Ironically an open source project with under 100 stars now seems more trustworthy by default because you can be sure they aren’t lying

It’s from 2015, look at the top comment for the source article.

By what stretch of the imagination does this belong on c/world?

Ahh, okay. I know Cinnamon shows the song that’s playing if you click the little speaker in the toolbar to adjust the audio slider with the mouse. IDK if there’s a setting to make it show on the little pop-up thing in your photo, not sure if that one has options. Like the other commenter said, I’d check in the Mint forums or discord. Could be there’s a theme that has it already

Which Linux distro are you using? What’s your Desktop Environment?

On Linux Mint with Cinnamon there’s a very similar popup to what you described if you open the volume slider from the toolbar in the lower right.

I did say it varies and sometimes the Windows build runs better than the Linux build depending on optimization

Linux Native builds generally have better performance than Windows builds running on Windows. That’s what I was comparing between

These are solid sources to cite, but for the record I was talking about a Linux native build vs a Windows build running under Proton, not a Windows build running in Windows vs running in Proton. Linux is a more efficient OS and well-optimized builds made for it can really fly.

Yes. There are some games where the Linux-specific bugs don’t get fixed and it’s better to just run the Windows version thru Proton and take like a 10-20% performance hit so it runs with more stability.

Sometimes the Windows versions just run better than the Linux build because of bad optimization on the Linux build of a given game, as well (OpenGL vs Vulkan drivers, etc etc)

They don’t share dependencies with the base system, but they do share dependencies with each other, so long as those dependencies are at the same version, which most of them are because flatpaks generally stay quite up to date.

One flatpak uses a lot of extra disk space, but for each additional flatpak you add to a system the disk space difference is much smaller because they share dependencies. When it’s system-wide for all user-installed packages, the difference is quite small.

A parliamentary system could actually let us have third parties

I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.

I use an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux with a USB 3.0 4-bay enclosure. Works great so far.

Good for them. Macron pulled a really shitty backstab of a move when he decided to appoint a conservative PM after the leftists won

This. Besides, stability beats out 2-5% performance gains any day of the week, for servers.

Seems like the point, no? Diffuse the responsibility such that the worst atrocities are “everyone’s fault”.

Kinda reminds me of climate change inaction

Incorrect. Net Neutrality means broadband providers cannot block or throttle individual bits of content. It does not mean they cannot place overall caps on your data usage, merely that they must treat all lawful data equally.

It never affected domestic data caps. That’s a separate policy issue.

It’s sarcasm.

Anime is a treat. Given that the economy sucks and it’s not that hard to download a treat (anime) for free, isn’t it obvious that ordinary people would get their treats for free?

Doubly so because copying data doesn’t destroy the original. “Piracy” in the sense of media piracy is copying, not theft.