The biggest issue being that despite having operational fabs here, TSMC still needs to ship their wafers to Taiwan in order to process them into chips.

Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn’t involved.

I’d say The Shadow is even more so, but definitely ye-olde world’s greatest detective Batman qualifies.

Lmao, pretty sure they meant 5 mothers per 100 years is the norm across recorded history

It’s especially annoying as someone who had blocked 196 in order to scroll through All and not be completely swamped by mediocre memes. Had to block 2 more communities all of a sudden.

Lions tend to be bad enough at hunting that that is their population control lever.

They’re using Plex for friends and JF for themselves, if you read the comment you replied to.

This sort of thing is deeply distro dependent. Pop_OS and Linux Mint handle Nvidia drivers pretty seamlessly, for instance

Not sure what the situation is on the NVIDIA side

Nvidia’s proprietary Linux drivers are effectively equal to their Windows drivers

Agreed. There are some tone deaf people from those instances who think their perspectives are the only true ones, but that’s true of any sufficiently large and unified group.

Don’t stalk people. Let them live their lives

Ahh, okay. I know Cinnamon shows the song that’s playing if you click the little speaker in the toolbar to adjust the audio slider with the mouse. IDK if there’s a setting to make it show on the little pop-up thing in your photo, not sure if that one has options. Like the other commenter said, I’d check in the Mint forums or discord. Could be there’s a theme that has it already

Which Linux distro are you using? What’s your Desktop Environment?

On Linux Mint with Cinnamon there’s a very similar popup to what you described if you open the volume slider from the toolbar in the lower right.

I did say it varies and sometimes the Windows build runs better than the Linux build depending on optimization

Linux Native builds generally have better performance than Windows builds running on Windows. That’s what I was comparing between

These are solid sources to cite, but for the record I was talking about a Linux native build vs a Windows build running under Proton, not a Windows build running in Windows vs running in Proton. Linux is a more efficient OS and well-optimized builds made for it can really fly.

Yes. There are some games where the Linux-specific bugs don’t get fixed and it’s better to just run the Windows version thru Proton and take like a 10-20% performance hit so it runs with more stability.

Sometimes the Windows versions just run better than the Linux build because of bad optimization on the Linux build of a given game, as well (OpenGL vs Vulkan drivers, etc etc)

They don’t share dependencies with the base system, but they do share dependencies with each other, so long as those dependencies are at the same version, which most of them are because flatpaks generally stay quite up to date.

One flatpak uses a lot of extra disk space, but for each additional flatpak you add to a system the disk space difference is much smaller because they share dependencies. When it’s system-wide for all user-installed packages, the difference is quite small.

I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.