I’d recommend playing 2 types of games to get used to it.

First a single player FPS with gyro working on some kind of switch, if you have a Steam Controller, this would be when you are touching the right touchpad, otherwise with a PS5 controller for example maybe it’s always on, but when you touch the touchpad it disables.

This allows you to recentre the controller when you need to so you’re not twisting around in your chair.

Second play a third person action game with some kind of shooting and enable the gyro only when you pull the button to aim, usually left trigger, this will help you fine tune your aim and get used to that enhancement. I really enjoyed Horizen Zero Dawn like this and Alien: Fire team Elite.

Once you switch the stick to a DPad and use both touchpad it really opens up

I use bookshop.org for books, some of the profits go to Indy bookshops.

Otherwise I use Amazon like a search provider, find the item I like then go straight to retailer or manufacturers website.

Grey Goo

Yeah totally, I think to use Arch successfully you need an opinion about what your system needs, and that takes experience with using Linux.

Installation is pretty trivial these days with the install script

Ironically this is how I feel about Arch, for me it’s worked flawlessly for years.

I don’t bother getting in ‘discussions’ about using it, because if other people have problems I’m not going to convince them that I don’t.

NZB360

But you can roll it in glitter

I was comparing Signal to WhatsApp, not to Telegram

Signal isn’t owned and run by Meta though is it.

What can you do when this happens… Asking for a friend…

Very straightforward.

Once a week, usually on a Friday when I’ve finished work, usually with a beer

This is Nintendo’s point, making use of the prod keys goes against the DMCA

It is a unmodified Arch install that has a prepackaged setup, so you get a running desktop very easily and get the full.power and configurability of Arch

Could just as well use workspaces

https://conky.cc/

Write with what you know

In time, I’ve come to realise that people that complain about snaps are not worth listening to.

99% of the complainers of snaps don’t understand their full use case, they are an invaluable resource for servers and embedded systems, snaps support features that flatpak never will do.

Show don’t tell