The point of a terminal like this isn’t necessarily to have more features. I have the tabs turned off (I also just use tmux). The point is to render smoothly and look/feel nice.

Some people would rather spend a lot of money on a nice pen. It still is just a pen that writes. No additional features over a 25 cent Bic pen. But the smoothness of the writing, the hand feel, consistency of line thickness, etc… to some people that matters. No extra features, it just looks and feels a bit better… But if all you are doing is writing a grocery list, you may not care. And if you don’t care, you aren’t wrong. This just doesn’t apply to you. If you don’t have a reason, you don’t need to find one. It’s just not applicable.

But some people do care. They do have a reason. And they are also not wrong to care. Their reasons just may not apply to you because you have different workloads or priorities (or maybe they do, and you just haven’t realized that it’s a thing you care about)

I think this just happens to fall under the category of “some people care about milliseconds of rendering time, and some people don’t.” I don’t know if the GPU acceleration has anything to do with it, but this terminal emulator also has really good font rendering.

If you are happy with your current terminal emulator, continue using it. If you heavily use your terminal emulator for a lot of things and in some things you’ve found that it stutters a bit, and you wished it was a bit smoother, get a GPU accelerated terminal emulator.

And secret bonus option: Even if you are happy with your current terminal emulator, give it a try anyway. Ghostty has a “zero configuration” policy where their goal is for most people to never need to configure anything. Sane defaults. It’s a good out of the box experience. Give it a few test drives, and if you’re still perplexed about why you should care, then maybe it’s just not for you and you can switch back. If you go “that was pretty smooth, i dont have a reason to switch back” then maybe you’ll think about it differently.

I was using alacritty. Ghostty feels snappy like you said. I dont know if it’s “noticeably” faster in any meaningful way. but the out of the box config settings make the font rendering look much nicer than I had set up for alacritty.

I told myself “I’ll use this for a while” as well but then realized… I don’t actually have a reason to change to anything else. It gets the job done. So until some other new shiny thing comes along, this is probably where I stay for a while.

https://support.mozilla.org/eu/questions/1022724

This suggests you can go to about:config and set devtools.toolbox.host to bottom for the toolbox.

However, it also suggests that the Parent process toolbox you are looking at can’t be docked.

It’s possible the one you saw before was the Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+k) which is docked by default. On that one, there are a couple of icons on the right side to re-dock either on the bottom or side of the tab content. I don’t know whether it is possible to dock the Browser Console.

Try using Ctrl+Shift+K to open the console for a specific window/tab (this one should be dockable) instead of Ctrl+Shift+J, which opens a console for every window/tab combined (so can’t be docked to a specific window/tab)

(Also who downvoted me for being the only one to even attempt to offer a solution, geez. Makes people not even want to try to help.)

The ... menu in the top right has an option to pick where the toolbox is docked.

Some games can detect if they are running a VM and block that as part of their anticheat. You may not be able to get roblox or fortnite running in a windows VM.

Some games just flat out require actual Windows, so your options are “Have an actual Windows drive/partition” or “Just don’t play those games”

The cofounder of sticker mule went real hard on trump support this past year so I’ve just done without stickers.

Which version of of SDDM (and presumably KDE) are you using?

One of the comments one of those threads you linked points out that the bugs you’re sharing are for has changed.

The components have been reworked since the button was disabled so maybe that helped. It used to be a PlasmaComponents2.TextField, now it’s a PlasmaExtras.PasswordField.

PlasmaExtras.PasswordField has the button enabled! However, the implementation in the theme explicitly disables it.

If you open up /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/Login.qml and scroll down to line 106. You’ll see rightActions: [] – this bit of code basically overrides the default behavior. It says "normally you have some actions here, but instead use this list, but [] is an empty list.

So if you just comment that line out by adding // to the front of it… Everything should just work, since it will then revert back to using the built in value.

However, the reason this was removed in the first place is in a comment on line 105: // Disable reveal password action because SDDM does not have the breeze icon set loaded

If the icon set fails to load for whatever reason (if youre using a custom icon theme or something, i dunno why it might not be loaded), the button will fail to load again.

You can test drive the SDDM lockscreen by running sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/ from the terminal.

And this all assumes that you’re using the default breeze theme. If you are trying to use a different theme, not sure if any of this applies.

The physical mechanism that causes stick drift exists in all controllers that use resistance of electrical signals instead of something like hall effect sensors. If you have metal sliding over metal, it’s going to degrade over time. It’s very possible the early controllers had stick drift, it just wasn’t noticeable because it was so bad that every early console just had horribly large dead zones. Only the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast used hall effect joysticks back then and that never caught on. So I guarantee that with enough time, a Dual Shock controller would also develop stick drift.

And sometimes things like this are just a thing that happen when you miniaturize electronics. An xbox controller does a LOT more than an atari 2600 controller did, in less space. Cramming more stuff into less space means everything has to be tinier. and when you have abrasive metals rubbing against each other, and the metal is thinner, it’s going to wear out faster. They’ve flown too close to the sun in some cases and they wear out WAY too fast. Which is a widespread problem but not so widespread that there are no working controller. Clearly what they are doing still works.

This isn’t nearly as much of planned obsolescence as you would think. They just release a new generation of console and make it not backwards compatible with older controllers for that. This is just that as things get more complex, they become more fragile. I would much rather play Elden Ring on an xbox controller that might get stick drift than an atari 2600 joystick.

Stick drift isn’t when the sticks fail to recenter (which is what this would help with).

Stick drift is when the electrical contacts inside the stick change over time and as a result the electrical signal changes over time. A perfectly centered stick might have the same signal as slightly off to the side. (Which this wouldn’t help with)

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/beyond1lte/

I just recently got rid of my oneplus 5 because the volume button stopped working. So I understand the motivation. But LineageOS has Android 14 running on the S10 and its very possible that when they release an Android 15 version, they also support the S10

When old testament says to love someone instead of just smiting people, you know that shit is serious.

I get conventional mail marked up like it is from the manufacturer claiming my warranty is expiring.

With the added fun bonus that all the things they claim to cover are engine related, and my car is an EV with no engine.

I know nothing about this specific person. But the American Republican party is on a bit of a hypocritical purity crusade. They claim that porn is bad. They are the ones getting all worked up about other peoples sexual life, because it somehow affects the sanctity of their marriage.

So this article is pointing out his hypocrisy. He is doing something wrong by his own standards, so what room does he have to try to make laws about his stupid beliefs when he doesn’t even follow them himself.

The “start button” is the kde plasma logo. So this would be Linux of some sort (makes sense given the community and what OP has said) and not windows

The question is just whether OP is using steamOS that comes on the deck (and uses KDE plasma for desktop mode) or if they have installed a different distro that fits the desktop use case a bit better.

Not the poster’s fault that Qualcomm has ridiculous chip names these days

Looks like n of a kind results in (n^2-n)/2 pairs. (Which is the same as the sum of 1…(n-1))

5 of a kind would be 10 pairs. 6 of a kind would be 15, etc

That didn’t take long.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

Oh i know. microsoft should buy tango gameworks! Brilliant. solved their problems for them.

All Microsoft needs is a few award winning small dev studios…