Do you use a USB bluetooth dongle?

If yes, add a small USB extension cable between the dongle and the port, a few centimeters are enough.

If no, antennas improve reliability a lot. I swapped my internal M.2 bluetooth module to a more modern one and added magnetic antennas to the side of my case. No more disconnects since then (without xpadneo).

Majima is the best.

I really miss playing as him with breaker style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAGRUO1nwM

I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

and thought Microsoft was fixing up their filesystem.

NTFS now comes with Copilot integrated, automatically placing your files where you will never find them again.

The Matrix server is a normal Signal client that can encrypt/decrypt messages from your account.

Assuming you trust your server, no. I would not use it on a third party Matrix server.

Sure, I got all my Signal/Telegram chats synced to my Matrix server.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

That explains why my Matrix <-> Signal bridge was complaining about being disconnected.

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?

Speaking of whales, you might like https://games-on-whales.github.io/

It creates virtual displays on the fly and runs completely in the background. Requires a little bit of setup as well as Docker running but it’s pretty neat.

EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.

What’s wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?

It does work via Flatpak, you have to give Freetube the “D-Bus session bus” permission and then put the following in your external player settings (this launches the flatpak mpv):

External player

mpv

Custom External Player Executable:

flatpak-spawn

Custom External Player Arguments:

–host flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv <any mpv arguments you need>

syncing to the clown, none of that

What did that clown ever do to you?

my goal is to consolidate sources to multiple outputs not to separate them.

Works the same way, just in reverse.

Put the following in ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/10-virtual.conf

context.objects = [
    {   factory = adapter
        args = {
            factory.name     = support.null-audio-sink
            node.name        = "Virtual-Sink-1"
            node.description = "Virtual Sink 1"
            media.class      = "Audio/Sink"
            audio.position   = "FL,FR"
        }
    }
]

If you need more than stereo, you can adjust it in audio.position. If you need multiple devices, just copy/paste the block between the {} multiple times and rename the device.

After that restart your system, you should now have a new audio device called Virtual Sink 1, select it as default device.

Start qpwgraph and connect the Virtual sink(s) to your output device(s) by dragging the monitor nodes to the playback nodes:

You can now try if everything sounds correctly. If it does, hit Ctrl + S in qpwgraph to save your patchbay somewhere. It will save all the connections you just made and establish them on start and on the fly if new devices are added.

Next up, add an autostart entry for qpwgraph. This depends on your desktop environment, add the --minimized flag so you don’t see the qpwgraph window every boot. You can also select “Start minimized to system tray” in “Graph” -> “Options”.

If you only need certain applications to go to both devices, you can also achieve this without the virtual device by just dragging your application node directly to your bluetooth device in qpwgraph and saving the patchbay, it will route the audio automatically every time the application starts.

Check out qpwgraph: https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.rncbc.qpwgraph

It’s like Helvum but it can save patchbays and restore them on boot.

The easiest solution is to create a virtual audio device through your Pipewire config and then use qpwgraph to link them up to your physical device on boot.

I can copy my Pipewire virtual device config if you need it.

I have used this setup to separate game audio from voice audio when streaming for years.

You don’t need Lutris, the itch.io launcher takes care of everything.

As for DayZ, I don’t want to risk playing any competitive games on Linux and getting myself a spurious VAC ban

You only get game bans in DayZ. For what it’s worth, I have been playing DayZ on Linux on and off for years and never got banned.

The official itch.io launcher also works just fine on Linux:

https://itch.io/app

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.itch.itch

DayZ runs out of the box on Steam as well.

Thanks, Github thinking it is merged explains why I was not able to find it.

Do you have a link for that PR?

If you don’t follow their tuning guide, Nextcloud does run very poorly on SQLite and without Redis/caching. Apache also performs significantly worse than nginx + php-fpm.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html

It does run very well with Postgres + Redis + php-fpm + OPcache and has been pretty much the center of my selfhosting endeavor since ownCloud times.

mailcow-dockerized is great, really makes email setup so much easier.

Do you ever send mails to Gmail and Office365? Do you get through the spam filter without PTR record?