'Comfrey tea' is a term used to describe liquid fertilizer made from the plant's fermented leaves.
Does not relate to the beverage tea in any way except the color and fermentation process. The smell is so gross that you wouldn't even think of drinking that anyway. But your plants will love it (especially anything of the Nightshade family)!
https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2017/0 … arden.html

Comfrey is also a powerful medicinal herb. I am fully aware of its toxicity - it can be used internally, but with caution - however it is much better to use it externally anyway, as a poultice. In this way, it does no harm and is very good for healing wounds and fractures as it promotes rapid tissue regeneration. I used comfrey and elecampane roots with DMSO to heal a relative's legs. She had terrible lesions that were very stubborn to cure. After only a few applications, they were completely gone. I never drank comfrey and I don't intend to, as I don't think this is even necessary to make use of it as an herbal medicine.
https://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/h … omfrey.php

For a free wiki hosting, you could try Miraheze. It's easy to start a project there, and their documentation is quite good.

Another option is Neocities. Since a knowledge base hardly has any use for all the bloaty 'modern' styling, a simple HTML site is the way to go.

Yep. A mirror should fix this. I also had problem with the defaults, tried to update and synaptic threw errors at me - switched to sledjhamr and everything worked well since then.

Hi! Unfortunately I cannot help with the Nvidia side of things, but regarding Wine:

Yes, you will absolutely need to add 32-bit architecture before installing Wine and its dependencies if you want to run Win32 games/programs:

# dpkg --add-architecture i386

After installing Wine, do not launch winecfg or Windows applications straight away. Instead, create your own 32-bit prefix that will be your default $WINEPREFIX (it's probably more convenient as many old games are Win32 applications).

$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg

Now create a separate 64-bit prefix for your Win64 games:

$ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

Since this second prefix is not the default, you will need to define it via the WINEPREFIX variable every time you need to use it. It should look like this:

$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine game64.exe

Note that while you can use 64-bit prefix for 32-bit applications, with earlier versions of Wine - including Wine 10 that is in the Excalibur repositories - you will run into many bugs. So it's highly recommended to keep a separate 32-bit prefix and use it as default (any prefix in ~/.wine folder is always considered to be the default).

Another option is to enable WineHQ repositories and install a newer version of Wine. These have added proper WoW64 support, which means the 32-bit stuff is no longer needed and everything can be run in the default 64-bit prefix. I have not tested this personally but I imagine it should work fine.

From general experience, games from the early-mid 2000s (think American McGee's Alice, Deus Ex, Rune, ZanZarah, No One Lives Forever, The Punisher, FlatOut 1 and 2...) run great in Wine. Especially true of 3D titles if you got the driver support sorted out. I found that some 2D games and programs actually run worse.

Regarding drivers - I play on Intel, so it was an easy ride for me. For Nvidia I wish you lots of luck, since you got the driver working I think there should be no issues.

See these threads for some Wine-specific tips and tricks:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7676
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7685

I recommend reading the Wine manual and FAQ pages to get familiar with Wine registry, DLL overrides and uninstaller. It should be pretty straightforward, but feel free to ask for any advice. Winetricks is now in the repositories and is useful in certain specific cases. It's probably not as necessary if you opt for Wine 11+.

As I also don't use Steam, I recommend installing Lutris to manage your game collection (but not to install your games, see this post). You may also want to install gamemode, disable screensavers, display power management, Spectre mitigation (in GRUB) and increase ulimit if you haven't done so already.

Oh, and you may also find the bchunk and iat tools very handy when working with disk images.

Probably caused by gnome-keyring. I always found it useless, annoying and glitchy - it's one of the things I remove immediately after OS installation.

I had similar troubles after the upgrade to Excalibur. The command that helped me is

xset s off

It disables the blanking and allows you to define everything in XFCE's settings, as before.

It seems to occur due to some changes (or bugs) in XFCE's power management. For some reason, the DE settings get overriden by xset's defaults unless you use the aforementioned command or install a screensaver, e.g. xfce4-screensaver. Although I noticed the blanking still happens in LightDM, so it might actually be an xset issue.

I remember simply downloading an archive containing the portable binary from Deadbeef website. It worked out of the box on Daedalus, but not sure how the situation is with Excalibur - despite having been using Foobar2000 for many years (which Deadbeef mimics quite closely), I found Audacious more to my liking.

Deb-multimedia should be okay for simple, isolated packages, some can even be grabbed as .debs and installed as local pkgs without adding the repository in the sources list. But yeah, for the more complex things requiring many dependencies... it's best to look at other alternatives first and only use it as a last resort - very, very carefully.

Cherche-Lune - Circe

Installed the deb, looks good - thanks for the suggestion!

Youtube is a bleeding nightmare to use in my country, but I still manage to access it occasionally.
Sometimes it's the ISP's fault, sometimes the site itself blocks certain videos if you don't have an account, try to watch through embedded link or use a frontend like Invidious.

ZABADAK - Harvest Rain

Yes, it's a very nice linear video editor, something akin to VirtualDub. You can also losslessly cut videos by keyframes, or splice them together if they share the same FPS, bitrate and dimensions. The filter set is quite respectable as well.

I considered adding the deb-multimedia repository and installing it that way, but it requires very careful management and resolution of possible conflicts, so I'm using the appimage format for now. Although it's good that they provide several options for installation.

I haven't noticed much difference in speed compared to Handbrake, but yeah - both programs have their pros and cons. The usage of GTK4 by HB is certainly unfortunate, and the program doesn't play nice with some themes due to their choice to forgo the Libadwaita stylesheet support.