I installed Mint on a newly acquired used Thinkpad for my mom, to get her used to it as her Macbook is showing signs of giving up. So far it was smooth sailing until one day the package system broke due to some conflicts (I had set up Signal via their PPA). I had already set up remote access so I could easily fix it for her in a matter of minutes, but she would never be able to fix it herself even though the instructions were clear. Other than this though, she enjoys it. But I still need to set up a couple of additional things, in particular file sync and some way of managing her photos.

Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.

I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.

FreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.

I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.

I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?

I’ve been generally happy with FreeCAD for my use. If I am doing something less parametric and more organic in shape, I will use Blender.

I was planning to get the OpenWRT One. Any reasons that would be a bad idea?

My go-to! There’s a Python version, bpytop, as well - not sure why you would want that over the C+±version though.

Nice, thanks - I’ll check out Unfa! I hope to get started soon, but I tend to be slow starting these things, so don’t expect any DMs just yet - but I’m saving your post for future reference, so perhaps something will tick in eventually :) Thanks for the offer in any case!

I want to get into using Ardour. I tried setting up my stuff via the Flatpak version, but it seems I should probably avoid that to get stuff to work properly, so I am planning to pay for the precompiled binaries soon.

But I am new to DAWs in general - do you or anyone else know of a good introduction to DAWs via Ardour?

I use my WF-1000XM5 on Linux fine, paired normally IIRC. Any reason your set would be different?

I think their point was to make sure they are done in order, i.e. update before upgrade, not the other way around as in OPs example.

Alright, thanks - I hope to give it ago again in the not too distant future!

But do you use Ardour?

Ok - I tried Yabridge once with Ardour, but had a difficult time getting anything to work. I think it is because I used a Flatpak-build of Ardour. I think I’ll fork over the cash to get the pre-built binary (with upgrades) at some point soon to support their development, even though I could use the practice in building from source myself.

Good to know that it is not as hairy as I had the impression of.

It’s your choice, and you can also allow other people to connect to it. The standard settings gives an experience that is close to the real game (as of WotLK), but you can tweak these settings to level faster or whatever you want. Depending on the implementation you go with, there are different ways to add new content - one of them (Azerothcore) is for instance very addon based and you can add bots or difficulty scaling to make things soloable for instance.

This might not help you understand more, but in case it is helpful:

I ran Season of Discovery through Lutris. If I recall correctly, it was easy enough to install Battle.net via an install script there.

I’ve been playing around with my own private server these days. For this I run the client directly in Bottles, which is a Wine prefix manager.

You would need to emulate it. I assume you mean the NES version since you say the original one? In that case you would need to find a NES emulator and a ROM of the game. If you don’t dump the ROM yourself from a cartridge you own, you are in legally dubious territory. I am not sure about this community’s stance on piracy, but there are several communities on here that are completely fine with that and can help you along.

As a Linux user who wants to get into music production but know little about it, what are the positive developments I can hope for as a result of this? My understanding is that VST modules are quite hairy on Linux today.

If you are already into, or want to get into self-hosting you could set up a media server like Jellyfin or Navidrome and use a mobile client that works with the one you choose. I am using Jellyfin with the Finamp beta on Android. I use it only in offline mode when I am out and about.

I sometimes hear people complain about some issues with Jellyfin, although I have not had any of those myself (I have a comparable collectiom to you). I run all music through Musicbrainz Picard before adding it to the server, so I think that may be a pre-requisite for a smooth experience. Navidrome is perhaps more forgiving.

The question should be more understood as “was the word agentic even in use prior to AI-people slapping it on everything?” It was a genuine question, I have never heard it until it being used in this context.

Is “agentic” even a real word?