Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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They've been earning 30k USD per month according to their patreon page. I've read in a comment that they've doubled their supporters at the time TOTK was leaked.

Interestingly 30k USD per month over 7 years is 2.5m USD, which is pretty close to the 2.3m USD settlement.

Great to hear it works! I've also had issues with the SteamLibrary not being detected a few times over the years, but that also happened on SteamOS so I guess it's a bug.

No, this is mainly cosmetic changes and changes not visible to the user. It's a result of a small team growing and thus having more time for making their apps better to use.

Where I live there's a single ISP which doesn't use Jibe. RCS is largely Google, and this likely won't change with iPhones supporting RCS.

Our Xamarin app is a bit sluggish and uses a lot more resources on your device than you might expect.

Especially on my slower phone, the Bitwarden UI feels like it would shortly freeze. And some actions take longer than expected.

The new native apps with a new UI look great and should be better to use.

It's possible to have Steam libraries at multiple locations.

Flatpak apps don't have access to your system packages, so you need to install mangohud as flatpak. Once it's installed it's available to Steam flatpak and can be enabled like system mangohud in system Steam.

https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud?tab=readme-ov-file#flatpak

Edit: Switching from system Steam to flatpak Steam is simple and it's always possible to switch between them. Just make sure to give flatpak Steam access to the existing SteamLibrary through flatseal.

Personally I have my SteamLibrary at ~/Games/SteamLibrary and give flatpak Lutris/Steam access to ~/Games.

Thanks for the recommendation. I've usually used GTKStressTesting, which is based on stress-ng. But a tui tool is more useful for e.g. headless use.

The global IPv6 address is usually not directly reachable from the internet for incoming traffic. There's still the router with a firewall which blocks all incoming connections, so having an IP for each device doesn't make a difference for security.
With IPv6 ports still have to be forwarded on consumer routers by default, the main difference is that it doesn't have to be translated to a different IP.

This also means I can have multiple hosts on my home network listening on the same ports, because their public IP's are different.

Agreed. It's great to see a gpu stresstesting tool making it to Linux. For the cpu there's a few with stress-ng and mprime/prime95.

What installation instructions are you following?

The installation guide for tailscale [1] requires a bit of terminal use, but it's only copy pasting of a few commands.
There's also a Decky plugin to control tailscale from gaming mode [2]. Installing and setting up both took me around 15min.

[1] https://github.com/tailscale-dev/deck-tailscale

[2] https://github.com/saumya-banthia/tailscale-control

I'd really suggest something Wireguard-based like Tailscale instead of OpenVPN for latency sensitive applications like games.

The great thing about mesh vpn's like tailscale is that each device connects directly to each other. This means traffic isn't routed through a central server, which results in lower latency. If you run game server and vpn on the same host/network/router it doesn't make a difference in latency.

Just wanted to note that tinkering with the bootloader on Fedora Atomic is as error-prone as on any other distro.

They disclose their advertisements through audio and video, altough I dislike them not declaring in title whether it's a sponsored video or review. Linus said publicly that he wonders why people don't understand which of their videos is sponsored or not, but going by their titles it's to be expected.

Watching their video it's imo pretty obvious what is a review and what is sponsored advertisement.

Sure, usability might not be perfect because Google only releases base Android as open source software and keeps all their fancy apps proprietary, but it's not in a state where it's totally unusable either.

Agreed. GrapheneOS/AOSP feels a bit like desktop Linux, where the base OS is there but many components like screen time have to installed seperately (e.g. screen time/app usage). Compared to many phone manufacturers installing apps for ads or other unnecessary bloat.

That's why Graphene allows you to disable the security features.

That's what I did the second time I tried GrapheneOS. The worse ootb performance made me install CalyxOS again, until I found out Secure App Spawning can be disabled.

The GrapheneOS team is security focused to the point where it is detrimental to the regular user experience. I.e. "Secure App Spawning" increases app startup time considerably on older devices like the Pixel 4a.

GrapheneOS is security focused and it's great that they point out security issues, but for most people security updates being late isn't an issue. Half the people I know have devices without security updates for months to even years.

Also, with the Fairphone 5 using an automotive SOC with 13 years of updates, the FP5 might actually be able to receive Android updates for 6 years. Iirc the FP3 still receives security updates, albeit not monthly and a bit late. Edit: The last security update for FP3 is from 2023-12-05. Edit 2: The FP3 got the 2024-02-05 security update on 2024-03-01.

Also, the GrapheneOS team has very high standards for security features supported by a phone. Basically no phone besides Pixel supports those features, which obviously isn't a big problem for most people (else we'd have a big problem).

Anyway, I'll keep recommending Pixel + GrapheneOS, but imo Fairphone is also a solid choice.

Where I live some banks have their own contactless payments app which can be set as default in Settings. Sadly many banks only support Google/Apple Pay.

Immich has breaking changes too often, so I disabled auto updates for the server and phone app. Updating every few months with backup beforehand is a good tradeoff for something as important as images.

Reading patch notes is especially important with some Immich releases requiring minor admin intervention, e.g. running an extract metadata job.

I also had to add ~/Games to the flatpak sandbox with flatseal to allow Steam flatpak to access my library.

Steam settings should show the path to where your library is located.