Who would win: people who call every soda “Coke” or moms who call every console “Nintendo”?

I think it’s absurd that they need a whole Direct for what will be a minute and a half trailer for a movie we already know exists (and have seen footage of). I get Directs are their _thing or whatever but it just feels like Nintendo smoking their own supply. Just drop a trailer, guys.

Look, I really only like Pacman because they make the little yellow guy go across the terminal as the download bar. It’s just 😘🤌

Not sure about Ubuntu, but for your CachyOS attempts, I probably would have avoided the DEs you tried. COSMIC is still under heavy development, and might work better on its “home OS” (being Pop!_OS, but this is complete speculation on my part). Hyprland and Niri seem like advanced DEs to me every time I see them mentioned, so I would have avoided them for a new user.

I’ve been using Cachy for the better part of a year now with KDE Plasma and it’s barely given me any problems. I’d suggest something with KDE, or maybe even GNOME. If you like the Ubuntu environment (apt, flatpaks, etc) you might try Linux Mint. From my experience it’s a very easy and hands-off setup. I did not need to use the terminal at all when I set it up on my wife’s laptop and MIL’s laptop.

ETA: Just read your final paragraph and wanted to add about KDE:

Easy access to the launcher

KDE is reminiscent of Windows. The Launcher is always visible (unless you tell it not to be).

See all background apps at once (next to the network and audio icon)(important for VPN, steam, discord)

Yup.

see date and time in a convenient place (top of the screen)

Yup. Can be placed wherever you want.

working file manager

Dolphin.

good package manager

CachyOS is based on Arch, so it used Pacman and ships with the Arch User Repo helper Paru (and a graphical installer, Octopi). You can easily install Flatpak if that’s your thing too. I don’t know a lot about package managers but Pacman has been good to me.

I play drums mostly as a way to exercise. I like to think I’m decent, but nowhere near good enough to play for people.

I think Ubuntu (and consequently some of its derivatives) gets a bad rep for some of their proprietary stuff like Snap packages. I have no clue about Kubuntu though, other than that it’s flavored Ubuntu.

I’d wager many users here prefer other distros, and because there are so many to choose from, Kubuntu doesn’t get mentioned.

Ah yeah the bags could be a little awkward in a lunch box or bag. I’d be worried about something poking a soup bag after it thaws, hemorrhaging soup into my lunch box 😅

I’d suspect the jars should do you just fine, especially if you’re looking for single servings.

We use freezer zip-lock bags for stuff like soup. Allows us to pack the bags flat in our big standing freezer to take up way less room. As for the jars, we have kept jams and jellies in jars in the freezer for years without issue.

Based on not knowing what your system looks like (OS, DE, how you’re moving files, where you’re moving them, etc), the first place I’d try is getting Flat Seal from the flatpak app store. It’s a permissions manager for flatpaks that might help you out. If you’re trying to move files into a folder that has escalated permissions, it may give you some problems. Try fiddling with the settings in Flat Seal.

I don’t really use flatpaks, so I couldn’t tell you exactly the setting to look at, sorry. Never had an issue with drag/drop myself.

I look at it this way: me setting up little services for myself and my friends and family, tinkering with Linux and FOSS software, giving money to devs for software I host or use frequently and not corporations, are all ways I stand my digital ground against this “technoligarchy” we’ve found ourselves in.

Sure, one day they might come for my stuff. But that just means I’ve won.

put aside the idea that a beginner is dicking around with proxmox (why!?)

Fun :)

But seriously, I wanted to throw myself into it to see if I could learn it. I totally get the impulse to question a beginner’s choice for promox; I am questioning it too, frankly. I may follow your advice of restarting that server, but the thought of setting everything up again hurts my soul… At least I know how, though!

Thanks for the kind response.

I use it between PCs (binary, flatpak) and NAS (Docker), but i believe the android fork is still potentially compromised. Haven’t updated the android version since the repo was taken over.

I can think of two stupid ones right off the top.

In my highschool freshman year, in our multimedia & webpage design (a very barebones graphic design/learn how to use Microsoft Office class), I got in sent out of class for doing all of my work at home (I used GIMP and a pirated copy of Sony Vegas at home). That same teacher also gave me a long lecture about viruses for visiting downloadmoreram.com.

In middle school, maybe 6th grade, we were split into groups to do some group project. Everyone was talking, working on their posters, chitchatting, normal kid stuff. For reasons I do not know, I had like sat down and shifted weird, and my throat made a strange, quite loud, involuntary noise. Kind of like a weird yelp? I did not mean to make this noise, but regardless, everything got super quiet, and the teacher asked “who yelled?” I stood up, explained that I did not yell, and accidentally made that noise. Teacher didn’t believe me and sent me to the office. I’m still confused about that one.

Here it is, the dumb question: How can I boot from an iso to modify a VM’s partitions? Further, would the VM’s / dir need to be unmounted first to resize it? Thanks for the guidance.

I like automatic updates when I explicitly turn them on myself. I do NOT like automatic updates when they happen during work hours, force me to close programs and/or restart my PC, and reinstall things that I explicitly removed from my PC.

trans people should have free everything actually

Thanks, I thought so too! The original can be found here, looks like the artist uploaded it and has more in their profile.

Not to be pedantic, but that would be your lemmy.world login. Voyager is simply an app to interact with lemmy. For instance i use the Boost app to access Piefed. You can login by visiting lemmy.world from your preferred browser.

Once you’ve created the community you want, you can share it at !newcommunities@lemmy.world (among other places). Welcome to the threadiverse!

There are no cool new features.

B-but you can buy an overpriced webcam to talk to your friends over spotty online voice chat. What other features could you possibly want?! (/s)

I agree with your post 100% I think. Removing oneself from big tech/data services like Google and Microsoft is resisting the regime. It’s especially useful for folks that may not be able to get out and protest, meet with their representatives, etc.

As for me, I’m running my *arr/media stack for myself and my close friends and family. Fuck Disney, Netflix, and Paramount. For our household, HomeAssistant keeps the lights on and SyncThing backs up our files to the NAS.