£279.20

Yeah, typically ICC profiles are used to make colour reproduction more accurate, but it should be possible to use one to make colours more vibrant/saturated instead of focussing on accuracy, the main hurdle will be creating a profile that does this how you want. Looking online it seems there are some tools that can edit/create ICC profiles like RawTherapee’s ICC profile creator and Argyll CMS, but these might be challenging to use to get the result you want.

For a simple solution you could try nVibrant if you have an NVidia GPU, or vibrant-cli if there is a Wayland compatible version (you mentioned it in your post, but from what I could find it only supports X11).
Gamescope can be run separately from Steam, but still has the issue that it will only work for whatever application is running within gamescope (unless you run the entire plasma desktop within it).
Someone has made a GLSL shader to increase vibrance, that is part of a kwin-effect-shaders project, but it hasn’t been updated in 3 years. If you are going to make your own KWin script/effect, then that shader might be a good reference.

You could probably create a colour correction (.icc) profile for this and apply that to your monitor in the settings, but I know nothing about creating ICC profiles so can’t help you there

That’s T-shirt weather in the UK

I’ve double-checked because I’m not familiar with Microsoft licensing terminology. The extended support end period listed is included without extra cost, it’s just limited to security updates only. This is separate from “Extended Security Updates” which is paid for security updates after the support period has ended.

“The Extended Support phase follows Mainstream Support. At the supported service pack level, Extended Support includes […] Security updates at no additional cost”

A lot of ADHD symptoms are things that people without ADHD will also experience. Those with ADHD will experience some symptoms more frequently and to the point it’s impacting your daily life in some way. This also means that people are often dismissive of people’s struggles with ADHD because “everyone struggles with [symptom] sometimes”.

If you think you might have ADHD, you could fill in the self-report scale, the scoring for is is very basic, but if you have a lot of ticks in the darker boxes, especially if they are towards the higher end, I would suggest looking into the symptoms (from medical sites like the NHS, not just people’s own descriptions) and if you think you might have it, look into getting diagnosed. Here’s some more links if you want to look into ADHD:
Royal College of Psychiatrists
NHS Dorset
BUPA
Patient
Professor Russell Barkley has a lot of informative videos on his YouTube channel

Edit: I’ve found the artist’s post of this image on Instagram and while they have plenty of other works on their website that I don’t think used any AI, I feel like this image was at least partially AI generated, probably specifically prompted to be in her style (maybe they trained a LoRA to make it match better). I don’t get why the only video they shared of them doing any shading/line-work is of some shading that isn’t even in the final piece. It’s totally possible that they didn’t use AI, but without carefully studying their prior work (especially pieces from before AI image generation became common) this seems too much like AI, even compared to their other works that I have viewed.

Window reflection (?) spanning the window to the table

I think that might be from the OS and someone just took a screenshot?

There’s a couple other things that look out of place to me:

• More inconsistencies with the floor height near the base of the door-sized notice board with the frog on top
• What is going on with the papers around the printer? It’s as if it’s chucking papers out of both the top and bottom/side, but presumably one of those should be the paper tray
• Papers in the bottom left would need to be a pretty tall stack and placed in the inaccessible dead space at the corner of two desks - seems more like AI filling empty space, than an artist deciding to design it like that (edit: just realised partly why it looks off is that the papers seem to get smaller in size higher up the stack, they’ve stacked the papers in size order)
• Image is square ratio, which is very common for AI image gen
• Frogs have inconsistent numbers of “fingers”/“toes”, sometimes 3, sometimes 4
• Bottom desk is a weird shape, based on the perspective, probably because AI doesn’t understand vanishing points
• Floor pattern/lines doesn’t continue in the triangle between the two desks in the bottom left
• The middle building outside the window has full building length windows, but looks below the window cleaner frog and what should be wall is coloured like a window, while more windows are missing between the legs of the window cleaner

They’re referring to the Enterprise LTSC IoT version: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021

You can’t even set a timer with Gemini without enabling Gemini app activity (you used to be able to before, but that changed many months ago). This means it can’t even replicate the basic functionality of assistant out of the box, without agreeing to give Google even more rights to your data, in no way would I consider it a replacement unless it’s able to fulfil the basic functionality of assistant with the same permissions.

No way am I ever going to pay a subscription for a games launcher, especially when alternatives exist

Having seen a different video about Limited Run Games, the recycled chips news doesn’t surprise me

I mean the original anti-piracy ad said you wouldn’t steal a car, because they were trying to equate digital piracy with physical theft, it’s the meme edits that say you wouldn’t download a car

I don’t see any curtains/blinds or curtain rod/rail, did they forget that people need privacy when they were converting their garage into an overpriced studio flat?

I can help with balatro and internetisbeautiful communities if you still need. I’d probably struggle to post to them too often, but can check for spam, rule breaking etc. a few times a day

It’s available in the Izzy on droid repo, you’ll have to add the repo to the f-droid app with the following URL:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=3BF0D6ABFEAE2F401707B6D966BE743BF0EEE49C2561B9BA39073711F628937A

Or scan the QR code here: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

High discharge 18650s can provide 20-30 amps, doubt the lamp needs that much current if it’s powered off older battery tech

That’s fair

If you wanted to try to make your original rubber band idea work, you could try moving the central dart up slightly so that the rubber band forms a triangle shape and adjust the contact points between the rubber band and the darts to be at each corner of that triangle

If you’re using BTRFS and know how to/are prepared to learn, just create separate sub volumes instead of multiple partitions. Means that you don’t need to decide how to split up space between different partitions and they are easy to delete without a live USB.

Infostealer malware is so popular currently that even Microsoft decided to release one