Not mentioned, but if there are mobo monitor connections, try those, too.

But yes, this is almost definitely a hardware problem since it’s also happening in Windows. The only other plausible option would be the hardware’s firmware, but that seems unlikely…

It could theoretically be an incredible fluke to have a software issue in both Windows and Linux… Maybe the same weird edge-case hardware interaction that’s the same between two versions of a closed-source NVidia driver? I can’t see that as plausible, though.

If OP is in a developed country, used monitors are cheap. My vertically-oriented side monitor I got for $20, and I only even paid that much because I needed one that could go vertical orientation without a monitor arm.

My wife and I just discussed something similar last night re: the latest QI XL episode. One of the best jokes of the episode was an allusion to a historical event. You’ll never get that in American comedy.

Are you running older hardware? Something Debian- or Fedora-based, or even “vanilla” Arch Linux might be more stable for you.

Regardless, that sucks. CachyOS has been great for me, as my first Linux distro install (just a few months ago) since my previous attempt around ~2007.

I imagine it might be possible to fully spoof another phone model for specific apps. Seems like the kind of thing that should be technically possible by copying cryptographic keys from other devices, and then using root system access to spoof “correct” responses from the Android APIs.

I also imagine this will be an important feature for a lot of users, so someone is likely going to do the work to get it working if Linux phones become (otherwise) viable Android phone replacements.

But all this is just speculation!

Sweet. I’m even more tired of Google’s shit than Microsoft’s. Apple’s locked down ecosystem is even worse, though, so here I am.

I’d love for this to be my last ever Android phone, but I need some apps for work. (And I’d prefer being able to play some mobile-OS-exclusive games, but that’s not a dealbreaker.)

A proper open-source phone that works as a phone reliably (on bands the only reliable carrier in my part of Canada uses), can run my short list of must-have apps, and that can take decent photos (doesn’t even need to be great)… That’s the dream, right?

What? The entire intro to the article is a list of flagrant violations of Charter rights to deny Albertans access to judicial review of UCP laws.

It must far exceed, no? Not many people are watching back-to-back films for hours, but lots of people play games for huge stretches of time. The flip of that, too: lots of people pop their phone out in small bits of downtime (or even while “watching” a film, lol.)

Not meant to be antisocial; it just seems strange to participate in a community in an adversarial manner. It implies this might not be a good fit for you.

On the other hand, there are non-pharmaceutical interventions that work, and maybe that’s why you’re here. I wouldn’t flag your account to be reviewed by a mod to be banned—disagreement can contribute to a discussion, although ideally it would be grounded in accurate claims.

What are you even on about, mate? You could check for yourself in minutes how old the research is on ADHD and stimulants (linked is a Google scholar search for some key terms for research from 1950-1980).

Just don’t participate in an ADHD support community if you don’t want to be supportive, eh? The block community button is probably at the top of your page/app somewhere, so you never need to see it again.

[do a task later] if I can remember

ADHD forum

The Notwithstanding Clause doesn’t contravene Treaty Rights or Section 35 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, which recognizes Aboriginal and treaty rights, is generally considered immune to the Charter’s notwithstanding clause (Section 33) because Section 35 falls outside the Charter itself, existing in Part II of the Constitution, meaning legislatures can’t override these Indigenous rights with the clause

(AI summary, but accurate to my understanding)

So the Notwithstanding Clause is irrelevant, in terms of the government’s obligations to meet Treaty Rights. Even moreso, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Treaty Rights supercede the Constitution since (roughly) they predate the Constitution.

I’m not a lawyer, but I assume that Treaty Rights would make separation legally complicated, at best, if not practically impossible under the current legal system.

I think that quote says it would be cost competitive with equivalent PC parts, which is cheaper than buying a prebuilt computer, fwiw. (And you’ll get a compact GabeCube instead of a big tower).

I expect GabeCubes might be my kiddos first desktops. CachyOS should run like a dream on 'em, so they’ll work great as both computers and entry-level gaming rigs.

I thought it surpassed it a long time ago, but I was surprised by how much:

The gaming industry has quietly become the world’s most dominant entertainment force, generating $184 billion annually — nearly double the combined revenue of movies ($33.9 billion) and music ($28.6 billion).

Source

Edit: lol. That’s almost triple, not double. Whoever wrote that at Medium likely misinterpreted a ~200% increase to “double”.

PC gaming is about ¼ of that:

Mobile gaming is the largest segment by far – mobile games generated about $92 billion in revenue in 2024, 49% of the total market. Console games make up roughly 28% ($51B), and PC games about 23% (~$43B). (Newzoo, 2025).

Source

But $43B is almost ⅓ more than the entire film industry. Wild.

A lot of PC gaming is happening on low-powered devices, though. About 1 in 8 PCs that participate in the Steam hardware survey have under 16GB of RAM, and the most common videocard is the laptop 4060.

(Granted, there are a lot of problems with making grand statements based on the Steam hardware survey.)

So I doubt RAM prices will impact PC games revenue too much—tonnes of games run on modest hardware, including some of the highest grossing (like Fortnite). So many amazing indie games run on a potato. Most will just use their old computer for a bit longer, or game on a laptop/console/Deck/whatever.

I’m totally happy with the Steam Deck, and play on it about 20× more than my PC (with an i5 12400, 6650XT 8GB, 1440p, and 32GB RAM—hardly beastly, but a fairly recent midrange build). 90%+ of my play time is small indie games, fwiw.

Way, way back (in the 90s or early 00s) one of my friends got involved in a project to systematically play every possible freecell game to find which ones were unsolvable.

That was back when the Internet was cool.

Which is WAY more economical.

Rebuilding packages takes a lot of compute. Downloading mostly requires just flashing some very small lights very quickly.

Too early to say.

The BC Cons started imploding almost right after the election—or, really, throughout the entire campaign. They almost won because PP was popular at the time and polls said lots of people would vote “Conservative” (likely with little understanding of the BC Cons complete lack of experience or sensible platform). This led to BC United dropping out of the election (to not split the right-wing vote).

So… Who knows? What we learned from the last election is that if there’s a unified right-wing party with a charismatic leader, then they could reasonably win, even if they haven’t articulated a platform.

Except when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”).

And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”

I mis-click Google apps almost daily. It’s the stupidest fucking icon design.

Sure, but OP was specifically running into issues with Bazzite and needed to tinker to get things working. Ironically, CachyOS likely would not have needed any tinkering in OP’s case because updates in CachyOS but absent from Bazzite likely contained the fixes.

OP also mentioned elsewhere wanting to self-host some services—also a task likely to be easier in CachyOS than in Bazzite. Wanting to self-host also implies that OP can likely handle the light configuration that’s needed in CachyOS.

I think “unless they’re happy to reformat every other week” is unnecessarily pessimistic, too. With brtfs (the CachyOS default), recovery is quick and relatively easy. It’s also very unlikely to ever be an issue; CachyOS is very unlikely to break, unless OP really messes things up. Updates almost always “just work” in Arch Linux.

You won’t need to. Students find ways around content blocks and share it out themselves. Super sketchy free VPNs in mass use, tethering to phones, using ISP-based free wifi access points piggybacking on home connections from neighbours to the school—or, in one case, the school itself, logging in with guest accounts/incognito mode, running random executables from a (frequently virus-infested) Flash drive (aforementioned VPNs, web browser, or P2P web tunnel/Tor), torrenting, DNS swapping, and also old school “sneaker net” sharing contraband files directly. I’ve seen it all. The worse part is that they, largely, don’t know enough about computers to understand what they’re doing, so they end up sharing viruses and spyware with each other. Hell, I’ve told students to stop using their sketchy janky tools and taught them how to find safe/reputable ones (like ProtonVPN) or just use a different DNS to bypass the school filter entirely. They’re doing it anyway; at least teach them how to use a condom.

Kids will find a way past the blocks and share it out. Not to access porn—that’ll just be a byproduct—they’ll do it to chat with friends and play games.

This is a fool’s errand. A massive money pit that will inevitably lead to a massive data breach and resulting scandal. And it won’t prevent a single teenager from watching porn.

It’s ridiculous that this is still being talked about in 2025, let alone being implemented by clueless Boomer politicians around the world. Ask any computers teacher in Canada if their school has ever successfully blocked students from playing games on school computers—even without web access, lol. It doesn’t even take a computer expert to know this will never work.

What a pointless waste.