huh, as far as I know, fedora act autonomously as a project, though are very much bankrolled by ibm / redhat. I wasn’t aware of the IDF support on their part. that’s really upsetting, and good to know, thank you.

To your other points, I think .debs will be an easier ecosystem to get to grips with, and the explicit lack of nonfree software by default (including codecs) does indeed introduce a level of friction.

As other commenters have mentioned, it would be neat if you could disable snaps on zorin in favour of flatpak, provided they’ve committed to the ubuntu route of bundling system components under that paradigm. UX wise I don’t think either experience will differ too much, though you’ll find more first party packaging on the latter

The win10 ESU has been extended for yet another year, so you have a bit more time. Your partner sounds reasonably tech savvy. could be worth grabbing a few different distros on a ventoy drive to play around with, even though the main factor in terms of UX is often the DE.

might have a slight bias here but fedora workstation has been a reliable system for me and I’m just a dumb guy on the internet. I use it with gnome + plugins to make gnome leas daft, though the kde spin is solid.

openconnect should work with cisco anyconnect; you can theoretically connect via CLI but that may be a bit rough UX wise. You could also set her connect command up to a global hotkey in gnome or whatever, and initiate a connection via keyboard shortcut.

Office via web might be the best should for now, however.

you should be able to create bootable flash drives with dd

it’s not as convenient but there are several client apps using the wormhole protocol. They generally require devices to be on the same network but you can tether outside of that scenario.

I’m quite fond of LocalSend.

Wayland is more secure than x11 by design and more concise in scope. Notably it supports contemporary display technologies like display independent scaling, VRR, colour space (HDR) and several others.

Wayland is made by the x11 people.

Kind of similar to https://send.vis.ee/ which was forked from Firefox Send, though the public instance is limited to 2.5 GiB transfers.

yes, absolutely, though I’ve seen it much more amongst other end users.

As I’ve mentioned, games will load your system differently from one another. Someone who claims their system is stable with their custom tunings in every game except for something new that they’ve recently installed does not have a stable system. this is a case my colleagues and I see over and over.

Extensively, across various compute and graphics generations. I presently do so even now, though I wouldn’t offer that to a user completely unfamiliar with the domain as some kind of silver bullet; it doesn’t sidestep package power limits.

I work in client gfx at an IHV; I am intimately familiar with system integrity routines, component stress testing and tuning, particularly with DIY systems. Nothing about what I’ve recommended is “a waste of time and electricity” when you’re privy to the breath of defects averted in the field after following proper guidance.

Don’t take your own experiences for granted, if this person was familiar with the concept, they wouldn’t need to ask.

that’s not how stress testing works. Different games will present different load to a given combination of hardware. Besides that, computers are used for many more tasks in addition to gaming. Careless re-tuning can lead to a lapse in system integrity in ways that aren’t immediately apparent, but damaging all the same.

undervolting is all well and good but warrants component stress testing versus regular PL targets.

may help to know your device models, but power limiting is generally what you’re after. Your hardware may determine the methods used.

Hey, no problem.

Yes - the depicted side buttons channel into just one of the rear-side pinouts, and even then I think each side can support many more than just two inputs. I believe there are a few examples on the site and repository, but those resources still need to be built out some more.

I’d recommend reaching out to the designer directly. He’s pretty active in his discord server, though if you’d prefer not to use discord I’d be happy to ask on your behalf if you have a concise idea of what you’d like to do.

This looks really nice. Thanks for sharing

That’s not weird at all 😊 and yeah it only started shipping a couple months ago.

You should be able to achieve any number of input combinations with the breakout boards. The designer sent me loads of extras and I should really put them to use 😅

Hell, I’m planning on using the same base board to make a wireless macro pad later on. Unfortunately the community is on discord but you can hop in and see what other people have been making.

Check out the moddo mouse if you want a wireless, modular, open source gaming mouse, so long as you’re either comfortable with ultra lightweight fingertip style shells or 3D printing your own

I also have a ploopy mouse but I really dislike the scroll wheel design. I need to fix that somehow

it’s great to see Alexander right in the phoronix comments for that article! 😅

top lad. brave guy

appreciate you 😊

I think that could work well. looking forward to more diversity in compute in the future! 😊

That’s fine, it’s an emerging ISA, as with any, it takes some time before perf and sw compatibility reach a good spot.

I think the key novelty to rv especially compared to x86_64 and arm is that there are no licencing restrictions: anyone is free to design and produce products based on that ISA, making more viable for vendors to more easily provide in-house silicon solutions. It’s already become fairly popular in lower power devices, like for IoT and wearables. My smart soldering iron uses a little 32 bit RISC V CPU and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s found some use in automotive, particularly in China.

As we alluded to above, there are several designs available for more general use, and you may find that they handle your compute needs fairly well already, but they won’t be within striking distance of other ISAs if high performance is a requirement.