BananaTrifleViolin @ BananaTrifleViolin @lemmy.world

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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.

Your colon is very good at extracting water; if you can hold it in then yes in theory it could remove some of the water. However in reality when you have diarrhoea your colon is inflamed and irritated during and you can't really stop it happening. You'd have to overcome the cramping and the body trying to push the contents outwards.

The most likely outcome of trying to hold it in is it gets worse and you get an explosive and even less controlled expulsion.

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.

These are people who would see Franklin D Roosevelt as an extremist.

Instead he was the most consequential and effective president the US has ever had and the right have been unpicking his legacy over the decades since. The Democrats have been complicit in that.

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.

Disable the Firefox Color extension to use the light/dark themes.

Or use Firefox Color itself to change the colour scheme to what you want/

The Last Express - really great story

Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day

It is just a buzz word in the industry and doesn't have a tight definition. It's basically any big budget full priced game from a big or medium sized publisher. They're just communicating that they've made a big budget game with an expectations of hopefully big sales and profit.

It does imply the game should be popular and high quality, but those are not a given. Plenty of AAA games end up being trash and flopping yet they're still AAA games.

It's similar to the Blockbuster concept in the film industry.

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.

I don't think it is realistic for other projects to step in and reproduce or take on a project that has closed.

It really needs new people to step up and take over the projects that that have closed. FOSS is stretched as it is. Of course ask the question, but Divest OS has a community of people who used it - is there no one in that community who can step in?

The whole divestos thing shows the problems with single person or small projects - they're great while they last but people are 100% dependent on that one person to continue. That is a lot of pressure to produce on that one person, but also it is concerning if a popular project fails to grow beyond that one person into a sustainable project particularly over 10 years. That suggests either the person is not able to work with other people or unwilling to let go of control, or the community is not stepping up to help, or a mix of all these things?

There may be other factors too, but an entire security focused project dependent on one person is inherently insecure and unstable. When people are making choices around security I'd suggest an important one is who is running a project and his sustainable is it. Because it's a big ask to keep an OS secure.

This probably reflects increasing immigration - there will be plenty of people who don't celebrate christmas so it's just a bank holiday, or who are alone in the UK without family with them.

For example in 1981, 96% of the population was white british. In 2011 that was down to 87% and in 2021 it's down to 83%.

It's not surprising that 10% of young people might spend Christmas alone if nearly 20% of the population is not white (which is largely Christian or secular with some Christian traditions). While some of the non white population may be Christian, it's not surprising that christmas may not be an important day to Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs.

Also European white migrants who might be christian may celebrate christmas on a different day.

So there is a danger of over interpreting statistics like these. Saying more young people are spending Christmas alone over 50 years is kind of meaningless as it's a totally different group of young people today than 50 years ago.

That might happen but is very unlikely. Jury selection is done by both sides so it's very unlikely you'd get a jury united in deciding not to convict him.

However the Supreme Court ruled that jury verdicts have to be unanimous. It is very possible that the jury is unable to reach a unanimous verdict if 1 or more jurors refuse to convict. If this happens it would be a mistrial, and the case would be retired with a new jury. In theory this could keep happening until either a unanimous verdict is reached by a jury or a judge decides that this should not be retried as its been tried multiple times without outcome.

Another key element will be his defense which could lead to him getting a not guilty verdict. The only real defense as a mitigation would be insanity. Otherwise it seems unlikely (albeit possible) that it's the wrong man.

The most likely scenario is a jury unanimously convicts him in my opinion. However people may feel about the case, a jury has to make a decision on whether the facts show he committed a crime - it seems pretty clear there is enough evidence to make a decision and it's unlikely other factors will come in to play in a jury room.

"Warns"? The word they're looking for is "threatens".

But then that'd risk being factually correct.

I use the new tab screen as my homepage, I've set it to show 3 rows in the grid and it's populated by the most visited sites. Make sure to turn off sponsored links and pocket.

I pin my personal favourites so they stop moving around in order.

It's not the functionality you use. I agree I find the default list from the address bar pointless - I don't need my search history, and when I do type to search I want to see my bookmarks but instead I get a confused list of history and bookmarks mixed up.

I don't like how Firefox has taken so many design cues from Chrome. Chrome is not the epitome of browsers or good design - it dominates because of Google shoving it down everyone's throats. Some of what it did to streamline and speed up browser made sense but mostly what it does is push Googles products, so of course it pushes search and your search history in the address bar - Google wants you back on its site where it cna sell you to advertisers.

Remakes are a cheaper way to make AAA games but how good it will be depends on whether it aims to remaster the old game or be an actual remake as a modern game.

RPG has moved on a lot since 2006, and Bethesda's Starfield shows that they haven't really learnt the lessons. Switcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldurs Gate 3 have all taken RPG forward particularly in a narrative sense. Starfield felt like.old hat and focused on a big empty world.

While I'm sure some people will enjoy an Oblivion remake, it'd really need to push things forward to be worth playing. The Witcher 1 is being remade and they seem to be approaching it as an attempt to bring it up to be more on par with the Witcher 3. That is the kind of approach that would make an Oblivion remake interesting. Not just a port and asset update. So we will need to know the actual details to judge.

But ultimately people just want the next Elder Scrolls game. I just hope they learn the lessons from Starfield.

I would certainly do a factory reset before fiddling with the hardware side.

It's important to be systematic when problem solving issues like this or you will confused over what has or hasn't helped.

I would factory reset it and if that doesn't work, strongly consider using the warrenty rather than attempting a manual repair. If you're familiar with fixing electronics then have a go but the worst scenario is you accidentally break sornething else and invalidate the warrenty.

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.