ProdigalFrog @ ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net

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Dreamweb.

90's cyberpunk point'n'click with a dark mature story and a rocking soundtrack.

I disagree that stable distros aren't good at general purpose gaming systems, they work fine unless you have very new hardware.

And sometimes the newer stuff csn bring more problems than a stable distro, depending on your hardware.

As an example, my system is an nvidia laptop with an external monitor. Unfortunately, the Nvidia driver is absolutely unusable under Wayland with this setup, which was a bummer for me, as I wanted to use Fedora with it, but starting with Fedora 41, X11 was completely phased out, so I couldn't fall back to it.

I'm not a fan of openSUSE tumbleweed or Arch based distros, which do still support X11, which left me with the more Stable distros. Mint worked flawlessly with my setup, and I have no issue gaming.

Tl;dr there's more nuance to stability vs bleeding edge, and both have their place.

Only issue with uBlue distros is the lack of documentation and limited help resources (many questions in the forum are left unanswered, as the uBlue team is quite small and likely can't get to them all).

Premiere --> Davinci Resolve (Openshot or Kdenlive for FOSS)

Illustrator --> Affinity (Inkscape for FOSS)

Photoshop --> Affinity Photo (GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP & Resynthasizer for FOSS)

Whatever Adobe has for painting --> Krita (FOSS)

Eyyy! I see you got mint up and running, congrats dude! :D

But I guess my GPU is to «blame» for being too new

Unfortunately yes :(

The stable distros aren't super good when it comes to the latest hardware, but but for slightly older stuff they're pretty great.

I hope you succeed in getting mint into shape, though! :)

I tried both Bazzite and Fedora the past couple months, and this was my personal experience:

While Fedora does have a codec installing option in the installer now, it still doesn't seem to include some common ones (couldn't play certain formats until I installed the non-fedora flatpak VLC player).

Bazzite was very nice, though apps seemed a little slow to open. At some point all apps refused to open, which may have been my fault, but it was at that point that I noticed how incredibly sparse help documentation was, and how many questions (that were relevant to my issue) remained unanswered on the uBlue forum for months.

I think for a new user, access to good help documentation and resources is essential, so I currently don't recommend it for newbies.

Hm, just to be sure, you're trying sudo apt upgrade (not update) at the end?

A distro with newer stuff likely would work out of the box, though they tend to be a bit less new user friendly compared to Mint and Pop.

Fedora is generally recommended as the best compromise, but with it comes the need to use a third party repository called RPMFusion to get patent encumbered software like video codecs and steam. After it's setup it's usually smooth sailing, but something to bear in mind.

A non-lts version of Ubuntu should also work, as that's more up to date.

If you'd like to troubleshoot pop a bit more, I believe a newer kernel should be available in your repository, 6.11 perhaps? (I'm not actually sure, I just know Linux Mint has it available). If it's not available, you could grab the Xanmod kernel, which I recall being pretty easy to install, and is very up to date.

Since Pop OS is based on the LTS version of Ubuntu (long term support), it may lag behind a bit on having drivers for the very latest hardware. Mint is also based on Ubuntu LTS, which would explain why it didn't work there either.

This guide shows how to use a PPA (basically like a mini repository with newer stuff back ported to work with the LTS) to upgrade to a newer Mesa version. Hopefully that gets you up and running!

What jumps out to me is that you mention installing a GPU driver, but most of the time with AMD cards you don't have to mess with that as it uses the open source driver that comes with the distro.

How did you install this driver?

As your card is very new, it may benefit from a newer version of the MESA driver and a newer kernel.

The biggest advantage of private email is that it stops the email provider itself from data mining some of your most sensitive info, as Gmail and other free emails most certainly do. Basically it's protection from surveillance capitalism, but you rightfully can't consider it a secure way to send messages or info to other, non-encrypted users.

Posteo is only 12€ a year, so a bit cheaper. Doesn't support custom domains though.

LibreOffice is very good, and generally its Microsoft Office compatibility is decent. If you ever find it's causing problems, OnlyOffice is known to have better compatibility overall.

You can also try either of them on your Windows PC to see how she likes them, since they are available on all platforms.

That's apparently a new style of presentation oftentimes done purposefully to give a more 'real' or 'authentic' view of the presenter due to appearing as a less polished production.

Further resources:

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, and will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective (plus you'll get better pay and benefits!)

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

While not a super deep analysis, the Space Quest Historian did a retrospective on the first Police Quest that deconstructs somewhat how Jim Walls seemed view police work, or at least his idealized version of it. It's also pretty funny :p

Apologies for the late response, but cheers for the update! I'd be curious to hear how you liked it in a recipe when you do cook with it :)

I don’t think I’ll be eating it plain on toast anytime soon

I don't have it on toast super often, but if combined with a goodly amount of butter-tasting stuff and with only a veeeery light coating of marmite, it's actually pretty tasty, much better than on a cracker on its own, I imagine.

Excellent article. When combined with the previous expose on Williams over on Vice, the evidence seems overwhelming that Ken was nothing more than a fairly heartless new money asshole who readily got caught up in the hard right, and sought nothing more than wealth and the spoils of it.

Back when the Two Guys from Andromeda (Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, creators of Space Quest) were doing a live stream for SpaceVenture, Ken Williams joined the chat. Upon confirming that it really was him, Scott Murphy was visibly still embittered at Ken, and when Ken mentioned that Space Quest was his favorite series, Scott simply responded "I really doubt that." (If I recall correctly). In a comment elsewhere, he said that as their games became more successful and made more and more money, Ken would always try to pay them less.

Later, Scott got cancer and did a gofundme to help pay for his medical expenses. Ken, a multi millionaire traveling the world on his yacht thanks to the wealth the creatives at Sierra generated, and directly responsible for Murphy losing his job, donated $500.

A few years later, he had a new yacht built from scratch for himself.

Freet make durable barefoot shoes out of recycled materials for usually a pretty affordable price. They're made in the UK.