Hildegarde

Most old systems used two digits for years. The year would go from 99 to 0. Any software doing a date comparison will get a garbage result. If a task needs to be run every 5 minutes, what will the software do if that task was last run 99 years from now? It will not work properly.

Governments and businesses spent lots of money and time patching critical systems to handle the date change. The media made a circus out of it, but when the year rolled over, everything was fine.

Isn’t a crash screen the last place you should your branding?

I’m unhappy that after an update gdm has a logo of the distro I’m using. I don’t want people to be able to see what distro it is, that way I don’t get the fun of telling everyone that I use arch btw.

No other issues.

How dare you

Yes, but my choice of distro is the correct choice of distro everyone else needs to switch for unification reasons.

I have liked Ubuntu based distros until they release a major update. They are aimed at beginners and they work fine for that. If you use one to the end of support, the updater will say that your software is up to date because there are no new updates.

You have to check the website to find out you’ve reached the end of support, and to get instructions on how to update.

That is an awful user expierence for beginnners, and a great way to have users using vulnerable software without knowing about it.

I’ve switched to rolling releases for this exact reason.

Nearly all settings are stored in .config in your home directory. It’s a hidden directory so you may need to find that option in your file browser.

Rename .config to something else, .config_old for example, then reboot. The system will notice the lack of config files and generate new default ones.

Some settings are stored elsewhere like .local/share but this should reset most of the settings while still allowing you to restore the old configurations if needed.

Minecraft got in trouble when the Afrikaans translation had the n-word (in English) due to a malicious translator. CDPR had an issue with the Ukrainian translation making references to the ongoing war.

This sort of thing happens somewhat frequently. It’s the same reason how fake sign language interpreters can hold positions. It’s hard to verify the accuracy of a translation in a language you don’t speak. They have to trust that the translator did their job right.

Translations are usually just text strings. No reasonable project would allow translators to write code.

Redneck, or pirate, or leet speak language options are there to let developers test the translations without them having to be bilingual.

It works for me on wayland. I’m running KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7.

If your needs ever change to require you plugging in more than 4 things, will need to buy a new device. A new device like the new Framework 16, with 6 entire ports.

There is no reason they couldn’t have gone with a single IO board with all of the ports they offer included. That can be replaced just as easily as the dongles. That would be a better solution.

I have seen plenty of laptops with that many ports. A laptop I had back in the day had a full sized HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, micro-sd and several USB ports, and it was the same size as the framework.

The framework 13 would be a better laptop if they just included all the ports instead of making it modular. They could have done that.

How is the ability to swap out dongles better than a laptop that already has all the ports to begin with?

The framework 13 only has 4 ports. There is plenty of space in laptops of that size to include all of the ports you mentioned, if the laptop was built like a normal laptop.

The swappable ports thing is nothing more than a gimmick. It doesn’t make the laptop better, it makes it worse, because the bulky dongles causes the laptop to have a pitifully low number of ports.

Framework makes very good laptops, but that is despite the modularity and not because of it.

Also periodically delete your account and start a new one with a new name. Harder to build a profile on you if the data is spread between unrelated accounts that don’t reference each other.

Or has AI made this untenable?

I have an issue that clipboard content is application dependent.

So many times, I will open a program to find some text, Ctrl+C to add it to the clipboard, close that program because I’m done with it, switch to the second program, push Ctrl+V, nothing happens because closing the first program cleared the clipboard’s content when closed.

Is this inherent to Linux, or could using something other than KDE fix it?

Y’all are missing the real tragedy of this situation. This api fiasco means the end of RTV, reddit terminal viewer, the world’s finest TTY compatible reddit client. The days of reading reddit on an electronic typewriter are over.