Food prices aren’t high; the value of money has fallen - it’s called inflation.

The real problem is wages have not increased so the purchasing power of consumers remains low. So food becomes relatively expensive - consumers have had pay cuts.

KDE doesn’t control what packages are released on a distro? That’s Aurora that chooses not to have point releaes version, and instead seems to have a rolling release from your description.

Bluefin GTS is based on Fedora 40 while Bluefin is based on Fedora 41. Fedora doesn’t do rolling release outside it’s Rawhide rolling dev branch. It does point releases and bug fixes.

There are plenty of KDE based distros that are also point release and not rolling release if that’s your preference. I’d also recommend feeding back to Aurora if you think they should alter there KDE release schedule; they chose when to feed KDE releases into their distro.

Are hood mirrors a substitute for side mirrors? Like do they have the full field of view so you can see the same things as you see on a side mirror? I’m doubting it myself.

It’s also kind of irrelevant. It sucks that the window was broken but the driver should have gone to one place only and that was the shop to get the truck repaired (without duct tape on the window). Even then it’s arguable if even that should have been attempted as it was probably unsafe to drive either with duct tape or without duct tape in the Canadian winter and actually the truck probably needed towing or working on at the site of the accident.

If they went off working then I’m really not surprised they got into legal trouble. They’d be facing manslaughter charges if they accidentally killed a cyclist because they couldn’t see them while delivering amazon packages or whatever his lorry/van does.

I get that it’s the guys livelihood but these safety laws exist for a good reason, and he’s probably put his commercial license in jeopardy by his actions.

You have so many options because your system has a lot of audio output options available. Presumably your mother board or your graphics card display outputs given the “Navi” label.

As others have said, from that section of the settings you should be able to click on the “proaudio” drop downs on the right and disable any you don’t want to see.

The Navi outputs are the audio available via your hdmi and display ports - you may want to keep those on if you ever want audio from the screens directly but if you don’t ever use audio from your displays you can disable the audio outputs. Most people don’t use screens with integrated audio output but some may plug headsets into their screens via 3.5mm cables so may want it. But that’s an usual use case - most would plug into the PC itself.

The starship/matisse HD audio is your audio jack on the front of the PC (often USB provided) - I’d keep that one available if you ever plug in your headphones. Personally I have my noise cancelling headphones plugged in via audio jack - you get perfect uninterrupted audio and longer between recharges as the headset doesn’t have to use Bluetooth. However may not be desirable if you’re using a mic on your gaming headset too.

You then have your Bluetooth device itself which is the gaming headset.

The other devices below that are your microphones. Again you will have multiple inputs which you can disable if you don’t use them.

Just remember in the future if you ever want to plug in something that you’ve disabled these devices here.

Yeah the outcome of this will be telling. From a legal standpoint it should be clear - Congress has passed a law and the president has signed it into law.

Trumps plans and intentions are irrelevant - he should need congress to pass a new law to undo this one. It’d be bizarre for the Supreme Court to undermine the law based on a whim of the president elect.

But if the Supreme Court do go along with trumps whims then we’ll have a very clear idea how bad things have already gotten. However it’s clear things are already pretty fucking bad as the US constitution and infrastructure failed to stop an insurrectionist getting power.

I use virtual machines and live usbs to try out distros when I’m thinking of a change. That gives you a chance to get a feel for the design philosophy of a distro and whether it works for you.

As others have said, back up is really important. You can back up a lot of settings and preferences and bring them to a new distro. They’re stored in your home directory in folders like .config and .local.

I keep a back up of my /home folder. I’m also a KDE main so use Konsave to specifically back up my KDE theme and settings.

If you are at the point of moving then that’s the time to make backups ready to restore. Also get a list together of the apps you want to keep so you can get set up quickly in a new distro.

Also another habit to get in to is backing up any major config changes into your Home folder for later reference. Even if you don’t use the exact same file it can be useful to have somewhere that reminds you what you tweaked or did to get the system how you wanted it. For example I keep copies of my fstab file (just for reference!), and config files for programs I put in /opt amongst other tweaks I’ve made.

I also save Web pages which have specific tips I used in Linux configs - really helpful if you ever need to go back and do something again. I write txt files on some complex or niche things to remind me exactly what I did as you’re unlikely to remember things you’ve only done once. These are two habits it’s worth getting into - saves so much time hunting for how to do things when you need to, even if you’re not moving distros.

All these things together make switching distros much easier should you want to do it.

I find this kind of approach is bizarre and increasingly out of date. “don’t politicise an attack” but the attack raises very important political questions.

Parties shying away from the discussion are just giving free space for Afd to push it’s narrative and version of how to deal with the problems. Other parties in Germany, and across the West, need to start dealing with this issue head on - the idea of a some central mass consensus is breaking down because it is not offering any solutions to the problems being raised by such attacks.

Lots of far right parties are rising across Europe and instead of blaming voters, politicians need to listen and start address the problems instead of allowing the extreme end of politics to come in and offer extreme solutions.

The “mainstream” parties need to start addressing immigration, integration and social cohesion. There are not going to be easy solutions, but stop leaving such topics for the far rightt wing parties to offer the only solutions.

Complaining Afd are “exploiting” the attacks is weak and a failure of leadership from the other parties to tackle the actual issues.

“Warns”? The word they’re looking for is “threatens”.

But then that’d risk being factually correct.

Yeah this looks right. The program is launching other tools, in this case when it gets to CEF (chromium embedded framework) it is looking in the default path it’s picked up when the .desktop file is launching it. So it’s essentially looking directly under /home/werecat/ instead of where the /Greyjay programme is running from.

So if you specify the path in the .desktop file it should fix the problem.

An alternative route of that doesn’t fix it might be to edit any config files (if it has them) to ensure they explicitly point to the correct Grayjay directory.

Probably because it’s long standing and fully featured. It’s been going since 2001 after all.

Yeah I agree with you. A steam deck “app store” to more easily add in plugins or third party launchers would be ideal.

It almost seems essential if SteamOS is going to run on other manufacturers platforms. Decky loader and other similar plugins are part of the way there, but a route for installing a curated selection of Linux based tools and apps seems ideal. It’s certainly easily in their power.

I do wonder though if they don’t want Steam Deck to drift too far from the Windows and Linux apps, but I think it would be in their interest to open up the gyroscope interface in this way on steam deck and make it easier for less technically savy people (or just convenient to bypass the desktop mode). Although the Steam Deck app feels like the windows and Linux apps, it is basically the main interface for the whole OS for most people.

It kind of makes sense - Lenovo are testing the water with one device rather than going all in. It’ll be interesting what happens next year - do they give up or does it sell well and they push on further.

My feeling is SteamOS is so much better in terms of a user interface and experience than the custom interfaces of each manufacturer on Windows that it’ll probably win out, even though native Windows should have an advantage in performance. Microsoft is dropping the ball on making windows work well in this category, and Asus and Lenovo really aren’t great at software. And let’s face it, they’re largely just launchers for Steam on Windows anyway.

I suspect part of it is also going to come down to whether maintaining their own software and paying a license to Microsoft for Windows for each device is felt to be worth it versus SteamOS.

Yeah, I see the antivax movement as largely a failure of politics and a symptom of the corrosive effects of social media.

People have lost faith in politicians after lies and corruption on mnah topics, and that is undermining all elements of democracy and trust in state intervention…

At the same time, Social Media allows idiots to connect with one another and organise there stupidity into movements. Social Media is largely driven by a desire to keep people on their apps to make money so the whole thing is designed to only show people the content they want and makes them happy, not anything that challenges their world view. They are largely not forums for free speech, instead they are commercial tools to manipulate people in to wasting time by feeding them what they want (including playing to their biases) to maximise advertising revenues.

Social media is the horrific consequence of unfetted capitalism - where all that matters is maximum profits, and the harm done to people and society as a whole is irrelevant.

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The media don’t know how to deal with people not caring that the CEO of a parasitic company is dead, so now they resort to fear mongering?

Just because people are not showing outpourings of grief for the death of a CEO doesn’t mean people are endorsing violence. Luigi Mangione is in custody and will likely go to prison; being sympathetic to his story does not mean endorsing his behaviour. This is a complex and multifaceted story and people are allowed complex and multifaceted responses.

I’m using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and can recommend that. It’s user friendly, especially with the powerful Yast tools for configuring a lot of things. I’m using KDE but it does have a good Gnome spin.

All of the tools you’re using will work without issue, and I have an Nvidia 3070 which I’ve set up without issue with the official Nvidia drivers. I game a fair bit with steam and everything works well.

If you’re not a fan of rolling release then OpenSuSE Leap is the same but point release.

OpenSuSE has good official repos and large variety of community repos, plus Flatpak if you need it. The only difficulties I’ve had are with Python which is installed in a weird way to allow multiple versions to be installed for devs - it can be fiddly installing python software dependencies into the right places, especially if they want you using pip.

Also you said you use VirtualBox - I used to use it but have switched to KVM and strongly recommend it. Guest systems - particularly Linux guests - work better in KVM. Worth exploring in your next system - in OpenSuSE it’s been a doddle to set up but should be in most systems.

I see people recommending immutable desktops - I’d be cautious about switching your desktop to that if you don’t have experience of that kind of system. They have strengths but definite drawbacks too. I’d try another distro not too disimilar to Ubuntu before exploring the world of immutable distros.

Maybe try an immutable system in a Virutal machine. I’ve played a bit with them and they’ve not been for me - too locked down and if you like to tinker or try niche things you’ll find yourself fighting the OS. Also Flatpak is convenient but it’s not the ideal or most secure way to be running all your software, and lots of software isn’t available as Flatpak.

And for Nix, it is very good but can be used on many distros. You can get another traditional distro and try it out - if you like it by all means switch to NixOS but you don’t have to use NixOS to use Nix. Again it seems too big of a leap to go all in to that on your main desktop. I’d make a smaller change unless you’re open to reinstalling your main desktop a few times trialling bigger shifts.

Well when you get Biden pardoning a judge who literally took bribes to send kids to jail to benefit a for profit jail, I’d question how compelling the Democrats are.

Instead of voting 3rd party and trying to change things, many Americans seems to be locked in a pointless argument over which party is the least shit.

Yes it does exist. I’ve only dabbled with terminal email clients so not sure if they have notifications but:

Aerc https://aerc-mail.org/

Himalaya https://github.com/RussPalms/himalaya_dev

As stable as that dime is, it’s utterly useless for all practical purposes.

What Google is talking about it making a stable qbit - the basic unit of a quantum computer. It’s extremely difficult to make a qbit stable - and as it underpins how a quantum computer would work instability introduces noise and errors into the calculations a quantum computer would make.

Stabilising a qbit in the way Google’s researchers have done shows that in principle if you scale up a quantum computer it will get more stable and accurate. It’s been a major aim in the development of quantum computing for some time.

Current quantum computers are small and error prone. The researchers have added another stepping stone on the way to useful quantum computers in the real world.

While this is true, if your pc is secure and you don’t install crap then this is not going to be a major issue for the vast majority of people. Both desktops have their own security flaws but always the number one flaw is the user.

Keep systems up to date, do not side load software from outside well managed official package systems, use strong passwords, use encryption etc. This counts for far more than the various security flaws and fixes that constantly come and go with any system. If you don’t give bad actors a route into your system to exploit flaws then you are generally OK.

Like the screen copy flaw would need someone installing software that would exploit that - possible but unlikely in a well managed environment with a good robust distro.

And it’s worth saying that generally Linux remains less targeted than Windows and Mac for malware. That does not mean people should then be lax in their behaviour but it’s a better starting point for being secure if you look after your Linux install properly.