I keep having problems updating Slowroll, the problems where it has dependencies that can’t be satisfied and you get the “Problem 1: nothing provides yadda yadda” and you have to answer each problem individually. AI says this is a problem with the way that Slowroll delivers updates but I’ve been getting it a lot lately and I figure it must be happening to everyone because I don’t have any weird update settings. A lot of them seem to involve codec updates, the current one is all about ffmpeg-8-mini.

is there a proper solution for this?

So I’m in titration and I’m currently on Vyvanse 50mg. I’ve already tried methylphenidate up to around 60mg I think, but they just made me jittery. The Vyvanse doesn’t seem to be a whole lot better. I guess I feel ever so slightly better but it’s somewhat of an out-of-body experience and I feel the crash before the end of the work day. What I really wanted help with was my memory and context switching, and to be able to speak more clearly. I think that might have fixed all the other disorganisation issues, etc.

I’m considering asking to try the non-stimulant ones but I can’t really find anecdotal evidence of their effectiveness. Anyone tried them?

Our kids headteacher just sent out an email saying that they’re changing the school uniform policy. The head seem to have a boner for this as she’s been talking about it in emails for about a year, she actually sent out a potential new uniform about six months ago and it got absolutely panned. She’s finally just sent out a new policy saying that all the polo shorts will be changing from white to blue, they’ve got to have a uniform for when the kids go out to do messy play rather than letting them just wear old clothes, loads of little rules like how leggings aren’t allowed under skirts but tights are, and every kid now basically needs to have a ponytail and they’re only allowed blue hair bobbles to hold it in place.

So basically now all the parents have to go buy new clothes, including for messy play when they get their clothes trashed, and apparently this is supposed to help the kids somehow. There’s already a uniform but the head’s decided it’s not strict enough, during a cost of living crisis. I have no problem affording the new clothes but I know a lot of parents are struggling and the school has bigger problems, not to mention my kid likes picking out different colours of head bobbles, wearing leggings under skirts, etc.

I’m going to complain, anyone got any suggestions?

I used to live in. French speaking country and became somewhat serviceable at it. I’ve left now and I’m losing it, but I hate Duolingo for all the gamification stuff. What’s the best alternative?

I’ve just finished Deathloop and while I enjoyed it I gotta say it was the wrong kind of game for me and after hitting the ending I kinda wish I’d never started it. I wasted so much time trying to get through doors only to find out that it was just a door I went through later in the plot.

Plus it started feeling really claustrophobic just going through the same locations again and again, by the end I just wanted to escape so I could get a sense of closure. Then the ending happened and it didn’t feel fulfilling at all. It honestly feels like the game just stopped. It was just two endings, both of them being extremely short and “bad”.

I’m just ranting here but the end of that game was so unsatisfying.

I stumbled upon "From" on one of those YouTube channels that gives a synopsis of a whole TV series or movie in a fraction of the time. I started watching this one and decided I liked the sound of it, then when I saw it had reviewed really well I stop watching the YT video and went to watch the show myself. We're about half way through the show now and really enjoying it.

The premise in a nutshell is that there's this town and when people find themselves there they can't leave (because magic) and there's these creepy monsters that come out at night and try to kill everyone. People are fine as long as they stay in the houses but if they let them in it's game over. The monsters can make themselves look like people and they constantly try to trick people into letting them in. At the very beginning of the show a monster convinces a little girl to open the window by appearing to be her grandmother.

The show is very much like Lost only without the astronomical budget and it's got much more of a horror vibe going on. I'd heard absolutely nothing about this show and I don't know anyone else who's heard of it either. It must be doing quite well as they're working on season 4 right now. I feel like there must be some demographic somewhere where everyone's heard of this show, but it's not round here.

The wife and I have been catching up on The Traitors because everyone at work’s been talking about it. For anyone who doesn’t know it’s pretty much the TV show of “Among Us”.

I normally give reality TV a wide berth but we’ve been absolutely gripped. Tonight’s episode was genuinely stressful and it was hard work watching, especially for someone like me who isn’t keen on confrontation. I normally hate shows where people are rewarded for basically being mean to each other but I don’t seem to mind this and I think it’s because the traitors don’t choose to be traitors, rather they’re chosen. I started off rooting for the faithfuls but now I think I like the traitors, they seem to have got some humility now.

I've been using Plasma for about 2 years now and one thing I've never really done is theme it. I use openSUSE and I just use the included dark theme and I don't find it that good. It doesn't look very professional and I sometimes find I can't see buttons because they're too similar in shade to the surrounding area. I've looked through the themes and I don't know if it's an openSUSE or KDE thing but there don't seem to be that many and some seem to give me problems when updating.

Can anyone share some success stories or inspiration? Where do I get decent themes from and which are the good ones? I know I won't be popular for saying this but I think Windows 11 is the best looking OS available right now and I'd like something that feels modern and sleek like that. Are there some tools I need to run fancier themes or make everything look better?

What are good games for getting into the spirit of Halloween? Like, games that double down on theming. TF2's always been my go-to game but I've been playing it for so long I'm pretty bored of it now and I don't really like PvP anyway. There's Overwatch which I expect has a lot going on but again I don't really enjoy games like that.

Anyone got any highlights?

I loved it. After all the boring Marvel stuff I thought I was totally done with superhero movies. The way it began was so odd it grabbed my interest straight away and Superman had more personality than in all the movies he’d ever done while still being a goodie-two-shoes nerd.

Liquid Glass feels like one of those tacky themes you’d download to a computer or Android phone, run for 10 minutes, then delete. I’m not some anti-change guy, I loved the flat UI when it came out, it felt sleek and modern yet professional and unpretentious.

It’s not the end of the world or anything, I don’t hate it, but my phone interface feels childish now where it didn’t before.