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Of the ones I’ve tried that are fully open-source is the best ons regarding UX functionality.

For example, Matrix is a UX nightmare, with many different clients implementing different features, or having issues if a non-default login mode is used, ending in people getting locked out after the browser logged them out because they forgot to copy a key when they were logged in.

Others like rocketchat are opencore like matter most, which means they can do the switcheroo.

The things I would care the most when checking this kind of service are:

• UX: how easy it is to use for nontechnical users
• how well-backed is the project, socially and financially, to ensure it lasts a long time
• how easy it is to get the (public) conversations out, as an exit strategy, if the one above isn’t looking so good.

What’s not changing though is that most of their focus will be on integrating AI which most people don’t want.

I agree that AI chatbots are absolutely useless and have no place in a browser, but out of the three ML features in the screenshot, one is great for blind people, and another one is great for making the web more multilingual, so their usefulness is quite self-evident. Regarding ethics, at least for the last one it’s using a local model, and was trained using open-source datasets.[1]

What makes so-called “AI” bad is not the amount of users that can benefit from it, but how useful it is to the people that do use the feature, which usually means having experts tailor machine learning unto a single purpose.

I personally use the translation feature at least once a week when looking at news article that are not in English, and now I’m using a lot to translate Japanese webpages to plan a holiday there, so I’m very happy that Mozilla has invested time abd collaborated with universities to make this feature, I wish other people were less flippant about it just because it has “AI” in its name.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-network-models-for-firefox-translations/

There’s a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)

https://typst.app/

(The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)

But you see, it’s not buses or trains that do the same, it’s limousines. It’s the air of exclusivity that the self-driving car-manufacturers sell, people like to feel special and don’t want to spend time with the riffraff, even if it means they themselves become serfs to the technology companies.

The RAM situation is a complete mess, let’s hope valve releases their new hardware at reasonable prices

Let me guess, it’s the cost-cutting in QA and engineering that leads to plane crashes. The geopolitical angle gives it a little push as well

Actually, scratch that, I think it really started with the non-consensual updates:

At first I ignored it, and carried on as normal. Sure, I’d get mad from time to time and I’d complain.

But hey, nothing beats the convenience of being able to have all of your applications in one place

It really started there for me as well, and where it ended: Windows 10 was hellbent on making me use newer, broken GPU drivers. So it was better to lose the ability to play some games rather than all of them. And I also was able to get all the updates from one place :)

pd: at the time this happened Microsoft still hadn’t released the tool to allow to rollback drivers.

No, it’s

USB-A

USB-C

USB-A

USB-B

Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.

It is with plugins, however. I’ve used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.

So I couldn’t disagree more with your statement

I’ve used Wayland exclusively for years, but here’s an example: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

tl;Dr the Wayland ecosystem has still not caught up in all edge cases, the weirder setup you have the more likely you’re affected

Minix is a different (older) kernel from Linux: https://www.minix3.org/

The article is AI slop, I wish they dimply front loaded the video and the explanation given in there instead of full paragraphs of nothingness

Unfortunately, for the enthusiasts who had a left-aligned or vertical taskbar in Windows 10, you would have to settle for the fact that Microsoft’s data shows such users are really small when compared to the number of users who are asking for other newer features in the taskbar.

I was very surprised yo find out how good Bluetooth in Linux, especially compared to Windows. I could connect the phone to my computer and use it as an additional screen yo watch podcasts. This was way back in 2017. It has gotten better since then as well

Translation: they want to stop paying Denuvo for their DRM system

Reads like an infomercial for Epic to me

Disappointing article, ars is using desktop-vlass hardware to calculate the pricing, butthe steam machine is using laptop parts (CPU, GPU, and RAM).

This is an entry-level level PC, 700 is way too much, other entry-level miniPCs, which are between 500 and 600.

The linked reddit post (why couldn’t he just link yo the original video content? ) does a much better job reasoning about the bill of materials and comparing it against other products

Vates demoed on kubecon an ARM workstation running XCP-ng, a xen-based virtualization platform.

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/11/13/xcp-ng-on-arm-with-ampere/

It’s still early days, but I’m hoping it can reach homelabs, the big question being hardware enablement, which is difficult on ARM baseboards due to lack of standardization.

Disclaimer: I work with Vates, and prepared some component to compile under ARM to prepare the demo.

Preaching to the choir here :)

There’s time until March for the maintainers of the 3 niche architectures to organize and make rust available for them. Doesn’t sound that abrupt to me

Nevermimd that signal’s centralisation makes it vulnerable to this kind of outage, and that was a conscious design decision. So nobody should be surprise this has happened.