with that. I want to spend more time using my desktop than making it look nice. So I initially tried GNOME but found the panel CSS too confusing. I tried KDE Plasma after hearing that panels were quite powerful if you use them right, and I believe I did. The colour scheme was originally going to be Gruvbox but the global theme I used gave off a more everforest vibe so I embraced it, I'm quite glad I did because I think this looks amazing...

~~I know I know, I just like how cursive fonts look in terminals, I use them for programming too. This one is Victor Mono~~