📰 Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-snap-prompting-client-improved
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With software, such as "Kitty", it is possible to read documents, images and other graphical formats with these software:
https://github.com/dsanson/termpdf.py
http://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
https://github.com/itsjunetime/tdf
It means, that we no longer need GTK+ (which dropped support for X11), Qt and other graphical toolkits in order to have a full operational computer.
qrcp, transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
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eDEX-UI, a science fiction terminal emulator designed for large touchscreens that runs on all major OSs.
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