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Sentau , (edited )

Well for Firefox, the one getting updated is the native rpm version which is part of the standard Silverblue install while the one already updated is the flatpak version. The native version is just called ‘Firefox’ while the one from flatpak is called ‘Firefox Web Browser’ if I remember correctly. I have no idea why signal is showing up there. Maybe it is a bug.

Also next time a system update is shown in GNOME software, check using rpm-ostree status to see if any updated image is staged. If yes, then you don’t have to bother with gnome software - when you shutdown or reboot, the update will automatically be applied.

Sentau ,

I think evince will be eventually dropped by GNOME but there is time for that. While papers is porting things to GTK4 and adding some great features, it still has a long way to go in performance and optimisation. Currently it is more than twice as slow to open a pdf when compared to evince. Also scrolling performance is not optimised as it will stop mid scroll for things to render. Well it is only a new project so hopefully all this will be fixed. I am still using papers so that I can report any bugs that I run into

Sentau ,

Is this specific to cars¿? I have an EV scooter (more powerful than a moped and without pedals) and I have not observed higher tyre wear. But then again my scooter isnt much much heavier than its petrol counterpart. Cars on the other hand do see a drastic increase in weight when going from ICE to EV

Sentau ,

I love this comment because it explains the keywords in the command. Hats off to you.

Sentau , (edited )

LTT still treats Linux like an in-joke.

Well the only one who seemed to actually like Linux at LTT was Anthony(don’t know her new name) Emily. Once she went to the background after her gender transition, enthusiastic Linux coverage more or less disappeared

Sentau ,

How do you calculate the calorie maintenance number¿?

Sentau ,

Tigers are fairly common household pets in places like India

Are you sure this statement is true¿? I never heard about any story of anybody having a fucking tiger as a pet

Sentau ,

I have heard about wealthy people all over the world keeping big cats as pets but those are always kept in cages or their own enclosures. What seems wrong is you claiming that regular people are keeping tigers as pet. Infact people and tigers are more in conflict due to encroachment of humans into formerly forested areas.

Sentau ,

I don’t know if that would be possible with SoCs. I think if you were able to create a design where the whole SoC was upgraded, that would be more likely to exist.

Sentau ,

Entirely possible

Sentau ,

If you want a stock gnome experience from the ublue image (like the one you get from silverblue), look for the ublue-main image

Sentau ,

Wait doesn’t ublue have the gnome apps installed as flatpaks¿? I have always rebased silverblue to ublue because I have had trouble with the ublue installer - some efi issues in grub

Sentau ,

I don’t think it is based on the release month

Sentau , (edited )

Yeah you are right. For some reason I thought I had seen 24.1 but i was mistaken. Stupid naming scheme this since 24.2 and 24.8 sound like v2 and v8 of the 24.x release. Should have just used 24.mm just like the rest of the foss world does and as you suggested it should be

Sentau ,

They aren’t using semantic numbering though. They using ‘yy.m.patch’ instead of ‘yy.mm.patch’ as the scheme so it looks like semantic without being semantic which is causing all the confusion. The next release is shown as 24.8

Sentau ,

Well I think it should be a single 0 because Ubuntu’s naming has now established the standard that if the second part of the name suggests month, it is written using two numbers eg 23.10, 24.04, etc. 10 is used for October and 04 is used for April.

Sentau ,

Doesn’t help that the date based release looks a lot like semantic versioning which a confusing a lot of people. Should’ve just used Ubuntu’s standard of ‘yy.mm’ instead of ‘yy.m’

Sentau OP ,

I am on a immutable version of fedora(ublue-main) to be precise. Will the appimages work normally¿? I haven’t tried running an appimage since moving to using immutable distros

Sentau OP ,

Thanks I will look into it.

Testing if VRR is active and working

I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can’t even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If...

Sentau OP ,

I am on ublue which is immutable. Do appimages work normally on immutable distros¿?

Sentau OP ,

Sorry I should have mentioned that this is the integrated screen of a laptop

Sentau OP ,

Thanks I will try it then

Sentau ,

TW also has the issue of having ‘controversial’ software like the media codecs, etc not being included OOTB due to licensing concerns.

Sentau ,

Well @Guenther_Amanita suggested bazzite as it is the image built for gamers and OP is asking about nobara which is also packaged specifically for gamers. In general though all the ublue images are great

Sentau ,

Still I am finding it difficult to believe that just being battery aware has taken battery usage from 50℅ per hour to 1.4℅ per hour

Sentau ,

You can turn it off somewhere in the settings

Sentau ,

I would sure appreciate that explanation. Like I broadly get that ‘at’ implies you are present with the person’s knowledge while ‘in’ implies you are there without their knowledge but I would like an explanation of why the meanings are implied as such

Sentau ,

I think the argument is that since it not the default and not visible in the fedora landing page, the kde spin gets less coverage and hence people are more likely to come across and use the fedora workstation in favour of the kde spin.

Sentau ,

includes all the extensions I want

This is what people dont get. Different DEs best serve different people. We should always push to have a better experience but sniping between DEs makes no sense

Sentau ,

My father uses a mac and it is plenty different. Maybe the design philosophy of MacOS and GNOME are similar but the implementation is very different.

Sentau ,

Well the way the workspaces and the overview work is completely different which means that workflow is night and day different. Not to mention how the differences in how floating windows work, what role the top panel plays and things like that.

They might look similar just like how KDE ‘looks’ similar to windows but that is only true at the surface level. The way the desktops behave and hence the workflow is very different in each case

Sentau ,

So let me get this straight. My county banned most of the popular porn sites because of the negative influence it can have on the populace but has such a poorly written and enforced law that people who possess and watch CSAM are deemed to be not breaking the law. What the actual fuck is going on here. This is a dangerous precedent being set here and I can only hope that supreme court overrules the case and holds the guy guilty.

Sentau ,

It seems there is an amendment in the POSCO act for this situation but somehow it is not being enforced properly. Maybe the amendment is poorly wordly¿? I am not a lawyer though so I might be wrong

Repairing bad sectors in an external drive

So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is...

Sentau OP ,

I think there is misunderstanding because of my phrasing. i dont want to recover data from the drive. Instead i want to repair the drive to use for low priority external storage.

Sentau OP ,

thanks for the help but i am unfortunately getting a Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command error for that particular drive. A different external drive also in an enclosure returns the appropriate information. I used the smartctl --scan command to find out the device types in both cases (both are sat)

Sentau OP ,

How do i search for the relevant log output??

Sentau OP ,

The funny thing is that the cheaper throwaway enclosure i bought supports smart pass through but the newer sata 3 capable connector does not. I am as surprised as you that this turned out to be the issue

Sentau OP ,

No I am still working on this. Thanks for the advice. I was having trouble with hdparm because I didn’t have enough information about with sectors are bad. Was trying to use ddrescue to make a map. Thanks for the resources

Sentau ,

also, just checked, I don’t have the amd-pstate driver active, I’m still on acpi-cpufreq. I’ll tackle that one of these days if everything works fine.

What kernel are you running ¿?

Sentau ,

but I would really prefer native if there is the opportunity.

This only makes sense if the native port is better. In the witcher 2, I get better graphics and performance when playing through proton instead of using native. And there are certain games with ‘native’ ports which don’t even run and just crash.

Sentau ,

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Sentau ,

can just create different classes like they do in some forms of wrestling.

Wrestling is divided into classes in addition to being segregated by sex and not in place of segregation by sex/gender

Sentau ,

My bad. My brain just skipped over it somehow.

Sentau ,

This has already been disabled for affected amd CPUs since 6.4 and back ported to the LTS kernels

Sentau ,

So I am not a software developer. My point was born out of the fact that people talk about maintainers(package and otherwise) getting burnt out.

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