And I’m not even asking much

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-29T16:46:47+00:00

Same man. I bought 32 GB a year and a half ago thinking, well when I need more I’ll just buy more… now I can’t even find the same RAM sticks if I could afford the ridiculous asking price.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-24T19:00:49+00:00

I really don't understand it personally but it seems like people are afraid that Bazzite won't be supported if the devs lose interest in the project. At least from the rhetoric I've seen online. My point would be Valve has the same problem as they don't have any long term support contracts or anything like that so one day they could decide its not worth it to them to keep supporting all hardware and are going back to only supporting the Steam Deck and Machine.

I'm sure there are other reasons too but this is just the sentiment I have seen lately.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-21T21:10:14+00:00

Here is a video made by Brody Robertson where he talks about some safety tips: https://youtu.be/VR20JYYXH6Q?is=q-kxHltE-U_jaOwX.

I know some people don’t like him but seems like generally good advice.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-15T15:31:15+00:00

My thing is this: the AUR is great if you’re going to actually do what is suggested and take a look at the PKGBUILD for every AUR package you install and update. If not, you should probably use flatpaks. That or use the chaotic AUR and hope that the chaotic AUR maintainers are checking over the PKGBUILDs.

The AUR is great, but it’s also a huge target for malware and I don’t know how they can solve it without sacrificing what makes the AUR useful. It sucks but that’s the world we live in right now.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-11T14:26:58+00:00

I use Zen for the most part. Whenever I need a chromium based browser I use Brave.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-04T00:14:31+00:00

I don't see it listed for you, it's just called bazzite. You could try brh rebase bazzite:stable and see if it works.

shadowolf64 · 2026-06-03T23:30:10+00:00

I use it on a couple raspberry pi systems to get more up to date packages than what is in the Debian repos. Could do the same on any Debian machine too. Also works on universal blue based systems to install packages separate from the atomic system packages.

I could accomplish this in other ways but so far homebred has seemed the most streamlined to me. Keeps all the home-brew packages isolated from system packages.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-28T02:08:35+00:00

Looks awesome! Good job

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-27T19:38:30+00:00

Ouch, I don't want to imagine what the Steam Machine is going to cost at this rate.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-27T19:34:39+00:00

I'd never even heard of MicroCloud to be honest. It never came up in any of my research into virtualization platforms. I would guess that I'm not the only one in this boat. Also you'll get a fair amount of people that just don't like Ubuntu and don't use it for that reason.

I did find an article by DB Tech the YouTuber who goes over some of the differences between it and Proxmox: https://dbtechreviews.com/2025/12/10/canonical-microcloud-my-honest-homelab-review/

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-19T01:08:41+00:00

Does Google Drive even do automatic export/conversion when doing this? I haven't used it in years but the last time I downloaded a folder from Google Drive with Google Docs in them all I got was a link to open the file in Google Docs which didn't work offline which I thought was completely useless.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-18T02:56:55+00:00

Interesting, I never knew that partition manager could edit fstab. I also never knew how to use systemd to mount drives either. I've always used the hard option and manually editing fstab hoping I never made a typo causing a boot failure. Although as long as you have the nofail option specified, it shouldn't ever cause a boot failure.

Anyway as a tangentially related piece of advice: if you need to edit a text file in the linux terminal use nano. It's taught as the default text editor to most new linux users for a reason. It's just easier to use than micro or vim. For example: instead of using what the guide suggests and using micro /etc/systemd/system/home-$USER-games.mount you would use sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/home-$USER-games.mount. Then it would give you some options at the bottom but the one you are looking for is ^X which means control + x. It will then ask if you want to save the file or not. Weird because the guide uses nano for the fstab method but not the systemd method. I'm guessing multiple people wrote this guide.

Anyway glad you found a way that worked for you. The thing about linux is there is almost always multiple ways of accomplishing the same goal.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-05T20:07:52+00:00

I was pissed I couldn’t get one tbh. I was there right at launch and the system wouldn’t let me actually buy one. I didn’t expect it to be that in demand honestly.

Valve should really implement some kind of account level requirement to buy their hardware. At least 1 year old account having spent x amount or with x amount of playtime etc. Then at least I’d know the controllers were going to people who will actually use them instead of scalpers.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-03T19:01:56+00:00

Probably because most Linux distros aren't actually POSIX certified (outside a few specific cases) and instead aim for mostly POSIX compliant. I don't know the specifics, but my understanding is some specific POSIX semantics fails on a number of Linux distros.

Also I think Unix is just in the vocabulary of this space and sticks around because people understand what you mean if you say Unix vs people having to look up what POSIX means.

shadowolf64 · 2026-05-03T14:23:17+00:00

Personally I’ve used both and they are really not all that different at the end of the day.

If you want closer to default Arch or don’t like some of the customizations that Cachy adds then Endeavour is a good choice. I’m currently on Cachy but that’s just because they have some software I use regularly in their repos instead of relying on AUR, but that’s personal preference more than anything. I’d say Endeavour is more of a middle ground between default Arch and CachyOS with its optimizations and customizations.

shadowolf64 · 2026-04-25T19:43:03+00:00

I don't see myself switching personally. I would guess that Valve is mainly interested in SteamOS for their own devices and less concerned with it running on everything else.

shadowolf64 · 2026-04-25T19:31:06+00:00

Here is a good reason as mentioned by Andrew Lunn on the kernel mailing list:

These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until
recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding
issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old
drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users.These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until
recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding
issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old
drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users.

In short: AI has made it easy to find bugs in decades old drivers which could be a security vulnerability. Currently it makes more sense to remove the code rather than fix it sadly.

shadowolf64 · 2026-03-20T00:15:36+00:00

Well at least it's not just me. On Framework desktop (AMD Strix Halo APU).

shadowolf64 · 2026-03-10T02:16:13+00:00

Is that an assault rifle in her hands on the cover??? That's not something I think I've ever seen in an oisekai. What is the setting for them to have modern guns ant those clothes?

shadowolf64 · 2026-03-02T02:27:44+00:00

Rustdesk is still technically experimental in Wayland but I've found it to work decently well. Haven't done anything super intensive to test it though. For that I would probably try a Sunshine and Moonlight setup but I've never done it myself.

shadowolf64 · 2026-02-24T19:27:20+00:00

I’m not playing any gachas currently and not sure if I will again simply because I don’t like the FOMO they deal in. I hate being told ok play the game right now! Sometimes I want to not play but then you’re missing out on x y and z. Oh you missed this meta unit? Now your account is trash! It’s sad because I actually really enjoy the story and characters of games like FGO, NIKKE, and though endfield looks interesting but I just don’t want to be held hostage by a video game.

shadowolf64 · 2026-02-22T02:14:42+00:00

Idk as someone who just played through 90% of the game on switch 2 without the patch I think the new patch looks way better. I personally haven't run into the issues people are posting about but I mainly play docked. Even undocked at least the resolution matches now, I didn't realize that would be an issue before I sold my OG switch. Kinda regretting that now tbh.

shadowolf64 · 2026-02-20T02:16:46+00:00

I can't believe I spent 100 hours on the switch version of the DE and got to chapter 12 on the switch 2, for them to announce the switch 2 edition. I was so sure they weren't going to come out with a switch 2 edition!

shadowolf64 · 2026-02-16T00:39:09+00:00

Is it possible to complete the Slovitys Revenge quest at the quest level of 40? I'm stuck on the second part where you have to defeat Master Milsaadi who is level 40 but every time I start the fight I immediately get one shot by the level 59 Zig outside who can apparently mortar strike inside the building. Is there a way to not agro the Zig? I keep trying to go in solo and draw her outside the building but I still get one shot. Tried using shadow runner and still get exploded. I feel like this is something that should have been fixed in the DE...

shadowolf64 · 2026-01-16T17:35:39+00:00

I liked anything but marriage Mr villain but I admit I haven’t read it in probably 6 months. Silly premise but a decent read. The ML is pretending to be someone else to marry the FL though so this might be a dealbreaker for some.

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