On my EIZO monitor with DP connected I have no issues seeing all of the boot process (Gentoo and Debian 13). I just have to ensure I power up the monitor 1 second before starting the computer. This monitor has great colors for it’s age, only 60Hz, though.

At work I noticed the newer Dell monitors seem to boot for 2 to 5 seconds, but the BIOS on both work machines is slow enough to don’t bother counting down 5 seconds until I boot them.

Generally, I find it a bit annoying and great that everything “monitors” is so dynamically detected. This is why I always power on the monitors first and I can live/work in peace.

Maybe. But, only until bedtime I managed to solve all the issues and I needed to it run overnight. I had use flag issues only every 3 to 6 months, granted, but it was enough for me.

Interesting. Why not use systemd-nspawn? From what I understand, the kernel is shared anyway.

Or it is about the friends you loose after you have successfully installed Gentoo and now maintaining it.

Fun aside: I used Gentoo for more than a decade (15 years?, idk). Since I am back on Debian stable, I don’t feel like I am missing out on stuff I want to try, because I don’t have to wait or solve useflag issues anymore. I still think, Gentoo is a solid distro, but I have other hobbies, too. If it were my sole job to maintain a Gentoo system I would do it. But I don’t want to deal with it anymore in my spare time.

One can dream about practical rollable or slidable displays so that it fits in my pocket. And no, I don’t look at foldables. The part where it gets folded just looks ugly.

For me the Palm Pixi was the peak expierence: small, touch friendly, hardware keyboard, relatively open OS, integrated headphone jack, wireless charging and very good battery live.

iPhone 13 mini user here; I can relate. Anything bigger than this is too big for me. I will use it until it breaks or security updates stop. After that I will have to see.

Older, smaller phones with PostmarketOS come to mind. But this OS is not ready for day-to-day-use, just yet.

I rather do ${line%% *} and avoid awk.

Sadly, I have sound issues since the switch to pipewire is complete. There is less stuttering, yes, but sometimes I experience complete silence. Only if I change the volume a bit, it is back again.

I suspect random switches to the dummy output but I could not find the source of the problem, yet.