Perfect, thank you for the pointers!

I feel this may be a dumb question, for the portion talking about mesa patches for games; how disconnected utilize these patches?

Cant say that I have, but will now!

I used to run LineageOS with a lot of my own tweaks to meet my privacy needs; however I reached a point I decided it didn’t fit my needs for security. So, I went back to GrapheneOS. Which, I am 1uite haply with. Ultimately, I dream of a fully operational Linux phone of sorts; but we aren’t there yet.

I ditched reddit, and most centralized social media. I ditched many big tech services in place of self hosting my own. And even that is mostly locked down. Very little exposed to the web. Ad blocking, as well as my own underlying upstream DNS, with a fallback that isn’t Google or Cloudflare. Services being firewalled off. Reverse proxy setup limiting access via IP:Port while also including SSL certs for local only https.

And this list goes on; it’s a constant journey. But the hard part is to still be social. Hahaha

I get that. We all make choices to decide what we do with our time.

I’m in IT, so I don’t really need to handwrite much. Always a computer at the ready.

Thank you for the laugh, I didn’t catch that. Will edit my comment

Its not that complicated: options.

You are presented with the Steam Deck UI by default. You don’t have to use the desktop.

Installing non-steam games on desktop is handy.

Some people use the steam deck as more than just a game system.

If it’s not for you, don’t use it. Simple as that.

I am surprised I can even write with pen and paper anymore.

Jokes aside, no. I don’t really handwrite anything anymore.

I didn’t play those more than the first gym. ORAS was infinitely better.

I can totally understand where you are coming from.

I do hold the view that if you can read, you too can install GrapheneOS, or try Linux; but that doesn’t make it right for everyone. It’s a self imposed journey. I can’t expect everyone to make the same choices I do.

That is where I will educate people as to why I chose what I chose; however I will not try to force someone down the same road.

So totally understood.

I have taken my own approach; there are things from each layer that I use. Some begrudgingly but others gladly.

The problem I faced when starting this journey is it does cut out a lot of people. And it becomes isolsting. So I did reel back a bit.

I really stopped caring for Pokemon after X and Y, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The switch games were big misses. I kinda liked Sword and Shield, but they had no lasting power on me. Scarlet and Violet are by far the worst Pokemon games to have ever come out of mainline Pokemon.

I didn’t play through Marcus Arceus at all, even though I own it. Maybe I will give that a shot.

What issues do you have?

I self host as well as use bitwardens service.

I pay $10 a year, and never have I had access issues with it.

My self hosted instance houses everything for my other self hosted services.

I can also have my Bitwarden duplicated to my self hosted instance.

However, the only way to access my Vailtwarden instance is via my network. And for my use case, this is perfect.

Neither of them have I had any downtime; like others have said it’s anecdotal.

Oh, absolutely not saying it isn’t user misconfiguration. I need to revisit my autoscrub setup and my maintenance tasks.

Just something to be aware of.

The big struggle I see folks have with BTRFS is reclaiming space. However, that is with something like snap-pac and snapper setup.

The features of BTRFS are nice. Just a bit of a learning curve from my experience.

I run a desktop and laptop with BTRFS.

The left. It’s far superior.

I personally love pacman. And of course AUR wrappers like yay.

Pacman is simple and just works. No fuss.

This was a long time ago, this isn’t something that was there when I had tried with KDE on an Atomic distro.

And I wasn’t asking for anyone to solve it for me. Appreciate the screenshots.