I know Gnome has an option to mark a connection as metered, no idea what exactly that does though.

I use

• Vitals
• blur my shell

Blur my shell is make gnome look pretty good IMO.

I basically do exactly this, but I am running the reverse proxy on my home computer: the VPS is literally just acting as a proxy, for which I use wireguard to tunnel the connection. So far it’s worked great, though initial setup was a pain.

Having a cat in the icon kinda goes against Gnome’s Human interface guidelines, though just the scratch marks work work pretty well imo, especially with the number of apps that have paper as their icon.

Scratch Mark seems like a pretty good name, considering that it feels like more of a writing name compared to Copycat, which feels like more the name of something like flatbed scanner software.

But you see, memes are art!

I think the chances of this being reposted on 196 quite high lol. Heck, it might have even been posted while I wrote this comment.

I wonder where they got Switzerland from. Looking at the PostmarketOS core contributors, many seem to be from the Netherlands or other European countries. My understanding is that PostmarketOS is almost completely volunteer run, with whoever is willing to contribute.

No, regular user-space applications have full access to files and other info. However, if you only use the builtin package manager, you can trust that the apps you use are probably trustworthy.

Flatpak apps can be sandboxed, though many apps will come with very loose permissions by default.

I feel like Mariokart 8 made good use of the gamepad: it could act as a mirror of the TV or it could display non-essential info like a map and what items each player has.

I think the meme is suggesting that 3 hours was spent setting up a local llm, like in This video.

Steam still needs more competition IMO. If Steam were to disappear tomorrow, the gap left in the PC gaming market would be massive.

The best way to touch Nintendo products is with a soldering iron - to install a modchip.

In 2006 they bundled Wii Sports with the Wii, which seemed to benefit them considering the Wii’s success. Though, the Switch 1 had a the demo “1, 2, Switch” for 60 USD and sold better than the Wii, though culturally, more people probably know about Wii Sports compared to 1, 2, Switch.

It was the eyes that gave it away for me. They look, just, wrong.

There is a GUI program called “envision” which makes setup pretty easy, since it will also setup additional components for you.

That’s why most people who use VR on Linux don’t use SteamVR and instead use Monado, like I do. Monado is FOSS as well.

No? Have a look at LVRA, many headsets are supported, and IMO using Monado is better than SteamVR…

Intel is almost flawless, I say as someone who uses an Intel A750. It does have a bug where putting load on the GPU causes a dramatic increase in latency for GPU compute tasks, but that’s mostly only important for VR. Flatscreen games work great.

I would recommend against the pinephone. While the hardware is well supported, the hardware sucks. Voyager in Firefox runs at around 4 fps, while the battery percent drops every minute and the back of the phone is uncomfortably hot.

You would be better off with a Pixel 3a, oneplus 6 or poco f1, which are all supported by PostmarketOS. While many hardware features don’t work on these phones, they all have rudimentary camera support and have actually good SOCs that perform well.

Sodium is client side, so it will not help with server performance. Something like Paper can improve server performance.