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The issue is the dock itself which may need drivers.
Looking online it seems to have drivers for Windows. It doesn't look like HP provide driver for Linux for this.
The problem is to do with display over USB. If you plug a display device directly into a USB-c port in your notebook then it should work as USB-C supports display port directly (display port alternative mode) and this is in the Linux kernel.
However if you plug in a USB hub, then you're dependent on the hub device which is running as a USB device. If it has very good hardware then it might effectively be running more true USB-c ports but it could also (and kuch more likely) rely on drivers like DisplayLink to allow it to run a display over USB.
DisplayLink is proprietary and not in the Linux kernel to my knowledge. You could look to enable DisplayLink drivers in your Arch set up. There is a guide on the Wiki but it is described as experimental. There are official Display Link drivers for Linux (from Synaptics) but only officially released for Ubuntu, so support is patchy.
Is lead toxicity from shooting guns a primary reason many Americans seem cognitively impaired ?
Is it possible? Yes
Could it at least in part explain some behaviour? Yes.
But the missing question really is how much, and the answer is probably infitessimally small even if Real.
For lead exposure there are far easier and more common ways to get exposed such as lead pipes (which the US has a lot of).
But also you'd have to establish that the underlying problem is brain damage, and that is probably not true and instead reflects cultural bias.
There are many other reasons to explain American culture and behaviour which does not default to brain damage (or at least provable brain damage).
I would look at social and cultural issues first: an extremely weak political system, a poor quality general education system, high levels of religion, poor quality general health care, high levels of inequality including shocking levels of poverty.
The problem with the US is the extremes - if you have money you have the best the world can offer; if you don't then the state provision is shockingly poor. But alot of the crazies are also rich, and that comes down to the culture and society.
Lead poisoning is the least likely explanation, and is almost wishful thinking to try and explain things as a disease rather than normal human nature.
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When it comes to the spending deal this is a last gasp - the dems are out of power as of 20th Jan.
Then we get the opposite shit show - the republicans have slim majorities in congress so small groups within the party will try to hold the government hostage. We've seen it before and will see it again.
An early sign has been Trump pushing for a raise in the debt ceiling and fiscallly conservative republicans ignoring him.
Expect conflict between republicans to be the dominant story of the next 2 years.
This has been obvious from day 1 of the Trump and Musk show. Trump is an ego maniac and does not like other people taking the lime light.
Trump is predictable in that sense but then highly unpredictable as he turns to his next round of courtiers and sycophants.
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Probably because it's long standing and fully featured. It's been going since 2001 after all.
There are ways of bypassing the Windows 11 TPM requirements if that's the hardware issue. However there are no guarantees that won't change in the future.
However from the sounds of your hardware it sounds pretty new? So I'd be surprised if your chipset doesn't support TPM. It's often turned off by default (particularly in AMD systems) so this may be a simple as going in to your Bios to turn it on, and then letting Windows run it's Windows 11 upgrade. It can also have different names in AMD systems so you may need to read your motherboards manual to find out how to turn on TPM.
Linux is different to Windows; to use it you have to accept the differences to a certain extent.
Having said that, the examples you give of frustrations sound like you didn't get far with Linux, and I wonder if part of the problem is just making the effort to get used to it? But I also wonder whether Linux is just not for you, given your software needs.
A few things you should be aware of for your use scenarios:
- You can install a virtual machine and run Windows in it, with a license if you want, for your edge scenarios of specific programs you use. It will take some minor effort to do but I have Windows 11 installed in a KVM machine on my Linux machine for the rare times I want to use my Work Office account. I prefer it to the web version. However it will be more problematic for high end graphics software; you will probably want a dual boot system for native graphics access for that. There is a route of getting a second graphics card just for your virtual Windows machine but I'm not sure that sounds like a route you'd want to go down?
- Many games just work now with Linux and Steam Proton (or other Wine/Proton derived systems). However if you want to guarantee they work all the time then again you will have to dual boot windows. I have Windows 10 installed on it's own drive on my PC; I haven't used it in months but it's there for gaming in case something doesn't work. So yes I have 2 windows licenses on my PC; rarely used but there to cover all use scenarios for me. That is extreme and in your case I'd probably just keep 1 and dual boot but both are doable.
- Linux is much more user friendly than it used to be, and drivers are generally well kept up to date including for new devices but there is often a lag for the cutting edge systems as manufacturers target Windows for launch. I would take a different attitude to you regarding devices - if they've not got Linux drivers I don't want to be stuck with a lemon device in my PC. Your graphics card (AMD) is well supported; and I'd be amazed if your network drivers don't work in this day and age - use a USB live distro to test those things
- If you are going to use Linux then I'd strongly recommend KDE as a desktop as the default paradigm is very familiar for windows users. It is also very flexible and you can make pretty much any GUI you like out of it, but at the start it just works and is familiar. I would not touch Gnome if I were you - it is very different to windows and you don't seem like the kind of person who would tolerate it's restrictive design philosophy. Other windows like DEs include Cinnamon on Linux Mint (There are many more but I think Cinnamon or KDE would be best, depending very much on which Distro you want to use).
- There are open source alternative for much of the software you use, but some of what you use may also run natively using Wine. However you'd have to be prepared to tinker and test to get there.
Overall however, I'd suggest that if you're so locked in to propriety software then Linux may not be right for you. While you may prefer it to Windows in many ways on paper, ultimately the companies whose propriety products you have bought and like are not generally interested in supporting Linux. So you have a choice - either you accept being locked in to your vendors including their choice of windows, or you look at Linux supporting alternatives (open source or propriety), or you accept a hybrid set up of dual booting (which didn't work for you previously). Only you can decide whether you're willing to make the multiple shifts in preferred software you'd probably need to make to be able to use Linux as your daily driver.
If you do want to go down the Linux route; then personally I'd suggest OpenSuSe Leap - it's KDE based, it's a stable point release base, and has decent support, and is designed to be both a home desktop distro and a more professional work device. Linux Mint would also be a good place to start - Cinnamon is very windows like, and there is loads of support on the web as it's so popular.
This opinion remains largely correct - the Internet as a network is very difficult to take down.
However things have happened that have undermined the Internet in favour of commercial priorities.
Net Neutrality was a major principle of the Internet but that is under attack, particularly in the US, where infrastructure providers want to maximise profit by linking their income to each Gb used rather than just paid as a utility. Their costs are largely fixed in infrastructure but they push the lie that they need to be paid for how busy that infrastructure is. A network router doesn't care whether it's transferring 1gb or 10gb, it only matters if you hit capacity and the network needs to be expanded. The Internet providers instead want profit profit profit so are pushing for a way to maximise it.
The other major issue has been consolidation and that's thanks to monopolies being allowed to form and dictate how the Internet works. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple - they've all used their services to try to manipulate customers into their walled gardens and prevent competition.
So the Internet as many people think of it is very vulnerable - big centralised services can have outages that affect everyone because people don't have much choice.
But the reality is the underlying protocols and infrastructure remains robust. Google might have an outage, but the Web itself is still functional. Email protocols and file transfer protocols still work. The problem is people who are sitting in Googles walled garden of services are locked out of everything. And with Googles huge monopoly on search and advertising it means lots of other major services are out too.
So the Internet itself is fine. It's the services and monopolies built on it thay are the problem.
Yeah, I see the antivax movement as largely a failure of politics and a symptom of the corrosive effects of social media.
People have lost faith in politicians after lies and corruption on mnah topics, and that is undermining all elements of democracy and trust in state intervention..
At the same time, Social Media allows idiots to connect with one another and organise there stupidity into movements. Social Media is largely driven by a desire to keep people on their apps to make money so the whole thing is designed to only show people the content they want and makes them happy, not anything that challenges their world view. They are largely not forums for free speech, instead they are commercial tools to manipulate people in to wasting time by feeding them what they want (including playing to their biases) to maximise advertising revenues.
Social media is the horrific consequence of unfetted capitalism - where all that matters is maximum profits, and the harm done to people and society as a whole is irrelevant.
The media don't know how to deal with people not caring that the CEO of a parasitic company is dead, so now they resort to fear mongering?
Just because people are not showing outpourings of grief for the death of a CEO doesn't mean people are endorsing violence. Luigi Mangione is in custody and will likely go to prison; being sympathetic to his story does not mean endorsing his behaviour. This is a complex and multifaceted story and people are allowed complex and multifaceted responses.
The hard drive may be 256gb but a big chunk of that is taken up by Windows and also there will be a hidden recovery partition. So 170gb sounds about right. You can't reduce how much space windows takes, and the recovery partition is worth keeping in case you get in to trouble.
There may be programs HP have installed that you can remove in add/remove software to make a bit more space. HP is notorious for bliatware - installing things to try and sell you stuff. Probably a good few gb may be that crap.
If you download a big game, then it's not a big deal if you're using that game. 80gb is still plenty. And you can delete the game when you're done and use that 90gb for something else.
256gb isn't much but it's enough unless you want multiple big games installed or have a big library of data such as movies or pictures.
Also it may be possible to upgrade the hard drive - depends on the model and how accessible the hard drive is. If you can access the hard drive to replace it then you could get a 1tb drive for example. There are guides online but basically you'd need to copy the existing drive to the new drive (would need a USB adaptor to mount the new drive first) and then swap the drives round. It very much depends on the laptop though.
Another option is an external hard drive connected via USB - it's not good for gaming or running big programmes but it is fine for storing movies and pictures.
If the priority is to have multiple different big games installed at the same time, then upgrade the hard drive. Most HP models it's generally doable without much fuss. More difficult with the ultra slim devices though. Search for your model online and see what people have done.
I'm using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and can recommend that. It's user friendly, especially with the powerful Yast tools for configuring a lot of things. I'm using KDE but it does have a good Gnome spin.
All of the tools you're using will work without issue, and I have an Nvidia 3070 which I've set up without issue with the official Nvidia drivers. I game a fair bit with steam and everything works well.
If you're not a fan of rolling release then OpenSuSE Leap is the same but point release.
OpenSuSE has good official repos and large variety of community repos, plus Flatpak if you need it. The only difficulties I've had are with Python which is installed in a weird way to allow multiple versions to be installed for devs - it can be fiddly installing python software dependencies into the right places, especially if they want you using pip.
Also you said you use VirtualBox - I used to use it but have switched to KVM and strongly recommend it. Guest systems - particularly Linux guests - work better in KVM. Worth exploring in your next system - in OpenSuSE it's been a doddle to set up but should be in most systems.
I see people recommending immutable desktops - I'd be cautious about switching your desktop to that if you don't have experience of that kind of system. They have strengths but definite drawbacks too. I'd try another distro not too disimilar to Ubuntu before exploring the world of immutable distros.
Maybe try an immutable system in a Virutal machine. I've played a bit with them and they've not been for me - too locked down and if you like to tinker or try niche things you'll find yourself fighting the OS. Also Flatpak is convenient but it's not the ideal or most secure way to be running all your software, and lots of software isn't available as Flatpak.
And for Nix, it is very good but can be used on many distros. You can get another traditional distro and try it out - if you like it by all means switch to NixOS but you don't have to use NixOS to use Nix. Again it seems too big of a leap to go all in to that on your main desktop. I'd make a smaller change unless you're open to reinstalling your main desktop a few times trialling bigger shifts.
I would say it is unlikely - storage is so cheap that some form of local storage is likely to stay.
A terminal device still needs some form of storage to run the software to access the cloud. That might end up being some small storage on a chip but the difference is not between none and something, but some and more.
I also think there are enough people who want storage they own and control that it'll persist as a concept. Also having devices that work when networks are down is a benefit in itself - attempts to make devices dumb terminals get exposed as a productivity nightmare when networks do go out.
I think big business will certainly try hard to lock people in to their ecosystems. Remote storage, remote computing/graphics processing are all ways they will try. But conversely there are vibrant communities pushing independent & private alternatives that I don't see dying - whether thats Linux on PCs, or Graphene OS to take control of your android device etc.
Well when you get Biden pardoning a judge who literally took bribes to send kids to jail to benefit a for profit jail, I'd question how compelling the Democrats are.
Instead of voting 3rd party and trying to change things, many Americans seems to be locked in a pointless argument over which party is the least shit.
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During the election people aggressively shut down criticism of Biden and the Democrats, and that any 3rd party discussion was just a vote for Trump.
This was and remains a crock of shit. Both sides of the US two party system are corrupt and irredeemable. When you vote Democrat you endorse this shit as much as when someone votes Republican endorses their shit. Even if they're the lesser evil, they're still an evil.
90 million people didn't vote in the US election. I don't blame them when you see what the dems get up to. And in particular, fuck you Joe Biden.
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Yes it does exist. I've only dabbled with terminal email clients so not sure if they have notifications but:
"one of the only countries in the world"?
Most of Europe, New Zealand, most of Canada, some of Australia, Chile & Egypt all observe DST of some form. Strange opening spin to the article.
But I agree it needs to be got rid of.
Moderation is broken because there is no longer a consensus on what is "right" or "wrong". The very term implies that there is a moderate position that is allowed, and you cull the extremes.
That consensus in moderating used to be simple in most adult spaces - no aggression/abuse/fighting, no porn. Everything else was fine.
Now things have drifted - you have corporate censorship in social media to respond to some perceived need not to "endorse" views. But you also have users deciding some topics are not allowed to be discussed and certain view points are censored just because some people disagree with them. There seems to be a notion that you have to "protect" people from being offended or that certain ideas are just dangerous or wrong.
I've even seen a moderator on Lemmy describe "freedom of speech" as nothing more than a right wing wolf whistle and banning someone.
This whole CEO murder is just highlighting how a complex and multifaceted nuanced case cannot be reduced into a simple good vs evil narrative. The old mainstream media consensus that everyone shows "sympathy for victim, condemnation for the bad guy" is just restricting debate and discussion on something that raises complex and fundamental questions about our society.
The "consensus" on what viewpoints are allowed is breaking down and people are mistaking them personally being offended as a barometer of what is right or wrong.
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.