As a single data point to the contrary, I’ve been an ASUS guy for 15 years and always recommend to friends and family. I have an ROG Ally, all my Mboards are ASUS, same with my networking gear. I have an ASUS monitor from 2010 that my Dad still uses.

They provide more settings to tweak out of the box than most of the other tech companies in the same price range.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gz5bQ78arfIVshBW6oIP4

Tempest – MachiChunky

Very heady instrumental trap track, the rest of their music is remixes of what appears to be visual novel soundtracks

I haven’t done it myself, but there is an option to change your auth provider in the tailscale settings. For me it was just an email to contact but I’d imagine that’s the best route.

I 2nd this, Codeberg is basically an open source community funded GitHub clone

I read that as politically obese, and I think it still fits.

It depends on the adapter, but from the ones I’ve encountered they are limited to 30fps at 4k.

**It’s learning… **

But for real, after you explained what’s going on it makes perfect sense, I’m just suprised that “amount of ads delivered” is a watch time metric that the algo “optimizes” for.

Yes, you’d use rpm-ostree install on some downloaded RPM after adding the repo manually in /etc for updates later (they really make it painful because layering system packages should always be a last resort).

You’re doing things correctly already. If everything is working fine with all the applications installed in a containerized way (distrobox, flatpak, etc.) no need to mess with rpm-ostree.

100% I was in the same boat as you with the yearly Ubuntu refreshes, and that got so old. Now if there’s an update the breaks something I just rollback and pin the working version until there’s an update that works or I have time to troubleshoot the issue.

It’s not so much that you can’t change parts of your system permanently. Think of it more so like the system partition of the OS is versioned like it’s a git repo. Each time you make a change to the OS filesystem the change is written to a new version of your OS that is layered onto the previous version, and then those changes are commited to the filesystem store, and a new boot entry is created.

So it’s a slightly more involved process to install new/update system packages (you have to reboot into the new version of the OS for the changes to take effect), but you gain a massive advantage in stability as a result (if the new version fails to boot or has other unexpected behavior, just reboot into the old, known working version).

Edit: I’m using Bazzite on two devices btw

Maybe… Just maybe… We’ve evolved past being critters and could use our superior brain power to avoid having to work like the animals…

What about the period at the end of the sentence tho?

Get your dirty PowerShell out of here /s

Oh word? I feel slightly better then. Still going to make it more of a pain to install ad block on my parents new devices

Ad block malware being distributed by the F-Droid store

Not for long T_T

Do tell? I couldn’t find that app in the Play Store

I hate to sound like a shill, but I know this is how T-Mobile’s home internet works. Home internet modems have the lowest priority on the network but can use as much as they can guzzle when network utilization is low.

Basically, if a task calls for snap, use Flatpak

I 2nd this, especially with Suno. As soon as a generated song comes on my Spotify, I recognize the specific synths used by the Suno model.

Ba dum tish