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Lol I appreciate your self awareness! That sounds just like the kind of questionable idea that'd be great for a joke GitHub repo, if nothing else.

I've finally sat down and beat the first Psychonauts game, in anticipation for the sequel. What a gem, I'm glad I did! Can't wait to dive into 2.

Side note, I know Steam got the easier, patched version of Meat Circus and that still kicked my ass for a good handful of tries. Hell of a difficulty spike for a game that'd been really forgiving right up to that point, apparently failing either the escort section or the platforming gauntlet used to mean losing a life? I'd probably have watched the ending on yt at that point lol. As it is, I found it needlessly frustrating and mildly annoying but definitely doable.

I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.

I just came across this GitHub issue and sure enough, it seems to confirm my theory. Since it doesn't show on KDE's media center, it probably doesn't know to pause it before going to sleep.

I saw at least one person with your exact issue, and a few suggested workarounds but not sure how easy it'd be to apply them to an actual Nix derivation. I'll keep looking into it. 🤔

Right. I'm a fellow Jellyfin + NixOS user so I'll try and investigate if I manage to find some time over the next few days. I'll report back if I find anything of note!

No worries!

The check box for this settings was infact already checked. So maybe if I change what happens when I close the lid, from sleeping to hibernation or something else this could fix this maybe?

Ah, I see. Guess you may as well give that a go. I'm guessing what might be going on here is KDE doesn't count it as a media player for whatever reason. Are you using Jellyfin in a browser or with the dedicated Jellyfin Media Player app?

Some quick research on my end seems to suggest there's a setting for that scenario in advanced power settings called "Pause media players when suspending", I'd try that before anything else

Edit: As for why it happens, assuming it woke up from suspension/hibernation, for the most part programs are going to pick up exactly where they left off unless the system goes out of its way to tell them to perform some action (in this case, pausing). Since your lock screen is pretty much "on top" of the entire running system, so to speak, it results in the behavior you're experiencing.

I wouldn't say unusable but NVIDIA definitely makes things way more painful than they ought to be with their closed source drivers and general stubbornness to support newer technologies under Linux, see Wayland. Mint's generally older packages also might be working against you.

In my experience, I've had the smoothest experiences with gaming focused/adjacent distros which just include the NVIDIA drivers out of the box, such as Nobara or Bazzite. Those just work for the most part with no user intervention, and you don't even have to think about it.

I've been thinking about that. It's the one walled garden I don't mind, I've poured shameful amounts into it but the thought is always there in the background that it can't go on like this forever.

At the end of the day I don't mind too much and just try to enjoy it while it lasts, since worst comes to worst I'll just have to sacrifice some convenience and dive back into full-time piracy to regain access to the vast majority of the content anyway. The wonders of an open platform!

It really does, I need to check it out sometime!

My understanding as a NixOS user is a lot of its fundamentals are very strongly coupled to systemd. It's responsible for things like running system activation scripts and managing any services it exposes options to, so replacing it sounds like a tall order.

I'm not aware of any Nix-based alternatives, but I'd definitely welcome them! Oh and also, as others have pointed out, Guix might fit the bill depending on your needs.

I overshare my Nix setup at the slightest hint it could be relevant and I also feel like I've shilled Bazzite at least once basically every week or so ever since I created this account, but I guess I'll settle for second place 😛

Joking aside, thanks for sharing, that was a great read. Good for newcomers and skepticals alike IMO, I'll keep it handy!