What we need are more ARM PCs with UEFI and mainline Linux drivers. That way they would run a generic OS image just like an x86 PC.

Most ARM PCs require an image built specifically for that system. That makes them a real pain the ass to work with.

Large, high performance SD cards aren’t cheap either.

If you want something cheap, go with smart cards or RFID cards that will launch a game that’s already installed on the computer.

If it’s a windows game, you could put the entire Wine prefix on the card and it would be portable. The performance would probably be pretty bad though. 2.5" SATA SSDs and a docking station would work a lot better.

Have you tried using a different SATA cable. I had one go bad and the drive started throwing all kinds of errors.

This is why you never rely on cloud storage. It can be the third copy in your 3-2-1 backup, but should absolutely never be the only copy.

If it’s not FOSS, I don’t want it.

Firefox works fine unless I’m on a really bad internet connection.

Yt-dlp is still working fine your youtube downloads. It usually downloads at high speed. Downloading a lot of videos can result in throttling or a temporary IP ban though.

I haven’t had any issues with Nexusmods other than it taking forever to download a multi GB file. The files download intact without a download manager.

Wacom tablets should work with KDE and Wayland. They work great with X11 though.

Good, that’s the way it should be.

RAID isn’t an alternative to a backup. If a second drive fails while rebuilding the RAID-5 array, all of the data will be lost.

The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.

The Ampere CPUs are nice. They have lots of cores running at a high clock speed, lots of PCIe lanes and socketed ECC RAM.

5G in rural America is terrible. I can’t make a phone call in my house, let alone get an internet connection. I’m not even in a particularly remote area.

There are Starlink dishes everwhere you look here because it’s currently the only real option. It will probably be a while until they get some competition from Amazon.

You don’t even need a CNC machine. Basic hand tools and some pipe are enough to make a zip gun.

Mint does come with a lot of preinstalled software, but I wouldn’t consider it bloated. It’s stuff that most people will use. The MATE and Xfce versions are fairly light.

With Linux, you can get 15+ years out of a PC if you got decent hardware.

It still shows up because the windows boot partition is still there.

If you’re using grub, you can add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to /etc/default/grub and run update-grub. That will remove other operating systems from the grub boot menu.

It was DXVK that really made thinks work, not Proton.

Have you tried using LibreOffice Draw? It works pretty well for editing PDFs. Just make sure you have all of the fonts that the PDF uses before opening it.