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In my case (blessed with not having to work with Windows), the kludgy feel of how workspaces previously worked with multiple monitors has sometimes made me not bother connecting them up.

The old way tries to merge the two monitors into a single screen, and so when your monitors have different resolutions, your “single screen” is now sort of L-shaped. Which would cause weird effects on some DEs where for instance dragging a window off the edge of the smaller monitor wouldn’t work, as width of the “single screen” was taken to be the width of the larger monitor not the smaller one. (I must add that KDE is not one of these DEs, and you can drag off the edge like that)

There are still some behaviours with per-screen virtual desktops that I hope might be fixed in future - such as “Zoom Desktop” (Meta+mousewheel). I use this quite a bit for reducing the black bars on extra wide aspect ratio films, and it does zoom both monitors at the moment. I don’t know if it’d be practical to have this feature just zoom one desktop, but it would be great for me when I’m working and have Netflix on at the same time.

The LTS I assume? That’s annoying, my VPS has been on 24.04 and I’m looking forward to upgrading to 26.04 just for the newer PHP version (without using a 3rd party PPA). I’m waiting for 26.04.01 before making the move.

How many others are loving the “per-screen virtual desktops” feature introduced with 6.7?

It seems there’s a small (?) contingent of people who’ve been clamouring for this ever since multi-monitor setups became commonplace. Then there’s a whole nother load of people who don’t care.

Do many people here even use multiple workspaces? I know many just have all apps open on the visible workspace and alt-tab between them.

The phenomenon they’ve identified doesn’t seem to be cannabis-specific at all. The finding really seems to be, “capitalism will pursue profits at the expense of customers’ well-being”.

Which isn’t going to be news to anyone but the most deluded libertarian. It’s a great example of why we absolutely need government to impose sensible regulations on business, because otherwise short-term profiteering will win over long-term societal good.

Cannabis, as it moves from illegal black markets to legitimacy, is just in an interesting position to highlight these kinds of effects.

presumably refers to the size of the cannonballs

I quickly looked into this the other day when the first articles on it appeared. IIRC there’s a regulation that states children under a certain age must be accompanied by an adult - and that includes sitting right next to them. Ryanair’s policy was to charge the adult the standard “seat booking” extra. Up to 2 kids would then be given seats next to them without additional fees.

So the problem seems to be that if you’re travelling with small children, you *must* pay to book yourself a seat.

Ryanair were protesting about any change, no surprise there of course, but I suspect they don’t really have to waive the booking fee for the adult, rather they could just allow them to not pay to book a seat, and make sure they are allocated one randomly with their children next to them.

In any case, I’m left wondering if this can be a worthwhile way for the EU to spend its time. Given how much it costs for any large administrative body to do anything, this really doesn’t seem like it should be a big priority.

When you are a parent, there are so many extra costs everywhere, that saving a couple of euros on seat bookings a couple of times a year isn’t going to make any significant difference.

Lion doesn’t appear to be looking at the cub though. The smug look on the cub’s face makes me think this could even be a “my dad’s bigger than your dad” type of sitch, where the cub has just shoved a big festering pile of damp leaves into another cub’s school bag, and now has run back to dad knowing that fat philistine is way too dumb to try to encourage his own cub to behave like a halfway decent human being lion.

Think you missed a joke old boy

I never knew LLMs can run on such low-spec machines now! That’s amazing. You said elsewhere you’re using Qwen3-4B (abliterated), and I found a page saying that there are Qwen3 models that will run on “Virtually any modern PC or Mac; integrated graphics are sufficient. Mobile phones”

Is there still a big advantage to using Nvidia GPUs? Is your card Nvidia?

My home machine that I’ve installed ollama on (and which I can’t access in the immediate future) has an AMD card, but I’m now toying with putting it on my laptop, which is very midrange and has Intel Arc graphics (which performs a whole lot better than I was expecting in games)

At first blush, this looks great to me. Are there limitations with what models it will work with? In particular, can you use this on a lightweight model that will run in 16 Gb RAM to prevent it hallucinating? I’ve experimented a little with running ollama as an NPC AI for Skyrim - I’d love to be able to ask random passers-by if they know where the nearest blacksmith is for instance. It was just far too unreliable, and worse it was always confidently unreliable.

This sounds like it could really help these kinds of uses. Sadly I’m away from home for a while so I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to get back on my home rig.

This is what I’m doing. I recently switched from the email service offered by my web host to Zoho Mail. I pay them $12 a year for a couple of gigabytes storage (which isn’t a whole lot but enough for me and I’m cheap).

As someone else says elsewhere, as well as changing the MX records to the new server, you need to add SPF, DKIM and D-MARC records in your DNS to ensure mail you send is accepted by the receiver’s mail server.