1. Don’t “System Sounds” have their own slider? I use Pulse audio on my machine so pavucontrol lets me turn those down. However it makes all sounds quieter.

2. Find where the ocean theme sound file is, open it in Audacity and just use the Amplify tool to make it a lot quieter (-20dB or whatever, save it as a replacement.

I use stretch-ed Debian btw

Free FOSS Utility for Creative Kits Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

You forgot that for whatever reason we have to have an acronym in our acronym.

Chipping in a bit (30CAD quarterly). I really owe it to your and dessalines’ work, having been here for over 2 years now.

JBL sounds like your audio gear, depends on what. Bluetooth, USB audio ot 3.5mm jack connections generally work fine without issue. (Installing PulseAudio Volume Control will help you with finer grained volume control). Some DACs that require custom Windows drivers might not work.

Gaming stuff, Steam will have you covered, Lutris, Heroic, or itch.io for non-Steam stuff. The one unintuitive thing you have to do once you log in is to go to Steam Settings and check the “Use Steam Play for All Titles”. Just like that, 75% of your library that only have a Windows version will suddenly be playable and you’ll hardly notice a difference: just Download then click Play, that’s it (maybe a bit slower launch time).

I would recommend Firefox or Librewolf over Chrome as you have done already, but you should know that Chrome and Chromium do work on Linux FYI.

They were not liked at first, but they’ve spent enough time making money while not pissing people off that they are doing far better than every public company who must find a reason to piss people off to be more profitable.

They’ve been able to use that time to “cook”. Valve time has been known to be within its own dimension, but from that we got Linux to be just click start and play for 90% of games like Windows, and with the Steamdeck a powerful, comfortable, DIY-able handheld PC gaming device.

It has to be something that is nearly fully outside your control but is affecting you, there are probably milder problems as examples but I think this apt.

In the metaphor, half of the answers are asking you to do a useless workaround, blame you and/or are irrelevant to solving the problem. Hence the leak, where the answers are telling you to try running your taps for 10 minutes, put a bucket under the leak, telling you that there is no leak and that’s actually a water fountain, etc.

I do worry about putting up public servers that other people might rely on because there’s something I might not realize making it vulnerable.

So far I have pubkey root login only on the VPSs I’m messing around with, but my ol’ reliable private key from 6 years ago might be beginning to fall behind on encryption standards.

Well it is more like your ceiling is leaking from the apartment above and your landlord ain’t doing shit. Installing Linux would be like moving out to another apartment or home. Even if it doesn’t fix the leak the problem is now gone for you.

I got my parents’ computer on KDE neon, with “brand new Plasma 5” years ago when Win 7 was going out of support, it had been solid as a rock and relatively problem-free over the years. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was out of date for over a year, and Netflix stopped working, so I bought a new drive, upgraded from 4GB to 16GB RAM and clean installed KDE Neon with Plasma 6!

This is a 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop that is still going strong. (As an email, websurfing and video watching machine).

Based on ATX standards https://xdevs.com/doc/Standards/ATX/ATX12V_Power_Supply_Design_Guide_Rev1.1.pdf,

Each 12V circuit from the PSU should deliver around 150W and definitely not more than 240VA (over current protection kick in rating). One cord runs on that single circuit so it can’t deliver more than that much power. I experienced this when I foolishly thought I could reduce cable clutter building my friends’ PC, only to realize the 3080 ran terribly and was drawing about 150W, not unlike OP, except in my case it was clear this was the issue.

Just that game or all games performing poorly?

Just that game: verify or reinstall the game.

Other games too: if it’s a software issue, check Graphics Driver? For potential hardware issues, check if a GPU power cable is loose, reseat it, and make sure you don’t have two pcie power connectors from the same cable connected to both ports.

Just this week: The Settings app on my work Windows computer had a completely non-functional search feature. The other thing I was trying to set “Choose what happens when you close the laptop lid”, I have still not been able to find it outside of manually going to Windows 7-era control panel.

Yours to make, yours to break.

Neat, I did already transfer my budgeting to GNUCash a few months ago, but this looks shiny too.

Your use of Liberation Serif will not go unnoticed.

Fluffychat on Android mobile. Feels familiar.

Adding to my own comment:

Shoutout to all of you Lemmings and Fedizens for participating in this platform, and staying in our communities despite many features still early in development compared to established platforms. Thank you for that.

These funding milestones sound great! Very excited on future improvements.

Dessalines and Nutomic have done great jobs along with the rest of the Lemmy contributors. Adding Phiresky and Sunaurus to the development team is also very positive and I appreciate the diversification of origin instance in the team. This will be useful in the rare but totally understandable event that a part of the team may need to break for a while.

Multi-communities and post tags would be an absolute game changer if implemented.

green is my pepper 🫑