Someone said it before on the internet: Apple is not a tech company, Apple is a marketing company.

I don’t know about the framework laptop, but about the Minecraft question:

Yes, you can absolutely run Minecraft on Linux. It runs on top of Java, so it doesn’t really see the difference between the 2 OS. In fact, I’ve found that Minecraft runs faster for me on Linux than on Windows. The only thing that might not work is the official launcher, but that can be easily replaced (with the added benefit of improved functionality). I can recommend Prism Launcher, but really anything works.

About Bedrock, that’s a different story. Microsoft revamped the PC port of Bedrock, and now calls it “Minecraft for Windows”. It’s fully compiled, and it won’t run natively on Linux. However, I still believe it can be made to work with some Wine trickery.

My 8yo self had way better handwriting than I have now

Normally the cold is carried by the gas to your room. The less gas you have, the less efficient this transfer is, and the colder your outside unit will be.

Not in a game, but I’ve sometimes tried to Ctrl+F some text on a pile of papers.

Sometimes others have already made a comment explaining your exact opinion of what you just downvoted, so instead of spamming more comments you can downvote one and upvote the other which explains your opinion.

If you use Arch, you aren’t really affected. As far as we know, the backdoor only affects SSH if it is linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn’t use that, so SSH has probably been safe. However, you should still update, because we don’t know if the backdoor could’ve been used in other ways.

Note that if you update, xz 5.6.1-2 will be installed. This is a safe version. However, if you run xz --version, it will still report version 5.6.1.

I have a Core 2 Duo laptop from 2007 running Void Linux too!

And another Core 2 Duo tower PC running Arch Linux.

Core 2 Duos still have some life left in them, and they’re extremely cheap nowadays. I think I got the tower PC for 13€ second hand, and I’ve hosted countless things on it without problems.

Fun fact. When you open Microsoft Edge for the first time, and there’s no clear button to deny it permission to access your info, Alt F4 doesn’t work.

I’ve never seen an app ignore Alt F4 like that (I didn’t know it was even possible), and it freaked me out a bit the first time.

Spaces can exist in filenames. The only problem is that they have to be escaped. As the comment that you reread explained, cat hello world.txt would print the files hello and world.txt. If you wanted to print the file "hello world.txt" you’d either need to quote it (cat "hello world.txt") or escape the space (cat hello\ world.txt)

People are really creative when it comes to potholes, huh?

I do like this way of dealing with them though. You get a laugh, it doesn’t harm anyone and gets the potholes noticed.

I haven’t tried anything complicated, but it does switch languages when you do. I’ve only tried GPT 3.5 though, and only with prompts that “ended” in one answer (not something like asking the AI to play characters or answer in a certain way, but questions that can be answered in a single message)

Discord on Xorg is a mess too. It’s not even the electron part, the app itself is really bad.

Not only it’s inefficient, but (at least in Arch) it doesn’t auto update on big versions. And instead of just warning you, it refuses to start until you manually install the new update. And god forbid if the package mantainers need a day or two to update the package, because until then you can’t use it.

The funniest thing is, there’s a file in the app’s directory called “build_info.json” which contains the version number, and with a simple edit you can make it think it’s updated, and it suddenly works without problem.

I really don’t know what they’re updating, but I have a version from 2021 running on my phone (it’s old and the new app is really slow), and it still works fine. Even after the account handle change and several other additions to the app.

Oh, and for the Arch users: there’s a discord version on the AUR called “discord-canary-electron-bin” that uses system wide electron, so it should be updated faster than discord’s own bundled electron. I don’t know if there’s a non canary version of it, tho.

On summer we normally hit 40+ (in some places even 45+) in Spain. I can confirm it’s hellish.

Galicia

Wasn’t macOS based on Gnome and not the other way around?

I always thought so, but I really don’t know where I got the idea from.

the fact that you have to go to other years proves that this happens way more rarely in France than in the USA. In fact, you can see that in all of the graphs there are gun related deaths in every country.

The point is that it happens 100 times more in the USA than in any other developed country

you can’t really hot swap the kernel, because all of the system runs on it.

you’d need to stop the system (you can save its state and recover where you left), reboot to load the new kernel and let it take control.

however, there are some distros and programs that allow you to hot swap certain parts of the kernel (mainly drivers) without rebooting. Note that, even though the system doesn’t reboot, most packages still need to be restarted for them to pick up the new driver.

I use AdGuard on Firefox, and I’ve seen the pop up. So far I haven’t been able to get rid of it, but I can still close it and continue watching.

I also have custom blocking lists, Privacy Badger, tampermonkey and PiHole, so it might be a problem with one of those instead of AdGuard.

It’s faster than network data transfer. I don’t know exactly how fast can WiFi go, but most if the time it can’t even exceed 1Gbps. However, USB-C 4 V2 can reach 80 Gbps, and isn’t all that affected by electromagnetic interference.

For transfering a few photos, you won’t notice a difference. But if you need to back up a 256 GB phone, the difference in speed is actually big.