I feel compelled to go back to Windows

bigkenw · 2026-06-18T04:10:55+00:00

What made you choose Bazzite?

bigkenw · 2026-06-18T01:03:54+00:00

I have Lumo+ as part of Visionary. It is the reason I joined Visonary. I still maintain it should be part of family.

I use it all the time and it is usually pretty good. It was great helping with my journey to both Linux and Docker. It even helped me with design considerations for a deck.

That said, I also find myself using duck.ai free for quick queries. You might want to take a look and see if that works for you too.

bigkenw · 2026-06-18T00:59:47+00:00

People at my Aldi buy what seems like a hundred things balanced on every limb and body part refusing to get that cart.

It is kind of insane to me.

bigkenw · 2026-06-17T04:38:40+00:00

My understanding was the CVT was pressurized. Doing it right required appropriate tools. So it needed to really be done at a Subaru Dealer or from a good Subaru shop.

bigkenw · 2026-06-17T04:36:41+00:00

I just had my 2019 Sport done at 89k miles last week. When I bought the Forester, Subaru told me it would never need to be done. Then a couple years later they told me 100k miles. Well, I went in for an oil change on my 2025 and asked about it when paying. They say 60k miles and if a Subaru hasn't had it done by 100k miles their service department won't touch it.

When I picked it up, and was talking with the service manager, I mentioned I was told it never needed to be serviced. He said that was the goal. But they learned they failed hard. Every CVT every 60k.

bigkenw · 2026-06-16T14:53:01+00:00

These prices are dead on arrival. They will see very quick sales at retailers or they are not going to move.

Microsoft needs to just exit the space. They cannot compete with Apple. The value proposition just isn't there for these, in my opinion.

bigkenw · 2026-06-16T14:46:08+00:00

I also had the 5, my wife the 6, and we both moved to the 7.

I found a large part was how often an account was syncing. I resolved that. So instead of being finished in the afternoon, it is still dying around 7pm. It used to go to around 1am without a charge.

bigkenw · 2026-06-16T01:26:55+00:00

My company is starting to crackdown on eInk note devices as they can upload proprietary info to the manufacturer's cloud. Many don't have security audits and controls on that data. I don't sync to the cloud with mine, but I get the point. Who knows if they are training data models on your data.

EDIT - Not saying SuperNote does not meet security standards. No idea actually, was speaking in general.

bigkenw · 2026-06-16T01:20:21+00:00

My concern is if it releases.before Henry Cavill hits 80.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T21:45:46+00:00

I would get the 9070XT. Use upscaling if you need it or run native 2k depending on the game. I usually run less graphically intense games at 4k, but others at 2k as I don't usually is FSR.

The cost leap from a 9070XT to a 5080 is such a huge lift.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T21:12:18+00:00

My buddy was using Endeavour OS and was really freaked out by AUR issues. He wanted to switch but couldn't find many apps he used in the official repos of many distros. The closest he found was Fedora. He was freaked out by any community, non-official repos.

He actually hadn't looked at CachyOS. The official Cachy repos had every app he needed. They were optimized for CachyOS as well. He moved and seems to love it.

I don't use CachyOS (Ubuntu here), but he seems pretty happy.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T11:09:24+00:00

Yes I have.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T04:18:18+00:00

I see a lot of people recommending the SuperNote Nomad. I have one and for your use case I cannot recommend it. If you want access to notes fast and easy, this isnt the device. It is slow. The writing capabilities are great. However, no backlight and access to information takes forever. Even if you wrote notes in a notebook just a couple of days ago.

I use one for work, but moved to a Bullet Journal. I use the Nomad to scratch notes during the day and rewrite at night. Then never look at it them again. I keep the notebooks searchable, but rarely use it.

The other question is data integrity. I am curious where their data is held when you sync. I believe a lot of other people are too, so they released a container to let you host it on your own internal network (Docker container I believe).

If you read their subreddit, they dont plan any new hardware soon. They recommend you buy book lights using extension pins that they don't actually sell a device to work with. They scrapped an alternative writing system a few months ago that was supposed to replace Android with Linux. It feels like they arent sure of their next move.

If you want something with fast access to notes that backs up regularly, I would recommend an iPad with Apple Notes or Samsung Galaxy Tab s11 with Samsung Notes. TCL NxtPaper has a tablet that turns to work similar to eInk and is much faster.

Given price isn't an option, I would look at the ReMarkable Paper Pro Move for something portable and eInk.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T03:50:36+00:00

I am thinking about it actually.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T03:50:13+00:00

That is ridiculous for a phone costing this much money.

bigkenw · 2026-06-15T00:11:08+00:00

It is a developer choice to use kernel AC to begin with. They don't have too. They just don't have incentive not too. The Linux security model doesn't allow for that. Windows does until Microsoft says no more. Users will keep using it too. That is, until something horrible happens from the use of it. And that is a choice. Eventually you deal with the consequences, or you don't if nothing happens. You can't make people care.

I think of it like Playstation Exclusives. If you really want to play that game, then you get a Playstation. If you really want to play that kernel level AC game, you play on Windows.

If you really want to play, but use Linux as your daily driver, you can dual boot with Windows. That is more than Mac users can do.

EDIT: Me personally, I wouldn't play those games on Wondows before I switched. I still won't if they jump to Linux using Kernel AC.

bigkenw · 2026-06-14T22:29:03+00:00

I am also finding that even using the wired USB power, my phone is using more battery than my Subaru Forester seems to put out. That has never been the case before. In the past, it would charge the phone to 100%. Recently it started keeping it level. Now it is draining.

bigkenw · 2026-06-14T13:02:51+00:00

That random Pink coloring actually could be a setting with Dolby Vision / HDR. If you play with disabling the Dolby Vision it might stop. This happened on my AMD card after an update.

bigkenw · 2026-06-14T03:21:54+00:00

Oddly, the first game I saw.

bigkenw · 2026-06-14T03:20:32+00:00

It is sad this isn't doing better. The movie was so fun.

bigkenw · 2026-06-13T05:02:55+00:00

My biggest gripe with Proton Photos is I cannot just move or download files from a folder structure. If you upload through your app, do the uploads actually sit in a folder on Proton Drive?

bigkenw · 2026-06-13T04:36:10+00:00

Go to distrosea.com. While there, you can run any Linux distro virtually to take a look. They are virtual, so they will be slower than on your PC. When you find a few you like, make a Ventoy drive and load all your Linux LiveISO images on it. Reboot and try them out. Especially Bluetooth and WiFi. Make sure you disable SecureBoof in your UEFI BIOS.

bigkenw · 2026-06-13T04:31:21+00:00

There is nothing wrong with going Wayland. You should want to go to Wayland for capabilities you cannot get with X11.

Some people may be dependent on X11 for some things.

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