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We need to lobotomize our “smart” devices …

If you’re still laughing, try not taking any caffeine for a full day. I recently tried to stop the habit (digestive issues) and it’s really damn hard.

I don’t remember it well, it was probably around 3 years ago. IIRC I had issues with looping.

ardour.org

I paid for a binary of Ardour (music production software). The version in my distro’s repo was very outdated and had bugs, and I wasn’t able to successfully compile it myself.

Last time I tried Windows (with Windows 10), I actually struggled properly installing my graphics drivers. IDK what the issue even was, but after trying unsuccessfully for a while I just wiped the Windows partition and stuck with Linux.

MPV looks better.

Where did that come from, anyway?

You cannot, no desktop environment except Gnome and KDE has Wayland support beyond experimental status.

If I was content with running no desktop environment at all, I could already do that on Xorg.

Extreme shortage of desktop environments that support Wayland. I don’t want to use either Gnome or KDE, I’m currently using LXQt with i3wm.

Every piece of code will stop working at some point if you keep working on the software (and the software itself will probably stop being compatible with other softwares if you stop working on it).

And, if it stops working, do we have some reason to conclude that we won’t know why?

If you don’t know why it works in the first place, it’s a pretty good assumption that you won’t know why it doesn’t work, either.

Until it doesn’t and you have no idea why.

Would be pretty bad if that was actually enforced, TBF. Way too subjective.

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Nevermind “maximum performance”, back when Elden Ring came out I needed a fresh version of mesa to get it to run at all. That was on Ubuntu, but I doubt Debian would have been any better. At least it was an easy fix to get fresher mesa from a PPA.

It scales great actually. Have you never seen one of those mini pots that only make enough for one small cup?

Man, you’d think they issue caffeine pills for those situations …

When I used Mint about 6 years ago, I sometimes got into trouble with Mint’s weird update system. They were also telling users to reinstall instead of updating when there’s a new LTS, which is kinda ridiculous IMO.

I’m probably not the typical Mint user, though.

They had a lot of missteps over the years (e.g. at one point, they shipped with Amazon ads in the OS). Currently it’s the way they’re pushing Snap (which is a lot like Flatpak, but proprietary and only really used by Canonical (because it’s proprietary)).

Plus the whole “it’s for noobs” image.

Coffee filter machines are also old and reliable, very traditional (where I live, at least; French presses are a newer trend compared to that) and very practical-minded (IMO it usually tastes like crap, but you can make a lot of it at once and it stays warm for a long time).