Oh man, I’m gonna look into this. I’m currently running Bluefin, but maybe I’ll pivot over to Aurora 🤔

Thanks!

Oh man I forgot about this! How long has it been dead? Why does no one want this?

I had this running on Ubuntu on my laptop back in the day

Yeah I preordered for sure

Right?

I get it, more frames more better, and I agree.

But I don’t expect the steam deck to be a super performance machine. And personally, I am not that affected by 30fps. Below 30 it does start to bother me, and above 30 is significantly smoother.

I’m currently playing through HFW, and I can average about 40, it drops to 30 at times, and occasionally dips below, but by and large I’m very happy with it.

IIRC it’s glued in, and there might be other barriers beyond that

IDK about non issue. I have a framework laptop, and even though the battery is very easily replaceable, I still set the charge limit to 80%.

I don’t require the extra charge the majority of the time, and now I don’t have to worry about replacing my battery for a much longer period of time.

Though I agree, for as serviceable as the steam deck is, a little more attention could’ve been paid to the battery situation.

Thanks for this, but I apologize, I’m still confused.

You’ve described fixed gear, and geared, I think we now agree as to what these are.

But what is a single speed bike? I’ve never heard of it. Is it a geared bike, with only one gear, but still has a tensioner? So it can’t have hub brakes? Why would such a thing exist?

I had to skip 3, two would dox me, one was a private Google doc.

That leaves us here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/insouciance-2025-04-30

Good to know lol, thanks

Oh I get it, I guess I never heard it pronounced that way. British maybe?

As an American, this disagrees with my worldview. But I also don’t know enough about the British version to say your wrong 🤷‍♂️

I never watched the British one, and I don’t care for the American one, too cringey. Makes me sympathetic cringe.

I’m so confused. Drawbacks of a geared bike? As opposed to what? Flintstoning it?

I must just not be understanding what you mean.

I’ve ridden bikes with no derailer or gears, when you backpedal, you brake.

And I’ve ridden mountain bikes with front and rear gear changing.

I know there are super exotic driveshaft bikes, and electric etc, but besides that, what could you be talking about?

Could you elaborate? I’m dumb.

According to my pet peeve, this looks fine? I just scrolled past a meme that said something like “download a ISO” and I was like gah, no, it’s AN ISO.

I was thinking more like using an immutable or atomic os instead, like bazzite or bluefin. At least then you get regular updates, and core functionality is safely protected.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the 1.0 of freecad.

I don’t use CAD professionally, and even my hobby usage is less than it was, and it was only a dozen or two small projects.

I had never used freecad, always fusion 360. I’ve been away for awhile, and also switched to Linux in the meantime. I needed to make a simple object, and tried freecad 1.0, and I literally could not intuit how to begin. Not a single shape, I was so lost, it was very frustrating.

I tried onshape and got a bit further, but still don’t like the corporate nature of it.

I’m not trying to slam freecad, I really want it to work, and when I have more time to sit down and study it, I want to try again. But in the meantime I went back to fusion 360 in a VM, which was very sluggish, but at least I knew where everything was.

This actually got me into a car accident as a young driver.

I had just gotten on the highway heading home, rural towns. The gas gauge was broken so I had to count miles on the odometer to know when I was low, and I realized at that moment that I was desperately in need of gas.

So I took the first exit, and started looking for a gas station. I’m driving the speed limit, 55mph, and coming around a very large slowly sweeping curve I see what looks like a gas station up ahead on the left. There are no other businesses on the road. It had a tall sign out front. I didn’t recognize the sign, I was trying to read what it said, to see if it was a gas station or not. But I couldn’t read it. I was struggling to make sense of what I was seeing, honestly. A Martin Glass? An olive? I don’t remember all the things on it. But the point is, it was items, party items, that spelled out the word… party? It was a party store… and then I hit the guy in front of me who was stopped dead in the middle of the road waiting to turn left into a driveway.

I was so distracted trying to read that stupid sign, I didn’t even see him until the last second. I had time to swerve a bit, and I locked the brakes. I ended up hitting his back right bumper and crushing it in, a glancing blow that didn’t even touch his trunk. Just the bumper. He drove away no problem.

My car was a different story, it tore my lower control arm and snapped my tie-rod. Took out the front left quarter panel, hood, bumper, and headlight too. I had to get towed home, like 2 hours.

Technically my fault, and I got the ticket. But dang it if to this day, I don’t still blame that stupid sign. The Martini glass was the Y, I think the olive was the A? I don’t remember, I should try finding it again.

Yeah I’ve looked into jellyfin, it just isn’t as convenient yet.

If that improves, or if Plex gets nuked, I’ll make the switch 🤷‍♂️

I prefer open source where I can 👍

Awesome! Yeah I’ve tinkered with some server stuff and it’s definitely fun when it works haha

Ok great! I guess I didn’t know the definition was so broad, I’m definitely already toying with Plex, and I had plans for setting up a RAID and a backup schedule so I can safely run immich. A matrix server was on my list too.

Thanks for the other ideas!

What’s your elevator pitch for homelab?