It's been a week. Ubuntu Studio, and every day it's something. I swear Linux is the OS version of owning a boat, it's constant maintenance. Am I dumb, or doing something wrong?

After many issues, today I thought I had shit figured out, then played a game for the first time. All good, but the intro had some artifacts. I got curious, I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and thought that was weird. Looked it up, turns out Linux was using lvmpipe. Found a fix. Now it's using my card, no more clipping, great!. But now my screen flickers. Narrowed it down to Vivaldi browser. Had to uninstall, which sucks and took a long time to figure out. Now I'm on Librewolf which I liked on windows but it's a cpu hungry bitch on Linux (eating 3.2g of memory as I type this). Every goddamned time I fix something, it breaks something else.

This is just one of many, every day, issues.

I'm tired. I want to love Linux. I really do, but what the hell? Windows just worked.

I've resigned myself to "the boat life" but is there a better way? Am I missing something and it doesn't have to be this hard, or is this what Linux is? If that's just like this I'm still sticking cause fuck Microsoft but you guys talk like Linux should be everyone's first choice. I'd never recommend Linux to anyone I know, it doesn't "just work".

@glimse@lemmy.world

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Last week Australia lost a titan of the film and television game; acclaimed journalist, author, interviewer, educator, television personality and producer David Stratton. So, for this week’s Vault Guest Programmer episode, we’re replaying a very special episode featuring David and his At The Movies co-host Margaret Pomeranz.

Join us this Friday night for this once-off auteur special as David and Margaret walk us through the who’s who of incredible music video (and film!) directors. Featured names include David Lynch, Wong Kar-wai, Richard Lowenstein and much more, plus there's some hilarious stories from David and Margaret themselves.

Catch the action this Friday night on ABC Entertains from 11:40pm!

NOTE: 'ABC Entertains' is apparently the latest rebranding of ABC3/'ABC ME'.

Alice Weidel, the head of the surging far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) accused Merz's conservatives of war-mongering for even considering the idea of ground troops, slamming it as "dangerous and irresponsible".

Even Merz's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned sending troops to Ukraine "would probably overwhelm us".

There is unease in Germany over troop deployments given its Nazi past and more recent deployments to Afghanistan and Mali that were widely seen as failures. There is also a backlash against spending billions of euros on military aid for Ukraine when Germany's own economy is struggling.

Drop Site Daily: Aug 21, 2025

Seventy people are confirmed killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, including two who died of starvation and 18 who were seeking aid. Over 2,000 people have died seeking aid. Fighting intensifies in Gaza City and central Gaza, with Israel continuing to bomb neighborhoods full of civilians. Top Israeli minister Ron Dermer heads to Paris for Gaza discussions. Russia carries out massive strike in Ukraine, reportedly striking 11 sites, including a U.S. company, with a barrage of over 500 drones and 40 missiles. Trump admin imposes sanctions on ICC judges for rulings on Israel. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to enlist Javier Milei in an aborted effort to evade prosecution in his native country.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36083939

Relatório da PF diz que Bolsonaro enviava série de mensagens no WhatsApp “para burlar a ordem de proibição” imposta pela Justiça.

Cali (Colombia) (AFP) – Colombian authorities said five people were killed and dozens more injured when a truck bomb tore through a busy street in the city of Cali on Thursday, deepening the country's most serious security crisis in decades.

Police said the explosion targeted a military aviation school in the city's north -- a fresh challenge to Colombia's fragile peace process ahead of 2026 elections.

"There was a thunderous sound of something exploding near the air base," 65-year-old eyewitness Hector Fabio Bolanos told AFP.

"There were so many injured people," he said. "Many houses were damaged in front of the base."

Cali mayor Alejandro Eder said preliminary reports were that at least five people were killed and 36 people injured.

Fearing further explosions, he announced a temporary ban on large trucks entering the city and a US$10,000 reward for information.

Several buildings and a local school were evacuated.

Cali is Colombia's third-largest city, home to more than two million people, famed for its vibrant salsa-infused nightlife and cartel-tainted past.

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Original Title: In 2022, New York City enacted a de facto ban on short-term rentals (e.g. Airbnb). Consequently, hotels’ average daily rates increased by $14-19 per night and the revenue of the hotel industry increased by roughly $2.1-2.9 billion over the first eighteen months following the ban.

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Original Title: When people get paid to punish others, it actually makes everyone less likely to cooperate. This has implications for private, for-profit prisons, quota-based policing, and civil asset forfeiture — when law enforcement seizes property, even without charging or convicting the owner of a crime.

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Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – Canada's measles case count has passed 4,500, with the western province of Alberta -- which has about five million people -- recording more cases this year than the United States, figures updated Thursday showed.

World Health Organization data released this month show Canada accounts for about half of all the confirmed measles cases across the Americas region this year.

Canada officially eradicated measles in 1998, but the virus has stormed back, particularly among unvaccinated members of certain Mennonite Christian communities.

The most populous province of Ontario, which has about 16 million people, has recorded 2,366 cases, according to federal government data updated this week, which put the national case count at 4,638.

Alberta's government, which releases its weekly figures on Thursdays, said it had registered 1,790 cases, making it the hardest-hit area per capita.

The United States, confronting its worst measles epidemic in 30 years, has confirmed 1,375 cases, the Centers for Disease Control said this week.

The Pan American Health Organization, WHO's regional office, said this month that 71 percent of confirmed cases occurred in unvaccinated people, with an additional 18 percent among people whose vaccination status was not known.

Canadian experts have pointed to several factors driving the outbreak, including the proliferation of vaccine misinformation.

Canadian physicians have criticized US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent decades spreading false information about vaccines.

But the bulk of the Canadian epidemic has occurred among Anabaptist Christian communities -- of whom Mennonites are one -- where vaccine hesitancy is historic.

The beginning of the outbreak has been linked to a Mennonite wedding in the eastern province of New Brunswick.

Outside of Ontario and Alberta, which have larger Mennonite communities, cases have been isolated, with British Columbia the third-hardest hit province with 190 cases.

The only suspected measles-related death in Canada during the 2025 outbreak was that of a newborn baby whose mother was unvaccinated, but officials noted the baby was born pre-term and had other medical conditions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35031646

Drop Site Daily: Aug 21, 2025

Seventy people are confirmed killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, including two who died of starvation and 18 who were seeking aid. Over 2,000 people have died seeking aid. Fighting intensifies in Gaza City and central Gaza, with Israel continuing to bomb neighborhoods full of civilians. Top Israeli minister Ron Dermer heads to Paris for Gaza discussions. Russia carries out massive strike in Ukraine, reportedly striking 11 sites, including a U.S. company, with a barrage of over 500 drones and 40 missiles. Trump admin imposes sanctions on ICC judges for rulings on Israel. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to enlist Javier Milei in an aborted effort to evade prosecution in his native country.

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