My youngest is actually really into the videos posted by railcowgirl, which are recordings from the front of trains in Norway, I think. They work really well for winding down at night.

If you happen to be using an ethernet cable, a PoE hat can work great as well. Just be sure to check the voltages and wattage compatibility, as there are multiple specs for PoE.

As long as you don’t use a DE on it, a pi3 is great for experimenting with server software. I still use my 3b for plenty of things.

Linus himself sees his own behavior as problematic and has put significant work toward changing it. Call it whatever you want, I guess, but just because it doesn’t result in physical bruises doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.

My general policy is to buy stuff from GoG that I will likely want to replay in the future and prioritize Steam for anything that I primarily play with friends (as that’s the main advantage of Steam for me). If it’s neither, I’ll default to GoG.

There’s some controversy around him–he has a history of anger issues and it’s impacted his work. But his contributions to the open source community are practically unquantifiable.

Overall, I’m incredibly grateful for him and his work, but still hope that he continues to work on his personal issues and becomes his best self.

Okay, realistically, if Mozilla continues to shit the bed with everything, what’s the future of Webkit browsers? How tied into Mozilla is it? I’m using Waterfox at the moment, will I need to be looking for a new browser in the next few years or is it decoupled enough that we can keep the forks and root out the bullshit?

I guess I would classify features like variable refresh rates and fractional scaling as “advanced”, but that’s fair. I moved from Cinnamon to Gnome because wayland was working better for me, so fair point. I imagine it won’t be too long before Cinnamon catches up, though.

For now, I’m just using a handful of extensions to make Gnome feel more like Cinnamon. Can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of KDE, but that’s just me.

Thanks! Yeah, I have a separate SBC connected to a spinny HDD for backups of user data, plus I mirror it in the cloud. The snapshots are for when I mess up something on my system.

Fedora is a good option. I’m surprised to hear about hardware incompatibilities with Mint, though. Do you have obscure or bleeding-edge hardware?

I’ll +1 the Ventoy suggestion. Lets you try lots of things easily. Try at least Fedora KDE, Ubuntu, and Mint. Go with whichever feels good to you when you try them out.

Cachy user here. Nope.

Anyone who says Cachy is good for a newcomer is taking their knowledge for granted. Most people getting into Linux for the first time are climbing several learning curves all at once. There are simpler distros that allow you to learn at a more reasonable pace.

The only time I would recommend CachyOS to a newcomer is if they have bleeding-edge hardware and aren’t afraid of a challenge.

I finally switched to a brtfs filesystem and set up regular snapshots. I’m far more pleased about it than I have any right to be.

This is more nitpicking. Yes, there’s a difference between partition and disk. But if we want to get technical, it’s not disk encryption unless you’re using a HDD. SSDs don’t have disks.

At the end of the day, FDE would generally imply that all partitions with user data on them are encrypted. So it would generally include root and home partitions, and generally not include the boot partition, and would likely include partitions like /var and /opt, though not necessarily.

To add to the other comments: it’s “full-disk” to distinguish it from “per-file” encryption. And “full-partition” didn’t catch on, probably because functionally an unencrypted boot partition makes little practical difference.

Damn, a two-week old account posting mostly trash and rage bait?

I work in an industry where LLMs aren’t helpful. And I’ve already automated away most of what they might have helped with.

Personally I don’t like using LLMs for anything. Hell, I barely tolerate tools like lint. Gimme Notepad++ for my actual development work and I’m happy.

And apparently installing the Windows client in a Bottle works well too, or so I’ve read. Can’t say I’ve tried it.

I’ve been using the web player for Qobuz, and it appears to allow for high quality output–I’m streaming at 24bit/96kHz at the moment (though I’m no audiophile, so I guess I can’t confirm that’s what I’m actually getting).

And apparently Qobuz pays the most per track of any streaming service, which is cool. The only thing it doesn’t have is customizable “radio”, but otherwise it’s solid.

There already has been. But it turns out the ones that value “freedom of speech” and “libertarianism” all end up relatively small and isolated, or turn into Nazi bars.

The majority of us are fine with letting instances and communities censor what they want. You can always create your own if you don’t like the way others do it, or you can join one of the instances that have been cut off from the rest of the Fediverse.