Vahtos

What a refreshingly information dense blog without the typical annoying web page behaviors (consent pop-ups, join our mailing list, etc). Thanks for sharing.

That is huge. The power management changes and being able to set brightness per monitor are pretty nice too.

This isn’t limited to the Reddit app. You can see it on the desktop and mobile website too.

Let’s not forget an important distinction here. This man is not making any of these things, and he isn’t capable of making them. But, he is capable of directly and indirectly impacting the people who are capable of making them negatively enough that we get utter failures like the cybertruck.

Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.

Makes sense. Well, best of luck with it. That’s super annoying, sorry I couldn’t help. If you do figure it out and remember this, I would love to know what the answer was!

Did some looking around and what I found is it could be a sign that the cable is starting to fail:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1118738/whats-the-likely-cause-of-a-get-monitor-geometry-assertion

Do you have another cable you could try?

It could also be a bug in Gnome, since you said it only happens after something like a kernel update. I wonder if it would happen if you used a live usb of gnome, and if so, would it happen if you used a live usb of KDE or some other desktop manager.

Any system logs that might be related to the display not being detected properly?

Since you’re using AMD graphics, you’re using the open source drivers right? The proprietary AMD drivers are not good.

Well, issues 1-3 could all easily be GPU driver related. Which GPU are you using, and what drivers?

The Steam UI thing sounds like an issue like maybe hardware acceleration being disabled?

Then you wouldn’t notice all the fun and exciting recommendations they have for you! /s

They generally have really great linux support for all of their hardware (touchpads, fingerprint readers, etc.), and provide bios updates via fwdup. They are also just nice laptops.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo

Hmm I haven’t tried this. Thanks for the suggestion.

So, a dark pattern is a design that tries to trick the user into something. But what is the word for “knowing what the user wants, blatantly ignoring it and imposing the companies will anyway”?

Example: I think YouTube shorts are a terrible format, and I find them generally irritating. So I click the X on the element in YouTube that has a bunch of side scrolling cards, where each card is one of these shorts. YouTube informs me it will hide them for 30 days and then they’ll be back.

Another example, Windows Update. I’ve set all the group policy settings so it should never restart and update without me triggering it. But, if I allow it to download the update, then damn my group policy settings, it is going to apply that update and restart whenever it wants.

This is making me realize that I have never encountered this equivalent of a blue screen of death on Linux.

Ubuntu/Canonical is the Microsoft of Linux distros. It’s no surprise they were the choice for WSL.

Ubuntu has been forcing decisions on users and embedding advertisements for a long time.

Examples that immediately come to mind…

• When that Amazon search was embedded into the app launcher search.
• These sorts of self promotions.
• Quietly installing snaps instead of debs when using apt install

For those who unfortunately have to use Windows laptops for work, there is a workaround. Unplug the laptop before putting it to sleep/hibernate. That’s it. Super irritating they won’t fix it, but not surprising, too busy trying to shove (more) ads into the start menu.

I had similar issues. When first booting into plasma6, my bottom panel was changed to floating. Changing it to not float made it spaced from the bottom of the screen.

While trying to fix that, I somehow managed to move the pinned icons all off the panel and onto the desktop, but they were unable to be clicked or moved. I ended up restarting for unrelated reasons and they snapped back to the panel.

I think there were other wonky issues with the edit session, but I don’t recall specifics. Good luck!

Edit: this was on a wayland session with integrated amd graphics.

Their CEO has gone out of his way to shit talk Linux multiple times on Twitter/X, spreading false information, he is also vehemently against doing the bare minimum to allow their games to work on Linux (enabling EAC support for proton in their games, which by their own words is just a checkbox). They also have no Linux support in their embarrassment of a launcher, which is why everyone recommends Heroic, even when using Windows because it actually has features.

A one time donation of what amounts to an insignificant rounding error for them to try to appease people unhappy with their stance on Linux does not mean they are not “against” Linux.