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Dust. Dust never changes.

If that’s how TFTs worked we wouldn’t have vsync settings in games.

Good to know. We initially set that network up well over a decade ago so my knowledge isn’t exactly current.

You could try Tinc but it’s fairly involved to get running. Pretty nice if you have a root server and want to get several people wired up, though. There are probably easier solutions for your use case.

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True, but in Republican circles that man has a reality distortion field that makes the one Steve Jobs had pale in comparison. Trump could tell them he’s the true god and Christianity is a lie and they’d scramble to find a way to rebuild their world view around that.

My guess is that when they say “Christian” they don’t mean “following some version of the Christian faith” but “a Christian fundamentalist who wants to enforce their specific version of Christianity as the state religion”.

I’m pretty sure that no American president to date is sufficiently Christian for them, nor is e.g. the pope.

Yep. I run Garuda and the main pull is that it’s a more user-friendly Arch with a lot of stuff I want to use preinstalled. I don’t really care about how XTREME it is or whether I might potentially get 1 FPS more.

All other things aside, which Logitech mouse are you talking about? Both my G Pro and my G 305 work out of the box. Logitech also advertises them as ChromeOS compatible and AFAIK the Logitech wireless dongles are USB HID compliant so seeing a Linux straight up refuse to interact with them sounds very weird.

I think a good way to handle this – as well as the wildly unpopular accessibility functions the post is about – would be to have it configurable and simply ask about it during initial user setup (aka OOBE).

That way people who didn’t need it can turn it off and won’t stumble over it after accidentally pressing the Windows key or holding down Shift a bit too long. People who need it can have it enabled right from the get-go without having to trigger some dialog first. Everyone’s happy and having one extra step during initial setup isn’t that much of a hassle.

Bonus points if Windows had configurable global hotkeys and I could make the Windows key do whatever I want. But the OOBE thing would be a good solution already.

It’s a pun on the Met Gala. Honestly, this might be the most sensible Heathcliff I’ve seen so far.

I agree that it should be easily reachable. Just not through one single keypress. macOS’s Spotlight serves a similar purpose and is reachable via Cmd + Space (with the Cmd key being right next to the space bar). That’s just as easy to do as hitting one button but is extremely unlikely to happen by accident.

I personally use the start menu mainly for shutting down the computer as all commonly used programs are pinned to the task bar. A shortcut that opens it has no value to me as opposed to e.g. one that shows or hides a terminal window or one that mutes/unmutes me in Teams even when it’s in the background.

And I do consider it disruptive because having the start menu unexpectedly pop open and swallow several keypresses (and in the worst case launching some application I didn’t want to run) takes my attention away from what I was doing and forces it into something completely irrelevant. If this pulls me out of deep focus I can lose the equivalent of ten minutes of work due to one keypress.

The core of the problem is that this behavior is very annoying for people who don’t use the start menu all the time and there’s no way to change it. If it was just a default for a rebindable shortcut then it’d be a minor hassle once and nobody would complain. But the way it is it feels like Microsoft is trying to force-feed me the start menu, workflow be damned.

I think it’s extremely badly designed. A single keypress – especially if the key is in such an easily reachable position – shouldn’t steal focus. It doesn’t matter if I’m in a game or in Visual Studio, it’s disruptive.

This behavior would make sense as a media key somewhere near the F-keys. But as the default action on a modifier key it’s just bad design.

I can’t believe that launching the start menu is an action on par with opening an application menu or typing a capital letter.

The Windows key as part of a combination is great. It’s an extra modifier key.

The Windows key by itself is terrible because it immediately steals focus from the current application and can’t be disabled without something like AutoHotkey.

That image doesn’t look AI generated to me. GANs are typically terrible at keyboards.

Also, Ubuntu is moving towards using snaps for everything so they’re pretty much the successor to PPAs.

Mostly yes but there’s one other option that simplifies the whole thing: Chromebooks. They’re actually pretty decent for someone who doesn’t need much beyond a browser, a mail client, and a basic office suite.

Sure, they’re tied to Google with all that entails but they can be a real option for someone like a senior who relies on relatives for tech support.

Unbothered by typos. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

I’d love to but on my gaming rig Wine/Proton will absolutely refuse to install the Visual C++ runtime, making me unable to play most games. On another, virtually identical, Linux installation it works without issue; in fact, I have fewer weird issues like a game randomly not connecting to EOS.

I consider it karmic justice for buying Nvidia; that’s the major difference between the two systems.

(Update: The latest Wine version seems to have fixed this. I’m certainly not complaining.)

How about autoscrolling shmups where you don’t die after every hit and get to upgrade your ship between missions?

The oldschool entry in this niche would be Tyrian – released in 1995, made freeware in 2004, then ported to modern OSes.

2004 was also when Jets’N’Guns came out. It looks more modern, has a quirky sense of humor and a badass metal soundtrack. It also has a sequel.

Both games can be found on your (PC) digital marketplace of choice.