S-Mode is an appliance mode for Windows that prevents installation of any app not from the Microsoft Store. Disable S-Mode and you can install any application like you’ve always done, including Firefox.

Fedora should play nice with Secure Boot enabled. You also shouldn’t need to do anything with the TPM.

Depending on the model and brand, there’s probably a YouTube video showing how to disassemble it. This can help you find the keyboard connector and how to disconnect it.

So the only difference is one is a phone, and the other a gaming device? Because Nintendo js a gatekeeper in exactly the same way Apple is. Nintendo controls the entire operating system and which apps you’re allowed to install on the Switch. You’re going to have expand on how Apple has economic power over other companies and people for me.

If you’ve got two 3.5" bays, you could do a RAID 1 (or a mirror in ZFS terms) with them both. This works very nicely with a small SSD for booting. My TrueNAS server has a 120 GB SSD in the M.2 slot that TrueNAS is installed on, then I have an array of spinning disks that forms the main storage array.

If you are planning any sort of play environment that you might want to keep (like a Pixelfed instance) I’d strongly recommend RAID just for availability in the event of a drive failure. But more than that, backups. They are of number one importance. Before you turn up anything of any importance, figure out a backup strategy.

• What’s a good NAS OS to install?

TrueNAS Scale is the go to. Unraid is another popular option.

• Any fun things I can do besides plex transcoding with a 1080 GPU?

Local LLM. Look up Ollama.

• Would it make sense to run a Pixelfed/Mastodon server off this guy?

You could. That could potentially use a lot of space or be very annoying you having to manage and moderate the instances.

• Can I run a RAID on it without buying a separate HDD bay?

What do you mean? Are you talking about a hardware RAID card, or can you physically stuff more than one disk drive into the chassis? For the first, it’ll depend on whether it has any open PCI Express slots. For the second, what do you see when you open it up? Are there 3.5" or 5.25" bays open?

Other than a Plex port forward, I have zero experience putting services out on the public web (but would like to learn!).

Wanting to learn is an admirable goal. I’ve not done it myself, but the Linux Upskill Challenge might be a good place to start. Either that, or figure out something you might want to host yourself, then come back and ask for input when you run into trouble or have a question.

They’re replacing their in-house engine with Unity, so SI has actually been rebuilding the whole game in a new engine. From what’s been going around, they ran into issues with Unity’s UI tools.

I just checked on eBay, and there are multiple listings for single port 100 GbE Mellanox (now nVidia) Connect-X 4 cards in the $60-100 range.

Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Then you probably don’t know about Spectre and Meltdown from a few years ago. Same family of problem on x86-64 (so Intel and AMD chips).

The presenter chats with Milo.

I don’t recall in virt-manager off the top of my head. But if you make changes in the XML of a domain, you do have to shutdown/restart the domain before they’re effective. And just to be safe, I would say to shutdown the domain, then check the XML, then start up again.

You do say you’re just using qemu, so if that’s the case and you aren’t using libvirt in front of it, shutdown the VM, make sure your qemu command specifies an e1000 network device, and run again.

I can check virt-manager when I get some free time this evening, if that’s what you want/need.

You may need to shut down the VM, check the device config to ensure it’s set to e1000, then boot it back up. The PCI ID on your original post belongs to the virtio-net device.

Instead of trying to backport the virtio device drivers to that version, I’d recommend editing the VM to use the emulated e1000 NIC.

When you see the Windows and Apple icons on a game, that indicates native Windows and MacOS support. The Steam logo is native SteamOS/Linux. You’ll also see a “SteamOS/Linux” section on the system requirements.

The quotes are there because there’s spaces in the file name. You don’t see them in the GUI because they’re not actually there. They’re added by the ‘ls’ command to help with copy/pasting of file names. You can add ‘export QUOTING_STYLE=literal’ to your ~/.bashrc to permanently suppress them, or just do ‘ls -N’ as a one off.