I’ve read the announcement, but it’s too technical for me, I didn’t really get what the changes are about, but if it’s gonna work better, be less work for folks maintaining it I’m all for it. Just wondering when I can update, the red ghost icon from octopi-notifier is mocking me 
garuda-inxi here:
System:
Kernel: 6.11.1-1-cachyos-bore arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos-bore
root=UUID=fd9b2a0b-0332-4450-a369-6931fedf036e rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 psi=1 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Dell G15 5511 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0YC2KJ v: A00 serial: <filter> part-nu: 0A70
uuid: 4c4c4544-004e-5210-8042-b8c04f584633 UEFI: Dell v: 1.31.0
date: 08/07/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 62.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 62.9/84.3 Wh (74.6%)
volts: 12.0 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL M59JH15 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
status: full
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H socket: U3E1 bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x52
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB
desc: 8x1.2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4600 base/boost: 2277/5000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 0.7 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800
10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 bogomips: 73728
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 560.35.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+
status: current (as of 2024-09; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2560 class-ID: 0300
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26")
s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0xae8b built: 2020 res: 1920x1080
hz: 165 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.4-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
device-ID: 8086:9a60 memory: 7.5 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 11 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) driver: mesa intel v: 24.2.4-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:9a60 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 560.35.03
device-ID: 10de:2560 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 18.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.2.4-arch1.1 (LLVM
18.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.1-1-cachyos-bore status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek Killer E2600 GbE vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 2e:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:2600 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp46s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-d986aac8e7e0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-3: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-4: wg0-mullvad state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: N/A
Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, sshd, systemd-timesyncd,
wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-14:2 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 583 GiB (41.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3SSD8
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: P9CR30A temp: 40.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 307d 22h cycles: 437
read-units: 65,605,039 [33.5 TB] written-units: 77,112,169 [39.4 TB]
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Samsung model: PM991a NVMe 512GB
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 26304039 temp: 41.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 82d 18h cycles: 2,486
read-units: 77,980,533 [39.9 TB] written-units: 38,876,233 [19.9 TB]
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 146.48 GiB size: 146.48 GiB (100.00%)
used: 77.06 GiB (52.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme1n1p8
maj-min: 259:11
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 250 MiB size: 246 MiB (98.40%)
used: 94.4 MiB (38.4%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
maj-min: 259:4
ID-3: /home raw-size: 146.48 GiB size: 146.48 GiB (100.00%)
used: 77.06 GiB (52.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme1n1p8
maj-min: 259:11
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 146.48 GiB size: 146.48 GiB (100.00%)
used: 77.06 GiB (52.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme1n1p8
maj-min: 259:11
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 146.48 GiB size: 146.48 GiB (100.00%)
used: 77.06 GiB (52.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme1n1p8
maj-min: 259:11
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.35 GiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 16 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 45.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1305 fan-2: 1577
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.35 GiB used: 5.93 GiB (38.6%)
igpu: 60 MiB
Processes: 453 Power: uptime: 48m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
image: 6.07 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon,
upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 0 pm: pacman pkgs: 2213 libs: 592
tools: octopi,pacseek,paru pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 13
Shell: garuda-inxi (sudo) default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: yakuake
inxi: 3.3.36
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2024-04-20
Last full system update: 2024-10-17
Is partially upgraded: Yes
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: Yes
Failed units:
Total system updates: 669
--> Updates per week: 26
I used to have octopi-notifier on 1h timer, but I’m trying to cut down on updating so it’s once a day now (I still run garuda-update -a first thing when I sit down in front of the computer tho)
Hours without updates are bad hours, it really helped running a lot of 