it was a real hero

at least? wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the motherboard nowadays?

its not really an UEFI issue but a windows one. unlike BIOS systems, UEFI was made capable to handle this, yet windows fucks it up.

it also depends on your configuration. on an ESP partition there’s a default bootloader, and per-os bootloaders in directories. if you rely on using the default bootloader, windows will overwrite that from time to time, but it can fuck up the per-os bootloader setup too if it fucks with the list that the efibootmgr command manages on linux. I don’t know whether it does the latter

so I had to take all my exams with a proctor staring at me.

much much better than having to install spyware. a proctoring spyware could record your precise mouse movements, keypresses and build a profile out of it, or upload anything from your computer to its developers. but a proctor person? what will they do, take notes? they only see what you show them, and by using a different OS account they really can’t see anything sensitive.

don’t forget google drive, and facebook without ads

/s

One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time.

it doesn’t know the galactic center but otherwise check Trail Sense on f-droid. the astronomy tool has a 3d mode that shows where the sun and the moon is. oh it says there will be visible meteor showers in a few hours!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kylecorry.trail_sense

to add another point: the huge filesize of the image, despite it being a relatively simple comic. I noticed it by loading unusually slowly. It’s because the solid color areas are not actually solid color, but have noise that’s hard to see, and all that detail can’t really be compressed away

? The camera is just to check on the customers if they are scanning everything properly and not stealing.

the camera built in above the screen only sees your face, it cannot be used to check that.

this is given votes, not received

they are satisfied that you identify yourself consistently with the same number.

they don’t want to call you, what they want is to track you

payment system: GNU Taler

but adoption is really, really slow

I guess average people are not opinionated about desktop environments. they got familiar with one, and it’s fine to them, they’re not even thinking about trying something else.

kde neon is their testbed I believe, but there are other distros shipping it too.

opensuse leap and thumbleweed defaults to installing kde plasma. leap is the slower moving version, thumbleweed is the bleeding edge rolling release distro, if you want to try it.

fedora has a kde edition, that too seems to be stable, maybe its more polished too

I thought autoscroll needs to be supported by every single program separately. but I’m fairly sure you can disable MMB paste on KDE, so it should be possible for other DEs too

check out the fossify gallery app. not on play store probably. it can ignore folders, or only look in some

openSUSE Tumbleweed

tumbleweed is like that though. there’s a cost to immediately getting all the updates: you are supposed to be testing it and reporting problems you find. if you don’t want that that’s fair, me neither, that’s why I don’t run tumbleweed. I never understood the people saying they never have problems.

but please don’t write this down as “the linux experience”

if leap is too slow for you, you could try fedora kde edition, so far it seems pretty stable. but maybe you could continue with tumbleweed after setting up automatic snapshots before update installation. if your rootfs is BTRFS it shouldn’t be hard.

Well, I learned earlier this year that if my system is booting normally and able to play games (all I really care about to be honest),

I don’t think you need tumbleweed. do you run steam as a flatpak package? if so then its updates and for wine/proton they arrive quickly, I think you would be fine with leap.

So, I just wanted to know what everyone else feels about updating their systems, especially if you have a similar use case like mine. :/

where I use opensuse leap, I fear the major version updates, but I don’t know why because I always read the release notes, and I don’t think I had major issues yet.

where I use fedora kde, I just let it do it itself. these are not my primary systems (yet), so if something breaks then its not that much of a pain, but no problems so far. it already supports the update install method that installs all of them after a reboot, and that’s what I use,

never updating anymore is a bad idea. on linux even your web browser is only updated along with the system (unless you use the flatpak package), and all browsers regularly patch previously unknown security vulnerabilities

Problem with ubuntu is that it’s corporate driven, with the corporate mindset. theybare not as bad as microsoft, but they are regularly showing their teeth. not with this of course, this is “just” a mistake of some kind

it already works in browsers. other clients would need to implement it themselves. I have no idea if this is viable with battery powered devices on a data cap

that’s disingenuous. you don’t need to feed google with money to support creators who want to be supported, they’ll have multiple channels for donations

but also you don’t need to pay google, or watch youtube at all, to participate in society.