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  • You don’t need Bazzite to use the “steamdeck-like” interface. Any distro with steam will let you run Steam in “pig picture mode” which will let you control steam with a controller.

    That said, Bazzite will work fine, but you’ll likely want to run it in desktop mode, rather than game mode. RPCS3 is just nicer to use this way, as it’s not really meant to be navigated using a controller. Once you have your games set up, of course, you can play them with a controller.

    As for running PS3 games, that should work fine. Your performance will likely vary from game to game, but a Ryzen 5 is “pretty good” for PS3 emulation.










  • Is it actually being used?

    My guess it just doesn’t evict stuff from before the suspend, starts re-loading stuff after the resume, which makes the apparent amount “used” go up.

    On a normal linux system, “free” RAM will over time drop down to zero, as the kernel puts the extra memory available to use. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t room to evict less-needed stuff if necessary.

    AFAIK linux only starts actively evicting RAM once it fills up.

    Like the other guy mentioned, drill down and see if you can find the actual program causing the problem.


  • A VPN provider can potentially log every site you visit, just like your ISP.

    The actual benefits are mostly practical, being able to access streaming services and other sites from other countries.

    It does hide your IP but this isn’t as big a deal as you might think, and moot, if the ISP logs your activity.

    It does not provide some special extra layer of encryption. It does encrypt the traffic, but most of the time, it was already encrypted anyway. The vast majority of internet traffic is.



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    1. Maybe? There are ways to limit what apps are able to access the internet. Rooting, or installing a Custom ROM may be possible on your current phone.

    2. I won’t break entirely. It’ll probably mostly work, but a lot of systems in normal android phones do rely on google play services.

    3. Definitely. FOSS apps tend to be entirely local, not phoning home unless there is good reason in the context of the functionality of the app. At the very least, they will more often than not still work, if denied internet access. This doesn’t mean good commercial software doesn’t exist, though.

    4. A VPN is probably not necessary for your privacy. Using one is potentially even a privacy risk, as you then need to trust the company providing it, in addition to your ISP. Your actual internet traffic is encrypted either way, unless you visit websites that do not use HTTPS, which is extremely rare nowadays.



  • I haven’t found anything that is quite like Macrium. Mostly, because something that works the same way is a bad idea on linux. Because as you suspect, and image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

    Macrium creates restorable images of your entire boot partition or disk, as-is, which can then be restored onto the same, or an entirely different, disk.

    This isn’t really something you can do in linux, with a system that is live. Hence, partition images should be done offline, when the given partition isn’t booted.

    That said, everything that matters can be backed up simply by copying the relevant files. For this, I use Kopia.

    As for making sure you always have a bootable system, for this I use Timeshift on btrfs.

    For MS office, you might try winapps. Sounds like what you’re hoping for.



  • A modern compound bow will fire the arrow in a straight line, directly forwards, as the bow will have a section that allows the arrow to be shot through the space that would be occupied by the stave on a traditional bow. While the bow must obviously be gripped in line with the tension, the rest of the center section is offset to allow the archer to both shoot and sight directly along the line the arrow will travel.

    How much firing then causes the arrow to bend would depend entirely on the stiffness of the arrow, but the resulting total energy being imparted is not going to be different just because the acceleration curve is different. If the arrow bends, then yes, you’d lose some energy to that.

    But if anything, starting off slow and then accelerating harder as you go is the gentler and more efficient acceleration curve when accounting for that.


  • No.

    Getting sick without already being immune leaves your body trying to speed-run anti-body development, while ALSO fighting the disease using more basic physiological responses.

    And even with anti-bodies, you’re not actually impervious. You can still get sick with diseases you’re “immune” to, as even deployment of disease-specific anti-bodies is a complex biological process that can go wrong, come too late, or not be enough.

    Given time, a person can develop “immunity” against a lot of stuff, but that still doesn’t mean every cell in your body is then changed in a way where that pathogen just bounces off.

    You see this most recently with Covid, as people who are vaccinated still get infections, but unlike with unvaccinated people, the body fights it off in a couple days, rather than a few weeks.

    But it does still takes those couple days for the latent immunity to kick in, and for the body to deploy that defense.

    Another person already commented on how different components of the immune system respond differently, and might even be what kills you faster than the disease.