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I'm trying out the beta on my personal instance and so far everything appears to be working. I'll report any bugs if I come across any.

Thanks for your continued development and support of this awesome project!

It was, but it looks there are some fixes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-48990

The reason why string[5] = '5' doesn't work is that strings in Python are immutable (cannot be changed). By doing list(string) you are actually creating a new list with the contents of the string and then modifying the list.

I wonder if ChatGPT explains this or just tells you to do this... as this works but can be quite inefficient.

To me this highlights the danger with using AI... sure you can complete a task, but you may not understand why or learn important concepts.

Path objects also override the / operator to join paths

This is both cool and gross... gives me C++ vibes (operator overloading abuse).

Over the course of the last 20 years, I've gone from Arch -> Void -> Pop!_OS -> Ubuntu, and that is what I use on all my machines (laptops, desktops, servers).

According to #243 Chatting COSMIC Desktop Alpha With The CEO | Carl Richell, they are planning an alpha release on the last thursday of each month. This means that Alpha 3 should be out on October 31, 2024.

Likewise, Carl hopes to have a Beta 1 in January 2025.

Thanks for the heads up and continued development. Good luck with the porting.

Old School Runescape.

I'm not sure. As long as it keeps working, I'll probably keep using it until a viable alternative appears. I use my laptop more than my phone, so I don't actually need passwords on my phone as often.

This one hurts... as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{

I think the "Ubuntu Core 22" means it is the snap based version of Steam rather than the deb version.

If you look at the snapcraft.yaml for the Steam snap, it uses core22 as its base.

Looks like a number of patches are landing in Ubuntu to address this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/2082335

Update: CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available

This is a great summary. Thanks!

It looks like you are running XFCE instead of GNOME (the normal Ubuntu desktop). I'm not sure how that happened... but you an always just install another desktop.

For instance, you can try to make sure you have the ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-desktop-minimal metapackage installed:

    
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal

  

After that, the login manager should allow you to select the Ubuntu session rather than the XFCE one.

Still using mutt after two decades (with isync for fetching).

Yes, based on the diagrams on their blog, it looks like this only impacts Snaps.

From the Discourse Blog:

The Linux desktop provides XDG Desktop Portals as a standardised way for applications to access resources that are outside of the sandbox. Applications that have been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals will continue to use them. Prompting is not intended to replace XDG Desktop Portals but to complement them by providing the desktop an alternative way to ask the user for permission. Either when an application has not been updated to use XDG Desktop Portals, or when it makes access requests not covered by XDG Desktop Portals.

Since prompting works at the syscall level, it does not require an application’s awareness or cooperation to work and extends the set of applications that can be run inside of a sandbox, allowing for a safer desktop. It is designed to enable desktop applications to take full advantage of snap packaging that might otherwise require classic confinement.

So this looks like it complements and not replaces the XDG Desktop Portals, especially for applications that have not implemented the Portals. It allows you to still run those applications in confinement while providing some more granular access controls.

From what I can tell, Pop!_OS does not ship their own version of timeshift. Instead, it comes directly from Ubuntu. So if there is a change in maintainers, it should be reported to Ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timeshift

As a moderator, you should see a "shield" on a post and from that sub-menu, you can choose to feature or unfeature a post:

I used to use VLC for music, but these days I use Symphony to play local files on my phone. VLC tended to struggle when scanning or indexing large folders (which it did all the time...), while Symphony is a bit better at that. That said, I still use VLC for video and for casting things from my DLNA server (VLC supports Chromecast).

For ebooks, I've used Librera FD and that has been mostly OK. I'll checkout the two you mentioned though. Thanks!