I think for games, people need newer kernels and drivers to support the newer hardware needed to play newer games, and they’re willing to put up with the bugs that come along with thay. Ubuntu and Debian (stable) aren’t strong at that by definition. I always use an older GPU that supported well by the Ubuntu LTS I run. If it doesn’t play something, I’ll wait till a new driver lands in that LTS or the next.

Bystanders in fearful respect

Good person! This is how you learn Linux and gain experience. Trying to understand why something happened and trying to fix it using that understanding. Not “just reinstall” or worse “you should use X distro instead.”

All decent DP KVMs are very expensive. I got an IOGEAR which is a rebranded Aten. It was also in the same price range. Who knew high resolution needs high bandwidth and high bandwidth signaling and switching is hard…

You could try finding changed config files by running:

sudo debsums -ac

Note that this won’t catch all. There are files that packages install and don’t touch afterwards. I my case for example it does catch that /etc/gdm3/custom.conf was modified to enable autologin among other things.

This drama is from 2021. HA is still open source and has been great.

The Nix maintainers come off pretty entitled in this one. They ignore advice, requests and do not provide an engineering solution that could solve this without incurring the cost HA would bear. You don’t get to dictate or create work for an open source project that wasn’t designed to play well in your environment. If you want to get it to play nice in there, come up with a proposal that the upstream accepts and implement it. Better yet, come up with a design of your system that accommodates the upstream project. If you go ahead and create that work anyway, upstream can use the tools at their disposal to prevent that.

Wait you thought that meme was factual? 🫨 Even OP themselves said in that thread it was a joke he made to troll Canonical haters. !linuxmemes@lemmy.world is rarely factual.

Shit.

Not Windows

This sounds plausible. I have seen a few guides for headless use suggesting disabling the built-in remote desktop feature and setting up xrdp, xvnc or related and then trying to fixup that session.

My guess is that something related to the headless setup you had changed during upgrade - likely some package got obsoleted and removed. Then you got some default behaviour from the replacement package along with the rest of the setup.

If you don’t get the help needed to resolve this here, you should also post in askubuntu.com.

Get out with this noise. This is the same nonsense as “just install Linux” to a person with a Windows problem.

14.04 to 22.04 so far

Well I don’t know what OP is planning to use it as, but desktop VLC can cast to Chromecast on the LAN for example.

I don’t think you can. On the other hand, if you register a Google account, use a secondary user on your phone to login, install the app and activate the Chromecast, I think you can subsequently use it without the Google account. Delete the secondary user once you’re done with the setup. You wouldn’t have given Google any useful data and you’d have cost them some.

Threads (1984 film)

Anything but paying for the labor of a person to draw such a picture.

It’s too close to expiration for a transfer. 😔 givemoney.gif

Plot twist:

Private equity buys your registrar and jacks up the renewal price 5x.

Purely on the product side, if I decide to buy it, I wouldn’t buy it for myself. I’d buy it for friends and family who are not that tech literate. Either to make my life easier to give them self-hosted services, or ideally for themselves to be able to do so. I want this product to be a non-shitty, open source “Synology,” from a firm I can trist to support it for a very long time. Doesn’t have to have that form factor. And I’m totally fine with an ongoing subscription. I’d like to be able to say - hey friend, buy this from ACME Co-op and sign up for their support plan. Follow the wizard and you’ll have Immich, Nextcloud, etc. A support plan might include external cloud HTTP proxy with authentication and SSL that makes access trivial. Similar to how Home Assistant’s subscription (Nabu Casa) works. It could also include a cloud backup. Perhaps at a different subscription rate.