It’s two characters, specifically Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons.

This is from season 20 episode 7, “MyPods and Broomsticks”. Scratchy is listening to a MyPod (parody of Apple iPod), and Itchy reaches over to increase the volume limit beyond its capacity. This causes Scratchy’s eardrums to explode. This scene occurs at approximately 8:37 into the episode.

It’s from The Simpsons s20e07: “MyPods and Broomsticks”.

Happens around 8:37 into the episode. Scratchy is listening to a MyPod (parodying Apple iPod). Itchy reaches over and increases the volume past its limit, causing Scratchy to blow his eardrums.

I have no idea what Wayland is but I will do some research on that tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback as that will help me do further investigation and exploration in the Linux world. Eager to learn!

Thanks for your input.

I won’t give 11 a chance due to the privacy and security concerns.

I’m also not the target customer for HDR. I’m photosensitive and bright lights are a migraine trigger. To put it in perspective, I can’t drive at night anymore due to modern headlights - I’ll end up vomiting and then possibly bedridden for a couple days. I generally have my monitors, depending on model of course, no higher than 30% brightness at all times.

Heard about Bazzite basically being like Steam Deck. I think it’s great for a handheld, or for some one who wants a specific use case such as a PC hooked up to a TV that primarily is only for gaming.

With the way I use a computer, first and foremost as a computer, Bazzite does not work for me. I want to boot directly into desktop and do desktop things. If that ever changes for me, I will definitely consider Bazzite and Steam OS as options.

Thanks for the suggestion on tiling, I will look into that as well. I remember one thing I heard about Pop_OS was it’s excellent implementation of tiling, so this sounds interesting to me.

Curiously I forgot to try EndeavourOS. I’ll roll Linux Mint for now and then if my use case changes, I’ll explore it. So far I’ve only recently tried Pop_OS!, Zorin, and Ubuntu. Linux Mint felt best for how I currently use computers. I’m interested in the idea of whatever an “AUR”, so I’ll do some research on that too and log that away for some ideas.

Thank you, that’s an important distinction. I figured it was just for settings and not my data, naturally just to reduce the size of snapshots. I’ll look into separate backup solutions, especially as this year I’m going to be looking into either a NAS type of solution, or if I want to try to learn how to roll my own on-prem Nextcloud and begin educating myself in basic networking and things like that.

Thank you very much, this is helpful. I’ve jotted these things down so I can look into a good solution.

Yep, I definitely chose hard mode. I wanted to minimise the chance of me giving up and reverting to Windows. By eliminating it entirely, I’ve made it much more difficult for myself as I’m forcing myself to manage, learn, and try to get things working in Linux.

At some point, perhaps months down the road, where I find that I’m fully comfortable, then I’ll most likely add a secondary drive with Windows on it for those edge-cases that I can’t get working on Linux.

Ha ha! Fair point. I’ll be mindful of that the next time I can’t find support for an edge-case issue.

You are correct. My thumb was bleeding so I reached for the first thing I had. I purchased two boxes of generic bandages through a buy one get one sale years ago. It was a good deal.

In 2031 when I have used up the bandages, I will check out gauze and medical tape. I think they may be a more thrifty decision with better results.

It is good to be safe. I will check these blades, too.

Preventable accidents can happen. The peeler accident has concerned me. I should look after my safety and well-being. On Tuesday when the businesses reopen, I will check insurance coverage and make sure that everything is in order for my beneficiaries.

Good advice. I will add this to the list of activities I plan to do this weekend.

Thanks bud, saving some links for reference. I’ve heard about proton-ge, and from some quick high-level reading, it appears to be some kind of fork of steam’s proton, but has some other fixes that I believe are community oriented or address things that Steam cannot. I’m gonna doing some reading into that to understand more about it and see how it can help me in other games.

The others are helpful! I remember MangoHud from Steam Deck, but only at a surface level. Didn’t even think about putting that onto my new system as I’ve just been using System Profiler to see some metrics when I play! I come from the MSI Afterburner crowd, so I’m hoping MangoHud will meet my performance monitoring needs!

Has anyone seen an ocarina dropped by a princess anywhere? It’s the magical kind that resets time and heals persons.

Thank you for this! I jotted down your launch options along with what some of the other persons here were posting. Hoping of course NetEase can get this addressed in a coming update so we don’t have to use this workaround.

Congrats on the cutover! I don’t play Fortnite any more but my spouse wants to give it a go some time. If I play with them, I may have to install a Windows drive as a secondary device after all. Totally forgot about this game because I don’t think I currently play any games that can’t work on Linux.

Now that is really cool! I’ll check that out, too! And now we’re both down rabbit holes ha ha

New build looks great and that’s gonna last you a long time!

I have a Jellyfin server on-prem only, and currently I remote into it via Remmina. I tried setting up Samba between the two PCs but I couldn’t get it to work as expected due to some permissions issues. I’ll do further troubleshooting later on. But for now what worked with me was setting up Warpinator, and then I could send files easily that way. Ideally, as others have been mentioning, standing up either a NAS or some other local server to facilitate file transfer will be ideal because I pop USB drives to move media for now. Back then on Remote Desktop, Windows file share worked great but it’s no longer in the cards for me.

Glad you’re having fun with it all!

This is helpful, I will do some research into these. So because I’m on default Linux Mint, I believe my desktop is Gnome (especially considering my screenshot which also says Gnome). KDE, I only recognise from my Steam Deck - at least I hope that’s KDE lol.

I’ll learn these terms one day. I feel ignorant, but I’m hungry to learn. The exciting part about cutting over is that it reminded me when I was learning about computers as a kid, and moving around connectors on PATA drives as a pre-teen. :) So I’m enthused to try a lot of stuff! Thanks dude

To each their own my friend! I thought of riding out Win 10 and installing Linux Mint on an old computer, such as my really old Macbook Pro from 2012. But for my use case, forcing myself to use it and work through hurdles seemed to be best because after a long work day I was afraid I wouldn’t spend time trying out Linux.

Thankfully, I’ve had basically 99% perfection while using Linux Mint. The 1% were the little unique problems that I’m still trying to solve, such as getting OpenRGB to work and detect my devices. Inability for CoolerControl to control my case fans, no way to control my AMD GPU fans, etc. I’ll invest time into figuring these out, but for now, all my games work and I just ignore the RGB I can’t control via software.