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Clementine hasn't been updated since 2016. The fork Strawberry is a safer bet; actively maintained.

Elisa is a modern music player from the KDE project. It's quite slick but not always the most intuitive - some options are hidden away in menus to keep the main interface slick.

It definitely has Repeat One.

Otherwise Strawberry is probably the best bet. It's not the slickest looking in terms of modern UI design but it's rock solid and still actively maintained. It's basically the continuation of Clementine (which is largely untouched since 2016) which itself was a continuation of Amarok.

I like Strawberry but I do find the UI a bit jarring in the modern era. It's feature rich and stable though.

And yet we've had numerous terrorist attacks in the UK involving explosives. That is both northern Ireland related terrorism and Islamic terrorism.

We just had the 20th anniversary of the 7!7 bombings of the London underground where 3 separate suicide bombings detonated.

Such events are thankfully rare and very difficult to pull off, but unfortunately it only needs to happen once to be a "success" for terrorists. While the police and intelligence services have to stop every single potential attack to be successful.

Sadly I think OP is right. There will eventually be a successful terrorist attack involving drones. After which, attitudes to drones will harden.

It's very difficult to get explosives and it's very difficult for terrorists to get a explosive to a target. Unfortunately drones make the both potentially easier.

Listen: the world is not as bad as news media and social media make out. People love wallowing in misery - don't let them bring you down.

In many ways we are living in a golden age - technology has never been so advanced, you have at your fingers more power, knowledge and freedom than any generation before has ever had. And despite all the gloom and doom, renewable energy is exploding electric cars are everywhere, people are living longer and healthier, poverty is down across the world and falling. Good news doesn't cut through on social media or news. Seek it out - it's all around you.

The world is far from perfect but it's also no where near as bad as it sometimes seems. The world has always been in a state of flux and changing. We lived through a brief period of stability after the fall of the Berlin wall but normal service has resumed. Somethings will get better, some things will get worse. Sometimes good politicians will be in power sometimes bad.

Trust me as someone now in their 40s, you will look back and wonder why you wasted time worrying about things that ended up not smattering. When I was 20 it was all about George W Bush dooming the world and America. It wasn't about the positive things that actually happened - like the mobile phone, the internet, falling poverty, rising living standards around the world, the solar panels, and wind turbines and electric cars, and so much more. I work.on Healthcare - diseases I learned were death sentences like cancer or even diabetes and HIV are now treatable and some even curable. Others realistically look they will be cured in my lifetime. When I was 20 those possibilities were all dismissed as wishful thinking, and the main worry was narrow stuff about a politician you probably barely know about and a war people don't care about anymore.

And now - the world has moved on and now everyone is agnosing over Donald Trump. We're still worrying about climate change but we're still not talking about the global renewable energy revolution.

The last 20 years have been nothing short of miraculous in many ways, yet you'd think from social media and mainstream news that the Human race is already extinct and we're just waiting for the lights to go out. Fuck that. Ignore the shit, get out and live your life. The world is amazing. Go out and see it.

Mate, you need to switch off from it.

Take it from someone older - the news is always bad, the world is always in trouble, whatever is happening today is supposedly always terrible and it can seemingly only get worse. A lot of it is actually total rubbish and nonsense and you need to tune it out. News and social media grab your attention by trying to be shocking and proactive - and they do it largely for money.

Put things in perspective a bit. We are living in the most technologically advanced time in human history. People are living longer and healthier. Cutting edge medicine is allowing more and more people to survive from cancer. Renewable energy is growing at record rates, and electric cars are booming - things we were told only 10 years ago wasn't going to happen and we'd all be doomed.

And when it comes to Trump - remember he has been president before. The world didn't end and it won't this time. Politicians are being politicians and there is fuck all you can do about it so tune it out.

When I was in my 20s it was all about how evil George W Bush was and how he was destroying America and so on. Trumps a shit but the older you get the more you'll realise how much a lot of the talk is hyperbole and exaggeration. After Bush came Obama. After Trump someone else will come and you can have your say in the mid term elections in a year and presidential elections in 3 years. In the meantime, forget about it and live you life.

Get away from social media, get away from political news and websites. It's just going to make you feel anxious about things you have no control over and a relentless negative message. The most you need do is vote when the next election comes around, and maybe donate to causes you believe in when you can afford it. Anything else has to come from within and if it's not there then is not worth wasting your time on it. Live your life and ignore the shitshow. Be a decent person and treat people with kindness and fairness. That is all we can expect of anyone.

The world is not as bad as social media and the news makes it out to be. You're in part experiencing catastrophe fatigue - the constant negative bombardment of news and opinion that tries to grab your attention by being dramatic and negative. So cut it out.

As for your girlfriend be honest with her and how what she is sharing is impacting you both negatively. If she can't stop then maybe it's time to move on.

There is so much more to life than worrying about an 80 year old fat orange man.

Yeah... Except he makes the "freak kid" live under the stairs and neglects him compared to his own son. Kinda hard to redeem the guy by him being otherwise average.

Users can pay by donating to Mozilla: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/donate/

It doesn't need to be mandatory although I get the argument - a bit like commercial Linux distros which offer support etc; Mozilla could offer a service tier of some sort.

But Mozilla and Firefox would do well to be more proactive in seeking donations. I donate to KDE because I was prompted to do so and value it. And Lemmy.world again because I was prompted to do so and value it.

I pay for my Email for privacy and security, I pay for my VPN for privacy and security, I pay for my password manager for privacy and security. I'm happy to pay for things that I need and want.

Free software should be free for those who can't afford it. But those of us who could just need prompting and should contribute what we can reasonably afford. I actually can't remember the last time I was prompted to donate to Firefox or Mozilla; maybe it's there but just ineffective?

I'm going to start paying for Firefox because it does a good job for me.

Yeah, how's that going with Hungary? We cannot rely on the EU to enforce civil rights or freedoms. The UK needs to sort that ourselves.

Bringing in proportional representation is far more important than rejloining the EU in my opinion. That would be better for repairing the UK.

Yeah that'd work if there is no special treatment for French farmers etc too. People like to paint Brexit as a simplistic thing - some kind of simplistic jingositic thing - but actually it was complex and multifaceted - the common agricultural policy, the democratic deficit in the centre of the EU, the constant paralysis instead of decision making. All these things contributed as different people voted on different grounds. The loud and bombastic voices of Farrage and Johnson may have dominated the media narrative but it barely scratches the surface of how deep the divisions over Europe actually go.

The reality is I don't think the UK would vote to rejoin even if people regret leaving. Any deal to rejoin would be worse than what was lost particularly around joining the Eurozone and the disproportionate cost of membership in terms of subsidising CAP etc. It'd be a very difficult sell to the UK voters and as we get further from Brexit the damage is perceived to be less and less.

The EU needs serious reform. I wanted to remain as I thought Britain could have besn a voice to push that but looking at how the EU is currently I don't want to rejoin. I wouldn't want to be be in the EU while Hungary can hold everything up and is not accountable for its loss of democracy. Poland just avoided a damaging right wing government for now, but they already diamantled much of the liberal state and the left are struggling to rebuild it. France is divided 3 ways and the upcoming presidential election brings much uncertainty. I can't imaging any politician in Europe wants to even think about Britain rejoining, and in the UK it remains a highly divisive and controversial topic.

I'm glad people in the EU are patriotic about it, and want it to succeed. As a Brit I want it to succeed too. But genuinely as much as I wanted to stay I would vote against rejoining if asked right now. There is not a clamour to rejoin at the present - people may regret Brexit but that is not the same as wanting to go through the bruising process of rejoining.

Yeah I wouldn't worry about Steam, it'll work.

The most important thing is your graphics drivers and they're largely the same between distros. Even with non rolling distros usually there are ways to stay with the latest drivers if that's needed.

For Minecraft, best route is Java edition. There is an official Microsoft installer for Java, and If they're into modded Minecraft then MultiMC is a better Linux launcher than the Microsoft one as it makes modding much easier; they just need to login to their Microsoft account within it to get going.

You can get Bedrock to work if that's essential but it is unofficial and definitely needs a special launcher and a little bit faffy to set up. But it works.

All the stuff that gaming distros offer like optimised kernels really is marginal stuff. Definitely keep it simple; it'll make your life much easier supporting it all and it will give your friend/family member a good stable experience so they can just focus on having fun.

Personally I'd say none of the above for newbies. I have had experience with Nobara and it's OK but I literally had problems with GPG certificates for updates for the second time in 3 months, and yesterday the update engine crashed during an update and my plasma desktop only showed a black screen with a cursor on it when I logged in.

I can problem solve that but it's annoying as hell and not suitable for someone who doesn't want to do that.

Pick a more mainstream distro and not something that is rolling release. They don't need that - they need something that is rock solid. The gaming modifications on distros are overrated - they only matter if you really want to push things to the limit.

I'd probably go with Mint for your scenario. It's stable, and the 22.1 is a long term release up to 2029 - so it's unlikely to break with a major update.

I'd personally go with KDE over cinnamon - it's user friendly but its slicker than the default desktops in Mint and will make the machine feel more high end as a gaming machine. There is also scope to customise it if the person using that wants to go down that route or has something they're already familiar with (KDE very flexible - feels like a nicer version of windows GUI by default but can make it look like MacOS or even Gnome, or whatever you want tbh). Cinnamon and Mate have flexibility too but KDE has a whole ecosystem of software to draw on and doesn't suffer from Gnomes rather marmite design philosophy.

In terms of games - use Steam where possible. It'll "just work". There is almost no configuration required and personally I have a huge games library and haven't had to troubleshoot anything so far. I don't play competitive games or the highest end fps games though. But I've just completed cyberpunk 2077 on my desktop, which is a 3070 and had no issues.

Some popular games like Minecraft have their own clients and set up but it's not difficult to set up once and leave it going.

Lutris is a good games client if they do have games in other stores like GOG or Epic, and it works well with steam too. Heroic is also a good multi store client - slick and easy to use if that's preferred, good for gog, Epic and amazon.

Whatever you chose to do, keep.ot simple. I'd honestly avoid the gaming distros and go for something stable and widely support like Mint. Definitely avoid pure Ubuntu, and avoid rolling releases of anything and you should be fine support wise.

True. Bit of a tangent but one issue when you have free Healthcare the cost of smoking to individuals is lower. Genuinely it's a problem - sometimes people don't value their health as much as they should because of ease of access to Healthcare. I'm 1000% in favour of free Healthcare, it's just an interesting paradox.

Public health measures focusing on increasing the cost of smoking through tax work but we don't have the pressure to stop smoking due to the cost of Healthcare itself which can make it harder to get people to understand the effects. Meanwhile public organisations understand the cost of smoking and invest in trying to reduce it as it puts huge pressure on Healthcare systems. Not just cancer but it's a major driver of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, peripheral vascular disease) and lung diseases (emphysema / COPD). The costs of smoking related diseases is staggering.

Smoking is in decline across the west but we've known since the 1940s and 1950s definitely that smoking is bad yet smoking rates have been persistently high in Europe until more recently - last 20 years or so.

Smoking rates in France for example - 23% still smoke but there has been a huge decline in the last 20 years. Yet smoking was banned on public transport in the 1970s. To be clear I'm not saying it's because of free Healthcare - just that in countries with good Healthcare systems there is more going on. People have known for 80 years smoking is bad and there has been a gradual decline but big shifts have happened surprisingly recently.

Edit: maybe this is a bit ott comment for a meme lol