I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I’d like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!

I’m running Ubuntu, which is basically Debian, so I tried my luck and yes, those packages existed with those names and versions. Installing them as instructed, rebooting the computer (probably restarting Wayland would have been enough, but whatever, this took less brainpower) and launching the game again almost solved the problem for first. It did crash in the same spot again, but then I went to the launch options, removed the line I had there before and replaced it with the debug line. After that, the game launched properly and I was also able to load my save and be back to Megaton where I happened to be the last time I saved (after getting scared of some super mutants).

My apologies for not obeying you completely, as I have already mostly played through Fallout:NV, and Fallout 3 is more interesting to me right now 🤪

So, the game’s working now. Thank you! :) Apparently my Ubuntu had somehow removed some of the drivers in the background. On whose permission did it do that, if I may ask? Grr.

Once again, thanks! <3

What you’re looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.

I think their website answers all of your questions.

I started using Linux most of the time in 1998 because my parents had installed RedHat 5.2 to dual boot with Windows and I didn’t like what Microsoft was doing back then, so I decided to use Linux whenever I’m not playing games. (And then moved on to SuSe 7 in 2001, then to Debian, and later, when Ubuntu was invented, moved to Ubuntu, and when Linux Mint came around, started using that one. (wait, no, actually I moved only when I got pissed off by Unity, which was horrible in its first forms!) Starting from Debian, things were already quite easy, although configuring the graphical environment, X, was super tedious…)

It’s a bit weird feeling reading about how people write about how bad Windows has gone, and not really having experience of it since Windows 7, that I did have for a while in between. That was probably in 2011 or so. Then I soon got a new computer and kind of forgot to install Windows on it, because things worked well enough anyway.

In any case, already when Ubuntu came out, I already felt that every time I had to resolve my friends’ issues on their Windows computers that it was a very good thing that I was running Linux at home, because it meant there was so much less hassle! It felt like “damn, if people only knew how well this works these days, they’d never want to use Windows. And then there would be more software as well!”

You can find the kernel version by writing “uname -r” in the terminal.

In my case it prints “6.8.0-79-generic”, which would be the answer if NewNewAugustEast had asked me about how old my kernel is. Yours is probably something else than that precise version. Except that I’m running Ubuntu and Mint is also kind of Ubuntu.

If you want, you can also paste the output of: “lsb_release -d”, NNAE might be curious to know that, as well.

For your personal use, you can use uname -a and lsb_release -a, but I had the feeling some of the output of those would be things you wouldn’t want to say publicly but might not understand to redact.

The article “the” in “the solar system” means that we are talking about one specific solar system. It’s left for the reader to decide which one should be assumed, but in this case it’s actually clear that ours is meant.

That means, it’s clear that the meme is talking about our solar system, not some other solar system somewhere nor some bunch of solar systems.

Do you have to somehow enable them? There is a common standard for paying directly from your online bank here in Finland, but Steam doesn’t seem to support it.

There is overwhelming evidence that this didn’t happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.

The theropods (“possibly”) electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.

Try oat milk, at least in coffee. Even people who otherwise have nothing against cow milk tend to say that oat milk is better in coffee than cow milk is. I’ve met only some who think cow milk suits coffee better. In my opinion oat milk is also better in cereals and porridge, but that’s something people often disagree upon :)

The dairy company Arla would be in trouble if they had to do this :D

Arla Finland has one of the few most prominent nazis in Finland in their board of directors. There was a bit of a scandal because of this about a year or two ago, but Arla’s Finnish daughter company said “we already know, but he has promised not to be a nazi during working hours, and it’s every employee’s personal choice what they do in their free time.” And Finland was okay with that (!!)

Guess if I have bought their products even once after that? 🙃

Well said. If they did, they wouldn’t really be humane. Allowing unnecessary suffering is inhumane.

Half Life 4: Episode 3.

Same in Finland: a Californian or a Hawaiian is a Yankee (in Finnish: jenkki) here.

Most of politicians at least here in Europe have not started with a lot of money. You first start in communal politics, then when you’ve shown your skills in that, your party gives you more visibility among the general public. And then you might get to the national parliament, and if you’re doing your job well there, you might end up in a position where you become interesting for voting in as a MEP. Or as the president of your country.

You cannot get into the national parliament out of nowhere, but I don’t really know why you should. It’s a very tough job, and it’s good that you’ve first had to gather some experience from communal politics before that.

Though, this is of course only how it works with leftist and centrist parties. In the right wing parties the system is apparently somewhat different. But that’s one of the reasons I wouldn’t vote them anyway.

Why is the powerplant’s name in a weird language? Yeah, we first heard about the Chornobyl disaster through Russian-language news aired from Moscow, and they obviously used the translated name, “Chernobyl”. But, that’s like talking about “Londres” instead of London if you first happened to hear about some events in London through French news.

It’s a place in Ukraine, and in Ukrainian it’s Chornobyl.

Also, the powerplant was named after a somewhat nearby village. Then, because it needed a lot of workers, they founded a whole new city right next to the construction site of the Chornobyl powerplant. And that city was named Prypiat, according to the river flowing past it.

So, the photos are from the town of Prypiat, near the Chornobyl atomic power plant.