Jeremy Soller 🦀

System76 :popos: :ubuntu: (npub1mjj…a2m6) Principal Engineer, [@pop_os_official](https://fosstodon.org/@pop_os_official ) Maintainer, and Redox OS (npub1y8w…gese) BDFL - https://soller.dev

Profile picture and banner: I am wearing a Pop!_OS shirt with multiple computers running Pop!_OS in the background to celebrate the 20.04 release.

Website: https://soller.dev

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2025-04-25 13:20:58 UTC

Fosstodon is having predictable issues, please recommend some mastodon instances that are minimally blocked by other instances

2025-01-18 16:01:16 UTC

MPRIS and album art is implemented in cosmic-player now. Be aware your music files need to have ID3 data, which can be added if missing using MusicBrainz Picard. More features for playing audio files will be added soon.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/850/184/580/569/947/original/f5cf415bc4c24a91.png

2025-01-17 14:26:22 UTC

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It is a slur against Indian people.

2025-01-17 13:57:26 UTC

Blatant nazi garbage directed at my coworkers is allowed on X with no ramifications. Get off while you still can!
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2025-01-14 23:04:33 UTC

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Hello Veronica, glad to hear that! I've been keeping up with your videos and will be looking forward to seeing COSMIC!

2025-01-14 23:03:46 UTC

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All I am sure of, is there will be an alpha 6. Many of us had quite a bit of time off with vacations during November and December, so I expect alpha 6 to have a long list of added features compared to 5 and 4. If we hit all the important features for MVP, we will do a feature freeze for the beta, then as many betas as needed to resolve issues. During the beta, we will bring in QA and focus on bug fixes and polish. I don't know how long it will take to hit these milestones.

2025-01-14 22:46:33 UTC

COSMIC Alpha 5.1 was tagged today, and among the improvements it brings are across the board reductions in memory usage of all COSMIC components. This has been done through optimizing font and icon caching, which was overly aggressive. Future releases will continue to drive down resource usage!

2024-12-07 02:09:02 UTC

I have finally reached the point where I am ready to make a MiSTer FPGA core for the Osborne 1 portable computer, wish me luck.

2024-11-05 13:08:41 UTC

VOTE!

2024-10-27 23:31:43 UTC

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I will not post a link to this, and I deleted my previous link. My hope is that the GNOME folks will consider the small number of problematic individuals who are causing the majority of the issues for the project's involvement with the overall free software community. If they are interested, I can send a list of bad interactions in a private message.

2024-10-27 23:26:15 UTC

The *only* reason I posted anything about GNOME, is because I saw Brodie respond thoughtfully about what the GNOME project could do to bring in more positive interest, and this quickly devolved into GNOME folks talking past him, misrepresenting what he was saying, and insulting him and his intentions. I recalled my similar experience in 2021.
Knowing what I know about Brodie, he has an incredibly positive outlook and really does want to help Linux adoption. It would be wise to listen to him!

2024-10-26 17:52:47 UTC

Why does GNOME have a bad reputation?
Asked and answered in this thread.
https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/113368117089655171

2024-10-05 13:47:35 UTC

Just because you can choose any font does not mean you should
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2024-09-27 17:11:16 UTC

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This bug has been resolved, thanks to the Arch maintainer!

2024-09-27 15:23:34 UTC

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Thank you! We also emailed alucryd. It is best if any maintainer working on COSMIC packaging is part of our chat so we can work through these issues beforehand.

2024-09-27 14:50:53 UTC

Arch Linux's extra repository packaging of cosmic-greeter is broken, causing logins to fail. This is not a bug that can be fixed in COSMIC upstream. If anyone can help, please respond on the Arch Linux bug report below or join https://chat.pop-os.org
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/cosmic-greeter/-/issues/4

2024-09-22 21:25:20 UTC

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I highly doubt it
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2024-09-09 13:09:56 UTC

Check out Redox OS 0.9.0 with almost two years worth of improvements! https://redox-os.org/news/release-0.9.0/

2024-09-01 00:36:38 UTC

Thanks Brodie! It is clear you really understand where COSMIC is coming from and where we want it to go. A little negativity will not slow us down!
https://mstdn.social/@BrodieOnLinux/113059341804811453

2024-08-31 18:28:25 UTC

It is painful to me that I have seen a few big accounts say something to the extent of "why don't the Rust folks make their own kernel." Either they are not aware of Redox OS or they are ruling it out for unknown reasons. I would appreciate elaboration.

2024-08-31 17:44:23 UTC

So, is memory safety "woke" now?

2024-08-29 16:33:08 UTC

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What does it mean to be a "non-fan of rust"?

2024-08-29 12:53:58 UTC

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There are projects where you will inevitably have to get your changes past patronizing pedantic megalomaniacs and while the Linux kernel is not only developed by this personality type it is overwhelmingly controlled by it.
I have no fond memories of submitting patches there, whereas I find contributing to most Rust projects to be downright delightful.

2024-08-29 12:49:19 UTC

This kind of treatment is exactly why I started @npub1y8w…gese from scratch and written primarily in Rust. There is a lot of resistance to even minor beneficial change in Linux and related projects. I don't even try to contribute to the Linux kernel anymore.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down

2024-06-20 02:19:39 UTC

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It doesn't feel genuine when someone targets others who are supposedly on your side, calling them things like "ableist" for not having finished their work. It reminds me of having been called a racist by Lunduke for supporting DEI...

2024-06-20 01:50:26 UTC

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I disprove of his comments in this thread and others: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112638000448055991

2024-06-20 01:34:43 UTC

I am unfollowing @npub1p09…m5vl. No matter my disagreements with GNOME folks in the past, COSMIC and GNOME are going to end up with the same accessibility backend, @npub1p5m…qwhw, developed by the amazing @npub19nh…v7fc. Thanks to funding gathered by @npub1dug…kxeq from @npub1yng…nhrk, rapid advances are being made in Wayland-compatible accessibility features. Let's stop concern trolling each other and instead work on building a better free software world for everyone.