If it was your only copy, then it wasn’t a backup.

Not a dumb question, I have seen my Deck carry some weird bugs across a reboot. I don’t even bother with the reboot command anymore, it takes about the same time to shut down and turn back on.

I don’t need any special advances in batteries, I just need “it’s possible to replace them” and “it’s possible to get them”.

Lobster was an unbelievably buggy distro. I had no end of sleep and compositor problems, and outright system hangs on it. Minotaur was better, but still give me far too much crap.

I would rather run a “crack monkeys with a sourceforce account” nightly distro than go through Ubuntu’s idea of a beta again.

There is no guarantee that EA won’t change the deal after you’ve bought the game.

The latest yt-dlp is in bookworm-backports.

https://wiki.debian.org/Backports

The use case is - if you are in an industry that is legally mandated to use EDR, it is an EDR product.

Btw, here’s my config file.

-o "%(title)s (%(uploader_id)s).%(ext)s"
 
-P ~/Videos

-P "temp:/tmp/yt-dlp/"

-f 271+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/308+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/137+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/299+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/231+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/http_mp3_128/271+140/308+140/137+140/299+140/231+140
--download-archive ~/.config/yt-dlp/dl-archive
--no-playlist
--write-sub
--no-mtime
--compat-options no-live-chat

You can have most of the settings pre-loaded in its config file. I mostly let it do my preset -f, or when that fails do a -F to see what encodings are available.

systemctl

Windows is not very pleasant about dealing with a removable drive with more than one partition.

I have a Debian 12 install on a 5GB partition (btrfs compression is magic), and the rest is exfat. It has rEFInd as the bootloader, should be pretty good at detecting and running other OSes with bootloader problems.

Try rEFInd. It’s pretty good about detecting OSes and auto-populating its menu, and it has a pretty easy conf file format otherwise. Installing the refind debian package mayybe will also register it with the system firmware, I don’t recall. If not, it can be set up with efibootmgr (which is not the most pleasant program, sadly).

FreeSystemd

Considering that it has a 2020 firmware, and is built by “to be filled by OEM”, my completely unfounded wild guess is that the system firmware has broken legacy boot support. From other posts here, I gather you’re using a legacy dos-style partition table. Try installing again with GPT/EFI instead.

Eight years of long term support, dude.

The only practical difference between Local and Roaming and LocalLow is that developers randomly pick one and dump your game saves in there.

Have you tried it? Have you tried taking a screenshot of Prime/any other streaming service playing a video?

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Part of the DRM is that it’s going to insist on a secure path to the display. It has the video decrypted in the gpu and sent directly to a secured HDMI port.

Now whatever you do, don’t go out and buy a cheap chinese HDMI-> USB 3 adapter that lies about its secure status…