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We adopted a Golden Retriever puppy and everything went pretty smoothly. She's currently almost 5 months old. The in-home potty training went very well and very fast, she always does her business in a diaper-like sheet (sorry, I don't know the english term).

Now that she has her vaccines in order, she's ready to go outside. We've been trying for 1 week for her to get used to doing her business outside but it has been a frustrating experience. She doesn't feel comfortable doing her business outside and will only do it when she can't hold anymore. Her ability to hold poop is not that high so we have had some (not much) success with pooping outside but... we discovered that she can hold her pee for at least 4 hours. We haven't managed to get her to pee outside yet.

Things we tried:

• We take 3 walks a day, after every meal; Shorter walk on lunch time, longer walk on dinner time.
• Take the diaper sheets (both clean and dirty) outside, to create a sense of familiarity or smell. She ignores them completely
• Long walks with leash on grass or open field
• Long time in a doggy park, without leash and no other dogs and lots of water
• Walks with other friendly dogs that pee/poop frequently
• Praising other dogs when they pee/poop
• Play time with other friendly dogs in the doggy park
• Removing the diaper sheets inside, which causes to do her business on the floor without much of a thought
• Do a picnic on the grass and have her on a long leash to walk "freely"

We praise and reward her heavily when she poops outside and have no reaction when she does her business inside. She is still excited to go outside, I feel like she loves it there! Just doesn't enjoy doing her business there, I guess.

Any tips? Thanks a lot!

My SO and I have been having a lot of fun playing co-op games on the Steam Deck connected to the TV. We recently finished Split Fiction and I'm looking for the next cool experience to try out. We enjoy casual co-op games, nothing too hard or violent. EDIT: pixel art is apparently a big turnoff for her so that's out as well.

Games We Enjoyed:

• Split Fiction
• It takes two
• Untitled Goose Game

Games that flopped:

• Stardew Valley - She is open to "farming" games but doesn't enjoy the energy management aspect of the game. It also gave her motion sickness, somehow
• Overcooked / Moving out - We enjoy these games but as they start to get more chaotic and hard, the enjoyment goes way down
• Ibb & Obb - A bit dull and samey
• Portal - Gives me serious motion sickness, completely unplayable
• Lego Lord of the Rings - I'm a lord of the rings fan but I hated the gameplay for this game, I found it to be so boring. We quit after an hour or so.

This used to work but this weekend I noticed it was no longer working.

I subscribe to a streaming service outside my country, it's in south america. I used to turn on the VPN on my desktop (EndeavourOS), connect to a country in south america, do the same on the TV and I'd Chromecast the video. No problems, excelent quality, worked great.

This no longer works. When the TV is connected to ProtonVPN, it doesn't show in chromecast devices list. As soon as I disconnect it, it shows up.

Things I tried:

• Updating the ProtonVPN app on both TV and desktop
• Updating the TV firmware
• Changed from Wireguard to OpenVPN
• Enabled split tunneling on the TV and whitelisted chromecast
• Connecting to the exact same server
• Several countries
• My android phone can find the TV but nothing happens when I select it
• Toggled settings such as Moderate NAT, IPV6 and Port forwarding, nothing works.

Chromecasting works fine if I disconnect the VPN on the TV but I can't watch the streaming service. Any ideas? Thanks.

Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them.

Lets say I'm in the market for a mechanical keyboard, but I don't know much about them. I use whatever search engine to look for "best mechanical keyboard 2024". The results are really bad, and I mean really bad. It's more of a list of keyboards to avoid, to be honest. The problem is not just google. Bing, duckduckgo, Kagi, Startpage... all results suck. The results are filled with AI generated pages or outlets farming affiliate links. There are a couple of good suggestions in the middle of the garbage but if 9/10 websites recommend a random razer keyboard, I'm inclined to believe it's an option worth considering.

Some of my friends say they resort to Youtube. I can agree that Youtube has amazing content creators that give amazing reviews and produce great quality content. But if you don't know anything about the subject, how do you know which content creator is good and which content creator is just farming affiliate links?

One of the things I loved about Reddit was that I could just go to /r/whateversubject and talk to what I felt was real people discussing products they loved. I no longer use Reddit ,and Lemmy, unfortunately, doesn't have a big enough userbase to have a good community for each type of product.

So, what's your strategy to find out good products on subjects you know nothing about?

Hey friends. I have been using Linux exclusively for about 3 weeks. I've been amazed at how well gaming works out of the box with Steam and proton.

I only have this minor issue, I'm sure someone can point me to the right direction. I use 2 monitors, I game on the primary monitor and do whatever else on the second. Whenever I go back to the gaming monitor, the game shows the window decorations for just a second and then goes back to full screen. It flickers. Obviously not a major problem, but it's annoying.

If I go to the game settings, set it as windowed and then back to full-screen it occasionally fixes the problem but only until I start the game again.

I currently use EndeavourOS w/ KDE but the problem also happened on Manjaro!

EDIT: As always, the Arch Wiki had the answer, I just didn't see because it seems to describe a different issue. SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0 environment variable seems to do the trick.