what devices? its penguins all the way down.
Well, there a desktop PC, a laptop, and possibly an old Chromebook that I’m considering…
some older laptop hardware doesn’t play well with things like sleep or webcams, recent ones work like a charm though. desktops usually just work™
chromebooks are where you have the most to gain, imo. they are more like phones though, you need a bootloader unlock or a custom bios. you may or may not have drivers that work out of the box for that soc. they are definetly the most fun, the most improvement by installing linux, and are potentially more annoying ones to put linux in if you happen to have the worse ones.
how my phone looks at me every time google does anything
Root it and/or install a custom rom on it. If you can install GrapheneOS on it then do that right away. If not i can recommend custom rom + root. Root lets you do whatever the hell you want, including more privacy; so i personally prefer it.
(You can’t root GrapheneOS, because it’s already privacymaxxing and securitymaxxing)
(As for which rooting method, do magisk. If you are a poweruser do KernelSU Next.)
If the 3ds has a valid advantage running under Linux I’ll consider it, but I think that’s the only device.
Have you tried proxmox yet?
Haven’t heard of it before. Is it a distro?
Think of it more as a “distro” bazooka.
Its linux, yes. But what it allows you to do is take old machines that you might have left retired, and create “pools” of compute resource, that you can then deploy whatever image floats your boat onto any size machine you like.
Say for example, like me, you have an old System76 Serval. Its a good processor (6 cores, 32gb ram (ddr4), and a 2070. I haven’t used it as a daily driver since 2022.
I put put proxmox on it, and stuck it next to my NAS, close to my router. Then I took 2 cores and 6gb, and installed Ubuntu LTS on it, and then installed coolify. Using coolify I spun up jellyfin, some home assistant stuff, and a postgres for one of my work projects.
Then I took the other 4 cores and 28 gb of RAM and put PopOS to use as a development machine for that work project. It can stay alive as long as the project is going, and then when I’m finished, I can give that compute back to the pool and redeploy it.
It also makes it incredibly easy and fast to test different versions of Linux (or I think you can do windows from an image this way too, but don’t quote me).
That sounds cool. So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed? Just, like cobbled together resources to run stuff?
This might be a little advanced for me at the moment.
So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed?
Pretty much. You just take any old scraps of hardware, throw proxmox on it, and it does the rest. Then you just follow the menu and click through to say how many cores you want, how much RAM, how much HD storage, and what image like its a Taco Bell menu.
In a few seconds you’ve got a new machine spun up with its own IP, which you can remote into from the original machine, or really, any other machine on the network.
I only got into it seriously a few months ago (I’ve self hosted in the past, but it was a PITA), and I was gobsmacked at how easy it was.
Check out this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngSuqCM4d8
You could literally be up and running in 15 minutes.
Whoa, this sounds like a really cool project. I think I would enjoy doing this. Thank you for telling me about it.
it’s like, e-waste recycling but cooler.
Personally I use docker on a debian 13. I don’t need an interface as it’s all available from the browser.
For my dev container, a simple vscode tunnel works
I do a lot of Arduino programming as a hobby. Lot of virtual COM ports on USB, 2 way communication. Those work fine on Linux?
Yes, they mount as ttys, e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0. In Unix, everything is a file.
nevermind I see HyperHDR itself is compatible with Linux.
Since I don’t play any multiplayer games, I don’t have many excuses left. Can I still pirate Windows games and play them on Linux?
Yes, especially if they work with Proton. Check ProtonDB.
Sweet! Alright what about this thing that gets the average pixels of whatever is on my screen and then sends that over USB/serial to a WLED device to display the colors on RGB LED bars around my monitor, HyperHDR. is there a Linux equivalent of that?
