ISOmorph @ ISOmorph @feddit.de

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100% with you on this regarding relations with adults. But children is where it gets spicy. Like, for me, I genuinely believe I'm not doing my job as a father if I don't protect my children from google, meta, etc... My wife genuinely thinks she needs to protect them from me so that I don't ostrasize them from their peers. It's a real issue...

I bought the Mini S with a Celeron N5095 and 128GB SSD for 150€. At the time it was cheaper than a Pi4, while having better performance.

A couple months I came across a cheap convertible that I bought to tinker with and try out Linux with touch interfaces. The bottom line is that it's very lacking. Gnome and KDE have some stuff for touch interfaces to make it kinda work but it's definitely not suitable if you wanna use the touch stuff as your main navigation mechanic. I see a lot of people recommending Gnome in this thread and each time a similar questions come up, which I simply cannot agree with. Nautilus doesn't even offer a way to right click. KDE's on-screen keyboard is kinda spotty when it comes up. All in all it's still pretty rough without mouse and keyboard. If you want to go full tablet mode you'll be light years away from the experience Android can give you. Personally I settled for fydeOS, which is a ChromeOS fork.

I can recommend Beelink products. Good performance for the price and behaves well with Linux.

Depends... if you're running Linux, you're gonna want to change AMD with Nvidia because of all the driver issues.

Mullvad doesn't have port forwarding anymore. As long as you don't want to leech top secret dark net torrents that only 3 people have in the world, you're absolutely fine.

I added a custom function to my bashrc:

    
cheat-sheet() {
    curl cheat.sh/"$1"
}

  

Then you can call cheat-sheet grep for example

The same 3 VPNs get recommended each time this question is asked:

• Mullvad
• Proton
• IVPN

That sounds like the error message of a dev that handed in his 2 weeks.

Ok, it's not your mouse, it's something else, probably a rendering issue. Can I make a wild guess? Are you on X11? In that case try this:

Add this

    
Section "Device"  
    Identifier "AMD"  
    Driver "amdgpu"  
    Option "SWCursor" "True"  
    Option "VariableRefresh" "True"  
EndSection   


  

to a new file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf and reboot.

AMD GPUs sometimes have this wild random bug with hardware cursor rendering.

Be aware, that you might get some side effects, like flickering buttons when hovering with the mouse.

Execute "sudo dmesg | grep -i mouse" in a terminal and get back to us

I'm not gonna mention the basics like Kate. They're great but nothing new.

My 2 hidden gems that I use on a daily basis are:

• QOwnNotes for markdown note taking. Only competent desktop app I found that comes without any electron bullshit.
• Nyrna to send a game to sleep when I want to take a break or get interrupted. Saves me from booting it up again when I want to pick up where I left off.

Latest release has a GUI desktop app: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases

If you're not against buying chinese products, Redragon has a good reputation and I'm satisfied with my keyboard from them

After having beaten The Pathless yesterday I started playing Uncharted 4. I'm a couple hours in and I have to say, it feels a lot more like an interactive movie than an actual game. I'm hoping it gets more interesting

I honestly didn't like it. There just isn't a lot of game in that interactive book.

Yeah no thanks, I knew that. My question is what is QT about it. In the screenshots it doesn't integrate into KDE at all. It's just plain Firefox.

since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox

I'm interested because I'm a KDE fanboy: I've looked at some screenshots and I'm seeing regular old Firefox. What's QT about it?

I kinda get where you're coming from, but I think your perspective might be too "techy". I actually do use XMPP myself for the time being, but I have like half a dozen contacts on it. IMO because the set up process, presentation and apps fit a protocol born in early 2000s. Which might not bother some IT guys, but you'll lose all the normies. SimpleX is on a whole other level it that regard, but keeps the benefit of being as secure, if not more. I have high hopes this app could become the signal killer we need.

The desktop client is in beta right now. I should go public by next week for all platforms save windows. Windows is planned for about a week later. However, in the first phase, there will be no account syncing (but it's on the roadmap). So you will need one account for each device, which is fine imho, since you can set up groups instead of 1-on-1 chats to resolve that issue.