Nice. Hi! And you seem interested in some of the same stuff. selfhosted, linux, random stuff… not that that’s extraordinary here on Lemmy. But maybe you’re me from the future… Or I’m your evil twin with a mustache…

I think (as with everything) not doing any of the extremes is the way to go.

Yeah and I remember playing Snake for half a day. And spending all the school breaks bragging with the phones. And once they had color displays, we shared funny 5 second video clips each day. And that was more than 20 years ago.

To be fair, I don’t think we were more addicted than you were ‘addicted’ to Pokemon cards. Extensively watching Peppa pig and Minecraft Lets-plays on daddy’s phone at the age of 3 is a new level, though.

So, what’s the correct age? I suppose withdrawing smartphones until the age of 18 works as well as no sex until marriage or no alcohol until 21. I mean at some age you need to slowly learn to grow up and handle the adult world. Including nasty things like addicting stuff. You’re not going to stop getting older.

Well, YouTube shows me lots of videos about this…

“Warum du nichts mehr findest”: https://youtu.be/a9eKOU9paoA (German)

“What happened to Google Search?”: https://youtu.be/48AOOynnmqU

I can relate to that. It’s fascinating that even limited time with some people provides us with something lasting for life.

I think there is really quite some truth to it. We adults oftentimes are captured within our daily grind. And you have to pay attention.

School? No. University: Maybe.

It’s never too late to learn things. Read some books, visit a library and get the standard literature. It’s not as easy as if you were learning as a kid, because adults have other things to do and it’s difficult to muster up the time… But I still like to broaden my perspective and learn new things. And I admire people who are like 65 and choose to attend some university course or learn a new music instrument.

Turning back time isn’t an option. So think about what you actually want and go for it. There probably is a way if you really want to…

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=heart+rate

F-Droid is generally a good source for open-source Android Apps. There are 2 more Apps, maybe they’re less finnicky. But they haven’t been updated in 2 years and I haven’t tested them. You can install the F-Droid store and just try all of them. I haven’t really played with stuff like that since I got my MiBand fitness band. (Which isn’t really precise with heart rate but this is a different story.)

I had a X61, I think that was shortly after Lenovo started building them and still very much like the models before. But that was a long long time ago.

Ok, I get it. That is my opinion, too. I have some friends who use Linux and in the good old times we had lots of Thinkpad T, L and X2x0 on the desk. I think this is only my second one. I usually use them until they completely break down. Currently I’m waiting for the Yoga to die. The Battery is long gone, the display started to flicker for like 2 months and then it resumed working correctly, I can’t upgrade that damn 8GB of DDR3L RAM without spending $200 and it’s comparatively slow. But it still runs after 7 years. I think I’m getting the a Framework laptop next, the one with the Ryzen processor seems quite nice. Or a refurbished newer Thinkpad or Dell.

Thanks. Yeah I spent some time with it and drew some finite-state machines with TikZ(?), other diagrams, we assembled a few physics homework assignment scripts to tidy the data from experiments, do linear regression and generate beautiful diagrams. It also taught me a bit about typesetting and proper formatting. I ‘wasted’ quite some time with it but a homework assignment in TeX looks almost like a scientific paper. Depending on the later career it’s a good skill to have. And I still prefer writing stuff with that instead of fighting LibreOffice. YMMV, since I also like programming and prefer text and the command line over GUIs.

Agree to disagree. My laptop is in fact a ThinkPad Yoga 460. And I’m quite happy with it! What’s the issue with that line? I mean there are also Yogas without the ThinkPad, which makes it confusing. But I just skip past the showcased laptops that don’t have the nipple mouse. And I’ve talked to my dealer a few years after I bought that device and he told me lots of other customers had hardware issues. So I think there are some quality issues, but that is a known problem also for other ThinkPads since after the IBM times.

For Android: https://github.com/Harishwarrior/pulse_rate_monitor

There are more, older ones in the F-Droid repository.

I think the XPS 13 is a nice device.

For reference: I think your mistake was buying a Lenovo laptop without the word “ThinkPad” in the name. There are Lenovo Thinkpad something devices. They are (usually) more likely to support Linux. And there are Lenovo comsumer devices and they’re a mixed bag.

Yeah. And you don’t seem to be blasting you opinion on who’s 200% right and wrong out there, too much. And reducing the complex context to the last 3 news articles, and then immediately jumping to simple conclusions. At least judging by the last few posts. I appreciate that.

It seems important to have a strong opinion and tell it to everyone on the internet, despite being not involved and not having too much background knowledge.

Doesn’t really matter which side you pick, it needs to be one of the extremes. And don’t bother with too many differentiated facts or just feeling sorry for the normal people there. So yes, and the opposite.

I think so, too.

Glad you were able to figure it out. Yeah, there are a lot of settings and different moving parts involved in doing audio. And the config files are all over the place. It can get nasty.

There has to be a way to make your settings and that pipeline the (system) default. Or at least change the profile that gets loaded for your specific soundcard and change and override the channel mapping so it won’t load something else first.

I think you can change the profile in PulseAudio or Pipewire. I don’t know which one your distribution uses. Pipewire is the newer software.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-subwoofer-not-working-in-linux/

https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/configuration/alsa.html#modifying-the-default-configuration

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

My 5.1 system is old and has the same chinch connector for all the speakers. I just swap the cables if something like this happens.

Debian with Gnome is also pretty alright. I’ve been using that for a long time now. I guess it depends a bit where you come from. If you want something like Windows, it’s probably a big deal for you. If you’re used to Android or MacOS, you might enjoy the Gnome experience.