I agree that that’s a perfectly fine reason for container base images, but has nothing to do with my normal desktop system. Or 99% of peoples normal desktop systems. The question there is only “does my stuff work”, and at least for me the answer is “yes”. That’s the context of this thread (at least how I understood it).

Maybe that really is the real source of the instability claims. I mean I’m not setting up my KVM virtualization server on a CachyOS-install, but honestly even if I did I’m not sure I’d actually run into issues. Or just use Arch directly for that, which quite a few people also do. I have no idea how often those have issues, I assume they wouldn’t stick with Arch if they did, but I truly have no idea about the practicality of that.

The reason I’m asking is that literally every source you look at for comparison of linux distros will tell you “unstable” for CachyOS and/or Arch. It has been the literal opposite experience for me: I have significantly fewer issues getting stuff to work (which is also a form of stability) compared to Debian on my servers. I wouldn’t say I’m angry about being misled, but I’m certainly still confused where the claims can come from…

I also have a laptop that runs CachyOS, and I use that very infrequently. So whenever I do, it’s a sizable update (still runs through faster than a normal windows update though). That system also never had any issues, and also “just works”. Like you say, you also never had any (real?) issues. Just having a “feeling something might break” doesn’t actually means it’s unstable either, just that you’re scared it might be, while it actually isn’t. It’s obviously fine if that then isn’t a distro you want to use, but don’t call it unstable if it has been perfectly stable for you? Do you know why you have that feeling, and could it maybe just be that it’s people always just saying “it’s unstable”, perpetuating that “feeling”? I can also imagine that it was much less stable in the past, or there may be phases that are less stable, but I just got lucky and the last year happened to be rather stable in comparison.

I personally don’t have an issue with the reading of PKGBUILDs when I’m using the AUR, as I have like 2 packages from there or something, which also update comparatively infrequently. Everything else is base repo (CachyOS or Arch) and if there are Arch news you should obviously read those, but that happenes so rarely it’s really not an issue either (for me), and usually it’s there for a good reason like the recent AUR vulnerabilities. As for normal changelogs, I assume for packages in the main repos, I don’t even know where to find them. Never needed to read them either.

I can’t understand where this “unstable” image comes from. Just because it’s a rolling distro? I’ve been on CachyOS for over a year now. I update on most days I’m using the system (which is also most days). I had basically no issues. I have significantly less issues with it than I have with Debian on my servers!

Did you have a negative experience with CachyOS or arch in general? Or are you just repeating what you heard?

That’s also a rather massive price difference what seems to be similar devices?

That screen is absolutely tiny.

Yea not even remotely close. The correlation would be “it’s in space”, which is pretty good, but doesn’t make it “like” it either.

Works great as a static image. Would probably be better if it actually played…

Many solutions exist, rdp clients aren’t exactly rare. I’m personally using xfreerdp for the extensive options: I can connect to a Windows system (at work) and have it be full screen on 2 of my 3 local monitors. It’s fast, reliable and just works honestly.

But what you seem to be looking for is something more like RustDesk or vnc. You want to look at and help with an existing session. If you connect with remote desktop, the local monitor gets locked, so you can only take over, but not show or help. VNC over the open Internet is generally not a great idea for security, but wire guard exists, as does TailScale and/or NetBird which means you don’t need to expose it. So that also works.

There was some sort of scandal a few years back that some smart TVs (Samsung?) were using not just open networks (let’s be honest, there usually aren’t any), but other smart TVs if the same manufacturer to be able to send their telemetry. I don’t know what game of that, or if that was ever made illegal (probably not).

There is a Bluetooth chip somewhere that is connected somehow. Assuming you can somehow get to it without destroying the battery, disconnecting it shouldn’t be difficult.

Valve literally had to develop hardware to do it because consumer graphics cards just don’t offer it, or the access needed to make it work. No steam machine come will offer this in the short term, but they might in the medium term. Reliability and consistency might differ once it does exist, but that remains to be seen.

It’s heavily CPU bound in a normal system today. Extracting (let alone compressing) a 2 GB file will take a noticeable amount of time. Reading the whole thing from an nvme will take roughly 1 second. Random access is no longer a relevant performance impact either.

It is my understanding that multithreaded extraction is hard(er) cause the used dictionary is built up incrementally. So to extract later parts you need to have extracted earlier parts.

It’s no longer good if the money made from said company are used this way. It was good until last week or so.

Spoiler: there won’t be relief in 2028 (unless the bubble actually pops).

These universal statements are almost never true. What means “most”? All 3 that I have are more, some up to 25W. If they are “new”, maybe. Not many that you can get on eBay are old enough that they will draw a noticeable amount. Add always, “it depends”.

Lemmy has relatively good search, usually if you remember bits of the title that works?

In any case: Both n100/n150 and raspi are in the <10W range. Obviously raspi is lower, but also A LOT slower and much worse connectivity. As the price is roughly comparable, I’d go for the much more capable N100/N150. Only go the full ‘minipc’ route if you don’t mind the (probably) higher power usage, which can depend highly on model. Older (but cheap on eBay) models can be 25W on idle.

Depending on what you actually need, I’d setup a Sync thing or NextCloud or something and go from there.

A VPS is like 5 bucks. Which isn’t nothing but when used as a redundancy or place to send (reasonably sized) backups, it’s cheaper than most alternatives. It’s also still a form of “self hosting”, at least for me.

Exporting, maybe on a schedule, to a keepass to keep somewhere, also works of course. But when hosting the only/main instance at home you’ll have at least one single point of failure, most likely many. Internet connection, server, network/switches, …

That you have to decide for yourself, and it probably also depends on what the bonus is. Functionally they are bribing you to choose the worse choice for you. The bribe might be worth it. If the game turns out payable and stable, it’s all good. If it’s a buggy mess, unfinished or you need to wait for like 5 patches anyway, was it still worth it?

To me there are also very few games that I need to play the moment they come out. I probably can’t finish my backlog of games in my life time as it is, so a few days or even months wouldn’t change much for me. Is rather wait and not fall into the marketing trap of “but free stuff”.

They actually so this quite often

For me personally an ad is when I’m being sold something. I can’t be sold something that is free and open. So someone showcasing their paid (but self hosted) service is an ad. Someone telling me about their (open) project is not.

And when someone wants to use either and asks for help, is also (obviously) not an ad. Unless we see a flood of accounts posting trivial questions about a paid service to draw attention to it, but I kinda doubt it.