XP is still not great, but you no longer have to wait outside the barrier… which is a big plus. Managed to do a few rounds this morning and got to 71 RC and was rewarded a few pearls.

Over the course of the last 20 years, I’ve gone from Arch -> Void -> Pop!_OS -> Ubuntu, and that is what I use on all my machines (laptops, desktops, servers).

I’m very close to 99 mining (about 400k left), so will probably continue star mining and amethyst mining.

My medium term goal is Varrock Elite (which is why I starting mining) and all I have left is 7 more runecrafting levels… but I really dislike this skill, so have been dragging my feet.

Old School Runescape.

I’m not sure. As long as it keeps working, I’ll probably keep using it until a viable alternative appears. I use my laptop more than my phone, so I don’t actually need passwords on my phone as often.

This one hurts… as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{

I still haven’t done much of Varlamore Part 1(just some thieving of rich citizens and hunter rumours). With Part 2, I did do the Colossol Wyrm agility course and got the graceful recolor. I have yet to do Moons or the new prayer training.

That said, I did try out Hueycotl with some friends and… it was kinda lacking. The fight is long and the drops are not good. I know they recently buffed the drop table a bit, but I’m not in a rush to go back… Which is fine, I still have lots of things to do (ie. I just finished Sins of the Father and am now working on the Elite Varrock diary).

I think the “Ubuntu Core 22” means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.

If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22 as its base.

Looks like a number of patches are landing in Ubuntu to address this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/2082335

Update: CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available

This is a great summary. Thanks!

It looks like you are running XFCE instead of GNOME (the normal Ubuntu desktop). I’m not sure how that happened… but you an always just install another desktop.

For instance, you can try to make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-desktop-minimal metapackage installed:

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal

After that, the login manager should allow you to select the Ubuntu session rather than the XFCE one.

Still using mutt after two decades (with isync for fetching).

I wrote a Python script to parse the data and convert into RGB values. Here are the light mode values:

            blue 00496c
             red a0252b
           green 3b6e43
          yellow 966800
    bright_green 00572c
      bright_red 880418
   bright_orange 782c00
   ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
      ext_orange fab86c
      ext_yellow f6e062
        ext_blue 6acad8
      ext_purple d48cff
        ext_pink ff9bdd
      ext_indigo 95c4fc
     accent_blue 00525a
      accent_red 78292e
    accent_green 185529
accent_warm_grey 554742
   accent_orange 624000
   accent_yellow 534800
   accent_purple 68217b
     accent_pink 860439
   accent_indigo 2e496c

Here are the dark mode values:

            blue 94ebeb
             red ffb5b5
           green abf6d1
          yellow fff19e
    bright_green 5edb8c
      bright_red ffa090
   bright_orange ffa37d
   ext_warm_grey 9b8e8a
      ext_orange ffad00
      ext_yellow fddb40
        ext_blue 48b9c7
      ext_purple ce7dff
        ext_pink f93983
      ext_indigo 3e88ff
     accent_blue 63d0de
      accent_red fca1a0
    accent_green 92ce9b
accent_warm_grey cabab4
   accent_orange ffad00
   accent_yellow f6e062
   accent_purple e79bfd
     accent_pink ff9bb1
   accent_indigo a1c0eb

They have the RGB values as decimals in the light.ron and dark.ron files here: https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic/blob/master/cosmic-theme/src/model/

You would need to convert the numbers to hexadecimal manually.

Yes, based on the diagrams on their blog, it looks like this only impacts Snaps.

From the Discourse Blog:

The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.

Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.

So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.

I used to use VLC for music, but these days I use Symphony to play local files on my phone. VLC tended to struggle when scanning or indexing large folders (which it did all the time…), while Symphony is a bit better at that. That said, I still use VLC for video and for casting things from my DLNA server (VLC supports Chromecast).

For ebooks, I’ve used Librera FD and that has been mostly OK. I’ll checkout the two you mentioned though. Thanks!

I think you meant Pop!_OS (is developed by System76). TuxedoOS is developed by Tuxedo Computers, which is a European Linux focused hardware company.

That said, the point stands… there are hardware companies making Linux supported devices.

What is this article How to install the Rust Cosmic Desktop environment on Pop!_OS?

Either, if you want to use the new COSMIC login screen, you can install the cosmic-greeter package:

sudo apt install cosmic-greeter

Once that is installed, you should be able to switch back and forth between cosmic-greeter and gdm3 with:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

and selecting whichever login manager you wish to use.

I’ve been using Weechat-Android to connect to my self-hosted Weechat for over a decade. This is one of the killer mobile apps that keeps me on Android and I love it.

I also have a couple instances of thelounge that people use on mobile via the PWA (progressive web app).