Scary stuff.

If you have enough money and connections, you play by a different set or rules and are treated by a different set of laws.

ffmpeg can do it. I haven’t used it in a while, but here is a good start How can I normalize audio using ffmpeg?

I hope for once people would get together and drop Discord so that Discord would have to reverse this policy. So often, we the customers really have the power if we get together and act together. All these social networks are nothing without the contributions of the customers.

We will probably hear this tired and cowardly phrase that is so often said by new leadership, something like; “Let’s look forward and not back.”

Not familiar with PopOS Tiling, but my goto tiling for KDE is Krohnkite It can be installed inside of KDE via Settings / Kwin Scripts / “Get new…” It has lots of keyboard shortcut and of course you can change them.

Check this out. It may help. universal android debloater next generation

The entire CCW community should really be concerned now about getting shot just for legally carrying a gun.

I am sure the plan is to eventually roll this out to everyone.

Rather than a tool, what about blocking via the hosts file. There must be some hosts files out there that do this for Windows 11.

If the top bar is set up as a menu bar, it could save space on the screen when multiple horizontally placed windows (without individual menu bars) are on the screen. Other than that, I think the general top bar stuff can just be in the bottom bar.

The thing stopping me from using Arch is that most programs come out as debs and you have to wait for them to show up in the AUR. Example: when Mullvad VPN first came out it was only available as a deb. How long did it take to show up in the AUR? Who made that available? Was it the Mullvad folks or someone else? That’s the kind of thing that concerns me.

I find tiling more efficient because

1. I can have predetermined layouts per desktop where my often used programs are.
2. I only have to purposely move windows out of the way if I’ve made the floating on purpose, and
3. Less mouse use and more keyboard use for changing the layout, resizing windows, changing to another window …

The more I use tiling, the more advantages I find. At this point I think I could use any desktop as long as I had Krohnkite functioning tiling.

I wanted to give tiling a chance. I decided to use Krohnkite for a week to give it a chance. At first I didn’t care for tiling but quickly got into it and now I love it. Sometimes to really know if something is going to work for you or not, you have to give it some time. I’ve used this approach for other things (not all work out) but for Krohnkite it did for me. Also, don’t forget to check out all the Krohnkite options.

Good question. Along the same lines, if your disk is encrypted and you make a simple backup (say using cp) is the backup encrypted and if so, how do you restore from that?

A follow on article: “Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go” https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Orphans-Maintainers

I haven’t tried it, but the live kernel updates feature is what intrigues me the most.

If you install the latest Kubuntu with backports enabled, you can get a newer version of KDE than the one that comes “stock” with Kubuntu. The KDE version isn’t as new as KDE Neons’, but still newish.

Something I think is related is that after some time, I can’t click the x on a tab to close it, but I can do middle click (L & R at the same time) to close a tab. When this happens, I also can’t get into the address bar. Just started seeing this with the last update (currently on 139.0.1) snap version.

Mullvad does have split tunneling on Linux and Android. I don’t know about Windows.