OP, did you end up buying this laptop and if so, do you like it?

There’s at least one company still producing them

I remember seeing the news, the last consumer CRT production facility stopped producing around a decade ago, but I’m having trouble finding the article. They’re still being produced for commercial uses though (Boeing 747 cockpits use them for example).

It does

Same here :(

As per the FAQ:

We will submit all changes to upstream to eventually benefit Thunderbird.

As per the FAQ they seem to share the exact same profile so you can seamlessly switch between them (provided both are the same dot release).

Edit: in case that doesn’t work, run betterbird -p and select the right profile. For me it chose the wrong one.

I think so yes, it doesn’t stray too far from the original story but adds a lot on top of it and adds a lot of post game mechanics that I haven’t encountered yet. I had never played Crystal before (but I did play Silver and I think Crystal’s story is 90% same?) and it seems really polished (haha). It just feels like a much more modern game than what I remember Silver being.

I’m looking for a similar sort of ROM hack for Emerald since I never played gen 3 and later. I think I’ll go for Modern Emerald but I’d love to hear other suggestions.

I have gone down the same rabbit hole lately. I’ve been playing Polished Crystal and am planning to play Modern Emerald next.

Polished Crystal adds a ton of features and I love it. They added many Pokémon that you can all catch, it adds a lot of new moves and introduces the modern types and physical/special split which I prefer. It also seems like a lot more difficult than vanilla gen 2 with revised gym leader parties. I’d suggest playing the 9bit version which has almost a decade of new features added to the 2.2.0 version you usually find.

Running an older kernel isn’t an option? Otherwise compiling your own kernel with the drivers should be possible I assume.

It is, but with kernel-specific packages you have the kernel linux(-lts) and the kernel module zfs-linux(-lts) and they aren’t in sync. Even with the LTS kernel I run into the issue that I can’t update the kernel since there’s a dependency issue between ZFS and Linux.

I have both LTS and zen and I’m currently on 6.6.36 and 6.9.7 respectively.

I am using ZFS on root on Arch using 2x 2TB SSDs striped . I mainly did it because my server runs on ZFS as well and thought snapshotting and backup would be easy, but instead went with Borg backup anyway.

Installation wasn’t very difficult, but the ZFS kernel modules can’t keep up with kernel updates (even with LTS kernel) on Arch, so I constantly need to do partial upgrades and it’s been annoying. As much as I love ZFS I’m not sure I’d do it again on Arch. If your distro is not using bleeding edge kernels then I don’t foresee any issues really.

Except push to talk doesn’t work in Vesktop/Vencord sadly.

You didn’t mention KDE’s lack of any adequate stability. That’s what makes it incomparable to Gnome.

But then also:

However it’s important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users.

Oh the irony.

Same thing happened to me. If you are on the KDE forums you could message Paul Brown and ask him to manually add you as adopter on an app of choosing. Don’t forget to provide the name you used to donate.

You can “adopt” one of several KDE apps if you donate 50 usd/eur or more. Your name will be listed on the app’s webpage until April 2025. Other than that it’s just a donation with a fancy name.

I donated without adding a comment which app to adopt. Is there a way to fix this?

If you feel like you need/want software from AUR you should check out Distrobox. It can run any distro on top of your installation using Docker under the hood, but it tightly integrates into your system so with little effort you can run AUR programs from your launcher as if they were natively installed on your Mint.

It’s also (still) available on Android and iOS.

That’s how it’s done here as well. A USB modem attached to a raspberry pi (or just any pc) which answers the dial up connection from the Dreamcast, routing it through broadband.