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  • the Shimano Alfine 8 has 3 gears below the direct drive (I think what that is called? the one similar to a single speed no gears system) which is pretty ok for most hills

    interestingly enough the gear translation on the higher gears is quite steepwhile I cruise roughly 18 km/h on the direct drive gear, the next higher one already is more like 22-23 km/h

    the more expensive Shimano Alfine 11 has 4 gears below the direct drive gear and the higher ones are still steep increases but slightly lessNo idea about cheaper internal gears hubs or other brands though

  • My current bike has no motor and uses a Gates CDX belt drive with a Shimano 8-gears internal gear hubI believe thats enough, more gears are not needed

    my older chain bike had a motor and I could just let the motor do the work if my chain got too rusty/dirty which resulted in higher wear (loose chain)

  • I have one on my daily commute bike to work

    cleaning the chain of my old bike while commuting in rain and winter is a huge hassle and totally worth the higher price of belt drives

  • If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it's plug and play, no driver installation requiredWayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

    beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)

  • In case someone doesn't know it yet:

    If you update your Arch Linux system with a kernel upgrade, the kernel modules will NOT be loaded again automatically by default and things like FUSE (used in AppImages for example or other FUSE based mounts) will not work without intervention

    simple rebooting is the foolproof way or setting up kernel module reload hooks: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kernel-modules-hook/

  • the init command probably only works in Debian nowadays givin it's a thing from the sysvinit era

  • Latte Dock users will need to say goodbye then

  • they waited until the first minor version which fixed already some bugs as expectedpretty nice release

  • you probably have old hardware in that casethe latest kernel releases greatly helped with the effiency of newer AMD and Intel (Hybrid) CPUs which can give you a longer battery usage on laptops

  • sorry that was a blunder on my part, I wanted to say "Debian and Fedora" but autocorrect gotten a hold on me it seems

  • People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or FedoraArch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

    the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script

  • My Arch Linux Homeserver and VPS which ran since years are like: "huh?"

    Not a single Ubuntu upgrade failure on my book anymore 🤞

  • this task is easy on gentoo but hard anywhere elsein the past I checked package updates via nvchecker, grabed the latest PKGBUILD via ABS, applied the patch, compiled the package and sent it to my custom repositoryif you add the repository higher in your pacman.conf it will grab it from that first

    but this a huge pita, even going through the route of maintaining an AUR package is simpler

  • hope this helps with the dumbster fire of the virtualbox version in the official Ubuntu repositories(virtual box basically "breaks" on Ubuntu LTS once a newer HWE kernel gets released unless you install a newer version of it, leading to hundreds of support threads every time this happens)

  • I'm using Caddy (sometimes in a container or most of the time as system package) as reverse proxy mostly for containersI try to minimize non-container services but they work well with Caddy too

    Traefik is a tad more complex (still nowhere near Apache2 levels though) but scales more easily espcially if you only run containers and start/stop them programatically

  • if you are open to learn something new: Caddy webserver has a dead simple config, fetches tls certs by default for you and works with crowdsec too

  • If we are talking Silverblue then podman is your pick for everything Flatpack "can't"there is no big push for cli flatpack since this already a solved cause with containers for podman/docker/kubernetes

    however no matter how you approach this you will always have dependency security issuesunless you built every flatpack/container yourself you are at the whim of the creator of it to keep every dependecy updatedthis is already a known vulnerability factor in the container sphere on topbl of the threat of 0-day exploits

  • it is kinda wild that people abandon Windows 7 because of Steam and not because Microsoft stopped patching it several years ago

    Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

    I don't think Steam actually recommends any distro since some time anymore