Yea, but he's (intentionally?) misrepresenting things.. people are not "unimpressed" by AI, what they are is not interested in MS "agentic OS", these are not the same things.
It's irresponsible to hand in control of your machine to an AI integrated that deeply into the OS, particularly when it's designed to be tethered to the network and it's privately owned and managed by human entrepreneurs that do have the company's interests as first and main priority.
Or distributed serverless P2P communication (like SimpleX does). Specially when it comes to an app that is just meant for person-to-person communications to begin with.
Samsung s22 and s25
I'm still holding some hope that maybe Samsung's flavor of the OS won't have the restriction of requiring Google keys. Specially considering that Samsung has its own "Galaxy Store" with app submissions controlled by them, not Google.
Though it's possible they might simply extend the signatures accepted to include also the ones signed by them ^^U ..still it would give them a competitive edge to remove the restriction so they might be incentivized to do it.
And even if they did somehow manage to get permission to switch the license, all previous versions would still be open in perpetuity so a fork would come easily. Immich source isn't only open, and not only GPL.. but AGPL-3.0 which is as copyleft as you can get.
Paradoxically, this move towards trying to make things more secure is actually gonna make things LESS secure.
Because it means that now the only way for people to continue using alternative apps is for them to be shipped with debug keys (the ones used during development) which are fundamentally insecure since they allow anyone to produce an apk and be accepted as a valid update of the app..
You still can release an apk that works by using a debug key.. the problem is that debug keys have essentially "public" credentials. Until now, it was possible to use your own credentials and ensure the app is secure by protecting your own keys and credentials, which is what F-droid was doing. Now this no longer is possible. I don't think this is the end of F-droid, but it'll be the end of F-droid using mechanisms for verification that used to be built-in on Android.
But I expect F-droid should be able to have it's own system for verification, before installing, that is parallel and independent of the apk signing process. They could have signatures in a separate file, outside the APK. This also has the additional paradoxical result that in order to ensure that the apps installed are safe, it's MORE important now to have a store app alternative that you trust and that can implement alternative signing/verification methods.
So... if anything, this move from Google makes Android less secure and makes key signatures within the apks kind of moot for any store that isn't Google-owned... however, it also means installing a non-Google owned store with some level of security guarantees is much more important now.
I prefer getting comfortable with bash, because it's everywhere and I need it for work anyway (no fancy shells in remote VMs). But you can customize bash a lot to give more colored feedback or even customize the shortcuts with readline. Another one is pwsh (powershell) because it's by default in Windows machines that (sadly) I sometimes have to use as VMs too. But you can also install it in linux since it's now open source.
But if I wanted to experiment personally I'd go for xonsh, it's a python-based one. So you have all the tools and power of python with terminal convenience.
The desktop has been losing market for a while. I feel Windows is already under serious threat (if not already in the minority) when you think about all the devices that mainstream audiences orbit around (phones, tablets, portable consoles, etc), often using the Linux kernel. Only about a third of most website traffic comes from desktops.
Many of the people who frequently use Windows desktop do so because of their job, and often avoid using it outside of work as much as possible, since it feels like.. well, work.
Microsoft has been desperately trying to appeal to those other bigger sectors of the pie and has failed every time.
PC Gaming was one sector they had advantage on, yet that has already started to crumble thanks to Valve. I feel that MS will just try to push for integrating their xbox with Windows OS more and more...
I feel it's a battle with many fronts, since PCs have many uses.. so MS is likely to run their typical spiel: copy what the competition are doing and try to centralize/integrate it with their OS in a way that gives them an advantage, as they are famous for doing.
Another sector they can do this is with the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)... they could turn Windows into a frontend for running Linux apps... so if Linux apps became popular, they could try to advertise Windows as the "best" way to run Linux software without losing the full first party support of legacy Windows software.
interoperability == API standardization == API homogeneity
standardization != monopolization
Thunar is a much better alternative, in my opinion.
It's ironic that GTK actually used to stand for GIMP ToolKit.
They were the first ones to use Gtk ever.. and it's looking like they will be the last ones to migrate to the newer major versions :P
In fact, it’s not unlikely that the behavioural data of people who pay to opt out of being spammed with ads will be more valuable to data brokers.
True. This is why the AdNauseam extension doesn't simply "hide" ads, but it goes out of its way to actually simulate clicks for ALL ads, causing algorithms to be unable to more accurately profile you and making the pay-per-click model fall on its face. If everyone did that, advertisers would have to pay for completely meaningless clicks making it no longer worth it to advertise this way.
Though it's still not a solution to privacy, since it still gives some insight on your tastes by allowing them to know what websites do you frequently visit.
But I'd bet it's a mix of 2 and 3.