I’m actually not funny

You said you’re on Arch, you’ll want to go through their docs which are solid: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

How old are we talking? If the CPU is >10 years old and/or some kind of ARM, it may not have hardware encryption acceleration, which means it’ll happen in software. I did that once, it was horrible. lscpu |grep -i aes should probably tell you what you need to know.

“find somewhere to stuff it” instructions unclear…

That’s probably the plan, though I see an Intel a380 low-profile for all of $100 that might be useful for some encode/decode tasks

Worth checking, though the 3U isn’t super-spacious inside

I really liked having a login screen, so I switched to Mandrake from Windows 95

This. You can get chain pizza here, but why. I can throw a rock and hit better pizza than PapaJiminosHut. Hell, there’s local frozen pizza vendors here better than any of em (Doreen’s!)

I’m all about small packages

I love me some Shiren the Wanderer

It’s like you’re in my head

Best of the solutions I tried (steam link for quest, ALVR, oculus link)

Yes, works best of the solutions I’ve tried

I got rid of the Q2 a couple months ago but never had issues.

I used Virtual Desktop, not SteamLink

You don’t see a lot of issues because the few people who ever used SteamVR on Linux ran away screaming and never came back¹

¹I made that up, but it’s bad

“limitations” - I couldn’t auto-update apps or the OS, I considered that a feature. I didn’t do anything besides use VR Desktop and try and fail to use ALVR, that all worked fine. ALVR didn’t work because SteamVR on Linux is hot garbage, not because of my DNS blocking.

I did this by getting rid of my OQ2, but until then, I used this list in my DNS adblocker, which seemed effective:

0.0.0.0 oculus.com
0.0.0.0 oculuscdn.com 
0.0.0.0 facebook-hardware.com 
0.0.0.0 graph.oculus.com
0.0.0.0 fbsbx.com 
0.0.0.0 crashlytics.com
0.0.0.0 edge-mqtt.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 rupload.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 graph.oculus.com
0.0.0.0 graph.oculus.com.lan
0.0.0.0 mqtt-mini.facebook.com

Are you responding literally “stop” or are you editorializing like “please stop for the love of Satan”? The former is supposed to be seen by the system and you’re supposed yo be automatically unsubscribed. The latter goes to a person and that person may try to engage you. At least, when I’ve done text-banking, that’s how it worked. A less reputable system may try to engage you regardless. If you get sent to a person it’s also up to the person to decide if and how they talk to you. If I saw something that made it clear the person didn’t want to talk, I would tell the system to unsub them, others might try to be persistent.

I’m using Heliboard after giving up on Floris. You have to load the Google swipe library, it seems to work pretty well.

I’m not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?

What the fuck is it? There’s no information on that page or the linked pages, just problem statements and blather.