App Store Award finalists announced
Every year, the App Store Awards celebrate exceptional apps and games that improve people's lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. This year, the App Store Editorial tea...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 24th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 24th, 2024, brings news about FreeCAD 1.0, Blender 4.3, GNU Linux-libre 6.12 kernel, Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds, Mesa 24.3, more GNOME 48 features, NVIDIA 550.135, AlmaLinux OS 9.5, Rocky Linux 9.5, KaOS Linux 2...
These 15 Apple products were discontinued this fall
Apple’s had a very eventful fall, with a jam packed September event, an iPad mini 7 launch in mid October, followed up by an “exciting week of announcements” at the end of the month. With all of those new product announcements, there were also a ...
Managing third-party packages in 9front
Every now and then, news from the club I’m too cool to join, the plan9/9front community, pierces the veil of coolness and enters our normal world. This time, someone accidentally made a package manager for 9front. I’ve been growing tired of manuall...
Microsoft Word is using you to train “AI”
The author of this article, Dr. Casey Lawrence, mentions the opt-out checkbox is hard to find, and they aren’t kidding. On Windows, here’s the full snaking path you have to take through Word’s settings to get to the checkbox: File > Options > Tru...
Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
A month and a bit ago, I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only computer. The only way to really find out was to give it a go. My goal was to see what it was like to use a terminal-only computer for my personal computing for two weeks, and mo...
Want to Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint? Here’s How
Snap is Canonical’s universal package format for Linux. It lets developers build their software once for users across multiple Linux distributions to use. At least, that’s the theory. In reality, few Linux distributions outside of the Ubuntu ecosph...
