despotic_machine

I personally never bought nor have used a smartphone, and always use VPN services. I stopped focusing all my time on my IT career, work minimal hours now, and bought a small piece of farmland where I spend as much time as possible offline and outside. Just me and the police drones and spy satellites. 😆

Is processing the audio being played back to add subtitles active?

Not sure where you are confused. If any part of this feature is active by default I will disable it.

I'm ready to deactivate it if it comes with any active component.

I am not going to entertain your attempt at rationalization.

I'll just say this: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

My unsolicited advice:

You cannot control the actions of others anymore than you can dictate their behavior. Work on your reactions. That is what you can control and improve - for you.

Two things you can do to see if it is software/config related:

Test a live USB of the same Mint version.

Create a new user and log in to that account and test it.

https://www.fernwerks.com/portfolio/the-one-thing/ - with video of the author reading the poem

It is just about steamOS though.

I wish you had put that in the title. 😅

Snarky Puppy - Lingus (We Like It Here)

In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass die psychologische Versorgung in Deutschland absolut unzureichend ist, sollte dies ziemlich alarmierend, aber auch überhaupt nicht überraschend sein.

back then

in effect

things haven't changed that much IMO.