u/ColdFreezer

I think “ricing” can be cool sometimes, I never really cared enough to do it. One thing I do see is a lot of people like using blur.

Might be a skill issue but I find blur makes text hard to read. I tried it a couple times and it makes using the terminal so hard for me. I can barely read the text depending on my wallpaper. I have to worry about legibility because of my damn wallpaper.

Do people who like blur just tank this or is it not a problem? I just hate it. Maybe it’s just a me problem that I find it hard to read. I would prefer usability over aesthetics.

There’s a few services I run that would benefit from being able to send emails. I thought I could just host a SMTP server myself but realized it was way too much hassle and I don’t want to deal with ip reputation.

Is the best way to do this just to use a 3rd party service? I’ve seen a few with generous free tiers with limits I probably would never reach. I was also thinking about trying Amazon SES but it seems overkill for what I need.

I was also thinking about setting up apprise and maybe gotify, but I dont know if this the way I should be doing it. It would be nice to get notifications sent to my devices instead of just email.

How are most people setting up their notifications? My main use case for this is for authelia one time passcodes and server alerts. I don’t know what the pipeline is to serve notifications and if this is secure enough to be handling my authentication stuff.

I want to start exposing services over the internet and want to get a better router for security. Being honest, I dont really know what I need and what security features I need besides VLANs.

A few strict criteria I'm currently considering:

• Relatively quiet
• Small
• Ideally low power (< 50W)
• Proper VLAN support
• At least 2.5gb ports, ideally at least one 10gb
• Less than $300 USD

Nice to haves but not necessary at all:

• Supports PoE
• Built in wifi
• Ease of use

The choice I was leaning towards initially was the UCG fiber. However, from what I found Unifi OS is locked down and I can't change it if I don't like it. Just paranoid I'll hit a wall with Unifi OS.

I don't know how much it should matter, but I would prefer to use something running OPNense. I'm not really sure what the ideal OS is, I've just seen that people like OPNense.

What are most people running or would recommend? What features should I prioritize?

I have a Brother HL-2270DW. I set up cups recently using the brlaser driver. It works as expected on my other devices, however on iOS devices it only show A4, A5, A6 and Envelope - DL as sizes. I need to print in letter size but there is no option for that. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit: Solution

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1gib97u/comment/mig3nlv/

The benefit of having it is so minimal. All it does is give you a boot splash screen. However, it can make your system hang on boot or shutdown. It’s happened to me 3 separate times on CachyOS.

I don’t understand why it’s installed by default on some distros. It’s purely for eye candy but when it goes wrong it’ll prevent your system from booting. Awful awful trade off.

There’s nothing wrong with installing it yourself if you like it, but it should never be a default in its current state.

My PC has started to randomly shut off. I don't know what's triggering it at all.

It doesn't seem to shut down under load. I've tried a full benchmark and a power benchmark and it was stable. If I'm playing heavy titles it runs fine. It is not thermal throttling. It's 100% a hardware issue, this happens under linux and windows, there's no logs that explain why it shuts down, it just shuts down.

The 3 times its happened on linux I would just open up firefox, after a few seconds it just powers off.

There's no overclocks, everything is running at stock.

I think it's either a motherboard issue or a PSU issue but honestly, I have no idea. I don't know why it just shuts down. All the times it's shutdown I wasn't running anything heavy, I was on my desktop or just using a browser. I cannot consistently replicate the issue.

Sometimes after it shuts off it prevents me from turning it back on until I wait a bit.

I built it 6 months ago. It's been fine until a few weeks ago.

Here are my system specs:

CPU: 9950x3D
MOBO: Asus x870E Gaming Plus Wifi
PSU: Corsair HX1000
GPU1: 5070
GPU2: 3070
Ram: Crucial 32gb 6000mhz (I did not enable expo, it's running at stock)

Any advice would be appreciated.

My phone is on iOS 18.0. I think my Watch is on WatchOS 11.4, I don’t know how to check as it can’t be paired with my phone. It keeps telling me to update iOS.

Is there anyway to pair it without updating?

On my watch it just says I need to be on iOS 18.0 or higher but it just won’t pair despite me being on iOS 18.0.

Let my friend borrow my watch to try it out. They’re on iOS 26, I guess when it paired to their phone WatchOS updated.

I’m on iOS 18. I cannot pair my watch back to my phone, it says I need to update iOS.

Is my watch effectively useless now? I don’t want to update to iOS 26.

I don't know if its just my machine but pacman keeps exiting with code 1 and the install fails. Is the installer working fine for anyone else?

Here are my logs
https://paste.cachyos.org/p/159ba46.log

Here's the line I think is wrong, It seems like a dependency conflict with mesa and mesa-git

2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "Enter a number (default=1):" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "looking for conflicting packages..." 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "warning: removing 'lib32-mesa-2:26.1.0-1' from target list because it conflicts with 'lib32-mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1'" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict. Remove mesa? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]:     .. Target cmd: QList("pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--noprogressbar", "--needed", "--disable-download-timeout", "cachyos-hello", "cachyos-kernel-manager", "cachyos-packageinstaller", "cachyos-settings", "cachyos-micro-settings", "cachyos-wallpapers", "dnsmasq", "dnsutils", "ethtool", "iwd", "modemmanager", "networkmanager", "networkmanager-openvpn", "nss-mdns", "usb_modeswitch", "wpa_supplicant", "wireless-regdb", "xl2tpd", "bluez", "bluez-hid2hci", "bluez-libs", "bluez-utils", "bluez-obex", "pacman-contrib", "pkgfile", "rebuild-detector", "reflector", "paru", "shelly", "accountsservice", "bash-completion", "ffmpegthumbnailer", "gst-libav", "gst-plugin-pipewire", "gst-plugins-bad", "gst-plugins-ugly", "libdvdcss", "libgsf", "libopenraw", "plocate", "poppler-glib", "vlc-plugins-all", "xdg-user-dirs", "xdg-utils", "efitools", "nfs-utils", "nilfs-utils", "smartmontools", "unrar", "unzip", "awesome-terminal-fonts", "noto-fonts-emoji", "cantarell-fonts", "noto-fonts", "ttf-bitstream-vera", "ttf-dejavu", "ttf-liberation", "ttf-opensans", "ttf-meslo-nerd", "noto-fonts-cjk", "alsa-firmware", "alsa-plugins", "alsa-utils", "pavucontrol", "pipewire-pulse", "wireplumber", "pipewire-alsa", "dmidecode", "dmraid", "hdparm", "hwdetect", "linux-firmware", "lsscsi", "mesa-utils", "mtools", "sg3_utils", "sof-firmware", "cpupower", "power-profiles-daemon", "upower", "alacritty", "btop", "duf", "fsarchiver", "git", "glances", "hwinfo", "meld", "nano-syntax-highlighting", "fastfetch", "pv", "python-defusedxml", "python-packaging", "rsync", "wget", "ripgrep", "micro", "nano", "vim", "openssh", "ark", "bluedevil", "breeze-gtk", "cachy-update", "cachyos-emerald-kde-theme-git", "cachyos-iridescent-kde", "cachyos-kde-settings", "cachyos-nord-kde-theme-git", "char-white", "dolphin", "ffmpegthumbs", "filelight", "fwupd", "gwenview", "haruna", "kate", "kcalc", "kde-gtk-config", "kdeconnect", "kdegraphics-thumbnailers", "kdeplasma-addons", "kdialog", "kinfocenter", "kio-admin", "konsole", "kscreen", "kwallet-pam", "kwalletmanager", "partitionmanager", "phonon-qt6-vlc", "plasma-browser-integration", "plasma-desktop", "plasma-firewall", "plasma-nm", "plasma-pa", "plasma-systemmonitor", "plasma-thunderbolt", "plymouth-kcm", "powerdevil", "plasma-login-manager", "spectacle", "xsettingsd", "cachyos-handheld", "plasma-keyboard", "v4l-utils", "cachyos-hooks", "cachyos-keyring", "cachyos-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v3-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v4-mirrorlist", "cachyos-rate-mirrors", "chwd", "linux-cachyos-deckify", "linux-cachyos-deckify-headers") Exit code: 1 (no output) 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [2]: WARNING: [PYTHON JOB]: "Command 'pacman' returned non-zero exit status 1." 2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "Enter a number (default=1):" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "looking for conflicting packages..." 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "warning: removing 'lib32-mesa-2:26.1.0-1' from target list because it conflicts with 'lib32-mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1'" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict. Remove mesa? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]:     .. Target cmd: QList("pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--noprogressbar", "--needed", "--disable-download-timeout", "cachyos-hello", "cachyos-kernel-manager", "cachyos-packageinstaller", "cachyos-settings", "cachyos-micro-settings", "cachyos-wallpapers", "dnsmasq", "dnsutils", "ethtool", "iwd", "modemmanager", "networkmanager", "networkmanager-openvpn", "nss-mdns", "usb_modeswitch", "wpa_supplicant", "wireless-regdb", "xl2tpd", "bluez", "bluez-hid2hci", "bluez-libs", "bluez-utils", "bluez-obex", "pacman-contrib", "pkgfile", "rebuild-detector", "reflector", "paru", "shelly", "accountsservice", "bash-completion", "ffmpegthumbnailer", "gst-libav", "gst-plugin-pipewire", "gst-plugins-bad", "gst-plugins-ugly", "libdvdcss", "libgsf", "libopenraw", "plocate", "poppler-glib", "vlc-plugins-all", "xdg-user-dirs", "xdg-utils", "efitools", "nfs-utils", "nilfs-utils", "smartmontools", "unrar", "unzip", "awesome-terminal-fonts", "noto-fonts-emoji", "cantarell-fonts", "noto-fonts", "ttf-bitstream-vera", "ttf-dejavu", "ttf-liberation", "ttf-opensans", "ttf-meslo-nerd", "noto-fonts-cjk", "alsa-firmware", "alsa-plugins", "alsa-utils", "pavucontrol", "pipewire-pulse", "wireplumber", "pipewire-alsa", "dmidecode", "dmraid", "hdparm", "hwdetect", "linux-firmware", "lsscsi", "mesa-utils", "mtools", "sg3_utils", "sof-firmware", "cpupower", "power-profiles-daemon", "upower", "alacritty", "btop", "duf", "fsarchiver", "git", "glances", "hwinfo", "meld", "nano-syntax-highlighting", "fastfetch", "pv", "python-defusedxml", "python-packaging", "rsync", "wget", "ripgrep", "micro", "nano", "vim", "openssh", "ark", "bluedevil", "breeze-gtk", "cachy-update", "cachyos-emerald-kde-theme-git", "cachyos-iridescent-kde", "cachyos-kde-settings", "cachyos-nord-kde-theme-git", "char-white", "dolphin", "ffmpegthumbs", "filelight", "fwupd", "gwenview", "haruna", "kate", "kcalc", "kde-gtk-config", "kdeconnect", "kdegraphics-thumbnailers", "kdeplasma-addons", "kdialog", "kinfocenter", "kio-admin", "konsole", "kscreen", "kwallet-pam", "kwalletmanager", "partitionmanager", "phonon-qt6-vlc", "plasma-browser-integration", "plasma-desktop", "plasma-firewall", "plasma-nm", "plasma-pa", "plasma-systemmonitor", "plasma-thunderbolt", "plymouth-kcm", "powerdevil", "plasma-login-manager", "spectacle", "xsettingsd", "cachyos-handheld", "plasma-keyboard", "v4l-utils", "cachyos-hooks", "cachyos-keyring", "cachyos-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v3-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v4-mirrorlist", "cachyos-rate-mirrors", "chwd", "linux-cachyos-deckify", "linux-cachyos-deckify-headers") Exit code: 1 (no output) 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [2]: WARNING: [PYTHON JOB]: "Command 'pacman' returned non-zero exit status 1." 

I have a proxmox host with a dedicated GPU. It’s right beside my TV so I thought to make a gaming VM.

I don’t really plan to run most games directly on it right now but might later on. For now, I’m mostly just planning to use it as a moonlight client.

The main things I care about is how easy it is to use on a TV. It would be nice if I could just mostly use a controller to control it. I have a keyboard and mouse if needed.

Bazzite seems like a good choice.

I’m also considering Debian or just using CachyOS. Not sure what DE I should use, am leaning towards KDE for now.

Any advice would be appreciated