I checked and it wasn’t mentioned in the article; just choosing a wayland session is not enough, the games are by default ran through the xwayland compatibility layer. you need to start each game with the DISPLAY variable unset in order to run wine in wayland mode.

I mean I can’t stand the thing but this is basically paid-for nuthugging - watch me dunk on the team you hate. fluff, bereft of any semblance of standards. you’re allowed to pay for office but not install 7zip and any other utility. haven’t tried in the past decade or so, but I am sure you can make a usable workstation out of any windows - rip out the irritants, fall back on tons of stuff developed over what four decades?

it ain’t GUI inconsistency issue; you got that plenty on the other side of the fence with Qt/GTK/Ayatana heterogeneity. and also not the thing where you can change a setting in three places, that’s also present ova here, in spades.

the issue is MICROS~1 and I have a fundamental disagreement on the concept of “whose shit is my shit”. no other thing can alleviate that clash of interests, this is someone judging the quality of the chopped onions in a shit sandwich - don’t matter how skillful the chopping was or wasn’t, I ain’t having none of the thing.

yeah, that’s the thing - “outside” would be on my property, so all that dust is deposited there, forever, that shit doesn’t decay. trying to think of some containment rig and disposal procedure atm. will be looking for other experiences; the dudes in the video I linked don’t give no fucks, happy as clams

watched a coupla videos on how to cut up the bottles in order to stick them in the mortar and it kinda looks dangerous, where does all the glass-dust go when you cut up hundreds of bottles with a circular saw? is this shit airborne, does it contaminate the environment, anyone savvy?

don’t fixate on the T480, be open to snagging a newer model if the price is right - T490 and T14 G1. even models with soldered-on RAM if they’re cheap, like X390, T13 G1, T14s G1; they can be had with 16 GB on-board and they also have interchangeable motherboards, in addition to many other parts being cross-model compatible. unless the price is awesome, stay away from early ryzens (anything below 5000-series) as they’re a headache wrt power management in linux. chill with the upgrades, it’s the worst time to be spending money on those, your use cases are easily covered with the base config. if you’re set on upgrading things, try to source parts from local busted up units and junkers, not online sellers. good luck.

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all aftermarket batteries are shit. one of the manifestations of shittyness is that once they’re below a certain threshold, the battery controller won’t charge them no more. you’re advised to never let 'em drop below 20% of capacity. or else.

if returning the things is not an option, you can open them up, find where the cells are connected to the controller and charge them there with an external PSU of commensurate voltage; i.e. if the battery is rated at 12V, you charge em with 12V and say 0.5A whilst constantly monitoring the battery’s voltage with an instrument. shouldn’t take long, maybe coupla minutes. once it reaches 10-11V, disconnect, plug in to the laptop and it should start charging.

here’s me charging a “dead” macbook battery; worked just fine afterwards.

https://defcon.social/@yuman/116680475876205754

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I’m not that interested to find out what exactly it’s doing. it suffices that I was explicit about fuck no don’t do none of that and it’s still outbound.

like the latest one I blocked is QownNotes. everything related to online is turned off yet it still wants to connect to api.qownnotes.com.

I’m gonna piggyback off of this to remind everyone to install OpenSnitch and go through the iinitial and super-tedious approve/deny outgoing connections.

there’s stuff on linux that, despite being perfectly offline capable and having turned off everything related to clown sync and remote check this and that, still phones home.

that’s not the issue, tried already fixing resolution to 720p, disabling all HDMI/HDCP related stuff. this is an electrical issue with a very old device, that’s why I’m posting here.

I don’t think that’s the case; it handles the image from a 4K capable device fine but doesn’t from a supershitty android box. it’s an electrical issue, somethings busted in there, that’s why I’m in this community.

I mighta misunderstood what you want; freetube gives good & relevant recommendations if you’ve selected a video, like you’re watching something and then you see related stuff in the sidebar.

if you want to open freetube and then it recommends you things to watch, unprompted, that’s not a thing. honestly, wouldn’t want that to be an option at all.

when you turn off the “viral” shit, block a buncha slop channels (super easy - stupid face in the thumbnail? blockety block) and make your subs the home page, it becomes a joy to use.

freetube recommends decently similar videos with the occasional slop in there, in addition to your subscriptions that are not visible to google or anyone else. only here, when you hide a channel, that thing is hidden forever, won’t pop up again randomly.

the issue is not the presence or absence of any one json field. the issue is this random bootlicker with a history of foss-antithetical “contributions” being let anywhere near the decision tree in the first place., poettering the benevolent dictator adopting this idiocy and then, faced with a fucking tsunami of push-back and negative sentiment along every step of the process, doubling down on the decision to include it anyway because fuck you that’s why. unnecessarily, as it turned out but that is beside the point.

point is, none of the things above indicate there’s a healthy system in place for something that’s becoming an integral part of what we consider linux and can’t so easily be ripped out no more.

ixnay on anything but the vanillaest of the vanillas and that goes triple for bazzite and friends. you don’t want “intriguing” shit left behind to take care of pops, that’s a thing for you to play and experiment with.

your solution is already staring you in the face: the ubuntu you left behind persevered even under those circumstances. either fix it and update it or install a fresh one, with a tweak here and there. and don’t touch nothing else…

varied diet of whole-foods, calorie deficit, resistance (i.e. weight) training. unless you’re like 19, all three are mandatory.

but that’s too hard, so people look for quick fad bullshit, ala keto, intermittent fisting, chrono, whatever the current fad is.

I’m sure you’ve looked it up by now, but in broad strokes: install intel-undervolt, edit the corresponding config file in /etc, start with something conservative, like -50 and bump it up about 25 mV at a time until it starts freezing/breaking, then back off a step and make it permanent by enabling the service.

you should hold off on that for the first week or so, until you’re sure you got everything set up and working correctly.

well, you got it right. you want either gnome or plasma as they’re wayland based and that’s a prerequisite for a seamless laptop experience nowadays, wrt llibinput and HiDPI (like, if you use an external monitor). try out both, see which you like better. good job on scoring the 8 GB version. those are also the last models produced (2017 are identical, save for 5% faster CPUs). you can use a lot of used parts, 2013-2017 are parts-compatible, and also some things from the 2011/2012.

with those airs you need to sort out the closed-source wifi drivers, the method varies from distro to distro. also, they won’t go to sleep with the screen open, so you either remember to close them when you’re done or disable LID0 wakeup events (wakes on keypress then).

they are also very tolerant to undervolts, -100 mV is about standard, more if you’re lucky. doesn’t sound like much, but that’s 10+% less power consumption, cooler and quieter laptop, etc. is plenty noticeable.

finally, as long as you got it open, stick some heat pads on the cooling pipe so it makes contact with the cover; you increase your thermal mass which nets you even less fanspin and longer boosts.

get a local instance of dovecot running with the barest functions, like IMAP ony. it’s docker-friendly, so you can run it thus and you can have your local repository of all your emails.

you connect to it from thunderbird as another account, in addition to your gmail account. what you do is just select all the gmail emails (in the folder All emails) and copy or move them to the new folder on your server.

then, you can shut down the container and spin it up only when you need stuff off it.