Weimar Republic vibes. Will conservatives think they can control fascists and that they “won’t be that bad”? Hopefully they come to their senses, but I’m not holding my breath.

I’ll add I installed it on my OLED deck, and no obvious issues stand out. Chucked nix on it with the Determinate Nix Installer and deployed my Pipewire EQ and vkBasalt configs without issue (and without some of the audio output issues that SteamOS introduced with the 3.5 update). Oh and vkBasalt comes installed OOTB, which solves some maintenance annoyances with keeping it working on SteamOS.

Steam game mode UI feels slightly snappier, perhaps down to using the BORE CPU scheduler (but it could be placebo of course).

I heard it messes with mozilla firefox

It’s a Nvidia driver bug, so if you’re not on Nvidia you should be good.

Im getting slight fps drops that dont seem to relate to the steam fps counter.

You could try enabling mangohud with the full config. From steam launch options:

 MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full MANGOHUD=1 %command%

This will give you more detail than just FPS, although if you don’t still have your old setup it would be challenging to compare.

is it possible to set the steamdeck to “default” to always keep picking the steamdeck speaker as default audio out also when an HDMI is connected through the USB-C?

Some audio issues were introduced in the SteamOS 3.5 update (partly due to having to handle the OLED model around the same time) which causes the HDMI problem. Hopefully it will be fixed in SteamOS 3.6 or 3.7. I’ve found that Bazzite doesn’t have the issue, although obviously that’s an invasive change, and I understand it’s still a bit buggy with the OLED model.

how do y’all combine music and games?

I think doing what you want could be a bit technically involved. One way might be to have one device control the music, and then cast it to the deck with snapcast or similar. Then, if you can get a snapcast client on the deck to be persistently running in the background, any music that is played on the other device, will be heard on the Deck.

Or more simply, you could try pairing your Deck in bluetooth from another device, and then select that Deck as an output. This is assuming that the Deck allows this, and that your source device supports it (Android did last time I tried).

Could be useful for PiKVM or equivalent.

A Steam commenter claims this is the full list of missing content:

Missing DLC:

Mitsubishi Car Pack
1992 Mitsubishi Galant VR4
1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
1997 Mitsubishi GTO
1999 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VI GSR
2004 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII MR
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX MR
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X GSR

Hot Wheels™ Legends Car Pack
2018 Hot Wheels 2JetZ.
1972 Hot Wheels Chevrolet LUV.
1949 Hot Wheels Ford F-5 Dually Custom Hot Rod.
1969 Hot Wheels International-Harvester Loadstar CO-1600.
1957 Hot Wheels Nash Metropolitan Custom.
1957 Hot Wheels Studebaker Golden Hawk 'Dream Roadster'

Misc.
Quarz Regalia
1967 Sunbeam Tiger
1979 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus

So presumably the main expansions stay.

Note: Not actual Linux ports to be clear but I believe the original versions already ran fine, including their limitations.

It seems the DLC has already been delisted, so you won’t be able to buy that content now.

It’s unclear to me if the Ultimate Edition still includes some or all of the DLC, or if the current DLC delisting is just purchasing them individually. You can try parsing this FAQ from the devs: https://support.forzamotorsport.net/hc/en-us/articles/30662484986387-Forza-Horizon-4-Delisting-FAQ

Yeah, I understand. It was more of a shout into the void type comment, then a criticism.

They’re keeping the 256gb LCD for now, although that could change in the future of course.

Monado is the only semi-viable thing at the moment, but it’s still really in the tinkerer phase. Annoyingly, much of the discussion about it is on discord.

EDIT: And Linux VR Adventures is the place to go for relatively simple instructions about how to set things up, and what is currently supported.

Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it’s a manual process, particularly since it’s not normally included in released videos. And I’m not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).

mpv definitely does support it at least, with “–replaygain=track”.

Of course, none of this helps with OPs situation, because enabling replaygain will actually lower the volume on most files, so it can account for high dynamic range content.

The situation is a lot better with music, but it’s not perfect. There’s still issues with region locking content, and content only existing on one service and not another.

Should work out of the box with Plasma 5/6 (6 if you want HDR) and Sway.

VRR didn’t work with older firmware versions but there have been updates since so the manufacturer information may be out of date. If it doesn’t work, there are links in the gitlab thread for newer firmware (you’ll probably need Windows to update although I saw some vague references that it might be possible on Linux). The adapter is mostly useless on Windows for the record, although you can just swap to a direct HDMI connection in that case.

Oh and I’ll add there are some instances where you may need to power cycle your TV/monitor and/or switch console VTs, if you get a black screen or if HDR fails to toggle on/off.

And lastly, gamescope session didn’t work reliably last time I checked, but it’s been a while.

Most people are talking about fossil fuels in terms of electricity and transport, which can and should be transitioned to renewable energy and electric vehicles as fast as possible (ideally with some people moving away from cars altogether).

And the poll itself is specifically talking about renewable energy, so it’s not like the article is confused on that point.

Yes, manufacturing is a harder problem, especially when it’s not just used as an energy source. But the easier problems need to be attacked as quickly as possible to reduce the risk of runaway climate change.

I think there are more people that are #1 and #2 the same time

Probably where some of the attitude comes from. People are assuming that it’s paid IT people bringing their work home with them, which is a different case then a casual user trying out self-hosting without the broader background.

Although I haven’t seen this attitude myself so I suspect it’s not that common, and probably just a handful of users jumping to conclusions.

I haven’t tried it, but Tube Archivist may fit the bill.

The downside with ULA is that ipv4 is given preference, which is annoying on dual stack networks. I believe there is a draft RFC to change this but it will take a while for it to be approved and longer still for OSes to change their behaviour. I workaround it by using one of the unused (but not ULA) prefixes.

Pretty cool especially since it’s RISC-V. I’d have some concerns about the software and driver side of things, though (and the performance).

Ah Nvidia. Bazzite uses Wayland I believe since it uses the same gamescope session as SteamOS (unless something has changed recently). While it may be possible to get it working, I’d expect a much better time with an AMD card.

A traditional distribution may be a better bet with Nvidia for now.