Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might’ve been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

But it’ll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don’t wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

I’m generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we’ll come back to), so I don’t have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I’d expect

• documentation
• date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can’t have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
• sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with “foreign” letters and diacritics.
• Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can’t think of off the top of my head

but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don’t even think about as long as it looks normal.

Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

Between that and the uutils-coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 sounds like it’ll be an interesting experience for users, especially those with accessibility and internationalisation needs.

Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it’s entirely hogwash:

• The referenced init system replacement is called “rye-init”
• The wiki does not have anything on “rye-init” or even just rye
• The only hit on a package search for rye is rye, the precursor to uv
• I find no general search hits for rye-init, except references to the rye mentioned above (as in rye init), and some hits for this article and forum posts with people confused about it.

No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

It’s actually a collection of four books, which I think these days are sold in sets of two.

It’s got some fun stuff, like an author who’s convinced of his own infallibility, and fantasy-like vocabulary, except none of the words are really made up, it’s just applications of somewhat obscure latin and greek words. I’d also kind of encourage going into it blind, since there are some bits of it that are more fun to figure out as you go along.

Bonus for /c/finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world players: it has Ascians.

Yeah, I can imagine it’s kind of in the Lovecraft category, as in, clearly influential, but, uhhh, yikes.

Kind of the inverse, but you may enjoy Gene Wolfe’s book of the new sun, and the Numenera TTRPG.

I guess Vance’s Dying Earth series, that inspired how spells work in D&D, also would fit there, though I’m not personally familiar

I escaped reddit for this?

The O is for the kind of whooshing sound

I’ve heard of the year of Linux on the desktop, but I’ve never really heard of the year of BSD on the desktop. Apart from OSX, maybe.

I guess this is the kind of stuff POSIX could’ve helped with, but it seems to be busy mandating buggy behaviour.

Yeah, and Android has had some 16 years of “optimize later”. I have some very very limited experience with writing mobile apps and while I found it to be a PITA, there is clearly a lot of thought given to how to not eat all the battery and die in the ecosystem there. I would expect that kind of work to also be done at the JVM level.

If Windows Mobile had succeeded, C# likely would’ve been lower as well, just because there’d be more incentive to make a battery charge last longer.

Is there a lot of computation-intensive code being written in pure Python? My impression was that the numpy/pandas/polars etc kind of stuff was powered by languages like fortran, rust and c++.

And it powers a lot of phones. People generally don’t like it when their phone needs to charge all the freaking time.

And battery costs, including charging time, for a lot of devices. Users generally aren’t happy with devices that run out of juice all the time.

Yeah, none of that with bat:

λ bat $(type -P bat)
───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: /usr/bin/bat   <BINARY>
───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
λ bat < $(type -P bat)
───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ STDIN   <BINARY>
───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
λ

I think most of us would consider that an eclipse bug, but yeah, until it’s fixed it’d make sense to work around it.

Kinda similarly, I have a mostly identical setup on several machines, and on one of them Firefox has a memory leak, which even showed up just recently. It also seems to manifest if I have certain pages open, the most noticeable of which is Reddit.

It’s the kind of stuff I could dig into, buuut it’s just a PITA.

Or bat, which will just print <binary> in those cases

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it’s an uncountable noun.