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It's in the new song Elle King teased a few days ago. I swear I recognize at least the vocal sample

https://youtube.com/shorts/zft_API40Is

I've been looking into potentially switching to an alternative smart phone, something like the Jolla phone with sailfish OS, the fairphone, etc. I think something like that would be excellent for what I want my smart phone to do, and I'm tired of the one I have. However from what I've read online, they don't really seem to work well in the USA. I am on T mobile which seems to work better than other providers, but I was wondering if any of the fine people on Lemmy have actual experience they can share.

I apologize this is going to be a bit vague as I can't really provide specifics at the moment, but I'll try to do my best with what I know off the top of my head.

I recently picked up an old Dell Optiplex desktop from 2013 and refurbished it (new paste, switched out an HDD for an ssd etc) with the intent to sell it for a profit. It has no GPU, just using integrated graphics but I figured it'd be a great machine for basic web browsing and such. I figured I'd do an OEM install of Mint, but the only problem is the gui will not properly display after booting without nomodeset in the grub config. I don't feel like that's an ideal form for it to be in when I sell it to someone.

I've tried a couple different things to fix it, I made sure all the proper drivers are installed, tried i915 flags, I'm ashamed to admit it but I was turning to chatgpt for quick support and it seems to think that ivy bridge chips just don't play nice with up to date kernels. It suggested I downgrade to mint 21.2 so I can use a 5.15 kernel which would hypothetically work. I'm out of ideas so I might give it a try I'm not super knowledgeable, but I figured I'd turn to real people before going forward with that, I'd much prefer selling something running the current release.

The CPU is a Intel i5 3470. I can provide more precise specs and information that's helpful later when I can check. But for now I'm open to ideas if you've got em.

This is pretty open ended, and I'm not sure "digital tool" is really what I should call it honestly. But basically, I'm putting together a big list of programs, applications, websites and the like that I find useful or helpful in some way, that I think could be beneficial to others.

So far my list consists of things like localsend, alternativeto.net, Microsoft powertoys, does the dog die, etc. Pretty varied list, some very niche some very general purpose, but just those kind of things if that makes sense?

I'm looking for some more to add, so what do you have to contribute?

Currently looking for a good DAW to run on Linux. I used Ableton Live 11 Standard back on Windows, got it running decently on Fedora with Wine, but kind of want to explore some other options.

Before I used Live, LMMS was actually what I used first while I was learning. I never did anything too real with it so I'm not honestly too sure what it's capable of, but it also seems to be abandonware? Hasn't been updated since 2020, what's that about?

I'm not 100% dead set on using FOSS btw, for this anyways. It would definitely be a plus, but i'll use proprietary if it runs well on Linux and is good at what it does. Are there any other options I should check out or look into? I've heard pretty good things about ardour and bitwig but don't know too much about them.

Just wanna preface, I'm not trying to like attack Gentoo or anyone that uses it, I just wanna understand lol

I'm like an intermediate Linux user I'm definitely not an expert, and Gentoo is something I'm still quite confused about. To me it just seems unnecessary, like the real version of people making Arch just seem incredibly complicated. Does anyone actually use it as a daily driver? Why? Is it just for the love of the game? Is there some specific use case I've not heard or thought of?

Was given this little wintel box by a friend fairly recently, but I haven't yet even powered it on. I don't have a power cable for it unfortunately but when I do, what do you think I should do with it? What would you do with it?

I think it could potentially be just a basic lightweight desktop for web browsing and such, maybe a little smart tv box or something like that to replace the Chromecast I'm ashamed to admit I use, maybe run some basic self hosted stuff like pihole or home assistant? Could probably be a little emulation machine for retro games but I doubt it would be capable of much more than that. But I'm not sure there's too many ideas! I need suggestions people

**edit: I said wireless when I was actually just thinking external my b

I use Gnome as my main DE and I really like the touch gestures for my workflow, having a wireless trackpad would be really nice.

I've done some research before and seen that most wireless trackpads seem to work just fine with Linux, like the apple magic trackpad and an older out of production one from Logitech. But it doesn't seem that wireless trackpads are super common so I wanted to ask if there were any others anyone could suggest?

I also had the thought that maybe I could make my own by buying a spare trackpad module from Framework but I don't know how feasible that would actually be. I've never done anything like that but it seems like it could hypothetically be possible.

Basically just the title. Steam input is really fantastic for mapping controllers and I use it all the time, but for non steam games or other use cases I was wondering if there's another software that can do the same thing? I know I can still use steam for this and I do, it works great as well, I just like using open source!

What's a song that you think you could show somebody that's never heard of hip hop to explain what the genre is? I think my pick is Mathematics by Mos Def

Hello all. I've recently installed Fedora 42 on my laptop, it's a microsoft surface laptop studio so it's running with the custom surface kernel. The feature matrix on their github page says that everything should be supported for my laptop and that's pretty much been my experience so far but I've been having issues when testing out games.

The laptop has a 3050TI and is more than capable of running most of the games that I usually play on windows, and I've almost gotten it working on Fedora. They'll launch and run just fine, everything even looks pretty decent graphically, but it just has really bad stuttery input lag, even in more lightweight games that I've tested such as balatro and stardew valley.

I'm not sure what would be causing this, as far as I'm aware I'm running the right gpu driver, I've double checked that they're using the dedicated gpu rather than the integrated one with nvidia-smi, but honestly that's about the extent of my knowledge. Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions? It would be much appreciated.