Boxes is very clean and functional. I even use it on Plasma. Great app

Well put

About 2 years for me. It’s a better experience than vanilla Android except that tap to pay doesnt work.

Other than that one downside it’s been nothing but an improvement. so much more control over what apps can access, and what Google services to use (if any). Google services are treated like any other app, and can therefore be easily sandboxed.

If you have a compatible device i highly recommend GrapheneOS. I’m pretty unhappy with the build quality and camera on my Pixel (7 Pro), but that was all the same on Android.

I really wish GrapheneOS supported another brand of device. Pixels are way overpriced for how cheaply put together they are, but i’d rather have a meh phone with real security than a nice one with just security theater

It works great with Linux for me, i expect Debian will have no issues

True, but almost nobody uses Wine by itself when Proton is so much more convenient

Wine is still a thing, but most people prefer Proton for gaming.

The easiest way is to install Steam and play your games through that. Non-steam games can be added with “add a non-steam game”, and then you can choose to launch them with proton though the settings for the shortcut you created.

I can count on one hand the games that havent worked for me using this method, and it applies to any distro. I’ve never even considered doing a full VM for a game, i’m not even aware of a game that would work under a VM but not Proton.

Check out ProtonDB to see if your games work, and if any tweaks are required.

If it works on Android it will work on GrapheneOS.

Google Pay (specifically the tap to pay feature) is the one real exception.

I am very happy using NewPipe for YT/YTM, but i’ll look into the revanced apps and see if they offer something better

For me: whoBird (F-droid) and iNaturalist (Play Store)

whoBird listens to ambient bird sounds and tries to identify them. The database for the area you are visiting needs to be downloaded beforehand. If there is a match, it shows the name and a photo.

I love documenting the wildlife i see when i travel, and i try to record every plant, animal(including bugs and birds, and fungi) i encounter so that i can keep a record of where, when, and how many times i’ve seen each species.

iNaturalist is a volunteer/community science database documenting wildlife around the world. They have an Android app that lets you upload geotagged and/or timestamped photos of wildlife, and they are added to a database available for free to researchers.

I use whobird to try to spot birds when i hear them hiking or walking, take a photo, then upload it to iNaturalist to keep track. It’s the most fun part of travel to me.

I looked over my phone and that was the only “travel app” i have from F-droid. Most of the ones i have are everyday apps that i use travelling or not.

is that dark spot in Northern California Redding? I we account for smoke cover that part of the valley should have a ~ 2 weeks less sunshine than the mountains around it.

You can use a combination of shift, meta, pgup/pgdown and arrow keys to move between workspaces and to move applications between workspaces, and you can alt-tab to switch window focus within a workspace. window management and manipulation can be entirely keyboard-driven

edit: i just pulled out my laptop to find out how you do it. i only know from muscle memory.

super(windows) + pgup/pgdown to move between workspaces

shift + super + pgup/pgdown to move focused window between workspaces

and of course

super + left/right to tile

super + up to maximize

super + down to un-maximize

super + h to minimize

super + number to launch from the dash

Nonsense.

Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.

Fedora has gotten much more stable and reliable in the past decade. 15+ years ago it was generally regarded as nice but unstable. I’d say nowadays for a moderately technical user it offers a better experience overall than Ubuntu or Mint. There are still unfortunately some pitfalls for new users (media codecs come to mind). In fact, the only issues i’ve had in most of those 10 years have been related to GNOME plugins or the Plasma 6 transition, problems that also occured on Ubuntu.

I have 2 computers: one running Ubuntu, one Fedora. This has been my setup for over a decade. I have lately been finding Ubuntu more and more cumbersome to use, with less of the “just works” experience i remember having in the past. Perhaps the focus on cloud computing has caused the desktop to languish a bit.

I would like to try Pop!_OS, but i haven’t had a free evening for a while to do a backup and reinstall on one of my computers. It’s also been a while since i used Mint, so my impression could be out of date.

The nice thing about Linux overall (compared to macOS and Windows) is that each update generally improves on the experience. On commercial platforms the experience gets worse as often as it gets better, usually both at the same time. GNOME and Plasma are both overall much better than they were a decade ago (despite a few regressions) while macOS and Windows are both worse in general.

YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

Bay Area: Linda Vista Native Plants (Saratoga)

Larry has a wider selection than most Native Nurseries I’ve been to. He seems keenly interested in manzanitas, ceanothus, dudleya, and bulbing plants like calochortus. His stock is a mixture of Bay Area, Central Coast, Channel Island, and San Diego species with a smaller selection of Sierra Nevada, North Coast, and SoCal species. The nursery is pickup-only by appointment. My impression is that Larry would rather lose a sale than sell an unhealthy plant, so be prepared that part of your order might not be there if he doesnt like the look of it. I highly reccomend this nursery if you are in the Bay Area

Linda Vista Native Nursery

California Flora Nursery (Just outside Santa Rosa)

One of the great institutional nurseries of California native gardening. Their overall stock is unmatched, but only a small fraction is available for purchase at any given time. This is the only nursery that commonly carries clones of the Vine Hill Manzanita other than the common hybrid cultivars (such as Howard McMinn, Sentinel, Harmony). The non-hybrid species is usually (but not always) low-growing, with smaller darker leaves and more delicate flowers, absolutely stunning IMO. The pure species selections will be named stuff like “VHP - A11 ‘low growing’” or “VHP - B3 ‘tall one’” since they are from stock also used for ex-situ conservation plantings

This nursery is also responsible for the introduction of many popular cultivars, especially Ceanothus. Some of my favorites are Ceanothus “Better than Ray Hartman” and Arctostaphylos “Reina de la arena”. Their selection is wide, but especially covers the North Bay Area, Northern Coast, and Inner Coast Ranges. Good variety of oaks, pines, cypresses, grasses, and even annuals. In my opinion, it’s worth the trip from anywhere in California.

California Flora Nursery

“quotes” are my words, i will write up a few more when i have time. Those are my favorites however

I sent Lutris a DM on Patreon. I’ve been a patron for almost as long as it has existed. I’d really hate to stop supporting them but if they continue to tolerate racism in their official Discord I will have no choice.

Anyone else who is a patron should consider messaging the project as well.

Edit: Seems like the offending comments have been deleted, which seems appropriate. Hopefully that’s the end of it

Hopefully bcachefs finds a way to get along with the rest of the kernel.

Seems like these bug fixes being put off along with the feature updates until 6.17 is going to be the compromise for now.

Any distro will work once you install Nvidia drivers.

For Fedora and Ubuntu you can do it from the software center application.

If you go with Fedora you want to also look up how to install proprietary media codecs. That’s the one other thing you need to do after installation. Ubuntu has them built-in.

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I did History and Computer science and had no issues whatsoever. Most of my history work was LibreOffice writer saving to PDF or .docx formats. Printing, scanning, and using library wifi was always fine.

Computer Science kind of expected Linux, everything we did there was cross-platform already.

Built my first PC in High School from scraps. Decided to try Ubuntu 10.04 (current at the time).

I was very impressed with how much performance a free OS could get out of my awful hardware. Have been using Linux in some form as my OS ever since.

Thanks! This is probably the phenomenon i’ve been observing