I find joy from creation. For a long time (2010s) I barely created anything, just consumed. Now I try to do a lot of different things. 3D modelling, game creation, music composing, writing, coding. My skill level doesn’t matter, as I am not dependent on these skills as a source of income (apart from coding to some extent), and the lower my skill, the easier it is to take some big leaps doing these activities, and that progress can yield happiness. I like having several different things as well, as if I lose motivation for one thing, I am not stuck between having nothing to do and forcing myself to do something I don’t really want to.

The other thing is nature. Slowing down and walking in the forest, in the mountains etc. Listening to a waterfall, to the birds etc. Fresh air. Good stuff.

I’m so glad I’ve gotten off the big tech bandwagon by now…

Thanks for the clarification :)

Available sources but commercial binaries: ZRythm (currently in beta) Ardour (can be found for free on the repos of most distros)

Isn’t Ardour GPLv2, and not only source available?

Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?

KDE on my main laptop, Cinnamon on the TV-connected mini-PC in my living room. I like the customization options of KDE, and with Cinnamon I just wanted to test out Linux Mint, no big reason other than that. I used GNOME for some time with Pop_OS!, and it was not fully my thing. I plan to test out more DEs when I can free up an older laptop to do some more experimentation - for my main laptop I require stability, so I don’t mess around with it too much.

First they pioneered USB-C-charging for phones, and now they invent USB-C-charging for peripherals! Mind blown, truly visionary stuff from Apple.

Thanks, I keep gaining confidence that this should work just fine for my use case. I don’t care about encryption for this, it will mainly serve as backup for my media collection, and anything I would want encrypted, I could always encrypt myself first.

Interesting! I will look more into this. Thanks for the tip

Former.

I have Proton VPN running on two different machines running Ubuntu-based distros with KDE and Cinnamon, respectively. Works fine :)

Yeah, that’s what I am hoping for. Thanks :)

Ok, great, thanks :)

Ok, perfect! I am not interested in the software :)

I have the ultimate from 8BitDo (4 of them actually), and I really like it.

I have automatic redirect (with the LibRedirect-plugin in Firefox) of any YouTube-links so that they open in Freetube. Set up on my phone as well, and it works nicely.

I can’t actually find the View-menu (or any other of the usual File, Edit etc.). Maybe it doesn’t play nice on KDE under Wayland? In LibreOffice Impress I can right click the gutter and click “More” and bring up what is called “Options - LibreOffice”. Here I can find “Peronsalization” which allows me to select different themes (to no effect) and that’s it.

LibreOffice is as far as I know a continuation of OpenOffice.

I tried to find this, but had big issues finding where to toggle this. I find the default UI very cluttered and confusing.

From my experience, OnlyOffice provides better compatability with MS Office-files (that is, more so than LibreOffice). However, having used Powerpoint quite a lot in my professional life, and using OnlyOffice Presentation to make a slide deck now, that is an area where I unfortunately find it severely lacking. There’s also the issue about their license - I am not all that familiar with it, but apparently they are not as free and open as they claim to be.