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I feel like I’m the only one who understood your question, and sadly I don’t live in either country, so I can’t say.

I do recall that when I switched from Diet Coke to Coke Zero (for some reason there was a shortage of Diet but not Zero), it took me a while to get used to it because Zero tastes way sweeter.

Also, shout out to the female player character version of the game: Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town

I’ve got nothing helpful to provide for you, OP. But these replies you’ve gotten from others, I wish I had known years ago. A lot of good advice here.

Best of luck.

It’s honestly a bit worrying. I’ve been noticing the same trend with cars, where the user has less and less control and knowledge of how their car works.

And I think, contrary to the apparent end goal (to simplify things), this makes everything extremely complex, and it’ll bite us in the ass.

No, we’re humans having conversations.

Also, we need to recreate tipofmytongue, because it was a really good sub, where people could ask stuff like this and get answers pretty quickly.

I don’t get it. Can I tell it to move a file from one folder to the other? Can I ask it to give me a diff of two folders? Or tell me if files are missing from one folder? Can it keep a sync between folders? Last time I checked, it only answered a bunch of simple questions.

What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?

Over 2 years.

Or AI made lore? Dafuq is that?!

I’ve seen a few videos of that, and it’s generally lauded by people who have no grasp of storytelling. They think lore is a synonym of story, rather than the “decoration” of a story. It reeks of laziness.

gPodder is pretty simple. Link: https://gpodder.github.io/

Other than that, if you want CLI, while it’s not a podcast program, yt-dlp is pretty good for downloading them. You can filter by title, date, etc. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, tho.

It really depends on the content, and that’s the only thing I can agree with. If one is careful to “train” the algorithm to show certain things, it can be a way to pass the time.

I usually watch them at noon while I wait for my food, because anything else requires too much focus. My eyesight is not as good as it was to read the news on the phone, so just watching a bunch of funny cats jumping around is good enough.

I’m no one important, not a rocket scientist or quantum physics professor, so I don’t need to watch dissertations on mathematics. If I’m dumb, the world keeps spinning. I think that’s why a lot of adults have started watching those clips as well, we just don’t take ourselves so seriously anymore.

That’s good to know. I’ve been thinking of getting a trackpad, but I wasn’t sure if it would work with Wayland, if controlling windows, sending keys depending on the window, etc. would work as it does with X11. I might get one, after all.

If it’s anything like mouse gestures, make sure to verify that it’ll work in Wayland.

The only thing I actually liked from Cosmic is the ability to remove rounded corners, which is something I hate that we’re forced to endure in every single UI at every single level. Even KDE seems to lack that, even though they give a few options for the UI. (Edit: I mean, as far as I saw on Plasma, KDE doesn’t have the option by default. Maybe it can be added or something, but I didn’t see anything in the settings to indicate I can remove rounded corners.)

Tiling is just not to my liking, but maybe it’s because I don’t use huge monitors, so every time I tile a window everything gets bunched up or cut off. Maybe I’ll think differently when I move from 24" to 27", who knows. I ended up disabling tiling and stacking in Pop! OS 22 and just use vanilla GNOME snapping when needed. Stacking also adds a horrible tab UI that can’t be edited (say, make it vertical instead of horizontal), as far as I know.

So, to me, the DE just doesn’t add anything different or extremely necessary. But of course, I can only speak for myself, my tastes. I’m generally very picky and an outlier in most things, so I’m not surprised other people find those things to be essential.

I feel like it was a huge mistake on their part to try to make a whole DE rather than work on a bunch of GNOME extensions, but now they’re trapped and can only keep working on it. I don’t dislike Cosmic, but I just keep asking “why?” every time I look at it.

I never understood how to install any of it. In the time it’d take me to understand any of it, I’d have found 200 torrents. 😂

It kind of reminds me of my attempts at automating a simple, repetitive task on the desktop, and in the middle of it I’m like “fuck this!” and just end up doing it manually, and faster.

I’ve been on Mastodon for a few years, and unfortunately all of this stuff is pretty common. It varies with the trending tragedy of the moment, but it’s all the same. Gaza, some African country, LGBT+ people, and so on.

It’s impossible for me to tell which one is legit and which one is a scam, so I took the decision not to boost or spread anything like that. It’s unfair, but unknowingly boosting a scam and having someone else falling for it would be even more damaging to their causes, in my opinion.

22.04 currently uses X11, yeah. But the COSMIC DE, as far as I’m aware is Wayland-only. I think they use XWayland or something for some stuff… but I’m not 100% sure about it. All I know is that Wayland kills stuff like xprop and xdotool, and there are no real alternatives. Now it’s up to each DE to figure it out, I think. Supposedly KDE was going to work on mouse gestures, but it’s one of those sponsored works people say they’ll take and then they go AWOL.

Eventually I’ll have to rethink how to place my keyboard and mouse, so I can be comfortable without mouse gestures. I have some physical limitations, so easystroke was helping me a lot, but it’s one of those things most people don’t care about, especially in the Linux community which tends to be more reliant on keyboard. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m using easystroke, which doesn’t work on Wayland. So I’m going to move to some distro that still uses X11. Mouse gestures are essential for me.

Ok, this is both impressive and hilarious.

Wait, seriously? One can’t watch Netflix or HBO or Disney+ on the browser on Linux?