I have had that working on Hyprland, using shift+volume to change microphone volume. First, obviously, make sure that your keyboard returns XF86AudioPause (not, e.g. XF86AudioPlayPause). Next, try having that key combination execute a command you know works (launch a browser or some such). If none of those work, I’m out of ideas.

Not quite sure what that would do, maybe I’m misunderstanding you, that seems to just type the angle brackets that are on the layout in Windows mode and nothing in Mac mode

Maybe that’s a keyboard layout thing that only works with the UK layout then. If I hit AltGr+[ – maybe I’m misremembering, it could be ] – then e.g. a, (using a UK layout) I get ä.

As a backup, when Fedora updates to Plasma 6.7 (probably with Fedora 45) you’ll have the option of long-pressing keys to get a small alternative letter-popup, which of course still adds a keypress so probably also suboptimal.

Several possibilities:

1. As I read the manual Fn+X+F is this keyboard’s equivalent of Fn lock, maybe try that.
2. I believe that AltGr+[ should allow you to type umlauts (at least that works on the GB layout), but I don’t know if that will work on mac mode (I have never used a mac keyboard).
3. Alternatively, you could map the compose key to the print screen key (or some other option you wouldn’t mind losing) and then use that (umlauts should be composed using colon+letter, as far as I recall).

Probably referring to the “vandalism” comments that were added to PKGBUILDs as the supply chain attack was being handled. Those were, I believe, in Russian.

Probably, looks like something that phone autocorrect would mess up.

I guess that makes the “suicide” part easier to achieve.

Worth mentioning that the fix was merged into 6.19.12 (and 7.0; probably also the LTSs, but I didn’t bother to check those).

I had never thought of putting cumin in my chili, but I could see that working. I’ll have to remember that. My top tip: Dark chocolate.

That’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight in 2026. However, back in 2021, it was easy to say without the benefit of hindsight.

Thank you for distilling that.

But why would dental insurance cover can openers? And do can openers look menacing?

In order to make the kernel option persist, you will have to add the option to your bootloader config. Ubuntu probably uses grub, but in any case, I never can remember how to configure any of the bootloaders. Someone here can probably help out (or it’ll be a quick search away, I’m sure).

Fossify phone works just fine for me. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.phone/

That works on my work PC, which runs Windows (at least, it does in most programs, not in Excel, oddly enough). So it seems to be a mostly universal thing.

You would have to do that, yes. In all likelihood, you’ll be fine with just picking a distro. As the Señor says, elementary has a Mac-like aesthetic.

I have no experience with that distro myself, but I’d imagine that it allows running a live environment directly from the USB, that will let you test it without installing so you can see if everything that you need to work will work, and also whether you actually like it (running a live environment from a USB will be slower than if you had it installed, so don’t base your “liking it” off of that).

You probably know this already, but I thought I’d just mention here for OP and others: That’s what the # at the beginning of the command implies (the command needs to be run as root), commands that can be run as a normal user are often denoted by $.

In any case, it’s brilliant satire.

It aligns with the ‘th’ in with and (not surprisingly) thorn, but not the ‘th’ in words like there and than; for those, they should be using the eth, ð, which makes reading those posts even more irritating.

Also, arch is way less intimidating than its reputation suggests; especially on a secondary PC, where you can just run off to your main PC to look at the arch wiki.

Other than that, I suppose something like AntiX would probably run not-terrible on it as well.