One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention.

One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.

You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling malware.

You don't get it from a walled garden with commercial incentives to let publishers hurt you.

You don't have to fumble around Google trying to find if the site offering it is reputable.

You get it from a party, usually made up of dedicated volunteers, who believe in the platform and who are vetting all the software they build and package for you. Usually the same one you got your base system from.

Hey, sincere thank you to anyone who is taking extra steps to be covid- and infection-cautious this holiday season. Masking, getting vaxxed, avoiding or changing events when you're ill, sometimes these decisions are not easy to make but you will never know whose life you might have saved by breaking a chain of infections.

So, thank you.

Sebastian Aaltonen's “No Graphics API” post is long-awaited and very important

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

I suspect the % of our audience that understand GPU architecture enough to meaningfully understand and comment on it is quite small

as for us, our knowledge is confidential 🙃