I use the Night Theme Switcher app to automatically control the light/dark mode . Might also work for you.

Also, it’s generally advisable to use the adw-gtk3 theme rather than Adwaita if you want GTK3 and GTK4 apps to look consistent.

Are there any gtk.css files in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/?

If so, delete them.

I get that you’re trying to be funny, but no they’re not exactly “equally valid”.

The WHO lists RF waves (including those from cellphones) under category Group 2B of possible carcinogens, along with a bunch of other stuff.

Are they being overly cautious? Almost certainly, yes. However, the idea is not inherently ridiculous.

Certainly, but the existence of this research is why countries like France are taking this precautionary approach.

To be fair, it’s not completely made-up. There is a body of evidence that suggests that even non-ionizing EM radiation may have so-called “biological effects” in humans.

Organizations like the Environmental Health Trust have been banging the “cellphones cause infertility and cancer” drum for years, and cites numerous studies on their website.

Of course, much of this research is of questionable relevance to real-world use cases involving actual phones and actual humans as opposed to, say, a bunch of rats being exposed to low-power microwaves in a lab for hours on end, but it exists nonetheless.

There is vast ocean of difference between collecting non-personalized, aggregate data internally to inform UI design decisions or improve system performance on the one hand and secretly logging personal information in order to pass on or sell to third parties on the other.

I don’t think the “some apps don’t work with Wayland” argument is particularly valid any more. The vast majority do, and most of those that don’t are outdated anyway. Gnome ships with it by default and KDE is really close to that point as well.

There really shouldn’t need to be any debate whether to implement it or not at this point- clinging on to X11 is just delaying the inevitable.

I’m not familiar with your last point - what analytics does it skew and how?

This might not be the most popular take, but IMO the fuss about Fedora’s (proposed) telemetry is way overblown. By all accounts, it seems intended to help the dev team improve OS performance and will still preserve user privacy.

People tend to lump all telemetry together but Fedora’s implementation would be significantly less concerning than that which users of Android, Windows and Apple OSs currently put up with on a daily basis.

Agreed. I actually think Pop OS and Nobara are the best beginner distros right now. Mint is falling a bit behind the times.

According to a recent announcement by one of the devs:

We also want to spend time on studying the pros and cons of Wayland and to assess the work needed in its potential adoption.

In other words, they haven’t even started yet.

Thunars split view. I get tired by the Gnome developers, who removed this feature from Nautilus, explain that two Nautilus windows side by side are equivalent to a split view. It is not

I think the intended usage in Nautilus is to use tabs, not to have two windows side-by-side.

Personally, I find tabs preferable to a split-view.

It is definitely better since Bookworm, but it’s still not great.

The default installation .iso is a netinstall that uses Debian’s creaky old installer that looks like a text-based RPG from the 1980s when compared to a modern GUI Linux installer.

The live images, which are the best for new users because they do use a modern and user-friendly installer (Calamares) and allow pre-selection of the desktop environment, are still hidden away by needing to click through two more web pages to get to the list of isos, without any explanation of the different DEs or recommendations for new users.

It’s like they thought to themselves “we need to make it easier for new users, but we don’t want to make it too easy”.

Proton mail doesn’t support email clients unless you pay for and install their Proton Bridge app, FYI.

The scrolling lag is still an issue though. Go from Summit, Voyager, or Sync to Jerboa and it’s definitely noticeably worse.

I think so, but I’m no expert on the details of legal ownership.

@Dark_Arc@lemmy.world added a good comment here that explains the royalty free licensing.

The format actually has a lot of benefits - it supports transparency, animation, and compresses very efficiently. So it could theoretically replace GIF, JPG, and PNG in one fell swoop.

The downsides are that many apps don’t currently support it and that it’s owned by Google.

Personally I use webp for images that are not intended to share (e.g. banners and images on my blog), but stick to JPG/PNG for sending to other people.

The Thai government never asked for Elon’s help - he volunteered following a tweet by a twitter user who suggested that he help.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44779998

Also, his solution was never viable to begin with - the rescue organizers said straight away that the submersible would be useless in the cave environment.

Apart from selecting the folder view and making it really small, I don’t think so. Maybe look into hacking it using gconfeditor, or something?

BTW - your image link is broken.

That’s what we call the placebo effect.

Try telling 256kbps AAC and lossless apart when you don’t know which is which beforehand:

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/spotify-hq.html