SteamOS 3.0's Potential: The Living Room PC Strikes Back

> Do you have any predictions for the Steam Deck? — Gardiner Bryant (@gardiner_bryant) July 24, 2021 [https://twitter.com/gardiner_bryant/status/1418945786465951754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Ok so I always have too much to say so I figured this time I'll write it down! The Steam…

Running snaps on Fedora Silverblue

My foray into immutable Linux distro desktops continues. After trying out openSUSE's MicroOS desktop [https://www.ypsidanger.com/23800-running-snaps-on-opensuse-microos-desktop/] and enjoying it I thought I would come back and try Fedora Silverblue [https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/] and give it a shot. OpenSUSE never broke by the way if…

USG and dnsmasq

About three weeks ago my usually-reliable-af Unifi gear started having a problem, the wifi just turned to trash, the UI log was just filled with clients connecting and disconnecting over and over again. Everything was mostly just broken: Most of my clients were showing up as "60%" on…

GNOME isn't as slow as you think it is

It's just a bad default. I snagged a brand new computer from System76 and was initially disappointed with the desktop snappiness. Then I remembered that this is a thing, I just don't reinstall often enough to make it into my muscle memory. Grab this extension, it&…

Running Snaps on openSUSE MicroOS Desktop

UPDATE: Apparently this is documented in the openSUSE revamped docs [https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-docs-revamped/blob/dev/project/docs/microos_getting_started.md#installing-snaps] - just follow those instructions! UPDATE2: I can't get the method linked above to survive reboots, so keeping my method here for now. I&…

Using GitHub Discussions for Meeting Notes

My compatriot Wayne Witzel [https://github.com/wwitzel3] pointed out to me how his team at Octant [https://octant.dev] publishes their meeting notes and I think it's fantastic. They publish their notes [https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/discussions] right into GitHub. Here's a specific example…

I've stopped feeling guilty about blocking ads

You've seen it, the make-you-feel guilty popups and notices on websites asking you to stop blocking ads. I know writers and people who have worked in online media, so I am empathetic towards their cause -- I also wish that the model was more sustainable. But like, I&…