All good! You sound like you’re on the right path. I have like 3 or 4 flatpaks installed hahaha

All that a flatpak is is a distro-agnostic release of a package. They contain all the binaries and libraries to run on any distro. They’re also sandboxed from the rest of your OS unless you give them permission to interact with it. Being that they contain everything for all of Linux means slightly larger file size, but that’s not so much of a problem as it was in the old days.

I install flatpaks via terminal, same as I do for official repos stuff and the AUR. I was never a fan of GUIs for really anything on Linux other than my file browser, but especially not for updating or installing packages. There’s too many prompts and dependencies.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading online tonight about this whole ordeal. Someone mentioned CachyOS “makes it easy to install apps” or something in that vein as in it utilizes one click solutions for installing, so to speak. If these point to the AUR without checks and balances then yeah I could see that being quite a disaster.

I’m not sure I follow what you mean about better flatpak integration. Arch and flatpak play pretty nicely together as it is. It’s just my experience that a lot of the more random and niche software I want is only available via the AUR and not flatpak.

Ultimately though, the AUR is the arch user repository. As in, it’s maintained and contributed to by users, not the Arch Linux team that develops the distro. They provide plenty of warnings about using it at your own risk, and while it’s certainly a big part of the appeal for the distro, it’s no surprise that something that’s basically the wild West will get a little unruly at times.

Yeah I’ve ran a few, including that one. Also manually checked all my AUR packages against the list and there are a few that are close, but not explicitly called out. Like filebot47 is an orphaned package and was called out as malicious, but I have regular filebot which is (I hope) ok. It seems the attackers were taking over orphaned packages and claiming themselves as a maintainer, which they were automatically granted after 2 weeks. I understand the idea of being able to contribute and work together in the Linux development world but this can be a recipe for disaster if left unchecked. It sucks people will take opportunities like this to inflict some real harm.

The only AUR packages I have are some of the more popular ones, and it’s only because that’s the only place I saw them available. I might look and see what I can install via flatpak if not in the official repos from now on.

I did and it returned two hits for clang19 and compiler-rt19. They were on my PC for about a month from March to April. I’m not gonna lie, I don’t even know what those are, probably a dependency for something.

Fortunately they installed from the official repos according to my log. So I think I’m ok

I updated last night fuck my chungus life

I 112%'d hollow knight this past winter and even beat the final patheon that’s like 50 some bosses, although on that one only was the single mod I ever installed which was being able to save at benches because I was not going to try and do 50 in a row without dying lol.

But I did everything the game can offer, first time I’ve gone that far in it since it came out, and then immediately started silksong over again. I got into act 2 when the game came out and kinda fell off it. I didn’t actually get stuck I think I just got distracted with other games

Anyway even after playing HK to death, yeah silksong is a lot harder. But I am at like 16 hours approaching act 3 whereas when I fell off it last year I was around 40, so that’s worth something I guess. I’m not getting stuck as badly, but the game can be pretty punishing.

I’ve always played HK and metroidvanias with an 8bitdo sn30 pro, it just feels better with a D pad to me. Highly recommend it if you’re looking for a better control feel than the steam deck. Although I did beat that crazy hard carnival boss on the switch handheld mode back in the day lol

If you really want to use a chromium-based browser, Vivaldi does all this and for free. It’s not bad, definitely a bit faster than firefox but that’s the nature of the beast for the web these days. I also like having my tabs on the side rather than the top. I think you can do that with Firefox via an extension, I’ll have to play around. But I much prefer using Firefox in my daily life

Man this bullshit seems to have gotten so much worse since I last looked for a job in 2023

Prior to my current job, I worked at one for 7 years. I’m an industrial electrician, so maybe the demand is higher. But in 2023, I applied for 12 jobs, got 3 interviews which resulted in 2 offers. All cold applications on indeed. I was picky about which jobs I even applied for. For one of the offers I did not want the job and it paid too little so I strung them along as much as I could before I finally turned it down as I had a feeling I was getting my current job, but it took forever for some management to come back from field service for my second interview.

I live in Pittsburgh. They don’t call it the rust belt for no reason. If you go to a junkyard you’ll see tons of perfectly working old Toyotas and Hondas as far as the engine and things go, but they’re all rusted out to the point of not being worth the repairs. This part of the country sucks for owning any car. Tons of potholes, snow, ice, salt, etc. A lot of roads are just fucked in this state. Can’t even avoid the potholes when your whole car’s suspension rumbles down the road the whole time. Highways are a little better but not much. There’s plenty of uneven roads on them too.

Sucks tryin to stick to older cars considering all this. Unless you get something out of state I guess

Yeah. It’s the same thing Uber did with pushing cab services out of business.

Not only that, but AWS is the real money maker for them. Not that retail and gaming and prime and whatever don’t also make boat loads of cash, but it doesn’t even graze AWS. The scale of these data centers is unreal and most of the internet runs on AWS.

I’m an industrial electrician with background on what they’re ordering and installing in terms of control panels and if you saw the weekly shipments it’d make you sick. And we’re only one supplier, they have others.

Finally about to beat lies of P.

I grabbed quite a few games on deep sales. RE2+3 remakes, no man’s sky, Detroit become human, planescape torment, oxygen not included

So I’ll have plenty to play over this winter when I generally do less and am cooped up more either reading or gaming or watching anime.

Honestly has been a bit hard to dip into the backlog as even though I’m close to 700 hours in Factorio over 7 or 8 years, it keeps bringing me back to it. I’ve finally set up some good factories on multiple planets. Setting up multiple space travel ships transporting materials between planets is so fun! Once I reach the final planet and research all technologies, I’m gonna take a break for a bit. Then see what the mod scene is like now with space age. This is still my first vanilla playthrough after playing with mods for years since space age was released.

Why is damn near everything in Chinese?

Oh right on. Genuinely didn’t know this

I’ve never opened a port for Plex.

That’s a far cry from how most people watch movies and TV though. Most everyone I know uses it through some sort of app on a device in their living room, like a smart TV, fire stick, game console, whatever.

How well does remote viewing work on jellyfin? I have a lot of friends and family that use my Plex, I’ve also had a lifetime pass for pushing a decade.

Like how easy is it to send an invite and the person be rolling with no technical setup from me? I just sent a Plex invite last week to my friend’s brother who did some plumbing work on my house, dunno if I’ll even ever see that dude again haha. I’m certainly not goin over to his house to set something up.

Or my dad struggles enough with it as it is, he’s 70 next year so I get it. But that might be more of a problem with the Plex app on his ancient smart TV.

This is a big reason I stick with Plex.

Fucking christ, now the mini PC I cart around to look at drawings and schematics at work is going to freeze up and be slow even more than it already is for some crap I don’t need

One thing I’d add is a whole house surge suppressor.

I saw the power lines arcing to either each other or the bamboo outside our house last week during a bad storm.

A whole house surge suppressor is only like $100, I’m gonna get one soon and install it. I saw it’s best to install it as close as possible to the main incoming power lugs, one lead on each leg of the split phase 120/240.

A UPS will protect against surges but it’s just a good idea with how many appliances and devices have circuit boards in homes these days. Like your furnace, oven, washing machine, game console, TV, etc.

I had an insane surge last winter so it’s a long time coming haha. I woke up and half my circuits were off. I measured 170v to gnd on one of the legs. Power company and fire dept had to show up to fix it.

Power is ehh not great where I live.

Edit: for your point about a NAS failure. If that were to happen, since I use unRAID, I could just throw the disks on any Linux PC and my data would be fine.

I wasn’t crazy about i3. I really like hyprland though. Been using it for about a year now.