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I switched to Wayland over two years ago and these days I don't look back at all. I don't care if Wayland has full feature parity with X11 as long the features I actually use are supported which they are.

Clipboard sharing in VirtualBox doesn't work right now (though I'm relatively sure it could be implemented by VirtualBox right now with Wayland as it is) and neither does AutoTyping in KeePassXC (not sure if there's a mechanism for that on Wayland), though Autofill in the Browser works so it's no big deal to me.

In return I get 1:1 touch gestures, better multi monitor support and an overall smoother desktop on Plasma Wayland so I'll take it.

People often still make complaints about Wayland that have been fixed months or years ago and it's a bit tiring.

s2idle is unfortunately the only supported state on my system apparently, no deep sleep :(

For the calendar plasmoid you can set the preference for the first day of the week independently of your locale, in case that's all you need.

Idk. The powdery stuff on top is actually just a bit of nutritional yeast.

I've had lentils based bolognese at a restaurant before. It wasn't bad, but I prefer this one by far. I guess we all have different tastes :)

I have a feeling they're slowly but steadily moving from deb packages to snap-only completely. Because unlike what Mark Shuttleworth said when they abandoned Unity, Canonical doesn't let their users decide which technologies should catch on. The Linux desktop as a whole is moving to a Flatpak future for desktop apps, yet Ubuntu keeps pushing Snaps down their users throats whether they want it or not and sort of "fight" Flatpak on Ubuntu spins.

I get it, Snaps are more versatile than Flatpak, you could make everything on the system a snap (can't ship a DE or the kernel as a Flatpak now, can you) and CLI programs as Flatpaks also suck compared to snap (and distro packages obviously), but for desktop apps Flatpaks are just the obvious choice and the Linux community has shown that.

I'm waiting for the day where you can install Flatpak as a snap on Ubuntu lmao

My home server is a RockPro64. I didn't specifically buy it for that purpose but since I had it lying around I figured I might as well use it.

It has a PCIe Slot which I used for a SATA controller, with two 3,5" HDDs.

They have an official NAS case for it too, not sure I'd recommend it as it's kind of expensive, doesn't isolate HDD vibration / noise at all and isn't very convenient to service (to replace the drives for instance). I'm not aware of a better case option for this board though.

I run debian and OpenMediaVault on it (I didn't have to mess with the kernel or device tree at all), with the ZFS plugin, and several docker containers (Jellyfin, PiHole, Syncthing, Tailscale).

For my needs it's working perfectly fine and doesn't need much power. But:

• It isn't particularly great at video transcoding
• 4GB of RAM isn't a ton especially with ZFS, keep that in mind if you wish to run more / heavier services such as Nextcloud
• being ARM based, this board basically limits you to OMV or manually setting up stuff on Linux through the CLI, as TrueNAS, Unraid and Proxmox only support x86. OMV is fine for it's core functionality and you can get some more advanced features through plugins, but at that point it often gets kind of janky and annoying compared to e. g. TrueNAS. Also, the KVM plugin apparently doesn't work on ARM.

TL;DR these low power ARM boards are just fine as a cheap option for getting into homelab / Self hosting and I wouldn't necessarily recommend against them, but sooner or later I want to build a low power x86 based NAS with more RAM, SSD cache and TrueNAS Scale instead.

Reminds me of this...

Sometimes I'll randomly remember a joke or funny situation from years ago and suddenly grin or laugh about it again. Then people ask me what's so funny and I can't really explain.

You can use VAAPI or NVENC for hardware encoding, I believe there are presets for that in the render dialog nowadays. I think that is or was broken in the AppImage though. Using the GPU for actually processing heavy effects (like color correction, chroma keying, transformations etc) is currently not possible and the GPU processing option in the settings is broken. And many of these effects are single threaded on the CPU.

Kdenlive unfortunately isn't amazing at really utilizing your hardware. Getting better though.

I've never had good luck with distro packages of Kdenlive, on any distro. Always crashing and glitching. The Flatpak has always been much more stable for me, and the AppImage is even more solid.