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[chilli]

Oh. But I think many of us suspected it already.

Farewell.

Yep, I just couldn't say anything for sure (though I knew it would not be Gnome 3 and well, it's not).

New stuff happening right now. A bit chaotic but that's gonna just happen.

[kexolino]

^^ I'm actually thinking of downgrading to a dumbphone. Currently running Android v.2.3.6. ;)

I seriously thought about doing that, because at some point I got really tired of both Android and touchscreens, but I couldn't find any of those kickass brick Nokias with Symbian for a reasonable price, so I gave up. One of those, like an N73 or similar would have been reasonably "smart", but close to indestructible (I actually had one, can confirm).

[wuxmedia]

Saw one of these bad boys in town the other day:
https://ageuk.myownfone.com/ Might get one. :)


Chilli, thanks for the update. Not sure as to what you are updating, but thanks anyway :)

Ivan, yeah I thought that quote was funny too, although I don't think it would be steroids, more like those diet "fat flushing" pills :D

[chilli]

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Chilli, thanks for the update. Not sure as to what you are updating, but thanks anyway :)

Stuff. Mostly reworking the community model and seeing what shakes out. You should go look.

[wuxmedia]

^ I did have a quick look.
I'm sure in general community is great, there's just such a lot of it :)

[chilli]

Yep.

[RandomCharacter]

I've still never owned a smart phone. My current phone is a 7 1/2 year old Samsung A717.

The other day, I dropped it, and it quit working. I switched to a spare battery (actually, it was the phone's original battery, which I had replaced a few years ago), put it on the charger, and got it going again. I guess it's just a matter of time before I have to buy another battery or another phone.

Tim

[ivanovnegro]

Live patching for the Linux kernel. Never ever reboot your Linux box.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/9/534

[GekkoP]

^ pretty cool indeed.

[bones]

News from Xfce 4.12, part 3:

http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2015- ... art-3.html

The best part:

About gtk-xfce-engine, the decision has been made to drop the gtk3 engine part completely, and leave creating themes to themers https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-d ... 31084.html

[dkeg]

wow, that's pretty big news. Curious what the reactions will be.

[bones]

Yeah, kudos to the Xfce team for taking a stand and kicking that shit to the curb. Will be interesting to see the fallout, for sure.

[wuxmedia]

gtk3 kerb (curb?) stomped, by XFCE nice.

[ivanovnegro]

Great news, Xfce is still alive and long live Gtk2!

[kexolino]

A nice addition for sbopkg users: http://slackblogs.blogspot.fr/2014/01/m ... asily.html

[bones]

^ Very nice, did not know about this. Willy is a top-notch slacker.

[bones]

More on Xfce 4.12, with scrots:

http://smdavis.us/2015/02/21/xfce-4-12-one-week-away/

[Dr_Chroot]

^ Oooh... shiny 8D

[stark]

Shiny indeed, and that xfce4-power-manager looks better than ever!

[dkeg]

Looks pretty much the same, more toward Elementary though