partitions are used for organizing, the downside is that more partitions make each one smaller

I end up running 1 btrfs partition sagred between all my installed Linux distros on one system

lvm is also awesome for resizing and moving partitions

my desktop right now has nvme0n1p1 as my efi partition and p2 as a lvm pv

inside that lvm I put everything else as it’s very easy to resize and move them (I also have p2 encrypted with luks2)

I have two ssds for raid1 boot,it’s very nice

just wish my bios would stop making phantom uefi boot entries every boot

/run contains all sorts of virtual stuff, it doesn’t persist over a reboot,

I would advise against deleting anything in it as those files are used by programs running as whether user has the ID of 1000 (most likely you)

it contains things such as sockets and lock files so that programs can interact with each other

ah I misunderstood, thought you talking about underload, not idle power use

all the laptops I’ve ever had have been able to reliability pull the full power (like within 30 watts) of their power adapter rating so that’s a good estimate

you can use a % in the search bar to search your currently open tabs

do you have DNS over https turned on in Firefox? iirc nordvpn blocks it to prevent DNS leaks

lsof is a good tool would recommend it whenever something weird is happen, tho you gotta be root for it

because you’ve updated be tween releases you may have a large cache of file for apt

you may want to run sudo apt-get autoclean to remove old files that aren’t in the repo (replaced with new versions)

apt-cache stats will tell you info about the cache

another roart of the thread suggested using the Celeron box as an OPNsense router

OPNsense is a gateway/firewall/DHCP/router my network looks like this

optical to Ethernet conversion (the isp’s things) -> opnsense box -> network switch -> all other device (including wifi APs)

all traffic gets routed thru the opnsense box as it is the gateway to my network, runs the ipv4 nat and DHCP server

router in their comment refers to the the one that actually touches the Internet

not sure your exact case, but I would highly recommend using pipewire, Bluetooth audio devices were nothing but pain for me with pulse audio and they just worked on pipewire

I’ve used Sony xm4s

what do you mean? they’re fine unless you want to read or write to them… wait a minute

you could setup a matrix chat room and just block federation as viewing the channels requires login

also has e2ee

one of those pi kvms or the like could turn on any system even if it doesn’t support wake on lan

man it crazy I switched to Wayland on my laptop and docking to 3 monitors just worked on Wayland and it would remember all my monitors settings

I hand like 2 or 3 scripts setup to try and manage that on x11

virt-manager can also connect to remote hosts over ssh

I think you can already do this in one shortcuts, not sure of any standalone program that does, if definably accidentally bond like Ctrl+d, Ctrl+s to screenshot before

risk of rain 2, game is sooo good just pickes up the dlc survivors of the void and it adds so much new stuff, def recommend if you like third person shooters and rougelites, it’s quite hard tooo which makes wining all that more satisfying as well as endless mode as an option

I think at one point I had like 2.5 tb of stuff stored on my 2 tb drive in my laptop, deduplication and btrfs compression is fun