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Nick Richards
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PC Gamer, the place to get your up to the minute Linux scheduler news https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/this-scientifically-dubious-linux-cpu-scheduler-makes-decisions-based-on-real-time-planetary-positions-zodiac-signs-and-astrological-principles/ also https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope looks absolutely *delightful*. Exactly the sort of playful software I want to see.
Jonty Wareing
John TI haven't really done an 'art process' post for a while.
I'll be riding with the Krewe of Freret in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parades in a few weeks, and our signature 'throw' is hand-decorated masks.
I decided to make mine out of laser-cut and heat-formed acrylic, which has been a JOURNEY.
After a few weeks of work and a dozen+ failures, I *finally* have one I'm happy with.
Now I just have to make ~20 or so more!
I'm sure Sebastian is actually aware of the Endless answer to this problem ten years ago, how we preinstalled flatpak applications and how they were also installed at startup. Lots of the answers were awful hacks and I'm delighted that the thing is actually properly integrated but this does read somewhat strangely to one skilled in the art https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-pre-installation/
Flatpak Pre-Installation Approaches
Together with my then-colleague Kalev Lember, I recently added support for pre-installing Flatpak applications. It sounds fancy, but it is conceptually very simple: Flatpak reads configuration files from several directories to determine which applications should be pre-installed. It then installs any missing applications and removes any that are no longer supposed to be pre-installed (with some small caveats). For example, the following configuration tells Flatpak that the devel branch of the app org.test.Foo from remotes which serve the collection org.test.Collection, and the app org.test.Bar from any remote should be installed:
I discovered this GNOME extension to improve automatic brightness settings if your computer has an Automatic Light Sensor (which mine does) https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8700/adaptive-brightness/ it's a nice improvement and the smoother changes make a perceptual difference. If you have a modern laptop then it may be worth trying it out.
BrookeIf you've changed your name, and you have old git commits that still show under your old name, you can fix it by adding a `.mailmap` file in the root of a git repository
This file lets you say what name and email address should appear any time git sees a particular email address for a commit author
Cassidy James 
I’ve added a bit more context in this blog post:
https://cassidyjames.com/blog/heres-to-whats-next/
Publicly reply here to comment on the blog post as well!
AndrewI got sucked into running the numbers on that "delete emails to save water" thing. Best estimates I can find are that live datacentre storage in the UK has a median water usage of ~80ml/GB/year. So a terabyte of cloud storage consumes 80 litres a year.
Network losses from leaks are on the order of 10-15,000 litres per person per year.
Glad we can see the culprit is definitely old forwarded cat photos.
Octopus Agile Prices is on Flathub. https://flathub.org/apps/com.nedrichards.octopusagile this is officially exciting. Super fun to use that infrastructure from the "other side" as the app developer. I have received three bug reports, two of which are fixed. Only one of the bugs was caused by the fix for another. I also wrote a blog post about it, which was nice I suppose. https://www.nedrichards.com/2025/07/octopus-agile-prices-for-linux/
