Obligatory post mentioning that Freetube exists on Android as well. With Syncthing, I sync history, playlists and subscriptions. It’s brilliant.

Disconnect it from your network. Hard to serve ads if it can’t contact the servers it is pulling them from.

Are you me? Except I use FreeTube instead of Piped. I am so happy with this solution. Years of discontent of watching services going through the enshittification cycle… everything just becoming so underwhelming. This has given me back freedom over my own media consumption. No ads. No endless scrolling through bullshit content. Just a nicely personally curated selection of movies and TV shows (on Jellyfin) and an ad-free YouTube-experience with sponsorblock and dearrow enabled, and blocking of live chats and shorts.

I’m on Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS, and I am happy with that. I would not expect them to release a Fairphone 6 anytime soon, so unless OP has all the time in the world, the Fairphone 5 should be good if they want to go this route.

Freetube exists for Android also.

Syncthing is your friend. Freetube stores playlists, history, settings and subscriptions as .db-files which you can sync between devices. Android version also allows access to these files if enabled in settings.

Ok, so something I should have tried immediately is using something other than the Flatpak build. Downloading the executable straight from godotengine.org worked fine.

Would still be good if the Flatpak would work. Should maybe report this here?

I thought I was sure, but I do have it installed it turns out:

$ lspci -k

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Tongfang Hongkong Limited GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Removing it would not cause me any trouble?

I’m on Tuxedo OS 3.

Thanks for the link. I tried running that, but it seems to fail loading the noveau-driver (I have the proprietary Nvidia-drivers installed, as far as I know I don’t have noveau installed). Does Godot in some way depend on using noveau, and can I install that alongside the proprietary drivers?

This is the output from running with index 0 (as you can see, I’m using a Flatpak build, if that would make a difference?). Index 1 did not use the Nvidia-card, but rather llmvpipe or something (I’m guessing CPU-emulated card?), and that was extremely slow.

Godot Engine v4.3.stable.flathub.77dcf97d8 - https://godotengine.org
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
OpenGL API 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.1.3 (git-0c49f54c76) - Compatibility - Using Device: Intel - Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (ADL GT2)

Editing project: /path/to/project
Godot Engine v4.3.stable.flathub.77dcf97d8 - https://godotengine.org
Vulkan 1.3.278 - Forward+ - Using Device #0: Intel - Intel(R) Graphics (ADL GT2)

The second block is after loading the project where it switches to Vulkan from OpenGL.

I’ll try the on-demand thing mention in the same post tomorrow, I’ve yet to ever try running that instead of either dGPU completely on or off.

This is my solution also. I listen to audio books on my way to work, and read on an ebook-reader in the evening. Can be tricky to sync when the chapter structure is non-traditional though (e.g. Discworld).

Playlists, history, subscriptions and settings are all stored as .db-files in ~/.config/FreeTube (or whatever path it is if you are using the Flatpak). Sync those :) On FreeTube Android, you have to turn on custom data storage path in the settings first.

Depends on your budget, I guess. My setup consists of a regular Samsung Smart-TV that I have disconnected from the network, connected to a mini-PC from Minisforum running Linux Mint. The reason I got that was mainly for gaming, could get away with a significantly cheaper option if not. I run my own Jellyfin-server for media content (movies, TV and music) and use FreeTube to watch YouTube (which I sync with my laptop and mobile using SyncThing). I do use a wireless foldable and rechargeable keyboard with built in trackpad, but it’s not working as great as I imagined. Corsair used to have a nice media keyboard, but as far as I know they have discontinued it and I haven’t yet found a new one that fits my criteria, so I keep using the foldable one.

As for gaming, I run emulation through RetroArch and Steam in big picture mode. I have four 8BitDo Ultimate controllers in case I get any friends over who are keen on a round of Mario Kart.

Are there any write-ups on the situation in Europe under GDPR-legislation? Mostly I read about the US-situation which seems like the wild west, but I can’t imagine that it is perfectly fine in the EU either even if you opt-out of using their apps etc.

How accurate are these measurements? I don’t know much about Norway, but if there was some massive roll-out of Linux in the governmental sector or their school system, surely there would be posts about it here?

Edit: I’m just having a hard time believing such high numbers without something like that.

Reminds me of the movie Her, where all kinds of heartfelt letters were outsourced to professional agencies.

I use CalyxOS on my FP4. I have been happy. Almost 2 years now.

Nice, need to check out mscp! Thanks for the tip!

If I had a stationary computer running, I would probably keep it running in a terminal window. I could connect a monitor to the server, but I don’t think it will be necessary. I will need to verify the backup before I restore it anyway, and it is not time urgent, so that if something goes wrong I can restart.

Not an answer to your question, but a (perhas naive) question itself: are keyloggers impossible on Wayland?

Wayland should be faster. What would you expect to happen? It should just work, while in the background EVERYTHING is changing.

I had assumed that I would get a somehow smoother experience (such as speed, for instance) or some other perceivable benefit, but I think Ramin Honary nicely highlighted the necessity of the change on the backend side. So your point is good, maybe I should just expect a smooth transition where I don’t notice anything.

For Freetube, it should automatically detect running on Wayland and use that. But I had one bug on Freetube only on Wayland, may be an Electron issue.

If I run the executable after downloading from the GitHub repo directly, it launches in XWayland. The additional parameters I mentioned in the post used to work to launch it in Wayland, but not anymore.

Thanks for such a detailed account - it really makes sense to move on from X11 based on what you write.

When I first heard about what X11 and Wayland was and how long the transition has been in the making, I found it a bit hard to believe that it should take so long. I am still not fully sure why it would take so long time to mature… is it a chicken-and-egg kind of situation where it cannot mature properly before it is more widely used, but it has not been more widely used because it was not mature enough? Or is it such a difficult task to get this right and that the development time reflects that?

And why would for instance NVIDIA GPUs continue to have issues with Wayland (and what kind of issues would actually be caused by this?)? Is that a matter of closed source drivers and lack of support from NVIDIA’s side to implement required changes? Or are such issues on a more fundamental level (i.e. architectural differences that somehow factors into this - I have no idea what I’m talking about now, I’ll stop writing…)?