I’ve been on Bazzite for a while now and it’s almost boring how stable it is.

I agree it’s a potential drawback for people that like tinkering. It kind of turns your computer into a very flexible gaming console.

As an experienced Linux user I’ll say immutable Fedora (Bazzite) is the most stable OS I’ve ever used. Had to do a rollback maybe once, because of bad pkg layering, which they discourage, never had a pkg conflict on upgrade, everything installs and uninstalls cleanly (with flatpak or brew), and there’s been maybe one, very uncommon, use-case I thought the OS wasn’t up to doing.

I’ve never used Mint but I’m guessing its ease-of-use is mainly due to maintenance and configuration being done largely through the UI. Immutable distros tend to be UI heavy as well because approaching problems the traditional way (through CLI) are more likely to have you edit the read only sections of the filesystem.

Immutable or not I think most casual users will be safe if they don’t use the terminal.

They fucked up by making their robots last seemingly forever, due to the fact they spy on you and get stuck every 15 mins so you never want to turn them on.

Li-ion is fine but it should’ve been removable. The wireless Xbox controller was great how it let you swap the pack and keep going.

What about multiple Pis? Seriously asking. I love having a Pi as a dedicated server (small footprint, low energy, low temp). Do I really need to switch to a more traditional ITX/ATX form factor to get real reliability?

They also maintained syncthing-lite and that’s also gone. 😬

I’m just glad they have dual thumbsticks now. I bought their last model on sale but quickly shelved it. Couldn’t get used to the touchpads and didn’t want to spend the next 2 months sucking at every game I played.

Obligatory fuck Spotify!

Also 2FA. You’ll still want to change passwords but it buys you time.

Basically all of the legal and safety bits. Not an impossible task I’d say but it would probably require massive seed money (in which case it will just turn into another DoorDash) or an upfront deposit nobody would be willing to pay.

An article about this bullshit: https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043

Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!

OpenYerFuckinWalletAI

Unrelated to this update but maybe related to Proton, I got a message before loading one of my games today DX9 was out of date. I’m guessing when that happens there’s nothing I can do except update Proton?

Let’s be honest, not all races are equal<br> 🫲🍊🫱

I think the biggest pull (for me at least) is a uniform shopping experience. I go directly to the manufacturer when possible and bypass Amazon but I do notice the rigmarole of how products are laid out differently on each site, some with or without a search feature, most without reviews (ratings are crap but sometimes reviewers can clear up ambiguity), each having their own checkout system (PayPal makes things a bit easier), and each has it’s own return policy which is rarely as good as Amazon.

I think setting up a standard API for finding products, getting their specs, reading their policies at a high level, and ordering with a single login would go a long way towards taking down Amazon. I see the solution more as a federated one where vendors either host their own instance or pay some percentage of sales or flat rate to list products on someone else’s instance.

Be aware you might have to resort to nftables if firewalld doesn’t work. I use localhost a lot and the routing rules are different in that case.

Thanks for mentioning Wolf. I’m pretty happy with Sunshine but I do have those occasions where it can’t stream because my monitor is turned off (upstairs) when I’m downstairs.

As soon as I saw Plex show media that wasn’t part of my personal library I knew it was becoming enshitified.

IDK about the RPi5 but earlier models don’t do well with transcoding. You’ll want to make sure to convert all of your videos to a format widely compatible with your clients. H264 is usually compatible with any device of the last 10ish years.

Only learning curve is naming. Jellyfin seems less forgiving about filenames and folder structure than Plex was.