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  • I have seen 6 port minipcs like this one https://cwwkpc.com/products/mini-pc-firewall-c6 so number of ports is not an issue as long as you are prepared to pay for it. I think you’ll find more ports with similar keywords (industrial, firewall, fanless, etc).

    My setup, which I think works well, is to have OPNsense on the miniPC as router/firewall, and separate WiFi APs. This setup has lasted me around 5 years now and will probably last as long as OPNsense and openWRT (for my APs) had decent support for my hardware. Well worth the money and effort in my opinion, and separating the router/firewall from the AP allows you much more flexibility.







  • Righ, slowroll is just a different cadence of package versions, and it just switches to slowroll repos. As for whether the packages will downgrade, I would guess yes. This is because Slowroll takes the same approach as Tumbleweed, where each release is a snapshot of a configuration consisting of packages of a specific version that are known (to the best of the maintainers’ ability) to work together. So they will likely downgrade to match the known good configuration.

    Unless you crossed a major new feature release in Tumbleweed that hasn’t made it to slowroll, I’d say that’s probably not an issue.

    https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Slowroll




  • I have always been advised by the “greybeards” in the openSUSE community to always use zypper dup with Tumbleweed. This is because doing so ensures your package environment is always in line with what was release on openQA, ensuring you are covered by that quality check. The language is in this link is probably confusing and should be corrected; its probably more accurate for openSUSE Leap.

    I would recommend removing PackageKit and always using zypper dup with Tumbleweed, and that’s what I do.



    1. Remember that a rolling distro is bleeding edge. That means that from time to time you WILL encounter some issues.
    2. Tumbleweed is (somewhat) unique in its approach to rolling. The quality checks that occur on openQA partially mitigate failures by withholding the next distro upgrades until they can be reviewed. However, the openSUSE devs are not perfect, openQA is not perfect, and some times rolling forward with a known issues is deemed acceptable.
    3. This is where btrfs comes in. The answer to your question of what to do if zypper dup fails is two part: A) roll back to the automatic “pre” snapshot taken by snapper before the dup. B) Just wait for the devs to fix the issue!
    4. If you are impatient, you can check for progress on a specific issue by searching the issue on https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/, or chat up the community either on the forums or on the matrix space in the support room.

    Feel free to ask questions anytime!



  • Even “in universe” content might be a way to bridge revenue between ME and the next franchise if they’ve run out of ideas. Star Wars has made an insanely successful business taking “background” characters or events and expanding on them. To be honest in my opinion those constitute some of the best Star Wars IP, whereas attempts to return to the “main storyline” (Jedi vs Sith) kinda suck.

    Personally I’d love to see a deeper dive into Cerberus. Depending on your ME3 crew comp and romance options they sometimes just didn’t seem very relevant to the endgame, or really have much purpose other than the storytelling device used to justify Shepherd still being alive.

    Even a look into the previous experiences of the crew would be cool, which is fairly simple given they were all given relatively rich backstory to fill out dialogue.

    But I 100% agree the main story should end, especially after Andromeda already provided a look into the future of the Galaxy post-Reapers.