A master is the original of something. For example, in the music industry when they printed records, they would print a master record from which duplicates would be made for manufacture. They still use the phrase mastering to describe finalising music in production.

Master copy has become widely used to mean the original version of something from which other copies are made.

Apparently the whole concept dates back to the renaissance where artists would learn by copying the works and techniques of a Master artist. Master in that context is referring to someone who is the best at what they do (the most famous renaissance artists are still referred to as the masters), which presumably derives from the honorific Master used to refer to a male teacher in English.

While perhaps understandable, moving away from Master to Main is based on ignorance of the fact the word has a totally different meaning and origin to master/slave. Ironically master/slave is also used in engineering and computer hardware to describe the relationship between a controlling piece of hardware and it’s subordinates, but that is nothing to do with the source of truth use of master which comes from the concept of a master being the best at something (or now the best version of something).

The headline doesn’t quite reflect the situation, but it is difficult to capture in a headline.

Essentially add “for now”. Many of the issues are fixable but not necessarily by one laptop maker. As the article said by the time the issues were likely resolved the laptop would be obsolete as the version 2 of the chip would release.

Having said that, it’s not clear how fast the issues will resolve as without any devices there won’t be impetus to put fixes in to different parts of the ecosystem to get the full potential of the chipset.

The GPU sounds like the most serious problem and without manufacturer engagement may be the longest to get fixed.

Yes it’s fairly simple to do, essentially the user needs to download an image of a Linux install disc, flash it onto a USB stick (or a Dvd I guess), and then reboot their PC. They may need to press a key at boot to open the boot menu and select the USB (or the bios to change the boot order).

After that, most distros offer a very easy to follow installer which will install the new OS.

Most Linux installs can be done alongside windows (on the same hard drive or it’s own drive) but windows tends to break the boot loader with updates. It’s gernallt better to only dual boot if you’re good at fixing things - otherwise a full Linux install is better.

The most inportant thing is back up all your important data, and only do this if you genuinely want to leave windows. I’d make sure your windows license is digital before doing this too as that allows using windows again if you want to go back.

I’d say anyone can use Linux, it’s user friendly and robust. In terms of installing Linux, I’d only do it if you are sure you know what you’re doing - installing any OS - including windows - can involved trouble shooting problems.

I know it’s supposed to be a little tongue in cheek but in reality: if you have a steam deck and like it, just dock it to your TV and you have a low powered steam machine.

I have a deck but got a MiniPC and have that plugged into my TV. Essentially a steam machine.

Why? I wanted to game at 4k (the deck can do it but struggles), I wanted more convenience (I had to unlock my steam deck on its front face before I could use it which was annoying if I wanted to game from the sofa), i wanted to play more powerful games at higher settings generally (not just 4k, but simulations games that need more cpu and ram to play well so I wanted a more powerful machine). I also make more extensive use of the desktop mode and use it for browsing and streaming - it’s become an all-in-one device in a way Microsoft or Sony failed to achieve.

I don’t think the Steam Machine will be as big as the deck, but it’ll have a decent market. If you want a mobile gaming platform get the deck, but the subset who only really wanted to living room game will be better off with a steam machine. The real competition for the steam machine is other living room PCs.

I do think Valve could to with adding an app store in their client for installing progressive Web apps. Because being able to stream video content easily from within steam itself opens all their devices into being multimedia machines.

I’ve tried Arch - it allows you to make a system that is exactly what you want. So no bloat installing stuff you never need or use. It also gives you absolute control.

On other distros like Fedora, you get a pre configured system set up for a wide range of users. You can reduce down the packages somewhat but you will often have core stuff installed that is more than you’ll need as it caters to everyone.

Arch allows you to build it yourself, and only install exactly the things you actually want, and configure then exactly how you want.

Also you learn an awful lot about Linux building your system in this way.

I liked building an arch system in a virtual machine, but I don’t think I could commit to maintaining an arch install on my host. I’m happy to trade bloat for a “standard” experience that means I can get generic support. The more unique your system the more unique your problems can be I think. But I can see the appeal of arch - “I made this” is a powerful feeling.

I think the new device is good news. I can see what you’re saying - the benefit is if Steam Machines expand the PC games market with former console only players. But otherwise the threshold for PC development is already much lower than consoles; there are no dev kit fees, a wide choice of engines to target, relatively greater independence etc.

The steam machine may help somewhat in having a specific hardware profile to target, but the games are still on steam’s store so still have to be able to run widely on Windows or Linux. That’s always been the complexity of PC development - the steam machine doesn’t change that much. Although admittedly the Steam Verified benchmarks are useful for users to simplify understanding what their kit can actually run which will benefit indie devs.

For me it seems to be when you go through to download the windows binary, you get an iframe on the page containing another site. That has ads and serves up the download. So I’m guessing the ads are on the website that provides videolan with hosting for its binaries?

They are old fashioned intrusive ads pretending you need to click then to start your download. But the download starts already.

Tesla’s share price is a joke - it’s entirely predicated on the wishful fulfilment of a drugged up narcissist. Judged as a car company - which is what it is - it’s in terminal decline, with global falling sales, no new products and a major image problem. Elons other companies are spending money to buy up excess Cyber truck stock to inflate its performance and even that’s not enough. Yet it’s shares continue to soar based on nonsensical promises by its clown in chief.

Tesla won’t be selling robotaxis because Elon Musk in his infinite wisdom forced the company to slash the tech in his cars. That made them cheaper but it also made them unable to compete with the safer lidar focused tech of his competitors.

Meanwhile it’s “robots” are remote controlled nonsense; tesla doesn’t have the tech to back up it’s ambition.

Elon won’t be getting his trillion dollar payout. When the AI bubble pops, Tesla’s share price will also collapse.

I think Nextcloud with the libreoffice plugins is the main Google docs self hosting alternative at this point.

• OS - - > Linux OpenSuSE with KDE

• YouTube - - > Freetube - opensource, private YouTube client for Linux, MacOS and Windows

• Downloading music/videos --> yt-dlp

• Downloading videos/images --> gallery-dl

• Email - - > Thunderbird (really moved forward in last few years)

• Notes - - > Joplin

Selfhosting (mine is on raspberry pi) :

• Streaming library - Jellyfin

• Photo library - imich

• Downloads - qbittorrent, prowlaar, radaar, sonaar, lazy librarian in a docker stack with VPN

• smart home - Homeassistant

• filesync - - > Syncthing (I don’t have problems with long file names - maybe a Windows issue or Linux FS? I use EXT4 on all my devices and don’t use Windows anymore)

Yeah, they did. Probably because OpenSuSE is better known than SuSE at this point. Yet it’ll stay the base for SuSE. It makes some sense I guess - Fedora is the base for RedHat for example. It is a bit confusing and complicated for an open source project to share branding with a commercial project; probably quite restricting for OpenSuSE. But a rebrand is also messy itself.

Yes there are, but haven’t heard when they plan to make the change.

I feel like whoever scrawled on the picture in pen missed the joke? One of the items of things that don’t require effort is literally effort. Another is doing extra. Surely it’s a piss take?

Looking at your error it’s because Rsync is erroring.

I’d starr by testing Rsync with an individual text file saving to /dev/dm-0 and see what error is returned.

Timeshift is good but it basically is just a tool to use Rsync to save a copy of your system folders (or other folders if you wish).

Rsync needs to be able to read the source and write to the destination, so I’d start with testing that Rsync is able to do that.

Given you’re using an encrypted partition it’s possible you’re trying to read/write to the wrong locations. You’ve provided device UUIDs but you’d probably actually need to be backing up the mounted decrypted locations? I.e. the root file system / will actually be a mounted location in your Linux set up, probably under /run, with symlinka pointing to it for all the different system folder. Similar for /home/ if you want to back up personal files.

The device UUID would point to the filesystem containing the encrypted file (managed by LUKS) which will have very limited read/write permissions, rather than directly to the decryoted contents / or /home partitions as you’d expect in a normal system. In particular if /dev/dm-0 (looks to be an nvme drive) is an encrypted destination then really you also want to be pointing directly to it’s decrypted mounted location to write your files into, not the whole device.

Edit: think of it like this, you don’t want to back up the encrypted container with Timeshift, you want to back up the decryoted contents (your filesystem) into amother location in your filesystem (encrypted or decrypted). If the destination is also an encrypted location you need to back up into its file system, not the device where the encrypted file sits. So use more specific filesystem paths not UUIDs. That would be something like /mnt/folder or /run/folder not /dev/anything as that’s hardware location, and not directly mounted in an encrypted filesystem unlike how it can be in a non-encryoted system.

The article names the game in the headline, not clear why your post needed to try to be click bait?

It’s about OpenMW, the open source game engine to play Morrowind on.

Any points and click adventure game, there are loads including old classics and modern good games.

Monkey Island remasters are fun and can be played with mouse. Broken Sword games are also good.

Rusty Lake games are great if you prefer more puzzle games than narrative ones. Still has a great somewhat surreal plot just not like a point and click narrative game.

Also If you havent played dwarf fortress now is the time to learn, the siege update came out this week. Mouse or keyboard, or both, but definitely can be done one handed.

Vampire Survivor that others have suggested is a good shout, one hand on the keyboard is enough and its very addictive.

100% CPU use doesnt make sense. RAM would be the main constraint not the CPU. Worth looking into - maybe a bug or broken piece of software.

Also the DE may he more the issue than the distro itself. You could install an even more lightweight desktop environment like Open box. Also worth checking whether youre using x11 or Wayland. Its easy to imagine Wayland has not been optimised or extensively tested on something like your device, and could. Easily be a random bug if the DE is pushing your CPU to 100%

There are super lightweight distros like Puppy linux.

Nah its basically stable. Green is monthly which fluctuates with seasons (more people in northern hemisphere and spend more time online in winter months). The blue line is yearly rolling average and the initial spike takes a long time to work though giving impression of gradual decline.

Kinda bizarre take given that English is not a romance language and instead Germanic. Lots of words and phrases then came in from French due to the Norman conquest, and lots of words have been borrowed from other languages due to long European ties, the British Empire and the American globalisation.

English is the ultimate mash up language, and its flexibility makes it very versatile. It can feel hard to learn due to the ideosyncracies but even spoken badly meaning is often retained.

No noun genders is also a huge plus. They exist but they dont have function - unlike in French or German where you need to know the gender of an object to work out how to form a sentence correctly.

So yeah “French pronounced badly”? Yeah, its really not.

Also separate from my long response, thanks for sharing that link. Very interesting read and the GNOME window decoration issue is rediculous.

For me, I’m sorry to say, GNOME is the epitome of asshole design. This one of many examples of its rigid design philosophy having negative consequences for users and devs. And devs are protecting GNOME from its own users bad experiences because the user blames the game for not conforming, not the DE for being rediculous.