How was it? Certainly sounds good!

Some suggestions for solid state alternatives as old mechanical magnetic storage has such a high failure rate. But retro whatever way you want, of course!

You can get ide to compact flash or ide to sata adapters and get some reasonably modern solid state hard drive storage in there, if that interests you. I understand (haven’t tried personally) that compatibility can be kind of a crapshoot though.

You can also get a gotek which has a floppy interface and can load floppy images from a USB thumbdrive. Which might be a more functional option than getting a USB floppy drive for a modern machine.

It depends on the implementation.

If there’s no voice chat, text based chat participation is considered optional, and the in-game community isn’t toxic, then I might get chatty.

They can be slow to adopt changes. I think the Mozilla foundation getting more funding, staffing, and refocusing on their browser would be the better solution.

While Chromium is an open source project, it is still developed and maintained by Google. For something as important as a web browser, I think it’s imperative that there’s an option outside of their control.

That’d certainly be a good feature, but it feels to me like it’s a fairly niche need. And as per that post, it’s also a big technical effort. I can see why there isn’t anything in the way of development updates.

That is me being a bit of an apologist for Firefox though. If you consider Firefox unusable because of that, then that’s a pretty valid frustration.

Still, I’d encourage you to try and find a way to make it work for you because Chrome is evil.

This sums it up. I’m too lazy and there’s too little incentive.

I and anyone I’ve heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

Nothing too complex, no. KDE desktop, some stuff from the AUR. LVM on LUKS.

Perhaps it’s more fair to say that Arch takes more effort to maintain than any other well known distro except Gentoo (or LFS, if one considers that well known).

I found keeping up to date on a fairly bleeding edge rolling release distro exhausting. I would, too often, come across issues with updates that required manual intervention to solve. And the AUR can be a crapshoot as far maintainers keeping them up to date and applying fixes. Nothing unmanagable, but not an enjoyable experience for me.

No hate intended on Arch though. I think it’s one of the best distros out there, and the Linux community as a whole is better off for it’s existence. But it’s not something I want as my daily driver, and I suspect from what OP wrote, it might be the same case for them.

Edit: Reworded AUR bit for clarity.

There’s a strong inference to the point of being pretty obvious but the infographic doesn’t explicitly say that the person on the left owns the magazine on the right so I checked the first two to confirm that’s the case.

Arch requires a lot of effort to maintain.

Link for reference. https://play.date/

German Bundestag have therefore repeatedly called for state IT systems to be converted to open source software that can be tested by Europe’s own security authorities.

The idea of all the governing bodies of an entire continent doing this and collectively giving Microsoft the middle finger pleases me.

I had the same problem with enshrouded, including desktop sluggishness. I “fixed” it by fiddling with detail settings until I found one thing that had a significant performance impact. I want to say it was something to do with shadows? I’ll try to remember to look when I’m at my desk. Hopefully someone has a better answer/suggestion, but something to try.

Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don’t on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?

I don’t know if that’ll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.

Some disclaimers:

• Commenting based on what I’ve read, not what I’ve done. Though Cuba is definitely a place I want to see.
• I’m assuming “what the hell Obama” wasn’t sarcastic. If not, I’m probably going to sound tonedeaf.
• I realize this is a Marxist instance commenting about traveling to a communist country. My values don’t align with that, though I suspect they aren’t terribly far off. Still, we may have different mindsets, if that comes up.

My disclaimer will probably be longer than the rest of my comment, nonetheless, here we go!

The important part is that, as I understand it, Americans aren’t restricted to traveling to Cuba. You can’t go without a reason, but that reason can be “Support for the Cuban people”. That should be the reason for your visit. And you’re restricted from using government owned businesses. But you can go and experience the country.

Re: Obama specifically. The fact that you can even do that much is thanks to Obama . He’s responsible for the loosening of travel restrictions.

Huh. I hadn’t considered that. I dislike the platform and liked the idea of it being blocked, but I hadn’t considered it as a limitation of free speech.

Begrudgingly, this changes my opinion.

Maybe conky but probably not?

Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I’m not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.

The big caveat is that conky doesn’t work with wayland. It’s a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).

Some ideas:

Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.

See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.

Employers enjoying free work if you’re salaried.

You could combine something like backblaze with syncthing and get both. And you wouldn’t lose syncing if your cloud storage provider became inaccessible. There’s a self hosted aspect to that, albeit an easy one so perhaps still not something you want to do? Felt worth mentioning though.