In my case it wasn’t a total freeze but rather just a massive slowdown. It would happen at random, especially in Desktop mode when I had too many things open. My device is a ROG Ally Z1 Extreme (16 GB of unified memory), Bazzite in gaming mode.

I permanently solved the issue by simply adding a bit of swap memory.

Thanks, I didn’t know any of this.

I just started a hobby project with Bun, it’s my first time trying it. I would like to know what you are referring to when you say “what Bun did”. Can you share more information?

This might not be your issue, but it might be useful to know: if you connect two disks with the same GPT UUID, they might start misbehaving. Perhaps GRUB might not care, but Linux does. Did you ever clone a disk or partition without changing the UUID?

Can I do a shameless plug? Not necessarily all of these are my favourites, but most of these are pretty nice. Here’s my list.

My top fav is Mindustry, which has already been mentioned. Another not very popular FOSS game which is pretty good imho is OpenClonk.

Looks like your wife is lucky.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1034860

https://www.protondb.com/app/47890

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius

It’s been giving me issues as well lately. Both the problems I am experiencing are documented here. Perhaps give it a look as well.

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe/issues

I don’t think you need a guide. Just install the extension and give it a try. It’s pretty simple and intuitive.

still no possibility to set default container for Ctrl + T

It might be possible now, you could give it a try. But anyways, I don’t see how changing the default container for new tabs could be useful. There is a default container which is the “no container”, why would you want to change it?

EDIT: yes, it is possible now.

Are you talking about these containers?

Each container is isolated from the others. If you don’t want a tab to track you, just use a dedicated container for it.

You can also configure Firefox to always use a dedicated container for certain domains.

As for destroying the data, you probably just need to clear cookies on close. That’s configurable. If you are extra paranoid you can also clear the cache.

Did I miss something?

Assuming you are not in a CGNAT, which is common for mobile networks: DNS with low TTL such as FreeDNS, pointing to your IP. And ofc, if you have a router in between, port-forwarding.

Otherwise, a VPN such as Tailscale. But you would need to install it on all your devices.

Otherwise, for HTTP(S) web services, a reverse-proxy such as CloudFlare.

(Personal opinion not based on scientific evidence.)

I would say that’s not possible for a hobbyist. The main issues with this kind of DIY phones are performance, compatibility with existing software, and most importantly battery life.

The Raspberry Pi was never designed to be used with a small battery while still staying connected to the internet to receive notifications all the time, like a smartphone. If you want to build a usable smartphone you will need an efficient co-processor to do these tasks. This could get complicated fast unless you use a CPU designed for this job.

There has been some interesting progress with desktop environments and small touch screens. Still nothing as good as Android, but nice UI is no longer the main issue imho.

As for compatibility, good luck running Signal, Matrix and Thunderbird in the background without draining the battery.

That being said, if you are just doing it as an excercise without expecting to build a device that will replace your main phone, you can definitely give it a try. Have fun and learn much!

Ah! Sorry for the textdump, and thanks for the feedback. I’ll keep it in mind in the future.

Sorry, not an answer to your exact question… Dockge might be the answer if you need a web UI to manage Docker containers.

If you need something more specific, like a button dashboard to run custom commands, perhaps you could build your own with Vite (Node.js). You will need to understand basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript. (EDIT: OliveTin makes more sense.)

As for authentication, you could configure a basic authentication on your favourite reverse proxy (such as Nginx), or look for something more advanced such as OIDC/OAuth2 through Keycloak.

In that case I would say start with a Debian-based or Ubuntu-based distro of your choice. Ubuntu-based distros are also Debian-based, since Ubuntu is Debian-based. Mint is Ubuntu-based so it’s a good choice imho. Mint should work pretty well for backups and Minecraft.

As a counter-example, Mint would (probably) be a poor choice if you want to turn that PC into a router or a DNS server, but sounds like that’s not what you have in mind.

If you plan to Install more stuff in the near future, you could optionally look into containerization (Docker) which would allow you to someday swap Mint with another distro when you decide that you feel like changing. All of this, without having to reconfigure anything. Portainer might be a good soft-entry to Docker if you don’t love the terminal, it gives you a nice UI. And it’s compatible with Mint, ofc.

As for the fedi instance, it’s a good exercise, you will learn a lot about networks. Personally I tried installing a Lemmy instance too, but I ended up turning it off as I realized that it didn’t make sense for my use case. It just wasted bandwidth to stay in-sync with the rest of the fediverse.

It depends. What do you plan to use it for? Depending on the answer, perhaps Mint might not be the best option, but I can share my personal experience.

My use case is a headless server running OCI containers through rootless Podman (this is Docker’s modern equivalent). I’ve been running this on Linux Mint on a compact PC for a few years. I enabled unattended upgrades, and once in a while I VNC into it and upgrade Mint itself. I also installed a CRON job to reboot automatically every few days. So far I’ve not encountered any major issues.

Link for opting out: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

In the “Privacy” section, set “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” to “Disabled”.

As far as I understand, audio cards hold a buffer of the audio that should be played at any time. If the CPU can’t keep up producing new audio, it will loop to the beginning of the buffer. My guess is that when you suspend, the CPU stops producing new data before the audio card stops consuming it. And that’s why you hear the last part for a short instant.

It also happens on my devices, and it’s always happened on all my previous devices as far as I can remember.

Disclaimer: this is based on my understanding + a lot of suppositions. It might not be accurate.

Sure, that’s what I thought. And Ecosia doesn’t do the same?

I do have an opinion about Ecosia, but it’s just based on feelings, so it doesn’t even make sense to share it. Apologies for not answering your question.

Instead I would like to focus on this point:

Ecosia isn’t very private, since it sends data to Bing

Also DuckDuckGo does this, but they aggregate and anonymize that data before forwarding it to Bing. That’s probably the best they can do without building their own first-party infrastructure. I would imagine Ecosia does the same.

The gamescope micro compositor does make games run better. You can obviously run that on others distros as well, but on SteamOS it’s out-of-the-box.

Is SteamOS immutable though? I thought that was just Bazzite.