• Most people are poor
• Most people use Windows

Coincidence?

What do you mean by "IDLE"? That it's sleeping or hibernating, or that you're just not actively using it? Just because you're not using it doesn't mean it isn't doing anything. Even if you have no apps running, modern operating systems tend to have plenty of background tasks that run periodically.

Open a terminal window, type "top" and press enter. That will show a live view of the processes running in the background (press Q to quit).

Maybe this will help you?

Idk about xinput, but my first assumption is that the reason it doesn't work in some apps is because of Xorg vs Wayland. An evdev based solution should work universally.

Coil whine can come from your power supply, and it's a fairly common phenomenon with low quality ones. I don't think it has anything to do with your OS, unless maybe some background process is increasing power consumption and triggering the issue.

Use top or some other process monitoring tool to see if there's anything running in the background while you hear it making the noise.

The solution would be to replace the part making the noise, whether that's the PSU or something else. It's ultimately a hardware defect.

Or, it could be the new disk(s), too.

I've never heard of an NVME with coil whine, but maybe they increase power consumption enough to trigger the issue? Or having extra disks in the system triggers some periodic background tasks that increase power usage. If you're on Suse, that likely means you're using Btrfs, which tends to do that.

My biggest struggle in life has been finding a mouse that has side buttons (full numpad, aka an "mmo mouse") and a heavy duty scroll wheel. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but that seems to be the primary part that craps out in my mice.

Recent brands that failed me have been EVGA, Corsair, and Red Dragon.

Currently, I'm using a Steelseries Aerox 9 Wireless. One year in and the scroll wheel is creaking, which is not a good sign. To make things worse, it isn't designed to be disassembeled, so I can't easily take it apart to clean or repair it, unless I wanna destroy the body.

I assume the creaking is because of dust, but I've tried blowing compressed air into it with no luck. It still works, but I don't have faith in it's remaining longevity. I'm also adding Steelseries to my do-not-buy list for selling unrepairable ewaste.

I've seen ploopy and a few other DIY open source mice before, but haven't found one that has the numpad side buttons.

Anyways, sorry I don't have any recommendations, except to avoid those brands. I know you said no gaming mice, but there are a lot more options in that category.

Also, the dev's github profile pic looks like a 12 year old lol

This is kinda weak IMO. Here's the "conflict of interest" they point out for Lennart Poettering:

Co-founded Amutable seven months earlier. Amutable's stated mission is "cryptographically verifiable integrity for Linux workloads." Every new identity field in systemd strengthens the market case for commercial integrity tooling. Poettering made no disclosure of his commercial interest.

So apparently his eyes turned to Looney Tunes dollar signs when he saw one new identity field? That's ridicuolous, especially since he can add whatever he wants to systemd, whenever he wants.

Another conflict they point out is that systemd has no community steering committee or voting structure. Everyone knows this, it's not new, and it's part of the reason why people dislike systemd. It's also why the previous conflict doesn't make sense.

The rest of the article is a dump of random facts and timelines, likely designed to build credibility in the minds of people who are already pissed about the age verification thing, and are looking (uncritically) for anything to make them more pissed. Aka, this is ragebait more than anything substantial.

The only part that I think is actually worth pointing out is that the person who merged the PR is a Microsoft employee, and Microsoft is one of the companies that has lobbied for age verification. Idk if that's legally actionable, but it sure is useful context I didn't have before (although I'm sure many people did know that)

Edit: LMAO and I forgot, Devuan is an anti-systemd distro. That's a conflict of interest they didn't disclose in this article either

And just imagine how high it could go this year if fucking RAM prices weren't exploding and Steam Machine/Deck/Frame could be sane

I wonder how true that is. The author of this blog post seems to just be taking this guy's word for it. Did Anthropic actually confirm the bug exists by trying to trigger it on real systems, or are they assuming it's real because it looks plausible? The report claims you cam do it with two cooperating NFS clients, so did they actually do that, or are they just assuming it'll work?

I self-host forgejo on a spare machine in my home. I also set up automatic encrypted backup using Restic on Backblaze (but any S3 compatible host will work). It might not be a perfect backup strategy, but it's good enough for me, and perfectly manageable with my limited skills. Using wireguard, I can easily access it from outside my home. I also get much better uptime than Github lol

Importantly, I do NOT share this with anyone. It's purely for my own private development and personal projects (I have a ton of these). Even when contributing to something on github, I work in a mirror on my private forgejo, and only push to github to create the PR when it's ready.

Any open source projects I've released (I only have a few) go on Codeberg, but I still have a lot of projects I contribute to and rely on that are on Github. That's really the hard part: getting other people to migrate to something else.

A bullshit report from commercial CI company peddling AI?!