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Why?

It makes no sense for a government/military to use a proprietary system made in another country when there’s a very strong movement inside of said government for an open system. They have incredibly smart people at SUSE, Manjaro and KDE right on the inside and you are telling me they can’t do better than hitting subscribe on Office365?

Assume the EU and US have a conflict, now the EU is stuck with an entire ecosystem made in the US. Assuming they don’t already have all your internal data, they can just get it with a single click.

Roomba? It takes less time to just vacuum the place than it does for the fucking vacuum to realize it’s been humping the same chair leg for most of its battery charge.

If you are willing to put in some work, Valetudo is fantastic: https://valetudo.cloud/

My two robot vacuums have been working for 5 years with no intervention other than emptying the bin every 2 weeks and dusting off the sensors when it complains.

Assistants?

Same as above, if you are willing to put in some work, Home Assistant includes a voice assistant and they ship devices now with everything preinstalled so you can plug in and go: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

Is that actually an UPS or just a backup battery? Can it passthrough the line power directly or does the inverter need to run 24/7?

In the latter case you might want to check how much power the inverter eats just by itself. For example, my Bluetti with 2 kWh needs a whopping 50W in idle just to keep the AC ports powered. Of course your unit looks much smaller so it should be way less but still worth measuring.

The entire house is terminated there, that’s where all the cables go. :)

Is that a Unifi PDU/UPS? Didn’t even know they made these.

Also, you need to peel the stickers of the screens.

Top to bottom:

• Unifi US-16-XG
• OPNsense DEC740
• Unifi Switch 24
• Unifi Switch 16 PoE
• DIY server with an AsrockRack X470D4U mainboard
• DIY DAS in an old server case with 18 3.5" bays

Not in picture: My UPSes, RIPE Atlas probe and an Odroid N2+ running my Home Assistant instance

The server runs Proxmox with a bunch of LXC containers running a Docker Swarm cluster.

There’s too many services running so I’m not listing them all. Let’s just say my phone is not going to be thrilled if it goes down. Also, this post was posted through said server.

Hmm, that’s strange. Can’t think of much else that could prevent that system from displaying anything.

Since you mentioned safe graphics work, can you try enabling the automatic login for your user in GNOME/KDE so the login screen gets skipped?

If that doesn’t work: After booting in normal mode, wait a little bit until it should be at the login screen and then hit Ctrl + Alt + F6 a few times. Does a terminal appear on your screen?

You should have absolutely no issues with that hardware on Fedora.

Could you try switching the display cable out? If that doesn’t work, try switching the cable to a different type (e.g. DisplayPort instead of HDMI or vice versa). If that also doesn’t work, try with a different display if you can.

It’s more about visibility, their spins tab is fairly hidden and most users won’t find it unless they know about it.

Their KDE version definitely deserves a spot beside their GNOME version.

Same here, VRR and HDR support on Wayland were the main reason I switched to KDE.

(I also quite enjoy not having to install any extensions now.)

Especially since many Linux related organizations like SUSE and KDE are based in the EU.