Microsoft is warping the PC industry into something unrecognizable

if Microsoft is a browser or a search engine.

yes

I disagree--a system (even Arch!) should be able to update after a couple months and not break! I recently booted an EndeavourOS image after 6 months and was able to update it properly, although I needed to completely rebuild the keyring first

Good writeup, but I don't see the Fediverse as a single entity--if a single instance gets to 51%, and even 25% of the other instances fork and continue federating among themselves, then those 25% would function just as well, and likely maintain users with shared interests (i.e. how Lemmy is still interesting despite being much smaller than Reddit)

Yes and no. As my physics professor used to say, all models are wrong, our goal is to make the least wrong model. It's literally impossible to simulate every event. For example, what if there was an anthill under the area where the rock is dropped? Maybe that will affect the resulting sound? Maybe, but it's not going to make a difference to the observer.

We know enough physics to simulate a huge number of simultaneous events, but at some point a model becomes far too complicated (e.g. taking a week to run on a powerful computer), when a more simplified model will do the trick just fine. I personally compare it to FLAC and MP3--FLAC is of course best quality, but will eat up a ton of storage space, and MP3 (with compression) is good enough

"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear!" 😉

just don't Blink

Have you ever considered Father Ted?

If Beehaw defederates, I will no longer think or care about Beehaw, since at the end of the day, the power of federation is by far the coolest thing in the fediverse; I am not interested in joining another Reddit clone! No hard feelings though, do what you think is right!

I am assuming it's a shared VPN address

I have extensively used an eGPU (Razer Core X) with an Nvidia RTX 3050 for gaming under Wayland. Using X11 gave me nothing but problems, but Wayland allows for full hotplug capabilities (as long as no monitors are ever connected to the GPU).

Of course, performance is fairly bad with the official Nvidia drivers + Wayland, but it's good enough to play The Outer Worlds and a few other single player games, which is good enough for me! I have been entirely unable to get external monitors to work with the Nvidia driver (any help would be much appreciated), although they did work (coldplug) with the Nouveau driver.

When I was using Windows, I was able to hotplug/unplug the eGPU with monitors attached, effectively turning the GPU into an external docking station--I am closely following driver improvements, as this would be great to have on Linux to get around the 2-monitor limitation of the Intel iGPU.

Is it a test instance with fake users or something?

A test instance yes! I think the users are real people posting test stuff t

I use a Kindle Paperwhite which works well for me--colour shifting screen, USB-C charging, and incredible battery life. That being said, I have never connected it to wifi, and instead prefer to sideload books so my reading history/money are not sent to Amazon

Agreed entirely--privacy is and will always remain an essential human right.

especially flickering and performance

If my experience is any indicator, your GPU is fine :(. Any chance you're using mixed display scalings? I've got an RTX 3050 eGPU for my Plasma/Wayland laptop, and for the most part it actually works fairly smoothly (albeit more slowly compared to windows), but if I try to run a game at a higher resolution than my monitor (used by Plasma for mixed scaling) I get constant flashing/frame shifting, but when I drop it down to the native 1080p it starts working again

As a side note, X and eGPUs do not play well together, but Wayland is literally plug and play after installing the drivers--I can even hot plug/unplug as long as nothing's using the GPU!

I believe typing !gaming@beehaw.org will redirect to the community without leaving your home instance!

I use Edge daily--trying to use mostly non-proprietary software, but when I need to annotate a PDF, Edge just works. It's no drawboard PDF, but it's free and runs on Linux!

Do you have any tips using KDE Connect with a local VPN (Wireguard)? It works great for me on the same network, but unfortunately fails to connect outside of my network despite one (or both) devices connected to my VPN

Thanks for the monthly reminder to open DavX5 🤣

Tabbliss represent

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed--coming from Arch, it just felt so refined and ready to go right out of the box. Then I started installing programs and ran into dependency hell--now on EndeavourOS with the AUR which is great

Additionally, the combination of terminal + GUI to do things just felt wrong

It should definitely be possible--I'd start with setting up a Telegram Matrix Bridge, then install Element for Nextcloud and connect the two together via a Matrix server.

If you've got Nextcloud on Docker it should not be too hard to add the above to an extant server!

I've love both Firefox and Okular (KDE's evince), and both "technically" support PDF inking, but the experience is just subpar to what Edge offers now for notetaking and reviewing articles. Xournal++ is the gold standard and fully supports my Surface Pen, whereas Edge does not recognize pressure or the eraser. However, I work with a lot of embedded files (Logseq), and the fact that Xournal++ cannot bundle a PDF in a single file and instead needs a reference, plus the fact that PDF is a universal file format, makes Edge the most enticing option for now

The only solution would be, to create - yet again - a universal alternative to the AUR.

https://xkcd.com/927/

My prescription eyeglasses have a blue light filter built in, and I still use night shift at night--whether it makes any difference to sleep is up for debate, but overall it's just more comfortable to use I think!

I'm using the Surface Laptop Studio with EndeavourOS (basically arch, so I have all the latest packages)--the performance issues stem from Nvidia's drivers, so AMD should not suffer from the same problems, although I don't have any AMD cards to test if hotplug with monitors is functional

Arizer. Solid Canadian company, they've been making vaporizers for two decades, and they have a wide selection of different types.

My (original) Arizer Air has gotten more use than I'm willing to admit over the past 5 years, and while it's starting to show its age, but still working without a hitch. If it gave out tomorrow, I'd go order the new Air (2? Max? not certain) with USB-C charging and a digital display, although neither of those features are essential!

Very true--the specific EOS repo has given me a bit of trouble in the past, but it takes like 3 commands to remove it and then you've got just arch (although some purests may disagree 🤣)

According to the press release it's about 3 times faster--only time will tell but I'm optimistic!

I've got Jellyfin on a cheap ($20/year) VPS, and used SSHFS to attach it to some external hard drives attached to a Raspberry Pi. My upload speed is only 10 mbps, but that seems enough for most movies and TV shows, and multiple users can watch simultaneously via SyncPlay. Transcoding works too (up to 1080p)

I think that federation will help Lemmy a ton--there will be a lot of small, cheap servers rather than a single extremely expensive one!

Protonmail--I've used them for my custom domain email for the last 4 years and have had very few problems (other than needing to recompile the Protonmail Bridge app so I could use it on an ARM server)--I think I pay around $50/year. I selfhost Nextcloud for everything else (files, calendar, news, etc.)

I found a deal for a Racknerd KVM VPS on lowendbox.com--I'm not seeing the same one, but similar offers pop up often!

One program that comes to mind is Protonmail Bridge. I first tried installing the RPM via Discover, and it silently failed every time. Next, installed it from the terminal and got an error about missing DejaVu fonts--no problem, I'll just install them from here, but unfortunately I was getting the same error. I tried to "install anyway" ignoring dependencies--failed again!

Another issue trying to install the linux-surface kernel. The GUI package failed to install (again, silently), and command line packages kept failing since the linux-surface kernel was on 6.6.6 and the rolling release kernel was on 6.6.7--eventually I chrooted in from a live USB, removed the kernel, and replaced it with the linux-surface kernel, but the fact that it kept failing with a "success" message was confusing! Then I had to compile iptsd--on Arch I'd 'pacman -S git meson ninja gcc etc.', and searching and selecting package groups via YAST (and hoping my compilation worked) just felt clunky.

I did manage to get everything up and running eventually (save Protonmail), but at that point I'd messed up my installation to the point where I had to start over, and I just loaded up EndeavourOS instead.

I'm sure a lot of these issues stem from a lack of understanding of Tumbleweed itself, and when I get another desktop I'll be happy to try again. I did love the setup process though--super polished KDE Plasma, and everything that was possible with the stock kernel (even autorotate!) worked out of the box!

This post got me looking at their offerings again, and it looks like they have a $100 Air SE--if it's the same ceramic heater design I'd say it's well worth it

I've had a ton of issues with Jerboa, but thus far Connect for Lemmy is working well!

I've been running my own Nextcloud instance since 2020, which, combined with ProtonMail, has replaced basically everything I was using Google/Microsoft for

How does Hogwarts Legacy run on the Steam Deck? With a GTX 2060 and FX-8350 I am unable to get good frame rates, even on the lowest settings

Savages ... and legends

I very regularly complain about the eGPU issue on Linux, since I want to swap so badly--every program I use (with the exception of Drawboard PDF, which operates on a universal standard) is cross platform, and I have successfully installed a wide variety of linux distros on my laptop and got everything working well (even pen input on Xournal!!).

However, I use an Nvidia eGPU to drive three additional monitors I use for work, and on Linux I am unable to hotplug my eGPU, instead requiring a login/logout (or at least me closing all my open programs, which defeats the purpose of hotplug). I've tried Wayland/Xorg, and distros varying from Fedora to Pop OS (so far, my best experience was on Kubuntu/Wayland, but the computer still regularly crashed when disconnecting). I wish I were a better programmer, since then I could figure the issue out myself!

As soon as the Linux kernel has better support for hotplugging, I will never need to boot Windows again!

Edit: I am not unfamiliar with Linux, and I've been running Linux servers for well over a decade--I just have little experience in the realm of graphics drivers