Taasz/Woof

AppImages don’t have any kind of update method do they?

Debian repo is usually really out of date. Fedora is less so but often I’m still not getting the latest versions.

I agree with you there, installing new software on Linux can often be quite a pain if it’s not available on flatpak. Repos will be out of date, appimages don’t auto update, grabbing a binary has no easy way to add to the start menu or taskbar and also doesn’t generally auto update.

Even if it is on flatpak then I often end up dealing with flatpaks annoying permissions blocking normal features like streaming my screen in a browser, which is even more obnoxious.

I still can’t get hardware acceleration for video working on my laptop after months, videos players and browsers struggle to play back anything, something that works perfectly on windows with zero setup.

Since this is based on web analytics, I suspect most of the ‘Uknown’ traffic is AI bots and other scanners, so I’m not sure how that really affects the data.

I guess technically they are generally linux based, but not a desktop OS.

Windows does not cache writes for removable media

So many ‘web hosts’ run really outdated PHP versions, it’s quite frustrating to see.

You can also start to drag, hit alt+tab, and then drop in another window which is how I normally do it.

For 2 that’s neat to have, but how do you send the clipboard or something thats not in a file manager?

I find it really buggy, it often loses connection and won’t connect to multiple devices at once.

Also how is speech to text AI? It has existed for decades, obviously a lot better now but I don’t think I’d consider it “AI”

There’s a ton of added friction when doing things outside the basic ‘install Flatpak app’. Security generally comes at the price of being difficult to use.

For new users it also means virtually every guide or there on fixing an issue or installing extra software won’t apply.

Nice, narrowing it down!

Next thing I would check is your configured DNS servers on the desktop, it needs to have only the pihole IP, if it has any other servers configured that is likely the issue.

Also worth pinging the pihole IP next time it’s not working, to check if it’s actually a networking issue instead of a DNS issue.

I don’t think it’s a problem with PiHole realistically, it sounds more like for some reason your DNS requests are not getting to PiHole.

So I would start with checking if the request is reaching PiHole.

Next time it breaks, before restarting networkmanager, go check the pihole requests log and see if your DNS queries are even showing up there.

If they are, what does pihole show it’s returning for the query, is it the correct IP?

If that’s working properly then I would check if you can ping the server by IP directly, make sure that connection is working.

Uhh… Android has had it’s quick share or whatever they call it for years, is this a new one?

I agree CLI is faster for tasks I do often, but for one-off stuff or rare tasks where I will forget the CLI args, it’s significantly slower having to look up the right commands each time.

I always figured anyone wanting a different shell is probably heavily into Linux to the point that switching it themselves would be fairly trivial.

Is CachyOS a more CLI focused desktop linux? I’m not very familiar with it. Normally on a desktop I avoid the CLI, because the GUI is just easier and faster to use.

Pixel 7 is around $160-180 used right now, that might be a nicer option than the 7a.

Alternatively do the 7a and get a free new battery from Google if it pans out that way…

This looks great, I assume it’s pulling bookmarks directly from the filesystem for the browsers so it doesn’t need an extension?

Yeah they’re making steady progress on major updates, and releasing patches for bugs and tweaks in between.

It’s good, there’s been a few major updates adding new zones, better NPCs, animals, more gear/weapons, and so on…