It’s why I made sure to get my newest phone used, but that comes with the risk of getting a Verizon model (in the US) which can’t be bootloader unlocked. Had to return the first one I got off eBay for that reason, and the second one I made sure to ask the seller where they initially got it from.

I’ve been mostly happy with SearXNG but customization is a pain point of it for sure, so this looks really promising. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye on this one

Maybe I just got unlucky but running an update today absolutely borked my Steam Deck running this build. Been running it smooth for a few months now, but after updating today I couldn’t launch anything in game mode, proton or native. Worked fine in desktop mode, and if I let things sit for 5+ minutes in game mode they’d eventually launch sometimes. Spent a few hours trying to fix it until I just said fuck it, wiped the thing, and went back to SteamOS.

I swear by CachyOS for my desktop, but the handheld edition has given me more trouble than is worth, at least on the deck.

Edit: Opted for a fresh install before totally giving up and it seems to be fine now. Very bizarre but that’s just how it goes sometimes

Edit edit: Nope, happening again. Seemed to work out of the box, but after customizing a bit and installing a bunch of junk in desktop mode, it seems to be doing the exact same thing again. Figured it might be Decky Loader, but it still keeps happening with Decky uninstalled (tested before the wipe too). No idea, might see if I can try a different gamescope-session package

It’s kind of funny, I initially tried Authentik and ran into issues getting it working, so I went with Authelia instead, but eventually went back to try Authentik again because I wanted to customize the CSS and felt I was outgrowing Authelia, and it just worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong the first time, but oh well.

I will say though the latest release has a major bug where worker instances are eating up db connections to the point where the entire thing crashes, so while I’ve generally been happy with it, definitely need to do some careful research before blindly upgrading.

They don’t offer port forwarding so it sucks for seeding. It works but it severely limits the clients you can seed to.

Absolutely nightmare to set up, especially with OIDC, but once it was finally up it was such a night and day difference from Nextcloud. Worth setting up for sure

Definitely time to find an alternative. What the actual fuck is this

After how badly Bungie botched D2 pvp over the years in every aspect, from the sandbox to the matchmaking, and continued to double down on those decisions instead of changing course, I have zero faith in them to keep a pvp-only game alive for very long. Can’t wait to see it become a FOMO-ridden mess with half the game taken away.

On top of that, they’re using the same rootkit anticheat that barely even works for D2. And on top of that, Battleye has stated themselves that Linux support is a very simple opt-in for developers, yet they refuse to do so for either game in 2026. While I have a lot of issues with Arc Raiders (mostly their genAI usage), at least they enabled Battleye’s Linux support with zero issues.

Even if I could play it this is a hard pass. Their management and c-suite can rot. Such a waste because the actual devs clearly have skill and talent and can make cool shit, they’ve proven this time and time again, but Bungie management is actually abusive, both to their employees and the players.

Yeah that’s pretty much it

Fork found in kitchen and water is wet

Oh yeah, it’s probably an Nvidia thing isn’t it. Yeah sometimes swapping works, though overall it’s just not consistent enough to bother with sleep.

Probably something funky on my end but my CachyOS machine struggles to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it takes 5+ minutes on a black screen, sometimes it just never comes on. Regardless, I use an elgato stream deck (I like my funny buttons + dials and it powers my XLR mic), and it flat out doesn’t turn back on after sleep.

This thing is up and running in like a minute tops from a cold boot anyway so I usually just run an update and full shut down every night.

All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, not canceling this plan entirely.

Plus fully admitting they have enough data on most users already to skip it is blatantly admitting to privacy violations.

Let theme rot. Don’t let this shitty “we’re sowwy” post fool you.

It definitely seems like the best competitor popping up. Familiar UI, nearly all essential features already functional, open source and self-hostable. I will say it feels like it came out of nowhere and having paid options out the gate feels a bit sketchy so I’m not completely placing any bets on it, but after trying it out for a bit I’ve been liking it far more than any other alternative.

Matrix is more mature and established but very clunky, confusing for casual users, and most clients are terrible. Stoat feels extremely dated and buggy, and it feels exactly the same as when I first tried it a year ago before the name change. Alternatives are few and far between and nothing really excels just yet, but Fluxer feels the most promising.

All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, they’re not backing down on this bullshit at all. And the gall to say “oh we have enough data on most of you already 🥰” is absolutely vile.

Requested my data archive already and getting ready to wipe and delete my account. What a shitshow.

Tbh I’ve been running this (not exposed of course) for a while now and never thought too much of it, it gave some weird vibes but functionally seemed pretty useful.

In retrospect it absolutely makes sense that the whole thing was just AI slop.

I’ve never heard of this but I knew one of the host names (replacing the toads) sounded familiar for some reason, turns out he was a major character in yakuza 6 lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano

Idk how D4 is holding up these days, it was honestly pretty good for a while but I dropped it right after VoH. The biggest issue is endgame was practically non-existent and it was incredibly easy to slap a build together that would one-shot basically everything in the game.

PoE2 scratched that itch far better, picked it up right after I put D4 down and while it’s far from a perfect game, it really did just about everything better than D4 did at the time. I’m not actively playing either game these days but I do plan to jump back into PoE2 when 1.0 rolls around.

This is the move. When I installed CachyOS (a year ago today actually), I set up a dual boot - figured it’d be good to have the “backup plan” instead of jumping right into it. I found myself going back a few times for various odds and ends. Over time I found I’d been flipping back to it less and less, I think the last time I actually used it was for a stupid gacha game that I finally put down for good.

Finally got to the point where I just nuked the windows partition to free up some space. and looking back I really only kept it around in the early days because I didn’t feel confident yet. (Though I do wish I had the forethought to arrange the partitions in a logical way because I couldn’t actually extend my cachyos partition to the left, so I just opted to add it to the btrfs pool instead, it works I guess).

We just got a new car, first “modern” one I’ve had basically ever, and this has been one of my biggest concerns since we got it, but there really don’t seem to be any straightforward solutions yet.