Thom, Itanium™ influencer

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osnews.com managing editor. Dutchman living in Sweden. Dumb fuck.

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Trans rights are human rights. He/him. Also, praise be the catgirls, trans people, and twinks that keep Fedi running. 🏳️‍🌈

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For people who with a deep disdain for web-based email, the Linux desktop is not in a great place. Evolution and Kmail are creaking under their own weight (groupware is so 2003), Geary is dead, Thunderbird is not native and looks and feels like it, Claws/Sylpheed/Balsa are relics, and that's it.

It's clear people aren't lining up to develop email clients when the paths of least resistance are web-based email and Thunderbird, but I still think both KDE and GNOME are missing a core, focused, user-friendly email application. I wish I could program.

FreeBSD made major gains in laptop support this year

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematically addressing the gaps that have held FreeBSD back on modern laptop hardware. 

The project started in 2024 Q4 and covers areas i

https://www.osnews.com/story/144050/freebsd-made-major-gains-in-laptop-support-this-year/

#FreeBSD

FreeBSD made major gains in laptop support this year – OSnews

I wish software and websites would kindly stop assuming I want my UI to be in Dutch just because I happen to be Dutch.

Since the first time I used a computer, at 5 years old in 1989, I've used them in English. I do not want Dutch in my UIs, ever.

Especially Tuba is so nice compared to Tokodon. The latter needs some more love - the developers are doing great work as it is, but it feels like it could use a deft UI designer touch.

Except for the name. Tuba is a shit name with an even shittier icon.

Look, GNOME is really nice* now.

*Extensions required.

Oh fuck I'm out of M.2 SSDs

Oh fuck oh fuck

SNL isn't funny. It's humour with a hatchet instead of a scalpel.

So much cringe.

when are we going to see rappers flexing ram sticks in their videos

I keep seeing anti-vaxxers, freebirth advocates, etc., be like, “Well, what did babies do before modern medicine, then?!”

This. They did a lot of this.

I'm so sorry but as a very much Hollander this one was just too easy. Y'all are great down there. 🫶