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Looks like a new alpha for pano was released yesterday to support GNOME 47: https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-pano/issues/315 . Otherwise you can hotfix your current build as described in the thread. I have no idea how it behaves in multi monitor setups though. On my setup it 'bumps up' your display and the clipboard entries display beneath, same like the on-screen keyboard or like a keyboard in Android. It isn't a floating window.

I'm not using any extension for the 'hot corner' functionality. It's at the top of 'multitasking' under GNOME settings for me.

Unfortunately I don't know much about manually adjusting the functionality of searching in the launcher. The extra functions I have found were just a result of experimentation, or happy accidents. I can teach it on-the-fly though. Once I've found a string which returns the function I want, but isn't the first result returned, I either click the result I want or use the arrow keys to navigate to it instead. Then the next time I use the same string, the result I wanted is returned as the first result. e.g. "sys" initially returned KDE System Settings as the first result, but I manually selected System Monitor. And now "sys" returns System Monitor as the first result.

Mostly on a conceptual level, those things aren't problems for me, because stuff like browsing for a file seems like an inefficient approach in most cases. I'm a simple man, I swipe up, I type a few characters, I receive. There's no wait time for my search term to be indexed, even if I don't know the filename I can search the filetype to get a quick filtered list. There's no "making me use a folder", I can access all files in all folders as well as apps or settings the same way. Hell, I can copy an emoji to my clipboard just by typing ":)" or similar. 4 inputs total including the swipe and hitting return. Definitive, repeatable, no visual identification necessary. Once you're acclimated it feels like the liberation of being able to type without looking at the keyboard all over again.

But then, these are the preferences of someone that used to uncheck "show desktop icons" even on Windows/GNOME 2.x. Not so much to avoid clutter, I just don't quite understand the point of the 'visual arrangement' as such. Either I would need to look at many things before I'm looking at the thing I want to be looking at, or I would have to memorise its location - and both of those seem like inefficient contrivances of Windows. Admittedly, my downloads folder is a pit of endlessly accumulating random useless junk. But who cares? It's no less functional to me than when it was empty.

A few other notes:

• There's a Nautilus extension for individual folder colours, and global colours are set by your GTK theme.
• gnome-shell-pano is the clipboard manager I'm using and I'm pretty happy with it. Opens in uh, GNOME-style I guess, a bottom bar.
• As of GNOME 44, there's a list of background apps exposed by opening the shell menu, with each background app showing an X next to it to close without restoring the task.
• In Debian I can also access the task switcher by simply mousing over to the top left corner of my display. Default behaviour, I'm sure you can replicate it.
• The alt+tab behaviour is different. I can't think of a reason why I'd need to minimise a task only to restore it though (or even alt+tab really) when I can just swipe up.
• If there's no difference in behaviour between LMB & RMB, it's because the function you're looking for is in a different castle.

Upon first use of 3.x I too felt that the lack of universal context menus implied less functionality as a whole. I don't think that's really the case though.

If I were using a mouse and also had an app/game fullscreened, then and only then would I have to shudder perform an extra keyboard input.

I guess the bottom line is, GNOME doesn't really aim to replicate Windows.

As a workaround, perhaps you could copypaste from the Notes part of the Steam overlay. That's what I needed to migrate loot filters in Last Epoch. Not ideal, but hope this helps

What were the problems or areas where you identified inefficiency? I'd agree the "settings" app is overly minimal. Personally I'd rather use the terminal for most things that wouldn't necessarily have an obvious specific location in the GUI. In general, customisation outside the terminal leaves something to be desired, but I don't mind how it looks by default. In rare cases I do logout and switch DE's to Plasma but usually it's to figure out how some function is named so that I can search up a way to do it efficiently in GNOME, then I just do that moving forward.

I would guess that the main factors are 1. your machine and 2. your use cases. On my laptop for example, I've found that three-finger swiping up on the touchpad to get to the task switcher is about as efficient as possible for almost all of my use cases. From there, I'm either clicking on a pinned app (including my terminal if I've identified I need it), clicking on one of my open tasks, or typing a few characters for the file, app or setting I want and hitting return. Including typing things like "word" to run Libreoffice Writer. In that way, my experience of GNOME's ethos is to enable the widest range of functions possible using the fewest inputs, with the caveat that this is only the case certain machines and for people that enjoy things like gestures and hotkeys. I have a bunch of shell extensions like a clipboard history/manager, an on-screen keyboard toggle, toggle to prevent auto-sleep etc. It's pretty much everything I want.

In the startup I worked for, the HR lead was the CEO's significant other. They had made fundamental contributions to the operations of the company since its inception and relatively humble beginnings. Once it had grown beyond a certain size, there wasn't really any particular executive position within a logical company structure for them to fill. The individual departments were run by people more qualified in those areas. I think it made sense for the company to continuously recognize their contributions (and obviously the boss isn't going to fire their partner), but HR ended up being mostly just a cushy job for them to fall into.

It was one of those companies that likes to say its "like a family", but really there's an in-crowd (i.e. the founding staff) and everyone else. I was part of the former, so I could be honest and open with them with regard to HR issues and be supported, and that was nice. But on the other hand, I witnessed HR actions related to incidents involving other staff that caused me cognitive dissonance, because it would've been handled differently if I were the staff member involved. More than anything else, because I had found myself in the right place at the right time. Because I was a part of the landed gentry, as it were. That's fucking bullshit, and the experience made me realize that they weren't actually different from other companies like I had thought.

I just browse "All" by default, not sure what I'm missing by not curating subs. Probably around 50% of the posts are from hexbear on average

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I'm sorry, I meant to respond about the lack of BBC archival footage, as it had to be archived to be able to compile it. You're right that it was probably shot straight to VHS.

I remember the VHS we watched was presented as a compilation of episodes with a new introduction and interludes so my guess is there was some kind of professional reproduction of the episodes themselves

They did free concerts and actively organised against Ticketmaster's efforts to suppress that, but yeah the music itself is reasonably trash. Silverchair did their sound better on Frogstomp, and they were still in high school at the time.

The groups forming the roots of digital media piracy established 'the scene', which holds itself to rules and has particular distribution methods. For example Usenet was popular for many years. https://scenerules.org/

By P2P I'm meaning these are 'non-scene' releases, just something a random person on the internet cooked up and released somewhere, in these cases by feeding some prior standard definition release through an upscaler and creating a torrent from the output, which involves certain considerations.

We can't exactly determine the pedigree of these files, but we can say they are lossy transcodes, that is they first existed in a compressed format and later were re-encoded by the upscaler to another compressed format.

While the upscaled may look sharper to your eyes, data from the files as they were before that process was inevitably lost due to this transcoding. If we define "quality" as the amount of information from the original presentation that was retained in the output, then the standard definition versions are definitely higher in quality than the upscaled ones.

I'm not meaning to use the term in any perjorative sense, but it's useful information to have. If an official HD presentation is ever made from the original film, it would certainly get a 'scene release' that would look better than these ones.

Could do that, or sideload the APK from https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/client/androidtv/