In my country, high-schools that teach CS teach (a bastardization of) C++ during second grade.

I think it has to do with the fact that it’s close enough to C that starting with it teaches some of the same basic concepts, while having some QOL that a high-school teacher can’t be bothered to do without.
Of course they drop the language after teaching extremely basic algorithms, such as computing the maximum of an arbitrary set of numeric arguments. At that point, why deal with the hundreds of beginner pitfalls of C++ when C would be way less headache-inducing?

I saved this post hoping for a useful answer, alsa alas, there seems to be none.
I’m not an audiophile so I’m more or less spreading misinformation, but I think you’re looking to configure ALSA’s device gain rather than going through pipewire.

kusivittula here mentioned alsamixer, and I found a StackExchange answer saying that you can save its current state using alsactl store (with sudo or write access to /var/lib/alsa/asound.state).
Alternatively, you can edit /var/lib/alsa/asound.state yourself.

It doesn’t work if your problem involves audio streams (so *I* am SOL), but making changes through alsamixer seems to lower my headset’s volume so that I can comfortably set it to 100% through wireplumber - I imagine that would also apply to mic gain.

Pantheon deserved better.

I wouldn’t ever have known it existed if I didn’t find the first season on aniwave of all places…

Unfortunately I have to do both ;n;

… or at least I will have to when I try to get my homemade game engine working on Windowsintoyourbrowsinghistory 11

My only use for Reddit now is reading r/hfy stories, though I’m doing that through a local Redlib instance, hoping that those glitter sniffers don’t lock website content behind accounts like almost every other social medium does (but we all know that if something can get worse to make more money, it WILL get worse to make more money).

Unfortunately I’ve played for 325.4 hours more than that, so I doubt they would refund the game even with questions asked.
As far as my non-lawyerly eyes could scan the EULA itself it’s not egregious, which is why I find this mildly infuriating.

Bonus rant: the webpage is one of those death row worthy websites that forces you into the localization it determines based on your IP address, rather than using the HTTP header that has been specifically defined for that purpose.

Doesn’t refund me, let me play HELLDIVERS^:.|:; 2 without accepting nor give me back the time I lost reading the EULA. Not a fix.

Would you like to engage in a polite and collected conversation about the YouTube Shorts UI?

I swear I heard my PC wake up in the middle of the night on its own several times, back when I used to run W10 on bare metal - god knows what it was doing

PeerOffense?

Windows does both

Nah, I’m refering to socially engineering scam ads like the classic “ATTENTION! your Windows has error, click here to fix it.”

of which 85% got the uBlock Origin treatment and 4% contain my current public-facing IPv4 address

Followed by disappointment because I’m a disappointment

Yes, caches. Lots of caches.

I don’t have LibreOffice installed, but on Firedragon (a fork of Floorp (based on Firefox)) CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN behaves the same as SHIFT+DOWN, with no selection split; CTRL+D also has nothing to do with selection.

“Most programs” as in “most IDEs”, maybe; Visual Studio, Eclipse, Micro and Kate do not, or at the very least not with those key combinations.

If you select some text then use CTRL+D, the editor will search the next match in the file and add it to your selection, and whenever you type something both of the selected segments of text will be edited in the same way - you can extend the selections with SHIFT+LEFT and SHIFT+RIGHT.
It’s hard to explain in an intuitive way, but you’ll get it if you try it.

Another simpler example is CTRL+SHIFT+UP and CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN: your current selection splits to the next line in either direction.
Something similar happens with CTRL+SHIFT+MOUSE_LEFT.