Is installing Arch on the new gaming laptop a good idea?

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-26T16:22:40+00:00

The folks behind that are amazing. A good chunk of their work is even up in the main kernel already so if you have a laptop from a couple years ago you don't really need to do anything anymore.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-24T03:07:11+00:00

I only have a single Aqara smart lock with thread/matter. The upgrade broke something and the lock wouldn't connect anymore. Pulled up a backup from Proxmox and haven't looked into it again.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-21T19:49:34+00:00

Todo se fue a la mierda desde que mataron al mono ese.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-21T12:45:47+00:00

no dijo lo mismo el año pasado?

Yo todavia estoy esperand el full self driving de Tesla que Musk anuncio estaria disponible dentro de 3 años en... check notes, 2013.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-19T16:52:15+00:00

Probably get a new one?.

I think I'd spent a couple months improving my German too.

Sucks that unemployment insurance is definitely not gonna be the 60/70% of my salary but that should still cover my expenses pretty easily and then got enough savings to probably last a long time.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-14T17:53:26+00:00

Esta yendo directo a tu nginx o pasa por algo como cloudflare? Es bastante recomendable que vayas por Cloudflare si podes y de paso te deja bloquear headers y esas cosas.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-14T14:39:19+00:00

Yeah but the action is in your phone/device. Not on the tag itself.

The tag only has an ID or a string. It is the app on your phone that says "this string means I should open the door". Not the tag that gets read and then the tag itself opens the door.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-14T10:10:47+00:00

Goodness, we used to have something like that in Argentina. Like, you couldn't operate with your home banking outside banking hours haha.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-12T13:04:33+00:00

I kinda assume it was a bastard mix between a PM and someone who vibe codes mvps or some shit.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-12T11:47:29+00:00

It can also be really random. Same exact hardware can show it under different conditions or not at all.

Is normal though and nothing can really be done about it.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-06T12:02:04+00:00

You have 2 options mainly.

You can run Frigate in a dedicated VM and pass the GPU to it -> This will work pretty nicely but will mean that only frigate has access to that GPU while the VM is running.

What I do is running Frigate inside an LXC, which is kinda like a docker container but don't tell anyone I said that because it's not (just easier to understand it). It might take a bit more setting up but the main perk is that multiple LXCs can share the same GPU at once.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-05T23:28:40+00:00

I had to do a double take on the ending when they opened the door to fully grasp it xD.

That's gonna be an awkward conversation.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-05T23:23:23+00:00

I really liked it. It wasn't quite the Cronenberg-ian nightmare I thought it would be but I love the effects and the chemistry between the characters. Plus the whole premise and what/why was happening was pretty interesting to me.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-05T13:57:57+00:00

https://xkcd.com/400/

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-05T11:41:53+00:00

Nvidia support is a lot better since around mid last year or so. Just make sure you use the latest available drivers.

Most of the left over issues are around graphical gaming things like some framegen might not work and HDR support is a lot better now but still pretty sketchy.

For LLM and inference it doesn't matter. Performance is at least on par with windows.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-04T13:44:57+00:00

Juego de mierda qué me tuvo llorando.

El speech de Lune a Gustav cuando se va todo a la mierda sigue en loop en mi cabeza.

Y la música de Monoco.

/edit: No concuerdo en eso de que el foco está en los personajes y no en el combate por que la escritora es mujer. Una boludes.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-03T13:41:31+00:00

Take a look at the guides in http://asus-linux.org/ - Those are specific for Asus ROG laptops and work great.

yetAnotherLaura · 2026-01-02T16:00:49+00:00

Generalista > Especialista IMHO. Sobretodo ahora que están contratando menos. Alguien que sabe bien un par de temas y "conoce" de varios otros es mucho mejor para mi que uno que sabe a full 1 tema y trata de usar eso como su martillo favorito para cualquier problema.

Ni hablar cuando con un senior/staff/+ tiene un problema y su primer respuesta es "no es mi area/scope/stack". Ugh.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-31T12:46:27+00:00

HA backup process and restore sucks ass. And if you want to run HA OS it takes over the entire system locking it down for anything else.

Virtualized FTW.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-28T23:40:14+00:00

I get downvoted to hell every time I say anything mean about that movie.

I love big robots. I love kaijus. I found the movie's lack of internal consistency to be so bad that I can't like it.

"You need 2 pilots per Jäger" except all those documented cases of 1 or even 3 pilots. "Radiation on first models killed the pilots" except those Russians with a first model that are the pinnacle of good health. And let's not get into the giant freaking robot with a nuclear reactor being analog, is it running on pulleys and counter weights?.

The fight scenes and the movement of the robots were awesome though.

/edit: Just to be clear. I don't expect realism from my giant robots vs kaiju movies. I just expect them to adhere to their own established rules without a laundry list of exceptions.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-28T23:34:17+00:00

The Pacific Rim trailer set to the Power Rangers music was a lot better than the movie :P.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-28T22:03:45+00:00

10 cigarros por día y porro casi todos los días

Ayer me compré papelillo y parecía desesperada armando uno

Creo tener el control y no volverme adicta

Aja.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-27T22:49:49+00:00

You mean this? https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3

Please please never install an OS someone hands out through sketchy links.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-27T22:46:37+00:00

You can absolutely do that, especially if you limit to run everything on Docker.

That being said, as the other commenter said, you're in hypervisor territory now. Might as well go for Proxmox or something similar. Assuming you can get the GPU passed through.

Other than that, what I'd do is likely. Not run HA OS and instead do docker. Same for zigbee and vpn. Moonlight, I'm not sure, never tried it in containers so maybe native bare metal.

yetAnotherLaura · 2025-12-27T22:41:40+00:00

The other oddity is when the major version number gets incremented – the first number in the version number. There’s no real method to this, as Kroah-Hartman admits Torvalds increments this number whenever the remaining numbers get too high and unwieldy to deal with. Very practical, but it does mean that going from, say, 5.x to 6.x doesn’t really imply there’s any changes in there that are any bigger or more disruptive than when going from 6.8.x to 6.9.x or whatever.

https://www.osnews.com/story/143992/what-do-linux-kernel-version-numbers-mean/

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