Glad to be of help and that you’re up and running! :D

I had to go to the F-droid setting, click on Include Anti-Features, then enable ‘Tethered Network Services’ for it to show up in the F-droid search.

I’ve never had a Manjaro install not break in the 4 times I’ve given it serious tries, all from updates. I could’ve avoided a few them by checking the forums first, but one was due to not updating for a couple months, which seem to set it up for failure when I did update.

I can’t imagine cursing a newbie with it.

In comparison, Linux Mint has virtually never given me trouble, even if left not updated for months.

Yes, unfortunately Kdenlive still has a ways to go when it comes to hardware acceleration. I think it’s mostly the MLT Media Engine that’s holding it back.

Are you selecting the ‘Hardware Accelerated (experimental)’ codecs in the Render menu?

Apparently Kdenlive doesn’t fully utilize the GPU when rendering even when those are selected, but it should use about 30% of the GPU or so.

You’re likely using the standard open source AMD driver, which should be fine.

At least for me, when I open Kdenlive (using the Flathub version), click on Settings at the top, then ‘Run config wizard’, it brings up a menu to let me select what hardware acceleration I want to use (since I have both AMD and Nvidia), and it seemed to default to using the VAAPI AMD acceleration.

What does it say for you in the Run Config Wizard menu?

What issue are you having, and what GPU & Driver are you using?

We put together a privacy guide with different tiers of inconvenience, which you may or may not find helpful:

https://slrpnk.net/post/17910446

All I remember of that show was catching it on a VHS after I left it recording to grab squidbillies one night, and there was a scene of a shark trying to start a car for a really, really long time, which was pretty damn funny.

Steam workshop mods work across all OS’s, AFAIK.

Outside of that, I believe you can run the Windows Nexus Mod Manager in WINE. Otherwise, your best bet is this new Linux native mod organizer, which will add more game compatibility as time goes on.

Thrift stores almost always have desk or standing lamps. Combined with cheap, warm colored low wattage LED bulbs (25w equivalent or lower), they add wonderful ambiance without breaking the bank.

I hadn’t heard of Jami, but that looks excellent, cheers for sharing!

Unfortunately it does not currently support audio sharing, but I’d recommend keeping an eye on Bananas Screen Sharing, as it may support it soon, from what I’ve seen in their Discord discussions.

Apologies for the late response, but cheers for the update! I’d be curious to hear how you liked it in a recipe when you do cook with it :)

I don’t think I’ll be eating it plain on toast anytime soon

I don’t have it on toast super often, but if combined with a goodly amount of butter-tasting stuff and with only a veeeery light coating of marmite, it’s actually pretty tasty, much better than on a cracker on its own, I imagine.

This is no different from saying “The child slaves working the cobalt mines have it worse, so buck up and be grateful!”, which isn’t terribly useful. Things could always be worse, but that doesn’t delegitimize or negate other issues. Instead of saying you could have it worse, why not instead ask how we can improve things, or even propose something?

It’s main purpose is to demonstrate how Linux could function with a less unix-like file structure, in an effort to make it more intuitive to use, and to make it possible to have multiple versions of a library/package without conflict.

I personally really love what they attempted, but it’s unfortunately not been adopted anywhere else, making it unpractical to use as a daily driver.

But it serves as a very successful experiment that hopefully someday inspires change or a new way of thinking about the Linux file structure for other distros.

From what I understand, Tuta may have a slight edge theoretically, but email itself is a pretty poor protocol when it comes to privacy.

Tuta was forced by court order to implement a message logger for an individual, but AFAIK all of their previous messages were encrypted and could not be read by Tuta, and therefore the Government could only see new unencrypted messages coming in before they were encrypted.

Disroot only recently implemented at-rest encryption, so that should be fairly solid now. Posteo also allows you to encrypt your inbox and calendar at rest.

Even with that, consider all private email providers as mostly just to avoid surveillance capitalism (to prevent your data from being mined and sold), but with only marginal protection from state agents.

Tuta and Posteo are both pretty excellent (posteo is cheaper, but has a few less options that might be a deal breaker if you need them, like custom domain support).

Disroot is a good free option, and they offer custom domains after a one time donation.

Mailbox is okay, though they are known to have a very odd 2fa, and will recycle your address if you ever stop paying, allowing others to claim it and potentially impersonate you.

Posteo is unique in that they’ll never delete your account for inactivity, or even if you stop paying, where they’ll let you access and read emails, but not let you send them until you pay again.

Edit: apparently Tuta is going downhill according to others here, which is unfortunate :(

As someone who uses it; it really is an exceptional video editor, and IMHO is worth the hassle (which is much less of a hassle now due to DavinciBox, which the video author sadly was not aware of).