Sync Update for Week 39, 2023

ReillyBrogan

BTW, let us know if you think this summarized changelog is something you find valuable or not. It takes a fair amount of time to sort it out and we won't do it if it's not useful enough to people (we could be updating more packages with that time instead).

Please mention if you'd be willing to help support someone doing this on a weekly basis via additional opencollective donations.

ermo

ReillyBrogan BTW, let us know if you think this summarized changelog is something you find valuable or not.

I may not be your typical user, but I find it to be a very nice addition to the sync notes.

Top Job! 💪😎👍️

kaktuspalme

ReillyBrogan I like those a lot. It gives somewhat more insight then just looking at the package update list. It also shows how active the development is and might help attracting new users which might help raising more donations. Just restarted my small monthly contribution 😉

But I would understand if you stop it because of the work something like this needs.

zeeleeuw

ReillyBrogan

ReillyBrogan Really liking the summarized changelog 👍. Also happy 😊 with update on LyX. Thanks

Steph

Update ok
Note for Firefox, it was no longer in French but in English, I had to redownload the language fr

davidjharder

Steph Would you mind posting your firefox localization settings to this thread https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9689-firefox-dont-keep-language-setting-after-update/5

ReillyBrogan

Steph This issue has been resolved in unstable and the fix will be in the next sync. Firefox will now automatically adapt to the system locale, and this setting should persist through future updates. You will not need to install any languages manually, the correct one will be installed and configured automatically. Note that existing Firefox profiles will be in English the first time you launch them after the update, but subsequent launches should be in the correct language.

WetGeek

ermo I think you should.

Done. #416.

unclemez

EbonJaeger
I love the way you organized the thing this week.
Much more explicit with a good taste of honesty here by giving credit to him/her who deserve it

EbonJaeger

unclemez @ReillyBrogan did the changelog part. He definitely did a great job!

johano

The summarized changelog has been useful. Perhaps not essential for seasoned users of Solus, but it seems a very welcoming face to Solus for newcomers. It fits in well with the ethos of Solus as a good fit for home computing, making the significance of changes made by updates accessible to all.

Great work, and appreciated!

Steph

davidjharder
I posted here, because it was the first time, for the previous updates, it remained with the recorded language

Solarmass

this summarized changelog is 🔥
I read it all!

brent

Solarmass I read it all!

as do I🙂

penny-farthing

I installed 100 updates (1.16 GiB) yesterday.
Note that Firefox, since this version 118.0.1, has implement an integrated translator, which seems to me a good initiative.
As for the weekly update report (which was a recurring request from @WetGeek , if I remember correctly), it seems to me to be a great initiative, because it may us to better understand the hard work of the team of Solus developers to make Solus evolve for the well-being of its users, and to be among the really interesting Linux distributions.

brent

penny-farthing , has implement an integrated translator, which seems to me a good initiative.

unless it routes thru google then what's the point . but thanks for bringing this to my (our) attention. I have a sperate app for translations but would be nice to have on the spot in browser, will check it out.

MikeK61

I noticed after the update that my computer consumes 5 Watts more than before.
So i checked CPU-X and the cores are running at 3600MHZ before they were running at 2200MHZ idle.
A little weiired.

CPU Ryzen 1800X
Mobo Crosshair VI Hero.

Staudey

brent unless it routes thru google then what's the point

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

brent

Staudey so that the text being translated does not leave your machine

nice 🙀

WetGeek

Staudey Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users!

In the interest of full disclosure, one might point out that Vivaldi has also had this functionality (for a long time). Google is banned from my computers, so if the foreign text is being sent anywhere (which I doubt), it's not going to Google.

penny-farthing

WetGeek

Does Vivaldi also allow translation of an entire web page ?

Staudey

WetGeek In the interest of full disclosure, one might point out that Vivaldi has also had this functionality (for a long time). Google is banned from my computers, so if the foreign text is being sent anywhere (which I doubt), it's not going to Google.

Seems like it's not quite the same as Firefox' new implementation as the data still gets send to Vivaldi's servers, but they at least claim it's encrypted and not readable to them.

https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/

olivir

penny-farthing Yes it can with the specific icon in the adress bar.

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