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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.

My issue may have actually been the screen protector. After putting the other one on, it hasn’t automatically opened something after unlocking the screen.

Is that ghost touching or something else?

Same kind of screen protector, it came with two. Maybe I aligned it better.

Sometimes tapping stuff on websites doesn’t work right away though. Probably cause of my fat fingers.

Won’t buy a new phone with a bigger screen. At least not an iPhone or Android phone.

The AI might be optional, but I still don’t like AI. Especially not any Internet AI.

The good news is, I can give AI lots of false info. Any AI bot that’s reading my sites, can be filled with a ton of false info.

Long ago, a woman, did warn about AI. AI is racist, just like the people that make it.

Want to use a Sofabaton U2 remote? Well, the easiest way, is to disable Bluetooth on the TV. And then turn the TV off. Otherwise, the Bluetooth might turn itself back on.

When learning the remote, instead of following the instructions, click the button once. Holding it doesn’t work. Probably won’t learn it the first time. With any luck, it’ll work the second time.

If you use Bluetooth, some buttons may not work. Couldn’t get the menu button to work with Bluetooth. Too lazy to try every single key as well. Probably not enough buttons on Sofabaton to assign every Bluetooth key. So that means doing one at a time, and then reconnecting to phone after it fails each time.

There is a way to get it though, use a Bluetooth sniffer. If it isn’t encrypted, then it should have the key in the packet. Searching the Internet, won’t find anything. Except, to turn Bluetooth off.

I set it up as a Basic TV. Not connecting any “smart” TV to the internet again.

The Sofabaton U2, has shitty IR range. Thought when I bought it, it said it improved the range. Maybe it just stops working as good too.

The Bluetooth has issues too. Got to click pause a lot.

Anything.

Good luck doing that though. Anybody that lives anywhere with computers, something about them is likely online.

I did watch something, that said something about a massive network of cameras in this country.

Too late for me not to put anything on the internet. If I was born in the wildness somewhere without any computers or electricity nearby, perhaps.