A festival being “appalled” is ludicrous. A festival is not a person. What the article actually means is that Glastonbury PR has decided to condemn the comments and chant as they don’t think it fits their brand.

I’ve had enough of having to pretend the “opinions” of companies and entities matter. They are just a business and will go along with the perceived status quo to protect their business interests. Their stance on anything is bullshit and they should be told to shut up - we don’t need Glastonbury telling us what we can or can’t hear or think.

Whether you agree with what was said or not, we really need to push back against the corprotisation of opinion and discourse.

Interesting article but it’s a little scant on the facts for the cities themselves. Like how much have their economies grown? What are there tax bases like?

The stuff it highlights about the asymmetric commute make sense, and the income tax going to Copenhagen. But what of the benefits to Malmö such as its own growth, and money coming in from workers spending in shops, paying local property tax? Or is it a net drain due to providing services with a smaller income tax base?

It feels like the article scratches the surface of a potentially very interesting topic that could be looked at in much more depth. Cross border cities is a big global topic and particularly in Europe where people have freedom of movement yet with their income tax benefiting employing countries while resident countries have to supply services.

Some good advice already in this thread.

Also worth considering QEMU as an alternative to VirtualBox. The Virt-manager tool is decent way of managing machines, and it’s relatively straight forward to create a base machine if you’re duplicating it. Virtualbox is perhaps initially more user friendly for absolute beginners, but once you have any familiarity with virtualization I’d suggest QEMU offers much more.

Also I find integration between the guest and the host linux system is generally more straight forward. Most linux systems already ship with samba and other relevant tools QEMU uses to interact between host and guest. There isn’t a need to faff around with the guest-additions stuff. Plus KVM virtual machines can run with near native performance.

If you want to play with Atomic distros I’d recommend you do that in a virtual machine in KVM first. They are quite restricting which is good for the distro developers to make consistent releases and experiences for users, and secure, but not necessarily the best option for tech savvy users.

There are ways around the restrictions but you can reach points where the compromises you have to make are too frustrating. If you find that out late down the line after setting up your desktop it can be very annoying. Also I do use Flatpak, but it’s not the most efficient way to run software. Atomic distros have more overhead due to the need to use flatpaks or distrobox and the like to get everything you might want.

Atomic distros are a neat idea but I personally love tweaking every element of my install and optimising or customising it. So I use a rolling release distro, have my home folder on a separate partition, and back up regularly.

Kubuntu 24.10 is on plasma 6.1; not sure why you thought it was on plasma 5? Maybe you were thinking of the Long Term Support release which has a much longer release cycle and favours stability over cutting edge; that probably is still on 5? But personally I stay away from Ubuntu distros due to snap.

If you really want to learn Linux and game, maybe pick a distro that is not optimised by default for gaming and optimise it yourself?

I’m on OpenSuSE Tunbleweed and have optimised it myself to game how I want. It’s rolling release so I’m on KDE Plasma 6.4. It’s not difficult to do although I haven’t gone quite as far as kernel patching that the gaming focused distros offer.

Another challenge is Arch - it’s really not as difficult as people think and even just setting it up in a virtual machine helps you learn alot about Linux fundamentals without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I’ve learnt alot using KVM to create virtual machines, and even have a Win 11 machine set up just because I can.

Another route to consider which I also do is get a SBC like a Raspberry 5 and look into setting up self hosting of services like Home Assistant etc. Again you learn Alot about how Linux works in the process and you can keep your main PC running for games without having to move. There is a whole self hosting community on Lemmy with loads of different routes to go, and lots of different manufacturers these days.

There are lots of options beyond changing distros. But also changing distros can be fun and a nice way to reset and make something new.

I love stardew but I hate the daily time limit. I now use a mod that doesn’t end the day. I just keep going based on energy. I think an energy bar and a time limit is just too restricting. I don’t mind the daytime events so understand why a clock was necessary but I don’t like the end of day pressure or the pressure in the mines.

Maybe it makes it too easy but I still massively enjoy the game.

The calendar I mind less as I think it’s not as important to as each day.

I have one of these, it’s a decent mini PC. It’s decently powerful - I used to play some steam games on it; a bit equivalent to steam deck or a bit more powerful. I used it for streaming on my home TV. I upgraded to a even better one as I liked it so much - and wanted to do more gaming.

It’s a full PC basically. Whether it suits your purposes really depends on what you want to host? It could be overpowered and a bit redundant for a lot of self hosting uses.

I have a Raspberry Pi 5 which is cheaper than this, and am hosting docker with Home Assistant, Sync thing, and fresh RSS running on it at the moment with plenty of spare memory and cpu resource.

This mini PC is considerably more powerful and will have a higher power use at idle. You may struggle to use it at capacity so may be a bit wasteful?

And even the rasp pi 5 is over powered and expensive for a lit of common home server users.

So whether this PC is a good price and choice really depends on what you want to do with it. It’s at the end of the spectrum of being able to comfortably play 4k video. So it’d likely be a decent Jellyfin streaming host if that’s what you want?

Gets mauled by a bear.

Yeah I have a 3070 and have experienced similar sorts of minor annoyances when using Wayland. When I see reports that issues are fixed I try a Wayland session and still find various oddities or issues.

They may be marginal useages but for me I have a dual screen set up and I might game on one and have a video open on another, or even have two video streams open, one on each screen. I find videos slow down and lag, or have artefacts. Issues I don’t get on X11 or when I was in windows.

I’m in the same position of looking to upgrade my graphics card and I’m looking at AMD to avoid any more Nvidia related issues. I love using Linux but I don’t want to be dealing with Nvidia drivers after past experience.

I get what you’re saying but I don’t think it’s overblown having put up with issues myself with a mainstream 3070 card. A year really isn’t very long and it’s been a series of issues for me. When I’ve seen reports that the issues are fixed I have tried Wayland sessions and still find basic problems like video lag on my dual 4k set up without any clear solution. I have an Nvidia GPU and I avoid Wayland as a result.

My feeling is that they’ve fixed the issues perhaps for most useage cases but not all, and it can be enough for just 1 unfixed issue to ruin your experience.

I have a 3070 and am Linux only now; I’m currently looking at an upgrade for my GPU and genuinely I’m not even looking at an Nvidia GPU such have the annoyances been with Nvidia and wayland support. Many people who want specific features of Nvidia cards may not be so lucky

Even if Wayland support is fixed, I’m in the category of once bite twice shy with Nvidia on linux.

I have a 3070 and generally I have no issues with gaming or working in X11.

I have previously had major issues with Nvidia and Wayland and I don’t use Wayland as a result on that machine . Many of those issues may have been resolved now but at present there isn’t a need to be using Wayland although it is being increasingly pushed. Problems I had were laggyness in the desktop, and videos becoming choppy if I had more than one major process running on the GPU (eg game and video in browser, or two browser windows both with video). I believe such issues have been fixed in the past 12-18m but I’m now in the habit of using X11 on the machine with no incentive to try Wayland again for now.

It is very easy to avoid Wayland - as simple as ensuring X11 is installed and then logging out of a Wayland desktop session and logging into an X11 session once and keeping with that as the default.

I do have a separate AMD machine with integrated GPU and that has been running Wayland from the get go. On that machine I’ve never even had to think about this issue and have just let my fedora based distro (Nobara) default to Wayland. It’s been very much an Nvidia issue.

VMWare is aggressively pursuing it’s customers at a time when there are many companies offering alternatives to their products. Whether that’s Linux based KVM solutions, or Microsoft W365 / Hyper-V, or Citrix or Oracle or numerous others.

Broadcom essentially overpaid for VMWare and it’s stuck trying to play the constant profitability game of over valued tech stocks. Treating customers like criminals isn’t going to end well for VMWare but will be a boon to all the other virtualization companies.

If you’re going to have strawberries and cream, why ruin it with some bread? I’m sure the sandwich tastes OK, but the bread is unnecessary and you’d have to be pretty desperate for sugar to have this sandwich for lunch.

I’m guessing this is a gimmick during Wimbledon.

I disagree as a man, it is not reflecting gender it is reflecting personality. This is how narcists and ego maniacs behave - and powerful people often fall into that category. Men and women.

Thrustmaster makes the Eswap controller which are modular. You can change the positions of the sticks and buttons on both sides I believe. I dont know how they work wirh linux though.

https://www.thrustmaster.com/products/eswap-s-pro-controller/

The integration is Microsoft’s monopoly behaviour which anti-trust organisation no longer put a stop to. There are alternatives but they struggle to match the level of integration Microsoft can achieve owning and making all of the office suite.

However European local and regional government have been moving over to Office alternatives such as Collabora, Onlyoffice and Libreoffice. Collabora & Onlyoffice are particularly designed for online use and collaboration.

There are also alternatives to the Exchange email system, with Nextcloud one of a few that can either be bought as a service or self deployed by organisations and individuals.

The biggest benefits are total control and privacy of data, plus better cost. Microsoft clients don’t generally get any of this, with the increasing push to integrate online services and try to forcably up-sell by bundling in stuff customers don’t need but have to buy to get the things they want or need. Microsoft rely on inertia and vendor lock-in; once you become dependent on their services it makes it seem impossible to get out and move to a new system.

Yeah likely because Elon Musk stripped out the Lidar from tesla cars to save money and relies on cameras only. A tech bro who thinks he knows better than engineers.

I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a self driving tesla.

Seems reasonable to me. Open Source is seen as virtuous and noble, but then big companies take that to mean they can leach off it while making huge profits.

It’s very similar to the attitude to tax - companies avoid it aggressively, yet they use roads, benefit from schools, hospitals, rubbish collection, energy infrastructure and national security.

Maybe it’s time for an ethos shift in the open source community. For example switching to licenses that stipulate if used commercially at certains scale, fees need to be paid.

So to summarise the challenges the industry is facing:

• Tariffs on Aluminium - Trump
• Tariffs on Solar imports - Trump
• Sudden loss of federal grants that covered 30% of the cost for installation (was due to run til 2030 now slashed) - Trump
• Slashing of the fees owners get for selling money to the grid by 75% - Oil industry lobbying / Trump
• Removal of investment credits which have specifically been stripped from solar but not other energy investments - Trump

To call this “macro economic” issues is bizarre. All of this is due to government policy and actions. It’s also notable that the rest of the world’s solar industry is not collapsing. Trump.and the republicans are selling out US consumers to prop up the oil industry and tax cuts for the rich.

Isnt that the entire point? There is suggested ambiguity (to those who don’t know how operators work) due to how the equation is written, it could seem to be 24 or 4. But the answer is 4! which could be read as 4 being exclaimed wrongly or 4! (4 factorial) exclaimed correctly which is 24.

It’s not a gotcha, it’s a clever play on a classic argued mathematical ambiguity with a deliberately ambiguous answer to ram home the point.