A good idea? There’s always risk, no matter if you’re an expert with a 100% success rate. My heart pounds every time I flash a device, new BIOS update, install Linux, etc., despite having done those things many times.

That said, I flashed Graphene on an older Pixel, and they make the entire process stupid easy, provided you can read. They have a web installer where you just install a couple of prerequisites on the host computer, put your phone in recovery mode, plug in your device, and click buttons in order via your browser. No need to transfer image files, muck around in TWRP recovery, or anything like that. It uses some Google API to facilitate everything.

But if you can’t afford the loss of the device to the unlikely but still possible event of a bad flash, either because of cost or loss of utility, you should at least take a moment to consider your backup plans before proceeding. Only you can decide if you think the risk is worth it and sufficiently low.

And the 9a is speculated to be released around March, so Graphene is sure to be close behind whenever it drops (if they need to adjust anything at all).

The other twist is, unlike Xitter, you don’t have to create an account on Mastodon to be able to read their feed. You can access it like any other website. So nobody is getting shut out. They’re just posting elsewhere, where anyone can read it.

The ADHD brain works in mysterious ways.

Not that the author is necessarily off-base, but that blog post is almost three years old. Tech and software evolve fast, and I would hazard a guess that at least a few of their gripes have been addressed by now. Additionally, due partly to the success of the Steam Deck, Valve has officially partnered with Arch and it’s throwing some of their considerable resources into Linux development.

I also noticed that they barely mentioned SELinux or AppArmor, and they probably didn’t know about immutable distros (which didn’t really exist, yet). It’s fair to say that Linux isn’t the gold standard of good security, but the post reads like someone with a beef and not someone trying to inform by presenting a skeptic’s take (indeed, they seem to gush over Windows and MacOS).

They finish by name-dropping a few people with a vested interest in security, and they’re practically begging the question in doing so. If the facts don’t stand on their own as the author has presented, why should I listen to strangers who allegedly share the same opinion? That’s not how consensus is formed.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, an old article about the state of Linux Security should be assessed within a modern context if we’re to apply it to current software.

The error seems to say that it can’t find the source file on whatever repo you’re using. Are you sure it exists there?

And if that thought doesn’t come out right now, it will be lost forever. Or I can try to hold onto it, but I will not hear anything you’ve said, due to the mental effort required to hold onto a single thought.

Reminds me of mods like the GameCube Nano. I dunno if it’s possible, but it would be kinda cool if someone figured out how to shrink the Deck further.

Thanks for sharing that! I’ma try to use some of those techniques

Looks pretty cool. I hadn’t heard of this series before, but I’ll have to take a look!

That’s why you do it while you’re doing the task! Sometimes after, sometimes during. Maybe always both.

This is why I’ve started giving myself treats after I finish something like dishes (sometimes during, too). It’s not much, but it helps get through it!

I’m not. I’m more hoping for Nintendo to get a wakeup call that improving customer satisfaction and giving them actual value, rather than clawing and squeezing and litigating every dollar possible from their freaking fans, is actually a viable business strategy.

I mean, I know what you’re saying. Nintendo is no slouch when it comes to drawing people in, but they’re no longer the only fish in the pond. Couple that with the general customer satisfaction with Deck-likes and the flat deluge of games to which you have access, and there’s a real chance of people at least thinking twice before jumping on a Switch 2.

Some people won’t care, but Nintendo is going to have to really work to pull others away from all those extras you get by design. Plus, that’s not even getting into how stupidly easy it is to set up emulation, which you have to pay a lot for via Nintendo.

Gears, my friend. The transistors don’t form from these proto-circuits until the third trimester, and the CPU doesn’t start forming until the last two weeks.

Doctors of Computer Science will often label the computer Windows or Mac around week 18, but you won’t truly know whether it’s a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer until after the build, sometimes years after.

They’ll also have potentially more exposure, as many other companies have and will be coming out with SteamOS handhelds of their own. So if anyone had to choose, it might make more sense to skip the Switch 2.

Wikipedia? Child’s play. Microdosing “some lost corner of the internet, forgotten by server admins and domain registrars” is where it’s at!

Dunno if this helps, but it sounds like you’re trying to do something similar (?) to what’s described in this article:

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/10/wireguard-in-podman/

They also have this guide:

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/11/wireguard-nftables/#point-to-site

Good luck!

Even if we can’t prove a post is fake, it still can be.

Literally the definition of Appeal to Possibility. “It could be, therefore it is.”

I can tell you were born yesterday.

Gonna block you now, because I can tell you’re never going to stop replying to me. It’s how you people try to cover up shilling.

Ow, my poor feelings. /s

Exactly what I’d expect from somebody who broadly claims a post is fake but can’t provide the receipts. Somebody calls you out, and you call them stupid, double down, and run, instead of engaging honestly.

Standing on top of others’ shoulders is the entire deal of distros (and Linux, more broadly), no?

I don’t know anything about Cloudflare vis a vis CachyOS (the politics of business melts my brain), but supposedly Cachy offers a speed boost for certain tasks. When I’ve used it, it feels as snappy as a Debian install I use.

For some, it may not offer them much of a difference. It’s not going to be a “leaps and bounds” difference either way, but it allows people who don’t want to optimize their packages manually and don’t want to optimize and build their own kernel the opportunity to experience the potential benefits of those things.