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I feel like I’m the only one who understood your question, and sadly I don’t live in either country, so I can’t say.

I do recall that when I switched from Diet Coke to Coke Zero (for some reason there was a shortage of Diet but not Zero), it took me a while to get used to it because Zero tastes way sweeter.

I’ve got nothing helpful to provide for you, OP. But these replies you’ve gotten from others, I wish I had known years ago. A lot of good advice here.

Best of luck.

It’s honestly a bit worrying. I’ve been noticing the same trend with cars, where the user has less and less control and knowledge of how their car works.

And I think, contrary to the apparent end goal (to simplify things), this makes everything extremely complex, and it’ll bite us in the ass.

No, we’re humans having conversations.

Also, we need to recreate tipofmytongue, because it was a really good sub, where people could ask stuff like this and get answers pretty quickly.

I don’t get it. Can I tell it to move a file from one folder to the other? Can I ask it to give me a diff of two folders? Or tell me if files are missing from one folder? Can it keep a sync between folders? Last time I checked, it only answered a bunch of simple questions.

What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?

Over 2 years.

There’s a few uploaders that cross post in the more known public torrent sites, who have always uploaded MP3 320 and FLAC. Some of these websites also have ways to distinguish users who are trustworthy, and the music section shows they upload a lot of stuff. Whenever I want to download music, I seek this sort of user out. Never fails.

gPodder is pretty simple. Link: https://gpodder.github.io/

Other than that, if you want CLI, while it’s not a podcast program, yt-dlp is pretty good for downloading them. You can filter by title, date, etc. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, tho.

Kind of wish they’d do a cross platform game (that you can play at home). I don’t want to buy a Switch just for Pokemon.

Edit: and yes, I’m aware of which community this is, but after GBA I never had much luck with these games, and haven’t kept up. Not sure how functional they are (especially on Linux).

It really depends on the content, and that’s the only thing I can agree with. If one is careful to “train” the algorithm to show certain things, it can be a way to pass the time.

I usually watch them at noon while I wait for my food, because anything else requires too much focus. My eyesight is not as good as it was to read the news on the phone, so just watching a bunch of funny cats jumping around is good enough.

I’m no one important, not a rocket scientist or quantum physics professor, so I don’t need to watch dissertations on mathematics. If I’m dumb, the world keeps spinning. I think that’s why a lot of adults have started watching those clips as well, we just don’t take ourselves so seriously anymore.

That’s good to know. I’ve been thinking of getting a trackpad, but I wasn’t sure if it would work with Wayland, if controlling windows, sending keys depending on the window, etc. would work as it does with X11. I might get one, after all.

If it’s anything like mouse gestures, make sure to verify that it’ll work in Wayland.

I agree with you. I don’t hate math, I just hate the way I was taught it. I’m not diagnosed, but I’ve long suspected I have ADHD or autism, and so anything that isn’t interesting to me I tend to just obliterate from my mind. If I had been taught math through video games or game programming, or something like that, I would have paid more attention.

It happened again during college, with a professor just shouting his lessons, and not really giving any practical examples. I almost failed, until I went on YouTube and found many professors giving very good explanations, with visuals and such (this was almost 15 years ago, when YT was less algorithmic; even the comments were helpful).

I’ve been on Mastodon for a few years, and unfortunately all of this stuff is pretty common. It varies with the trending tragedy of the moment, but it’s all the same. Gaza, some African country, LGBT+ people, and so on.

It’s impossible for me to tell which one is legit and which one is a scam, so I took the decision not to boost or spread anything like that. It’s unfair, but unknowingly boosting a scam and having someone else falling for it would be even more damaging to their causes, in my opinion.

22.04 currently uses X11, yeah. But the COSMIC DE, as far as I’m aware is Wayland-only. I think they use XWayland or something for some stuff… but I’m not 100% sure about it. All I know is that Wayland kills stuff like xprop and xdotool, and there are no real alternatives. Now it’s up to each DE to figure it out, I think. Supposedly KDE was going to work on mouse gestures, but it’s one of those sponsored works people say they’ll take and then they go AWOL.

Eventually I’ll have to rethink how to place my keyboard and mouse, so I can be comfortable without mouse gestures. I have some physical limitations, so easystroke was helping me a lot, but it’s one of those things most people don’t care about, especially in the Linux community which tends to be more reliant on keyboard. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m using easystroke, which doesn’t work on Wayland. So I’m going to move to some distro that still uses X11. Mouse gestures are essential for me.

Ok, this is both impressive and hilarious.

Wait, seriously? One can’t watch Netflix or HBO or Disney+ on the browser on Linux?

I’ve used Windows since version 95. I even learned how to use version 3.1 back in the day (people actually used to take classes for using the PC!). Every new version after 98 was a pain in the ass, they’d get rid of a lot of functionality, change menus, and add crap no one asked for. XP might be a nostalgic memory now, but I thought the UI was horrible at first. Same with 7 and 10.

I first learned about Linux through forums, and then I found out about Canonical sending CDs with Ubuntu for free. So I gave it a try and I liked it. There was a lot of tinkering to do unfortunately. Stuff like the cheap ADSL modem I was given by my ISP weren’t recognized, so I had to dual boot. Eventually I found some file from one dude who had the exact same modem and knew what to do, and so I was able to go online in Ubuntu. (All of that ended up being very useful knowledge, though. If something happens on my computer, I don’t panic anymore, I roll up my sleeves and try to figure out how to fix it.)

I’ve been alternating between Windows and Ubuntu ever since. I switched permanently to Windows 10 a few years ago for some reason I don’t remember. And last year I switched to Pop! OS after finding out about Recall. I was pleasantly surprised by how far gaming has come in Linux, so the switch is permanent this time. I will switch distros, however, once I switch my hardware to AMD.

I think some of the text used stolen might be from fanfiction, which is where I saw em dashes used to death throughout the years before LLMs became a thing.