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  • Daily usage? I have some audio issues. It “feels” like the whatever resets/reinitializes. Really quickly though, playback isn’t being interrupted. Sometimes it switches to a dead output channel though and I have to reset it to the actually connected output. Too lazy to diagnose it.

    As a longer standing point of annoyance, I find it very difficult to quickly go UI -> package name -> bug tracker -> bug report. For understandable reasons devs don’t exactly advertise their bug trackers, they’re always a bit obfuscated and have some barriers.

    Color management continues to not work correctly, although that may be due to some x11 wayland conflict. I have a dark color theme preference and certain applications that aren’t directly available as package, but e.g. via flatpack don’t integrate well. Gnome calendar is something I can name, without wanting to blame the devs of that piece of software in particular. They’re doing their best, it’s not a priority, maybe not even an issue on their preferred config.

    I also have some freeze crashes, although that’s more recent, might be a harddrive/hardware issue that throws off something very low level. But the reboot is so quick I barely mind that.




  • But I couldn’t install a specific Python version? System python is 3.13 but I needed 3.10.

    The others have covered virtual environments, which is what you need if you really want a 3.10 interpreter.

    But… the thing I’m here to tell you is:

    they recommend virtual box to not mess with your default installation of the program and the databases it uses.

    for many projects this doesn’t actually matter. You can just ignore the warnings, use the most recent version and install whatever you need.

    You’re already sandboxing this stuff in a virtual box, which you should be able to reset or bootstrap again when you need to. You’re not interfering with your actual systems’ python, you’re messing with your virtual box’s system python.

    I find the whole venv stuff to be very annoying, I never need it, because I use libraries that don’t interfere with system operations and I don’t downgrade to interact with projects. And even if you’re not installing “correct” versions, most of the time newer versions fix bugs and expand functionality. It is extremely rare that functions get removed and it will actually break by you not using their exact version. Or like, version conflicts.

    And besides, they would need some kind of CI / testing that would check for compatibility anyway.

    tldr: ignore venvs, try it bare metal, see if something breaks. If not, there you go, if yes, you can still invest the time and effort of learning venvs.









  • I’m more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice

    I made a filter for “idiot did a thing” and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that’s all they’ve been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.

    But I still get the little “something was blocked, click here to read it” thing, so it’s very satisfying.

    I don’t block often, but I would expect it’s a similar upgrade.



  • Sorry for the rant, but why can’t we as a community be more active in supporting [blank]

    I don’t care about your fantasy of utopia, I need a working thing.

    That doesn’t mean I’m hating on anything. Specifically the pine phone’s mistake was that they branded as “early adopter” thing too hard. If it says “extensive linux experience required”, that’s not me and I’m not going to sink 200-400$ into a thing that “likely” won’t work, because I don’t have the prerequisite experience.

    It’s not my idea to make “open source business” work, the people who are offering that sort of stuff believe in it, and they have to make it work.

    Me not believing in that fantasy and calling a “not fit for purpose thing” not fit for purpose, doesn’t make me a dirty traitor ‘to the community’.

    Same for “struggling artists” btw. I see the same pattern in that space. If art doesn’t work for you, do something else.