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I finally got my Linux server set up and got Plex moved over to run in a docker container and it’s fan-fucking-tastic.

My next question is about radarr and sonarr. I worry about getting notices, throttled by my ISP, etc. I have a VPN that I use to manually download content, but would prefer the automated method instead which I understand radarr and sonarr are for.

Would I need VPN to use these for this concern? If I do run a VPN, would I encounter issues with my external Plex access? I do often use it out of the house and have others who connect to my server to stream too. If so, is there a way to configure it to work with the VPN? And if I do, do I need to run it under that all the time? I don’t always get the VPN since there are some months where nothing is worth downloading for me, so why pay for it until I need it?

Still new and not very well versed when it comes to Wayland and x11.

But I’ve had CachyOS with KDE Plasma installed on my gaming PC for almost 2 months now and not had many issues until last week.

Before I begin, here’s my specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 64GB DDR4 across 4 cards, RTX 4080 Super.

So last week, I booted up my computer and logged into CachyOS. About 10 minutes in, and suddenly the computer is restarting itself. Weird but okay, so I log in again and don’t have the same issue again. When I’m done, I always shut down so I shut down and then next day I boot up again. It was a few days later that this next occurrence happened and it happened in the same way. Another few days go by and then it happens again. Until Tuesday of this week and it got a lot worse. I boot up and log in but I am in for about 7 minutes and then it logs me out. But when I enter my password and hit enter, it freezes up and then my computer restarts after about 3 minutes.

This keeps happening and getting worse and the time is getting shorter that I can be logged in until today where I log in after a restart and am almost immediately kicked back to the login screen and then it freezes and restarts. I barely was able to run commands to get logs. I then began using TTY to do the fixes and copy logs out to read on my laptop.

In hindsight, I did have a few blips of blackness on login happening shortly before this happened where I’d log in and the screen would be black for many minutes until finally loading me up. This was before the freezing and log outs.

Today, I dug deep into the journalctl logs with an LLM and the LLM suggested that the logs were encountering an issue relating to Wayland. The LLM also saw an error involving an AMD graphics card, but that can’t be because I only use the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super so my guess is the error is not relevant to me and was just a generalized error. But it still suggested we try switching over to X11 and after following its steps, I am now in X11 and not having any of these issues anymore.

I’m not seeing any real differences or anything that makes me want to go back to Wayland, but again, I’m still not very knowledgeable on this.

I think what the most likely explanation is that I have been learning how to use pacman and around this time had learned about “sudo pacman -Syu” to update packages, so the most likely reason for this is that something got updated and began going haywire. I’ve been running this more often to ensure my machine is receiving updates. Prior to this, I hadn’t updated anything on the system and was using whatever came from the image I downloaded.

So I have a few questions I was hoping the community could help me with:

1. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before and know what could cause this? The way it kept getting worse almost felt like hardware degradation, like how physical objects naturally degrade and get worse over time if you don’t fix them. Not the normal issue where you encounter the same issue in the same timespan nearly each time which is what I’m expecting from software, not where it gets progressively worse as each day goes. The LLM had suggested hardware as a possible issue and I was leaning towards that possibility but not having issues on X11 makes me think that’s not the case here.

2. My main use on this system is gaming. Are there any differences between Wayland and X11 that would make me want to go back to Wayland? Are there any other reasons I may want to go back and figure out what caused this problem and fix it permanently? Or any reasons I may end up preferring X11?

3. Is it possible X11 will encounter the same issues eventually that Wayland did based on the behaviors described?

I’m nearly complete with this game but keep getting random crashes. I’ve tried switching Proton versions about 5 times now and it’s the same thing.

Is there somewhere I can go to check out logs to tell me what might be causing these crashes?

Running on CachyOS in Steam.

Update: so for whatever reason, it’s not happening after adding a command argument to the game to begin logging.

This was happening when I was trying to clear out the Redwood RV Park Ambush Camp. Sometimes it happened just sneaking around after a few minutes, and sometimes as long as me clearing out the camp and then would crash.

I just tried today so I could capture logs and was able to clear the camp and have been outside of the camp for a few minutes now without any crashes.

Up to this point, the game has been working with next to no issues. A crash here and there, but nothing like this one. Maybe something in this camp is causing an issue on Linux or with Proton? One difference in this playthrough was that I went an alternate route. Instead of going around the side by the dam, I went through the front and also went guns blazing instead of stealthing it.

They tasted good! Was craving a burger and didn’t want to go out and spend money somewhere.

Don’t judge the oversized cut of tomato in the back…no idea how that happened lol

I see ads on Facebook Marketplace and the like for used AirPods and it grosses me out. I can’t imagine putting that in my ear after it was in some stranger’s ear. I feel similarly with friends and family to a lesser degree.

I just had a guy offer to trade my MacBook for his used AirPods and I felt like barfing 🤢

This is the absolute worst season on planet earth. Fuck summer and everything about it.

It’s so uncomfortably hot and it is midnight here. This is fucking apeshit. I’m tired and can’t even fall asleep because I’m hot. The air conditioner is taking forever to cool my room down.

And to top off the heat are the bugs. I hate every last one of these motherfucking bugs that feel comfortable enough to come out during these unholy nights.

As if the heat wasn’t bad enough, I had a centipede directly above the pillow I sleep on, on the ceiling. Fantastic. And then a spider came right after it, creeping all over the ceiling. Last year, I had an earwig fall onto my pillow right in front of my face as I tried to sleep.

And the ants come out too. Leave a tiny morsel out and those leeching assholes come and won’t leave for months. I don’t eat at my desk ever but I still have ants crawling on it every so often trying to see if any food is there they can steal.

And what can you do about the heat? Nothing. Even getting butt naked doesn’t do anything for you. Waking up in a pool of your own sweat is one of the most awful experiences ever. Showers are wonderful but not if you exit the shower and immediate sweat all over your once clean body. Now you’re sweaty and sticky all over again. My balls are sticking to my thighs and it is the absolute worst feeling. I try to adjust it but then I get people looking at me strange. Yeah, my fucking balls are killing me over here. You try having a pair of nuts hanging off of you and sometimes sticking to one side and try not adjusting it.

My electric company makes it worse because coincidentally when it is hottest, between 4 PM and 9 PM is when they get to double my rates for “peak hours”. The rates are already highest in the country as it is, but they go double during the times when my house is actually getting the hottest. Having a $300+ electric bill is normal here. And who gets cheaper rates? Why those who are rich enough to buy multi-million dollar mansions near the beach where the weather is a nice 70° F all year long and they have no need for air conditioning. Of course they need the cheaper rates…

I fucking hate this season. I hate living here. I’m so glad when it starts cooling down. Yes, please come 40° F in the late winter. At least then I can do something about it. I can wrap up in a warm blanket, I can grab a sweater or wear a hoodie or double up on clothing, I can make a fire…I can do a lot. But this heat is just miserable and nothing helps. Fuck summer.

I just got my system all set up and using KDE Neon distro. I got Steam installed and been playing a few games that work fantastically.

My biggest issue is that the shaders take a very long time.

So far I’ve played Ghost Recon Wildlands and Ready or Not and both took longer than the download of the game. Like 30 minutes.

I was okay with this as a first time setup sort of thing, but it seems it did this on first two starts of the game. On the third time opening Ghost Recon Wildlands, I didn’t see this again.

But my question is, is there any way I can speed this up and is this normal to take this long? I remember shaders taking a minute on Windows too on this same machine, but never this long. At most, 10 minutes, but never more than that.

My setup:

• KDE Neon User Edition
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600
• PNY RTX 4080 Super
• 64GB DDR4 RAM
• 2TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD

Was curious about this on a family member’s new laptop running Windows 11. Is there anything Linux can do with this processor yet?

A family member of mine let some guy who knows a guy she knows park his vehicles on her property. She has 1 acre of land with it being mostly trees and flat land and various wildlife. I’ve seen coyotes, rabbits, possums, and more running around there and it’s a nice place to walk around to feel like you’re away from it all without the actual distance. Trees everywhere, most being taller than most buildings in the city.

So how does this asshole thank her? By littering his stupid crap everywhere.

The picture is a vape cartridge that was tossed into a seasonal pond. It’s a nice place to walk around when it’s not actually filled with water. Only for me to stumble on this crap in the middle of it. I think what enrages me even more is that this pond, when filled in the season, will be home to ducks and their families, as the young ducklings learn how to swim and fly before leaving on migration. So had I not found this and cleaned it, it’d have contributed to pollution for these new families using this as their home. Possibly even poisoning them, at worst.

Then I found a lighter thrown in the bushes somewhere and cigarette butts lying on the ground in random places. NO smokers have ever tainted this area with smoke paraphernalia until now. This land has been here forever and this asshole is the first to bring this unhealthy trash here. Not to mention this is an area that often deals with bad wildfires, so thanks for helping start the new wildfire! That’s just what this area needs.

Then I find empty water bottles crushed and thrown in random spots. All are the same brand of water the property owner buys. Which tells me that this is an additional way he’s showing gratitude. “Gee thanks not only for letting me use your land to park my shitty cars, but let me also show thanks for sharing your water with me by throwing it around your yard too!”

Yes, trash cans exist and not locked on the property in various places. All one has to do is walk up to one. Some of this trash was only a few feet from a trash can.

Yes, I did pick this crap up too. I didn’t take pictures to only to vent online, but also to share with the owner so she’s aware of what an inconsiderate fuckhead she has using her stuff.

I’m legit pissed. If you litter, then fuck you too.

My electric company puts out ads showing their employees going to work. That was literally the commercial I just saw for my electric company and then they show their logo in the corner.

What is the purpose of this? It’s not like they have a competitor and this ad might make me switch back to them or stay with them.

So what’s the point in making these ads?