Ah, the typical [email protected] and other [email protected] experience.

BTW, in general you can change your desktop environment without switching the distro. They just often come with a default. But installing another is usually one command away and then you can choose at the login screen.

VLC can play isos of video dvds and blurays. So it’s probably trying to do the same here.

I listen to short science videos. I usually put them into a playlist of about five videos and fall asleep by the second. New videos or topics I know less about go first.

My favourites are Dr Becky, PBS Space Time, PBS Eons, Omega Centauri and Urknall, Weltall & das Leben. Angela Collier would be up there as well, but her videos are too interesting to fall asleep to. And I also like Looking Glass Universe, but she tends to show too much stuff you have to see.

I so so love open source. “We are all in competition with each other. Let’s pool our resources and share knowledge to make us all better.”

KDE’s Activities could help you. They are basically completely different desktop layouts and open programs for different tasks. You could set up one for each website with a different Firefox and Thunderbird profile and desktop wallpaper and other things.

Drugs are good.
They make you do the things you know you not should.
And when you take them your friends think you’re cool!

Firefox recently added a new profile manager to do just that. Thunderbird should also support having multiple separate profiles.

I have this beautiful small case lying around here. It can passively cool up to 65 W. Since the Gabe Cube announcement I’ve been itching to revive it with new components. Unfortunately I lack the energy. But all this time it’s sitting there on the shelf, whispering to me.

Oof, that’s harsh.

10.0 is tracking the Wine release it is based on and -4 is their own iteration on that version.

Shhh, not too loud or someone might do something against it.

Edit: PBS Space Time and Dr Becky have done some great videos about this on YouTube.

It’s basically a disagreement on the expansion rate of the universe. Depending on how we measure it we get two vastly different numbers. And either our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang is wrong or we interpreted data from our telescopes incorrectly.

The hope with the launch of JWST was that it would go away with better data. But it seems to be getting worse.

So that makes it more and more likely that our universe formation theories are wrong. This does not mean that there wasn’t a Big Bang. But it means that what we thought happened between the Big Bang and now isn’t quite right.

So we can expect some great new theories in the next decades.

Nobody expects the Spanish coalition!

You now are locked in a wicked battle of the wits with your own personal nemesis.

The biggest news is that Slashdot is still alive.

On BTRFS you could use deduplication to make the prefixes take up approximately no extra space. But that requires you to run a deduplication program every once in a while.

Its compression feature can also save some space and decrease load times.

But the impact of this stuff isn’t that big. Much easier to just go ext4 and be done.

No, VR works on Linux. One of the easier ways to get it running on something like Meta’s Quest 3 is Valve’s Steam Link. And older tethered headsets like Valve’s Index work as well.

And there are even open source solutions like ALVR to work with streaming headsets.