No, Vive and Index work ok on Linux, but they are not mobile like the OP asked for since they require base stations.

The official Steam Link app doesn’t work with Linux as the streaming source right now. So you need to use something like ALVR, which I was told is quite hit and miss.

The US doesn’t have exclusive rights to “America” as a name. In fact strictly speaking “Gulf of America” is not a bad name since it is the largest gulf in the Americas AFAIK.

Currently there is no such thing unless you count the Quest3 which is very badly supported under Linux.

Space most likely. They are trying to have a larger screen without increasing the overall size.

I think the touchpads are a good idea, but realistically speaking most games that are fun to play on a handheld don’t need them.

Yeah, beginners are probably better served with Yunohost.

Well usually the opposite happens. People make many releases and outsource the testing to unsuspecting users.

This is IMHO fine if you clearly mark these releases as release candidates or such, so that people can make their own risk judgement. But usually that isn’t the case and one minor version looks like any other unless you have a closer look at the actual changes in the code.

I think the better option is to have many releases that are clearly marked as beta-test releases or release candidates for those that don’t mind testing stuff.

“Bigger” is a bit missleading here. Really bigger updates obviously require a major version bump to signify to users that there is potential stability or breakage issues expected.

But “bigger” in the other sense i.e. meaning slower, means that there was more time for people to run pre-release versions if they are adventurous and thus there is better testing.

Of course this assumes that there are actual beta testers and that it is easy to do so by creating such beta releases.

Yeah, running it like that here. Works fine for the most part, except that the hybrid inverter that I bought advertised “UPS” mode, but it doesn’t actually switch fast enough to avoid also adding a proper UPS (but running an UPS chained is another issue…).

It sounds a bit strange as it does actually run off the battery all the time (unless below the minimum charge limit, when it seamlessly switches to grid power automatically), but due to legal requirements it needs to switch to another supply mode when the grid power fails and this switch is not entirely seamless on my inverter.

Rebuilding my main router to work with 10gbe fiber that recently became available here. Although it is a tad expensive, so I am not actually sure yet if I will upgrade my contract.

I’m mildly interested to test it once their from scratch reimplementation of the XMPP backend works. Maybe I can then finally stop screaming at prople that still use Pidgin as an xmpp client despite it being at least 15 years out of date.

You can use the Nextcloud app with the much simpler KaraDAV backend. Works fine for photo backups.

Nvidia’s driver is mainly a datacenter product, desktop users are at best an afterthought and usually just irrelevant.

Get a GPU from a vendor that actually cares about Linux desktop use (or rather doesn’t actively prevent users from making an open-source driver that works properly).

The audio is very quiet, it’s probably a microphone or post processing issue.

Castropod is cool, maybe you can try to figure out why it doesn’t properly federate with Lemmy and file some issues on both sides?