I really don’t get all this attention to focus prevention. I personally can’t remember the last time I had a window popping up without it being something I want and expect. IMHO It looks like a theorethical attack vector (steal focus right when typing a password), but in practice I’ve never heard of it happening, not even on windows were focus stealing is fully allowed and expected.

If I had any app stealing focus randomly, the app would be nuked out of existance in no time.

I did experience though focus stealing prevention breaking apps (for example the open folder dialog in vscode not appearing in the front). It also breaks some interruptions that I really really want, like the evolution calendar notification window popping up on top of everything telling me I really should be in a meeting right now (and no, a slowly fading notification on the corner of the second screen I’m not looking at right now won’t work)

A big thank you to the authot of grand theft focus for bringing a bit of sanity back.

The problem with the “it’ll go away at some point” is that the “at some point” might be much longer than what a few years.

This period feels to me like some “calm before the storm” or a “slow motion car crash”. We have AI possibly disrupting a lot of the service economy, while automation is slowly eating away the manual workers jobs, possibly resulting in mass unemployment. People are really fed up with politics and electing more and more nationalistic/extremist politicians because they don’t feel represented. The economical crysis and this dissatisfaction is an environment very similar to when hitler got elected. Last time we had millions of people dying and europe being destroyed, what will it take today to remove a dictatorship in the biggest military spender of the world? Who is going to save the US if it slides into dictatorship?

Pyanodon changes factorio so much. The byproducts are a big issue, and you need to get in the mentality that often it’s fine to burn up items just to avoid the logistical nightmare. The biggest change for me is how expensive infrastructure is. You often need buildings that eat up 10 minutes of production just in materials. Scaling up is a challenge also because of how huge he buildings are (both a blessing and a curse) and how expensive everything is. Even conveyor belts are expensive at the beginning.

I played py hard mode until py science 1, then later on I started what was supposed to be an easier playthrough in pyblock, but i still stopped with a few parts missing for logistical science.

I still consider it one of the best mods out there (it’s really well balanced), but you should start playing it only with a “I will not finish it” mentality, since it’s thousands of hours long.

There are some surviving national circuits like PagoBancomat (as the sibling comment from Scrollone) and Dankort (Denmark) and girocard (Germany). My personal impression is that they are slowly going out of fashion in favor of visa/mastercard only (probably because they can’t offer better prices than them).

I don’t see a solution to the duopoly, apart from lobbying politicians to support this national payment infrastructure. Especially in recent times I can also see how some governments might not want to rely entirely on two US companies for running their entire economy, so something might move on that side, so there’s hope on that side.

The EU has already been moving on this front in the last years by forcing the banks to provide programming interfaces to initiate bank payments, and that’s why you can now see more and more options to “pay by bank” online in EU. These online payments generally skip card circuits and run over normal SEPA bank transfers.

More info here on the last part: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

For splitting the app in the taskbar I found it useful to “install” the PWA (you got to find the hidden option in chrome for that…), if it’s supported by the website… It still uses the same cookies and addons, but at least it doesn’t easily get merged with the main browser window and behaves like a proper desktop application. I mainly use firefox though and it doesn’t support PWAs (easily, at least). It’s a shame it’s not more common, because it’s a much better way to run software than the many electron apps, each having their own chromium installation (no download, no long installation process, full sandboxing, and you can have addons & adblockers affect the pwa!)

It’s a bit hard to debug without the laptop in the front, but i think the issue is that your laptop supports some sort of “connected standby” and it enters that instead of fully powering off, or debian fails to properly remove power to some of the hardware.

If you want to search on the internet more on this, the terms you are looking for is for “system power state” or “s5”. As a sanity check, first to see if running systemctl poweroff in a terminal actually powers off the system fully.

If that works, it’s a problem of your desktop environment not telling the linux kernel to shutdown properly, but instead go into standby/connected hybernation.

If that doesn’t work: Debian usually ships only older packages (including the kernel) and probably the kernel debian ships lacks the compatibility with some of your hardware. You can look up how to upgrade it, but it’s not a procedure for the faint of heart. The easiest option is probably to understand why you want to use debian, and find a similar distribution with more up-to-date packages. There’s also ways to customize your kernel and building your own, but I would keep it only as a last resort (in the case you really really want to use debian)