I understand what you’re getting at, but I feel like that’s doing a disservice to plasma. They absolutely can (software!) display what they want, but it would require a paradigm shift.

I’ve struggled with this sort of thing for many years. Multiple audio devices (switching between speakers/headphones/headset), complex input/output schemas (e.g. audio passthrough for a console mixed with the podcast on my PC, or from the endurance race on a Chromecast (obligatory “🖕 peacock”) mixed with the game I’m playing on the PC), echo cancellation between various sources and the selected output, etc.

Audio management is complex, but I think OP is getting at one of the weaker points in “year of the Linux desktop” adoption.

I’m managing only because I’ve spent so much time figuring things out over nearly 20yrs of Linux use. My setup is currently a combination of plasma (I think the app is just “volume”), qpwgraph, and individual app settings.

Oh no, what if it’s actually a rom-com: will they, won’t they.

I’m five drinks in and this is still what jumped out.

I take it a step further with distrobox to provide the tooling (like the preferred version of poetry and other cli tools). That ensures people can jump in with the right versions of tools easily, and changes to tooling can be disseminated with a commit (and container build).

But I agree. Get started and solve these problems when they are problems.

Just finished watching the 24hrs of Daytona where they use that infield track layout this week. It’s free on YouTube from IMSA!

3 classes of cars fighting for places through traffic for 24hrs. It’s absolutely wild, and the commentators are definitely fighting fatigue with sometimes extremely random sidetracks too.

Oh, I know.

Cops of Lemmy?

I assume so, but obviously I hope not…

I wish them luck and hope they can find better ways to work with the existing maintainers.

I drink all the fancy bourbon I can buy (near MSRP). Never once thought about selling a bottle. Even pour an ounce of them into my infinity bottle (yes, there is/was a few ounces of pappy in there).

The only bottles I didn’t open immediately for a sample when I got them home are the ones I got signed in person by Jimmy Russell (Wild Turkey, Rare Breed) and Victoria Butler (Uncle Nearest Master Blend).

Taters can lick my taint.

These two popped up in my brain right away.

https://www.popularfront.co/podcast

https://knowledgefight.com/

Definitely.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/young-michael-scott-shaking-ed-trucks-hand

Crashing and burning, apparently…

Username checks out I guess…

Well yes, but for a different reason.

They make their money on ads, so if it takes you multiple clicks or searches to get the answer you want, they sell more ads.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Hah, can confirm that they aren’t amazing. Or at least mine isn’t. Let’s just say I sent video of one cousin at the capitol on Jan 6 to the FBI.

Try a jungle bird next time. Far superior.

https://punchdrink.com/recipes/giuseppe-gonzalezs-jungle-bird/

Well, each of my parents has 5 siblings who all had kids, so I have 2 siblings who have significant others and 2 kids each, and 17 1st cousins on my mom’s side and 14 on my dad’s side, many of whom now have their own children (I think we’re at 18 or 19 now, but I don’t facebook, so it could be over 20), plus the 12 uncles and aunts, and then there are the in-laws who have a less tidy structure, with 4 parents, 1 full sibling with 4 kids and 2 step-kids and 3 grand kids, 2 half siblings with 2 kids and a step kid, and 2 step siblings with 3 kids. And her mom had 4 siblings…

The big reunions I remember as a kid (for my great grandparent’s families) were well over 100 people. Because they all had 4-6 kids because that’s how you ran a family farm.

That the left lane is the fast lane in traffic. Nope. It’s for the people who want to go fast, but are nuts to butts in the mountain curves, so it ends up as a constant stop and go wave. I’ll chug along in the 80% less busy right lane and sneak in when the “fast” drivers hit the brakes in the next curve so I can pass the actual slow cars.