Transient Punk

Well, Samsung would kill the app when it was in the background, so notifications would only appear when you explicitly opened the app.

I used this for a while. Notifications were lackluster on Samsung phones.

and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou.

This is correct, but as an addendum, for a lot of very old games (that don’t fall into that previous category), it’s usually easier to get them working under Linux than it is under Windows. Go figure.

I mostly meant the DNS sinkhole functionality that pihole is famous for using to block ads. You wouldn’t use pfblocker-ng for domain routing.

Here is a forum post from negate discussing what I think you’re looking for.

I don’t know the answer to your question, but you can get the functionality of pihole directly in pfsense using pfblocker-ng

Thanks for letting me know! I really wanted to look at the UI when I realized what I was looking at, at the park, but I didn’t want to bother the employee. I appreciate that I got to see it in that video now

One of the beautiful things about Linux is it’s versatility. Many people want to use their hardware for things other than gaming. For instance, I saw a Steam Deck at Disneyland being used to operate “autonomous” robots in Star Wars Land.

For me, I have been doing the vast majority of my gaming on my Steam Deck ever since I got it, however, recently, I was wanting to do some programming work while I was out and about, and was running into a lot of road blocks trying to do it on my Steam Deck. They can be overcome, but I found myself thinking about how much easier it would be to do my work on it, if it had a different distribution installed.

The Steam Deck is a consumer appliance, and as such has reasonable safeguards in place to protect users from themselves. Some users want to go beyond what’s available out of the box, and I imagine that freedom is what motivates most people to put other operating systems on their device.

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For me, I would love to have a single GPU in my server that I can split up for use in transcoding videos for Plex in one VM, and another VM running something like Blue Iris with AI video analysis.

The potential use cases are many and varied, including some gaming use cases. You could have a single GPU in your Linux desktop, and be able to pass that through to a Windows VM to get native performance gaming in a VM. This is technically already possible, but you need two GPUs. With SR-IOV you could get away with only having one

SR-IOV allows you to share your GPU among many virtual machines in much the same way that you are able to share a single CPU among many VMs

For real

Even at full price, it is totally worth it. And I’m saying that as someone who has only ever bought 1 game at full price.

Oof course

Home Assistant comes with a weather app that you can use for scripting.

Get a better cooler?

I can’t speak toward Frigate integration, but, for a long time they didn’t play super nice with Blue Iris, but Reolink has since released firmware updates that have fixed many of the issues people had with them.

I currently run a few Reolink RLC-810a cameras. I have them added to both Blue Iris and Home Assistant, and I have no complaints.

Oh man, I wish I could get my grubby little hands on those books

There’s so many…

Portal 1 & 2 are really great games

Companies NEVER care about their customers. They care about profit.

Sometimes, it is profitable to be considerate of the consumers, but when customers are willing to give a company money despite their bad practices, they will always prioritize profit.