Oh damn. Here are some movies to watch:

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8108280
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5860868
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393232
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235406

Have you tried what the message tells you?

My laptop (actually designed and used as mobile device with a 13 inch screen) has one USB-C port which is meant for charging or for attaching a docking station. And I am absolutely happy with it.

I cnan tyep therehundrde wrods pre minuet, regradlses of USb type!

You HAVE more options. You just decided to accept a system where those options don’t matter at all.

As a non-American I couldn’t care less about American politics. So here’s a recipe for classic waffles instead:

• 1 egg
• 225g self-raising flour
• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar (optional)
• 250ml milk
• 50g butter, melted and cooled
• ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)
• 1 tbsp sunflower or vegetable oil
• maple syrup and icing sugar, to serve (optional)

Crack the egg into a large bowl, then tip in the flour and a generous pinch of salt. Add the sugar, if using, then gradually whisk in the milk followed by the melted butter until smooth. Whisk in the vanilla, if using. Alternatively, make the batter by blitzing all the ingredients together using a blender or hand blender. Can be made 1-2 hrs ahead and chilled.

Heat a waffle maker following the manufacturer’s instructions and brush with a little of the oil. Then ladle in enough batter to just cover the surface. Cook following the manufacturer’s instructions (usually 5-6 mins) until the waffles are golden brown and crisp.

Serve immediately or keep warm in a low oven while you make the rest. Drizzle with maple syrup or sprinkle with icing sugar, if you like.

Supports both programming and gaming

Both is super uncritical.

You can install Steam as Flatpak without any real or major issues nowadays and thanks to Proton you can basically play any games except those that use Windows-specific ring 0 spyware as their DRM or anti-cheat mechanism. Pro-Flatpak: You don’t need to deal with 32-bit libs dependency hell.

Same with programing. The relevant compilers are all available for pretty much all common distributions. Same with the common scripting interpreters as well as all common IDEs.

but I’m considering moving it to a VM if the performance impact is manageable

Depending on your VM solution you can usually pass-through CPU and/or GPU and have nearly the same performance as on bare metal.

but am open to exploring new options.

This might be a bold move, but have you considered Arch Linux? You need to do most things by yourself, but the wiki is one of the best and most complete and extensive distribution-specific Linux wikis available. So if you’re willing to read instructions and learn new things, why not give it a try? (Disclosure: Arch is my daily driver since 2008 on desktops, laptops and homeservers).

It needs alsamixer … Never heard of this thing since a decade …

That’s a lot of text for “we’re not open source, please don’t trust us and please use another system”.

Yeah. While I can dockerize those applications, all I checked out lack modern features and concepts/designs. It all feels heavily outdated technology-wise.

federated blog

I wonder what federated blog (or publishing platform) isn’t stuck in pre-Docker era, though.

You can run those as single-user instances or with approval of users so you can use those instances for your family and/or friends only.

The usual suspects: Mastodon (or mastodon-compatible servers like GoToSocial), PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.

I am disappointed …

Of course!

WinAmp hurt itself while slapping

… and use a name where the acronym also is WP.

“King regards” instead of “Kind regards”.

I’m not going to search further to find the original discussion, but another user in this thread mentions seeing talk of this about a year ago.

There were plenty of those threads and discussions happening during the past few years. This is a constant topic that came up in the forums and sometimes GitHub over and over again.

It initially was that. Also the name wasn’t meant to stick around forever.

But, out of a sudden, between updates, not even the new website URLs ready?

I don’t follow Minetest development that closely anymore, but last time I checked there were no issues or pull requests on their GitHub, nor something official regarding a name change in the forums.

This feels like there are just a bunch of people haphazardly deciding there is a new name now.