I like using e-reader because it’s cheap, better on the eyes, the battery lasts forever, and generally screens are bigger than the phone. Also not killing your phone battery showing text is a plus.

I’ve been kicking around a couple of nook simple touch for several years. it’s ancient, android 2.1! It was easy to jailbreak them and add a launcher, and a couple sane ebook readers (though you’ll have to find older versions of apps that will work with eclair). pop stuff on it over usb, and it’s on there. The ones with backlights are getting super rare, but if you don’t care about that you can probably snag one for round $20 places like ebay.

Really can’t beat that, costs more to get a power bank to keep from killing your phone reading things.

I’m not sure how to properly move windows partitions with fedora tools…

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (free) can do this

MiniTool Partition Wizard Free can also

boot/efi partition is where boot info/startup logic goes, but windows makes a very small partition (only 100mb) on setup, so between windows and bazzite data, there is not enough space.

It will install the system in the 500gb partition, but will not boot without the proper data in the boot/efi partition. The installer is warning you of this situation, and the install will probably “work” but most likely be unbootable, or if it does work, cause problems later during bazzite updates.

There are partition management programs that can boot into a temporary environment and move/resize existing partitions so you can grow the existing EFI partition, but there is no tool built into windows for such a maneuver.

Did you perhaps watch thirteen ghosts at some point? Because your animation looks a lot like a part of the machine in that movie, the “Basileus Machine”. To be clear, it’s entirely fictious.

See link with interesting title.

Look at actual domain, if it’s *tube/invidious immediately skip over link.

Click, see it’s loading (any) video site.

Immediately close page.

Skipping some steps here, usually fast enough that you don’t even have to hear voice.

If you won’t write it out in text, it’s not worth receiving the information.

Internet-routed media transfers, bypassing some (very) shitty filtering done by carriers. Most will compress and downscale any media sent via MMS. A friend didn’t have RCS until recently, and I always had to remember to send links and not actual pictures because they would always recieve unreadable garbage if I let the carrier transfer it. But really, ANY other messaging app solves this… Signal, Telegram, Discord, even Steam Chat will blow the pants off MMS.

I prefer appimages, it feels much more “open” than flatpak ever will.

Flatpak: install flatpost and flatseal.

Appimage: Download appimaged appimage to ~\Applications and run once.

then

Flatpak: Go to site for cool software I heard of, see it’s flatpak with a link on the page. Click link, wait for flatpost to open, wait for flatpost to update repos, get cool software and possibly another copy of mesa and gnome compat stuff, then head to flatseal to fix drive/device permissions as needed.

Appimage: Go to site for cool software I heard of, see it’s an appimage, download said appimage to ~\Applications, appimaged automatically loads in a desktop entry and we’re done.

As far as updates, all the appimages that are in active development that I use, offer auto-updating when I open them, plus I’m not reliant on a centrally-controlled repo of the packages (which if it dies, takes all updates with it).

I feel appimage would be an easier adoption for people fresh to linux, as it follows the same model as windows or macos (download executable, install app), even for the initial setup of appimaged.

And either way, there’s no “winner” here, if we’re playing that game, native installs still win. Every distro supports (and uses) those by default, except for ubuntu, who has money on pushing snaps.

I tried different guides, and eventually went to the source, this worked great for me.

From SE Discord, posted by “lord.of.woe”:

Space Engineers Linux Installation Guide Last Updated 2025-07-24

Prerequisite Packages

git

wget

WINE

Step 1: Install GE-Proton9-25 and GE-Proton10-X. There are several methods you can use to install this, but this guide uses only common terminal commands. (Edit: I used Protonplus for this)

wget -qO- https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/download/GE-Proton9-25/GE-Proton9-25.tar.gz | tar xzvf - -C "${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d"
wget -qO- "$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/latest | grep "\"browser_download_url\": \".*\.tar\.gz\"" | cut -d'"' -f4)" | tar xzvf - -C "${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d"

Step 2: Remove local Space Engineers data. ‼️ WARNING: THIS WILL PERMANENTLY DELETE ALL SAVES, GAME DATA, ETC. THAT ARE NOT BACKED UP TO THE STEAM CLOUD OR ELSEWHERE. ‼️

export STEAMAPPS_PATH=${HOME}/.steam/steam/steamapps # edit as necessary
rm -rf ${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850

Step 3: Restart Steam

Step 4: Change the compatibility layer in Steam to GE-Proton9-25.

Step 5: Launch Space Engineers in Steam and close the game upon reaching the main menu.

Step 6: Install dotnet48. DO NOT USE PROTONTRICKS.

WINEPREFIX=${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850/pfx winetricks --force -q dotnet48

or experimentally

WINE=${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-25/files/bin/wine64 
WINEPREFIX=${STEAMAPPS_PATH}/compatdata/244850/pfx ${HOME}/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-25/protonfixes/winetricks --force -q dotnet48

Step 7: Change the compatibility layer in Steam to GE-Proton10-X, where X is the minor version.

Step 8: Launch the game and hope everything worked.

last played Jan 24

Hard no.

We loved the first, but the second adds the stupid infection thing, and was in the “ok, playable” pile at the start, but all the glitches and bugs made us stop. Between day/night not working for non-hosts, buildings with huge map holes in them, and very poorly scripted quests we dropped it. The final straw was when we were doing side stuff, ignoring the main mission, and passed over a building that was part of a later stage in the main mission, causing us to softlock, then on restart being at the later step in the main mission. Just trash programming.

If you really want to play it, pirate it. Don’t give money for it.

this is true, anything requiring constant updates and calling home will probably have an issue eventually

I got several “Nook Simple Touch” a few years ago and they’ve been able to read whatever I’ve thrown at them so far.

They’re running on android 2.1!

I had to do some digging to find older versions of book apps that’d run on them, but this is the internet, the apks are out there.

Another option is if you have coax installed for tv/cable, and aren’t using it, even just in the rooms you want to connect wires through, MoCA might work.

I agree that everyone should stop using windows 10 this year.

Nobara for gamers, Mint for everyone else. Done and done.

Sorry for the confusion, but STL files are usually manifold 3d renders, for printing. No subtitles here unfortunately. I’m not even aware of a paid service/site for subtitles, is that a thing?

Only one I know is materialize.is

I’m still trying to find a way to get an invite…

The Spanish Fly

For Android: learn the hard reset combo for your phone, especially if you encrypt it.

After rebooting, pattern/PIN will be required to decrypt the phone. Biometrics won’t work for this step. This is what graphene does for security, tries to keep the phone in a “before first unlock” state by rebooting on a timer. You can’t even read anything over USB/ADB, it’s scrambled until you unlock the phone.

The only drawback to just keeping your phone in this state is none of your apps are loaded, so no notifications/updates/processing at all.

Reposting as top level comment also: these are PWDIS drives: if you’re not using them somewhere with sata 3.2/3.3, you need to use an adapter for the power plug, or some tape, to block pins 1-3 (3.3v) as supplying it to these causes them to reset. Might be worth doing the taping anyway, if you’re using an enclosure or cage (where you can’t use the adapters) Just be aware.

2nd catch, behind the power on time: PWDIS drives: if you’re not using them somewhere with sata 3.2/3.3, you need to use an adapter for the power plug, or some tape, to block pins 1-3 (3.3v) as supplying it to these causes them to reset. Might be worth doing the taping anyway, if you’re using an enclosure or cage (where you can’t use the adapters)