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@thumbsup.eth
This thing looks incredible. Linux-native, user-reparable laptop with coreboot, a removable webcam, wireless kill switch. And peep that matte black magnesium chassis.
Hate the logo though, personally.
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter?shpxid=a000d6e4-188b-4cf5-9ed8-86b138889fbb
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@thumbsup.eth
This summarizes why, even if I liked the computing paradigm Omarchy offers—I don’t personally, which is why I don’t use it or Ryoku, or Caelestia, or anything similar—I still wouldn’t support it.
The headline of the distro contains “by DHH” and DHH is deranged, racist fuckwit.
I love this screenshot from the article of DHH lacking any capacity for self-reflection and instead thinking Claude is the problem because it’s like “bro you’re saying we should kill Romani people, that’s nazi af”
https://www.brokentoys.org/your-racist-linux-distro-is-very-nice/
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@thumbsup.eth
Gnome continuing to improve on what is already one of the easiest to use and most visually consistent desktop environments.
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/
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@thumbsup.eth
This is interesting.
Starling: A new desktop environment for Linux, built in Swift and Flutter, with Cosmic like toggle-on tiling. Clearly Starling is trying to be macOS-like, which will make it feel familiar to many mac users. That’s what originally made gnome appeal to me. But this also forces an important question: would you trust your entire DE to be built by Claude?
https://starling.build/
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@quest
As the maintainer of Plank Reloaded, the most common bug report I get is "this app has the wrong icon." It's almost never the dock - it's a broken StartupWMClass.
https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/startup-wm-class/
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@jdl
steam machine for $1100 has us bullish on getting the kid out of the hands of redmond and cupertino
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@thumbsup.eth
Commodore (as in 64), Linux flip phone...
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06/commodores-next-hardware-release-is-dumb-and-proud-of-it
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@jdl
is there a reasonable substitute for this that runs on arch? asking for a friend https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
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@thumbsup.eth
I got my Thinkpad's fingerprint sensor working on Linux and now I can log in or even authenticate in terminal with just a finger 💪
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