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Phosh 0.51.0 is now available, bringing a set of functional improvements to this GNOME-based mobile shell used across many Linux phones.

Developed by Purism and adopted in projects such as postmarketOS, Mobian, and Fedora Mobility, Phosh provides the core touch interface, quick settings, notifications, lock screen, app launcher, and system integration for mobile Linux platforms.

The update introduces a new location quick setting, providing users with a straightforward toggle to enable or disable location services. Caffeine mode—used to prevent the device from suspending—now supports selectable durations, which can be configured directly through mobile settings.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 is now available in the development branch, introducing a broad set of improvements across the core, tools, plug-ins, user interface, and developer APIs, giving a clear picture of what we can expect in the final stable 3.2 version.

The release introduces native SVG export for vector, text, and link layers, extending GIMP’s capabilities for producing scalable graphics. ZIP decompression and PVR texture import are now also supported, expanding the range of image formats that can be opened.

The update refines core behavior around pass-through groups, which now apply filters based on the full bounding box rather than only child layers, allowing empty groups to act more like adjustment layers. Layer-mask handling gains an option to edit masks immediately, and non-destructive filters applied to the quick mask are correctly merged when leaving the mode.

So I was looking for this file and a guy found it and sent me a link. There were two download options, both full of ads. I managed to download from the second link, but what really baffled me was the first one: TeraBox.

First thing, I couldn't find any way to download the file. This crap actually wanted me to download a .exe to install their software so I could download the file from the internet, so obviously I said fuck it and tried the second link instead.

Then I told the guy who gave me the link that TeraBox was sketchy as fuck and I hoped he wasn’t actually using it, and went to search for more info about TeraBox. Apparently the program is full of ads, and wherever you click it tries to make you upgrade to premium and throws more ads at you. Its bandwidth is complete crap, but hey, it gives you 1TB of free cloud storage, yay!

TeraBox was created by Baidu using a subsidiary in Japan, later they changed the name and the name of the Japanese company as well to try not to look affiliated with Baidu.

Anyone here old enough to remember hao123, their browser hijacker that would fuck up you registry and shit just to reinstall itself through Windows Services after being uninstalled, already knows Baidu is pure cancer, and it’s hilarious if you check videos of people testing their antivirus - that manages to be more of a malware itself than McAfee. This Chinese-Google ethics make Google itself look like Mullvad, and they want you to download and install their .exe just so you can download files from the web lol

Yeah, that guy I mentioned was using TeraBox and thinking it was great, and apparently a whole lot of people do. 1TB free \o/ (although, looking at Reddit and Play Store - where it has 100m+ downloads - everyone complains files don't sync, they disappear, even after buying premium they still see ads and the speed is still crap, they don't reward whatever bonuses they promise, and support is nonexistent... so shit doesn't even work properly...)

I'm all for making tons of accounts to use Google Drive/Mega/Dropbox/etc to distribute files, even if they have crappy privacy practices, you don’t need to share any real information with them anyway: use a VPN and a secure browser to create your account with a disposable email and that’s it, whatever info they gathered doesn’t matter, let them host stuff for you at their expenses... but TeraBox? Ouch, that's insanity.

Author @PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml

In case missed out on spending $90 the first time...

A solid preview using some new and old addons to change the UI back to something we are more familiar with.

UN Security Council passes US resolution backing Gaza international force | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/unsc-approves-us-resolution-mandating-intl-stabilisation-force-in-gaza

Totally disregarding what Palestinians want. However, there is this:
"... which envisions a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood."
which is pissing off Israel big time - so that's a plus. ;-)

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #UN @palestine@fedibird.com

The Budgie desktop developers released today the first Developer Preview of the upcoming and highly anticipated Budgie 10.10 desktop environment, which will only work on Wayland systems.

Work on Budgie 10.10 kicked off more than a year ago, and many of Budgie’s components have already been ported to Wayland. Expected next year, Budgie 10.10 aims to be the first release of this modern desktop environment to be Wayland-only, which means that it won’t support X11 sessions.

At the end of last month, I introduced Solseek, a new TUI wrapper for Solus’s eopkg package manager, which offers a fast and streamlined way to browse, install, and update software on Solus Linux. Since then, it has been moving quickly, with rapid development introducing new features and improvements.

The recently released Solseek 0.3.2 brings a key expansion by adding full Flatpak handling alongside several performance and quality-of-life improvements.

How a mysterious frontier island peopled by "barbarians" became one of the four main islands of Japan - and how the original inhabitants suffered as a result.

There's also an interesting video about some of the subjects, like the Ainu (about the Kurils, just north of Hokkaido) from Mark's Expedition.

Israeli settlers torch homes and vehicles in Palestinian West Bank villages | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/israeli-settlers-torch-homes-and-vehicles-in-west-bank-villages

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel @palestine@fedibird.com