Out of interest, after alsa it was pulse and now it’s turning to pipewire?
What was the standard before ESD?

If you rename a file only changing the casing it doesn’t update properly, you need to rename it to something else and back.
This is so userfriendly I have been stumped by it multiple times.

On the other hand in using Linux I have had a number of problems with the casing of files: The number is 0

Firefox+PlasmaWayland+SystemD+portage+GNU+Linux

PHP has ben JITed for a while now too.
I don’t recall it being known as slow compared to python even before that.

It’s there for ancient compatibility reasons and recreated when steam starts, iirc. I’ve looked a bit into removing it last year but didn’t get far

Windows has dead slow file operations natively. Like orders of magnitude slower.

I feel you. I don’t agree but I feel you.
And I have installed hundreds of opensuse systems, many for new linux users.

But that was my choice as the sysadmin (well really one of my predecessors some decades ago). It isn’t as amazing for self-administering newbies.

Huh, thank you for telling me, I’ll amend the file with that info. This being a thing will probably spare many the troubles I experienced.

I did some digging to reconstruct what happened in my case. The file was created on 2022-12-08, and I remember this being after I rediscovered my earlier approach, from - going by my browsing history - mid september 2022. I worked through plenty of wiki pages at the time, including the btrfs docs on swapfiles, where I probably got my commands. The truncate in there to fix earlier mistakes is something I would keep in, but not add myself, so I must have copied that pages solution. Interestingly, going by archive.org, between dec 02 and dec 13 the documentation on btrfs fi mkswapfile was added to that page.
I am in no way confident in my memory here, but I vaguely recall seeing that command, and being somewhat surprised to not remember it from earlier. That confusion may have even contributed to pushing me to create the file.
Had I seen it, I probably would have tried the command and seen it not exist. Following the note of btrfs 6.1 being required, I would have checked the version and seen that my distro didn’t have btrfs-progs 6.1, not even as an alpha on the development channel.
I may also have remembered there being multiple commands needed earlier, and not wanting to deviate from the proven method dismissed the apparently simpler method.

To complete this very meaningful and productive story, on 2022-12-23 my distro got the early christmas present of btrfs-progs 6.1 as an unstable release in the dev channel. After many retractions and republishings of a total of 4 subversions, on 2023-03-04 the first stable release of 6.1.x was made available.

I was 6 months early. Or rather the btrfs devs were 6 months late.

Edit (actually not edit because I didn’t send yet):
I actually checked the repo and the documentation changed on dec 06. Here is the commit. The corresponding release occurred on dec 22.
Dumping 30mins into writing this actually resulted with a memorable story. By chance I stumbled over the documentation of a new feature, 2 days after it had been written, but 2 weeks before even the first alpha release containing it was created.

Try btrfs, where with only 5 hours of research you can create a swap file without writing the entire file.
Also there is no other option, the 5h are non-optional.

After doing that twice, In my / now lives

# this is btrfs not a normal file system.
# We have to create and allocate the file in a btrfs friendly way,
# and tell btrfs to not move or segment it.

touch /swapfile999
chmod 600 /swapfile999
truncate -s 0 /swapfile999
chattr +C /swapfile999
fallocate -l 999G /swapfile999
mkswap /swapfile999
swapon /swapfile999 -p 200

I disagree.
Some months ago I had weird behavior with compose sequences, I went on the ff c, made a post on it, and there was a fruitfull discussion leading to pinning it on gtk doing compose sequences weirdly. No hate was experienced.

::/0

5 apparently

How many years has it been since chrome had a “bug” that had it activate some “antivirus” project that was scanning files on the entire machine even when it wasn’t running?

I usually see both. A physical right click and a two finger tap anywhere. And also both a left click button and a single tap anywhere. And three finger for mmb is unfortunately often not the default but always configurable (love me my 3finger tap to open links in a new tab)

I have charged my wireless headset while wearing it like ~5x over almost 3 years of using it. Still, in those moments were for one reason or another (mostly me forgetting) it was discharged when I wanted to use it, it would have utterly sucked if I couldn’t wear it while plugged in. I simply had a cable dangling off like with a regular headset.

There will come the time when you are sitting there with an empty mouse and can’t use your system while it charges … for absolutely no good reason

40% of linux steam usage

They are located in your profile directory under extensions.
Finding them is more challenging for most, since most don’t have named IDs. I am willing to bet this one does though.
For addons that don’t, you can find the ID by going to the addons page, hitting “debug addons”, then looking for your addon on that page where it will list the “Extension ID”, which should be the name it’s saved under.