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  • f you have wired or properly standards compliant bluetooth headphones it works fine on both.

    If you have (cheapo) non-compliant stuff it’s a crapshoot on both, but there’s more likely some drivers to make up the difference on windows, whereas on linux you’re deep diving obscure crap, it can be done, but is it really worth the effort?

    If it’s musical instruments, especially midi, you’re often better off on linux these days, but you might have to pay for a DAW and some commercial plugins are hit or miss.









  • Simplest put, a fedora immutable usually keeps two images, the one you’ll boot into next reboot, and the one you’re running. If a rpm-ostree update hasn’t been run it’ll be the one you’re running and the last one. My bazzite (heavier than silverblue I guess) images are ~ 14Gb, you need room for three (the two you’re using and room for downloading the next) plus 3% of your hard drive because fedora says so, so 3*14 = 42 + .03 * 240 = 42 + 7.2 = 49.2 =~ 50Gb.

    Wait a sec, when I actually do a

    sudo du -sh /sysroot/ostree/deploy/fedora/deploy/*

    I get 14Gb for my previous one and 2.1Gb for my current one, so there’s some diff black magic fuckery (ostree chunking) going on, which makes sense because it’s not taking that long to download. So 50Gb would be super safe, you might get away with 25 depending on how different the two images are (i.e. how much has been updated), but updating to the next major fedora version (e.g. 42->43) would be iffy.

    Upshot is, it shouldn’t have filled to 90-something in the first place (maybe before ostree chunking, but even then), but if you end up with a lot of entries in your GRUB they’re all taking a notable chunk of space and you’ll need to purge some.





  • Hmm, just had a thought about getting this sort (meshtastic et.al.) of thing adopted more widely. People generally don’t need the full speed of their internet all, or even most of the time, they mostly buy a speed they can afford that makes their big downloads (e.g. games, updates, perhaps streaming) more tolerable. If a mesh system could aggregate a bunch of users connections they could probably buy cheaper plans knowing that when they need it they can have the speed.

    Anyone knowledgeable in the ways of meshtastic or other such, does it, or anything else you know of fill this niche ? The wallet is always a good motivator…

    Presumably ISPs etc would quickly make it against terms of service, but if there’s some bucks in it a lot of people won’t care…,