If running Home Assistant is all you are going to do, Pi is enough. There’s also official hardware with Home Assistant preinstalled: Home Assistant Green

I don’t know the technicalities, but Markdown supports links, and it’s possible to craft a link that downloads a file and then executes it. You can look up the Notepad.exe RCE vulnerability from this year.

Hopefully it doesn’t have any Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, like Microslop’s implementation had.

I agree on that, but Nvidia GPU are by far the most common GPUs among gamers. Some of them might be excited to hear that their HDR woes are getting fixed at some point, possibly in near-ish future. Some people in that forum thread are saying that the HDR extensions are actually already included in the driver, even though the Nvidia guy said otherwise.

Vulkan developers said last year that this is the single biggest bottleneck on Nvidia cards that they are aware of. Of course, the final performance improvement can only be known once it is properly implemented, but their guestimation is that it should bring the performance much closer to Windows performance.

HDR improvements are coming in some later driver version.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-extensions-needed-for-hdr-is-missing/334268/14?u=tda0626

You’ll also need to cut the power to power supplies if you want to save every watt. For example, my desktop computer (display et al. not included) takes 2.2 W sleeping, and 1.7 W powered off.

With 10 cents per kilowatt, 2.2 W costs 0.00022 whole units of money per hour. 10 hours of sleep would come to cost 0.803 whole units of money per year.

Formula: 2.2 W * (0.1 M/kWh / 1000) * 10 h * 365, where M is some currency of money.

The linked video is posted on Peertube. And, it looks to be posted there by Gardiner Bryant’s official account. I don’t know if he has also posted it on YouTube, but I think it’s only fair that content creators, who uses other than YouTube, has even a sliver of a chance to make some coins for their effort.

That entire project takes about 1.1 MB of space, which isn’t nearly enough for an entire 3D game. It’s only the executable file, and some other required files. You need to provide the assets.

Jackify is a native Linux tool that downloads and installs Wabbajack modlists, and creates a Proton prefix with needed tweaks.

https://github.com/Omni-guides/Jackify

I believe the previous PC ports needed to be built by the user. This one comes as pre-built binary. Just give it the game ROM, and you are good to go.

And you only need fuel for one direction.

There’s a tool called NaK that can set up Vortex and MO2.

https://github.com/SulfurNitride/NaK

I don’t think KOReader can read DRM protected files.

There is also Jackify. It’s a tool to download, install and configure Wabbajack modlists. Wabbajack modlists uses Mod Organizer 2 as the mod manager, which is a Windows app, but works well enough under Linux.

https://github.com/Omni-guides/Jackify

First Trump, and now Protomolecule. What’s next?

Calibre + DeDRM should be able to remove the DRM. I haven’t needed this for some time now, so I don’t know if things have changed.

The main problem is getting the book files. You cannot transfer them from Kindle (unless maybe if it’s jailbroken), Amazon removed the possibility to download them from their page, and there is no Linux version of the Kindle app. You need to use a specific old version of the Kindle app to download the books, so that it downloads files with older DRM. Also, some newer books (books released within the last year or two, or so) might have a DRM that cannot be broken.

I think the version of Kindle app you need to use is 2.4. You can download it from here (it’s a direct download link from amazonaws). It installed and launched with Wine 11, but I don’t know if it works beyond that. After installing it, make sure you go to Tools -> Options, and deselect the setting for automatic update.

If that app works, use it to download your books, locate them on disk and then drag them (only the actual books files) to your Calibre library. If things went right, it should automatically remove the DRM. Confirm that by converting the books to some other format, such as EPUB.

There’s a thing called Epubor, but stay away from it. It’s rubbish.

EDIT: Re-worded one of the paragraphs.

my first full commit to Linux a stepping stone into getting my primary PC onto Linux.

Linux Mint is a pretty good stepping stone into the world of Linux. Or Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), for Ubuntu/Canonical free experience. Especially if you prefer low maintenance distribution. Debian has pretty long release cycles, and LMDE, being based on it, will share similar release cycles.

The drop in OSX is me. I installed Arch on my 2019 MacBook Pro a few days ago, and filled the Steam Survey.

Who is the one who betrayed us, and switched from Linux to Windows?

Have you tried other Proton versions, such as Experimental, Hotfix, or GE-Proton?