I’m in camp “people should learn about their systems no matter what”. we’re in an era where people can’t tell what’s a file and what’s executable , can’t unzip things or edit a plain text file. sure there should be mechanisms to easy people into the learning but it should still happen, there shouldn’t be this rampant incuriosity
loved being behind a triple nat and sharing the public IP with every customer in the county
why is it always
use-after-free
snap
well there’s your problem
critical media consumption is dead, it’s all slop for the slop trough
electron/cef apps doing cross process rendering can’t display sooo
now to wait out the years for old game launchers and wine to follow suit, and years more for proton to get it…
sadly dwarfed by YouTube videos that are outdated as soon as they are produced, and web guides nobody maintains. worse, AI scrapers only know this outdated information and happily hallucinate based on it it is EXHAUSTING having users cheer and celebrate the placebo of all the made up bullshit that does nothing in their config or worse breaks everything in unpredictable ways
proton is based on the once a year “stable” releases and only brings in bits and pieces for specific games otherwise
shat is part of the problem, outspoken anti-trans
it’s the public info on the accounts GitHub page it’s not like anybody really had to dig at all
just personal preference, I like imgur upload because I use a social site or two that do not host any content in a cdn of their own. I’ve scripted my own upload in the past but it was unsatisfying
unfortunately flameshot uses some wlroots extensions that no DEs seem to use , I have a ton of window rules attempting to work around it on plasma
the cynical Swerve effect. at the ends of all stories we MUST shrug our shoulders and say “better things aren’t possible”
at least most of them do the healthy thing and just slap on a desktop theme and call it a day
I think the bigger issue is making sure everything that should gets back upstream into wine for everyone to benefit
the borg, again
that case is the one time I reach for a VM now for configuring peripherals. luckily they don’t need separate software to be running to work properly
steady hand and a magnetized needle is all I need. kernel is bloat