OBS could sue Fedora, GNOME's new site & branding

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Feb 15, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 7

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02:22 OBS threatens to sue Fedora https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fedora-threatened-with-legal-action-from-obs-studio-due-to-their-flatpak-packaging/

05:08 Fedora will ditch RPMs for apps in the future https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955714

07:04 GNOME has a new website, and potentially branding ? https://www.gnome.org/ https://cassidyjames.com/blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/

10:02 GNOME 48 gets much improved notifications https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Notifications-App

11:22 Plasma 6.3 is now out https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/

13:35 KDE works on a unified theming engine https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2025-02/moving-kdes-styling-future

16:05 Google Chrome’s extension moves are unpopular https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-extensions-menu-testing https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/google_chrome_extensions/

19:06 Firefox halves its RAM usage per tab https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6340-forkserver-coming-to-firefox-on-linux/

21:20 Hector martin resigns from Asahi as well https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/

24:14 Research shows AI is overhyped https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/shut-it-all-down-microsoft-research-suggests-ai-usage-is-making-us-feel-dumber-but-you-dont-need-to-panic-yet https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/australian_treasury_copilot_pilot_assessment/ https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bbc-research-shows-issues-with-answers-from-artificial-intelligence-assistants

28:24 FEX update for better x86 emulation on ARM https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2502/