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I quickly checked their site. While scrolling, I guessed it will be either CS43131 or the newer one that I don’t recall the model number.

Can you guess how I can say the DAC model now?

It’s a well proven and widely used DAC for all sorts of cheap and expensive dongles, DAC amps, and even boutique audio players. Though my quick look I didn’t find of they’re also using additional opamps or other amp circuitry. But still, if everything else on the board is well built and assembled, it’s going to be good at worst.

yeah I think that’s my conclusion from trying two different distros so far. I’m way too much if a tinkerer. it’s already one thing to jumping from Windows to any Linux and the baggage of having a Windows mentality. maybe with bazzite I’ll revisit it again when, say, I want to build a TV console for games and other media. that one should be at worst a “tinker and config the hell out of it once and be done with it for a long time” affair.

and yeah, I think I’m getting the distro hopping is fun bug. I already have a decent enough back up discipline so changing OS again isn’t too big of a hassle. and with the two distros I’ve tried, it really is a lot smoother to just change an OS compared to dreading reinstalling Windows.

I see I misunderstood what Staff said, thanks.

Yeah, I think you’re right. Maybe bazzite isn’t for me. I just have that tinker itch every now and then.

And hey, a live service game I’m playing recently had a massive hack that many people affected had to reinstall their OS just for self assurance. That somehow also could affect people running Linux. So I might as well hop to another distro this weekend.

I’ve been thinking how to reply to this. IDK how to make it coherent so I’ll just dump my ramblings. So sorry to subject you to the song of my people brain.

So basically I decided one day I just wiped Windows off my machine for forgotten reasons and replaced it with cachyOS. the installation was pretty straight forward since I’m doing basically a clean install. I also forgot why I decided to wipe CachyOS and install bazzite 2 months ago.

I think using both cachy and bazzite as is, like installing doing basic things such as installing from their respective software store, it is identical. no fussing about. cachy has more options out of the box that they show you while bazzite is a bit more streamlined. it’s when you brought your Windows tinkering monkey brain and want to monkey around that there might be some problems I feel like.

cachy being arch derived, there’s always the arch wiki to plumb the depths on to learn and do almost anything. so I’m pretty good at following instructions like that.

so because of my tinkering monkey brain, the additional layers on bazzite of using mostly flatpaks, how to control and extend configurations on them, and all that somehow short circuits my brain a bit somehow.

in other rambling points, bazzite is definitely has a lot better presentation out of the box. cachy’s choice of their software store is uh, very software engineer aesthetics and UX.

I couldn’t get cachy to stick to using colemak for everyday usage, and have steam games default to qwerty when playing them and have to change keyboard layouts before I start the game. on bazzite I didn’t have to do that, most of the time.

I think next I want to try nobara, another gaming focused distro, but this time it’s full fedora, not the atomic fedora based bazzite.

No, I’m still on a nvidia card and I’m not sure what version hdmi my monitor is

My comment is more general vibe of my experience with bazzite. similar to what Staff below me said, sometimes it just have some weird inconvenient ways to do things when I need to, for example, use the terminal to look up some folders or change things. idk I admit I’m still not too good doing things in the terminal but adding another layer of having to learn what an immutable distro adds on top seems to be tripping me more.

Idk if I like bazzite or not. I started my Linux change around 5 months ago I think. Started with cachy os. I think it was going fine but something slowly broke so I changed to bazzite 2 months ago I think.

The fun part is it’s quick to just distro hop. I have my backups all okay so that helps a lot. When everything works both was working fine and easy I feel.

But when something starts to get wonky, I’m kind of struggling a bit more with bazzite due to the atomic nature. Idk that’s just the vibe I’m feeling.

Mmm, cider

The ones in power deciding for everyone else don’t use them, I would think.

Damn, I’ve gaslit myself with the movie pronunciation that I forgot how high school me would’ve pronounced. Maybe back then I was just giddy to see a book I loved reading on the silver screen.

Sausages of various size pretending to be tabs and buttons

at least once a year, I will try to clean up my bookmarks. I still have thousands to go through from 15 years of browsing the internet lol. (yeah I’m a “young” fellow compared to some here)

idk why I think it was needed to save to bookmarks the 300+ tabs of right clicking interesting articles while diving TVTropes back then, and I still have not deleted those 600+ bookmarks.

It could be related to this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-ai-enhanced-tab-groups

But even after reading it, it seems it needs to be a deliberate action, not automatically grouping. In the more general support page for tab groups (linked at the bottom of that page), mozilla says AI enhanced tab groups started in version 141.

It could be a bug.

I assume (you know the saying…) that she doesn’t feel like it has probably because it’s not her in power. Despite everything that has happened and is happening.

To this day, I really love Windows Phone 7 - 8.1 visual and UX design. Very rectangle, love it. It’s the best for mobile IMO. We should go back to when MS can still seem competent enough.

Firefox and their dancing sausages, man. (this requires you watch a firefox ad somehow. I watched one in discord to get my dopamine).

I need to look into wizestream. Sounds interesting.

I’ve been happy with another newpipe fork, pipepipe, for a long time. Back then they were called animepipe because it included the bullet comments flying across the video like niconicodouga (nnd). No, I will not explain why it’s desirable by some anime otaku. But it also includes support for peertube, bilibili and of course nnd.

Also good to see librefind for android. Degoogling is a journey, and finding apps are hard enough outside of the biggest ones. Librefind helps quite a bit. And can be contributed with finds by others.

you forgot to put in thorns

I’m a Linux noob that started with CachyOS earlier this year to jump to an atomic distro recently. like a month ago give or take. I chose Bazzite though. context, am gamer, my PC is mostly for gaming and entertainment.

idk if I like it though. it’s one thing to learn all the normal Linux things I can do, and sometimes need to do, but to add the atomic / immutable concept layer is a bit discouraging to me.

I’m thinking of going back to a non atomic, but wanting to try fedora based Nobara next

and it’s the “correct” orientation being horizontal.

at least this one is now horizontal. so if the individual lens does not protrude too much away from the island, like the iphone 17/18 do, it shouldn’t rock when it’s on a flat surface.

despite the stupid trend of putting massive islands o. the back of the phone, when well designed it acts as a finger cliff to balance on my hand.

I hand a large hand so mileage will vary as always.