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  • [Meta] how many market share articles are too many?

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  • It looks like network traffic and steam survey data are very noisy. So it's every other month we get articles like "Linux hit a new percentage record" "Linux just fell down 2 percentage points, will it ever recover" The multitude of articles trying to click bait as much as possible is getting annoying after a while.

  • Seeking help making a short demo video for a Windows app hosted on GitHub

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  • You don't need a video. You need marketing & communication 101. During covid I am sure some professors uploaded lectures to youtube, or pick up the book if it's more your jam. Think about what you want to communicate to a person coming across your project for the first time. Make bullet points and rank them. Then begin writing including all the information in that order.

    A good readme would be sufficient. Go to some popular project and copy their structure of its readme in your project.

  • How many new lines of code does an average Linux kernel developer produce per year?

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    1. You are mixing up the units here. Value is not a real money, and you can't pay salaries with value. You can pay salaries with cash.
    2. To actually get how many LOC in a kernel per person per year they produce. You need to look at git history, and do data science on it. It's doable and easy but not really my area of expertise.
    3. You need to account for that vast majority of contributors make just one patch and they are never heard from again. They don't work full time, or even part time on the kernel.

  • Anyone know what this is?

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  • It makes sense in Terry A. Davis/Temple OS sense. Someone mentally ill needs everything to be symmetrical. They substitute o with Ⓞ in www.gⓄⓄgle.com I think they use fancy unicode to have a bearable symmetrical font; And someday they found that they can upload stuff to github and they upload what they made.

  • Anyone know what this is?

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  • At first glance there is a lot of noise that look like an ARG but there is just too much random stuff. There are some binary blobs that are marked as executable. They might be malware.

    Edit:

    Found blender screenshots, firefox screenshots with some firefox extension config files, SVGs and PNGs, links to alternative 4chans, solidworks tutorials and blender VK groups

    They are crazy for using VERY heavily riced windows that is ultra-minimalist white.

    Russian hacker for sure. Might or might not have developed malware. I am more inclined for this to be a cloud backup hosted on github.

    Edit2: The Filepath is crazy

  • How would you design online communities so they don't degenerate over time?

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  • If you have time you could implement an experiment in piefed or lemmy to test how it feels.

    Would this actually prevent the decay, or just slow it down?Is there a simpler/better mechanism I’m missing?

    I guess there are sociology books written about it, but I don't know any.

  • What's your approach to monitoring side projects without overengineering it?

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  • I have my (1) project as homepage, if it doesn't load on browser startup then I have ze problem. (I am a monster with disabled tab restoring.)

    IDK what I will do if I will have more than one, but that's future me problem.

  • Favorite open source game?

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  • Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2

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  • Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (and much nicer) Qt interface

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  • Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (and much nicer) Qt interface

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  • Depending what you mean by issue. You can disable it easly.

  • Open source Airdrop alternative?

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  • Not mentioned before: KDE connect. It doesn't need KDE to work.

  • VideoLAN Announces dav2d as an Open-Source and Super Fast AV2 Decoder

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  • From Q&A in git repo:

    Is dav2d a recursive acronym?Yes, but it is less funny than dav1d :(, except in French ("deux-vid")

  • I finally figured out how to track window velocity, so I used user32.dll to forcefully unclick my mouse and shatter the UI as a "punishment".

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  • Liquid glass doesn't break because it isn't mounted ina windows or is it because it's liquid?

  • Anyone looking for a project?

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  • Can you make an elevator pitch? I am still confused what problem are you trying to solve and, how it's different than existing solutions?

  • Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub

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  • Looks like another musescore situation.

    Open source app with paid addons

    The business model worked once, time will tell if it will work again.

  • Is it technically possible to support Arabic usernames?

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  • If you won't provide any details no one will be able to help you.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I think you should try out different file managers like GNOME files or Dolphin from KDE. One might solve your issue with iPhone

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • On bazzite

    • Can't change my Plymouth boot screen
    • Can't set animated icons in toolbar (KDE)
    • The screen transition I chose is glitchy
    • The translation tries VERY hard to be different from windows (idk what's up with that as on other system it was normal(propably, I would need to make sure))
    • I don't know how to run containers from within containers, but that's a skill issue. (I wanted to build piefed from distrobox)

    For the longest time I had to disable manually a module so my graphics tablet would work. It was fixed a month ago!

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