First paragraph after the introduction:

what is a “modern terminal experience”? Here are a few things that are important to me, with which part of the system is responsible for them:

• multiline support for copy and paste: if you paste 3 commands in your shell, it should not immediately run them all! That’s scary! (shell, terminal emulator)
• infinite shell history: if I run a command in my shell, it should be saved forever, not deleted after 500 history entries or whatever. Also I want commands to be saved to the history immediately when I run them, not only when I exit the shell session (shell)
• a useful prompt: I can’t live without having my current directory and current git branch in my prompt (shell)
• 24-bit colour: this is important to me because I find it MUCH easier to theme neovim with 24-bit colour support than in a terminal with only 256 colours (terminal emulator)
• clipboard integration between vim and my operating system so that when I copy in Firefox, I can just press p in vim to paste (text editor, maybe the OS/terminal emulator too)
• good autocomplete: for example commands like git should have command-specific autocomplete (shell)
• having colours in ls (shell config)
• a terminal theme I like: I spend a lot of time in my terminal, I want it to look nice and I want its theme to match my terminal editor’s theme. (terminal emulator, text editor)
• automatic terminal fixing: If a programs prints out some weird escape codes that mess up my terminal, I want that to automatically get reset so that my terminal doesn’t get messed up (shell)
• keybindings: I want Ctrl+left arrow to work (shell or application) being able to use the scroll wheel in programs like less: (terminal emulator and applications)

There are a million other terminal conveniences out there and different people value different things, but those are the ones that I would be really unhappy without.

So basically it’s the features that have been standard in shells and terminal emulators for the past couple of decades.

What does this mean?

You’re welcome. I’ve been using Linux for 26 years and had never heard of (or at least didn’t remember hearing of) MPD, so it’s not just new users. We all feel a different part of the elephant.

What is MPD?

MPD (Music Player Daemon) is a server-client audio player long popular with Linux users. The headless daemon runs as a background service, typically on a remote audio server. Music is then accessed via a GUI client frontend, which connects to the MPD server to stream content.

Kind of like running your bespoke, curated music streaming service, in a sense.

Stevie “KillCreek” Case?

How did you bypass the password?

They are included in the updates to -testing.

Only after they meet the requirements to be moved from unstable.

From the wiki:

It is a good idea to install security updates from unstable since they take extra time to reach testing and the security team only releases updates to unstable.

and

Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the worst security update speed. Don’t prefer testing if security is a concern.

- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

There is some advice on that page about how to deal with security updates for testing and I’m wondering how people who use testing take that advice, and what changes they make to get security updates. Or maybe you don’t bother. That’s what I mean.

What do you do for security updates?

Was the server officially released by Blizzard or was it reverse-engineered and built by the community?

What are the specs and how are you finding the performance?

Now this is web-design I can get behind.

This game sounds like it has some really interesting ideas. The comparisons with Rez and the description of the game made me think of Thumper, which is also a game you should definitely try.

if they had access to Windows-based software (Blender, Unreal Engine, 3D slicing software, etc.,).

All of those applications that you mentioned run on Linux too. Maybe check if everything you want to use runs on Linux and then you don’t need to sell your students’ souls on their behalf.

Right, but that dongle is connected to the CAN bus directly right? I was wondering what is accessible over just the smartphone integrations (CarPlay and Android Auto).

Thanks

What car sensors are normally accessible to CarPlay and Android Auto, and what are they used for?

My car doesn’t expose any car features or sensors to CarPlay at all. I just use the connected display for maps and playing audio.

Could you link the RPi projects that you’ve seen? Sounds interesting.

You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.

It depends on the provenance of the code and who (if anyone) is downstream.

A project that’s packaged in multiple distros is more likely to be reliable than a project that only exists on github and provides its own binary builds.

I think we can make an exception for soup and ice-cream, no?

So then what happens when someone spoofs a GPS signal outside your AI datacenter? … I think I like this idea.

I thought this was going to be a new article or news, but it’s from April 9, 2024.

I think this situation has been picked over and rehashed now to the point where anyone who was going to change their behaviour will have already done so. If there is no update on the situation then all I see is you dragging up drama from a year ago.