Total is $398 bundle with lower end fan. It is comparable.

The choice will be driven by hardware characteristics for me. Power vs performance questions. If performance is roughly the same, then I will prefer lower power consumption.

A few years from now we may be seeing US tariffs on these just like EVs today.

China is developing fast and it took US trade war seriously.

A couple generations don’t mean much anymore.

Performance gains have been slow.

I’d rather understand where exactly is its performance in comparison to AMD and Intel.

Then I can make a call if it is worth it.

After all there’s plenty of Raspberry Pi level performance and people are happy with it as long as price is right.

Give us some links for combo of motherboard, CPU and fan. I assume it needs a fan.

Does it run Linux?

They should make hardware people want to buy.

Hardware that’s worth the price.

Lately they failed on both counts and failed 1st means never had a chance at 2nd.

There’s so much incompetent advice here.

CPU is fine.

Linux is booting and tries to connect to TPM (trusted platform module).

It has nothing to do with graphics card. Fact it is booting means CPU is most likely likely unaffected.

TPM is most likely fried.

Linux can run without TPM. Plenty of old boards were shipped with TPM socket, but without TPM itself.

Best option is get manual for your motherboard and pull out that TPM.

Any passwords stored there are lost, if you used it.

If TPM is fine, then board pathway to it may be damaged. If that’s the case and you really need it, then board replacement is your option. But that’s only after good TPM was tried.

Only if there is such a huge vulnerability that they will have no choice.

That’s just my guess.

Promise of support is a tricky one.

I use Linux for home and Mac for work. My Mac is older Intel based with software bar for F keys. If in the past 10 years ago I was into Mac and owned one… I no longer see the reason for Mac.

Hardware choices are not a selling point

Context bar makes it harder to use for programming. It is not a sell for me.

Mouse pad frequently jumps cursor.

Keyboard feedback is cheap.

Software is not impressive either

Usability wise Gnome is better than OS X for me. No ctrl key on right side is terrible.

Due to Windows subsystem for Linux v2 I am starting to think Windows is better for Linux development than Mac.

MAC M1, M2 laptops have good battery life going for them.

These comments are definitely reddit tier and that’s sad for the fediverse.

People don't change just because technology is different.

Jellyfin, i own my streaming

You can pay for dreamhost, namecheap or any other shared hosting plan that provides WebDAV. Some provide unlimited storage. I am not sure how realy unlimited it is.

Buy domain and host empty website. Turn on ssl using hosting tools. Dreamhost provides you with free certificate for that. Namecheap charges after 1st year.

Create directory on the website using hosting tools and turn on webdav on that directory. It can be password protected. Turn on password protection and disable public access using hosting tools.

That will give you a disk that can be mounted on Windows, Linux or mac without additional software. On iOS you will need an app like OwlFiles. You will have access to it From home or coffee shop. Anywhere. It will act as your remote storage and you can access it using Explorer or Finder. Most tools will read content of remote disk without any restrictions.

Create another directory and leave public access to have public sharing directory only you can change (keep passwords).

Create another directory or use one of your private subdirectory with application Joplin and you get free and open source notes and todo system. That system can encrypt all your notes with master password. I recommend it: https://joplinapp.org

The might be other apps…

Name of plane like drones produced in Russia using Iranian license.

Noisy and slow, but cheap. I think original name is Shahed drones.

Gnome has been running user space applications just fine for me on Wayland, Arch Linux.

There were some issues about 2 years ago. I have no complaints for last 12 months.

Wayland is today’s life for some.

• Steam gaming , proton and native
• visual studio code
• qemu running windows
• app interrupting work to relax eyes
• old mysql dashboard ui

Basically, I have not seen app specific issues for my user flow.

I stopped using YouTube at least 3 years ago. When they changed discovery algorithm to show me the same videos.

Only 20% is natural ingredients. 80% is processed foods. Typical futile attempt to eat healthy. Terrible diet.

Please share more as you keep using it.

Install Manjaro on VM, see how they did it. Then install Arch with the same packages. It is best if you have life example. That’s how I matched my 1st Arch.

These days there’s archinstall script on standard Arch install image. It supports LUKS 2 disc encryption and BTRFS root. If you save your configuration and load it, then retry attempts take no time. Saving configuration is best done to a separate USB stick.

As far as maintenance. It is near zero cost. Check website for warnings then

 pacman -Syu

While officially yay is not supported, it is a great tool to keep AUR packages up to date. These days it updates system prior to running AUR updates.

Manjaro breaks more often than Arch, but as a 1st time OS is great.

Fish is all I need for daily CLI. It is zero customization effort for me. Spend your time on productive side, not fzf your shell history.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html

Keep bash as default root shell and just start fish manually when using root. It is for cases when linux panics on boot.

Mine lasted for years as far as battery is concerned.

Unfortunately the loudness level has dropped significantly. I went to Apple store and they acknowledged this as that’s what happens to them.

Eventually I gave up and replaced with alternative lower cost similar style headphones. The sound level is plenty, but microphone is terrible. I tried several and found I found similar problems. It is acceptable for much lower cost, but doesn’t compare.

Scary details.

Hi, can someone point me to a good resource where I can ask for DIY solution of home speaker.

I need home speakers that can play music and messages from home machine.

Target music is something like jellyfin, messaging is not decided.

Goal is to have a speaker per room like Apple speaker, but controllable from Linux.

It depends on your location and particularly on how strong the seasons are at your place.

All attacks are targeting airfields.

My guess this will render air support missions impossible for at least a few days.

Air support has the best chance to impact (to stop) ongoing Russian offensive.

It also has the highest chance to damage All available Ukrainian air power.

hardlink

Most underrated tool that is frequently installed on your system. It recognizes BTRFS. Be aware that there are multiple versions of it in the wild.

It is unattended.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hardlink.1.html

Good reason to have external drive backup and remote site backup.

$18.49 + shipping from newegg for new 500 gb sata drive would have saved your data. At these prices it could have been your new drive. Use rsync for quick drive backup.

Remote site backup is cheap these days.

Roughly $5 per 1 Terabyte per month. You can get lower for 160 gb of data with initial upload price spike. Use rclone for offsite backup.

My intel laptop on kde is unreliable, but gnome is super stable.

If you want windows like taskbar, you can turn it on gnome and other features that will make it more like windows.

On desktop with AMD video card I saw no difference between kde and gnome.

I ended up back on gnome. Because it was less distracting. I am a long time gnome user and kde was a curiosity. Latest versions of both (Arch Linux).

It works on proton

Gnome is simple. Gnome is native for GTK apps, which are majority. You can turn on classic taskbar, turn off virtual spaces, add minimize button and it is now a classic user experience.

I don’t understand this obsession with Wayland vs X11.

On Arch I choose Gnome and the underlying technology is picked for me based on hardware of the machine.

I recall having X11, because I had nVidia card. I bought AMD video card and it started to run Wayland without any effort on my side. It was a while ago.

Arch would require you to make more decisions, which may lead you into the woods. Use Manjaro, which made Arch tech decisions for you like choice of network management stack.

I tried Manjaro last week on laptop. It has a polished user experience. Pick to use non-free drivers. Use Libre Office instead of free office. Install Firefox and chromium. Done.

Gnome just added full search and it is included in Arch and shall be in Manjaro in less than 2 weeks.

The advantage with rolling release for your parents is that you will never run install again. You will never need to upgrade version of Debian or Ubuntu. Just update OS every time you visit them, no more frequent than once every few months, not less than twice a year.

Manjaro has polished software installation experience at graphical user interface level.

Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.

For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.

For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.

With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.

Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin

Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/

That’s right. I should have been clearer.

It is not easy when your kids want to play Roblox with friends and Roblox only runs Windows.

Yes, I could have tried proton, but I don’t want to deal with issues. I tried running windows only games on linux. The user experience is far from ideal. More frequent crashes, other issues.

These days kid’s download free games they want. I could not have that on Linux.

KDE was far less stable for me compared to Gnome. In the end, my patience with KDE lasted for 1 week.

KDE is more exiting and familiar, but it had no tangible advantage in the end for me.

Years ago major upgrades and to lesser degree even minor upgrades made me to give up trying to keep installation running. I don’t even remember if it was Red Hat or Debian.

Eventually I realized, that I like running newest version of Desktop and I ran into cases of getting frustrated with lack of newer versions, which had fixes for issues I ran into. Then I realized that best wiki was not a snapshot distribution.

In the end I tried rolling distribution and remain happy for years.

Debian or derived distribution is easiest to get google help for and it is the simplest choice for me, when running on the cloud.

Although, Alpine is pushing through containers quite forcefully.

I had sluggish experience with SUSE. Updates were slow. Installation was very slow.

Starting apps was not as snappy.

Promise of snapshots was great, but not unique.

Overall slower than my regular distro experience killed it for me.

I simply asked myself: will it bug me every time I use the laptop? The answer was yes, and decided to end it.

Top Ukrainian officer lied. Russia took Avdiivka.

My ASUS laptop runs Linux well. It was around $800 5 years ago, when I bought it.

I am still using it.

I don’t get the question.

I usually use vscode to work with files. It has excellent remote editing over ssh. For example, I have large private collection of markdown notes that is kept on remote server.

At work I deal with large GO project that targets Docker images and my setup is:

• windows 11 laptop
• WSL Debian with full systemd integration installed (that’s the hardest part)
• visual studio installed on windows, I have no development tools on windows: no docker, no git, no GO compiler
• debian on WSL has all the dev tooling: git, go lang, ssh server is turned on

My workflow is to start Debian WSL and forget about terminal. Start vscode on windows, connect to Debian over ssh, open project directory. Work on project without ever leaving editor, use built in terminal in vscode. Fish runs inside vscode. Editor is primary. Fish is secondary and it excels at recalling history.

Use each tool for what it was designed. No terminal will ever match my productivity in vscode. Vscode has all the fuzzy search built-in.

I used to use vim for heavy coding, but abandoned that route 20 years ago. I am still able to use vim for quick short changes in config files, but anything serious is handled with visual studio code over ssh.

Primary vim scenario:

sudo vim /etc/config-file-name

Vscode 1st approach is a modern day version of emacs approach Or vim with plugins. Only difference is vscode is actually low effort to get started on new machine, low learning curve, low maintenance effort unless you have sunken months into your terminal editor and refuse to abandon your investment.

Russia captured it.

It was heavily fortified and lots of Ukrainian lives were lost.

Docker images are immutable and if you run lots of images there will be overlap of commonly used layers.

Docker has BTRFS driver, which will efficiently reuse layers on BTRFS.

Basically, there’s good chance to waste less drive space with Docker on BTRFS.

Poor integration with Google was a major reason to go back to Gnome.

What’s the value of to do app, calendar, events if I can’t have it synchronized across devices.