Thanks for your input, but it seems the Pano gnome extensions page hasn’t been updated for ages. I’m running GNOME 48 and the extension page shows GNOME 45 as the latest supported version.

Doesn’t matter, I realized Clipboard Indicator can be called by a key combination, it just won’t float in the middle or below my mouse cursor. I guess without creating my own, I’m not gonna get it any better :)

Thanks to you I realized, Clipboard Indicator can do that too. So now I bound Super+V to show the clipboard, and I can search it with the keyboard, select entries, etc.

Thank you for the tipp! I tried copyq but it looks like it doesn’t open after trying to set a shortcut in the app or in GNOME.

I can live without it, it’s just so extremly convenient to have this. At least I know that I’m not the only one missing this.

KDE Plasma user of 4 years here, I am currently giving GNOME a try with Fedora Workstation. Reading through here, I’m going to try a few new extensions, thanks a lot :)

My currently used extensions are:

• AATWS (advanced alt-tab window switcher)
• Clipboard Indicator
• Vitals (system resource usage)
• AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
• Caffeine
• Launch New Instance
• No overview at start-up
• Places Status Indicator
• Workspace Indicator

There’s a feature I’m really missing though. On KDE Plasma 5 the clipboard manager opened a window right below your mouse on pressing Super+V. This window showed all the clipboard entries, was text-searchable and I could navigate and use/enter clipboard entries with my keyboard. Does anybody know of something like this for GNOME?

Rocket League has been running smoothly for me, even before they stopped supporting the linux client and before switching to epic.

I’m running Fedora 42 Workstation and have now tested Rocket League on Fedora Workstation 41 and 42 with GNOME 47 and 48 on Wayland. Both ran buttery smooth on 2560x1440@144Hz. I did not try X11, haven’t used it in years.

I start Rocket league via steam with the proton-experimental and the input parameters as follows. You can leave out Mangohud, of course. gamemode may also be unnecessary.

MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%

The only problem I had with Rocket League at one point (sometime last month) was Rocket League refusing to start. I did not reinstall, just tried switching from proton-9 to proton-experimental and my problems were solved. I probably should uninstall the game and delete leftover files like the wine prefix, then reinstall and test again.

If Rocket League is the only game affected, you might see something in the proton log. If you start your game with the following launch parameters, steam writes a proton log file into your home folder.

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Thanks for the info! Glad I never bought one of those :)

You’re welcome!

What’s so bad about the QVO drives?

but maybe not when you wrap up the HMB drive in a SATA shell.

That makes sense, with HMB being an NVME feature. I tried searching for HMB and SATA, but did not find any information about if it will or won’t work, so it’s probably best to assume that it won’t.

I always use Samsung for my SSD drives. I bought my first Samsung 250 GB SSD back in 2017, only purchased Samsung SSDs since then. Not one has died yet.

You can get a Samsung EVO 870 (1TB SATA SSD) for ~90$ on amazon.

Debian will literally take any storage you throw at it anyway.

I do not know anything about HMB, does it really bring performance improvements, considering that SSD disks are pretty fast anyway?

I also grew up with the first gameboy, nes and n64. But nowadays, especially for something like helldivers 2, the bare minimum for me is a constant 60fps.

I was wondering because I tried to play Outward split screen on my friend’s TV and, even turning resolution and graphics way down, the Deck barely got to 40 FPS.

You play Helldivers 2 on the deck? What’s the performance like? I imagine, especially at higher level dificulties, the Deck must be struggling.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but why not update via stamdeck UI? You can change the “stable” branch in your steamos update settings page to “beta” or “preview”.

• stable - recommended
• beta - test for new steam updates
• preview - test for steam updates + OS updates

Yes it is. Though after using arch for a few years, I miss the abundance of packages.

If a package wasn’t in the official arch repos, it was probably in the AUR. If you use arch, you don’t need other package managers like homebrew on linux.

The first one I saw was Debian 3.1 (Sarge). I was in school and our objective this time was installing debian + getting a working Xorg session. Never heard of Linux before, didn’t get a working Xorg session, but wow man, there’s something other than Windows and MacOS. I couldn’t have imagined.

The first one I actually used on a desktop (laptop for school, in that case) was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).

I’ve tried oh so many different linux distributions over the years, I probably forgot most of them. Maybe some don’t even exist anymore. My goal was always Arch Linux, having seen it on a schoolmates laptop. I really fell for the “here’s a pretty minimum base, do whatever” thing.

In the end, I exclusively used Arch from 2020 until this year. Actually using Arch and reading the ArchWiki were probably what taught me most of what I know about linux in general and how things work.

I’ve been searching for a less DIY-solution which is still up-to-date (especially with kernels and mesa) and I landed on Fedora Workstation, which is what I’m currently using on my work latpop and desktop at home. I do miss some things from Arch, but Fedora has been pretty good to me and I, for the meantime, intend to stay here.

Oh, well. I’ll see how it is when we’ll play barony. It’s not like this game is the only choice, so we can always switch.

Thanks for the heads-up!

I don’t plan on playing any of these games over any kind of network anyway. I’m all for couch coop / pvp, it just hits differently :)

Good to know, thank you!

We always play on someones TV anyway. These are typically 46" ore bigger and have at least FullHD resolution. Would this be manageable?

You’re welcome, I’m glad to spread the old-school pre-internet local couch coop fun :)

My personal favourites are

MageQuit

This is the most addicting of all the played games. I bought this with a “fun little magic-based pvp-only game for now and then” mindest. I thought “super smash brothers but magic”. I started playing it with my friend on his TV “just for an hour” and suddenly, it was dark outside and time to go home.

The next meeting we planned on playing MageQuit for a round or two and then move on to one of the other, yet unplayed, games. The moving on part never happened, MageQuit was just too much fun.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

This is the game for the whole family. You (up to 4 players) are in a spaceship. The spaceship has different buttons and levers in different places to control different things like acceleration, changing direction, aiming / firing weapon, directing partial shield or countermeasure etc. and you need to rescue your bunny-friends.

They are scattered around the levels, sometimes hidden, sometimes locked up, sometimes guarded etc and you need to work together with your teammates to direct the spaceship. You get quite a few different weapons and shields / countermeasures, which can also be combined, you upgrades for the ship, can buy different ships etc.

It looks and sounds adorable, but if you don’t work together, it’s way harder then it looks. This is a game with a campaign and story.

Regular Human Basketball

Think basketball, but stupid and fun. The regular humans are actually motionless robots which need to be moved by using switches and levers inside it, which is what your job is. You even have a jet-boost at some parts of your regular-human body. We laughed our asses off.

It is similar to Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in the sense that, you need to work together to control a bigger machine. This is just a pvp only game, no story or campaign.

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Race each other to the finish of an obstacle course. After each round, everyone picks a new obstacle to place and expands the course. Seldomly have I ever seen such bullshittery as my friends and me created in this game and then had to go through.

I always search steam sales for local multiplayer games. I have not tested all of these yet, so I’m going to categorize them here.

Games I already played with someone (e.g. “tested”)

• Boomerang Fu
• Brawlhalla
• Castle Crashers
• Gang Beasts
• Guacamelee - Super Turbo Championship Edition
• Helldivers
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Regular Human Basketball
• Just Shapes and Beats
• Lethal League Blaze
• MageQuit
• Magicka / Magicka 2
• Make Way
• Overcooked
• Road Redemption
• Speedrunners
• Towerfall Ascension
• Tricky Towers
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Wobbly Life

Games for future play sessions (not yet tested)

• Barony
• Beat Me
• Chained Together
• Fling to the finish
• Geometry Wars 3
• Goat Simulator
• Party Club
• Pummel Party
• Screencheat
• Sonic Segal All Stars Racing
• Stick Fight the Game
• Treadnauts
• Unrailed

Have fun :)

I don’t know what stingray is, but if it needs a connection to somewhere and the protocol to connect verifies os-trusted certificates, it should be safe.

Set OPNSense default policy

As far as I remember, OPNSense has a default policy rule of “deny all incoming, allow all outgoing”. If not, this should be one of the first steps to take.

Get your own VPN

If you can, you could use your own VPN service. I run a VPS for 6 € / month. If you can get your hands on something like this and install an openvpn server, you could always use that VPN for every connection.

So even if an attacker highjacks your connection somehow, he would only be able to see encrypted content and all content will be encrypted by a server you own and can verify / trust. You could also integrate this VPN into your OPNSense, so you’ll be connected as soon as OPNSense starts up and has internet.

Regarding MITM attacks

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but MITM attacks should generally be impossible when connecting to SSL backed connections, right?

These certificates (or rather the certificate authority the HTTPS certificates have been issued by) are generally trusted by your own operating system. Therefore, if someone wanted to highjack your connection without you getting some kind of certificate error, he would have needed to get his hands on a certificate issued by a worldwide trusted certificate authority and the address name matching the certificate.