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Apparently openSUSE works great on the Deck. Switched back to X11, cause Kwin was crashing too much. Looks like it crashed with X11 too. Couldn’t even SSH into it.

Couldn’t connect to Orange Pi 5 over there either. Rebooted the network switches over there, and could connect to Orange Pi 5 again. But couldn’t connect to Raspberry Pi 5 anymore. Was probably fine, before I rebooted the switches. Guess the Pi can’t recover it’s network.

And there’s no log, said no persistent log.

Only solution for the Pi, was to unplug the power and plug it back in. No monitor is hooked up to it.

AMDGPU on laptop finally crashed again, a nice fence timeout.

Update openSUSE on Deck again. No idea if any of the updates will fix anything. Didn’t look like any KDE updates. What’s the point in using slowroll if you have to use an old snapshot?

If you don’t want the code to run that is. Switched it back to WordPress, same issue.

I installed a plugin. After inserting the code block, switch to text, so the code can be inserted between the tags. Didn’t try highlighting the code and then clicking the code block toolbar item. Might be able to manually type it though.

There’s another solution, use Hugo.

Saw black water come out. So I tested the PPM with a water test, one said 138 PPM, and other said 131. The ZeroWater is the one that said 131. No idea what the official PUR filter tests as.

Tasted it, and tastes horrible. Guess the PPM isn’t lying.

And I turned water back on, to let it run some more, and then it was around 140 PPM with the non ZeroWater tester.

If you search for black on the page for it on Amazon, people say to run it for five minutes. It’s been longer then five minutes. Also, the paper it came with, doesn’t say how long to rinse it out. Might have said something about gallons. Might say on the Amazon page, how long to run water through it.

It says 3 minutes on the Amazon page for it. Maybe they mean three hours.

Looks like it can be returned.

Also, where are the official PUR ones made? Somebody sent these back, cause they’re made in China. When I removed the old filter, the top broke off it. Guess PUR filters aren’t water proof. Dumped the water out of the part the filter goes in as well, it fills up with water.

Good news, I still have my ZeroWater pitcher, and an unused filter. Never got a broken ZeroWater filter. I don’t like bending over though. If I put the pitcher in the fridge, it’ll be on the bottom, and that requires bending over, to get water.

Wonder what the PPM is for the water without a filter. It might be less then this filter. Either way, it likely doesn’t taste as bad.

The water straight from the faucet, is 141 or 142 PPM, I removed the faucet filter to test it. Now wondering what the PPM is for the official PUR filter.

Well, I must have ran water through it long enough, cause it has no taste now. But the water comes out faster with this filter, might be why the PPM is almost the same as without it.

Need to taste the water straight from faucet. If it tastes the same, then I don’t need any filters. Don’t like cold water anymore. Wouldn’t have to put ZeroWater pitcher in fridge, but nowhere else to put it. If I put it on the counter, then I’ll have to move it when using the Air Fryer or something. No room on table for it either.

What is the water tester not testing for though? Problem with ZeroWater, is the water tastes horrible when you need a new filter. And the filters stink after using them up too. There’s a good chance, they did that on purpose. No extra filter, and enjoy the fish tasting water.

According to the highly intelligent AI on Amazon, PUR doesn’t change the PPM much.

Since it’s a charcoal filter, can I buy charcoal and replace the charcoal?

Pretty sure I won’t like the taste of water straight from the faucet though. After I tried the filtered water in my mom’s fridge, I got a ZeroWater, and started drinking water. I like my water to taste like nothing.

Just run water through it for longer then 3 minutes. 20 minutes might work. No idea total time I ran water through it, I left it running while cleaning. And probably for some time after cleaning too.

Too late to return, probably bought the 2 pack in January. Guess I should have checked other filter.

Won’t be buying the PUR branded filters, or from Target anymore. Under $20 for two in January. Now $28 for two. Or get a different brand for $20, and get 3.

Was too lazy to try getting all the plastic out of it. So I threw it out.

X11 hasn’t crashed yet. Same version on my laptop running Garuda Linux, and no issues.

Looks like I was right, KDE likes crashing. Then I can’t send audio over the network to the Deck.

Now using my controller as a mouse is slower. Have to increase the sensitivity. And if I ever switch back to Wayland, I’ll have to change the sensitivity back. A pain in the ass.

Well, I guess Wayland isn’t ready yet after all.

It’s really easy to make openSUSE freeze. Just regenerate the initrd with Dracut. Somehow the music was still playing.

Don’t forget about .cache. I deleted everything in it, on my Deck and desktop.

Desktop just locked the screen after rebooting, so that may have fixed the desktop.

Leaving receiver off longer, not sure the sound issue is fixed or not yet.

libQt6Core.so.6.11.0 has an issue. Probably a nice KDE crash window open. TV is off though.

Also, don’t forget to check your space usage, if using btrfs. Snapshots will eventually use most of your space.

Taking too long for audio to crap out, so I guess it’s fixed.

KWin keeps crashing.

And my desktop is having issues now too. After rebooting, I guess I have to now change settings, and change back, so the monitor will sleep.

Also, KDEConnect is either trying to connect to Bluetooth devices that aren’t mine, or somebody is trying to connect to it.

Disabled the Bluetooth backend on everything. Not sure that will fix it. Looking at the log, it possibly did it again on the Deck.

Well, there’s another solution, uninstall KDEConnect.

No BTRFS on desktop, so no going back to an older snapshot on it. I’d have to restore a backup. I’d rather switch to a more stable distro.

Looks like disabling the Bluetooth backend did work. Rebooted again, after changing the LightDM config to use X11. Maybe Wayland no longer works.

Guess Staatic, doesn’t keep everything on some pages. Breaks the Lightbox plugin, by not keeping the <script>  on the pages with images.

I had to fix the wp2static-addon-copy add on for WP2Static. Can’t clean the directory, with the existing code.

Deployer.php:

use FilesystemIterator;

function rrmdir( string $path ) : void
{

    // if( trim( pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_BASENAME ), '.' ) === '' )
    //     return;
    //
    // if( is_dir( $path ) )
    // {
    //     array_map( 'rrmdir', glob( $path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '{,.}*', GLOB_BRACE | GLOB_NOSORT ) );
    //     @rmdir( $path );
    // }
    //
    // else
    //     @unlink( $path );
    $dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(
        $path, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
    $dir = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
        $dir,RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST);
    foreach ( $dir as $file ) {
        $file->isDir() ?  rmdir($file) : unlink($file);
    }

}

I found some working code by searching. Using a recursive function, might not be the best idea. Didn’t work anyways. Maybe works with older PHP.

To fix the problem of not being able to use code tags, use a different editor. Like peendev-markdown. Guess it doesn’t convert the code in the code tag, so it doesn’t try running.

Updating openSUSE, changed it back to SDDM. No Wayland by default if using SDDM. Too lazy to logout, select Wayland, and login, and hope it auto logins with Wayland.

LightDM can be easily configured to use Wayland by default.

Well, it was configured to do that. Looks like openSUSE messed up my LightDM config too.

**sudo zypper rm sddm**

And now the audio works, after turning the receiver back on. Did add myself to the audio group before updating.

Guess the installer doesn’t do that. Or a new update was released that fixed it. Or it’s because the Deck is using 7.0.7-1-default.

Desktop is using 7.0.5-1.0.8.sr20260504-default. Systemd boot is a pain. Have to remember to change the default kernel after updating, apparently.

And the audio died, with the receiver on.

Also, thought I switched to Slowroll on Deck. Guess not.

Ran zypper rm kernel-default on Deck. Doing so on desktop, will remove all kernels apparently.

Needed to update Systemd boot. Used Yast to do so.

/etc/zypp/zypp.conf: cannot open `/etc/zypp/zypp.conf' (No such file or directory)

Where is the default zypp.conf file? There’s a zypper.conf file. But that multiversion crap isn’t in it. Got to love outdated info. Removed it using Yast.

Found a WordPress alternative, ClassicPress, a fork of WordPress.

Apparently Simply Static doesn’t work with it, or you have to figure out which version of Simply Static works with it.

I just compiled WP2Static instead of trying to fix Simply Static anymore.

Had to rollback openSUSE on my Steam Deck, now Slowroll is broken too when updating. I’m not leaving receiver and/or TV on 24/7. I do want sound when the receiver turns on though. Not even using HDMI for sound.

Staatic works too. It’s possible a ClassicPress update, could cause WP2Static to stop working.