Most of this makes sense if you’re keeping the system fully powered on, but doesn’t apply in sleep mode. Energy usage is a rounding error, there’s no heat, it’s not online, there’s no r/w operations. Blackouts and lighting affecting sleep is a possibility, but I’ve reached a point of taping over anything that emits unecessary light.

The main benefit is that not all environments have a session manager, and I personally have a lot of programs open that I want to have instant access to and not have to spend time opening them and potentially creating a distraction during my wakeup routine.

Don’t think so. It’s currently focused on 4:4:4 colour at high bandwidth (4k@120hz), HDR, and VRR.

Just make sure you use XRizer instead of OpenComposite for OpenVR compatibility as it’s much more advanced at this point. You can also use OpenComposite as a secondary if a particular game doesn’t work with XRizer.

For clarity, OpenVR is the historical standard for VR which is still used by some modern games, although more are supporting OpenXR, which WiVRN handles directly.

See also this compatibility list and the Linux VR Adventures wiki.

Not FOSS or open source in any sense. You could still say it’s self-hosted, but I suspect most people self-hosting care about this.

It’s both, although the former more than the latter. Also, part of the hoarding is likely happening precisely because of the uncertainty of the tariff policies.

Snikket is essentially just prosody but more of an all in one package.

Endurain, a self hosted fitness app, may get gadgetbridge integration once the network helper is finished.

This one is nicer than uptime-kuma if you prefer declarative config.

Probably need a bit more detail for this like caddy logs and your caddy config. I did a similar thing on NixOS with services.acme getting the certs and then configuring the cert files to include caddy group access (I didn’t use caddy directly either for those reading as the DNS challenge approach requires third party plugins which is a bit annoying on NixOS).

Sunshine and moonlight. Or just ssh if it’s for administrative tasks.

tl;dr this extension can provide precise timing information to reduce game stuttering. I could see it being particularly helpful for game emulators.

It looks similar to tailscale and netbird, in that it offers NAT traversal, relays, and proper authentication and access control. Whether or not you need that depends on your circumstances (how many users and their technical proficiency, CG-NAT prevalence, whether you need mesh support, etc).

If you’re just hosting for yourself and you have public ipv4 and ipv6 there’s not much benefit.

Some will let you pay for up to 10 years at the 1 year price, so if you get a deal on a particular tld (as long as it’s not an abused one like .xyz) you can pay upfront and save a decent amount of money.

From memory you should try and avoid 10 year renewals since you can’t transfer to a new registrar for the first year of the new renewal.

You’ll probably want WHOIS privacy support, so make sure the tld supports it.

I didn’t follow a guide, but this guide is probably the closest to how I’d do things.

I’d say if you don’t care that much about the data then either snapraid or RAID-5 is okay; I use snapraid because even if the data is replaceable, I’d prefer to lose only 1 or 2 drives instead of all of them. You should of course have proper 3-2-1 backups for essential/irreplaceable data in any case.

Because modern arrays are often in the multi-TB size recovery can take a significant amount of time (days and weeks potentially) and since RAID-5 only allows one drive to fail, if a second drive fails during that time you’re cooked.

I like to use snapraid combined with mergerfs which technically has the same problem, but because it works on the file level, if a second drive became corrupted, you’d only lose the data on the drive that failed, not the entire array. I combine it with snapraid-btrfs which operates on read-only snapshots instead of raw data, avoiding write hole issues (data changing during sync) and also btrfs itself on each drive gives an additional layer of integrity checking, and rollback support from the snapshots themselves.

Have at look at the AKG N9 too. Great quality audio (and has an EQ profile on AutoEQ if you want to enhance it further) and low latency + high mic quality since it uses a device specific 2.4ghz protocol.

Downside is that the dongle is only supported by the exact headset and you can’t easily replace it, so don’t lose the thing. We really need a audio specific protocol that isn’t tied to bluetooth I think, but it is what it is.

Yeah I have these same headphones, and hate to break it to you, but I’ve only managed to successfully use them for listening to music only. As soon as you put em in headset mode, the audio quality drops to shit, regardless of codec.

This is just inherent to the blutooth audio protocol. Put it in headset mode, get trash tier audio quality or disable the mic and get acceptable quality audio. There might be some proprietary extensions that bypass this but they aren’t likely to be supported on Linux.

LE audio should be better in this respect, but it’s not widely yet (and not by the XM4)

I can confirm it works on both RDNA2 and RDNA4, with one of the cablematters adapters. I did flash the firmware but it also worked before flashing, was just buggier. Freesync and HDR work on both GPUs, also. The only remaining issue I have (before the patchset) is the display going into standby causing issues.

Some adapters already supported Freesync before these changes but of course the TV also requires Freesync support.

Vader 4 Pro but I can’t speak to the experience on Windows. You’ll likely need to use Steam to launch everything on both OSes to get the best experience, too.

Or wait for the Steam Controller refresh which should be launched this year.