u/apoptosis66

I am on Linux and use openvpn with Network Manager (nm-connection-editor) to maintain my VPN connections. Just recently many of my US state specific connections have started failing. I went to Nord website to see if they have new connection settings and on the "Manual Configuration" page there is a message "We're moving to newer servers and retiring older ones. Simply choose a server with the Verified badge to keep your connection uninterrupted.". There is a list of servers to use, but it doesn't list where they are located. When I iplookup them they are all in Houston which is probably closest for me but doesn't help with choosing a state specific VPN. Also I can't even get openvpn to successfully connect to the new ones.

Does anyone know what is going on over there, and how we can maintain the current functionality. Give me a list of servers by location, and properly setup openvpn through network manager. It looks like the new servers might be going to TCP 2.6?

Below is a log of the connection timeout for a server in Seattle I have been using, that stopped working. server us9985.

>Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
OpenVPN 2.7.6 [git:makepkg/327a33de2aa21883+] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] [DCO] built on Aug 5 2026

Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
library versions: OpenSSL 3.6.3 9 Jun 2026, LZO 2.10

Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
DCO version: N/A

Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts

Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]193.29.61.88:443

Aug 18 15:00:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]193.29.61.88:443

Aug 18 15:01:12 NetworkManager[803]:
<warn> [1787083272.3310] vpn[0x5595d62bc320,42d6a3e3-6534-4714-b69a-38bf0914295d,"NordVPN Seattle"]: connect timeout exceeded

Aug 18 15:01:12 nm-openvpn-service[419331]:
Connect timer expired, disconnecting.

Aug 18 15:01:12 nm-openvpn[419336]:
NOTE: UID/GID downgrade will be delayed because of --client, --pull, or --up-delay

Edit 1: I found the post that says NordVPN is changing all the servers. Not sure why ip needs to change.

Edit 2: I found why I couldn't connect to the new configs. In nm-connection-editor inside the passord field is a icon with a person on it. I had to click and say "Save Password for all Users".

Edit 3: My only issue now is how to find the new server config for particular US states. Nord?

I just went through a multi hour debugging session. I wanted to leave here for someone else to find.

I am on Arch linux and I updated my jellyfin packages a few days ago. After any movie that needed to be Transcoded stopped playing.

The symptom: I would click play on the web interface, or from Android chromecasting to my TV and playback would never start and it would put me back to the home screen.

Took me a while to figure out this was only during hardware transcoding, for example if playback was on a device that had native x265 decoding on a x265 file it would play, but if it was being transcoded to h264 it would not.

Eventually I found the exact error in individual video playback logs:

[h264_nvenc @ 0x55c7d89b2200] Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 13.1 Found: 13.0

[h264_nvenc @ 0x55c7d89b2200] The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 610.00 or newer . This log is for the individual video.

Turns out jellyfin-ffmpeg went to version 1:7.1.4p1-3 on 2026-08-07, and it now requires NVIDIA drivers 610.00 for nvenc API version 13.1.

However, this is impossible now that the NVIDIA proprietary drivers on Arch only go up to nvidia-580xx-dkms, for the Pascal series of cards (GTX 1080). You must use the propietary NVIDA drivers for hardware transcoding support.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

So the solution was to turn off hardware transcoding for now until I find a newer video card that still works with my old system. I am not too mad because it is a card from 2016. However, I bet many people use older systems for their media computer, so I felt it worth posting somewhere.

UPDATE: Jellyfin team responded. The arch maintained jellyfin-ffmpeg is different than the one they maintain on the github repo.

UPDATE 2: Using the Jellyfin offical binary at https://repo.jellyfin.org/?path=/ffmpeg/linux . I was able to fix my issue. I did have to edit my jellyfin.service. Not sure why the playback settings don't let you set the path anymore.

sudo systemctl edit jellyfin

Then added:

[Service]
Environment="JELLYFIN_FFMPEG=/usr/lib/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg"

sudo systemctl restart jellyfin

I just recently started having issues where after system suspend, I can't log back in using hyprlock. I can TTY and hyprlock is running, but screen overlay and login prompt is frozen. I think this started with 0.56, it was working fine in 0.55. I don't see anything in change log I need to modify. Anyone else having this issue?

My wife can't connect to any of our cameras v3, v4, doorbell v2. This started yesterday. They work fine on my phone (primary account) The error is -3005. Things I have tried:

• Restarting Devices (No change, they work on my phone so not connection)
• Killing App on android phone and clearing cache.
• Killing App, deleting storage, re-logging in.
• Removing and reinstalling app.
• All firmware is updated.

I think this has to be a issue on Wyze side, something with shared devices. Why because devices connect to my exact same phone. Clean install does nothing. Its happening to all cameras different versions. The only thing I haven't tried stopping sharing and re-sharing but I have 9 cameras that is a serious pain. Anyone have any ideas? Android devices are on 17 with everything updated.

I might just be reading to much into stuff but over Friday and Saturday there seemed to be many updates, I think there were 3 kernel updates. Then Sunday and Today.... nothing. So it seemed like exceptional amount of updates which I thought was probably due to AI bug finding. Then nothing for two days which almost never happens. Before anyone asks why I am updating so often I am hoping for some fixes in hyprland and waybar.

Is anyone using their Gemini AI Pro subscription in zed. I use Google Code Assist in vscode because I want the AI tab completion. I can run Gemini CLI in zed terminal but that isn't how I like to work. I tried adding Gemini API key but it says I am out of tokens, so its clearly not using my subscription. Any advice?

I have to say it, this might be a jump the shark moment for me and hyprland. I have spent the better half of a day trying to get this lua config thing working and for what? Just to make sure my working system doesn't break because someone got hard on for lua? Seriously what did this buy anyone? The syntax isn't that much cleaner if at all. In the span of 4 hours I have hit the following issues:

1. Hyprland updating normally doesn't require a reboot after a arch update. If you don't reboot you get some strange issues with Hyprland not picking up the new hyprland.lua files.
2. hyprland --verify-config throws segfault. https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/14423
3. hyprctl syntax is now way worse. "hyprctl dispatch exec waybar" vs "hyprctl eval 'hl.exec_cmd("waybar")'"
4. Waybar workspace switching doesn't work: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/5013

How in the world was this huge change made, with these kinds of issues. I don't think this should of even been release without a conversion tool. If I have had these issues in 4 hours how did they get past with people working on the code. I guess this is what you get for going with a small project.

Spent way too long converting to lua. Tried to run it and hyprland just creates default hyprland.conf file. So I am trying to run verify-config but get Segmentation fault.

hyprland --config ~/.config/hypr_new/hyprland.lua --verify-config

DEBUG ]: User-specified config location: '/home/apoptosis/.config/hypr_new/hyprland.lua'

DEBUG ]: [cfg] Config is either explicit or special.

DEBUG ]: [cfg] Config is lua, loading lua mgr
Segmentation fault         (core dumped) hyprland --config ~/.config/hyprland --config ~/.config/hypr_new/hyprland.lua --verify-config

I am almost 100% sure I have syntax error somewhere, but how do you find out?

Edit 1: Apparently there is a bug with --verify-config (eye roll)

Edit 2: I was able to find syntax error but running "luac -p hyprland.lua" and on every loaded lua file.

Edit 3: I got hyprland.lua to load, but its not reading in any of my lua modules. EX: require("monitors") with monitors.lua in same directory.

Edit 4: I went ahead and pushed my dotfiles so other people can see. I didn't want to do this until it was working but here we are. https://github.com/apoptosis66/dotfiles/tree/master/hypr . I am so pissed right now I need to step away. What exactly was wrong with the .conf files?