My 2¢:

I think it’s gamer discourse bleeding out into other fields. Gamers need the newest libraries and the newest drivers or their stuff might not run as well as it possibly could, because gaming is a relatively young but aggressively growing field with the Linux ecosystem in general. Sure games have always been around, but it’s never been the focus.

Now that gamers are switching more frequently, and that the average user is likely to play a game occasionally, it’s becoming relatively important that packages be up to date for desktop workloads.

Hi, former optician here, your glasses are probably fine quality wise but you should consider updating your Rx more often, at least every 2 years. Eyes change more than people tend to think they do, and since our lenses can be adjuated with muscles we often don’t notice when our vision begins to deteriorate.

I have a total correction of about -3d in each eye, but if I dont put my glasses on in the morning I don’t need them and can go through my day normally. As soon as I put them on and am hit with the strain relief though I’m unable to go back to not wearing them for the rest of the day.

Edit: for clarity, I was an Optician, a lens technician. Not an optometrist/ophthalmologist, my experience with eyes is purely through being in the field where people get equipment from, NOT from actual medical experience.

Debian Hurd?

Liking objectively bad media doesn’t make you wrong.

This kills the alpm

Your meme about displays got me to go fix the 4k60 output on my PC. I use a TV as my screen and the EDID it reports us borked and leaves it off so I had to make a custom EDID and inject it at boot.

10/10 way easier than it sounds, annoyed I had to use a popular windows program to do it though because the first copy I found of the app I needed had a Trojan (thanks VirusTotal for confirming I’m not crazy for checking every exe no matter how official looking).

Why tf do we not have an EDID editor?

Re: only on streaming

In my experience it’s pretty cheap to get bootleg dvds imported. I’ve used eBay and walmart’s online store for getting 100% legit DVDs of things that definitely got physical editions.

I got Andor 1 and 2, as well as Fallout this way, mostly because fuck The Mouse and Beef Jesus.

Edit: pretty sure there’s official physical copies of those now, there wasn’t when I bought them.

I install lots of new tools which I generally need right this second, updating is a non-issue I do that overnight.

I used neovim for a while, tried NVChad and it just felt off. Ended up switching to lunarvim and I’ve been really happy with it.

I tried Gentoo once, I just straight up do not have time for that. It’s fine, honestly nice even, but the waiting omg. Maybe I was doing things wrong but I don’t have all day to sit around eating for things to compile

https://github.com/johna23-lab/p7zip_GUI/releases/tag/16.02

Install touchegg and add it to your startup scripts. It gives you an “apple magic trackpad” like touchpad experience.

I don’t think my Wii disc drive does anything but rip games nowadays, I can’t remember the last time I put in a disc to play the game on there.

You can do the swap trick once to make a freepsxboot memory card now. It’s essentially a soft-modded ps1.

Convenience is a 52x disc burner which can burn a disc in less than a minute

Wisdom is burning at 1x anyway because it results in a higher quality burn

(this may not apply to burning music, I usually burn PSX games)

“Here Kitty, step into the void within and grab me that fine vintage of tuna tucked away inside”

Bud theres obviously exceptions for massive suites like that. But I’m talking about apps with built in UIs that the dev clearly threw together as a last minute thought. Apps with every single thing you could possibly have to do either burried deep in 10k submenus, or hastily packed onto a window.

All I’m saying is there should be a clear and obvious workflow. Devs shouldn’t be afraid to say “I know better than you, do it this way”. Throwing every single tool on a toolbar like with Office suites or editing suites is awful IMO. Gimme menus, but gimme menus that make sense (looking at you Microsoft)

Anyway, you can disagree with me, and it won’t ever effect you, that’s the beautiful thing about the open software world. My opinions can be total shit, and you get to just ignore them 🥰

Sorry for rambling, I’m losing my mind a little bit more every day 🫡

A lot of devs don’t put much work into planning the flow of their GUI from a user’s perspective and it really shows.

IMHO a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu. If something isn’t currently possible, it shouldn’t be available, and if the dev chooses to make the option visible but unavailable, it should be clearly and visibly marked as something that can be available (grayed out text for example).

I think devs tend to overestimate both the skill of the user, and the usefulness of their UI.

Sometimes I fold my frozen pizza in half like a calzone and eat it like a taco.

That’s no slices.

I would Imagine someone put a bandit sign offering jailbroken firesticks in front of the wrong office building and pissed off someone who can afford lawyers and lobbyists.