I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.

Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.

For the calendar plasmoid you can set the preference for the first day of the week independently of your locale, in case that’s all you need.

Reminds me of this…

Sometimes I’ll randomly remember a joke or funny situation from years ago and suddenly grin or laugh about it again. Then people ask me what’s so funny and I can’t really explain.

You can use VAAPI or NVENC for hardware encoding, I believe there are presets for that in the render dialog nowadays. I think that is or was broken in the AppImage though. Using the GPU for actually processing heavy effects (like color correction, chroma keying, transformations etc) is currently not possible and the GPU processing option in the settings is broken. And many of these effects are single threaded on the CPU.

Kdenlive unfortunately isn’t amazing at really utilizing your hardware. Getting better though.

I’ve never had good luck with distro packages of Kdenlive, on any distro. Always crashing and glitching. The Flatpak has always been much more stable for me, and the AppImage is even more solid.

Btrfs snapshots are a blessing. Call me a cheater :P

Same. I don’t care if it “doesn’t follow the UNIX philosophy” or whatever, it gets the job done, is IMHO easy to work with and many guides assume that you have it.

Odysee/LBRY is just another bit of crypto crap.

That, and while it was kinda nice in the beginning with a bunch of Linux / Tech / Science creators and a friendly community, it quickly became dominated by bigotry and conspiracy theories.

The fact that it’s a screen recording of MS Paint really sells it

You can either install flatpaks system wide or only for your specific user.

except the ones who are dead

I feel like it does make a difference but it might just be placebo.

It’s like that with any game for me. I don’t do that much gaming overall but roughly once every couple of months I’ll get lost in Terraria, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Prison Architect, No Mans Sky or what not for a few days at a time and when that phase ends I won’t play any games for months to come.