Assuming you’re playing games through Proton rather than vanilla Wine, kernels before 6.14 already have fsync which is used by Proton and effectively does the same thing as ntsync.

That’s just called arguing in good faith.

If you have to resort to browsing the web with a TUI every time you’re dropped into a tty then you really should think about using a different distro. When I was using it I didn’t take my laptop anywhere without having a live disk with a bunch of distros on me as well.

Also, Arch is very well known for requiring manual interventions in various scenarios and it’s really not for users who aren’t at least somewhat comfortable in a terminal. That’s not to gatekeep; it just genuinely doesn’t make much sense for someone like that compared to a more “on rails” distro. If they choose to use Arch then that’s their prerogative, but it’s not the distro’s responsibility to hold their hand when the express expectation is that users keep up with distro news and are capable of administrating their own system.

The author seems outright delusional. The continuing deprecation of X11 doesn’t even vaguely resemble EEE at the surface level. Also, it figures that they’d take the time to bitch about DEI out of nowhere.

Assuming I’m not mistaken, doesn’t QLED actually rely on quantum effects to produce color?

That’s a good point; I had overlooked that as a category. That said, it is sort of the odd one out in terms of “immutable traits” (notwithstanding Jews specifically, at least when referring to ethnicity rather than religion).

Generally speaking, hate crimes are only applicable to crimes motivated by a hatred for an immutable trait. Social or political ideology isn’t immutable, so it wouldn’t be protected.

Ah, I assumed you were just talking about the upcoming release. AFAIK trixie-backports doesn’t exist yet though.

Um… no? Literally the first removed comment is for using a slur, a good chunk of them are blatant spam, and while others are maybe borderline for personal attacks I definitely wouldn’t call the mods who removed them “power-tripping”.

Debian stable only uses LTS kernel releases, so unfortunately you’ll need to wait for it to appear in trixie-backports.

Middle English is certainly difficult to understand, but most words still bear some resemblance to modern English. I think it would probably be more like a native German speaker trying to understand a heavy Bavarian dialect, or at worst a Dutch speaker trying to understand the same.

Gateway is a special case since it connects two systems and on Wayland it uses the scaling of the “server” system rather than the host. This is a pretty unique class of issue, at least in my experience. To be honest, I’m not even sure if it works correctly on X11.

I honestly haven’t had that experience at all with Framework, at least on Plasma Wayland. All of the apps I use play very nice with scaling (with the exception of apps through JetBrains Gateway, but that’s a different can of worms).

Have you actually worked in a programming role before? Googling things is absolutely the norm. Most people don’t know every single in and out of every library/framework they’re using, especially when learning new ones. This goes double for more complex or sprawling frameworks where it may be less than obvious how to perform a particular task from the documentation alone or when running into undocumented limitations or bugs (although admittedly an in-IDE assistant won’t be too useful for that anyway).

So I will gloss over, see if it’s addressed to me, of not I will probably wait until it becomes my problem to react/reply

Tbh I would rather have someone do this not realizing I’m expecting a reply from them than to reply only to some of it, because when the latter happens it’s usually like pulling teeth to get a response to the rest.

Out of curiosity, what region are you in? I live in a city of ~80,000 in the northeastish US and I’m not even sure it’s possible to be more than 5 or 10 minutes from a grocery store here.

Fedora Workstation has been really good in my experience. The available software is shockingly up to date and I haven’t run into much breakage of any kind in the year or so I’ve been using it across 2 systems (despite my best efforts every few months when the urge to tinker hits me). I do occasionally run into issues caused by the default SELinux policies, but they’re not especially difficult to work around if you’re comfortable using the terminal.

I do share your sentiment about the AUR - I definitely miss it at times. That said, Flatpaks and the fact that pre-built RPMs are so commonplace have both softened the blow a lot.

That’s assuming the key and message are entirely independent. If you or the recipient isthe type of person or doing the types of things that would attract surveillance from a nation state (because realistically that’s the one of the only scenarios where non-esoteric privacy practices might not cut it), it’s not unrealistic that they’d intercept both your digital and physical mail and would be able to correlate them. At least with public key encryption, the private key is never actually in transit.

They’re referring to Firefox forks which are available only in the AUR and not from the main repos. In that case there can be a level of risk, but you can manually review the PKGBUILD of whatever package you end up installing to verify that it’s not doing anything fishy when pulling sources.

Apart from that, you may also want to look into potentially installing a Flatpak. This still comes with some risk if it’s not official (packaged and published by the original devs), but AFAIK there’s at least some sort of vetting process for packages to be accepted into Flathub.

This is how all modern cryptography works. A deterministic cipher is functionally no different from pig Latin when it comes to actual security. An electronic solution like public key cryptography is infinitely more secure. If you’re especially paranoid you can generate the cryptotext locally and send it by email; that would be much safer than anything you could achieve by hand.