Stowaway

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[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I use the numpad pretty regularly. Could I survive without it, sure, but its a hell of a lot easier typing IP addresses and other strings of numbers in using a numpad.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

This is my experience with all BT headphones I've had. Maybe they do a quick short stint of searching for an existing device but then auto switch to pairing until a device connects.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 8 points 10 months ago

I dropped them when they charged me an overdraft fee because I over drafted because they charged me an overdraft fee. Then they charged me an over draft fee for over drafting because if the second overdraft fee. Most expensive $5 in gas I've ever paid for.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

This looks like it ticks most of the boxes. I'll have to add it to the list. I think the only drawback is I can't order it on amazon to try with little to no risk. On the other hand, I'd prefer to buy direct anyway.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The K10 Pro and the K10 on the website seems to indicate it looks completely different than that. Maybe they're different versions?

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe I'll just order a couple KeyChron and DasKeyboard to see if any fit the bill.

I can definitely see myself using a smaller keyboard away from my desk, traveling, etc. Definitely use the hell out of the 10 key for work though, so a must at my desk.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sorry typo, Low Profile is what I meant.

The K5 for instance, lists low profile keys and switches. Unfortunately, it doesn't looks like you can hotswap between low profile and standard or I'd go that route :/

I like the K10 for the most part, I just don't like that the switches are covered by the frame/case or whatever you wanna call it. I'm a bit OCD and brush my keyboard pretty much daily, sometimes multiple times... The frame adds a barrier to cleaning.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

While I agree the apps shouldn't be removed, updates aren't just about features. Updates fix bugs, security holes, and improve performance. I'm notsaying these apps in particular have issues, though what app doesnt, just pointing it out in general.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

They seem like they would be good, but the more Ive experienced them the less I like them.

My USG can't get past 250mbps, probably thermal as well. The cloud keys are shotty at best. They build that to make it difficult to disassemble and service. They lock you into their crap software ecosystem that then requires their hardware. Ive setup 2 poe switches and both were warped and have excessive thermals compared to my much larger poe switches.

I am starting to call ubiquiti fauxsumer products...

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure something like 10 years ago crashplan deleted a bunch of customer data in a deduplication job gone wrong.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Google best gaming Linux distros. DraugerOS, Garuda, and popos are all prominent distros focused on gaming.

DraugerOS is Ubuntu LTS based.

Mint, not gaming focused, has been around for ages and is Ubuntu based. I've used it previously on older hardware with no issue. Just apparently doesn't like newer hardware.

Garuda is arch based, probably why it was such a pain.

Popos is Ubuntu based as well.

I've also tried KDE plasma, ubuntu based, and man was that slow as hell. Works great on some hardware not on the hardware I tried.

I've installed Ubuntu in the past and had WiFi driver issues.

You mentioned any modern distros should work out of the box. The only one listed that mostly worked out of the box with semi reasonable performance was popos.

if someone is looking to install a distros to play games, theyll probably google "Linux for gaming" install one of the prominent distros listed above geared toward gaming then bang their head against the wall and quit.

We may understand arch is a full time job, but when Joe from sales builds a new gaming rig and took someone's advice to install Linux and save money he doesn't know all Linux distros are not created equally. Maybe he gets garuda or draugeros and bangs his head against the wall then goes back to windows.

There are a million different distros and yes some of the major ones work fine, but not always and if you run into issues it can be exponentially harder to fix the issue especially if you have no IT experience. Making it even worse is toxicity in forums or other support places where people treat you like you should know better because they have of knowledge of Linux and forget that we all have different levels of experience, many people have no experience.

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

DraugerOS wouldnt even boot from the thumb drive for me. Garuda sort of worked, the live boot was damn near perfect, from a stability and basic performance perspective, but after a basic install there were some annoying artifacts like a block behind the cursor on some windows, steams store page would flash rapidly and performance was trash in any game even on low settings. A Logitech mouse scroll wheel was hit or miss working. I mean like you spin the wheel and while the wheel was free spinning the browser would start and stop responding to it. 8 hours of messing with kernels, drivers, and settings it I threw in the towel. Not worth the effort to just get it to run normally let alone

Arch was similarly poor performance. Mint was also poor performance. Im not a fan of the PopOS style, but it actually ran great on my machine so, I'll take it.

Point being, I tried 4 different distros before finding one that worked mostly well out of box.

Edit: wrong name for draugeros

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