Disqus Comments Not Loading? It’s Not Me Bro, It’s Firefox
Over the last 12 months I’ve received a trickle of messages from readers (through the tip form) asking why the Disqus comments section doesn’t load, or comes and goes. Comments are auto-enabled all articles I publish. And if comments are intentionally disabled for an article (which does happen, albeit rarely) you won’t see a comment count (functions as an anchor link to the comments section) in the ‘meta’ area beneath the headline on the article page. So what’s the cause of comments not loading? Mozilla Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) mode set to ‘Strict’. The feature —I won’t be 
#News #Disqus #SiteStuff
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/disqus-comments-not-loading-its-not-me-bro-its-firefox
Gemini AI GNOME Shell Extension
If you use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or later and want to access the Google Gemini AI chatbot straight from your desktop outside of a web browser, you’re in luck! The Gemini AI ChatBot GNOME Shell extension (unaffiliated with Google; it’s not an official thing) gives you immediate access to Gemini at any time from the applet it adds to the top panel — no need to open a web browser tab or fire up a standalone app. Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is an AI language model developed by Google. Like ChatGPT, CoPilot et al it will generate human-like replies
#News #Ai/Ml #Gemini #GnomeExtensions #Google
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/gemini-ai-gnome-shell-extension
Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap
Google’s recent ‘structural simplification’ led to 200 people across many of its core development teams, including Python, Dart, and Flutter, losing their roles. With Canonical committed to using Flutter for its own desktop apps that news has left some in the Ubuntu community worried. The new Ubuntu Installer, Firmware Updater, App Center, and the (currently MIA) Desktop Security Center are all built in Flutter, which is Google’s cross-platform Web-based UI framework underpinned by the Dart programming language. And within the wider Ubuntu Flutter community a handful of devs are creating third-party apps using it, with music/radio/podcast/video player MusicPod the best
#News #Flutter #Google
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap
Ubuntu 24.10 Release Date Set for October 10
Canonical has published a draft release schedule for Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. According to the timetable we should expect the final stable release of Ubuntu 24.10 to arrive on Thursday October 10, 2024. Six months of development lay ahead, with a beta release of the ‘Oracular Oriole’ set to take flight on September 19, and a release candidate on October 3. As a short-term ‘interim’ release Ubuntu 24.10 is supported for just 9 months from release, dovetailing into the release of Ubuntu 25.04 in April of next year. Key milestones in the Ubuntu 24.10 release schedule (subject to change): With :sys_more_orange:
#News #Ubuntu24_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/ubuntu-24-10-release-date
Ubuntu 24.04 Support for Lenovo ThinkPad X13s (Snapdragon) Laptop a WIP
Canonical kernel engineer Juerg Haefliger has shared an update on Ubuntu support for the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s (Gen 1) laptop. The 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is an ARM laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (gen3) processor with Adreno 690 GPU, 16 GB RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and claimed ~28 battery life. It comes preloaded with Windows 11 (ARM) by default. Last year a quasi-official (albeit experimental) Ubuntu 23.10 install image was released for the device spearheaded by Juerg, and made available to download from the Ubuntu CD image server. But an installer image for the latest Ubuntu 24.04
#News #Arm
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/ubuntu-24-04-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s-snapdragon
SuperTuxKart 1.5 Gears Up For Summer Release
Fans of open-source racing game SuperTuxKart will be stoked to hear devs are busy in the pit lanes pepping the next major update — and it’ll launch this summer. SuperTuxKart 1.4 was released back in 2022 with a ton of improvements. Successive updates in that series have fine-tuned, fixed-up, and finessed performance and stability, but not put any new features in the tank (so to speak). But things shift up a gear in SuperTuxKart 1.5. This summer, SuperTuxKart 1.5 gets off the starting line with a welcome clutch —no, I’m sorry about these puns— of improvements and buffs across desktop
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/supertuxkart-1-5-gears-up-for-summer-release
This Extension Adds a Progress Bar to GNOME Shell Media Controls
Media Progress is a new GNOME Shell extension that adds a real-time progress bar to the MPRIS notification/sound control doohickey that shows in the notification area. This extension doesn’t do else bar (heh) that, but as simple enhancements go it’s a nifty one. More than a mere indicator, the progress bar the extension adds is interactive and seekable. Click anywhere in the progress bar to jump to that position (which is handy if listening to something long, like a podcast or audiobook). As of writing the Media Progress extension supports GNOME 46. So to use it you will need to
#News #GnomeExtensions #Ubuntu24_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/progress-bar-gnome-shell-music-control
Linux Mint 22 Will Include Web App for Matrix
Linux Mint 22 will include a Matrix web client preinstalled when released later this year. The IRC-based desktop chat app Linux Mint has been building, Jargonaut, to replace Hexchat and provide real-time communication for its users, will no longer be included (the status of any future development uncertain). Why the change? “Jargonaut works. It works well and does exactly what we want. Its implementation was relatively easy and I’d say it’s now 75% complete,” Linux Mint project lead Clément Lefèbvre says. But nots that “feedback about Matrix” led to the team testing it, liking it, and deciding to adopt it
#News #Irc #LinuxMint #Matrix
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/linux-mint-swaps-irc-for-matrix
NeoFetch Development Ends as GitHub Project Archived
It seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that development has well and truly ceased to be. Not that this is a shock given that development on Neofetch had stalled a few years back, bug reports went unanswered, merge and pull requests ignored, and the last stable update issued back in 2020. I’ve been a long-time fan of Neofetch using it on all my installs since discovering it in 2015, showcasing it in scores
#News #CliTools #Graveyard #Hyfetch #Neofetch
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/neofetch-system-info-tool-is-dead
Amarok 3.0 Released, Ported to Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5
A new version of the open-source music player Amarok has been released, the first major update to the Qt-based media app since 2018. Amarok 3.0 is the first stable release to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and work to port the music player to the the newest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 is, its devs say, soon to get underway. “Common usecases should work quite well, and in addition to fixing KF5 port related regressions reported in pre-releases, 3.0 features many bugfixes and implemented features for longstanding issues, the oldest such documented being from 2009,” devs say.
#News #Amarok #AppUpdates #KdeApps #MusicPlayers
Mozilla Devs Adding ‘New Tab Wallpapers’ to Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is working on new customisation options, including the ability to set a background image on the new tab page. A number of modern web browsers including Google Chrome, Vivaldi, and Microsoft Edge allows users to set a custom image as the backdrop for the new tab page. As the new tab page is (by default) set to show when the browser is launched and every time a new tab is opened it’s a highly visible (if often fleeting) part of users’ web browser experience thus customisation is popular. But while Mozilla Firefox has an array of features and
#News #Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefox-new-tab-background-images
Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed as Development Begins
The official codename for Ubuntu 24.10 has been revealed. Although Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has have only just been released the pace of development marches on. Ubuntu developers have already begun bootstrapping the base on which the next short-term release, which is scheduled for release in October, will be built. And since every new Ubuntu release needs its own unique codename, they’ve chosen one! Ubuntu 24.10 is “Oracular Oriole”. ‘Oracular’ is a word meaning relating of/from an oracle, acting as a more arcane-sounding synonym to words like prophetic, divinatory, sibylline, augural. ‘Oriole’ is a genus of bird — you don’t need
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-10-codename-oracular-oriole
Don’t Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 Yet — It May Bork Your System
With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS out and the weekend upon us you may be planning to upgrade a previous Ubuntu install to the newest version. But you shouldn’t. For one, “officially” you can’t since Ubuntu 24.04 LTS upgrades are not enabled yet (for reasons I’ll get in to in a second) from either Ubuntu 23.10 or 22.04 LTS. But that doesn’t stop us folks from upgrading manually. They hear that a new version of Ubuntu is out and stable, they don’t fancy the faff of a fresh install, and they don’t want to wait for the ‘new version available’ upgrade prompt’
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-yet
Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavours Available to Download
Arriving alongside the main Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release are new versions of the official Ubuntu flavours, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. What follows is a concise, top-level overview of the key new features and changes in some of the most popular Ubuntu flavours, plus the relevant downloads links to snag an ISO need should be tempted into trying a few flavors first-hand. Unless otherwise noted, all flavours share the same foundational footprint as the main release, e.g., Linux kernel, graphics drivers, tooling, etc. But some fears, like the Flutter-based OS installer and the snap-centric App Center aren’t used in
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-official-flavours-available-to-download
How to Enable OneDrive File Access in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Among the many new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the ability to access your Microsoft OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager. No 3rd-party app downloads, no dodgy scripts to run, and no paid plans to cough up for needed as this handy feature is part of GNOME 46 (and is available in most Linux distributions that use it, not just the latest Ubuntu LTS). OneDrive file access in Nautilus works the same way as the Google Drive integration works, i.e. it’s a Gvfs backend authorised through GNOME Online Accounts via the Settings app and, once enabled, you can
#HowTo #CloudStorage #Onedrive #Ubuntu24_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/set-up-onedrive-file-access-in-ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Released, This is What’s New
After 6 frenzied months of development the final stable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release has arrived and is available for download. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (codenamed ‘Noble Numbat’) includes a rich array of new features ranging from an enhanced desktop installer and a the latest GNOME desktop to gaming improvements and a new Linux kernel. As a long-term support release Ubuntu 24.04 LTS gets 5 years of select apps updates, security fixes, kernel upgrades, and other buffs, and a further 5 years of extended security coverage via Ubuntu Pro. Plus, enterprise customers can buy an additional 2 years of coverage to make
#News #Noble #Ubuntu24_04Lts
Clapper Video Player for Linux Gets First Update in 2 Years
A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to like a media player, I know), its use of GStreamer, and a small but focused feature set that wasn’t trying to distract me with features I’d never need. Subsequent updates to the app refined and expanded those selling points further and player remained my preferred video player, despite the lack of any major update since
#News #AppUpdates #Clapper #Mediaplayers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/clapper-0-6-video-player-released
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – 20 Changes to Look Out For
Those making the upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 from 22.04 LTS are going to be blown away by the sheer amount of improvements included. Because in addition to benefitting from all of the great new features Ubuntu 24.04 offers compared to Ubuntu 23.10, LTS upgraders benefit from the changes, tweaks, and features that have were added in Ubuntu 22.10, 23.04, and 23.10. Which adds up to a lot. In this post I run-through 20 of the most important, noticeable, and impactful changes Ubuntu 24.04 LTS offers compared to the previous LTS — consider this an LTS to LTS feature spotting guide,
#News #Noble #Ubuntu24_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-lts-20-changes-to-look-out-for
Official Flathub Website Just Got a Fab Revamp
Next time you stop by the Flathub website you will notice it’s had a bit of a revamp. The latest UI refresh lands a year after its last big makeover and adds a number of on-page features that will make it easier for Linux users to find the apps they are looking for and come across new software they might not have heard of. — unless they regularly read sites like mine, heh 😉. You can’t fail the spot the changes, either. The Flathub homepage is now topped by a banner slider (updated weekly) that promotes 5 apps, and introduces
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/flathub-website-new-look
Firefox Nightly is Now Available for Linux on ARM64
Using Linux on a 64-bit ARM device and longing to use Firefox Nightly builds? Well, you’re in luck — Mozilla has finally made ARM64 Linux builds available to download. As I understand it most Linux distributions that support ARM64/AArch64 offer a native ARM version of Firefox in their repos (in Ubuntu that’s via snap) though some Linux ARM distros only offer Firefox ESR, which is a long-term support version lacking newer features. It’s not been possible to get Firefox for ARM64 directly from Mozilla itself. But that’s changing. When Mozilla launched its own APT repo bringing DEB versions of Firefox
#News #Arm #Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefox-nightly-is-now-available-for-linux-on-arm64
