Feel like the lions have a bit of a chance here...

... but it's my most successful attempt at latte art so far. I also know the foam could be better, but I'm really chuffed about the progress I'm making and wanted to share it!

I recently started the process of switching over to wayland and, so far, it's going reasonably well. There are still a few things to get working, but I'm happy with the progress speed.

One of the more annoying problems, however, is using the clipboard. I'm mostly seeing it in Alacritty - which I didn't really use before, so maybe that's the culprit, but the normal select/middle click doesn't seem to work consistently. Sometimes I does and occasionally it just doesn't. Same for CTRL-C/CTRL-V. Either nothing gets pasted or is pastes something I selected 20 minutes ago and had forgotten about - but I can't replace the clipboard for love nor money.

Any suggestions on this gratefully received. Ideally, I'd like it to work how it did before and consistently - which is that either of the two above mentioned methods worked.

Thanks in advance.

In my recent experiments with Wayland, I find my self still very much trying to decide on a decent panel.

At present, I am wrestling with the configs for sfwbar - mainly because the documentation seems fairly sparse. Lots other people seem to use it, though, so it must be possible to figure it out.

I'm currently struggling with three particular aspects:

1. How to prevent windows maximising over or under the bar. At the moment the bottom of all my windows is hidden under the panel.
2. Configuring some sort of network data for the widget. At the moment I have a very simple LAN icon which, as a tooltip, displays static information that I could easily obtain with a simple "ip a". What I really want is, at the very least, some way of monitoring when my interface is transferring data in one direction or the other. If it could tell me the amount of data that would be perfect. All I've been able to figure out so far from what docs there are is that it might be something to do with a NetSta

I was, until recently, under the impression that it wasn't even worth bothering with wayland if you had an Nvidia GPU - as I do (GTX 1070).

There was a recent post somewhere, however, where someone talked about their experiences with wayland on an Nvidia system. In my shock - I thought I'd give it a go. Here are my impressions and also some questions.

Firstly, I was amazed at how easy it was. I decided to go with labwc because I use and love openbox on xorg, so I thought I'd be comfortable there. I installed it and, well, it just worked. I was a little underwhelmed at the completely blank screen I saw, but then I realised that it was actually working when I right clicked and a (tiny) menu appeared offering me the choices of reconfiguring or exiting.

I was somewhat surprised to not have any kind of mouse cursor at all. This was fixed by adding WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 to ~/.config/labwc/environment. I'd like a better fix for this, but it seems to work for the moment.

Most of the ap

I'm looking for recommendations for games to get for my retroid picket 3. I like platfirmers, metroidvania, turn based games and driving games.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks for all the replies - so many more than I expected! Plenty for me to take a look at. :-)

I'm looking for recommendations for a dotfile manager - there are so many out there I've got a bit of options paralysis!

I'd like a system that can backup all my dotfiles - with version management - and, if I nuked my home directory, could restore them all for me with a simple command.

Thanks in advance for you suggestions!

I mean, I know it's unlikely because they're just six or so, but the romantic in me still likes to think they would have.

After my consideration about milk foaming here, I'm now considering getting a Bellman Stovetop steamer.

First of all - does anyone have any experience with it, bad or good, they'd like to share?

Secondly, I'm unsure whether to get the one with the gauge or not. I've read in a few places that it's actually not quite as good with the gauge - that it doesn't actually generate as much pressure. It's also more expensive and money is definitely an issue.

I've also read that, with the one without a gauge, you can tell when it's up to pressure with the pressure safety valve. However, I've also seen some retailers very firmly saying to not do this. It occurs to me that this might jsut be to cover themselves legally or whether it's actually a bad idea.

If there is a clear way to tell when it's up to pressure without a gauge, then it's obviously better to get that if only because it's cheaper. It would need to be possible to reliably tell in advance if it

TL:DR Need a simple but not too crappy solution for heating/frothing milk - ideally one that my kids could use safely.

Apologies for the length!

OK - first a little background. I make coffee everyday with an aeropress and I'm happy with the coffee I'm getting from that. I also, however, enjoy milky drinks and want to add hot milk - ideally steamed/frothed to my coffee. Another key factor is that I live with chronic illness which causes pain and fatigue. Even just making my coffee can be tiring and/or aggravate pain so I want to keep things as simple as possible.

Until a couple of months ago, my milk routine was to simply microwave some milk in the mug and then press the aeropress into that. Then my wife dug out my old espresso machine (Ascaso - I can't remember the exact model.) It's not a great machine and, anyway, the gaskets have gone on the group head and it leaks terribly. I did, however, use it to steam milk. Again, it's not really good enough to get great results, but it

Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...