Nia [she/her]

/hj is a tone indicator meaning half-joking, some of these are rarely used but this is a good list of them

I think if the ability to buy something (from the provider, not ebay/secondhand or whatever) on a valid platform, at a reasonable price, without any BS (ex: bad anticheat/the cracked version provide a better service/etc), and if you can genuinely afford it, then it’s better to just buy the thing. I also believe in supporting indie companies and solo devs, they usually provide fair access anyway but if I can’t get something from them I just go without.

Outside of that, fair game in my opinion. If the seller doesn’t provide fair access to something, they’re basically asking for it.

If someone just doesn’t want to pay, fair game to them as well even if I’m not a fan of that. My views are just what I hold myself to, not what’s right or wrong for everyone.

One for people in the US:

You aren’t taxed at the higher rate for all of your income when you get a raise that puts you in a higher tax bracket, only the part that is in the range of that bracket specifically. The rest of your income below the bracket is taxed the same as before.

I’ve seen a lot of people decline promotions and raises over this, and bosses are very happy to let you continue thinking that’s how it works.

Not sure if that counts as not common knowledge, but a lot of people I know didn’t know it before.

My favorite was Infinity/Eternity for a while, but I tried out Jerboa and it kinda just stuck for me, I really like it

Poll results are pretty interesting so far too

I’ve been thinking the same thing, I stick near stable releases of distros mostly because of both breakage and I don’t like just having hundreds of updates every week, this feels like a good in-between that gets me everything I want. I don’t need the latest and greatest days or hours after release, but I certainly don’t want to be years behind either.

Not a bad idea really, if you update tons of stuff without rebooting if you have it disabled sometimes weird stuff can happen, but its not very common and usually not very bad at all. I’d leave it on if you want that extra little bit of stability, but if its just a regular every day use computer I think either way is fine.

It’s because it has offline updates enabled in Discover settings, its not a distro thing rather that Gnome and KDE have that in their software centers as a setting, and Fedora enables it by default, but it can be disabled.

It’s to make your system more stable because no packages get moved or updated during a running system causing unexpected behavior, and you also don’t have to reboot when it tells you, it’s more just a reminder that updates are waiting to be applied when you do, they could really word that better.

Snaps mount themselves as a filesystem which floods the menu with needless entries when you’re trying to monitor/manage filesystems

I’m all for the second USB-C, I feel like this is more likely to possibly happen compared to getting the headphone jack back, plus it would just be useful to have in general

It can be used similarly as a lite version of KDE Connect, but KDE Connect is for pairing a dedicated device to your PC. This will allow sharing between phones on the same network as well, and allows easier use for usecases like quickly sharing a file to your friend who has their phone connected to your wifi, without making a permanent pairing of the devices.

You could do the same with KDE Connect but you have to set it up on your friends device and allow permissions and all that. With this, you just choose the files and send, and it can work over a link you send instead if the other person doesn’t want to install the app. This is a much simpler version for one-time file transfers and for devices not owned by you/not trusted.

I’m using Debian 12 stable and I do everything on it, even gaming. I use flatpaks to keep certain apps that benefit from being up to date, and I install backported kernel and mesa when they release for more performance (amd gpu).

I’ve been on and off with vanilla Debian for years while distrohopping, but I tried out Debian 11 testing and everything just worked for me, am still using that same install but I’m sticking to stable branch now.

Also, proprietary drivers are now officially supported by Debian as of Debian 12, and are available to install out of the box without needing to search for them or add the non-free repositories now, which was a pretty big roadblock for a lot of people.

They’ll still get sold because the reseller sometimes doesn’t bother to unlist it. Devs can deactivate keys, but some are hesitant to do it because if someone buys from the shady reseller site thinking it’s legit, if the key gets deactivated after they buy and redeem the key, the game is removed from their account with (usually) no way to get a refund. Ends up as bad reputation for the dev even though it’s not their fault.

The only ones I know of are ClamAV (ClamTK for a GUI) on PC and Hypatia for Android (F-Droid link)

Just out of curiosity, since I’ve had a similar problem, can you try to disable KScreen 2 in your Background Services settings near the startup applications/autostart menu, then try to let your monitors go to sleep?

My monitors always wake from sleep repeatedly on their own on both X11 and Wayland, but disabling it fixes it for me (but also resets my monitor settings on every boot/log in). I’m still working on finding a permanent solution for mine, but if this also acts as a workaround for your issue it might help narrow down the cause a bit.

Yeah on mobile it hasn’t been the best experience comparatively so far on its own, but the extensions have made the difference for me. They’re planning to open up mobile to a lot more (all?) of the extensions soon and I feel like it’s gonna get a lot nicer to use after that. Could technically already use them all via beta or nightly using collections or something, but I prefer to use the release version.

I’ll try to be unbiased during this, but I am biased against Manjaro personally.

I think as a distro they have good defaults for someone who wants to just dive in and start using it, I like that they have a ton of editions where you can pretty much just start off with whatever one you like.

However, they have had quite a few issues, some innocent mistakes, some larger, but these have had some bad effects that have caused many to lose their trust for it in terms of stability and security, including me. Whether that causes you to trust or not trust them though is a different story. Some of these issues are listed here.

In terms of user friendliness, they make a lot of things very easy, especially graphics card driver and choosing kernel versions via some nice GUI tools they use, and there is a decently large community to find support and ask questions on, but best to make sure you’re asking specifically for Manjaro, as it is far enough away from Arch that some solutions or fixes won’t work and vice versa.

They also have a consistent visual design/color theme, some like it, some hate it, but it’s pretty consistent for those who it matters to.

I would consider using them again personally, but I am on a different distro I’m happy with currently, and will keep an eye on them to see how they improve over the years. I think some of their methods are flawed, but they are passionate about what they do.

I can’t really recommend for or against using it directly, but I hope this info helps you make a decision for it.

Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.

I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.

Piped and Newpipe have similar names, but Piped is a separate project that is a frontend and relies on someone hosting an instance, it’s more similar to Invidious than it is to Newpipe

Symphony on F-droid handles all my music pretty well, it’s not exactly what I’m looking for in a music app, but it gets the job done while I’m looking for more. Most of my music is m4a because I did the same as you.