The way I understand it is that you dont need the extensions if you use brave (i dont have any of those installed and just use as strict shield settings as I can) but they will support them for as long as possible for those who also want to use the extensions. Brave seems to use a modified version of the chromium engine in their browser which includes the shields.

The only issues ive had so far are with youtube’s recent “3 strikes” message, which gets fixed by brave within a couple of days to make yt unable to detect that brave is using (or is itself) an ad blocker.

Brave Shields block ads and trackers by default, and they’re built natively in the Brave browser—no extensions required. Since Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase, they don’t rely on MV2 or MV3.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Honestly that sounds horrible. Women scientiss?!? Whatever will they come up with next

This seems like an easy implementation, and I can skip the variable and just directly check the timestamp from the script i guess. My question is, if I install something, say yay -S a_single_package does that also update the timestamp of the core.db file?

Ok, I might be dumb, but I dont get the text on the top of the meme. Anyone care to explain?

I switched because of neovim, and got used to it. I was never the kind of guy to press caps to type capitals, always just kept shift pressed down with my pinky, so i basically never used the caps key anyway

Commenting because fellow caps-esc swap enthusiast, and I would like to know the answer as well

Could you elaborate on what you mean please?

Edit: I seem to be getting downvotes, so Id just like to clarify, I wasnt being smart or sarcastic in any way, just genuinely didnt understand what the comment OP meant xD

I ended up ordering straight from murena. Turns out they have the fairbuds promotion too, you just need to add it in the order notes that you want them.

Thank you, ill do that ☺️

The other comments do a good job explaining why you would go with X or Y distro based on your requirements. What I want to do is give you a general recommendation/piece of advice based on a feeling I get from reading your post that, that you are not excluding the possibility of tinkering with your system at some point in the future to get it less bloated and more streamlined to your use case (please absolutely correct me if I’m wrong about my interpretation).

As such, I think if your current computer has the ability to reasonably run Mint you should go with that. The reason is that it simply works most of the time without much hassle. As someone new to Linux, that’s a big part of the transition. A lot of stuff is new, so there’s no need to force extra complexity on top. You have the ability to dabble in said complexity even with Mint, but its not required, and while I am dying to recommend Arch to you having read that your PC is a bit on the less powerful side (the meme is real guys), I don’t think its a productive use of your time nor a healthy level of stress to deal with at this point of your “Linux progression”. That’s why I recommend Mint; make the transition, have the ability to slowly and eventually play with your system to an increasing degree as you get more comfortable with everything, but don’t handicap yourself from the get-go. Eventually, if you do decide to go with a distro which gives you more control in exchange for higher experience/knowledge/tinkering then you should have a solid foundation of skills to build on.

tl;dr: I recommend Mint so you get used to Linux, looking up solutions online, using the tools (commands) available to you to diagnose problems you may encounter, and if you decide its good enough for your use case - stick with it. If you want more control, think of it as a learning experience which will allow you to at some point delve into the more hands-on, complex distributions.

Yea I think thats a good idea. Do you think I should ask in the Fairphone forum, or the /e/os forum?

Vital sign monitoring system

Usb in something like my finger so i can connect to any pc and use it with my brain

Robotic limbs, mainly because its kind of a dream of mine to create affordable, diy-capable working prosthetics for people who cant afford them, especially if theyre for children/teens who seemingly double in size every half year.

This would make the most sense to me. Or create a separate interface for mods of communities, where they can know if someone on their block list has posted and can choose to view it.

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

When did you get it? Ive had the page open and refresh it quite often, but it shows it as out of stock for me. I also put my email to get a notification when its back in stock. Im looking for the 256GB storage one btw

I ended up doing that yea. I Also put mine in the bspwm config just in case.

Then people call me insane for not wanting to make it past 40

I think it might actually be just turning the display off now that you mention it. Here are the xfce4-power-manager settings I have for the display:

https://i.imgur.com/ZRlnhKt.png

Thanks for the info! It would be good to be aware of the term