Well, if you want cross-platform anything, not using a Microsoft framework is the first step to success…

Started writing a lengthy response, then came across this Wikipedia link which slamdunks it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#Pros_and_cons 😅

From what I just read about pacstrap, I think so, yeah, but you can control many more things, like for example you can configure KDE to use wobbly windows¹.

But it’s also declarative, rather than just a script.
If you do configure wobbly windows this way, it doesn’t just do a find & replace on the respective KWin config file, but rather it generates the entire KWin config file anew, with all the values you defined in your NixOS config + whatever defaults may be needed.

This has the big advantage that it doesn’t depend on whatever is currently on disk. It will just make your system match your NixOS configuration in any case.
Disadvantage is that any other KWin settings need to live in your NixOS config from now on, too, i.e. you can’t use the graphical settings anymore or they will be overridden on the next nixos-rebuild switch.

Well, and there’s other disadvantages to NixOS, like it not using the standard Unix folder structure (FHS), so some programs have problems with that, and that there’s at least two different ways to do anything, so it’s difficult to find straightforward documentation.

But yeah, if you can push past the pain of learning it and configuring everything initially, it does then work quite nicely.

¹) Requires Home-Manager and Plasma-Manager, and then this line in your Home-Manager config:

programs.plasma.kwin.effects.wobblyWindows.enable = true;

Yeah, I mean, my colleague pretty much just used this other person’s config like a distro. It comes with programs you didn’t install and defaults you didn’t choose, but if it works, then no need to change it, I guess.

A colleague was gushing about NixOS and so I gave it a shot, too. Eventually, I was wondering how to best configure something and he just told me I can look in his Git repo.

This happened two more times until half a year later, I saw that he was now also using Starship for the terminal prompt. So, I asked what made him switch and his response was basically “Star-what?”.

That’s how I found out that he just copied someone else’s configuration and pretty much left it at that. He was pointing me to his repo, because he genuinely had no idea where to even start configuring these things.

Like, yeah, technically it’s documented somewhere in that repo how to configure that. But I assumed, it would be obvious, if I see the code, because why else would he tell me to look there…? 🫠

I guess, it can select the wrong song, if:

• the correct song doesn’t have its acoustic fingerprint in the MusicBrainz database (otherwise it would be the closest match), and
• another song has a similar enough acoustic fingerprint, above a threshold that you can configure in the Picard settings.

I assume, it has to be a threshold, because you might have slight variations for the same song/recording, like silence at the end trimmed or volume normalized or whatever.

And yeah, Picard’s UI is certainly a bit of a hurdle. Conveying information for so many changes is definitely not easy, so I don’t want to complain.
But you know, if it would have detected that some of my songs will get renamed not just with a few capitalization fixes, but rather completely different words, and it would have prompted me for those, then I wouldn’t have misnamed songs now…

Yeah, at some point, I told Picard to just re-sort everything and that was not a good idea. Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database.
I do have a backup that I should restore actually, but yeah, difficult to notice such changes and especially to know how much damage was done.

I did also figure, I should just add the unknown songs into MusicBrainz, but boy, I added one album and that took more than half an hour…

Definitely leaning more and more towards that unsorted life…

There is Kid3 for Android as well. 😅

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.kid3

It’s not the smoothest Android app, I’ve ever seen, but seems serviceable…

Yeah, looks more like a parking lot than a street…

In hopes of this question not being a practical joke 😅:

The desktop environment makes more of a difference than the distro. Switching distros will also give you a different desktop environment (because not much else uses the Cinnamon desktop environment that Mint uses), but yeah, you’ll probably care the most about the desktop environment.

So, instead of choosing between distros, I would recommend choosing a desktop environment, for example look at KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell.

And then you can either:

1. install it on Linux Mint in addition to Cinnamon. You will be able to switch between them from the login screen.
2. Or you can pick a distro that offers your chosen desktop environment out of the box and switch to that distro.

I will say that option 2 is kind of ‘cleaner’. It will be better tested and integrated, if it’s officially supported by the given distro + you start from a clean slate where Cinnamon isn’t also installed.
But yeah, I would actually recommend starting with option 1. You won’t have to learn both a new desktop environment and distro at the same time. And it’s less big of a step in that you can easily switch back, if desired.

As per usual, do make a backup whichever option you go with. Sometimes, it can cause problems to have two desktop environments installed, because they might edit the same config files, so it’s good to be able to revert…

Yeah, I was gonna say, just a bunch of Markdown files would probably be fine. Use e.g. mdBook if you want a static webpage with search.

A dedicated service might have some advantages, but personally, I’d care much more about having my recipe collection in a format that I can access without specific software.

I’m at the point where I struggle to explain to newbies how to do things, so I’m always glad that other newbies do it. 🥴

Well, it’s this range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsolar_point

Ah yeah, that makes more sense, thanks!

Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?

But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.

I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.

Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…

Yeah, not only does +x leave read/write permissions untouched, it also only makes it executable for the user, not for everyone and their cat.

That would have also been my intuition, but apparently the driver is involved. At least, unloading the driver solved it in this case: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796

This sounds exactly like your problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796

It’s quite a lot of detailed technology talk, which I don’t expect you to understand. The main takeaway should be this:

So the problem is [temporarily] solved by running: rmmod hid_apple

This command unloads a driver that’s potentially interfering here. The driver will be loaded again on next reboot.
Which is useful, because you can just try it out and if it doesn’t work (or if it breaks something), you can just do a reboot and everything is back to normal.

You will need admin/root permissions to run this command, so the real command you need to run is: sudo rmmod hid_apple
It will ask you for your login password to confirm running the command.

If that does fix it, then we can look into making it permanent.

my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it.

Unusable as in nothing at all happens, or do they do things like volume up/down when you press them?

If the latter, there may be an “FnLock” key combination you have to press. Usually, it’s something like Fn+Esc. Or Fn + whatever key has a lock symbol or “FnLock” written on it…

Lemmy uses Markdown for storing/displaying comments, specifically the CommonMark flavor with some extensions, as documented here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

And yeah, no, that doesn’t have a way to underline,

except

maybe

one

of

these

here,

depending on the Markdown implementation in the client. Some clients might also choose to underline the highlighting, that’s normally 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤.

Links may be underlined as well.

Well, and then you’ve also got this thing, which is certainly a line under this text:

On Lemmy, we also got strikethrough. Priorities, I guess. 🙃

But yeah, no proper, consistent underlining in Markdown/Lemmy. 🥴