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Started a new job managing a retail store, so I'm trying to balance my new routine with my study. At the same time, I had to leave where I'm staying for a few days and figure out alternative transport. Tomorrow I only have study in the morning, so I've got some waking hours to myself for once ... I'm probably gonna crash on the couch hard. But looking forward to it!

Clancy as in Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch, likely did have a hand in it. Not that the user's makes any sense, given this decision also negatively impacts Hasan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb-M1GAOX8 (Washed Out - The Hardest Part) This is the best one I've found

From around 2016-2020 the most popular devices were just a series of incrementally adding more pointless shit, which is why it's like that. They're not that popular anymore.

!nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works

This app live captions any output to your sound device locally https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

Whether I mute my output device, or selectively mute a tab or app it still works fine.

There's a similar feature baked into Win11, not sure whether that is processed locally/privately though

I've enjoyed Penguin too, despite some hammy genre tropes and going into it prepared for disappointment. I keep forgetting that it's Colin Farrell under prosthetics. I just watched him in Sugar recently and still had to double check he was actually in the role when the first ep started. Anyway, I decided I was sold on it when

music spoiler

"Me and the Devil"

played during the outro of this week's episode, what a banger. Same as the episode of Sugar that played

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"Da Funk" lol

I remember my sister got an S5 when they came out and cracked the screen within a couple of weeks. She had dropped it onto her car seat, it bounced and hit the plastic armrest. It was inside the slim folding case they came bundled with at the time. Might be anecdotal and nitpicky, but for a device that expensive to break with such little force was disappointing to say the least. I think it was a combo of poor reinforcement of the front glass due to its design + older gen Gorilla Glass (as well as somewhat careless use of course).

To flash a custom rom, IIRC you had to unlock the bootloader and even after relocking, Knox wouldn't work so the warranty would be void. And without VoLTE or current Android support, it'd be barely usable today. On the whole, it only really stands out in the context of later Galaxy S devices not having user-replaceable batteries. Samsung still sucked at the time, just less so in that particular area.

The only really good Galaxy S device for its time was the S2. Snappiest Android experience from any vendor & it wasn't even close. S3 was where they started coasting downhill.

On the other hand, it's not like we have 600lb bears charging around. Pretty much all kinds of attack by our land animals can be thwarted using the ancient & mysterious art of wearing enclosed shoes & pants.

Looks like a new alpha for pano was released yesterday to support GNOME 47: https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-pano/issues/315 . Otherwise you can hotfix your current build as described in the thread. I have no idea how it behaves in multi monitor setups though. On my setup it 'bumps up' your display and the clipboard entries display beneath, same like the on-screen keyboard or like a keyboard in Android. It isn't a floating window.

I'm not using any extension for the 'hot corner' functionality. It's at the top of 'multitasking' under GNOME settings for me.

Unfortunately I don't know much about manually adjusting the functionality of searching in the launcher. The extra functions I have found were just a result of experimentation, or happy accidents. I can teach it on-the-fly though. Once I've found a string which returns the function I want, but isn't the first result returned, I either click the result I want or use the arrow keys to navigate to it instead. Then the next time I use the same string, the result I wanted is returned as the first result. e.g. "sys" initially returned KDE System Settings as the first result, but I manually selected System Monitor. And now "sys" returns System Monitor as the first result.

Mostly on a conceptual level, those things aren't problems for me, because stuff like browsing for a file seems like an inefficient approach in most cases. I'm a simple man, I swipe up, I type a few characters, I receive. There's no wait time for my search term to be indexed, even if I don't know the filename I can search the filetype to get a quick filtered list. There's no "making me use a folder", I can access all files in all folders as well as apps or settings the same way. Hell, I can copy an emoji to my clipboard just by typing ":)" or similar. 4 inputs total including the swipe and hitting return. Definitive, repeatable, no visual identification necessary. Once you're acclimated it feels like the liberation of being able to type without looking at the keyboard all over again.

But then, these are the preferences of someone that used to uncheck "show desktop icons" even on Windows/GNOME 2.x. Not so much to avoid clutter, I just don't quite understand the point of the 'visual arrangement' as such. Either I would need to look at many things before I'm looking at the thing I want to be looking at, or I would have to memorise its location - and both of those seem like inefficient contrivances of Windows. Admittedly, my downloads folder is a pit of endlessly accumulating random useless junk. But who cares? It's no less functional to me than when it was empty.

A few other notes:

• There's a Nautilus extension for individual folder colours, and global colours are set by your GTK theme.
• gnome-shell-pano is the clipboard manager I'm using and I'm pretty happy with it. Opens in uh, GNOME-style I guess, a bottom bar.
• As of GNOME 44, there's a list of background apps exposed by opening the shell menu, with each background app showing an X next to it to close without restoring the task.
• In Debian I can also access the task switcher by simply mousing over to the top left corner of my display. Default behaviour, I'm sure you can replicate it.
• The alt+tab behaviour is different. I can't think of a reason why I'd need to minimise a task only to restore it though (or even alt+tab really) when I can just swipe up.
• If there's no difference in behaviour between LMB & RMB, it's because the function you're looking for is in a different castle.

Upon first use of 3.x I too felt that the lack of universal context menus implied less functionality as a whole. I don't think that's really the case though.

If I were using a mouse and also had an app/game fullscreened, then and only then would I have to shudder perform an extra keyboard input.

I guess the bottom line is, GNOME doesn't really aim to replicate Windows.

What were the problems or areas where you identified inefficiency? I'd agree the "settings" app is overly minimal. Personally I'd rather use the terminal for most things that wouldn't necessarily have an obvious specific location in the GUI. In general, customisation outside the terminal leaves something to be desired, but I don't mind how it looks by default. In rare cases I do logout and switch DE's to Plasma but usually it's to figure out how some function is named so that I can search up a way to do it efficiently in GNOME, then I just do that moving forward.

I would guess that the main factors are 1. your machine and 2. your use cases. On my laptop for example, I've found that three-finger swiping up on the touchpad to get to the task switcher is about as efficient as possible for almost all of my use cases. From there, I'm either clicking on a pinned app (including my terminal if I've identified I need it), clicking on one of my open tasks, or typing a few characters for the file, app or setting I want and hitting return. Including typing things like "word" to run Libreoffice Writer. In that way, my experience of GNOME's ethos is to enable the widest range of functions possible using the fewest inputs, with the caveat that this is only the case certain machines and for people that enjoy things like gestures and hotkeys. I have a bunch of shell extensions like a clipboard history/manager, an on-screen keyboard toggle, toggle to prevent auto-sleep etc. It's pretty much everything I want.