I assume SSH is not exposed to the internet by default on openSUSE? I have not used SSH on my install so should I be safe if I just update?

For any one who finds it in the future - I just set a Steam launch with gamescope set to half my native resolution, fullscreen and enabled fsr. Games run at the weird 1128x752 and FSR makes it look even better but I get great performance.

Just wanted to report back that this worked perfectly.

This but I don’t have time or knowledge.

• Haken - Fauna
• Baroness - Stone
• Far Beyond - The Moment of Creation
• Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
• Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
• Omnerod - The Amensal Rise

I don’t know about all time, but…

• Visigoth - Revenant King - the intro and all the variations on it throughout the song
• Eternal Champion - A Face in the Glare
• Unleashed - Midvinterblot - I know it’s super basic but it gets me amped up regardless
• Opeth - Serenity Painted Death - Already mentioned but damn

Oddly most of my favorite stuff - like prog metal - I tend to not like a particular riff from.

I grew up on Zeppelin, some AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, etc… and my parents just called it all “hard rock.”

I’ve never heard a “metal head” call AC/DC metal. They are part of that group of hard rock musicians like KISS and Alice Cooper that got lumped in to metal in the 70s and 80s primarily because of their style.

I feel like some people take the stance that any heavy music they like is metal and any heavy music they don’t like is not. I’m not someone who gets up in arms about people calling Slipknot metal and consider myself to be fairly flexible on my definition of metal but every band you listed is hard rock.

Metal is like porn, I know it when I see it. But there are some tricky ones like djent. Meshuggah “sounds like” metal to me while some of the instrumental bands like Arch Echo and Scale the Summit are some of my favorites but don’t really have any metal riffs or song structure. I don’t really know what to call them.

You can’t just install an arbitrary Linux distro on an Android tablet.

If you want to run Linux, buy something like the Juno or Librem tablets.

Don’t be afraid to customize your install with YaST. You can add/remove packages before you do the installation.

You’ll need packman if you need restricted codecs for video.

Update with zypper dup as a general rule.

Since you’re talking about city travel, do you care about traffic? That has been my main issue with any alternatives.

• Osmand: solid overall, you do need to buy Osmand+ in the play store if you need Android Auto functionality though (the f-droid version does not work with AA). But no traffic data so you’ll get the best route if there was no traffic. Another quirk is that you need to download the region you’re navigating in - you can view maps online but can’t navigate without the downloaded maps. And downloads are large chunks - it is by country or state/province so you’re likely using a lot of storage that you don’t need.
• OrganicMaps: a cleaner interface than Osmand while using the same map data. No Android Auto support. It still needs to download maps but can auto download as you go and uses smaller chunks so you can download more locally.
• MapFactor: one of the early offline options on Android before Google Maps offered the option to download. It has traffic data but I’ve found routing to be mediocre. It’s also subscription based rather than a purchase.

Yeah my Shield TV is on 1.68 and it works so I guess it’s not the specific version. Still, the inconsistent performance is annoying. Not bad enough to get me to sell the speakers, but bad enough for me to not recommend them.

The issue is with different Cast firmware versions. The Nest Audio is at 2.57 and my Nest Hub is at 1.71. The CCwGTV is likely kept up to date with the Nest Audio.

I’m honestly getting a bit disillusioned with Cast. I replaced all my Sonos with Nest speakers because of the better voice assistant functionality. “Fully supported” services like YouTube Music (that can be integrated as your default music service) work fine. But when I’m trying to use Plex or Tidal I run into issues if I try to include things like my Nest Hub in a group or dynamically add/remove speakers from what’s playing.

Because it’s an excuse.

Wouldn’t it be better to use the official stream?

https://youtu.be/zfA3FlZ6u2Q?si=BmLYGw2j52JwBsxd

Though I don’t really know how YouTube pays artist when their songs are used in another video.

Google gets 100% of the revenue any time someone searches using Google. What’s being discussed here is the amount that Google gives device manufacturers for them to set Google as the default search engine.

I mean I’m not going to judge anyone for their opinion, but it’s just a fairly unique one. Mastodon rose to prominence as pioneers of blending sludge and progressive metal along with Baroness. When they released Remission and Leviathan there were no other bands out there that sounded like them.

Their new stuff is still solid, but when I listen to Hushed and Grim I feel like it’s very derivative of alt metal from the late nineties, though still with Mastodon’s great musicianship.

I’ve just never heard someone say they’re a “big mastodon fan” and really only enjoy their latest albums - it’s interesting.

Have you listened to their albums? Do you feel compelled to listen to them again? None of us can tell you if you like them or not.

I have literally never heard of someone with this opinion.