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#174 Choosing Formats
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#173 Text Annotations
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#172 Valencia
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TIL that you can install aarch64 Flatpak apps on an x84_64 host and they will run finely, just a bit slower.

Flatpak automatically starts them with qemu under the hood.

I was not expecting that. I'm impressed.

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#153 Proudly Colorful
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#150 Multiple Layouts
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#143 Circle Updates
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#123 Infrastructure Work
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#115 Modern Monitoring
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#108 Sandboxed Images
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#104 Full Text Search
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#103 Flowing Information
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It finally happened! The one hundredth edition of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online! 💯

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-100/

What a special anniversary, even setting a new record for submissions! Absolutely amazing!

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#95 Overlaid Zoom
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/05/twig-95/

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@mantuko Just to be clear, this is not my "solution", but what the user from the linked forum post did with their chair.

The only correlation I could find was that the screen only goes off when my Ikea office chair is somehow involved.

So I suspected a loose contact somewhere. But no. No matter how much I wiggled the table/cables, everything was fine.

The problem was only there when I sat down or stood up, although the chair didn't even touch the table.

It turns out that the fabric seat cover, and/or the gas suspension creates such a strong electrostatic discharge (ESD) that my screen shuts off for a short time.

The solution? No idea yet, but it seems that insulating the chair with copper foil and connecting it to a socket (ground) might help, as you can see here:

https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/hauptmonitor-wird-sporadisch-kurz-schwarz.2060771/post-26745640

Welcome to 2023 - Your Ikea "MARKUS" chair is not compatible with your screen 👏🤦♂️

#ikea #chair #hardware #weird

I started to lose faith and couldn't find a logical explanation. So I searched the internet for "ikea markus chair screen problems" 🤦♂️

WAIT! I am not the only one with this problem!? Found the following (German) forum post:

https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/hauptmonitor-wird-sporadisch-kurz-schwarz.2060771/

That was the moment I had my doubts. So I got another chair and tested it with it. No problem, screen stays on.

Took the Ikea "MARKUS" chair again, sat down - screen went off again.

HUH?! My chair has a feature that automatically turns screens on/off? I guess nice privacy feature?

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

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