I use Thunderbird for a decade, not sure maybe less, but it feels like a long time. I use Thunderbird exclusively for mail. But feels like this is the wrong place to ask, isn’t it?

Also Thunderbird is Mozilla’s most successful product. Meaning it is self sustainable.

PS patterns offer vendor lock-in. ;-)

Does it? Is is native or is it a plugin maybe, you forgot that its a plugin. Or if this is true, maybe the importing was removed in v3 until the re-implemented it? Official announcement part is here: https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/06/23/gimp-3-1-2-released/#photoshop-patterns I am sure if it was already supported, they would have said anything about it.

Looking through the documentation for legacy version 2.10, I found following part: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-concepts-patterns.html

Caution

Do not confuse GIMP-generated .pat files with files created by other programs (e.g. Photoshop) – after all, .pat is just a part of an (arbitrary) file name.

(However, GIMP does support Photoshop .pat files until a certain version.)

Looks like v2.10 did not support Photoshop Pattern officially. But it supported it in prior versions (not sure when they stopped).

I remember MNG and never understood why APNG wasn’t officially recognized. I didn’t know it was widely supported already. Why do people still create and use GIF in the internet, if there is a superior format?

Direct link to the update news. They are pretty good at explaining it, so no need for an article in my opinion https://www.darktable.org/2025/06/darktable-5.2.0-released/

The first thing that comes to my mind is, it might be a scam. Confirm the mail is from Github. Can’t help otherwise, but this is what I think first.

This is how you challenge actual pirates and grow your real enemy, while you punish innocent civilians. Pirates will pirate, regardless of what Nintendo says, wants or does. The real losers are loyal customers who pay lot of money.

• get a dock
• attach keyboard and mouse on the dock and connect the dock to a monitor
• go into desktop mode on your Steam Deck
• open up Discover and install applications

Basically a full fledged PC. There are some limitations, but for the most part you are able to code on it. You can write text and source code files, edit videos, edit images, browse the web with regular Firefox and so on. I can’t say if the Steam Deck works well creating games with Godot, but technically it shouldn’t stop you from trying.

Oh now this looks so obvious! Thank you and it works. Man Python might has its shortcomings, but it can be so elegant and easy to do so complex stuff in short time.

Just as a side note, after I created this topic, was curious to ask a local programming LLM Ai model. I usually don’t use Ai, but was curious to if it could help here finding the solution. I provided the entire post and it gave me the correct answer, basically the same as yours. Just a curiosity.

KDE has you covered. Someone made an applet that works on Wayland too: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-cursor-eyes

Your data in the cloud should be at best being another backup, in addition to your local backup you do regularly. And even that is a stretch, because those companies can analyze your data on the cloud too. Man, people have so much trust in companies like Microsoft.

While it actually works, there are truly some missing features obviously. The hope is, when lot of major distributions and desktop environments stop supporting X11, then application developers and Wayland developers have to find a solution quicker. This will accelerate development of Wayland, at least the remaining issues.

One area where Wayland needs to improve is support for various accessibility features.

Docker is not needed. You can run a subshell like ZSH directly in a shell from Bash in example. And you get set the executable path of each script like #!/usr/bin/env zsh. I don’t get why a Docker is needed for this.

Edit: I should read more before commenting nonsense like this… It’s already a topic in the article. My bad. I leave the comment here, so nobody else makes the same mistake.

I’m worried. Why? Because most people buy Windows 11, which is worse for them.

I started with RetroPie long time ago too. :-) RetroPie is an operating system that is build to be a Gaming distribution basically. It uses RetroArch on its backend for the emulators and Emulation Station for the UI. When you select and run a game in Emulation Station (the UI on operating system level), then it runs RetroArch with a core and a game. While ingame, you can open the RetroArch menu as well.

In short: RetroPie is an operating system setup to use RetroArch for the emulation.

I’m a huuuge fan of RetroArch and have setup over 80 cores :D. I only use standalone emulators for cores that are not available in RetroArch (such as Yuzu and RPCS3).

The article itself is a bit bare bones though. Here is the official installation documentation for Linux: https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-gnu/ I personally have it installed through the official Archlinux package, but they are slow on updating it. Its more than a month now and they still are on an older version. Bleeding Edge? Who says that! It’s the reason why I think to switch to the Flatpak version, maybe, maybe not.

When you install it through the official package in Archlinux, you have to change some paths in the settings where cores are saved. That way you can use the RetroArch internal update, so it can download and install cores in the directory you want. Because if you install RetroArch from official package, its managed and installed in a directory the normal user have no access without sudo. I changed the cores path to “~/.config/retroarch/cores”. Note, Flatpak has its own file structure and paths, so do not do this with that.

There is also an official RetroArch version for Steam. I use that on my Steam Deck. The good thing is, its always up to date on day one release of RetroArch. And it has Cloud Save support for save files of games. Negative is, that not all cores are supported. However you can install them manually in the cores directory, but then you have to update it manually too if you do that. I also have my own custom controls and menus for RetroArch on Steam Deck, but not uploaded it yet. Really really need to do this…

Last but not least, some shameless plug of a post I made about RetroArch Shaders: https://thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/showcase-for-retroarch-shaders-2024/

Don’t tell me how to argue and how i feel about it. Not everything is white and black. There is grey and color in between.

I’m on Arch based system and don’t think about it.I get it automatically.

As long as this is optional and can be turned off, I think there are bigger problems right now. Its not optimal off course and it would be better to opt-in. At least there is the option to turn it off.

10 years from now, we get retrospective documentary on other video platforms about the downfall of Google.