I know lots of people love KDE. I haven’t tried it yet. I just googled the difference when I was researching distros and chose GNOME because it looked more Mac-like, which is my preference.

Sometimes finding the right thing, on a day that you have the right energy and focus, is the hard part. A lot of people face something similar when they enter retirement.

I’ve never considered myself an artistic person, but many years ago I was laid off and had a few months of time to fill, and in a surprise to myself, I started making pixel art animations and absolutely loved it. It fulfilled some sort of latent creative need that I didn’t realize was there until I had the time.

I think many of us would be surprised at what parts of our personalities come out when not suppressed by the daily grind.

Seriously. Think of how many people would do something amazing if they could risk a gap in their employment without losing healthcare.

Well I’m sure it wouldn’t lie about that. What a relief!

Yeah, it’s probably best to focus on the positives. The AI box has been opened, and there’s no closing it back up, even if we wanted to.

Displaying the title of the currently playing media sounds useful!

This was a mild pain. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, then I realized that the browser extension and tool worked flawlessly in Firefox, but not Brave.

I did install that one, and it’s pretty fun. You can even change the color of the fire and the speed of the animation.

GNOME extensions:

https://extensions.gnome.org/

There are so many options! I have it on the original fire one (with the animation sped up), but I’m considering switching to the DOOM inspired one.

This is the one I saw. It’s Internet radio though.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/836/internet-radio/

Uh oh.

I’m sure I’ll get there, but it’s all new to me right now, so the temptation to add a bunch of nonsense is real…

Ditto <3

I’m really looking forward to seeing that

Well, there a desktop PC, a laptop, and possibly an old Chromebook that I’m considering…

Whoa, this sounds like a really cool project. I think I would enjoy doing this. Thank you for telling me about it.

That sounds cool. So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed? Just, like cobbled together resources to run stuff?

This might be a little advanced for me at the moment.

Haven’t heard of it before. Is it a distro?