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  • In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

    Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring.

    It’s the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.





  • I’m usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)…

    That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.







  • There should be the mandatory inclusion of a set of open APIs that pass info like:

    • display and audio signal (duh)

    • microphone audio (to pass voice commands)

    • whether the headlights are on (to offer auto dark mode switching on the display)

    • whether the handbrake is engaged (so things like video playback can be a parked-only feature)

    • crash sensor activation (so that a phone could, if the user desires, automatically alert emergency services)

    • For EVs, battery SoC (so that navigation software can include charging stops seamlessly)

    • whether the car is left-hand-drive or right-hand-drive (so on-screen buttons can always be close to the driver, not on the wrong side)

    From there on, there can be actual competition in the space. You’re not just limited to Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Any app would be able to use this API data.







  • Heroic Games Launcher has been improving a lot, now having install scripts like Lutris, more platforms available, and a lot less janky than it used to be.

    Bottles I don’t have much experience with for games, but it’s a really good program a lot of people use, and if you like Libadwaita apps it’s pretty amazing.

    If you only need Lutris as a game launcher (rather than the install scripts, WINE/Proton-GE, and such), Cartridge is a nice little GTK4/Libadwaita launcher too. But it is just that - a launcher, nothing more.