None of the x11 sessions in any DE were as smooth video output-wise as the Wayland sessions I tried, especially with multiple monitors, they always had various problems and stutter.

That is why I switched to Wayland in the end.

I’m still using Timely, although you have to edit it’s AndroidManifest to add the necessary permissions for newer Android versions. One more thing that was bought and killed by Google.

HDMI-CEC out of the box? Does it not lose focus when you turn off/on the TV so keyboard/remote navigation becomes impossible?

They had 6 months of testing with release candidates, although you are not entirely wrong there are bound to be bugs still. Plus this release is almost entirely DB related refactoring, so you are not wrong about the maturity side either.

That’s just what you get when you fork a codebase with no care about code quality (hopefully after this it will be in a good place).

1. They have an experimental Wayland session already. It mostly works except for some pretty important stuff…I also haven’t seen development on it for a long while.
2. I think this is almost a 100% no.
3. I tried to implement that myself. Making them shorter than the screen is easy. Making them appear above the edge of the screen is hard, but not impossible - the code is in JavaScript and the logic is kind of disjoint across multiple files and stuff depends on panels being at the edge of the screen - I didn’t do it in the end because it was too much effort for something I didn’t want that much.

They don’t (I sure didn’t know who I would vote for and why at 16) but that doesn’t mean it needs to stay that way.

This could present an opportunity to have a few classes still in school explaining why voting matters and why making an informed choice is important immediately when it gets relevant.

I had lots of problems with the previous version when turning the TV off/on while it’s running, like losing keyboard access (no focus) until you use the mouse at least once and it updating the display settings every time. Hope it’s getting better now.

TBH the keyboard focus issue is happening on most Login Managers and DEs, so it’s not really their fault. I will try it out some time, until then I keep using my SteamOS install.

Depending on your TV it might not be enough. I’ve set it up, but my TV decides my PC doesn’t have CEC because it only starts responding after boot, not immediately.

Water UK basically said so in the article too

I tested chatgpt, it needed some nagging but it could do it. Needed the size, blank and white keywords.

Obviously a lot harder than it should be, but not impossible.

I just insert the Tragedy of systemd video as my usual response to these threads.

Reminds me of a background from Everlasting Summer: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/361484307594325233/

Sorry for the Pinterest link, couldn’t find anything else on short notice.

Not really the easy way, but this is how you can make your wine application show up in Preferred Applications.

You probably don’t have a .desktop file for you wine app. Go to /usr/share/application and find one entry that also shows up in your Preferred Applications->PDF list. Open that entry with a text editor: that’s how your new entry should look like (I recommend looking at /usr/share/applications/xreader.desktop in particular). You must have the MimeType field for Preferred Applications

Create your new pdfxchange.desktop file and place it into ~/.local/share/applications so it will be picked up by the OS and it should show up in your Preferred Applications list.

The only thing you need to figure out yourself how to make pdfxchange open a file from the command line, you need to put that into the Exec= field.

For you it might be something like this: Exec=env WINEPREFIX="YOUR_PDFEXCHANGE_WINE_PREFIX" wine "YOUR_PDFEXCHANGE_WINE_PREFIX/drive_c/path/to/pdfxchange.exe" Z:%f

Try it in the terminal (without Exec=) until it works. %f is the file you want to open.

You can do that via the AUR, it’s called cosmic-epoch-git if you have enough ram and time to build it

They didn’t mention how it affected overweight/obesity rates, which is what they aimed to tackle. Every research I found had problems in its modelling or just straight up speculative.

Plus they are not actually using the extra income for related programmes instead they include it in the general budget, which is not nice…making it just a tax.

Although from a dental perspective there is no way it’s not working.

Why are other countries are not struggling with obesity rates is what I would like to know even without a sugar tax.

I just hope they are not planning to introduce a salt tax, food is already bland as is.

I have the same issue on my laptop, except it’s constant from the moment I log into Cinnamon. Other DEs are fine.

In the end I was too lazy to troubleshoot it, but maybe I’ll try with the Wayland session. If that has the same issue, something’s gone terribly wrong.

You can do the same with cp too. Also safer.

But I use Ventoy nowadays.

I didn’t even know Lemmy existed until last week (when I specifically searched for a Reddit alternative) even though I heard about Mastodon.

And it might be confusing to decide where you need to register and what’s the difference without reading up how the Fediverse works. Most people don’t care about that.

Also if they are based on the same technology why I can’t use a Mastodon account to login/interact with Lemmy (conveniently)

I guess if we ever have Nomadic identities most of the above could be solved? Except that Lemmy is still almost completely unknown for most of the people.