That’s one of the first problems I need solved, so thanks for asking. I used to use pulseEffects to get one place to go for system-wide volume, EQ & compression settings, and want that back.

One of the problems it had was that many FX wouldn’t work without having to install a set of non-default libraries, and the available docs weren’t too clear on that. Will be visiting Ee docs.

Sleep more. Bathe less. Think of your future self not damning you for over-doing physical stuff. Eat a little more of that sweet crap you’re not supposed to. Smile at judgers, not a word, it drives them bats. Avoid credit. Enjoy all those little critters more. Take a longer look at Zen.

So far as I’ve heard, none of them ever escaped that distant past.

Walking downtown to the movie theatre (back when they were cheap and they didn’t arrest parents for letting kids do that) to see first-run science-fiction features on a Saturday holding a bag of popcorn… and getting my money’s worth … and still enjoying them decades later after nuking my own popcorn …

All that typing doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.

Knackered, as t’were?

The Europeans have had -many- centuries longer to screw -everything- up in -every way- and then, eventually, regret it. A bit. So, like most of us humans, who learn most lessons the hard way, they have finally settled on something they can live with … and they call it civilization. With pride.

Amongst those living there who don’t know all of that history - like most humans - they assume that things got that way reasonably. And brag about it as if it was true.

Unlike the middle East - which has had -millenia- longer to learn - and which was, is, and it seems always will be, screwing everything up in every way. While they all point their fingers elsewhere. And build very large monuments to survive them.

Yakuake isn’t part of the LM (Ubuntu) repository, but is available via Software Manager. (Reminds me of my long ago KDE install where I used ‘Quake’.) For some reason the launch took a lot of cycles, but it works ok.

(ArchWiki info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yakuake#Usage)

Fully agreed, and thanks for the constructive thoughts!

I think the Orang is the last hurrah of a long, sad part of a US subtext of which Reagan was the first Chapter, and he is the defiant last chapter. There is enough light in the world today to carry us through it.

Then certainly some ideas from a much saner region can reach that half, right? (Telling them to stop watching Fox News is not going to work.) (OTOH Britain … Brexit …)

I think a lot of the complaints are coming from people in countries that don’t know their own histories so well. Consider the damages European colonizers inflicted on Africa and the far East up until the 1960s. Hell Europeans didn’t even stop the killings in Europe until then. But it seems they earned some hard-learned lessons since (like Helsinki’s solution for homelessness) (and making the Raspberry Pi) and keeping the peace in Europe. There MUST be some well-thought-out solutions to be shared, right?

MANY Americans aren’t ready to hear these things. The rest of us are well-aware of them. We’re glad that you’re sharing your criticisms, and waiting for y’all to share with us how to implement your well-thought-out and practical, abiding solutions.

Hah! Let’s make a list of the countries where leadership of that ilk has never existed. (We’ll just ignore that most of them did not allow elections.) Won’t take much paper.

Nothing new to that. In 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the US Supreme Court declared that companies are people too. With the same rights — under the 14th amendment.