Remember how graphics card prices tripled several years ago, and never came back to sane prices?

Sigh.

Scintilla my beloved

(This is the text editor component in Geany and Notepad++)

I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen Garry’s Mod mentioned a lot.

You can also create your own search prefixes (keywords) in Firefox, which won’t have the extra step of routing searches through DuckDuckGo.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks

He’s doing it in the mindset of a non-techy person,

No. He went to significant lengths to circumvent the “non-techy” interface, drop into command line mode, disregard multiple plain English warnings, and manually override the safety systems, in order to force something that was clearly, obviously, undeniably wrong. That is not normal behavior, regardless of a person’s tech skills. That is pathological behavior, the likes of which would lead to serious injury or death if operating a common household appliance.

And then, after all that, he had the nerve to blame other people for the result.

I can’t believe so many of you are still not getting this.

Believe what you want. I have no interest in arguing with you.

For the sake of other readers, though, I will say that Linus Sebastian is unfit to give advice about computers. He overestimates his skills and knowledge, does sloppy work, and behaves irresponsibly before an audience.

Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)

He tried once. Poor judgment and reading comprehension resulted in him breaking his OS installation. He then loudly complained about the tools that had repeatedly warned him not to do what he chose to do anyway.

the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.

Corrected link:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1817230/view/542250073650626840?l=english

I wonder why the down votes?

I don’t know (they weren’t from me) but let’s remember that heat control is not the same as heat distribution. Some induction ranges don’t offer any good low-heat modes, so people quickly discover that their gas stoves are better for delicate work than the induction model they tried, and assume the technology is responsible. In reality, the problem is not induction, but stove models that implement it poorly. So people may be downvoting the misconception.

The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

nonillion

noun

nō-ˈnil-yən

US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros

also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros

Ursini’s proposal asks for a mere 2¹¹² addresses

Unless I’m mistaken, that would be 5192296858534827628530496329220096, or a bit more than 5 followed by 33 zeros, which is orders of magnitude different to both definitions. I wonder what this article’s author is on about.

https://lineageos.org/

Make a split-screen video:

Left side: Windows user performing a system update.

Right Side: Linux user performing a system update. And then editing a document. And then answering some messages. And then a bit of shopping. And then playing a game. All while the Windows user is still waiting for the update to finish.

Then reveal that the Linux system has a fraction of the RAM and a much older CPU than the Windows system.

You may be underestimating the competency and speed of KDE devs. These people are the effing top.

I promise, my view of KDE developers is well informed. But it doesn’t matter, because KDE development alone isn’t going to fix deficiencies in the Wayland protocol.

so this is all a non-issue.

I think that view is overly optimistic. We shall see.

I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.

If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.

Edit: Regardless of what new stick you choose, it might be worthwhile to reinforce it by drilling a hole in the center of its post and inserting a metal rod.

I don’t know the particulars of these devices, though. It’s possible that the stem part of the stick might be too short to easily work with, or the potentiometer assembly might be resist disassembly. Good luck!

Sorry you had bad luck there.

My recommendation is that if there are no spin with your favorite DE, you simply do not use that distribution

I guess that’s one way to be sure, but to me it seems excessively limiting. I have switched desktops on Debian-based distros, and the only tidying up I remember being needed was removal of the old desktop’s packages (to de-clutter my application menus) and a reboot (to launch the new display manager).

My recommendation to a new user would be to try whatever distro/desktop combo is appealing, and if it doesn’t work out, either do some troubleshooting or just move on to another one. It might not be a path as well tread as the distro’s default, but it might work fine. You’ll never know if you don’t try.

as it’s not being tested against.

That’s untrue in at least some cases. Of course, different distros have different policies and people maintaining their desktop packages, so YMMV.

“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.

I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.

I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.

If there’s a hackerspace / makerspace in your area, someone there might be able to help.

Edit: The idea here is to make something that is stronger than the original stick or any cheap plastic replacement, in order to address OP’s recurring problem. (I thought that was obvious, but there’s at least one rude person here who apparently didn’t follow.)

I’ve never had logging in with a different desktop environment cause problems. (And I wouldn’t expect to. The desktop session selector on the login screen is there for a reason, after all.) Your comment makes me wonder what desktops you tried that stepped on each other, and what bugs you’re referring to.

In any case, if I had an experience like what you describe, I would simply re-create my user account and its home directory. Going through a whole OS install as you suggest would burn a lot more time with no advantage, which doesn’t seem “better” to me. To each their own, I guess.

Remember as well that your “distro spin” approach is only possible if such a spin exists. Example: If someone wants Linux Mint for its beginner-friendly community support, but also wants to try KDE Plasma, they can. But they’re going to have to install Plasma after the base OS, and switch.