As a side note, how do people handle HTTPS with private networks (VPN or local) these days? I typically just stick to HTTP, but it would be nice to get rid of the warnings/lock (and I use HTTPS-only mode and firefox seems to require a fresh exception for every port).

I can’t offer any advice since I don’t own a Quest, but the ALVR discord may be of help.

I’m about due for a replay along with Tamriel Rebuilt which I haven’t checked out since they added a significant amount of new quests.

It’s the power usage and physical space that puts me off those kind of solutions. Of course, that varies a lot based on your living circumstances (location, whether you own a house, etc).

Decent enough midrange devices and good custom rom support, but missing the features that some of their competitors have (headphone jack, SD slot, etc) although I get that is becoming increasingly niche unfortunately.

I believe some use tailscale for this, although I don’t entirely like having a third party store wireguard keys if I’m understanding it correctly.

It’s a nice improvement on Kobo e-ink readers in particular, with much better usage of space and lots of options for tweakers.

Annoying side note: I’m getting like 5 notifications from comment replies on Firefox desktop, I think it might be one for every tab. Think I’ll disable that for now.

I’m doing it with openwrt x86, since I need SQM + wireguard (and at least the former still isn’t supported on *sense last time I checked). Works fine in all honesty, and I can reboot the VM much faster than real hardware.

No koreader support yet which is a deal breaker for me, but I’ll keep an eye on it for sure.

It could be some pipewire weirdness on the client, I’m not sure. I’ll probably also try using pipewire or pulse on the host and use their built in named pipe support. Maybe that will work better.

Aliexpress has some reasonably affordable fanless mini PCs. Not quite as low power but you can run a heap of containers on them since they are more powerful and x86 and some of them have multiple ethernet ports which can be useful for router purposes etc

Bandcamp are also one of the few that sell lossless FLAC files, and while I don’t really care about listening to FLAC directly, it makes sense as an archive format.

You can use third party sites to find communities, if you’re not seeing them in the search (because they haven’t federated yet) with one of these:

https://lemmyverse.net/ https://browse.feddit.de/

But that’s still going to a third party site so it would nice to have it integrated into the interface.

Personally I use Snapcast as an endpoint, plain MPD for local files, and navidrome for remote access to my library.

That’s where I’ve been heading too. The snapcast client has been a bit unreliable for me on my desktop though (choppy and stuttering) but it’s great in its unix-like flexibility and I’m sure it will continue to get better.

Honestly, I hope that mobile connections in my country are one day: fast enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough that I could just use snapcast remotely and get truly seamless self-hosted streaming but that’s still a long way away I suspect.

I check PCGW more prominently these days because even if the original game works, you can expect there to be some quirks that exist on Windows as well that Proton accurately replicates.

Not so much a quote I say out loud, but I often think of the scene where Lurr is buying human horn:

I’m just some guy… RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8.

Apparently he would keep the secret service protection, although this is uncharted waters for sure. Opening Arguments podcast OA758: Re-Indicted And It Feels So Good! seems to agree.

They are particularly annoying on the Steam Deck and other handhelds where not being online is common.

Anyway, I dislike it in general but like you I’ve put up with it in some cases (see the Hitman series).

Not quite what you are asking for, but here’s a list of source ports of commercial games, most of which have Linux ports.

Oh and I’ll single out The Ur-Quan Masters as an older source port of Star Control II. Old enough that the port itself is nostalgic for me, although it’s still being updated by the looks of it.

I prefer the way XMonad handles multimonitor workspaces, but left for Sway due to wayland support.