vortexal @ vortexal @sopuli.xyz

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I don't know what the previous version was but I'll still post about it to the forums. Thanks.

I have no idea what those are, unless Linux Mint (at least the XFCE edition) has one of those installed by default, I'm pretty sure I don't have any of those installed.

I'm using the XFCE edition of Linux Mint. The Kernel updated yesterday morning, could that have something to do with it?

Ok but is there anything notable from this error message, like anything specific that I should be checking out for?

How passive is Duolingo? Basically what I'm looking for is something I can have running on my phone while I'm playing games on either my computer or another android device and, at most, occasionally press a button on the phone to skip an ad or answer a question. If it's something that requires more attention, it may not be what I'm looking for.

Yeah, I'm aware of the fact that passive beer money sites and apps aren't has good as they used to be. I don't care if I'm only earning around $10 a year, I don't currently have anything else I can do with the phone.

Also, I have been using Google Rewards, that's how I've been able to purchase most of the android apps I've purchased over the past few years. The rest came from either the random coupons that Google gives (which I've never known why they give them to me) and the points I've stocked up over the years from filing out surveys on InstaGC.

I haven't checked it out in a while but the problem I had with the subscriptions feed was that a lot of videos don't show up there. Sometimes it would take weeks for a new upload to actually show up in the feed, while some channels just never appeared there. IIRC, YouTube stated that this was at least partially intentional.

I checked some channels and I didn't see any videos that were missing but I don't really have the patients to check every channel I'm subbed to. Although, I'm subbed to over 150 channels on YouTube but the feed didn't seem to have a lot of videos posted in the past week.

Regardless of whether they fixed it or not, assuming YouTube still offers them, the RSS feeds were always reliable for me.

On top of have more built-in privacy features, Edge is both faster and more stable than Chrome. For me, Chrome has almost always been very slow and unstable, while other Chromium based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Opera have never given me performance and stability issues. It's actually kind of bizarre to me that most benchmark tests that I've seen online say that Chrome is the fastest when I've only every seen the exact opposite.

Also, the dev team that works on Edge is not actually directly associated with Microsoft. This is the reason why Edge isn't exclusive to Windows. The only reason people don't give it a chance is because they, like you, just automatically assume it's just a reskinned IE.

Edit: Can whoever it was that gave me a downvote explain why? I've made similar comments on Reddit that also get downvotes and I've never understood why. Like, I'm sorry that Chrome works perfectly fine for you but runs like shit for me, I guess.

There's also PixelCanvas, which has a much bigger area than r/place.

I understand where you're coming from (there is a reason I'm a Linux user) but Edge isn't that bad of a browser. Obviously, browsers like Brave, Opera and Firefox are better but, at least from my experience, Chrome is significantly worse than Edge.

I don't really know what to pick so I'm going to go with something kind of obscure, "The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle". The gameplay is a little hard to explain but it kind of plays like Zelda but you can pickup upgrades for your main weapon that allows it to be thrown in many directions and it has sub-weapons that can either be found or dropped by enemies and they have limited ammo.

I actually forgot this game existed until itch recommended me "Hamsandwich", which is a free and open-source collection of updated versions of a bunch of old Hamumu Software games. There are mods available for specific games and it's available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and any other OS/device that can play the online version.

I will always find it funny that people use Edge to download Chrome because they are essentially using Chrome to download a worse version of Chrome.

I've never actually met a real famous person but the closest was that I once went to school with a girl who later briefly did photo shoots for a vaguely popular magazine. I don't remember her full name but her first name was something like "Kristina" and I'm pretty sure her last name sounded Russian. She randomly friended me on Facebook several years ago but when I messaged to her, it seemed like I was talking to her manager and not her directly, it was very weird.

While I'm fine with Linux most of the time, the few times I got frustrated with Linux was when I was following instructions and getting different results because either information was wrong or there were steps that weren't included. A few examples I can think of are:

1. There are a lot of games that I've played (mainly from Itch) that offer a Linux version, but that version isn't tested and often times has mismatched libraries. In one case, they forgot to bundle the Linux version with the game's assets and only included the executable.
2. A lot of Linux installation guides just tell you that you can just install the distro from it's LiveCD. Maybe this is the case for some computers but every computer that I've installed Linux onto required some extra steps. I've always had to disable secure boot and then re-enable it after installing but I've never seen a guide mention that, just some random answers on askubuntu that suggested it. They also never mention that you should use the LiveCD to make sure that everything is working properly.
3. There are some emulators that I've never gotten the Linux versions of to work properly and I can only get the Windows versions to work properly. PCem keeps telling me it can't find any bios even though I put them into the specified folder. Mesen (the pre-Mesen2 version) runs but I can't change any of the settings and the only documentation that exists is for the Windows version.

Nope, I actually deleted my Reddit account. I already had low support for Reddit because of the response they gave after the last time there was a Reddit blackout. I had been using Lemmy on and off on my old account on the main instance, so when the recent blackout happened, I gave Reddit one last chance but the way they handled the situation was the last straw for me. I came back to my account on Lemmy and used it until the main Lemmy instance started having server problems due to the influx of users.

That works, thanks.

I just installed the flatpak version of Brave and that's working fine.

Yeah, that version works. thanks.

That works, I can't seem to get it to work quite like how I had it on Windows but manually launching a second instance with the other profile from the first instance is fine. If you must know why I'm doing it like this, I use one profile that doesn't have any extension installed and another that does.

Actually, I do have an AMD GPU and I did try that and it worked but I made the mistake of re-enabling it and now the settings page just looks like this:

Is there a way to change that setting through the terminal?