Carl Richell

Tomorrow

New Thelio Mira arriving March 17th. This is the milled steel front power button and ports bar.

Went to the capitol today to meet Sen Ball, Rep Paschal, Rep Ricks, and three additional Denver constituents with concerns about SB26-051's effect on open source software, privacy, and security.

It was an hour and a half meeting that could have gone longer if it weren't for the building being shut down.

Our concerns were heard and shared. The next step is exchanging and discussing specific language changes to the bill including an exemption for open source software.

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.

Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.

Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.

No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

Perhaps the most perverse consequence of age verification laws: many require advertising the age bracket of the user to the open web. Children will be known to be children even to those that would exploit that information without regard for any other "safety" law.

The system76 position on age attestation and verification laws:

https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification

The @system76@fosstodon.org support experience:

"Friday morning at 10:59, I got a response. Not an auto-reply. An actual human. I replied at 12:01 with the details they needed. At 12:08, Alex K. from support escalated me to hardware RMA. Seven minutes. I've never seen that in decades of enterprise support."

https://blog.vintagetechie.com/one-week-door-to-door/

Architectural mesh is incorporated into the new Thelio Mira design. It adds beauty and texture to the design and functionally increases airflow over typical vents cut into sheet metal.

#MiraMarch

Ground-up redesigned @system76@fosstodon.org Thelio hardware coming soon.

☑️ 10 months of design and engineering
☑️ Over 16,000 durability test runs
☑️ Over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization

#MiraMarch

COSMIC Terminal now has customizable keyboard shortcuts. Available through Pop!_OS updates now and arriving in other distros after the COSMIC release tag 2/10 and packaging.

COSMIC Epoch 2 & 3 Roadmap

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-epoch-2-and-3-roadmap

COSMIC community Frosted Glass experiments with WIP code. Still a long way to go but you can get an idea of where we're headed.

@ojocle_olonam@mastodon.social try logout/in or reboot if you haven't. The features are in the compositor so they require a session restart.

COSMIC now features rounded corners and window shadow on all apps. Update Pop for the latest. It'll arrive in your favorite distro soon.

Options are in Settings > Appearance > Window shadow and corners

Hades 2 is fantastic and a lot of fun. I haven't played a rogue-like game and wondered if it would feel tedious. Not at all.

Skinning up a mountain at the crack of dawn is a beautiful experience.