May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?

One thing I see as underestimated is that having a major standard device is huge for indie development and could greatly benefit the most flourishing artistic landscape.

Rant: I keep seeing people run their whole stack on a single Raspberry Pi and then act surprised when an SD card dies and six months of data and config evaporate. Selfhosting is awesome, but if you actually depend on services (Nextcloud, homeserver, backups, VPN) you need a tiny bit of ops discipline, not just duct-taped enthusiasm.

started with a simple media server, now i’m running my own mail, calendaring, document storage, password manager, vpn, monitoring, and probably half a dozen other things i’ve forgotten about. my wife just asks if “the internet is working” now, not ‘is netflix down’. it’s glorious, but also… a lot. anyone else go from zero to homelab hero in record time? what kicked off your journey into the self-hosted abyss?

I got fed up with spending weekends redoing themes, fixing package breakage, and hunting lost dotfiles whenever I swapped laptops. If you care about uptime and reproducibility more than distro-faith, stop treating your desktop like an altar and treat it like infrastructure: encrypt the disk, snapshot the root, manage dotfiles as code, and back up everything that matters. Do that and a dead SSD or a new laptop becomes a 30-minute restore, not a week-long grief spiral.

crossposted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57589263

Zohran Mamdani famously won the New York mayoral election, along with news of some other social democrat, and in at least one case socialist, politicians being elected to various levels of governance in the past weeks.

The firmware is released and Open Centuari Project is chugging along. There will be no AMS and you’ll need a carbon 2 for that… what are people’s thoughts and feelings? Personally, I still really like the printer and multicolor has never been on my radar. I recently updated to the latest firmware and can turn the light off and on while printing and have been enjoying that. I am interested in the community efforts and when the company upsets me enough, I may go whole hog into that but for now, I’m just making stuff and having fun. Where is everyone else at?

Trying to breathe some extra life into my computer now that we’re past the windows 10 EoL and I’m trying to install Mint

Sorry, me again. Just updated my docker setup to the latest Jellyfin but am now facing the issue that ever since I updated several days ago, my hdd is not going to sleep as it did before.

I cheat by adding it to smoothies. I eat a pound of spinach a week.

Whenever you do good indirect deeds for someone. Mainly because some people don’t expect or normally wouldn’t have wanted things to be done in certain ways because it could get them in more shit than they were in the beginning. But sometimes doing things for the good on their behalf is a benefit.

I grew up on Asterix comics in English. The main humour is around puns. The authors are French (or Belgian, not sure). So did they write puns in French and someone translated them and made sure the comic was still funny in English? Or did they write it in English?

Are there any other browsers you could recommend apart from Vivaldi and LibreWolf that don’t have any AI crap added to them?

I finally got some online storage to backup my home server to, and I can finally sleep easy when my house inevitably goes up in flames. My initial push has been with rclone using the sync command. I plan on running a daily or weekly push.

For me, the only thing that works is spending time with my partner or friends and taking the edge off with cannabis. During the work day, I have felt a lot of despair for a long time. Trump fans and the public’s reaction to vaccines and COVID in general lead me to believe that there’s just no such thing as peace on a societal level. I’m not sure that ever existed in any way, but I think it used to be incredibly easier to delude yourself into thinking the state of humanity is much better than it is, or at least much better than this.

For non esports stuff, do you think high refresh rate monitors, 144Hz for example, make sense?

Yes, I’ve heard it a million times by now. AMD drivers on GNU/Linux are great for anything that’s related to display or gaming. But what about compute? How is the compute experience for AMD GPUs?

I know it isn’t specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Valve today (12 November 2025) announced their new Steam Machine (x86 CPU, 6x more powerful than Steam Deck) and Steam Frame (self-contained and PCVR streaming VR headset with ARM CPU & “FEX” translation of x86 to ARM) to be released in early 2026. No prices yet.

Hey so I legitimately own C&C remastered. I cannot find my huge dvd case game and got the repack instead.

Vger’s search is currently only single select filters: comments, posts, communities, and users.

How do I fetch my mastodon account onto my brainbin account ?