I will say, though I don’t agree with a lot of the GNOME decisions for their desktop environment, their apps (especially the ones using libadwaita) always look very clean - that new System Monitor is gorgeous!
I don’t do a lot of native development (I’m primarily a Java guy) so I can’t vouch for it however upon a quick search Seer looks like an interesting GDB GUI.
With those however, they never ran on Linux. This situation is different because it did run. I’ve only used Zoom once, so no clue if it worked excellently or if it was “meh”, but it sounds like it did the job before.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter if Zoom hasn’t updated their Electron to account for the Wayland changes - all people will see is that it doesn’t (or did, but no longer) works on Linux and will blame Linux instead.
Which, that is fine if we want Linux to always be a hobbyist operating system. However if we want Linux to be more accessible to people then unfortunately the ball is in our court to try to not break something as simple (or rather, what most regular users would define as simple) as this.
My experience with Nvidia+ Wayland was… Less than desirable. Enough to make me pickup an AMD card.
However, once I did that my experience instantly better. Hell, even X11 worked better - I was never able to get the desktop to stay at a consistent 60FPS (I’m still on a 60Hz panel which I’m just now getting around to upgrading shortly) in X until I moved to my AMD card.
The 545 driver update just made things so much worse. So I’d say Wayland+Nvidia is not great (for others it works fine so maybe it’s down to what card you have?) however on my AMD card (and my old MacBook with Intel integrated graphics) it’s fantastic.
I recently was gifted a raspberry pi 5 and was looking at domains to buy to host my own instance. What happens to my instance if the domain expires?...
Yeah, AFAIK ActivityPub itself heavily relies on the domain being part of your identity - so its not really possible to change the domain on any of them, along with other federation implementations such as Matrix.
This is why while Mastodon allows for profile transfers, it doesn’t transfer your post content - it simply just sends a signal to your followers to unfollow your old account and follow your new one. The actual content itself is intrinsically tied to your identity on the old domain.
ActivityPub does use cryptographic keys for Actors (“users” in this case) - so even in theory if you were to destroy your instance and then set it up on the same domain and recreate the user, things would be quite broken still… But unfortunately it still does rely on the domain name itself, so I agree.
I think the problem is, without the domain name, there is no way for you to lookup who @russjr08 would be, or where to send data to them. The domain effectively acts as a mailing address (a well suited analogy considering that ActivityPub also uses inboxes/outboxes) so that Instance A always knows that User B can be found on Instance B.
I doubt its an impossible challenge to solve, but probably quite a difficult one I’m sure.
EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...
Your take on this is interesting, I have Crohn’s disease so I’m always trying to learn as much about it and other autoimmune diseases as I can (I have zero background in medical science, everything I know is based off my pursuit of learning more). If I understand what you’re saying correctly, rather than say Lupus from your example just being “Lupus”, it should be more like diabetes where there is “Type 1” diabetes, “Type 2”, etc?
For myself, I know that my condition has a very strong physical component to it, but part of that is also influenced by psychological factors as well - when I’m more stressed, then my condition flares up even worse than it normally would for example (and is one reason I’ve been pushing heavily on trying to get things treated on the psychiatry side of things).
I don’t suppose there’s anywhere to read more up on what you’re referring to?
That was actually the first immunomodulator I tried and it went very well for me (I was about 14 years old when I first started it)! It led me to the closest form of remission that I have ever been in. Unfortunately, due to some bad circumstances I wasn’t able to take it for over a year (might’ve been two now that I think about it) and I’m sure you’re aware but for those who don’t know, generally after being off any immunomodulator for a certain amount of time, you’re not allowed to take it anymore due to the chances of building up antibodies that make it ineffective (and can lead to severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis).
Since then I’ve been on pretty much most of the other ones, I’m on Stelara now and while I’ve been told it’s preventing more damage from occurring, it can’t reverse the damage that has already been done (from things like scar tissue) - even after numerous resections it’s still pretty bad for me.
However, I have noticed that when my depression isn’t so active, then my symptoms aren’t as bad - it’s not a miracle cure by any means and still doesn’t bring me to that previous point of remission, it’s still enough for me to find it worth pursuing.
Of course, multiple doctors have concluded that my on-and-off depression is due to having a chronic illness, and my current psychiatrist is attempting to treat it as if I had BPD (something about the way it works chemically in my brain is probably similar to that of someone with BPD). Hopefully that gets me out of the vicious cycle of my Crohn’s triggering my depression, which triggers my Crohn’s in a catch-22 style loop.
I do find that I certainly have some bad foods (I really miss popcorn) but there are things that affect others supposedly that don’t affect me, such as soda and other carbonated drinks (oddly enough I’ve heard for some Crohn’s patients carbonated drinks can actually help them, so maybe I’m one of those?) - until I reach remission I just continue to try to push on trying as much as I can, since numerous GIs over the years just have zero clue on how to further help me sadly.
(They did make things significantly worse for me by having me on Prednisone for multiple years at a time, but that’s another long story)
They did test me for antibodies and I was positive for them sadly. That’s quite a horrifying story for prednisone though, ironically I’ve always had a difficult time with the withdrawal symptoms from it during a taper-down of it, whereas with something like most opioids I pretty much have zero problem stopping them even abruptly, aside from a headache for a few days. For me I was never told about the long-term side effects from prolonged usage of prednisone, which I’m now being forced to deal with - an example of such is that it decayed most of the calcium/enamel in my teeth so this whole year I’ve had numerous root canals, fillings, and tooth extractions done and its not even over with. Honestly, I’m afraid of needing dentures before I even hit 40 (and I’m in my mid twenties)… Then there’s the high chance of bone density issues, which I’m sure I’ll end up with (if I don’t already have such issues)… and I still have yet to shed all of the extra weight that I gained from it.
Works wonders for some people on a short term basis, but I’ll never choose to be on prednisone ever again, short of some very exigent circumstances… and even then, I don’t want to fall into the problem of starting it and not being able to be pulled off of it without declining again really rapidly (which is what led to me staying on it for so long).
That’s not exclusive to Zorin however, that’s just a Gnome 42 feature (unless the base gnome implementation is the one you’re referring to that needs configuring in the terminal).
If there’s one phrase that has echoed in the back of my mind, it’s that I have no family, and by that I mean no children or spouse - and I’m middle aged....
I don’t have many words of comfort, but I will say this: Even if when you look around you, it seems empty - that does not mean you are alone!
Conversely the same applies for me in my case, I’m supposed to have some family members around me for Christmas… and yet I feel much more disconnected and alone now than I ever have.
Logically, I know that my brain is just playing tricks on me. I have friends who truly care about me, and a few family members who do. But my siblings who are coming to visit us? They pretend to care (at least from my perspective), yet I doubt they do. I’ve heard from others the thoughts they have about me, and it’s really sad to hear.
Unfortunately, the heart often does not follow logic. I can’t help but feel how I do. The only thing I can do is just as I have, which is continuing to push on as hard as I can - some days I don’t make any progress and it feels like I’m frozen in a single frame of the timeline… But I live for the days where the bad fades away, even if only briefly.
So it’s not much, I know, but I will be thinking of you and the rest of my friends here at the Fediverse (and my personal friends of course) throughout the holidays! Some days the road is dark, but you’ll never have to walk it alone.
That would be highly unlikely. Most infotainment systems either run Android Auto or CarPlay if they’re very new “fancy” (for lack of a technical term) models, or custom embedded firmware for everything else.
🤫 I was thinking of that actually! But I couldn’t remember the term, just the general meme of “If you’re unsure of whether you’re correct, post it on the Internet and you’ll be corrected” ha!
That frame issue is because of the fact that Nvidia uses “explicit sync” and AMD/Intel use “implicit sync” - XWayland is built to only support implicit syncing for now (Nvidia is trying to get it changed), and since most games right now run under XWayland… Along with a ton of apps of course.
Until then, that issue won’t be resolved sadly. It’s what finally pushed me to get an AMD card since the issue has been open for over a year with a ton of back and forth.
Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function (blogs.gnome.org)
Your PC will thank you... (sopuli.xyz)
Thoughts on this? (futurology.today)
Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article) (pointieststick.com)
What happens to my instance if my domain expires?
I recently was gifted a raspberry pi 5 and was looking at domains to buy to host my own instance. What happens to my instance if the domain expires?...
What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...
Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived (blog.zorin.com)
Alone for Christmas, once again
If there’s one phrase that has echoed in the back of my mind, it’s that I have no family, and by that I mean no children or spouse - and I’m middle aged....
does this car run a Linux distribution?? (lemmy.world)
I want to know please, because if it does, I will get a drivers license!!
Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros (www.notebookcheck.net)