Yardy Sardley

Did you only try F2? It’s possible the graphical session is on tty2 - see if ctl+alt+F1/ 3 does anything

You should look into kodi. It’s a big screen oriented media player/organizer app.

GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update

Not just mp3, all lossy audio formats use psychoacoustic analysis. That’s how they figure out which data to throw out.

Not sure if sarcasm or actual disinformation. You’re not supposed to trust the aur, that’s kinda the whole point of it. The build scripts are transparent enough to allow users to manage their own risk, and at no point does building a package require root access.

A really common issue with sway is that it doesn’t run as a login shell, so none of your .profile or other environment settings get sourced when you login. I think that might be the problem here.

Try closing your sway session, then login to a tty and run sway. If the qt themes work properly then it’s definitely an environment issue.

Fellow Arch user here (btw). It’s exactly the same as building AUR packages. Clone a git repo containing a PKGBUILD, use makepkg to build it, and pacman to install it. The nice thing is you can host a repo of your built packages and install them on other systems really easily. The big downside is that dependency management is not automated, so it will take some time and annoyance to map out what packages you need to build and in what order, if you want a fully source-bootstrapped system.

Honestly, huge shout out to the wave of enshittification crashing through Google and reddit and forcing me off their platforms. Decade-long debilitating addiction solved.

I second the wayland option. Then you at least have a working gui with all your settings and recent work intact while you try to find the glitch in your Xorg install.

There’s openSUSE tumbleweed. It’s rpm based like fedora and it’s rolling-release like arch. I don’t know what the 3rd party/nonfree software situation is like. Maybe someone else can chime in on that front.

I will add, as an arch user, I think you could easily tweak your current system to be less annoying with the updates, but I realize that’s not the question you’re asking so feel free to disregard that.

Depending what format of audio, you can embed the image into the metadata

I mean, technically Linux is still at 2.6, they’ve just been making up version numbers for the last 20 years or so.

Since we’re on the topic, does anyone know if there’s a Fargo community in existence somewhere on Lemmy?

I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.

For the past couple weeks it’s been Flower Moon by Dooms Children

You wasted 3 hours of your life so far lol

But yeah. I find the most mysterious and time-consuming of problems are usually caused by a very minor detail that is so obvious it gets overlooked immediately.

And even if you know that’s probably the case, sometimes your brain will just discard information that isn’t consistent with its assumed reality, and it tells you the piece of code you just read is fine when it’s obviously not.

Troubleshooting/debugging is fun.

I agree 100%. “You’re welcome” is the phrase that everyone knows to be the direct response to a “thank you”, so using it implies the necessity of a prerequisite thanks. So really it’s just a polite way of saying “yeah you better be thankful.”

Whereas “no problem” seems to be a fairly sincere way to say “no thanks are needed, I’m helping because I want to.”

And the data harvesting app is nothing more than a stripped-down browser with the company’s color scheme slapped on it.

This happened to me a few weeks ago and the pain is still fresh. Please tell us your data is safely backed up, OP.

I used Clementine for years but the project eventually got abandoned. Now I use Strawberry, which is based on it. I’m still working out how to completely replace the default theme (folder colours, tooltips, other small details are stuck in adwaita mode) but other than that it’s an excellent music player.