Strange - haven’t gotten any issues myself. Kubuntu 25.04 here

KDE Plasma’s default monitor is quite good, but you’ll need to edit the page to reveal all the hidden trackers that aren’t shown by default. Great if you already use Plasma.

I also tend to use CoreCtrl and Steam’s inbuilt monitor (which I think is based off Mangohud?). CoreCtrl has a nice UI (much better than LACT, IMO), but it’s no longer receiving active development, so it doesn’t support the current generation of GPU’s. Meanwhile, Steam’s monitor is convenient but, well, it only works on Steam

Kubuntu 25.04 here. Did you edit the audio quantum setting? If not, you should. It may or may not be the same issue, but I would get occasional buzzing when playing games. It turns out the default audio buffer time is really small, so when you’re doing something CPU intensive (such as playing games), the CPU can’t consistently fill out the buffer on time, leading to occasional audio hiccups. Increasing the audio buffer time will slightly (ie, imperceptibly) increase audio delay and will give the CPU more time to fill out the audio buffer, which solved the audio issue for me. Try putting this line:

context.properties = {default.clock.min-quantum} = 1024

into /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/pipewire.conf

(you may have to create some folders and files).

Then restart and see if that fixes anything

What do you mean I’m not supposed to add 0x5f3759df to a float casted as a long, bitshifted right by 1?

You can blindly download and install things from the internet on Windows, you can’t in Linux. If you try, it’ll be confusing at best, destructive at worst. If you want to install something, best to look for it in your GUI software manager (the “app store”)

If you’re up for the challenge (it’s extremely tedious to set up, partially thanks to its horrid instructions), you can try installing winapps. It’ll save you a lot of time with running Windows programs

Eating is also a really big factor for the body’s circadian clock. Not sure what your lifestyle is like, but I would try to avoid eating anything when it’s late.

Interestingly enough, autism is also noted to affect the circadian clock, so it seems like medical and psychological conditions can exert an influence too.

And it could be entirely possible that you are simply a night owl. I just find it disingenuous that some people would use the circadian clock as a way to justify poor sleep habits, especially if they have habits that disrupt their circadian clock. It kind of dilutes the struggles of actual night owls

Amusing thought, but doesn’t really make sense biologically. Your body doesn’t know your geographical location. It just reads the environmental time using a bunch of different inputs and guesses at what the actual time is. Your body is actually fairly good at guessing the time, but people are just naturally predisposed to sleep later or earlier.

That tendency is influenced by genetics and also changes over time with age, but I also heavily suspect that people are actually just messing up their circadian clocks without knowing it. Try dimming your lights after sunset, you’d be surprised by how early you get tired.

Would that be a viable method for a state to secede?

ie, give state to another country (Canada), then state secedes from Canada

Maybe in the past? Modern science has shifted away from direct observation and more towards targeted probing. Modern science is about setting up intricate systems to answer a very specific question such that no matter what happens, you learn something new

IMO the key takeaway of modern science is that things are always more complex than we thought

Ive had that issue on Kubuntu. In the end it was one of my USB devices (specifically my controller) that was responsible for turning my PC back on. No idea why, but unplugging it stopped the entire phenomenon. Maybe check if one of your USB devices is doing the same thing?

That feels completely contrary to my own experiences

Welcome to the world of the living, clone

It should also be mentioned that the two methods aren’t mutually exclusive, and there’s a ton of synergy between using the old ways (x-ray crystallography and cryo-em) and using the new way (AlphaFold). Because even when you measure the protein structure, the old ways only tell you the shape of the protein but not the skeletal structure of the protein (which is the actual important part), so to my knowledge, there’s a bit of finicking around to figure out how the protein folds into that shape. AlphaFold predicts how the protein folds, so you can cross reference that with the measured shape of the protein to better estimate where the protein skeleton is in the measured shape

The questions you’re asking about already exist. Portguese man-o-war are colonies of multiple organisms. Bees and ants are considered superorganisms.

It’s not going to happen to humans, if that’s what you’re asking. The evolutionary incentive simply isn’t there to form a superorganism physically, though you could definitely make the argument that society and culture can be interpreted as a superorganism

You may be misunderstanding what an algorithm is, because I don’t see how your post relates to algorithms.

Am algorithm is just a defined series of steps to do something. Doing long division would be an algorithm.

Social media sites need to rank the posts that it shows to users, and it uses algorithms for that. People talk about social media algorothms because social media sites often select an algorithm that is specifically designed to prioritize the posts that keep users engaged. Lemmy has an algorithm. If you’re sorting by Hot or Scaled, that’s an algorithm. The main difference is that this algorithm is available for people to see and has been selected to actually do what it says it does

Well you can have solar, wind, and hydroelectric without steam, so it’s not like you need steam

What’s the att/def on your Nicole? I’ll trade you mine - just pulled a disappearing Nicole. No idea what the att is, but given that it disappeared from my deck, I must imagine the def is wicked high

Your body is made of proteins. In the broadest sense, there are structural proteins and proteins that make important things. Some of the proteins that make things (called enzymes) require additional special molecules in order to function properly. These special molecules are called vitamins. Our bodies can make several vitamins but can’t make several other ones. The ones we can’t make has to be eaten, otherwise the enzyme won’t be able to function properly, and depending on what the enzyme does, you’ll either get sick or die or both. Vitamin C has to be eaten. Vitamin D, our bodies can produce. But the process to make it requires sunlight in order to function.

TL;DR: our bodies have evolved to force you to touch grass

I tend to like using flatpak, but for Steam, I find that installing it through their website (ie, actually going to their website and downloading the install file) is the best way to get Steam

Yes - there’s a workaround for this. I install games onto NTFS drives all the time. You just need to symlink the Steam compatibility folder on your main drive to the one on the NTFS drive. It’s called the Proton NTFS workaround