Maybe. But its a bit pointless if only a subset of the user base goes through the effort.
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If you want to start the most effective, upgrade your router or primary switch to 2.5G or 10G. Then at least there is a low likelihood of a bottleneck when your devices are communicating internally with each other and youll have overhead downstream. Then, if you have multiple switches, prioritize the highest bandwitch between them over upgrading your devices beyond 1gb nic's.
I use an opnsense router with 2.5g nic's, and then I have a 2.5g switch and a 1gb switch than are connected via a 10gb fiber link. (This is all enterprise ubiquity level stuff). But all my downstream devices and switches are 1gb snd I have no plans to upgrade intentionally. Internally, I won't see bottlenecks often since communication between the switches and modems is enough to support multiple devices spamming 1gb/s file transfers simultaneously (not that itll happen often lol)
So my WiFi access points, primary NAS, and my most used PC are all on 2.5gb connections since they could benefit. But everything else is on 1gb since the switch has way more ports and was way cheaper.
I'm not against buying 10g switches for future proofing, but they're still too costly for my needs, and its unlikely I'll wish I had 10g any time soon esp when it comes to internet. Even if I upgrade beyond 1gb fiber service, it'd be so thay multiple devices can fully saturate a 1gb NIC at the same time, not so one computer can speed test 3gb+.
Thay said, what I have is overkill, but i enjoy some homelab tinkering.
Most likely fiber. Around here the ADSL provider (CenturyLink) was the first to start deploying fiber to compete with cable able to do 1gb (which is, of course, highly variable and full of asterisks because coax, quality to neighbors modems to support a stronger mesh, possible MoCA interference, etc.)
More recently they rebranded fiber as a different company... Probably to get rid of the DSL name stigma.
The EU is going to slap them silly for making it an easier process? Instead of needing to know a magic key combo to bypass the security check, now it acts just like any other security permission (for example, screen recording) and sends you to settings. This is absolutely better than it was and the article is clickbait.
This is a million times better than the current. Using homebrew, you often have to re-approve apps that brew ended up reinstalling in a manner to remove the previous exception.
Now, worst-case, it's the same process as any other app permission, and best case, it can be adjusted via the terminal.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filelink-provider-for-send/ this add on can be pointed at any send instance, so long as the instance isn't too diverged from the popular fork or Mozilla's original project.
The Thunderbird team has talked in the past about bringing Mozilla Send back as more of a feature for Thunderbird files embedded in emails, hence some of the work that's happening off and on by Mozilla themselves in the original project, some of which has been merged into the project this post is about.
I moved one of my computers to endeavor, but one is still on manjaro and the contrast is kinda hilarious. Manjaro machine always gets funky after updates, it struggles to deal with sleep and hibernation, and it feels slow even when its like 4x as powerful as my EndeavourOS machine.
Its been in testing for a bit. It got bumped from the last major desktop Thunderbird release and since Thunderbird releases used to be synced to firefox ESR releases its been a slow turnaround to get their schedule moving faster.
Its an f-droid metadata issue that the team is already aware of https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/8478
For an open source solution, DivestOS's Carrion is probably the best bet. There are a few others kicking around f-droid as well.
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/carrion
I haven't used it, but I've heard good things about it and I enjoy many of their other apps. I too just use the google pixel blocker because its way too good.
I run a fairly standard arch setup and have had very few issues with games. I've done a bit of tinkering with bottles, lutris, etc, but pretty much everything just works first time with steam.
I've only had to set a few launch flags, usually for a game to use directx instead of vulkan or vice-versa. Sometimes you can't play a game on launch, but usually one of the first few patches will get things in working order. Steam deck popularity has done wonders for this aspect.
The most common issue I run into is a game update that will break or degrade the experience. But usually those get fixed fairly quickly in follow up patches. A lot of developers will skip testing in proton (mostly because itll "just work" these days) but i imagine theyll start doing so more often before pushing updates as steam decks and Linux become larger shares of players.