Many people look at the game graphics and think it’s a joke, but the gameplay is actually great, even by today standards. If you’re even a little into transportation games, just give it a go. It’ll also run on a toaster.

You can set that on any android. Pin is just the default, but it’s up to you to use a full password, then you need the full password for first unlock after boot.

First you state I’m “absolutely incorrect” then you repeat and confirm what I said:

I can run them on higher settings usually

This seems awfully close to the “at least on high” in my comment, so what is the problem with my statement?

I also purposely kept it relative and vague, because personal preferences differ wildly on what is meant by “I can run xxx”, which you’ve basically doubled down on. I specifically do NOT expect 100fps in a triple-A on maxed out settings with ray tracing, and I thought that much was clear. But I can get to 100fps, with somewhat reduced settings, if that’s a game where I’d need that. To be specific this time: my general target is usually around 60fps for more visual titles, but it can dip a bit below in busy/dense/hectic areas. It also shouldn’t leave the 50s for significant amounts of time though.

That all being said, I also only rarely actually play AAA games. But I do play some indie games that are more on the demanding side, but then there’s most games I play that should run in a toaster… Which is another reason I never upgraded. It’s all still good enough.

The main idea is that the state of your computer/desktop is known to home assistant and you can react to it. Media starts playing on PC, so mute the tv. A meeting starts (camera in use), so dim room lights and turn on the ring light.

PC turned off: wait 30s, then turn off the whole outlet to act as a master/slave power strip and save power on monitors and otherpc associated standby devices. Or just turn off desk lights.

Finally you can have scripts on the PC that do whatever you want, and you can trigger them from home assistant. Movement detected in the garden, so open the camera preview on the corner of 3rd monitor. Backup server just came online (or was woken up by wake-on-lan from ha), so run a backup if the PC is on.

Dual booting is perfectly fine. Just try to not use the windows boot partition for both OS or Windows will occasionally “lose” the Linux entry… “Oops” I guess.

If Linux is on its own drive, or at least has it’s own uefi partition, it’s just fine and dandy. Just chain load windows from it and there’s basically nothing that can break.

The general trend, yes.

But then again, my computer is now many years old (some components more than others) and I’m pretty sure I could play every release from this year on the highest graphic setting (or at least on “high”) without performance issues.

What I’m trying to say is not “my PC is so great” but you you don’t actually need a current-Gen, high end PC to play even recent triple-A titles. Eventually it’ll get too old, but that is a very long time: probably close to a decade or something, if you individually upgrade some things occasionally.

You kinda want it to be based on Firefox, as the only other option is chrome. The forks already strip out all the mozilla bullshit, it’ll just be more work to strip out all the AI nonsense.

I’m mainly familiar with librewolf, it’s not just stripped of nonsense but also hardened by default. Actually so much so that I stayed on Firefox as it was too much effort (so far) to “unharden” all the aspects I didn’t want or need.

I’ll probably give this a try, thanks!

But I’m confused about your explanation: you say you didn’t wanna contribute to the existing project at you didn’t know dart/flutter. Then you end up creating your project from scratch, using dart/flutter to learn dart/flutter. Why not just contribute to the existing project, or fork it, instead of reinventing the (same) wheel?

Isn’t PicaOS gamers Debian already?

DuckDNS had been unreliable when I used it, but it’s been a while. I swapped over to desec.io but their signups aren’t always open. Can highly recommend them though, and they offer many paths to update the IP, including DynDNS(2) protocol or just ddclient.

Also works with certbot for Let’s encrypt certificates using dns challenge.

Never run something like Vaultwarden with unencrypted traffic. Throwing in a self signed cert is basically free insurance. You never know when even in your “trusted network” something starts listening in. Just why risk it?

People seem to keep ignoring the part where I couldn’t find any. Yes their naming sucks, but it won’t say “Nnidia” next to the listing for the GPU, so that isn’t the issue either.

To go into a bit more detail: I was looking at linux-adjacent laptops (that I can buy without a Windows-license) up to 15" display, with gaming being a primary use case. This obviously includes that all components work with linux, and ideally it should ship with it. Preferably it should not be from one of the major brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo, …), but if they got the linux compatiblity down, that would be fine. Finally it should have good repairability and allow me to open it to swap components (RAM, NVMe, …) without affecting the warranty.

So in the end I mostly looked at Tuxedo computers, Slimbook, SKIKK and one or two more where I can’t remember the name. None of them have a laptop with AMD GPU at all, only iGPU. Furthermore, when you check the price comparison websites in the “notebook” category (like idealo for example) they let you filter for this sort of thing. Obviously they don’t list every laptop that exists on the market, but they do list the popular brands (again HP, Dell, Lenovo, …). When applying NO filters at all, there are over 6k laptops listed. Roughly 1500 of those have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The total for AMD/Radeon? 16. yes. SIXTEEN.

So I’m back to “functionally, they don’t exist”.

That is the iGPU, integrated into the processor. Of course they exist. I’m taking about dedicated, separate GPUs that are connected via PCIe. Like the mobile versions of Nvidias 4070 for example. I did look and search, but couldn’t find a single example, so I concluded they don’t exist.

While iGPUs have come a long way, there is still quite the difference in performance compared to dedicated ones.

As far as I can tell, AMD doesn’t make dedicated mobile chips. Or they are so uncommon that I couldn’t find any laptop with it that is Linux-ready.

Yes, but it isn’t available (yet). The pebble 2 duo does not, but it has already shipped. I don’t know how many are still available and/or will be made.

Currently the app also has zero support for anything health-related, including sleep. If that will be fixed by the time the pt2 is shipping, who knows. This is probably not a huge problem for op, as he’s explicitly searching for a watch without smartphone reliance.

Even in the old app and on the old pebble watches, anything health related was an afterthought at best, and it also isn’t a focus of it officially. The new ones are using the same OS, so are incredibly similar. Which is generally a good thing, but also includes the lack of features related to anything “health”.

The modern Pebble has no heart rate sensor, and generally no useful exercise monitoring.

Teams actually has Linux builds on the AUR. Obviously they are wrapping the web version, but it does integrate much more nicely with the GUI. I’m running the version that uses your already installed electron. I don’t have to use chrome for teams, which is the real upside for me.

Don’t buy anything by crucial, as you’ll have trouble getting a 2nd stick in the future. They are shutting down their end user business.

Ssh over Internet is fine as long as it’s properly setup (no password auth, root not allowed, etc.). Obviously a VPN is even better.

That’s unfortunately how that works. That’s why there is a lot of abandonware. Software or games where the original copyright holder no longer exists or doesn’t care. Copyright doesn’t magically disappear.

It’s a tragedy, but that’s how the law works.