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As someone not from the USA I am convinced, after reading many news articles over the past decades, that people voting for the GOP are either evil or too dumb to make any kind of impactful decision.

You’re at work getting your ass kicked and leadership just shrugs and says it’s ok because we’re still making money.

In my case I was the software developer trying to make the best tool for our users only for management to force us to add more data collection and ways to squeeze a bit more money out of our customers. Profits went up, so it was "a success" and more was planned.

Now I work for the government, trying to make things better for citizens instead of share holders. Feels alot better.

Sorry for replying with a rant; it forced itself out of me.

To me, they are both winners. I loved Phantom Liberty and just started playing it again last week, only for it to be interrupted by Shadow of the Erdtree. Both DLC's reminded me how much I loved the base game and both are proper and large content additions. And they both run perfectly on Linux on day 1 <3.

Both these games and their DLC's are in my opinion what other game studios should aim for.

Welcome 🙂. I always loved bleeding edge so Arch really suits me well. There's probably a distro out there for everyone and you seemingly have found yours!

The Dutch government also launched their own mastodon instance recently at social.overheid.nl. Several government departments have already joined. I hope politicians will also make the move, although I do not know if this specific instance allows for accounts other than those of government departments.

When you make public announcements as a politician or political party, it should be done via a channel that can be accessed without registration!

I've had a 7000-series card since December and haven't experienced any driver issues. Using KDE with Wayland and two monitors. My only complaint is the power use when I go over 60Hz, but maybe it has to do with one of my monitors. This is what I see happening:

• Both at 60Hz: 25W
• Using only display A at 120Hz: 25W
• Using only display B at 120Hz: 90W
• Both at 120Hz: 90W

I was hoping some driver update would fix this but by now I've given up. As for gaming experience, I have zero complaints. Big titles I played were Cyberpunk 2077, Remnant 2 and Elden Ring and they performed great.

From his video description:

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/

Great! I've been looking forward to this! 😄

I use Squawker on Android to open timelines of specific accounts.

TrueNAS Core as main OS and a few jails for the services I run on the machine.

This sounds like a cool thing. Will it run on FreeBSD? If unknown, I will likely try and find out this weekend.

I'm not an expert on the matter so have a Wikipedia link.

Sweet. I just used the extension to go from lemmy.world to feddit.nl so I could upvote 🦊

Although I like the retro look for nostalgic reasons, this look a bit too low res for my tastes. I hope there will be some options in that regard.

Yeah, take the plunge! I never liked dual boot and even though I liked Linux since the late 90's I never committed to it on my desktop due to it being mainly a gaming system. When Proton came around I dumped Windows and never regretted it :-). Especially after reading this article I'm happy I don't have to deal with that crap!

Now that's awfully cool of you 😄. I'll give that a spin with Symfonium this weekend; much obliged!

I have used noscript for a long time but after trying umatrix (from the ublock origin developer) I doubt I'm going back since this one feels more powerful. Maybe you want to give that one a try 🙂. I use it alongside ublock.

They also always refer to it as "my iPhone", never "my phone", at least all the users I have met (NL). I find this very odd.

Very interesting blog post, thank you. Quite different from the "This week in KDE", but a nice addition for software developers and tech-savy readers. I'll keep an eye on this blog 🙂.

And in case anyone wonders, it works fine in BSD as well. I have a jail with rTorrent which is locked to the VPN connection and uses a cronjob to keep port forwarding active 🙂.

And very easy to set up and run without docker! For, you know, us folks with a BSD server 🙂

Started out with Mandrake in 1998 and got into Debian shortly after. I moved to Gentoo in 2002. In the later 2000s I only used my desktop for gaming and stopped dual booting for many years. My home server runs BSD and I was using a 2010 MacBook as my laptop. The only Linux box in my home was my HTPC, running Ubuntu.

When I heard of Proton I started dual booting again. In 2020 I got rid of Windows and the aging MacBook. Since then my desktop, laptop and HTPC run on Arch. The server is still FreeBSD.

After I got the update, the first thing I did was look for the setting to disable the system tray icon 😅. Alas, there is no such setting, so I hid it using KDE's controls, but it's suboptimal..

If you run both Pi.Alert and Pi-hole, Pi.Alert will get the information on network devices from Pi-hole. The only way of I know of excluding active devices would be adding their MAC addresses to MAC_IGNORE_LIST in pialert.conf.

23.1 already has ray tracing support, although it doesn't work on all titles. With 23.2 a notable example that should have rt support is Cyberpunk 2077. The rt performance should also increase by a lot, and even more in 23.3.

That said, I also think I will turn it on, say the frame rates are too low and switch it off again. And that's with a 7900 XTX. What I have seen of ray tracing I do not consider all that impressive. Maybe experiencing it myself will change my mind, but the Radeon 7000 series is not powerful enough in that department I think. And considering I want this card to last 4ish years, I probably won't see ray tracing on my machine any time soon, unless FRS 3 proves to be surprisingly good.

Beat Saber is the only VR game I play on my HTC Vive (2016 model) and it works fine. If you want mods, however, you need to switch to the legacy branch in Steam (1.29.1) since 1.30 had major changes and mods haven´t been updated for it yet.

For mod installation, I use Beataroni, but there are alternatives.

While Steam does not support sending the base stations to sleep via Bluetooth, there is a python script which (after setting it up) can do so for you. My process is:

1. Start the python script in a terminal -> base stations wake up.
2. Plug in the headset. Primary audio is automatically switched to it.
3. Launch SteamVR and play.
4. Exit VR, unplug headset. Primary audio is returned to my speakers.
5. Press Ctrl+C in the terminal to terminate the script. After a few seconds, the base stations turn off.

Since I have old base stations, I use the script for controlling v1 lighthouses: https://github.com/risa2000/lhctrl. The author also made a script for v2 lighthouses: https://github.com/risa2000/lh2ctrl. I only have experience with the HTC Vive so your mileage may vary.

As a software developer for 20 years who hasn't used Google in roughly 14 years, I can assure you that you don't need it for development or looking up stuff :-). Give it a shot, do without for a week or two; DuckDuckGo works superb and the main reason most people think other search engines are worse is because their Google profile is trained to find stuff they tend to click on, like Meta does.

When your employer uses Google software in development there's obviously not much you can do there.

Woah I didn't know that game was about to be released 😮. It's been on my wish list for a long time. Well, I know what I'll play tomorrow now that I completed Blasphemous 2!

Why would it be difficult? The only Google service I use occasionally is YouTube and I can do without, honestly. My Android phone is free from Google stuff and I use DuckDuckGo for searching since it launched. I pay a small subscription fee for my email and cloud storage.

And then I ran out of things I know people use Google for. Aside from YouTube (in EU and US) I am certain you can easily do without them. People just choose not to.

Trying to beat Tails of Iron on the hardest difficulty. The game was fun and somewhat challenging on normal and I did 100% it. The hardest difficulty feels random and just unfair at times and honestly isn't very fun to play. But I'm determined and have reached the last area, so hopefully I'll succeeded this weekend.

That would be unlawful detention here. Also, what about people that go in and decide they don't actually want to buy anything after all?

It's not like you're trapped... you can just walk out if you want, but doing so without paying and carrying full bags may raise an eyebrow with employees. Although I think I could easily get away with that in my small village supermarket during quiet hours when nobody is paying attention.