Do you have any links?

Yeah people really enshitified the meaning of the word /s

The worst part is paying $48.89 to solve a captcha

I have similar requirements to you and honestly the best solution I could find was Microsoft Authenticator. I know Microsoft bad etc, but if you already have a Microsoft account anyway you can back up all your 2fa codes to your iCloud or Google account. If anyone knows of an open source alternative I’d be interested, but the ability to recover my accounts is more important than using something open source

What are the main differences from a user perspective rather than hosting? Is it worth checking out?

Sounds like you want a humane AI pin!

God yes please, got to be better than who we’re stuck with at the moment

I ended up solving it by installing kde plasma. I’d previously tried with as minimal an install as possible to narrow down the problem, but it seems all I had to do was carry on setting things up as I’d originally wanted!

Does it run at a playable frame rate yet?

Edit: Oh it’s PlayStation, I thought EA play was PC only

Probably uses less power

You might at some point, you don’t actually need secure boot turned on for Windows 11 your PC just needs to be capable of secure boot and use UEFI mode rather than legacy boot

Nah I don’t really need the latest kernel, I’m just worried the it’s kernel will eventually be updated and get the same problem

That makes sense, for the amount I use this laptop I won’t worry about it for now! It wasn’t noticeably dusty when I opened it yesterday, and the errors occur immediately after booting so I wouldn’t expect it to heat up that fast

In that case if it still works should I just ignore the error for now and replace the card if it causes any issues?

Thanks that’s sorted it! I must have not noticed the error before as I usually install btrfs-progs after chrooting and it looks like installing it triggers mkinitcpio to run again anyway

How?

By safe I guess I more meant should I be doing anything beforehand. I’m running snapper on btrfs so even if I do completely destroy everything it’s not too much of an issue but I’d rather avoid it if possible!

I found out how to check for orphaned packages with pacman thanks to another comment so I’ve removed them now

Wow I seem to have loads

I never knowingly installed these, the only packages I’ve intentionally installed from the AUR are heroic games launcher and 7-zip. And the only kde programs I’ve manually installed is the plasma-meta package, kde connect and ksnip. I think they were previously part of the plasma-meta package and have now been removed or replaced with the plasma 6 versions

That just means they deliberately made the game tedious with the goal of annoying people into paying