The Deck uses MangoHUD to draw FPS over the screen. Maybe it can be utilised to show the battery.

Thank you, the part about the database is important.

Of course that depends on the apps in question and if you are even able to install additional apps in a managed environment.

But not all apps are so limited. The cookbook app for instance saves all recipes as markdown files you can easily share with others, download or backup.

Managed Nextcloud is definitely easier than hosting it your own. I bet they also have the hardware to guarantee good performance. With any luck Hetzner also offers AI features like face recognition and automated tagging.

But don’t go in there expecting a fully fledged Google Photos alternative. Even when Memories is much better than Nextcloud’s own Photos, it lacks many essential features like easy filtering of your collection. You basically have to sort your photos yourself.

Unless Hetzner offer something on top of Nextcloud file sync is done via Webdav, not sftp or rsync. But basically every OS has Webdav clients.

Calendar and Contacts are also synced via DAV. CalDAV and CardDAV. Works well for me on Android with DAVx⁵.

I love the giant fusion reactor in space that’s sending us pure photons every day.

Yeah, it grows on you.

Broadcasting fees in Germany can only be deducted quarterly. I hate that. Take that money at the same rate as I get money or I will get confused. That’s why I set up automatic monthly payment. And they send a quarterly letter reminding me that I owe them a monthly payment.

This quarter they sent a letter informing me that they’d stop sending the quarterly letter and that they have a third of a payment too much in my account. And that I should create automatic payments.

I’m looking forward to their next letter.

You probably think that systemd-boot is tied in any way to the rest of systemd. It is not. Systemd-boot is just a very simple EFI boot loader that is hosted by the systemd project. It does not require any part of systemd to work. It has no problems booting a distro without any systemd components.

If I recall correctly the script that goes to desktop mode explicitly starts plasma. Though I think they want to change that behaviour in SteamOS 3.8 or 3.9 to be more generic.

The trouble is that on every update all the changes you did to system files would be removed.

So you’d have to install Niri to your home directory and change the scripts that launch it with every update. Nothing impossible just a little bit annoying.

I haven’t tried that exactly, but I put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on mine. I think installing a mainline distribution is the first step you have to overcome to run a different desktop environment on the Deck.

The biggest hurdle will be that you will need custom drivers or maybe even a custom kernel. Because not all necessary drivers have been upstreamed yet. This is especially necessary on the OLED version, as far as I know.

If you go that route https://gitlab.com/evlaV will be your best friend to find everything you need. And Bazzite probably as well. Maybe you can even run Niri/Noctalia on Bazzite. That would probably be the easiest. Or maybe CachyOS has a Steam Deck build.

I just googled something. Don’t remember what I ended up on. Probably some blog post combined with rspamd’s website. It depends on your mailserver anyways.

It’s hard to find anything VLC doesn’t support. Just try it. It’s great on any device.

rspamd is used nowadays. Add sieve filtering to automatically move mails with a 7.0 or higher to a spam-folder. Manually move mails there that haven’t been detected and move mails out of the spam folder that have been falsely detected (personally don’t have any false positives with rspamd).

Then set up bayes learning with rspamd, either when mails are moved between folders or every few hours.

Jellyfin on the PC.

Or using Windows file sharing and running VLC on the TV and tablet.

It’s even in the FAQs of piracy forums. It’s awesome how far Linux gaming has come!

Thanks, setting up the runner and actions works great! Permissions are a bit wonky but not unsolvable.

I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.

Bold strategy.

Signal doesn’t send anything in the payload. They just use it to wake the phone up and then download all messages that are waiting to be delivered through the usual encrypted means. All Google knows is that something happened at that time. They don’t know anything else.

But they only instruct Signal to wake up and download whatever is waiting. They don’t contain the message contents.