Jules Enriquez

State of the Budgie: 2025 In Review and Cranking Budgie Up To 11 2025 was a year of significant progress for Budgie Desktop, as we finalized much of our efforts in our Wayland migration, to bring Budgie 10 to a close and enable us to focus our efforts on Budgie 11....

Right, the one you really have been waiting for. Let's talk #Budgie 11 and how we plan on improving communication going forwards.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-o...

Looking forward to the next one!

beeg mouse

my wife is sold on linux since she found out in kde if you waggle the cursor it starts getting bigger to help you find it but there's no apparent limit to how big it can get

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

fork-in-the-road meme, with "HOMEST-" at the start, "-ar runner" at the happy castle side, and "-UCK" toward the evil scary house, in their respective logos' styles.

OH: "oh yeah, that flash webcomic... HOME-something?"

Housebound

Purafied audio plugin bundle normally $238

Checkout for purafied audio everything bundle for $2.64

Do you want $473 in audio plugins for literally less than $3 because guitar center pissed off Sam Pura? If you use the discount code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER to get his everything bundle you can live this dream.

To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

Top text reading: "The European Citizens' Initiative is OPEN!" A speedometer showing progress on the Stop Killing Games Initiative, with the dial showing 1.401503 million signatures, a filled blue bar for the 1 million signature threshold, and 4 filled smaller yellow bars representing 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 million signatures passed. A button below reads "Sign the EU Petition"

1 million to 1.4 million in 17 days! Incredible! Push for 1.5-1.6 million to have politicians pay more attention to us and build our buffer!: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public

Come on gamers, gamer allies and relatives of gamers! Let's fight against "own nothing and be happy" and #StopKillingGames !

Google seems to be in the process of splitting up Android and Pixels along with moving towards treating other Android-based platforms as their competitors instead of their partners. Pixels retain first class alternate OS support with Android 16 firmware so it's not about that.

In May, we began preparing to port to Android 16 despite our most active senior developer responsible for leading OS development being unavailable (bsky.app/profile/grap...). Android 16 launched today and porting is going to be significantly more difficult than we were expecting.

Unfortunately, Android has made changes which will make it much harder for us to port to Android 16 and future releases. It will also make adding support for new Pixels much more difficult. We're likely going to need to focus on making GrapheneOS devices sooner than we expected.

Yeah uh, think that raisin bread you ate earlier became magical (read: expired).

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

That's a bio-worthy quote, if I've ever seen one!

Getting the feeling that if someone likes a place when it's winter, they'll prolly love it in any other season.

Haters will say that yellow snow is coloured by piss, but True and Real Snow Enjoyers KNOW that it is actually just spilled mango juice with milk. Don't believe their lies!

*brain freezes from frigid mountain air*

We have *NOT* paid for an advertisement for The Real Game Awards.

I've never even heard of it until an hour ago.

Experiencing working trains, walkable cities, and a more tolerant society in person while on a Northern Europe trip can really change someone, faster than expected. 🥰

There is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck. Guessing the slide was meant to say the series is meant for products like that, not announcing anything specific.

DOOM® CAPTCHA Prove you're human by playing DOOM

Captcha but it's a DOOM level on Nightmare difficulty:
doom-captcha.vercel.app

#doom #retrogaming #security #captcha

Watchy with a black, anodised aluminium case showing the Starfield watchface

cohost's eggbug with 2022-2024 being shown underneath on a Watchy

Microscope shot of the CH9102F USB-to-TTL chip on a Watchy v2 clone board

Various in-progress watchface design mockups for the Watchy

Closing out 2024 by talking about my experiences, recommendations, and future plans with Watchy, an open-source basic E-Ink smartwatch:
meander.site/my-watchy/

#opensource #eink #watchy #tech #esp32 #hardware #watch

Open source software only looks like it has more issues than close source software because people are forced to be open about it. In reality, a lot of closed source software does have the same level of vulnerabilities that open source software does, but you don't hear about it. This is by design.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

PSA: if you're on Firefox, go to about:serviceworkers and clear some of these out for sites you aren't using or don't get notifications from. They're background processes taking up RAM/CPU.

Chrome hides this same thing in the Dev Tools under the Application tab: developer.chrome.com/docs/devtool...

You'd think that they'd at least hold off on suggesting backdoored encryption, given the recent event which caused the recommendation to use E2EE in the first place.

IceWeasel on Haiku viewing a YouTube video from Action Retro titled "You Should Daily Drive Haiku OS"

IceWeasel on Haiku viewing Google Maps set to Paris

Haiku Community Discord's #haiku-general channel shown in IceWeasel on Haiku

Home page of meander.site (personal website) viewed in IceWeasel on Haiku, with its DOS-era aesthetic.

An experimental @haiku.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy port of Iceweasel (read: differently-branded Firefox) is now available on HaikuDepot:
depot.haiku-os.org#!/pkg/icewea...

#haiku #haikuos #firefox #iceweasel