I was hit by (what I assume is) a recent catastrophic Mesa update on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm mostly fine, experiencing some issues with cursors and the Yast window is all black. It's also affecting Wine and some installers are broken. Now I'm just waiting for Mesa to update since I'm mostly fine and nothing critical is broken for me. I think this is the first actually major issue I've had on openSUSE.
You can install it on any machine. It's just a terminal IRC client. I run it on a small home server with screen so that it's always on.
Well, I borrowed a portable optical drive and initial tests haven't had any issues. The actual problem still eludes me. I'll probably just buy a portable DVD drive myself also.
Not sure what you mean. This issue only affects rips made after the hardware upgrade. Rips made prior (with the same DVD drive and from the same CDs) play perfectly fine. I doubt transferring the files to a different device changes anything.
This is actually somewhat in line with some of my suspicions. From the nature of the crackle, buffering could absolutely be an issue. Now if I could only figure out how to change the settings. Oh boy.
This issue is also present with Vorbis, Opus, and CD playback. Encoding as FLAC from other sources has no issues.
Librewolf just gives me more sane defaults. Saves me trouble of having to dig in to about:config and trying to figure out what needs to be changed. Generally its releases follow FireFox in reasonable time. A few updates have messed things up, but it's rare. I guess the big thing is that Librewolf saves me some effort.
It's been a long time, but I think that's it.
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Jack Black's You Can't Win includes time spent in jails and prisons.
Years ago I tried running Debian on my desktop computer and it became very quickly apparent it was not suited to my needs because of the out-of-date software. These days I only really consider rolling release distros for my desktop, or at least something with a fairly snappy release schedule. If I went for Debian, I'd probably run sid or testing.
Now, in situations where the bleeding edge is not necessary, Debian is fantastic. I've run it on my laptop, Raspberry Pi server and PinePhone. On the laptop, having a solid base that doesn't break if I don't use it for a while was great, since I didn't use that laptop often. I did use flatpaks for some applications that I really wanted to be more recent and it worked nicely. So yes, you can use Debian as a solid base and use Flatpaks/Appimages/other to run apps you really need the newest version of, where available of course.