Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.

Not bad packages

I’ve made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.

Looks great, but I get a lot of SSL errors without real tine downloading and one every 5 or so songs with it.

It’ll take a week or two to download 3000 songs, but running it periodically after that should be fine.

Automatic updates that need reboots but run at any time other than when shutting down?

Sounds like something microsoft would do, but even they get that part right.

LTS does have a place on the desktop: Learning how to daily drive linux. I started with kubuntu non-LTS and didn’t know you needed to manually start a full-upgrade to not get moved to backport repos. Of course that came crashing down on me at the worst time and I took a break from linux. But I did learn enough that I can use arch now and it’s been great.

Same here. Ubuntu almost made me believe that linux is a pain in the ass to use and you need to fix some shit after every update.

Now I use arch and it’s great. Nvidia is very annoying because they constantly publish drivers that break things, but you can just roll those back and wait until they fix it again. And that gets worse as GPUs age. Apart from nvidia, I’ve had exactly one update issue (telepathy-kde being removed and causing the pacman dependency resolver to get confused) that was fixed in about 2 minutes of googling.

The people who make a /s like this necessary should be banned from the internet for a month at a time.

That part is stupid indeed. If you run X, do xinput and find your trackpad. Then do xinput list-props on that to see all the settings there are. Xinput can also change them with xinput set-prop and they reset after a reboot, so feel free to fiddle around.

Once you’re done, just slap your settings into a script and run that on startup, then you’re set.

This has been memed about forever, no one knows what the majority does.

These things feel like they are made by microsoft. You click somewhere, wait 3-10 seconds and then you can click again.

It has to be more sophisticated than that. Otherwise users could easily taint the datasets by giving wrong answers on purpose.

It probably checks your answer against the current model’s best guess and if it’s close enough, you get a pass and your input is added to the training data for the next iteration. The more wrong you are, the more challenges you get.

I still don’t know whether you’re supposed to hit those and I also don’t know if it’s normal to get two challenges or if that just means I did the first one wrong.

An app that lets you watch stuff from youtube, twitch, patreon, odyssey and more while respecting your privacy and having a better UI than any other streaming app.

What a weird way to say “We don’t like french people”

No idea how to do this properly, but it’s definitely possible. Maybe a USB to IDE adapter makes more sense than going through SATA as it can just expose the floppy drive as a USB stick.

But then again CD drives have been around for ages as well and work properly on linux, so do your research.

The steps will probably look like this:

• Autodetect when a floppy is inserted
• mount it (possibly combined with the first step)
• automatically run a script after mounting
• writing the script, which will read the contents of the drive and control your player (chatGPT should be able to do that for you with a bit of trial&error)

There are people who make backups and people who will.

It’s the same thing with this: Even if it goes nicely most of the time, it’ll eventually screw up everything and you’ll be spending at least an hour figuring out what went wrong.

Sounds like there’s something wrong with your windows EFI partition in that case.

I don’t know how to fix that short of a reinstall. If you do reinstall, make sure to unplug (yes, that’s actually neccessary) all drives except the one you want to install windows on, otherwise the installer is almost guaranteed to fiddle around with them despite you not selecting them.

Because their algorithm is pretty damn good at recommending relevant stuff. For example, titanfall 2 got revived and I found a lot of small youtubers (<20k subs) making some incredibly good content through it. The secret is to click “not interested” on all the clickbait crap often enough and at some point it’ll learn.

Though I do use on an android TV and block out crap like shorts altogether because google’s youtube app is unusable.