AI doesn’t figure anything out. It guesses the next letter in the word.

I need to root my Kindle…

But isn’t the steam deck Arch as well? So I wonder if there’s still a difference where they support just the deck specific specs…

But if it’s a Linux native build, and the deck is arch, it would stand to reason that you could at least get the build on arch. Maybe they’re doing a check against the uname or something to verify what you’re running.

Awesome, thanks! I’ll give that a shot. Although I use Firefox so I’ll have to see if they make it for non chromium.

Which one do you use? I’ve used a handful over the years and they all stop working for me.

Wewt! I’m actually doing a rescuzilla backup of my Windows box right now because I’m about to install CachyOS on my Surface.

Of course they are. Because now they can benefit from it by feeding the recordings to Galactus…err Gemini.

Barney? Is that you?

That’s part of why I’m here. I’ve been following linux on surface’s installation guide and I’ve updated my post with the errors I’m currently running into. I’m not sure if the errors have anything to do with the touchscreen/pen issues though.

I did run the lspci -nn -k command. I can put it in here if you’d like but it’s a long list. I don’t see anything in there specifically talking about the touchscreen or pen however there are a number of Microsoft hub devices. It could be one of those, I just don’t know.

So I did try to install their linux kernel but I ran into an error regarding mkinitcpio and nvidia. I updated my original post with the errors I’ve run into.

To your second set of questions. It’s a bit multi-layered. I’m wanting to move my main laptop, a Surface Laptop Studio, off of Windows and onto Linux. The linux on surface project also supports the SLS. I game on my SLS as well so a gaming focused distro is where I’m targeting. Additionally, at some point, I’m going to build a full PC with high end gear. From what I’ve heard, Arch is good for high end/bleeding edge kind of hardware. So with all that combined, I figured I should probably start learning Arch’s idiosyncrasies as I’m coming from debian mainly when I do use Linux. I have an old Surface Book 2 and thought it would make a good testbed for this process which is how I ended up using hardware as old as that.

Yeah I did check their compatibility matrix and the SB2 is fully compatible except for the IR in the camera array. The only requirement is that you need to use the Linux-Surface kernel which I did install. I updated my post with some errors I’m running into trying to get troubleshooting done. I don’t know if the errors have anything to do with the touchscreen not working but they are something I guess.

I literally ran into this last night trying to install Cachyos on my old surface. I was relieved when the wireless worked in the installer and so incredibly confused when it doesn’t now… I’m still trying to fix it lol.

But it’s got what plants crave!

Corrected my original post. I’ve also updated it to reflect that larger context as well as the content in the “…” menu option.

Selecting the “Cancel Download” within the “…” menu only stops the download for that instance. When the Store rechecks for updates, this will pop back up. There doesn’t seem to be a way to tell the Store to ignore updates for that product.

If there’s isn’t a way to disable specific updates, then I’m not sure what I would want to do as I also have PowerToys installed. That also get updated via this context and I like that streamline so I’d prefer not to turn off ALL 3rd party updates if you even can.

Correct. I had mistakenly stated Windows Update and I meant the updates via the Microsoft Store. I’ve updated my post to correct that mistake and added some clarifications.

No, I used CSP’s installer not via the MS Store.

So I couldn’t find anything for 3rd Party Apps. I found GPO settings for disabling Automatic Updates which doesn’t apply in this situation because I already have it disabled. Where are the GPO settings for 3rd Party?

Ohhh that’s interesting, I forgot about those DAC cables. Although I don’t know if that would work in this case because the LAN ports in the Netgate are already RJ45 ports not a SFP port. Unless they make a DAC that is SFP+ on one side and RJ45 on the other…

Ah yeah I see. I didn’t design the diagram to a specific layer but if I had to choose one after the fact I guess this would be Layer 1 honestly. I’m really just looking for the physical interconnection of devices and making sure I don’t have a path out of the network that doesn’t go through the Netgate.

But more specifically, I was looking for information on if the C1300 and the Netgate can communicate on the ports I’ve put in the diagram or if the mistmatch in speed ratings for the ports would be a problem. As well as if the SFP+ port on the C1300 can even be used as a connection like that. In their documentation, Cisco has an example of use for those ports as stacking ports to other switches. I’ll only have the one and won’t need to stack any other so I was looking to see if the SFP+ ports can be used for non-stacking purposes.

So the UPS I was looking at is here: https://www.microcenter.com/product/506629/apc-smart-connect-ups-(smc1500-2uc)

It lists VA, W, and V.