"Dance is active meditation.
When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit.
This is the essence of the trance dance experience."
— Goa Gil

giving #COSMIC a go on #postmarketOS with the Yoga Slim 7x.

This is really feeling like the natural successor to Sway for me, let's see how daily driving goes....

Thanks @craftyguy for getting it packed in pmOS :D

Did you know we're essentially all #STARS? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars!

How does it feel to have stars for parents?

https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/
(You can skip to the last paragraph :)

I have released version 1.1 of my "Black Sun" icon theme.
It's available for: Gnome, Cosmic DE, Budgie DE and XFCE.
KDE: is still in the experimental phase, please read the notes regarding it on "Black Sun" github page.

https://github.com/SethStormR/Black-Sun

Wolffe sporting the COSMIC Alpha 6 desktop with COSMIC DROID icons by SethStorm666 (and a few I threw together for this screenshot).

I could get used to this pretty quickly. It looks like COSMIC is shaping up to be a nice middle ground between GNOME's austere rounded-corner aesthetic and KDE's option-heavy business-suit aesthetic.

Hey, #KDE devs: have a look at how #COSMIC is doing tiling and COPY IT.

I just sent patches to port #COSMIC to #AlpineLinux[1], so it'll soon[2] be possible to install this promising new DE on a few of the hundreds of ARM and x86 things that #postmarketos supports!

1) http://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/80719

2) https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6274

Cosmic Expansion is now available on Flathub (the App Store for Linux)
Check it out: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.chimi70.cosmic-expansion

Since i failed to get #COSMIC running on my #NixOS machine (need to test on a second one), can anybody share their #Niri #Nix config?
Maybe @algernon ?

Alpha 6 of System76's COSMIC desktop environment is now available with zoom capabilities, improved accessibility, desktop icon management, new scaling options, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha-6-released/

Cosmic Dreamer - She wears the cosmos

https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/cosmic-dreamer-rafael-salazar.html

I really hope @slimbook takes a look at #Cosmic in the future. Given their OS is heavily based on #Gnome w/ Extensions and said DE doesn't seem to be interested in fixing the crashy clusterfutch which the Extension system is (e.g. by beginning to work on an API or other solution that enables extensions to crash without taking the whole computer with it) it would be rather beneficial to move to a more stable DE with less tech debt once that one hits version 1.0. #Linux

The #KrononautMoon Project is an ongoing series of community experiments to contact #TimeTravelers — as "in-person", but more likely via #quantum #signal. The next attempt is coming up soon on 14 Mar 2025 — under the #TotalLunarEclipse — wherever you are. These outreaches are sometimes referred to as "landing receptions", but call them or redesign them however you like. Following is a brief, all-true #chronology of such #events, going back 40+ years. The excerpt is from our detailed #article on Medium.com.

❛❛ #Future #intelligences would have the necessary transport #technology that is not yet existent in our #world. To date, there have been 5 recorded attempts of this method, with the most famous one devised by the late #theoretical #physicist #StephenHawking, in #Cambridge #UK on 2009 Jun 28.

Hawking referred to his get-together as a “reception”—what we now think of as a version type 1.0. His champagne toast to “tourists from the future” was, by no means, not the first of the prototypes, however, because it was staged years after 3 similar experimental attempts — stationed in different #countries and unrelated to each other. The professor’s cheeky soirée occurred four years after a rollicking party that was thrown for “Inhabitants of the Future” at Forrest Place, #Perth #AU, on 2005 Mar 31. Then, a few months later, an equally festive #TimeTraveler #Convention was hosted at #MIT — The #Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Cambridge #MA #US, on 2005 May 07. These elaborate productions were preceded by a full two decades, back when a group identifying itself as the #Krononauts assembled in #Baltimore #MD #US (alt. spelling: #Chrononauts). That seminal event, which was covered by a #NewYorkTimes reporter, happened at a downtown #bookstore, under the light of a #FullMoon, and a multi-planetary #syzygy, on 1982 Mar 09.

More recently, in the spring of 2023, a dogged #podcaster for TheLastArchive.com and Pushkin.fm, published a riveting and droll #audio recounting of Baltimore’s Krononauts gathering, and then gave the concept a uniquely personal #experimental spin, noting the time and #GPS #coordinates. The effort successfully demonstrated that a single individual can attempt extra-temporal #contact on one’s own, equipped with little more than a #public #library #bench, and can meaningfully contribute to the corpus of #Community #Time #Travel #Research. ❜❜

On 2025 Mar 14, join your #friends, fellow #Mastodonians, and #TimeTravelers for an evening of #peace, #love, and #cosmic #tranquility, wherever you are.

https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e 2024 Aug 15
https://TheLastArchive.com/season-4/episode-6-the-krononauts 2023
https://KronoMoon.org #MoonOverMastodon

COSMIC Desktop Alpha 5: Die Entwicklung schreitet voran https://fosstopia.de/cosmic-desktop-alpha-5/ #Cosmic #CosmicDesktop #Pop!_OS #Pop!_OS24.04

System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/system76-cosmic-alpha-5-is-here-with-a-new-media-player-vrr-improvements-and-lots-of-fixes/

Every panel applet on #Cosmic takes about 33 MB of RAM each, resulting to Cosmic using 2.4 GB of RAM on a cold boot. That is excessive for a brand new, "clean" DE, and on par with #Windows (that has a history of 40 years that needs to carry with it).

I honestly don't understand why it's like that. Most people try #Linux on their older PCs, or a main PC that isn't #Windows11 -capable. Cosmic is just out of their reach for many of potential new users.

Rust-Based #COSMIC Desktop Alpha 5 Release Adds COSMIC Media Player, VRR Updates, and More https://9to5linux.com/rust-based-cosmic-desktop-gets-5th-alpha-release-with-cosmic-media-player

@system76 #Linux #OpenSource

Droid icon theme version 2.0 is out!
For Gnome & Cosmic DE: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2225273/
KDE version: https://store.kde.org/p/2230624/