Unironically, I bought one that is basically that lol. I only carry cards. No cash, no coins, etc. Even when I did carry cash, I just folded it and kept in the back. The main issue is that your cards rub against each other when you’re pulling them in and out, so you can potentially screw up the chips on them faster. It hasn’t actually happened to me though beyond cosmetic damage. Fits a lot more nicely in my front pocket so I don’t have to sit on anything.
They haven’t released an album in a long time but did tour just a few years back without Morin. So not really surprised either.
I’m on the opposite end. I’ve only been able to start reading more after I stopped taking notes or doing anything extra. If I don’t understand something, I’ll back up a bit and re-read. But annotating or anything made me anxious to where reading wasn’t something I could get myself to do because I was preoccupied with whatever I was getting out of it, making notes, etc like I was back in college.
Now even for nonfiction, I just go for it and if I only understand and retain 30% of it, that’s 30% more than before.
Unsure since this is for the university. Colleges are a lot less likely to cancel or try to pivot to Zoom if they don’t already have robust online programs and the infrastructure for it.
The latest hotel they’re at is on the University of Minnesota campus and their semester starts again on the 20th. Once college students are back, it’s going to get worse, but they’re going to have a lot more bodies to deal with also.
I don’t think Auto support is on the server side, more the client. But as far as I know, any Subsonic client that works with Navidrome should work. At least Symfonium does. Its a one time purchase app though. I use Navidrome and find it significantly better than Jellyfin for large music libraries. There’s too much metadata and Jellyfin is slow as heck when I tried to integrate music into my movie server. Set up Wireguard to split VPN back to your home and it’s like having your own Spotify.
I personally think atomic desktops are the way of the future and am 100% sold and on board with what these folks are doing because I think they simplify the experience to such a great degree that is sorely needed to better integrate new users. Others will tell you they hate flatpaks, atomic desktops don’t let you tinker (they do, and also ‘tinkering’ often meaning fixing stuff that shouldn’t need to be fixed manually in the first place), etc. Before Bazzite, I used Fedora, OpenSUSE, PopOS, and Arch the longest out of those. I learned a lot doing so, but the learning was unnecessary because it was like how to fix a GRUB boot issue with NVIDIA drivers that nobody should be having to begin with. So it ultimately didn’t matter and kept me from actually using my computer. That’s why I press them so hard. 
This is a pretty comprehensive list on their Github. Some notable things include multimedia codecs needed for some file formats to function out of box, xone driver pre-installed for controller support, Waydroid pre-installed for Android emulation if you like gacha games or anything, Steam ready to log in and go.
Are you familiar with Atomic desktops already? It’s worthy of a whole other thread/debate, but you can get all of this yourself with Fedora KDE. However, the standard Fedora KDE is the ‘old’ way of doing things where you install packages from the Fedora repositories. These packages can sometimes conflict with each other if they’re trying to install similar components, different versions, automatic updates, etc. Atomic distros primarily rely on Flatpaks, which are a universal packaging format that works for any distro instead of being specific to one like RPM is to Fedora, Deb to Debian, etc. But otherwise that’s how people have used Linux for the past decades.
Atomic distros are relatively newer, though not actually that new or untested or anything, and function more like you might think of a phone. That is, the ‘image’ you install is a stock OS like Fedora with things bolted on. Every time you update your computer, the image is replaced entirely with the new one, but your saved settings, programs, personal files and all that are preserved. This is why I mentioned stability in my post, because either these updates are either successful or they aren’t. There’s no halfway or package conflicts that will break your computer. Flatpaks are sandboxed like Android apps to where they should theoretically only have permissions for what they need to access. I say theoretically because it isn’t as robust as Android yet and is still being worked on, but the idea is that if something doesn’t need your microphone, it can’t use it without your explicit permission. If something isn’t available in Flatpak, there are other methods to install them though. Otherwise, it’s as easy as opening the app store and hitting Install.
A big advantage of them is something I mentioned in my last post where you can do something called “rebasing” where you’re replacing your image with a different one entirely. So any programs you didn’t install yourself and that were baked in get replaced. So you can go from Fedora KDE Atomic to Aurora to Bazzite to Zirconium to Origami Linux and back again with no to minimal issues without ever needing to reinstall your OS, move your files, re-get your software, etc. This is the beauty of the newer bootc technology. On a traditional non-atomic variant, you need to re-install the OS and mess with custom /home partitions.
I’ve been running Bazzite for about 2 years now, first with an NVIDIA card, and have minimal issues in that timeframe. Whatever issues I did have, I rebooted my computer and they were fixed in an update by the developers. Because it’s downstream, they take whatever Fedora does and add onto it, so you’re never behind on anything from the base OS. And as far as longevity, the developers are serious people with long-term goals who are well known in the Linux space, unlike the chuds who run projects like Omarchy and Hyprland. Even if the project were to die, you can just rebase back to Fedora KDE Atomic and everything is fine.
EDIT: I strongly dislike Discord, but the Bazzite Discord has all the developers in it and they and the community are constantly answering questions. You can also join their dev channels and see what they’re cooking up under the hood.
Bazzite is one of a few projects from an umbrella group called “Universal Blue”. They’re separate but affiliated projects that use Fedora Atomic images as a base to create more tailored images. Developers from those groups have contributed a lot to helping app developers create functional Flatpaks, created a Flatpak-only store (Bazaar) that isn’t slow as heck like Discover, and attend a lot of conferences and give talks about “cloud-native development”, OCI containers, the atomic philosophy, contribute to upstream, etc.
The base Fedora images still lack of things that either should be preinstalled, like NVIDIA drivers, or that are helpful for the specific purpose of that image, like having Steam on the image, since Flatpak Steam basically doesn’t work for VR and has other issues. Bluefin comes with stuff like Docker and Devcontainers already set up, for example, which is a pain in the ass to do on regular Fedora Atomic where you have to layer packages, which slows down updates and brings you further away from the base image.
Bluefin is primarily meant for developers, Aurora for general desktop use, and Bazzite for general use and gaming. They’re essentially Fedora Atomic+. And Bazzite isn’t a ‘gamer’ project in the same way as something like Omarchy. For one, many of the developers are trans and don’t include fash software if they can help it. They recently just banned a problematic developer that was stifling development.
I recommend it because it ‘just works’ a lot more than the Fedora base images do because of all of the stuff that they include. There’s a separate image for a ‘console’ experience that boots directly into Steam Game Mode and makes it functions like a Steambox/Steam Deck, and a desktop image that doesn’t do that.
It should be noted that someone can rebase from regular Fedora images to any of the Ublue ones and back also. Though there’s issues going from KDE to GNOME and back. But someone could try Fedora Atomic KDE/Kinoite, rebase to Bazzite, and decide to go back. Same with Silverblue and Bluefin or Bazzzite GNOME. So there’s not really a downside and that feature is sort of why I love atomics.
TWEEZERS NOW STUCK IN RECTUM
how far are they putting these things up there???
“REPORTS 7-INCH DILDO INSERTED INTO RECTUM WHEN IT ACCIDENTALLY WENT TOO FAR. HE ATTEMPTED TO USE PLIERS TO REMOVE IT. PLIERS STUCK TOO”
Just going to echo others in favor of installing Bazzite. At the very least, there’s no downside to getting off Mint. Everyone has their own distro opinions, but stuff like Mint and Debian are objectively worse if you have updated hardware because of what you stated. I don’t get why everyone recommends them when KDE is just as close to the Windows workflow as the Cinnamon desktop environment. You can even use Cinnamon on Fedora. Or the Cosmic desktop used in PopOS. There’s a spin for just about anything.
They get things like kernel and mesa updates, which often have performance benefits, slightly to a lot slower. The ‘stability’ they provide can be given by atomic systems without relying on crusty packages and missing features.
I use Debian on my server (though an atomic server OS is just as good here), so I’m not a hater, but they just don’t make any sense on a gaming machine unless your parts are old enough to be unsupported by more up-to-date distros.
Yeah, thats what I meant. Nobody is gonna set the Whipple Building on fire like they did the police station since thats where the people are being held.
I think things are getting to that point but its taking longer because people are directionless. ICE is just swarming all over. With BLM, the police had strongholds that could be targeted. In this case, ICE keeps changing hotels and such. So the options are confronting them in the open or risking hurting innocent workers at some hotel, or the immigrants themselves in the building they’re being kept and flown out of.
They definitely don’t want to fight them. They’re mostly just annoyed that their presence is making their job busier and more complicated. But the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police, of which many cops are members, are in full support of ICE actions.
Appreciate it. I meant more that no outside organization is doing anything to alleviate the damage. Not the cops (ofc), not the state. Its all people helping people.
Sorry to keep replying to you, but you’re absolutely right. Its retaliation for showing any sign of resistance. Border Patrol is here too. They grab anyone they feel like, but are absolutely still targeting immigrants in smash and grabs. They try to be in and out as quick as possible and keep going to businesses like Target, Home Depot, etc looking for specific people.
Not that poster, but I offered some short perspective in another thread: https://hexbear.net/comment/6825903
If you look at the front page of the Twin Cities subreddits, you can get a gist. Its even spilled out into the suburbs that are technically their own cities but part of the same metro.
Things are very bad right now and I think we’re all on our own. But if you go through Minneapolis, there’s signs about the murder, “FUCK ICE” spray painted on every corner, protests at the building where people are being held (which Bovino just personally went to and cracked down on), people you wouldn’t expect starting to talk about getting armed, people surrounding agents if the agent is alone and “unarresting” people like back during BLM. ICE Watches in vulnerable locations, people offering to pick up groceries for others.
The cities are under siege and everyone knows it and everyone is banding together in their own way.
They didn’t really do anything the last time Trump called them, but when Walz called them on BLM protestors, they absolutely participated in the brutalization. They could be seen marching down the streets and shooting (less lethal) rounds at people filming them from their doorways.