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Speakers/Audio Jack or Bluetooth?

Sounds like the audio device going to sleep during periods of silence, then taking a short time to wake up again when audio is played. Maybe to avoid hiss?

For a data point of 1, my laptop does this regardless of OS.

I had the same experience, watching a nature documentary on a streaming service recently. It was... not so good, at least at the beginning. I was wondering if this was a pilot for AI generated content on this streaming service.

Actually, it came out in 2015 and was just low budget.

I admit didn't spend a lot of time with it, but right after installing it, I needed to work on a project with Platform.io in VSCode. What was a 10 minute process in Zorin (mainly due to not using Flatpaks) didn't work out after over an hour in Bazzite.

Also, Bazzite takes over 2 minutes to boot, while Zorin takes less than 20 seconds.

I'm pretty new to Linux as a daily driver, and need a stable base that I'm familiar with for my non-gaming daily work, and Bazzite isn't that for me yet. On the other hand, Bazzite just worked out of the box for gaming, better than Zorin did.

I have a big enough SSD to split the partition and let each distro do its best work for me.

I've been dual booting Bazzite and Zorin for the last month it's been working out well. I didn't really like Bazzite as a daily driver, but it worked better for gaming.

The color of the screens is related to the phosphor used to coat the back of the screen, which is excited to glow by the electron beam. According to wiki, amber was used as an "eye-friendly" ergonomic color for similar reasons we use blue blocking filters today.

In my experience, all it took was buying a consumer Syno NAS, turning on the VPN server and connecting a DDNS service.

Setting up a second off-site NAS and connecting it to the primary one over VPN was also easy.

I haven't twiddled with Linux configs since I set up the system in 2018.

The circuit design software I use, Altium Designer, has a SaaS cloud for managing libraries of components, and version control of projects. I probably spend hours a year waiting for simple things like "load the next 100 parts in this list" or "save this tiny edit to the cloud" as it makes API call after call to do simple operations.

And don't get me started on the cloud ERP software the rest of the company uses...

Libinput is adding Lua scripting to handle hardware quirks and edge cases without needing to rely on hardcoding hacks into the library[1], which might help the trackpad situation.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-Lua-Plugin-System

Subtle rebellion by the developer?

I agree with the side-project thing, where the code is only incidental to working on the real project. I recently wanted to organize thousands of photos my family had taken over decades and sprawled on a network drive, and in 5 minutes vibe-coded a script to recursively scan, de-dupe, rename with datetime and hash, and organize by camera from the EXIF data.

I could have written it myself in a few hours, with the Python standard docs open on one monitor and coding and debugging on the other etc, but my project was "organize my photos" not "write a photo organizing app". However, often I do side projects to improve my skills, and using an AI is antithetical to that goal.

Yes, I ignored Kanji completely while learning Japanese. I only learned words in hiragana and katakana from my SRS decks. I regret it because it locked me out of a lot of comprehensible input I could have used to actually progress in ways apart from learning the sounds of lots of words (even the sounds I learned were often wrong because I never heard anyone speak the words I was learning).

As an electronics designer myself, I would find it hard to trust the AliExpress board.

Without the design files, running a failure modes and effects analysis on the board is difficult.

There's also no guarantee that each board you get is built identically. Some parts or the whole design could be changed between orders.

If I was designing a power bank board professionally, I'd be putting it through the ringer - environmental, mechanical, component level short circuit, load short circuit, load power injection, input over-voltage, input transient, RFI/EMI susceptibility, etc. Do you trust that all that has been done on a board that is representative of what you've received?

Electronics can be surprisingly easy and cheap to build these days. He designed the circuit and layout with software called KiCAD (free and open source) then submitted the designs to a fabrication house - probably a popular offshore one - that easily can handle that level of board and component placement complexity. It would probably cost only a few hundred to build and ship, with 1 month turnaround time.

You can also hand-assemble surface mount parts by applying solder paste carefully to the pads, then placing all the components on the paste and heating the board until all the solder melts. That would have very time consuming for all those LEDs!

Was waiting to see all different colors of iMac G3 in the high resolution device icons, but alas.

I believe those icons are used in Network places if a device with a known model is on the local network. The BSOD device would represent Windows PCs with network shares, of course! I also recall seeing the Xserve icon for a qnap NAS on our network.

Ben Franklin's coin flip landed the wrong way - nowadays electronics circuits are calculated and drawn assuming movement of positive charges, when in reality it's the negatively charged electrons that flow.

Sparkfun should take it upon themselves to correct the centuries-old mix-up of "conventional current" next :)

I have been using a shortening service with my own domain name - it's really handy, and I figure that if they go down I could always manually configure my own DNS or spin up some self-hosted solution.

It's these little slights, multiplied by hundreds of other instances across the Microsoft and Windows 'experience' that added compounding, non-insignificant mental fatigue to my life.

It wasn't until I switched to Linux (Zorin) as my daily driver last month that I noticed this. Despite the initial adjustment pains, every time I open my laptop I now feel a sense of calm and stillness. My computer is exactly how I left it. It asks for my approval before doing things. It has no corporate agenda.

Without much background in the politics, the parallel I see is this:

Group A and Group B build an economic partnership under consensual terms generally favourable to both over a long period of time.

At one point, Group A decides to withdraw due to real or perceived inequality. The timeframe of withdrawal is faster than entering, and is insufficient to unearth the complex network of roots that took generations to plant.

When the trunk is pulled, the pain is felt in vast numbers of small ways that add up. These roots are what contain the vast majority of the surface area after all.