amorpheus

Sure. On the other hand, one implementation seems like it would be fairly useless.

Yeah, functionality between these varies, I know some of them can tell you what capabilities the cable’s chip spits out.

An example I randomly picked:

https://www.amazon.de/Messgerät-Strommessgerät-Multimeter-Strommesser-Leistungskapazität/dp/B0DK5GGVLM

These days a ~10€ gadget can tell you about the electricity going through a USB connection and what the cable is capable of. I don’t like the idea of basically requiring this to get that knowledge, but considering the limited space on the USB-C plugs I’m not sure anything is likely to improve about their labeling.

Going by your comments, I think you need to know a few basics before you get into people’s suggestions for actual services. Start with this: more or less, “the cloud” is just someone else’s computer. It’s bigger, the connection is faster, etc., but the services you use most likely run on a Linux computer much like the one you already have.

For experimenting with the topic, it would be good to have another computer that you can mess around with and not worry about having a usable machine. If you can cobble together a desktop from old parts it will be enough to start the learning process.

CAD on Linux sucks. Most is made as Windows only, and many people have tried running it through Wine (Bottles) or other janky methods. Don’t even try it.

How is gaming not a problem any more, but CAD is? Shouldn’t the same tools work to enable both?

Shouldn’t a system that was set up with Secure Boot refuse to start if it were disabled? Otherwise there wouldn’t be any protection against these attacks.

I don’t think setting up the system again is a simple remedy to having problems with this feature.

Who needs to save characters that much?

Do you realize how old assembly language is?

It predates hard disks by ten years and coincided with the invention of the transistor.

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

After reading this recently, I’m really skeptical about the future of Linux, since everyone seems to be jumping on the train. Are all the people using Wayland arranging their windows every time a program launches, or running a tiling WM?

On my HTPC I have similar problems, Ubuntu is looking to retire X11 support but I rely on an app that allows me to use my smartphone as an input device. Any replacement I see working with Wayland (i.e. literally getting new hardware that would be kept near the TV) would be a downgrade.

I disagree that Gnome is intuitive on a fundamental level. They’re trying the Apple way of UI design without the millions in R&D.

It doesn’t relay all traffic, that’s a fallback if a connection can’t be established.

External drives that I keep in my office at work. Also cloud storage.

whatever helps you justify paying $120 for software

Does that sound like a lot to you?

Considering the use I got out of it, even if I switch to something else tomorrow, the cost for the lifetime pass was peanuts. I’m sure others making that decision based on the situation today will feel the same in a few years. If Plex seems like the best solution today it’s not going to fall off the cliff before $120 were worth it.

Not like FOSS projects are immune to bad decisions, and then you either fork it yourself or depend on unpaid volunteers to keep the version you like alive. There’s always some risk.

It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

Please elaborate how you needed to “accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup”.

When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

I set Plex up as an inexperienced selfhoster in 2020 and it was easy.

It just means they’ve survived the first part of the bathtub curve. To me that’s a bonus.

That PC is on Ubuntu LTS so it didn’t come to mind. The app I’ve been using is called Unified Remote and was generally pretty neat, not so much about tying my phone to the PC.

I use an app to control the mouse and keyboard of my home theater PC from my smartphone. Will that ever be able to work?