Seems like my time to move away from Authy. Any drop in alternative for iOS? Ideally I could export services and load them back, not manually adding/removing 1 by 1. Even if I can't though, suggestion still welcomed.
I'm not familiar with Bazzite but I do have a SteamDeck with SteamOS and I do have things installed on it. There is for it 2 ways :
keep binaries in home, e.g. ~/bin/rclone because that does not get deleted on updates
allowing SteamOS to not be read-only and add a package. Here it seems to be via ujust but I don't see rclone in there so I'd go down their list https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/ and it seems brew install rclone would work.
I use KDE which with Super+T brings up tiling options.
Regarding the "API" aspect, a trick I used few times to be able to remote control a desktop in VR is xdotool but it's honestly quite tedious. Without some accessibility solution implemented in apps themselves, I doubt it's reliable.
FWIW I do use a PineTab2 on a daily basis and... it works.
I can warmly recommend it but some caveats :
WiFi didn't work for a while, it's good now though (mostly stable, AFAICT no instability for me)
BT still does not work (not ideal if you need a mouse)
USB-C is a single port for charging, single port for devices, iirc usb-C hubs don't work, only usb-C to A single converters
it's... not fast, so if your workflow is a bit of Web browser or a text editor great, if it's Blender or Gimp or anything that can be a bit demanding, it might test your patience
WebCam does not work, problematic if you have to do video calls
Overall while keeping such limitations in mind, still recommended! (if you can get it shipped somehow)
It is finicky on any distribution because NVIDIA drivers aren't perfect on Linux nor on Windows.
That being said I'm gaming, in VR and otherwise (using native games, Proton ones, Steam VR, etc), or running local AI models (thus via CUDA) on a daily basis on Debian and have no problems. You can check https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but it's basically just installing the driver like any other package. I don't have more or less problem than with e.g. Ubuntu. It basically works.
upgrade the UEFI or other hardware-level firmware you need a way to upgrade
Indeed but unless the unit received is seriously flawed (to the point of possibly being exchanged by the manufacturer), no upgrade to UEFI or hardware-level firmware is actually required. Most people who received a computer never even upgrade the firmware. I'm not saying it's not "nice" to upgrade it but the typical scenario for most common laptop or desktop is that such upgrades are optional.
I have a Blade Stealth 13 QHD+ touchscreen (RZ09-02393E32) since 2017. Until recently it was mostly Windows and Ubuntu side by side. I realized few months ago I never ever boot on Windows so I removed it. I also got tired on Ubuntu pushing for its own package management system which I don't find useful. Consequently back to "just" Debian stable and works great for me. Didn't have to tinker with anything, just works.
I'm a bit confused here... aren't we talking about a laptop? Why is flashing anything required? Doesn't the BIOS let one boot on any peripheral, e.g. disk, USB stick, etc and thus allowing one to install Linux (or just boot on live USB stick to test) without flashing?
Indeed. That being said I have a (sigh) Android video projector (Nebula Mars II Pro, by Anker) and even though it does comes with its bloatware (namely "trying" to force installation, without actually doing it, of e.g. YouTube or NetFlix apps) attempts one can ignore that, install F-Droid, install VLC and Launch on Boot from there then boot straight to VLC without have to interact with the stock launcher. Also remote adb works by default so one can tinker quite a bit without even having to active a kind of developer mode.
I used Kodi with LibreElec for years in a similar setup. It was nice... but in practice I didn't really use the "cool" functionalities (like indexing, image preview, Web remote control, etc) so instead I checked how Kodi works and noticed DLNA. I saw that my favorite video player, namely VLC, supports DLNA. I then looking for DLNA server on Linux, found few and stuck to the simplest I found, namely minidlna. It's quite basic, at the least the way I use it, but for my usage it's enough :
install VLC on clients, including Android video projector, phones, XR HMDs, etc
install minidlna on server (RPi5)
configure minidlna to serve the right directory with subdirectories ( /var/lib/minidlna by default )
configure few extra software that get videos to push them (via scp script and ssh-key) to rpi5:/var/lib/minidlna/
voila... very reliable setup (been using for more than a year on a daily basis.
Seems like my time to move away from Authy. Any drop in alternative for iOS? Ideally I could export services and load them back, not manually adding/removing 1 by 1. Even if I can't though, suggestion still welcomed.