Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article's from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.

Can't speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it's in there.

Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.

Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them -- for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I'm pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.

Sure thats true as long as the basic support on compatibility is there, but as I understand it Pine is so hardware-only that they make it hard for other projects to even support their hardware, i.e. with lacking drivers as the other comment addressed.

Deeply confused by what the hell this is

I have my steam games running from a NTFS storage partition separate from my Windows and Linux home partitions...

I had some initial issues when I started doing that, and it required a different read method for the drive (which never worked), but for about 6mo I've had no issues running steam off a vanilla NTFS drive.

I'm guessing that's a mini-ITX? Yeah I can forgive a case which is highly optimized for small form factor, but this case is if anything the opposite.

In my experience NTFS is the most stable, unfortunately. What issues are you having with the NTFS disk on linux?

For a $240 case, no review is going to make me want to buy it, but god is it funny to watch Steve's frustration with it.

And there was me thinking that was a mint problem...but it's never broken nearly badly enough to force a reinstall. It's just weird not being able to do a full upgrade unless you temporarily uninstall some packages.

Just switched from Alacritty, kitty+zsh rocks. Feels faster than alacritty, and the tutorialization of the default config is great. And it's wildly configurable.

Finally. I refuse to use overwolf.

Ahhh yeah I meant theming. My bad. And that would be easier ofc.

Ignoring the original post, I wanted to pick up on what you said right at the end.

Something I've never understood is, what impact is using iced going to have on app compatiblity? Are we going to need compatibility layers for GTK and QT, like with Cinnamon displaying QT apps, with the associated jankiness?

Check for a ~/.config/chromium folder and delete it. dnf doesn't seem to have an equivalent to apt purge chromium which would be the other thing to do (while the package is installed).

Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:

ᚅᚖᚙᚗ

The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.

For anyone else who was wondering, it's major releases only, and so far it's been:

• The Luggage
• Twoflower
• Rincewind
• Weatherwax
• Vetinari

Not sure Havelock would look kindly at being left til 5th, but you can't please everyone.

Would you be willing to elaborate a little bit as to what the roadblocks are with Sublinks right now? Just curious, and the feature set/current status is not super obvious in their github.

I'm getting that with Gmail and 2 google sheets open (just as an example workload), my system says Zen uses 899 MB of memory, while Firefox uses 1261 MB. However, the way they split tasks into different processes (or at least the way my system monitor groups them) seems to be different, so I'm not sure how much of that difference is real.

Looking at the browsers task manager, they report about the same amount of memory by the browser itself, and for tab handling FF seems to grab more memory when opened, then decrease over time, whereas Zen seems to have a more consistent memory consumption. Sheets tabs use equivalent memory in both, and Gmail uses about 20% more memory in Zen. Both use an insignificant amount of CPU, of course.

Zen does feel more responsive, but it's not a dealbreaker. Good to know the customizations aren't causing catastrophic resource usage though.

Edit: My only other thing I find wierd is that its kinda hard to close tabs. You have to use the right-click menu -- even using the 'c' keyboard shortcut only selects it, and hitting it again moves to another option!

Hmmm this feels like Vivaldi built on Firefox. I like the tiling for tabs! Overall pretty good, would like to see the tab tiling separators smaller, but that's a small gripe. Looking forward to see where this goes!