Is this useful?

https://github.com/rodlie/powerkit

Not affiliated and haven't used it, but its tagline of "Desktop Independent Power Manager" seems like it fits the bill.

Shut the fuck up, Alexander! You're out of your element.

"popularity contest" is an opt-in on Debian. It's not malicious, and it's not for financial gain, but it is in a loose sense spying.

Toss up between VOY and DS9 for me (VOY catchier but a little more saccharin). TNG just a bit too...exuberant.

VOY fun to really ham it up on the piano though.

I think the 1st-party device support is a little trickier on Linux than on Windows, which IMHO hampers the widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop.

The reason it's trickier is that the Linux kernel has no stable API or ABI --- which is ultimately a good thing ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst ), but for closed source drivers presents a problem.

On my Mac running yabai it sometimes gets into this weird state where the mouse does this as it toggles rapidly back and forth between some windows. No idea what causes it...

On Linux I run i3 which kinda negates the need for the mouse finder since it will move the cursor to the active window.

I guess I didn't remotely answer you question though!

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Kinda reminds me of the earlier days of Linux drivers --- kernel upgrade borking sound card or similar wasn't uncommon.

But isn't it the legs moving backwards that propels you forwards? 🤔

Yeah, it seems that "your meme is kinda gatekeepy" is a pretty good way to start some "spirited discussions."

I get that it's a meme, but what's the problem? I'm vegetarian/flirt with veganism; it's purely for moral/ethical/environmental reasons.

Indian food is delicious. An Impossible burger on a pretzel bun dripping with grilled onions, avocado, vegan aioli and mustard with a side of steak fries? That's also delicious, in my opinion.

Meat is delicious, and that's not at all incompatible with my reasoning for being vegetarian.

Lot of comments about RTGs, but I don't think that's what OP is asking. RTGs convert heat to electricity, same as a conventional power plants --- they just do it in a solid state way instead of steam. In RTGs it doesn't matter where the heat comes from; they are not really analogous to solar cells, as the title asks.

In fact, there are consumer products that use the same technology --- you can buy a little electric fan that sits on top of a wood stove and, once up to temp, will start spinning. The electricity is generated by the thermal gradient using heat from the stove, essentially the same as an RTG.

"Snow White, take it easy..."

I thought Foghat were singing about a nympho fairy tale character.

Jerry and Elaine, at the coffee shop. Kramer, his hair wild.

As others have mentioned, a few possibilities (I'm in the US, not sure how specific this is):

• Payment isn't always monthly, it is often every two weeks. So sometimes you get two paychecks in a month, sometimes you get three.
• Compensation isn't just salary, even if you're salaried. Bonuses, stock grants, etc. might be done yearly/every 6 mo./every quarter.
• Expenses aren't always monthly. If you own a place, you probably pay property tax which isn't due every month AFAIK. If you budget for vacations, holiday travel, etc., these are costs that vary wildly month to month, but have some stability on a yearly basis.
• ETA: taxes are based on annual income, too.

It's a good way to eat breakfast and feed my sourdough starter at the same time.

Also, first season is a little rough of TNG so try to stick it out. It gave rise to the antonym of "jump the shark" which is "grow the beard" (a main character grew a beard and the show got better at the same time).

I could be wrong but I thought that there are only two channels (left, right), and that the output device (speakers, headphones) are a separate concept, meaning you can't have different audio. Similar to most cars --- left right are different, but front and back always mirror each other.

Surround sound/multichannel audio sounds like it might be what you want?

I could be wrong about this of course.

For software, something that plays nice with Linux.

For hardware, the M2 Air is a divine machine.

Ah, TIL! I was looking for that setting in the WiFi settings, since I only wanted it on one access point (to avoid loopback NAT issues).

I think an issue is that people tend to think of Linux as meaning "all distributions." So if something is compatible with X distro version yy.zz, the general idea is "it's compatible with Linux." This, in my experience, is one of the things that leads to mandatory command-line usage --- it definitely is possible to get it to work under a different flavor of Linux, but it's not necessarily easy if you're uncomfortable with a command line.

Another is drivers --- if it's mainlined, it will Just Work, but if it's not...well, it may work, but you might have to jump through hoops and get busy with the command line.

In short: if you view your distro the same way you view a particular Windows release, then I really don't think you need the command line for desktop Linux. But you need to accept that some software isn't "compatible," in the above, user-friendly sense of the word.