I see! My metaphor was mainly meant to illustrate that whether anticheat is directly related to the current security issue is orthogonal to why I thought it was relevant to bring up. I could have picked a better one that didn’t imply that their misplaced concern about Linux cheaters actually consumes resources.

Maybe a better metaphor would be a municipality refusing to do something about a small issue (maybe poor transit to a specific neighborhood) and also actively refusing to let that neighborhood solve the problem themselves (proton devs) with the excuse that allowing that neighborhood to have transit would cost too much (even if the neighborhood were to do it themselves) and cause more crime (painting Linux users as hackers) all the while some completely unrelated group is actually causing the crime elsewhere.

I’m assuming this is a good faith question and that you’re not just just trying to play word games: they’re focused on scapegoating Linux by refusing to support it and blaming it for supposedly being a security nightmare. I’m pointing out that this is misplaced obviously because they have bigger concerns, as evidenced by the article.

For us it’s the other way around, she trots around the house with a toy mouse in her mouth screaming until she finds us

I think you’re misunderstanding why I’m bringing it up. It’s not because I think their server is protected by anticheat, but because they’re both forms of security. And my point is that their security posture is focused on the wrong area by scapegoating Linux instead of where they should be focusing, server security. If you don’t think their misplaced focus on Linux (which I agree is unrelated to server security) has anything to do with getting hacked then I don’t know what to tell you.

To give it an analogy, if your local government had unmaintained roads and you commented about how they spend tons of resources on police patting down everyone to prevent them from planting gardens, sure you could say it’s “not related to roads”, but that’s the whole point of bringing it up. It’s unrelated which is why it’s dumb to be focusing on it. Client sided anticheat is not equal to server security, but the misplaced security focus makes it relevant even if it’s not specifically on topic.

It’s like if a boat was sinking due to a huge hole and your captain was busy trying to stop people from tightening loose bolts on wobbly chairs. Yeah it’s not the same thing, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful to point out the misplaced focus.

Does that make sense?

(Edited to make the metaphors illustrate both 1. unrelated issues being relevant to a discussion within the scope of misplaced focus and 2. that the misplaced focus in this case isn’t even because they’re spending resources on the other issue, but rather trying to scapegoat and block people from fixing the unrelated issue)

Thank goodness they refused to support Proton/Linux then because, and this is a direct quote from their ticket tracker: “Linux is an open door for cheaters” 🙄

I would replace it. Sometimes I push my luck and for minor or unexpected errors I just clear the error and re-add the drive, but this many errors is likely a solid sign.

I hate when I try to load up an old game in my library only to find out that I need to log in to another launcher to which I’ve forgotten my password to.

I mean you’re not wrong it’s true to a degree, but especially in my parents case, they hardly store anything on the computer so the disk usage hardly registers on the pros and cons. If it provides convenience then it’s whatever. They’re still on an obsolete elementaryos but flatpak is still keeping them up to date until I can get around to visiting them again. If I understand how it works on debianland once a major version goes EOL, they’d be using backports which might not have the latest version right?

I did this for my parents, context: borderline elderly, late 60s, use their laptops for checking email, reading articles, and watching youtube. I visit every year or so and usually end up doing a little maintenance.

Probably my main tips are:

• Don’t pick elementary like I did years ago, I learned there’s no upgrade path between major versions and that’s been a pain
• I’ve found it helpful to install as much as possible as flatpak, since that decouples app updates from system updates
• Set up some form of remote access, I’ve used teamviewer but in hindsight it would be nice to have WG to SSH in
• If I were doing it again today, I would probably use a universal blue spin for the atomic updates
• With my parents’ level of computer experience, as long as there’s a firefox icon in the dock then they’re right at home

Honestly there isn’t much to it, especially if they’re not tech savvy and aren’t doing anything complex. All you have to do is make sure familiar app icons are where they expect and that they know how to use the window decorations / DE. My only pain has been having to do a bunch of updates when I visit, so next time I’ll swap them to fedora and set up automatic atomic updates. Besides that, everything keeps chugging along because they’re not making any changes to the system when I’m not there.

Hopefully forgefed (based on activity pub) helps with this - in theory you could use your codeberg account to open issues on repos hosted on other instances. I believe forgejo is working on implementing it.

If it still boots from the internal disk then you may just need to set the boot priority to prefer your external drive. That’ll be mobo specific unfortunately so I can’t give any tips. I’ve had systems set up to boot from external media when plugged in so it should work.

Back in the day there was also an issue with running full windows installs from USB drives where you needed to prevent it from reinitializing USB devices during bootup since that would interfere with itself, but I’m not seeing anything recent about that so hopefully that’s not an issue anymore.

I don’t think you need to involve Linux at all if you boot the official windows installer. I would just install the SSD as the only drive internally and install to it, then put it back in its enclosure.

It looks like it’s about helping to audo deploy docker-compose.yml updates. So you can just push updated docker-compose.yml to a repo and have all your machines update instead of needing to go into each machine or set up something custom to do the same thing.

I already have container updates handled, but something like this would be great so that the single source of truth for my docker-compose.yml can be in a single repo.

I use gluetun to connect specific docker containers to a VPN without interfering with other networking, since it’s all self contained. It also has lots of providers built in which is convenient so you can just set the provider, your password, and your preferred region instead of needing to manually enter connection details manage lists of servers (it automatically updates it’s own cached server list from your provider, through the VPN connection itself)

Another nice feature is that it supports scripts for port forwarding, which works out of the box for some providers. So it can automatically get the forwarded port and then execute a custom script to set that port in your torrent client, soulseek, or whatever.

I could just use a wireguard or openvpn container, but this also makes it easy to hop between vpn providers just by swapping the connection details regardless of whether the providers only support wg or openvpn. Just makes it a little more universal.

Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website

Sounds like a job for a pair of second hand nanobeams or something similar.

I second the other commenter who suggested using WISP gear. If you have clear fresnel zones it should work a treat.

I second this. Gluetun makes it so easy, working with docker’s internal networking is such a pain.

FYI the codename for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 5G is “gold”. You’ll usually see stuff for your phone labeled with that codename since it’s much shorter and easier to check than the whole name where you have to check pro vs non-pro, 5G version, etc as other variants will have completely different codenames.

If roms don’t have official support, then basically your other main option is to look for unofficial builds made by random people on XDA. I’ve used unofficial builds for many years in the past and they’re generally fine, but it’s up to you.

I don’t see any rom threads in the XDA forum for gold, so unfortunately I can’t really help any more. Good luck!

(Skimming around the XDA threads, it appears that the lack of roms is due to mediatek not releasing necessary source code, so if you want custom roms, it’ll be a lot easier to find them for a different phone)

It does support vp9 and h265, I believe DTS-HD as well but I think that’s only for if you use eARC (I only use optical so I have everything convert to AC3). AV1 is not supported afaik, but I have my server do the conversion in realtime with quicksync and serve up h264 or h265.

I love to see this. It is kinda weird to have to use rolls, but I guess the mechanical complexity of separating sheets and feeding them reliably is not fit for an MVP. I wonder how accurately the cut sheets would stack with individual sheets of another brand.