There are 2 types of companies, the ones who have been hacked the the ones which don't know they've already been hacked g about to be hacked.

If you're curious about the company Clearview AI, check out the book "Your face belongs to us" by Kashmir Hill. It's an interesting read.

The side mounted finger print reader / power button on my old Sony Xperia XZ 1 Compact was great. Wish more phones had side mounted FP sensors.

Back in the early days of Win10, an updated messed up my system and I ended up with duplicated icons. Wasn't happy, but didn't feel that it was that big of a deal to warrant a full reinstall.

2 years ago I built myself a new desktop and decided to try installing Linux straight away. Haven't looked back since.

Yes. My Zenfone 8 is "small" but I want it even more compact. My old Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact is the perfect size!

Civilization 6, Cities Skylines 1 and Space Engineers

Another big fan of Darknet Diaries.

Ever since Michael Bazzle of Privacy, Security & OSINT stopped doing the podcasts, I'm still trying to find a replacement. Am listening to The Lockdown - Practical Privacy and Security in the mean time.

Also listen to Linux Game Cast.

I hane lost the use of so many Android app I paid for because they were delistd from the Play store. Not happy.

I now resort to creating a backup apk for my most usd ones. I also create a backup befors updating. Never know if an update will break something or even worse, remove a feature.

I have it on my Asus Zenfone 8 too. Sad to tink that my next phone upgrade will likely not have the 3.5mm port anymore. :(

If Apple had kept the 3.5mm port, we'd all probably still be having it on our phones and not have to deal with flimsy adapters.

Any recommendations on which DLCs to get?

Bazzite has been smooth sailing about 80% of the time for me. The rest of the 20% were due to either plasma or runner crashing, requiring me to perform a hard reset using the power button. And then it magically atarted working again. I've also had my home folder become read-only on occasion. Very strange.

And most other manufacturers too for following the stupid decision to remove the headphone jack.

OMG. I recall playing a Tarminator game in the 90s but was too young to care about the developer. TIL that it was made by Bethesda.

Lemmington dap

Wow, what a very detailed response. I've only been using Bazzite for about two weeks and still learning about it. Now I have a slightly better understanding of how it all works. 👍

I previously used Nobara but recently switched to Bazzite. I think you can give either of these two a shot. I recall Nobara includes a one button install of nvidia drivers. Not too sure about Bazzite since I have an AMD gpu.

Both these distros are gaming focused. Only difference is Nobara is a traditional distro while Bazzite is atomic desktop based.

"noauto" sounds like a step in the right direction. I might give it a shot.

Many thanks. You've been very helpful.

I have installed nfs-kernel-server packages. I think it is possibly a permissions issue.

I briefly considered mounting it on the host (Proxmox) layer, but the way I have things set up, I only power on the NAS if I need to access it. Most of the time the Proxmox hardware will be booting up when the NAS is off and I think it will cause boot issues trying to mount a NAS share which it cannot find.

We need a Command & Conquer Remastered style treatment.

Am using a Zenfone 8 with a jack. As for future upgrade, still unsure. My top priority would be the size - has to be the same or preferably smaller than the Zenfone, so that limits my potential options.

I was travelling recently and was fortunate to be able to watch a F1 race. The track had a FM broadcast of the commentary in English, and my Zenfone 8 with the built in FM tuner made itself very useful indeed, since the FM tuner only works with wired earphones.

I ended up mounting the NAS share via CIFS and it appears to be working.

I tried to mount the share as NFS, but it didn't seem to work from the console in the container. I ended up using CIFS which worked.

I finally got around to getting things set up, and for some reason, the container I created for jellyfin refused to allow NFS mounting.

I ended up trying a "Turnkey Media Server" template which ended up working. It also didn't allow NFS mounts, but it did allow CIFS mounting, which I used. Jellyfin is now refreshing the library. So far so good.

Steam has also done a ton of work making games run on linux via Proton. Not to forget the Steamdeck too.

Noted. I guess used the wrong definition for Bazzite and that confused me. LOL.

Good to know that /etc is writable. I might have to download it and give it a spin. Thanks for clarifying.

Have not tried immutable distros, but I like the idea that the core OS is read-only to prevent a rookie user from messing things up.

Then again, if the core OS is read-only, is it at all possible to modify some system files like fstab files to auto-load drives?

I am intrigued. Presently using Nobara right now, and I've been running into strange issues, like the whole system suddenly becoming unwritable and Firefox crashing out of the blue and needing an entire system reboot.

Was trying to get corectrl configured and I was blindly copying text to paste into config files.

Next thing I know, I can't get my system to boot up again. 🤣

Time to reinstall. Again. 😅

Tipping is like paying for DLC / microtransactionw but not getting anything out of it.

Yeah... NAH!

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

• H. H. Dalai Lama

Amazing.

Just being able to dump hundreds of items into my backpack and have them automatically sorted and being able to find what I want instantly by typing into a search field will make my day.

iddqd and idclip

Detailed options so I mute background chatter or silence selected NPCs.

Subtitles for conversations not in my native language.

Steam: Your friend has died 7 times fighting the boss.

I don't really care as long as it's there. If I have to choose a spot, I think somewhere beside the usb-c port should be good.

Yes, they may or may not launch the normal version. Then again, it's only April. One can still hope. 👍

Manufacturers killed that word so no one can make fun of it. 🤣🤦‍♂️

Hopefully they'll continue selling "compact" phones. Heck, I'm guessing there will be people who will be happy if Asus releases a compact phone every alternate year.