Ah, from this comment:

Sunscreen works, just not if you buy it from shady manufacturers that try to maximize their profits and care about nothing else.

I thought you were saying "don’t buy knock off brands and you’re safe. When actually you’re saying everyone is cutting corners.

Unfortunately the independent testing here happens infrequently (no more than once a year), and it’s different brands failing each time.

In general, the failing brands are testing as much lower than their stated SPF ratings. As a consumer, the best chance is probably to buy the highest rating you can find so even if it’s lower than stated it’s still pretty good.

In New Zealand we have much the same problem with the sun as Australia (thanks CFCs), and a company here does regular testing of sunscreens. Brands fail to live up to their ratings all the time, including big name brands.

I think versioning is the better option.

are you writing about losing the backUp drive?

No, losing your main version. Imagine you have a computer with syncthing and a server where it syncs to. If you chose no deletions, then it will sync all files to the server but all the stuff you deleted (draft documents, random files, photos from that time your kid held the camera button on your phone down and took 3000 photos in 30 seconds) will be deleted from your computer but still there on your server.

When you computer gets struck by lightning and everything is destroyed but the server is fine, now you have to re-sort out all your files because all the stuff you deleted is still on the server version.

Your suggestion of enabling the option to keep previous versions is probably cleaner. Personally I prefer to keep previous versions and deduplicate to save space.

Yes, if you go with something like syncthing, have it also sync to a server where you run borg backup so you get the incremental backup.

Yip you can do that but then it’s messy! And what if you overwrite a file by accident?

And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.

I’d much prefer the ability to restore to a point in time that comes with something like borg.

Remember sync isn’t a good backup. You’re thinking of loss of drives but if this is important data you need to also consider mistakes.

If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.

Personally I use borgmatic to keep incremental, deduplicated backups. Then I can go back to previous states.

If you install nextcloud all in one, it comes with a backup solution (also borg based). Then devices don’t need a copy of every file. But you’ll want your server to have a backup drive for this.

I then sync my borg backup to a backblaze b2 bucket for offsite, encrypted backup using rclone. That then meets the 3 2 1 backup plan.

I notice you mention Jellyfin. I don’t back up my Jellyfin media, the cloud storage for that could get very expensive and I could get it again if I needed it.

Just to make sure we are on the same page, the dongle I’m talking about is plugged into your PC for wireless controllers to connect to, it’s not an adapter to make wired controllers wireless (I don’t know if that exists).

We use xbox one controllers. Good quality, well supported. I don’t know what you think is pricy but the controllers seem pretty good value to me. $50USD for a wireless one, less for wired but I do think wireless is worth it.

I have a wireless dongle and 3 controllers, haven’t tried Bluetooth in this setup.

NZ Post has done this too.

I have an original framework I got via freight forwarding as they don’t sell to my country. Later they went hard and really locked down their systems against freight forwarding, so I can’t get a newer model. I was really keen for the 16 inch AMD one.

Easy. Raspberry Pi. Made in UK, doesn’t come with bloatware, Windows, or even any OS (unless you buy the kit that comes with Raspberian pre-installed).

It’s also upgradable (or at least expandable) through its many available connections.

Not feasible as a daily driver but it meets the specified requirements.

It will have components made in China but it will be hard to avoid that for pretty much anything made of more than a few different materials.

Alternative answer is the Framework laptop, made in Taiwan, can also be ordered without an OS or even without a hard drive (DIY version that you assemble yourself). You can then be picky about the other parts you buy, it’s possible to buy RAM, SSD, etc not made in China.

I’m no expert, and I’m running Bazzite (and previously Nobara), both of which have the RPM installed by default so I don’t think I’ve ever used the Steam Flatpak. But things mentioned in the thread are VR and Gamescope.

I do wonder if any issues are related to permission restrictions that could be resolved editing permissions with Flatseal, but I don’t know enough about the issues.

The two solutions I’ve seen presented in the thread for the Steam problem are to run Steam in a flatpak or a distrobox. I’m not sure if using distrobox has the same issues as flatpak.

It’s way too early to make that call. This is a proposal for collecting feedback. I am not sure if this has been proposed before, but I would guess you would make these proposals from time to time to gauge the feedback, and when you see support for keeping it fall to a low level you can finally make the jump. As one of the comments in the thread mentions, now might not be the right time but you can’t keep supporting it forever. Eventually you push 32 bit apps into emulators like what happened with 16 bit.

Ah you’re right. It seems Steam only provides a *.deb as far as I can tell.

The comments in the thread don’t mention Steam itself, but it’s that running all the 32 bit games will become a problem. Steam’s flatpak packages the 32 bit packages so that can get around this change, but the flatpak is not official and does not support all features. Steam themselves only provide the RPM for Fedora.

As reiterated by the OP, the proposal is just a proposal and was proposed with heaps of lead time probably because they expected it to be controversial.

As also mentioned, heaps of volunteer time is spent maintaining the packages where most are barely used (even for gaming).

However, it does not seem like there is a viable alternative. Many comments say the suggested alternative, WINE’s WoW64, does not work for all games.

I can see both sides here. Fedora maintainers says “this is so much work!” and (mostly) gamers saying “But older games will stop working!”.

The response from the Bazzite guy does seem overblown to me. I would think the first step is to work out the impact, as I haven’t seen anyone quantify what proportion of games are affected and if there are alternatives like emulation.

My Organic Maps doesn’t have traffic (or doesn’t for my area). I can’t see anything about it online either, except discussions about how it could be implemented.

Where do you find the traffic info? Even if zoomed in to New York I see nothing.

I like to think when your employer told you they would record your screen you went out and bought the highest resolution screen money can buy.

Another comment has this down to a bug in IBus, which is for supporting typing non-latin characters.

https://lemmy.nz/post/23401044/15684126

So I get a proper solution, mostly (I think a proper proper solution would be having the bug fixed)