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Desktop software I use June 2025 edition

 I currently run Fedora 42 as my main work and private machine. Desktop software:  Firefox for work because that's the only viable alternative Firefox nightly because testing releases is important and a very easy way to contribute Thunderbird, so I can read four email accounts at the same time and get notifications NewsFlash because I *need* an RSS feed reader. Hexchat - because I still use IRC (three different networks)  Papers because I like the idea of a Rust based PDF viewer Google chrome because I need to access teams meetings once in a while Chromium so I can play TTRPG with foundryvtt   Command line tools: Podman I'm trying not to use docker to see if it's viable on my new work machine  jq, awk, cat , less and normal unix tools. lnav for log reading atuin for shell history management fish as my default shell   

Moving to Signal is hard

because it's a social move, not a real technical one. In my social circle, I use the following text exchanging technologies when it comes to small messages :  SMS WhatsApp Signal Email These make up probably more than 90% of all my communications. For more geekier ones, like open source contributions and professional ones, add slack, matrix and IRC. I don't use any other protocols. Most of my personal communications are done over WhatsApp : Family group, Sports for the kids groups. One group I'm not part of still uses FB messenger. Over the years, I've tried hard to move off WhatsApp. The issue is that Signal doesn't offer anything besides privacy that would make people move from WhatsApp. You can create groups, send images etc. People do not understand or care about the privacy implications of using WA. The recent addition of the AI circle in WA didn't change a thing. WA is everywhere, everyone has it. Signal is not installed by default, people will need to ins...

Enfants et ordinateur

En septembre, j'ai acheté un Belink SER, dont je ne me souviens plus du numéro :-) Le grand entrant en 6ᵉ, il me semblait important que les enfants aient un accès a un ordinateur. La machine est assez puissante pour qu'ils puissent jouer et découvrir si besoin ou si l'envie s'en ferrait sentir l'informatique. J'ai installé Linux, Fedora avec KDE pour que l'interface soit assez proche de celle qu'ils rencontrent à l'école. Ils sont root, et peuvent installer ce qu'ils veulent. Pas surpris du tout, ils jouent, soit en local, soit dans le navigateur. Au niveau Hard, j'ai deux regrets : Pas de support de mise à jour du firmware via LVFS . D'autre part la machine parait ne pas être capable de sortir de léthargie, l'écran reste noir quand on veut se connecter après avoir éteint celui-ci sans éteindre la machine.  Niveau soft rien à redire, à part le grand qui demande Windows pour jouer avec les copains. Côté censure, parce qu'ils ne se ...