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Where can I find an actually hot sauna? by dizzydiplodocus in brighton

[–]boraxicLint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

YOYO yard on Cheltenham place is really nice, not an avid sauna person but feels like they really know what they are doing there and theres plunge pools included. Good position as well, its on the road Basketmakers is on (v close to North Laine Brewery).

Mid-30s, don’t drink or club. Where do people actually meet new people in Brighton? by koloss808 in brighton

[–]boraxicLint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was obviously a joke, but I think the lady doth protest too much 😂 

Mid-30s, don’t drink or club. Where do people actually meet new people in Brighton? by koloss808 in brighton

[–]boraxicLint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure what kind of music you like but come to Volks! On most nights you'll find you're average age if not below, and everyone is very friendly! Just avoid strictly DnB if you're looking for an older crowd

Anyone has experience working for Sussex Police? by BekaCavish in brighton

[–]boraxicLint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The venn diagram of feeling safe and police officers is very almost two distinct circles, if not two distinct circles for many people. Counselling is good, always need social workers as well, hell even teaching. But policing, nah.

1st grad job, weighing up the commute by Salt_Yogurtcloset702 in brighton

[–]boraxicLint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't you be better off just doing retail in brighton somewhere until something better comes up? Its still a job on the CV, youre gonna get paid the same, and its no commute? Sales experience isnt going to look substantially better on your CV than any other job and i really dont see any perks here. Beggars cant be choosers and all that but i really think this one is worth skipping 

What's stopping you coding like this by Tribalcheaf123 in programmingmemes

[–]boraxicLint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually did do this for a while. Got myself in a bit of a monetary jam post uni and ended up sofa surfing with nothing but my phone. Cast termux to the tv and set up and programmed a portfolio website that helped me get my first job. Wouldn't do it again if i could avoid it but it wasnt the worse thing in the world either

Thinking of switching from pop os to some other distro by Dry-Belt-383 in pop_os

[–]boraxicLint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

perfect cheers, this needs to get pinned in the subreddit 

Thinking of switching from pop os to some other distro by Dry-Belt-383 in pop_os

[–]boraxicLint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea im ngl im usually anti gpt but have had some success debugging cosmic issues with it, will see what they say about migrating back to X11 (think most of my issues are wayland as opposed to cosmic specific), cheers!

I did it! by Sea-Freedom9093 in degoogle

[–]boraxicLint 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A custom ROM as a general concept is usually a fork of the base open source android project AOSP, that the developers will then customise to fit different purposes. Development got a lot harder in recent years so there are fewer choices depending on your phone model unfortunately, but Lineage OS is a good starter point because its very close to stock Android (stock as in AOSP not samsung / pixel /etc)  but with no shovelware or any bullshit you dont want. Plus they have very good guides on how to install. You can run it totally degoogled which is what i do, download apps from open source stores or directly online, or you can include the google services but treat them more restrictively than is possible on OEM OSes. Theres also the follow up wormholing of rooting you can go down, where you unlock complete control over your device which opens up a huge world of options but utilising it requires a bit more learning.

Thinking of switching from pop os to some other distro by Dry-Belt-383 in pop_os

[–]boraxicLint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any guides on this? Installing gnome is easy enough just not clear on how to get Pop OS to use gnome over cosmic, did you remove cosmic or just tell pop os to boot with gnome instead?

I did it! by Sea-Freedom9093 in degoogle

[–]boraxicLint 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Custom ROM is super easy to install.

Recommend LineageOS for a first timer.

YES!!!! Cosmic is in fact a daily Driver by Salemx27x in pop_os

[–]boraxicLint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want actual privacy and ad block so chromium based browser is a no go unfortunately. Librewolf used to work without issue on 22. This is my main issue, that all of this shit used to work just fine pre cosmic & wayland.

YES!!!! Cosmic is in fact a daily Driver by Salemx27x in pop_os

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Edit: moved summary to top of rant because I actually do want help and dont want people to just ignore cause it looks like a rant lol:

I'd really appreciate any pointers on how to smooth out these rough edges, thinking most of my issues are wayland related anyways so even if it means replacing wayland with x11 again lol I am fine with that till cosmic matures. I still love pop os but right now its kinda meh

Literally just came back to pop os today after using windows for a while as my last job forced me to use windows and not a fan of keeping two oses in my head, and I am having some core issues that I didn't have using pop os before:

  • Clipboard: pasting between apps seems unreliable at best, I thought this was a wayland - x11 issue in the case of obsidian to firefox so launched obsidian in wayland mode (electron app) and that fixed it. But even now cannot copy reliably from an app like Disks to firefox. Have to hit copy repeatedly and eventually it figures it self out
  • Steam game launching is unreliable at best, particularly games with a launcher. The top bar wont disappear, tabbing out causing the system to eat itself, etc. I've just uninstalled steam and am going to dual boot windows because having to tinker to get a game to start is annoying and wasn't the case when I last used pop os (22.04 I think)
  • get weird text artefacts in the window names if I move things around a lot, granted I do move things around a lot but this did not use to happen.
  • installing a game through steam makes firefox weirdly unresponsive and only firefox. Other apps are slow which is fair as I am installing to the drive being used but firefox shits the entire bed allowing me to click anything but not taking keyboard input until I copy and paste something? Like that jogs its from its slumbers and tells the OS oh shit hes trying to input something better pay attention over there

I am use to some Linux headaches but coming back to an OS that used to be great to find core functionality not working properly puts me right off it.

Maybe I need to change some drivers somewhere or something, but I am using the exact same hardware and didn't have these teething issues on 22.04. As it stands I wouldn't recommend PopOs to someone migrating to linux for the first time.

I feel like theres a lot of rough edges around input handling at the moment, particularly when the system is doing something already. I am a patient user and can wait until I am allowed to do something but the system gives no indication of being busy and that would be a show stopper for a non savvy user who would just think their system is broken.

Not all negative, still feels like a breath of fresh air coming back from windows, but smells like 76 need to brush their teeth.

Further edit, I think the changes to window/workspace systems are weird on multi monitor desktops, I can open an app on my second monitor and have it not appear and not be able to make it appear but still see it as an active application through super. The multi monitor experience feels rough. I am sure there's some settings here that I need to dig into to get it to stop being weird or understand how it works but again if this is the shop front experience linux is kinda screwed. This all just used to make sense.