Doing a very quick search on this and it looks like the firmware updater uses webbluetooth. This knife has bluetooth hardware in it.

Ehhh… Reads like the standard “we’re happy with you tweaking it, but don’t want to be liable for you breaking it.”

If you try to sue them, they can point to this section of their docs and say you didn’t follow their recommendations.

“Why yes, can we order 1kg of kilogram and a 1m metre please?”

I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s

He charges no interest and doesn’t seem to have a payment deadline. You could honestly just leave at any point and never pay him.

Feels like you’re scamming him rather than the other way around.

I know I’m an adult because when I read this, my first thought was “You should keep an eye on Calvin just in case there’s more broken glass somewhere.”

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I’m on the losing team. ;_;

Nothing some estrogen can’t fix.

Looks like a scam to me. It can do all these tests to find security issues, but instead of telling you how to fix things (or do it itself) it has you input it to an AI?

Yeah, GNU IMP. Recognisable and easy to understand for those familiar with the old name.

WLBR just seems like people being clever for clevers sake.

The problem with tools like this is that they don’t actually check that the mail is sent correctly. You can define security keys, but they don’t mean anything if your mail server doesn’t use them correctly.

For testing, I use https://www.mail-tester.com/ which you send an email to and it does more thorough tests on the server and email itself.

Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it’s unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive.

Improvements!

But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.

I’d like to suggest Linux Mint: It allows you to use guides and software written for Ubuntu but disables all the scummy stuff.

24.04 to 26.04 is a big version jump and sadly they can’t check every combination of hardware and software. Some people don’t go through the upgrade process and just back up their user data and reinstall when they want to upgrade to a new major release. In my experience, the automatic upgrader is usually fine but occasionally requires me to tweak something on my system.

Missing Nvidia drivers

Ubuntu has a “driver manager” software in the settings which should allow you to install recommended drivers.

Python not compatible with software like Proton VPN

What version are you using and how did you install it? You might be using an older version of their app and the issues are fixed in the latest versions. If you really can’t get their app to work, you can go to https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads#openvpn-configuration-files and download an OpenVPN file which you can import in your network settings. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as their app, but it still allows you to VPN your traffic.

My pc is not welcome in the new Ubuntu world :’(

I mean, isn’t Windows notorious for breaking things after an update as well? :P Computers in general are brittle and don’t handle change well.

Doesn’t that cause issues if a backdoor happened a few months ago and you should be updating to a recent fixed version?

NixOS would beg to differ. :P

No, no. It’s different because the stones humans use are rare. Right?

… Right?

Lift up your mouse. What is an LED but a spicy candle?

Anyone interested, there’s a colony sim game named Timberborn where you play as beavers. Unsurprisingly, this comic gets posted there every few weeks. :P

I was going to point out that comics like that should already be covered by the rules against discrimination… But reading the sidebar it doesn’t look like we have rules like that. We have a full paragraph detailing how an exposed nipple should be tagged, but nothing saying “hey, don’t be a homophobic sexist bigot”. Probably worth adding something to the rules like:

Discrimination such as homophobia, transphobia, sexism and racism are not welcome here. This applies both in comments and posted comics. Likewise, artists who have a large history of posting discriminatory content such as Stonetoss and Jago are similarly not allowed here.

Nazi bars form by exploiting moderators who are too afraid to say no and actively kick out a culture of hate.