Great post, thank you.

Sounds like you’d updated your system GPU drivers but not your flatpak ones. It’s an oddity and I’m not sure what the fix is apart from knowing you always need to update flatpak when you pull in a driver update.

It’s an Israeli company, that’s a no from me boss.

That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Manufacturing labour costs are far cheaper outside of China but the skills aren’t available. While labour costs are always a factor, the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain you get somewhere like Shenzen.

Game prices haven’t followed inflation because the market kept growing so fast that they made it up on gross revenue. That’s coming to an end (hence the post-lockdown market contraction and layoffs), so expect prices to go up by at least $10 every generation from now on.

And in fairness, the fifth attempt was on an intel platform.

I’m running HDR on Fedora 42 with Gnome. Unless you watch HDR video content or play HDR games I would say it’s not worth worrying about.

Mate, that’s from 2022. I’ve scanned through it and it seems completely unhelpful.

The video’s soundtrack of covers of 2000s music is masterful 👏