I know Gnome has an option to mark a connection as metered, no idea what exactly that does though.

I use

• Vitals
• blur my shell

Blur my shell is make gnome look pretty good IMO.

Standard Debian packages have access to things like your home folder and other things that can be accessed without superuser level access. If you’re not okay with that, don’t install it.

If a flatpak package is available, it can have it’s permissions controlled by Flatseal, allowing you to restrict Spotify’s permissions.

I basically do exactly this, but I am running the reverse proxy on my home computer: the VPS is literally just acting as a proxy, for which I use wireguard to tunnel the connection. So far it’s worked great, though initial setup was a pain.

But you see, memes are art!

I think the chances of this being reposted on 196 quite high lol. Heck, it might have even been posted while I wrote this comment.

I think the meme is suggesting that 3 hours was spent setting up a local llm, like in This video.

The people editing their images in Blender are the same people who edit their videos in Blender lol.

It was the eyes that gave it away for me. They look, just, wrong.

There is a GUI program called “envision” which makes setup pretty easy, since it will also setup additional components for you.

That’s why most people who use VR on Linux don’t use SteamVR and instead use Monado, like I do. Monado is FOSS as well.

No? Have a look at LVRA, many headsets are supported, and IMO using Monado is better than SteamVR…

I bough Farcry 5 for around $10 CAD a few years back and that’s about how much value I got put of it.

The Environment Canada weather forecasts are pretty barebones

I’m going to have to disagree with you on that. I actually really like how Environment Canada presents their forecasts. They have a text description for each day, which I like because it shows how much data they actually have about the forecast for that day. Also, no ads and no bullshit on their website.

Intel is almost flawless, I say as someone who uses an Intel A750. It does have a bug where putting load on the GPU causes a dramatic increase in latency for GPU compute tasks, but that’s mostly only important for VR. Flatscreen games work great.

Sodium is client side, so it will not help with server performance. Something like Paper can improve server performance.

Do use use the mod called Sodium? Vanilla Minecraft Java has bad performance issues that are fixed with Sodium. I’ve tried Vanilla minecraft side by side with minecraft + shaders and sodium, and even with the shaders, sodium made it smoother.

lvra.gitlab.io is a great source of info for vr on linux. The discord server you mentioned is also bridged to Matrix for those who don’t want to use discord.

IIRC robot vacuums usually use a single Time of Flight (ToF) sensor that rotates, giving the robot a 2d scan of it’s surroundings. This is sufficient for a vacuum which only needs to operate on a flat surface, but self driving vehicles need a better understanding of their surroundings than just a thin slice.

That’s why cars might use over 30 distinct ToF sensors, each at a different vertical angle, that are then all placed in the rotating module, giving the system a full 3d scan of it’s surroundings. I would assume those modules are much more expensive, though still insignificant compared to the cost of a car sold on the idea of self driving.

Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.