That’s very smart!

I think I see a business opportunity here. One could Design covers for each device so that you can identify them easily when they are standing next to each other. I bet these can be placed a lot a similar price as phone shells. If only we could find a solution to the charging problem.

Why not hundreds of screens so you can present all pages of a book at the same time and you just skip through the screen? Would be so much more convenient and innovative!

Next up: MSI, ASUS, … are pulling out of the consumer market due to falling revenue causing major price hikes.

I use a ryzen 3600x and 5600 or 5700xt with 16gb of ram. Works fine for my day to day work. The Thinkpad runs proxmox.

My idea was to get a new, smaller case to fit my mitx board and psu in and use the old one with a cpu which supports “all” codes, 32gb ram. The old case has enough space for everything I’ll ever need, but the question is, would it be worth the effort. With transcoding ticked off my issue list, my last remaining point is storage and the uncertainty, whether using usb-c connected, direct attached storage (DAS) systems to set up a fileserver is inherently problematic or not.

I don’t understand ZFS and docker would yield a ton of chaos if i used it. Setting up shared network directories in a somewhat polished user interface seems more achievable for me without causing a bottle neck. But I had issues when I rebooted VMs / containers with usb pass throughout which took to long to recover. A dedicated NAS would mitigate that issue but would be more costly.

At the moment, I am looking at a terramaster d5 DAS to give my file server a trial…

Lotr is my benchmark here as well. Your 100mbits are a good indication that something in my config is wrong. I went back reading the docs and found out that I should perhaps use QSV instead of VA-API. Did that and playback is smooth as it should be! Seeking not that much but that’s probably because I just buffer 3 minutes. Thanks a lot!

As proxmox does, to my knowledge, not natively support wifi, I’d rather not try it. Good idea regarding an alternative source. Any idea suggestion how if a) which codes might be supported by my tv b) find / generate a suitable file?

Frankly, my considerations regarding usb-c is not really based on anything meaningful besides chat gpt.

They just hopped onto the bandwagon pushing for copilot and SharePoint. Just in time as some states are switching to open source.

It has taken way to long for someone bringing this up online,forcing me to spread the word offline. It’s called “Eckiger Schluck”, I came up with the name and I refuse any facts indicating that this term is incorrect! Looking at you @x@piefed.world

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!Without the troll farms and the social media that amplify them, the current far right parties would never have been as successful.!< Fully agree, but now social media and troll farms and the necessary infrastructure is there. I sure hope it reverts without Russia, but I suspect, that other players will take over.

I think it doesn’t matter. There are so many far right parties all over the world, all of them normalizing the narrative, that it will take ages to revert. This envi can be easily exploited. It’s an absolutely illogical clusterfuck.

Where can I find schedules, conections and book tickets? Whatever I found seemed fishy, outdated or incomplete.

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Defunct in the sense that it doesn’t work as well it used to.

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Where the odds are made up and the house always wins.

If I remember correctly, that require manual Linux install as well, didn’t it? I think it was more complicated which was the reason I decided against a PS3. Never did it though.

That’s not what I meant or said. But depending on your setup, the user might need to deactivate bios settings which are named differently or can at least be found in different areas of the bios. So that’s a skill they need. Additionally they have to format a hard drive, which requires understanding that not all data is wiped if the data is for example stored in the cloud or a different drive. Additionally, they would have to decide for a distro and desktop, which can easily be overwhelming, as well as a fulesystem during installation… there are lot of skills most users don’t have because they are no longer required. And seeing these skill requirements for an unskilled person can be a huge barrier and deal killer.

Absolutely agree. My point is, that we people should consider these aspects because many comments I saw where a bit one sided as if this loop was already accelerating and 2025 would be the year of Linux.

I might be misinterpreting your response but you seem offended. Not sure why, as it wasn’t my intention.

Firstly, I am not aware of, as in “not well informed about” windows based hand helds. To my understanding, steam is quite dominant in the market, and advertising the steam deck through their platform. Why should someone bother with a windows handheld to install steam on the device, if steam comes with the steam deck? Why should someone with a large library move to another system? No, I think steam deck is the most comfo choice when you play games on steam and want a console or hand-held system without the drawbacks of other systems. I own a switch and deeply regrett buying it in 2019, now that the steam deck would allow me to play the same titles. It’d be a much better choice for me.

I don’t understand your comment on gate keeping though. Having easily installed upgrades (win 10->11 for example) makes live easy. Moving to a different os nowadays is a much larger barrier compared to, say, the year 2000, when you had to buy a cd and format your entire system just to realize that drivers are missing and you had to actually figure things out. At the time, moving to a new version was complicated but forced people to educate them selves. Now, it’s just a click to upgrade. The barrier is reduced, less gate keeping, great! But also less skilled people.

And it’s not meant with disrespect. Live got easier, keeping the system updated got easier, people weren’t forced to learn stuff and subseque vendor locked in. Now the skill barrier seems huge for many people and trying another os, even if it was apple, becomes unfathomable.

Again, it’s great that Through the steam deck Linux development is pushed forward as fast as it does. My day to day users won’t migrate unless they are very tech savvy or the enshitification progresses further and further. My employer just decided to move everything to SharePoint because co pilots helps us all doing our work so much faster… I’d have opted for something different and tried to reduce the vendor lock in… but that step would’ve been to large apparently.

I think OP is referring to the percentage, not functionality. Windows, especially the office suites / GUIs are micht more refined. Someone somewhere pointed out at some point in time that backend development is often open source because developers are dedicated to the cause and the function. Designers, on the other hand, not so much (maybe they need payment because their main job pays less… I don’t know.

In the end, the user uses the front-end, not the backend. And unless money flows into front-end development, for example, by a growing market of companies who want to switch away from office 365 for functional and financial reasons, we won’t see front-ends which are attractive enough for people to switch to Linux for daily/ work related tasks.