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Does it lock up when booting? Fedora's kernel has issues booting on Surface devices since Fedora 39.

You either need to switch kernels (e.g. linux-surface kernel) on a different machine or switch distro.

Running an outdated Fedora version is not the solution.

Long-time Fedora user here. I do not think Fedora is noob friendly at all.

• Their installer is awful
• Their spins are really well hidden for people who don't know they exist
• The Nvidia drivers can't be installed via the GUI
• There's no "third party drivers" tool at all
• The regular Flathub repo is not the default and their own repo is absolutely useless
• AMD/Intel GPUs lack hardware acceleration for H264 and H265 out of the box, adding them requires the console
• Their packages are consistently named differently than their Ubuntu/Debian counterpart

I really like Fedora for their newish packages without breaking constantly. I still would not recommend it for beginners.

Yes, because Docker becomes significantly more powerful once every container has a different publicly addressable IP.

Altough IPv6 support in Docker is still lacking in some areas right now, so add that to the long list of IPv6 migration todos.

That's less of an opinion and more of a hardware restriction, isn't it?

If I had a 5 Mbps connection or no display that can display 4k, I also would not download in 4k.

It caters to a middle ground that barely exists, meaning it doesn't have enough options for a power user and too many for a newcomer.

For example, a newcomer doesn't know what a root account is and doesn't have to care, yet they have to choose if they want to enable or disable the account. They can also remove their administrator privileges without knowing what it means for them. I get asked what a root account is every time somebody around me tries to install Fedora.

I recommend spinning up a Ubuntu 24.04 VM and taking a look at their installer.

They have a clear structure on how to install Ubuntu step by step while Fedora presents you everything at once. They properly hide the advanced stuff and only show it when asked for it. They have clear toggles for third party software right at the installer and explain what they do. Fedora doesn't even give you the option to install H264 codecs or Nvidia drivers.

It also looks a lot cleaner and doesn't overload people with too much info on a single screen. And yet it can still do stuff like automated installing and has active directory integration out of the box, where the Fedora installer miserably fails for a "Workstation" distro.

The Fedora installer works, but it doesn't do much more than that and the others do it better in many areas.

No, it's like buying a car without understanding how the engine works, which a lot of people do.

That only applies to the GNOME variant, the KDE spin is missing the third party repo toggle.

At least the Flathub repo is fixed on the GNOME variant now. The Nvidia repo is added but the driver is not installed, meaning you still need to use the CLI to install the drivers.

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

I'm going to put Capcom on the same list EA and Ubisoft already are on. If the pirate has the better experience than the customer I see no reason to buy their games.

Plex has been hostile towards self-hosting since the very beginning. They have been asked to add local authentication for more than 10 years.

Freddie Mercury!

Shoutout to Frictional Games (known for Penumbra, Amnesia, Soma) who publish many of their older (commercially successfully) games on their GitHub: https://github.com/FrictionalGames

It's twice as funny in this game because they added Denuvo a year after release. Meaning all pirates got the game DRM free on day one while paying customers got Denuvo patched in.

Absolute waste of money.

To be fair, Google releases a lot of models as open source: https://huggingface.co/google

Using public content to create public models is also fine in my book.

But since it's Google I'm also sure they are doing a lot of shady stuff behind closed doors.

Gog is objectively giving you more value for your money

What value do they give you exactly?

The games are mostly priced the same, they don't have integrated modding support, no input remapping, no remote play, no in-home streaming, no steamcmd for server operators, no VR client, no Linux client and no Steam Deck support.

The only thing they do give you is no DRM, but nothing stops a developer from adding a DRM-free game on Steam.

I have no strong feelings, one way or the other.

Docker! I have never experienced a more unpleasant software than Docker for Windows.

Gear Lever is really cool as well: https://flathub.org/apps/it.mijorus.gearlever

Steam is only DRM if Steamworks is required for the game to launch, e.g. I can copy my Baldur's Gate 3 files to a different PC and launch them without Steam.

It's up to the developer how they behave if Steam is not present.

See also https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

Fedora:

• Put H264 and H265 hardware video decoding back in
• Make Flathub the default Flatpak repository
• Make the installer easier for beginners by hiding advanced settings most won't need
• Make their KDE spin more prominent, currently you have to look for it to find it

when IPv6 gets mainstream adoption

At the current speed that would approximately be in 2087.

I redirect to "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up" on Youtube.

I tried it on a 6900 XT recently and generation time was well under half a second.

Results are not as good as with SDXL but for the time it needs it's very impressive.

It's nitpicking, whether it runs at 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 does not matter. Same goes for calling it 4K or UHD, even when one is technically incorrect.

If even Sony calls their 3840x2160 blu-rays "4K UHD" I'm fine with the average person using them interchangeable.

Flathub is actually fairly strict with its submissions, probably too much work for most fake submissions to follow the PR guidelines.

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls?page=2&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

My servers are up to date and there is not a single Linux distro that has removed cron or marked it for removal yet. Probably will stay that way for a long time.

Epic really hasn't done anything bad.

You don't consider bribing game publishers to only release on their platform instead of actually competing bad?

I don't mind if they fund development and then release only on their platform. I do mind of they snatch up games that could have seen a broader release, if they weren't so lazy and actually developed a store worth using.

It can't be worse than an outdated public facing Windows server, right?

Separating the artist from the art is fine for me as long as you don't support them. There is nothing inherently wrong with consuming media you like from a controversial figure.

Of course it's hard to separate the artist and the art if you actively give them money for it.

I like some of Kanye West's music but I would never spend a single cent on one of his albums, watch an ad on Youtube for his music videos or listen to his songs on streaming services.

There's a mod for that but I can already tell you that it's not a very fun game without VR.

This seems like common sense, no?

Hindsight is 20/20. As seen in the post, there's not that many APIs that don't just blindly redirect HTTP to HTTPS since it's sort of the default web server behaviour nowadays.

Probably a non-issue in most cases since the URLs are usually set by developers but of course mistakes happen and it absolutely makes sense to not redirect HTTP for APIs and even invalidate any token used over HTTP.

I even run native games through Proton at this point since many native builds don't work properly.

Anything connected to an untrusted network should have a firewall, doesn't matter if it's IPv4 or IPv6.

There's functionally no difference between NAT on IPv4 or directly allowing ports on IPv6, they both are deny by default and require explicit forwarding. Subnetting is also still a thing on IPv6.

If anything, IPv6 is more secure because it's impossible to do a full network scan. My ISP assigned 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 addresses just to me. Good luck finding the used ones.

With IPv4 if you spin up a new service on a common port it usually gets detected within 24h nowadays.

Another mild example is that windows cannot be raised except by the user or by launching them. This is supposed to be a mild security precaution so a program can't pop up a legitimate looking dialog over another application and trick the user. Realistically it means that applications can't open and focus URL in your web or file browser. Instead they have to give you a notification telling you "Firefox is Ready" and make you do it manually.

I would like them to keep that behaviour. At least make it an option or allow whitelisting certain applications. Nothing I hate more in an OS than windows stealing focus without asking.

Windows is the main reason I never got one of those PC handhelds even though they have been around for a very long time.

Never really felt like a handheld, more like an unwieldly laptop.

I refunded it after an hour.

Besides the glaring bugs that shouldn't have been there at release, I was disappointed that barely anything changed from the first game. Unfortunately the gameplay loop is not engaging enough to warrant releasing the same game twice.

The architecture is literally better than Flatpak

Why?

I don’t understand why people are so hell bent on hating Snaps.

Every single time I tried snaps in the last years I had a bad time. Either they were slow to start, refused to work (Docker snap) or made my machine boot significantly slower. Granted, I haven't bothered in a year or so.

At this point they just released unfinished software that was not ready for production, forced it onto people and are surprised when everybody remembers snap as being partially closed source, slow and unreliable. Even if it's not now, that's how the first impression was and it's going to stick forever.

Isn't anyone excited?

The excited people are playing the game right now instead of shit posting on Lemmy. :D

I'm not OP but NIST is a very shady institution for various reasons:

• They actively work with and for the NSA
• Leaked papers have shown that they included a backdoor for the NSA at least once ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology#Controversy_regarding_NIST_standard_SP_800-90 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Weakness:_a_potential_backdoor )
• Many cryptographers are suspicious of the NIST and their selection process, e.g. Daniel Bernstein (the guy who made ED25519) is currently suing the NIST for various infringements ( https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html )

Use anything NIST related with care. Use ED25519 or if not available, RSA with large key sizes (4096+).

In case anyone needs it, you can actually downgrade Steam games. It just doesn't have an UI unfortunately.

There's a tool for it here: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

SteamDB can be used to find the game ID and depot ID: https://steamdb.info/

Steam itself will not care if the game files are not up to date, individual games might.

It does not.

ROCm runs directly through the open source amdgpu kernel module, I use it every week.