I worked at a theater in high-school/college. I think it was Dark Knight, but at some point after going digital they brought back the film projector for certain shows and it was presented as a quality thing. I'm a super auditory person, so the thing that always stuck out to me in the IMAX was the sound. Those subs bump hard.
Conversely, one of my worst experiences, subjectively of course, was HFR (high frame rate) movies. I think it was a LotR film, but it looked so weird that I couldn't get lost in the story.
My suggestion is a little more old-timey. I worked at a number of Goodwill Stores (Thrift Store Chain). The stores I worked at all had a huge selection of audio books on CD, usually for only $1-2. If your car doesn't have a CD player, you can always choose to rip them to disk. These were well known, mainstream books. Finding niche titles might be harder.
XFCE and LXDE are nice in their own right. I used to run xfce and lxde on my laptops and netbooks. Those bottom of the barrel, underpowered, bargain bin machines hummed. At the time though HiDPI support was weak still (at least for xfce) so they never made it to my desktop. Didn't like many multi-sized monitors. I assume this is a problem of the past now.
Not sure if I'm using the same package or just a similar one. I've been annoyed at all the snaps, flatpacks, appimages, etc. for a while now. I just want to update from the repo and not end up with a bunch of slow, broken, poorly integrated alternatives on my computer. Being able to properly manage app images with a tool like this made the alternate distribution formats so much more tolerable. Now when I install something I pray that I'll find an app image if it's not in the repos!
20mph/30kph seems like a golden zone. Coincidentally that's also where most ebikes in the US are governed, so speed diffetentials should drop to a safer level too.
The more I active commute, the more my distaste for driving grows. I don't really want to drive in a big downtown like Philly or Seattle again if I can help it. Its stressful and there are too many people around for everyone to take up one F-250, one Hummer, or one Escalade worth of space.
I don't understand all these PSAs. Nobody is trick or treating along a 45-55 mph suburban arterial. They're in the neighborhood. I don't care how fast people drive on the freeway as long as they're safe about it, but if you can't drive 25 in the neighborhood, you should be forever forced to park on a main road outside of it and walk in on foot.
Two lanes or one will fit through a 1 lane naroowed section in a perfectly optimized way at the same speed. 1 lane cab only carry "x" cars per second. But by putting the merge at the choke point, we end up with gaps when people hit the brakes to let the other lane in and don't accelerate at the same speed. I lane with 10 ft gaps between cars might get through a bit faster because a perfect merge with 10 ft gaps isn't going to happen. Basically, its the Nagel-Schreckenberg effect except everyone gets stuck slowing to 15mph at the merge instead of merging early and possibly oinng through the restriction faster without issue.
Having said that, there's no mechanism to enforce early merging other than being a good driver (or the unsung hero's who straddle both lanes to prevent cutting). I've given up. If no one else will drive properly, then why shouldn't I drive to the very front and push my way in? I'm just punishing myself by doing it the better way because it requires everyone to participate.
Eventually, we can avoid this by using dynamic signs on a gantry over the road to close/open the lane way ahead of time depending on flow and how far back the line goes.
It's infuriating to know the thing that got this lady was the exact thing she was trying to save those elementary school kids from. I'm inclined to suggest retractable spike strips at every crosswalk and arming crossing guards with RPGs to repel rogue vehicles, but someone more sensible will certainly have a comment about why we "can't" do that.
As someone who really needs to visualize my day, I love phone and watch apps that use a 24h watch face. It's very logical to display sunrise/sunset times and I even found an app that displays my calendar events as time slices in my clock pie.
Always wanted to pick up a cool analog 24h watch too.
Longtime Linux user, but not an IT Guy/Programmer. Like the users above, I was able to setup Nextcloud and Floccus with minimal trouble and I hear its even easier with Docker. I recommend setting it up once to understand it better and make some mistakes, use it for a while, then make a clean install once you understand how you actually do use it.
I used KDE Neon for a while for a similar reason. I just needed a home to think and watch for a few months while the Snap thing played out. It works and you get fresh KDE, which just so happens to be my favorite DE!
Bodhi was really cool when I briefly tried it out. I bet it could revive my old netbook. I have a special spot in my heart for distros that work well with low spec hardware.
There was definitely a time when I would have considered Manjaro a less mainstream distro, but I've been running into fellow Manjaro users everywhere!
I wipe & reinstall on my phones and computers more than the average user. I like it fresh and I like it fast. Manjaro stays fast and this install of mine is a year or two old now! Any other distro would have been reinstalled a few times now or I would have gone distro-hopping searching for better functionality.
I love the control I get when it comes to sources. AUR, flatpacks, and appimages are all good for me, but no snap shall touch this computer of mine. I have a few minor annoyances with my setup, and am really curious to see how the next plasma update effects things.
I found GNOME in my early days, Cinnamon and Budgie after GNOME went "convergence," and KDE ever since. A nice thing about Linux is we have some variety so you can pick something that will let you work/play your way.
I worked at a theater in high-school/college. I think it was Dark Knight, but at some point after going digital they brought back the film projector for certain shows and it was presented as a quality thing. I'm a super auditory person, so the thing that always stuck out to me in the IMAX was the sound. Those subs bump hard.
Conversely, one of my worst experiences, subjectively of course, was HFR (high frame rate) movies. I think it was a LotR film, but it looked so weird that I couldn't get lost in the story.