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PostmarketOS allows you to use upstream Linux

Old PCs are plenty powerful and compatible with everything, but if energy consumption is a major concern, an old phone can work too.

You are 100% right that Android is a very weird Linux and Termux is limited.

PostmarketOS is a project that enables installation of a full upstream Linux onto old phones. Then you can run whatever (ARM-supporting) distro you like on it, without weird kernel limitations.

Thanks for the meme! This is why I always use BIOS fan control. I already did way before I started using Linux on the desktop.

Those Corsair/Gigabyte/ASUS/etc programs are heavy, probably full of security holes, can come at the cost of gaming performance and soft-lock you into a vendor: you’ll have to set up or tune again if you buy a different brand.

BIOS fan control all the way!

Death Stranding. After a hiatus, I am hooked again. Feels like I’m getting close to the end of the story.

And when it turns out the train is delayed and I need a few extra hours from the battery, or when I am donating blood plasma and can only use one hand:

MGS1 on Retrodeck!

You’re not advertising 196.x.x.x routes to your tailnet?

Cause systemd is pretty amazing 😎

<Jumps behind cover>

And Alpine, the one @Sxan started with.

Alpine has apk, and is (or it should be) the most used base for container images. It is very small, smaller than Debian, so containers built on it are secure and performant.

If you’ve never worked with Docker/Podman/OCI containers, you’ve been missing a lot of good stuff, and you may have heard of Alpine via the amazing “I use Linux as my operating system” copypasta:

“I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.” The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.” With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.

Yeah it’s been great for a few years but it’s slowly falling apart. I’ve been putting off getting a replacement as it looks like the only options are downgrading or triple the cost (or more)

I use a Reverb G2 which is directly driven by the host pc through OpenXR, no compression or onboard processing at all.

I only use it for flight sims.

Understood, I’m wired so no compression. It works well for me

Try flight simulators in VR. Upscaling saves you at least €400 in GPU cost

Note that Frame Gen does not help here, as not getting nauseous in VR requires low latency. Frame Gen actually increases latency.

Proton already had PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 though?

Been using it on my RX 9070 XT on CachyOS for months now

This is an early prototype, a fully developed product for both sides is being worked on.

Coming soon to a shelter near you!

Tell your buddy you can play Helldivers with him!

Helldivers 1 and 2 are platinum and gold rated on ProtonDB with recent reports on both confirming they work well.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Helldivers

Random uneducated guess: Could it be some cache/shaders stuff? Depending on the game, it could take a while until the cache is warm and everything runs smoothly.

Good question!

In the Home Operations Discord there’s some very smart people who solved this problem inside kubernetes by checking if their NAS is online (through a Prometheus exporter named node exporter) and then scaling down their workloads that use it, automatically, using KEDA (an autoscaler for kubernetes)

Depending on how your processes are orchestrated, you might be able to do something similar?

Source: https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops/pull/9334/files

/etc/systemd/system/mnt-nfs.mount

[Unit]
Description=Mount NFS Share

[Mount]
What=server:exported_path
Where=/mnt/nfs_share
Type=nfs
Options=_netdev,auto,rw

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You’re both right: one doesn’t exclude the other.

• Yes we need to be more careful about privacy and who we trust with our data
• Yes we need to protest and take a stand against fascism

I just finished Crysis and Crysis: Warhead. Crysis took the c1launcher mod to start, Warhead just needed the env vars.

Hope I’ll have the energy to dive back into Death Stranding soon. If not, I’ll have another shot at MGS1. Last time I got to the sniper duel (on my phone with RetroArch and an old Xbox controller) and then when I got my Deck, the save refused to load. Been long enough that I wouldn’t mind starting over.

I never played the original MGS series, first I got into it was MGS: Peace Walker on PSP, absolutely loved it, got hundreds of hours in it, then did a bit of MGS V but never finished that either.