Holiday season is coming and that also means a new holiday themed wallpaper!

This time it will feature some friends from the Universal-Blue space :)

Coming soon to images near you!

#linux #christmas

New blog post: Self-hosting my photos with Immich 🥳

For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager.

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/

#selfhosting #linux #nixos #immich

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screenshot of my blog post about self-hosting photos with immich

Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12181-solus-updates-for-week-48-2025

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

Hi @tommi,
#permacomputing forever!
A side note: I rent out 9 year old #ThinkPad​s with #Linux #Mint and refer to https://mro.name/laptop/#:~:text=Permacomputing

It looks like my local repair cafe is going to help switch people to linux mint.

#RepairCafe #linux #linuxmint #byewindows10

Is it just me, or is busybox.net down? #linux #busybox #kernel

It looks like archive.org haven't cached it since October!

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mangohud-performance-overlay-for-linux-v0-8-2-released/

#MangoHud #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

Two things that would've made my #Thinkpad x260 a perfect laptop:

• A little nicer screen (>1366x768, not TN (that's on me for not reading the ebay description more closely))
• A backlit keyboard, or heck, even a derpy ThinkLight XD

Otherwise, this is a pretty sweet bit of kit. 6th gen i5, 8GiB RAM, 256GB SSD, responsive keyboard, TouchPoint (ThinkNubbin) and touchpad, internal and external battery, roughly 6.5-8 hours battery life (I got 5:21:00 active usage yesterday and it only got down to 48% on the little internal battery (0% on the external) when I was done (it estimated 1:20:00 remaining)), super friendly to both #Linux and #BSD. Oh, and it's dirt cheap right now.

Save on 2K games like XCOM, Risk of Rain Returns and Rollerdrome in a new Green Man Gaming bundle https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/save-on-2k-games-like-xcom-risk-of-rain-returns-and-rollerdrome-in-a-new-green-man-gaming-bundle/

#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #GameBundle

Bist du in Deutschland und magst #OpenSource? Dann solltest du das unterschreiben:

"Open-Source-Entwickler fordern Gleichstellung mit Vereinsarbeit:
Eine #Petition fordert, ehrenamtliche Arbeit an Open-Source-Software rechtlich wie klassisches #Ehrenamt zu behandeln – mit steuerlichen Vorteilen."
https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html

Edit: Direktlink zur Petition:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

#Ehrenamt #Steuern #FOSS #Linux #LibreOffice #KDE ...

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/itch-io-is-hosting-a-creator-day-today-where-they-take-no-fee-from-developers/

#itchio #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming

So I now have a spare laptop with Ryzen 5700u 16Gb RAM 1TB m.2 to install a using focus distros on.

I have on my other laptop and workstation for tinkering and dev.

For this one the idea is to try out #Linux distros for beginners, such as coming from Win10, that just want to use for everyday tasks in life, school and so on.

I have noted #zorinOS gain popularity recently.

Which else can be interesting to try out?

Thanksgiving #ffxiv lan party. Hillaious part is, it's 4 steam decks and a Mac.

Zero #windows machines at this #gaming party! Yay for #steamDeck and #linux !

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3 kids and 2 adults all on a couch playing games

Today we are thankful for each and every contributor to the Free and Open Source software that makes GNOME possible. ❤️ And of course, we’re extra grateful for the contributors to GNOME projects, tirelessly working to build and improve our diverse and sustainable personal computing ecosystem.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Linux

We're working hard to put dinosaurs in #linux - I love how the Tenacious Pterosaur #ubuntu homage turned out!

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-and-paleoartists/

Spent some time adding full macOS/aarch64 support to the toy OS

Including proper working Secure Boot!

...after much learning about the subtle differences between QEMU on aarch64 vs x86_64...

https://github.com/alexhaydock/NekOS

#linux

@kabel42

Yeah, #FreeBSD is VERY #Linux-from-25-years-ago feeling. ;)

In some bad ways, but in many, many good ways.

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

"Traditional #Linux is NOT good enough".

@sysrich trying to drag desktop linux up to 2008-level reliability.

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"Traditional Linux is not good enough."

Some thoughts on what gamers nexus is doing with #linux !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmQrpALS6Dw

@wagesj45

I wonder if they really make money from Windows anymore, or if they're just passive-aggressive little berks that don't want to give up their paper kingdom.

Because AFAIK their web services (running #LINUX, of course!) are their real money makers. And I guess the "365" crap. lol

It's been interesting the last couple of years watching as #Windows slowly moves from being the beginner friendly #OS to the one that requires the most expertise to have a half-decent experience. You need de-bloat scripts, registry hacks, and you're constantly fighting Windows Update, never mind giving over some percentage of your system resources so that #Microsoft can spy on you.

Simultaneously, #Linux has unironically become the OS that's most beginner friendly.

@frameworkcomputer Framework's continued commitment to "deliberately create a big tent" is paying off.

More than a month since the last public statement comment from Framework on the subject and they still haven't distanced themselves from this guy.

The forum thread has over 2000 replies at this point..

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/

https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

#framework #dhh #ruby #linux #omarchy

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DHH on twitter quote twitting another racist post. DHH's posts read: > The Danes have been publishing detailed crime statistics and other social outcomes of immigrant groups since the late 90s. > It's shocking how poorly some specific groups manage to integrate, how much violence they bring, and how expensive it is for the Danish state to host them. > It's equally remarkable how well other groups do. Japanese people literally have the lowest crime stats of any tracked group in Denmark. Americans almost as low. Immigrantion works fine when you cherry pick the very best from high-performing countries.

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Framework's CEO on a public forum thread: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Valve release small Proton Experimental update for ARC Raiders, Uno and Far Cry 4 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-release-small-proton-experimental-update-for-arc-raiders-uno-and-far-cry-4/

#Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #ARCRaiders

Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis, and more) published a beautiful video inspired by my latest blog post. I was really pleased! It's in Italian, but auto-generated English audio track is available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqbKEx2mBM

#ITNotes #Linux #OpenSource #OSS #OpenSource

@jwildeboer #Linux? 🙏

I love #LocalSend, but #iOS interrupts the connection sometimes

As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/564

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Calendar

#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS

Time to learn another configuration language: KDL, apparently pronounced "cuddle" is supposed to deal with some of pitfalls of XML, JSON, YAML and TOML.

The author kindly asks that you stop sending them to a link to the XKCD "One more standard..." comic strip.

https://kdl.dev/

#Linux

@malcolm @thumbsup Noctalia also has a nice demo and works with #Niri and #Sway

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

#Linux

Another option for a polished experience with Niri as a scrolling tiling window manager is to integrate it with COSMIC. Developed by hardware seller @system76 COSMIC recently reached stable status.

https://github.com/Drakulix/cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

If you've been trying a scrolling tiling WM, let me know which one and how you like it!

#Linux

Scrolling tiling window managers visualize a desktop as infinitely wide. So when a new window opens on a full monitor, existing windows don't have to get smaller, they simply scroll left or right.

Once such window manager I'm looking at on Linux is #Niri. Seee a demo video here:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

To bring the bling for full a desktop to Niri, there's Dank Linux, which also a demo video:

https://danklinux.com/

#Linux

Support for being able to tile windows on your computer so they fill the whole screen has been growing. I appreciate being able to get the most out of my monitors and using keyboard to quickly manage my windows.

Now the next generation of tiling window managers is scrolling tiling window managers. In first-gen tiling window managers, as monitor filled up, existing windows many become smaller and smaller, until some windows become stupidly small. Scrolling Tilers solve this... 🧵

#Linux

@malcolm Dank Linux has an impressive demo video.

I may have to give it a try as well.

https://danklinux.com/

This appears to add a lot of bling to tiling window managers without packaging itself as a pile of shell scripts as #Omarchy does.

#Linux

Just a silly #meme...

#LossyPNG #doas #sudo #root #unix #linux #BSD #infosec

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Winnie-the-Pooh good-better-blurst meme: Good: sudo Better: doas Blurs't: ssh root@... Reduced to 8 colors to save space (#LossyPNG)

Proof that printing works on #nixbook

What a time to be alive!

#linux #nixos

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Printer test page

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven

＂… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …＂

#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD

Ok, if #OpenBSD overtakes either of the #Linux categories, I'm gonna swoon. 😂

#Poll #LiveTooting