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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just switched from linux mint to lmde 6 as well and it does feel very much the same cinnamon-y DE I left. The only difference so far is I had to install nvidia drivers myself as it doesn't seem to come with a driver manager like mint did. I've gotten everything else I used so far set up fine but... I guess I haven't tried gaming yet which I guess might be important to check out, will have to soon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or am I missing something?

I think the only distinguishing factor is to target, it must gather data. So that means your activity is being tracked, stored, and shared with third parties. Of course for some people this will matter more than to others, but for those privacy focused you now know for certain they are storing data on you, potentially making money off of selling it, with no way to opt out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I found this which has registrations and posts for mastodon / fediverse over hour / day / week / month but it breaks it out by instances so can be a bit difficult to tell overall. Here's mastodon in the last 7 days for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, what? I need more information. You probably mean loose leaf but I guess you could just cut open a used bag? But surely that's like, one bag a month or something. I drink like 6 cups of tea a day, how long does it take before you can add more? (I had this problem with composting when I learned I could add like a small peel per week and I was like... I generate 10x that per day.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I bounced to mint cinnamon as soon as this was announced. I miiggghhhtttt switch to arch as cinnamon hasn't quite made me feel like I'm able to do what I want, but I plan to at least try LMDE before that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The latest drivers on mint, 535, cause flickering on my monitors. There are a bunch of posts about this; when I installed them when they came out my screens went black and never recovered, had to power off manually, and then the top part of my monitors would just flicker every 15-30 seconds. I rolled back to 525, and now that it had been a couple months I had just tried to upgrade again recently but the problem remains, black screen, reboot, flickering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

8:00 almost slipped by me there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm kind of sad about how large games have become and how little goes into optimizing that since "space is cheap"; though it seems people don't really care about the bandwidth (environmental) cost of downloading that now that everything has gone digital (not that I'm saying physical doesn't have waste).

I just kind of wish there were alternates, maybe high-res (free) DLC packs or audio localization packs which I feel like were done in the past but never really became a thing. I find myself sticking to indie games that are only hundreds of MBs instead.

I don't think the article provides any conclusions besides beat games faster to delete them to clear space.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's really impressive to me they were, assuming correct, able to pinpoint this on a celestial body from estimates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The world would be a very different place without Kevin MacLeod's music