today's leftovers
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Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts Weekly recap — 22 October 2024
Week highlights: new releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on upcoming major releases from GIMP and FreeCAD.
Disclaimer: yes, it’s been quite a while. I’m bringing back weekly recaps under different terms. Now they will show up for Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee supporters first ($3 tier and higher on Patreon, all subscribers on BMAC) and for regular Libre Arts readers later. The same will apply to more types of posts, but not all of them. If you have better options for this type of a soft paywall, please bring them up. Okay, let’s get on with it.
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ Shadows of Doubt - Review
Cashier serves me coffee, steamy hot but I wonder how long ago it was made because the Diner looks dead at this time of the day. I can’t complain, best price in town and open 24 hours. At least my hands are warm from holding the cup. I make sure the cup lid is well fastened before heading up to the corkboard by the payphone. Locals pin odd jobs on those, from finding missing items to jealous partners looking for proof of cheating, and I could really use the money. There are only ads pinned this time, mostly apartments I cannot afford for sale. Better check the board of another place, I open the map and take a sip of my coffee… something isn’t right. Nausea kicks in, my vision blurs and I barely reach the bathroom in time to throw-up.
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Audiocasts/Shows
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mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 448.5 – All About Headphones
In our Innards section: We talk headphones [...]
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: What is Ubuntu used for?
The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the GNU/Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force.
Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu. And that’s because developers love Ubuntu – it is ranked as the #1 GNU/Linux OS by enterprise developers.
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Standards/Consortia
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Jim Nielsen ☛ The Lowest Common Denominator: www
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to.
But on the web you give up that control. Can’t quite do the thing you want? You’re options are: 1) make a native app, 2) make a browser that does what you want (see: Google), or 3) rethink and reset the constraints of your project.
But when you choose to build for the web instead of native, you’re not just giving up control in return for nothing. It’s a trade-off. You trade control for reach.
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