Linux hobbyist, Machinist and tinkerer

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  • Openwrt on my flint 2 With adgaurd/pihole I know its not technically an app, but lots of people forget there routers exist and are a very big security hole

    You would not believe what my samsung tv pings

    Tiktok (somehow came preinstalled)

    Hulu(we dont have a hulu account)

    Tubi(we dont use tubi)

    Amazon(it seems to be for samsung tv plus)

    I ended up blocking everything except amazon, samsung tv, and netflix on the dns level

    Its also really good for stopping non power users (aka family member’s) from getting malware/phished

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  • Thanks for your input, but i cannot remember the exact error. But it would say it cannot install steam because of layering.

    See we had auroa layered on bazzite, and for some reaaon steam wouldnt install because it got added then removed by layers.

    We had the same problem with firefox, another friend needed non-flatpak firefox for a cac card reader and there were drivers available but didnt work with flatpak. And when we tried to install firefox via rpm os-tree it just failed in the same way



  • I gotta agree, ublue is an amazing technology and recently got my friend to switch from windows 11 to aurora for school work. Hes is very happy with it, and its pretty bullet proof. However the following month he wanted linux on his ryzen 9, 6900xt gaming desktop.

    We started with aurora, which had problems with getting steam to work, tried flatpak couldnt get the 2nd ssd to have permisions to use as a steam library. Tried bazzite container, sometimes wouldnt launch. Tried intalling it through rpm ostree. And after my friend said he wanted to get virtual machines and stuff. I was tapped out, we tried bazzite. But the immutability is the main selling point of being imencly hard to break. But when it got in your way it was sisyhian. We eventually got fedora workstation 40 and hes been really happy with it!

    The only thing he has had problems with is running an old star trek game through lutris, it has a weird aspect ration and thr cursor is offset. We still havent been able to fix it.

    So basically ublue is if its there already its super easy to install and if its not it is emencly hard.


  • Wut but microsoft co-pilot its got all the features you need like watching your screen!! And AI productivity spyware.

    Me and a bud went to best buy recently and were looking at arm laptops, they look pretty rad. Minus the window stuff of course, myself and my friend pointed out how stupid the co-pilot key was. Like who is actually going to use it??? It just seems like a extra key im going to accidentally press, the equivalent of activating bixy!! NO BIXY NO STFU I DIDNT SUMMON YOU!!! I was turing on my phone!!!

    Also i gotta ask is your new laptop running arm assuming it has a co-pilot key? And if so how has it been? Ive been looking into an arm laptop, but its gota run linux well. I currently have a t440p running gentoo and librebooted but the battery only lasts about 3-5 hours depending on the websites and it would be amazing to get gentoo on snapdragon laptops the battery life would be sooooo much better!