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d3Xt3r ,

Top Secret! (1984), a WW2 parody featuring Val Kilmer. From the same guys who made Airplane!.

d3Xt3r ,

If you intend to use Linux for gaming, then using a distro that’s optimised for gaming, such as Nobara, would be a much better option, IMO.

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You get an AI-generated tabloid piece.

frickineh Useless at 39

In a shocking revelation, 39-year-old Lemmy user, frickineh, has declared themselves “useless” despite being one of the most active contributors to the popular Lemmy.world instance!

Though they’ve been on the platform for a mere two months, frickineh has already fired off a staggering 65 comments, giving every topic from 3D printing to gaming their two cents! But there’s a twist - this prolific commentator hasn’t yet taken the leap to submit their own posts.

Sources close to the situation say that frickineh’s interests are as varied as they come. They’re not only a tech-savvy enthusiast, but they also have a penchant for the finer things in life, like cross-stitch and embroidery. The question on everyone’s lips is: How can someone with such varied talents feel “useless”?

One insider told our reporters, “You’d think with all the knowledge on gaming, technology, and even embroidery, frickineh would be out there making waves. But instead, they’re here on Lemmy, dishing out opinions without sharing their own stories!”

Will frickineh step up their game and finally make a post? Or will they remain the mystery commentator of Lemmy.world? Only time will tell! Stay tuned for more on this Lemmy legend.

d3Xt3r ,

Check your system logs such as dmesg and journalctl immediately after the freeze (if it’s still occurring). You could filter journalctl log to show, say the last 5 minutes since the last boot, like this:

journalctl --boot=-1 --since=“5 min ago” --priority=0…3

d3Xt3r ,

You won’t have much luck with doing anything to the driver part of it, but you could try a custom kernel. There’s two advantages to that, one is it would be more recent than whatever kernel that Debian is using, and the second is the optimized networking stack, which speeds up processing of packets and improves the congestion handling algorithm. I’d recommend the Xanmod kernel for this: xanmod.org

Alternatively, if we suspect your network is the culprit then the solution could be as simple a buying a new card and disabling the builtin one.

d3Xt3r ,

Garmin does pretty well. Although you could argue they’re more fitness and sports oriented, they do have “normal” smartwatches too like the Venu and Lily series, and also hybrid watches like the Vivomove. All Garmins have excellent battery life and there have been very few complaints about them. If anything, the most common complaint is that they’ve got too many watches to choose from, which can be confusing for someone new to the Garmin lineup.

Seeking Input on Proton AG: Trustworthiness and Security

Hey everyone, how do you evaluate the company Proton AG, the owner of Proton Mail and Proton Pass? I’m in the process of migrating some accounts to their platform, but I’ve always been wary of using a password solution, especially after the LastPass incident. I used to use Keepass stand alone, but it’s quite cumbersome....

d3Xt3r ,

I used to use Keepass stand alone, but it’s quite cumbersome.

How is it cumbersome, also, have you checked out KeePassXC? It’s, IMO, much better than the official KeePass app.

d3Xt3r OP ,

At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.

Oof.

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Is this something that needs to happen manually?

Yes, sort of. It needs to be initiated manually, but you should get an update notification, and the actual upgrade itself is automatic once you initiate it. Clicking on the notification will take you to the Software app > Updates section, from where you can do the upgrade.

If I solely update through the updater software, I’m not getting the whole “38”?

No, you will get the whole 38 (what makes you think you won’t?). Everything will get updated. The key thing to remember is to update all other applications/kernel etc and restart your system first, before you do the actual OS upgrade. This is documented here: docs.fedoraproject.org/…/upgrading-fedora-new-rel…

Some folks recommend disabling third-party repos before you do the actual upgrade, like copr, RPMFusion etc, but personally I haven’t had any issues leaving them enabled - as long as you install all applicable updates and reboot prior to the upgrade, you should be fine.

If you want more control over the process though, you can always upgrade manually using dnf. Although there’s not much benefit doing to this via the commandline (except for power users/admins who need the control/visibility), it’s worth reading the post-upgrade tasks section to run some cleanup tasks (not a 100% sure if the GUI updater tool does this).

d3Xt3r ,

I thought there was yet another WinRAR vulnerability, but turns out this is old news - why did you repost an article from last month?

d3Xt3r ,

First of all, this was already posted in Lemmy several times in several places. Just because it’s a critical vulnerability doesn’t mean you keep reposting it every month - just how long will you keep reposting it?

Also, hardly anyone uses WinRAR these days, so this isn’t really as important as you make of it. Your post may have been relevant when the zero-day came out, but a month later - no one cares.

d3Xt3r ,

You didn’t, but it was posted by others. Posting about a critical vulnerability a whole month later is pointless. If this was acceptable then we’d see people constantly posting outdated news stories for critical vulnerabilities in other apps weeks or months after it’s been published, which doesn’t make sense. Admit it, you made a mistake in posting this - you didn’t check the date and thought it was a new article, right? Otherwise why would you post about this a month later?

d3Xt3r ,

because the potential of users getting affected is massive.

Except, it’s not actually popular these days, and therefore, it doesn’t really warrant reposting such old and irrelevant news. And my earlier point still stands - what you posted is basically a repost. Just because you missed it doesn’t mean others have, nor does it justify it.

You probably won’t believe me that WinRAR isn’t popular, so I made a poll just for this - you can see for yourself that not many people here actually use WinRAR.

d3Xt3r ,

Do you realise WinRAR has over half a billion users

Citation needed. But regardless, these users are clearly not on Lemmy. This is about relevance to Lemmy users, and the poll reflects how relevant WinRAR is for them.

No matter what large software downloading website you check (Softpedia, Majorgeeks, Techspot, Filehorse, Filehippo), the most popular downloaded software will have these at the top.

That’s not really a valid metric, because these sites only show the total downloads, and don’t display recent numbers. WinRAR may have been popular 10 years ago, but they don’t show how many users downloaded it in the last year or whatever, so those numbers are meaningless.

You have no idea about general user security and popular software demographics.

I’ve been a Windows sysadmin for 11+ years and used computers since the days of MSDOS, so don’t tell me I don’t know software demographics. It’s you who is out of touch. Besides pirates, I’ve haven’t seen anyone still actually use WinRAR in the wild. The average user just doesn’t have a need for WinRAR - Windows already creates and opens zip files, and that’s all they need, because everyone else uses mainly zip files these days. And in offices, where they may need to transfer password protected files, they may ocassionaly use 7zip (due to its more secure encryption). But that’s all. Excluding Linux and Mac users, Windows users mainly only use .zip and .7zip these days (once again, excluding pirates).

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I bought a ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 last year (with 32GB RAM) and it’s been excellent for hobby dev work and light gaming. Lenovo officially list Linux as one of the supported operating systems. I run Fedora on it and everything worked out of the box. If it’s not urgent, I’d recommend waiting for the Gen 2 which should come out next month. Gen 2 features the AMD Zen 4 CPUs, which is a decent upgrade from the Zen 3+ CPU in the Gen 1.

d3Xt3r ,

It is usually pretty seamless, but unfortunately some laptops may have some weird quirks or certain things which may not work and may require manual steps. Most common issues you might come across is with suspend/resume - it’s either broken, or it may not resume properly or may crash etc. Other issues could include audio issues, or wifi issues.

This isn’t generally a problem though with popular / “good” models, as these get picked up and fixed pretty quickly. The problem usually is with less popular models, or brand new models which haven’t been tested yet by the wider Linux community.

Good models/brands include Thinkpads, mainstream Dells (especially the XPS series), mainstream HP (especially the EliteBook series) and Framework. Plus there are laptops which come with Linux out-of-the-box, as the ones by System76 and Star Labs. HP also have the Dev One, and Dell have the XPS Developer Edition.

In general, I’d recommend going for a full AMD system (CPU+GPU) because of their better integrated GPU performance, particularly on Linux. Unlike nVidia, you don’t need to install any proprietary drivers for AMD GPUs, which increases system stability and reliability - especially when you update your system.

What is your comfort activity (like comfort food)?

Mine is playing AOE2 in easiest (or standard if I want a bit of challenge) mode against 3 bots. I just build my economy, wall up (and laugh at the enemy soldiers attacking my walls in vain), reach imperial age and attack once my army reaches the population limit. I also send 104 in the chat so they don’t surrender and I can...

d3Xt3r ,

Hah, I do the same in AoE 2 as well, though I put the AI to standard and like to give them grief, like build towers around their base early in the game, or use an army of monks to convert every unit they send towards my base, and build up my own army of converted units; or lure them into my base by deliberately leaving a gap in my walls, except the path to my tc is lined with towers along the way - sometimes I even make a maze of walls and towers and it’s fun picking them off one by one as they make their way towards my tc.

But lately though, I’ve been doing all of that in 0 A.D., an opensource RTS like AoE. One of the cool things about 0 A.D. is the soundtrack, it’s really, really done well, especially considering it’s a free game; and I also like the customisable AI - in addition to difficulty, you can set their behavior to defensive/aggressive/balanced etc, and you can have a ceasefire period where the enemy doesn’t attack you at all for x minutes after the game starts, which gives you enough time to build up your base.

d3Xt3r ,

truly democratic

But is that really a good thing though? Considering most people are generally idiots and are easily brainwashed by social media.

d3Xt3r ,

Yep, kinda similar setup here. I’ve got multiple types of headsets for various situations:

  • A Plantronics headset for work (taking calls and meetings and stuff)
  • A Beyerdynamic DT880, which is my main for listening to music at home
  • A Sony WH-1000XM5, which I use in wired mode during travel, for it’s noise cancellation features
  • An Avantree E171, which I use during running and workouts

I don’t really want to buy a dongle for everything, not to mention, you’d then run into the issue of not being able to charge your phone while using the dongle, unless you get a dongle that also allows charging and… it’s just not a nice solution.

d3Xt3r ,

Apparently the Pixel 8 will support USB-C video out.

9to5google.com/…/google-pixel-8-display-out-usb-c…

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

d3Xt3r ,

but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support

It’s not that they’re lazy, it’s a combination of not getting paid enough, and not having a reason to care.

If you were a high-level executive, I can bet you they’d at least make an effort to deliver something. Believe it or not, most people only do what’s needed of them as per their job description (and that too, the bare minimum to meet the quota/standards), unless their boss tells them otherwise, or some exec shouts at them, or that they’re actually passionate about something. If no one in IT is passionate about Linux, you’ll never get them to accept it, regardless of how technically superior it is on paper.

d3Xt3r ,

www.photopea.com could be an option, depending on your needs.

whats the scoop on clear linux?

I’ve ready that is a nice and very advanced OS. I run a dell laptop with Intel processor, so I was thinking of checking it out.I did a live disc and it felt like every other version of gnome… Though there are probably many¹ features im not aware of. So what and who is this distro for. Me running Intel drivers, processor,...

d3Xt3r ,

Though there are probably many¹ features im not aware of.

Actually, they aren’t many features, and that’s one of the main drawbacks. Clear Linux isn’t really meant for a general-purpose daily-driver (of course, nothing actually preventing you from doing so, like most Linuxes). It’s mainly aimed at DevOps stuff, AI development, cloud computing, container usage etc.

Speed is it’s main selling point, but it’s speed mainly comes from it’s default packages compiled with extensions such as AVX512 and applying other Intel-processor optimisations. Which means third-party applications won’t get that much of a benefit. It wins synthetic benchmarks and overall the OS feels snappy, but you can get that snappy feel by using a custom kernel like Xanmod on your existing distro.

And here’s the main catch - the package manager sucks, and there’s very few packages in the default repos. You need to compile a lot of stuff, like codecs, if you want to use it as a daily driver. It does have Flatpak, but again, if you use Flatpak packages then you’d be missing out on all the optimisations.

Yeah, Linux breaks sometimes, we're here for you.

Four days ago, I woke up, as I usually expect to after going to sleep and I turned on my really fucking awesome Archlinux gaming rig, hit the desktop and decide, hmmmm… I haven’t updated in a while(a week), let’s pacman -Syyuu and get up to speed. Well, I got up to speed and my favorite game, the best game of all time,...

d3Xt3r ,

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png

d3Xt3r ,

And if you’re a multiplayer gamer, there’s no point because they can ban you if they detect a VM.

d3Xt3r ,

Sync supports this.

d3Xt3r ,

The domain filter is for posts, so you can block clickbait or trashy websites.

d3Xt3r ,

I’m not @zikk_transport2 , but my experience with WSL2 on a corporate laptop was even worse - I couldn’t even get basic networking working (in Arch), even when I connected to my own WiFi. Because of that I was unable to install any packages post-install. After attempting reinstalling it several ways, I gave up and wanted to get rid of it completely but couldn’t - it would still list Arch as being installed, even though it wasn’t actually present anywhere.

In all that time I wasted trying to get it working, I could’ve convinced my bosses just give me Hyper-V access on my laptop - which I did eventually end up doing, and so I ended up with a proper, full Arch install in Hyper-V that ran flawlessly.

WSL2 is a toy, it has some use cases for sure, but eventually you end up with some quirk or issue because there’s no support for it or w/e. Best to just run Linux in a VM.

d3Xt3r ,

I am unfortunately forced to use Windows on my laptop but all the servers I actually administrate run Linux.

Hah, I had the exact opposite setup in my old job - my laptop was Linux (BYOD), but all the servers I administered were Windows.

I wish I had a Linux sysadmin job, but every company here (in NZ) expects you to have several years of enterprise Linux experience already, and It’s basically impossible to get an entry level Linux job here. :(

d3Xt3r ,

Make a smart mirror that can display the time/weather/calendar etc.

d3Xt3r ,

0 A.D. - an Age of Empires style RTS that’s actually really good, especially the background music for all the civilisations, the minor details on the structures, and the customisable AI behavior.

d3Xt3r ,

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/ac/92/fbac92235c0407880909ae711aaa573c.jpg

d3Xt3r ,

They actually are, kind of. It’s called Tron: Ares and it’s been in production hell for some years, the most recent delay being due to the ongoing writer’s strike. Filming is expected to start after the strike is over, but personally my enthusiasm for the movie died after they announced Jared Leto as one of the cast.

d3Xt3r ,

Topaz’s VideoAI, but that’s going to cost you around $200 for a license (and is Windows only and requires a hefty GPU)

Topaz also runs on a Mac btw, and if you have an ARM64 version, you don’t need a dGPU for it.

d3Xt3r ,

I use one and it does help. But before that, you’ll need to remember to clean out your laptop’s own fans, more often then not, the cause for the noise and heat is due to dust clogging the fins and vents.

d3Xt3r ,

Baker Street. And then I’d buy the block of land numbered 221, subdivide it, and turn 221B into a tourist spot.

Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable Consumerism? (forum.fairphone.com)

As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they’ve done a great job with this....

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The word “sustainability” is a joke when it comes to the Fairphone. In fact, they don’t even deserve to be called "Fair"phone, the moment they declared that removing the headphone jack actually reduces e-waste, all whilst conveniently starting to sell wireless earbuds at the same time. Fairphone are basically a sham company now. They may have started with good intentions, but like most companies, they’ve now gone down the enshittification path.

d3Xt3r ,

I’d like to learn more about Linux but don’t know where to start.

The best way is to try it out yourself. Download a random Linux distribution (distro), such as Pop!_OS, elementary OS or Feren OS, and give it a try in a virtual machine (VM) such as VirtualBox. Testing it inside a VM is risk-free, and it will not affect your Windows installation.

Be warned that running Linux inside a VM may be a bit slower than trying it out on an actual PC, so if you’d like, you can also put all the ISO files into a Ventoy-formatted USB drive, boot the drive and check out all ISOs you’ve downloaded. The good thing is most Linux distros are provided as a “live” ISO, meaning you can use and try out the OS without actually installing it to the disk (this is one example of things that Linux does better - you can actually use the OS, connect to the web and do stuff while the install is going on in the background, how cool is that?)

d3Xt3r ,

Afternoon naps at my old job (working from home). My boss knew, but he didn’t care as long as I got my 40 hours in at some point in the week.

d3Xt3r ,

Linus Torvalds himself had some issues compiling it or something, so it got rejected. The bcachefs dev wasn’t too happy and thru a hissy fit, calling the whole process “kafkaesque”, and declared that he’ll be going offline for a while.

d3Xt3r ,

This should be the poster kernel for Ubuntu Satanic Edition.

d3Xt3r ,

Check the link in the comment above yours.

d3Xt3r ,
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Building a new Gaming PC

I’m planning on building a new gaming PC in the next couple of months. I haven’t done so in about 7 years, so I’m a bit behind the times on hardware. Is there any special considerations you all would recommend when it comes to gaming on Linux? I already run Linux as my daily driver and have a home server, etc, so I’m...

d3Xt3r ,

I’m interested in running Windows in a QEMU VM to avoid some of the pitfalls for certain multiplayer experiences in certain titles.

This may not be such a good idea. Many multiplayer games detect VMs and can ban your account. It’d best to keep Windows around in a dual-boot setup if you’re intending to play online games. In saying that, are you up-to-speed with the current developments in Proton? If not, you should check ProtonDB to see if the games you’re playing is supported now or not. Proton receives updates quite regularly, and more and more games are becoming compatible with every new release.

Beyond that, you can’t really go wrong with an all-AMD build: AMD CPUs are better for gaming in general, and AMD GPUs have excellent support in Linux (you only need the opensource drivers btw, so you don’t need to install anything special or proprietary).

d3Xt3r ,

I don’t have much experience with Firewire sorry but with the double adapters in play, I believe you’re facing a PCIe tunneling security issue. Check your BIOS to see if there are any Thunderbolt settings, or settings to allow or disallow PCIe tunneling. The next thing to check is whether the Thunderbolt devices are authorized in Linux.

This page should help you with that: www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.12/…/thunderbolt.html

Also worth checking this page: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Thunderbolt

d3Xt3r ,

I’m imagining that you have a grim reaper outfit to go along with that scythe. And that you do your lawns at night.

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