[08:54] <Iamthehuman12> Ok, the Windows-button not launching program launcher thing started exhibiting on the other box too with US 21.10
[08:56] <Iamthehuman12> OvenWerks: I created the other account. So I suppose I'm going to log in at some point and look at the ~/.config/kglobalshortcutrc and see if I can find the number that will bring this basic GUI functionality back to working (again)
[08:57] <Iamthehuman12> or do I need to login, maybe the file has been generated even without logging in even once
[09:32] <BrianHechinger[m> You'll need to login. That's not put there by useradd.
[16:16] <Iamthehuman12> Ok, the new user had number '3' for magic number and over there it worked, putting the value '3' into the kglobalshortcutrc still didn't fix the "Nothing happens if I press just the button with the Windows-logo". I did reset the binding to Alt+F1. But now I notice the "Alt Gr"-button will not work, on either keyboard
[16:18] <Iamthehuman12> Lenovo is finally dispatching a new dock, so I guess reinstall everything once again, because if the malware is not in the dock FW, then I would have Moonbounce, but updating the laptop FW has been done via fwupdate and has not complained about problems
[16:19] <Iamthehuman12> and if there is no malware then just none of the OS I have work for more than 5 minutes with good luck, and I find that more unlikly
[16:20] <Iamthehuman12> can someone please make HW that can trick Windows to think it is on an internal disk when it is not? then I would never carry any Windows anywhere
[16:21] <Iamthehuman12> Windows does not boot unless it is on /dev/sda or the NVMe equivalent, the last I checked. 
[16:23] <Iamthehuman12> that "Alt Gr" does not work seems to exhibit only when setting the shortcuts, elsewhere it is fine
[16:28] <Iamthehuman12> So reinstall everything as soon as the dock comes and only then plug in the fresh dock and upgrade its firmware and if OS still get broken in no time, I have corrupt FW on the lappy, the only one I know of that can do that is Moonbounce
[16:28] <Iamthehuman12> ... or would all of these be bonafide Ubuntu Studio bugs?
[16:31] <OvenWerks> Iamthehuman12: if anything they would be plasma bugs. Best place to asl would be #kubuntu
[16:32] <Iamthehuman12> OvenWerks: there are tons of bugs I haven't even started to try to find help for. e.g. booting once leads to inability to type the password, boot a time or a couple and presto, entering password is again possible etc. etc. etc
[16:34] <Iamthehuman12> so booting may lead to success or not, but repeating enough times will yield a somewhat working system, that is clearly intentional about nagging how unrealiable and dodgy it is
[16:35] <Iamthehuman12> HW diagnostics show nothing wrong
[16:35] <OvenWerks> Login would be sdm bug... maybe. It depends on the number of people having the same problem.
[16:35] <Iamthehuman12> sddm?
[16:35] <OvenWerks> well thats not fair, it could be something no one notices
[16:36] <OvenWerks> I guess sddm
[16:38] <Iamthehuman12> someone should pour money and finger miles into making a service that will do 3 things: #1 Tell's whose bug what likely is and point to the right place to report #2 Ability to easily send small amounts of money to any FLOSS developer #3 Ability to attach tiny messages to the small money orders. With enough streams of small payments with tiny messages FLOSS could start to really rock and bonafide bugs would get solved
[16:42] <OvenWerks> "someone" Maybe ask Elon? Well maybe not. someone who puts money into something, expects to get a return. Sometimes that work ok. Corperate redhat and Canonical have both added to the floss world in various ways, some good and some bad but both server centric
[16:42] <Iamthehuman12> So instead of "YOU HAVE A BUGGGG" there would be "Here's $5 and btw you have a bug". I think the system could use AI, just scrape and aggregate data of what was filed wrong where, when and what is causing this
[16:42] <OvenWerks> I would point to freenode as an example of where it went wrong though
[16:43] <Iamthehuman12> I heard someone hi-jacked freenode with some corporate entity
[16:43] <Iamthehuman12> his intention was probably to destroy the network
[16:43] <OvenWerks> I would point to how that has worked with Ardour who did have bugs with "bounty" set up.
[16:45] <OvenWerks> The person who took over freenode did not want to destroy the network but to control it and monitize it. It is still there but almost anyone who matters has been "blacklisted"
[16:45] <Iamthehuman12> OvenWerks: have you tried writing lilo's real name into the English Wikipedia's search box? His name was Rob Levin
[16:46] <OvenWerks> I notice freenode tries to make itself look like it is still a going concern by bridging to libre through matrix.
[16:47] <Iamthehuman12> I notice you do not connect his death with the death of the network he created and ran
[16:47] <OvenWerks> No, I do not know that much.
[16:47] <Iamthehuman12> But now this is getting off-topic in non-kid-friendly ways
[16:53] <OvenWerks> wiki says: IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988
[16:54] <Iamthehuman12> yeah in Oulu, Finland
[16:57] <OvenWerks> Anyway, the protocol and SW is open. Freenode and it's trouble are not important to me any more.
[17:40] <Iamthehuman12> back to on-topic: In the feature to record the desired keypress combo as a short cut, when I press the Windows-key it shows up just as "Meta+"
[18:57] <BrianHechinger[m> If you're experiencing the same issue i was (can't type in password) ctrl-alt-f2. Log in, systemctl restart sddm and your can login. It's an sddm bug.
[18:57] <BrianHechinger[m> Although I haven't noticed that since switching from 21.10 to 22.04