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d3Xt3r ,

What do you use Windows primarily for? If it’s not for online multiplayer gaming (which uses anti-cheat software), then you should do it the other way around, ie install Linux as your main OS and use Windows inside a VM. That way you will be sort of forced to use Linux and adjust, and you can always fire up your Windows VM if you need to.

d3Xt3r ,

You should definitely just do a fresh install of Windows instead of migrating. It takes less than 15 minutes to install, and since your only need is Photoshop, then you don’t need a bloated full-blown Windows - just install a “lite” version of Windows, like Tiny10 or Tiny11, which will also save you some RAM and CPU resources.

But sure, do check out Linux instead a VM first if you wanna try out a few distributions. Another option is to use Ventoy to create a bootable USB drive, then you can just chuck multiple Linux ISOs onto the USB and try them out, this way, you can test various distros on your actual hardware (which is always handy for testing compatibility) without needing to install anything first.

d3Xt3r ,

IMO, nushell isn’t really an alternative to bash/zsh, unless it has backwards compatibility with bash/zsh commands and scripts. I would say it’s more of an alternative to PowerShell, given how similarly it behaves to it. It’s for people who like how PowerShell works, but want a shell that feels a bit more homely on a *nix system, and don’t want to be involved in the Microsoft ecosystem (because PowerShell on Linux is really just a management interface for Microsoft’s cloud offerings).

d3Xt3r ,

There’s no need to have an entire laptop for that, just have a copy of Windows installed on a bootable USB stick (and disable your main drive if needed).

To make restoration even more easier, you could have Windows self-contained inside a .VHD file and boot it using Ventoy, which makes it easy to backup and restore. So once you’re done with the exam thing, just restore the clean VHD back. And use a tiny debloated copy of Windows such as Tiny10 or something so that your VHD is much smaller, making it even more quicker to backup and restore.

d3Xt3r ,

Definitely try running a full Linux distro with it, it’s pretty fun and a self-rewarding task, even if you don’t end up actually doing anything with it. But you may still find it useful in some ways, for instance, you could run a full fledged desktop Firefox with support for ALL addons, use it to inspect and debug web pages etc.

And if you feel like it you could take it a step further and install Zink and Box86 to play Windows games.

d3Xt3r ,

I dislike it. And it’s got nothing to do with Linux, or even Windows for that matter.

I dislike it because the BIOS sucks. It’s literally one of the most barebones, locked down BIOSes I’ve ever seen. You basically get just three categories, boot device selection, turn some hw components on/off, and set the date and time. That’s about it. You can’t choose enable CSM/Legacy mode, you can’t set MAC Address Passthru options, no option to edit existing or add new UEFI boot order entries, and so many more options missing, compared to say what you’d find on other devices. Classic example of corporations unnecessarily locking down devices and abstracting things away from the user.

This may not be a big deal for you however, but as a power user who likes to tweak things and have finer control, having such a gimped BIOS is a deal breaker for me.

how to optimize battery life?

So I recently bought a new honor magic 5 pro. My last phone the Huawei p20 pro was around 5 years old and started to show significantly less battery life. So I want to use this phone again for 5 years. But now I wonder should I keep the battery around 50% (65-35) and charge twice as often or should I 80-20 and charge once every...

d3Xt3r ,

I would take the parent poster’s experience as definitely anecdotal/coincidental. A lot of factors can cause a battery to degrade faster, beyond just faster charging or doing full charge cycles. For instance, simply using the wrong kind of case (say, something like a heavy-duty Otterbox case) could cause heat to build up and reduce battery health. It could even be caused by a cheap or non-compliant USB cable..

If you want some real battery facts, check out the Battery University, it should have all the info you’re after.

Just moved from Motorola, any worthwhile tools to emulate moto flashlight and camera gestures?

All I find is suggestions from a few years ago, so probably outdated or maybe there appeared some better tools in the meantime, there are some apps in the play store but I need something good privacy wise, no training demon, also small battery life impact would be nice...

d3Xt3r , (edited )

Which phone did you move to? Different phones have their own OEM implementations for those things.

For instance, Samsung allows you to remap your power button to trigger both the camera and flashlight, whereas OnePlus uses screen-off gestures (eg draw a V for the flashlight) etc.

d3Xt3r ,

If it’s something like a restaurant, just make a listing for it on sites like OpenStreetMaps or even Google Maps, for visibility. Make sure that the listing is fully fleshed out, including timings, photos, menu, pictures of dishes and ambiance etc - this is a step most restaurants fail to do, and it’s something very simple/

I’d say also make a website if you don’t have one already, and once again, ensure that it’s fully fleshed out with the same details as above. Maybe have an online reservation system. Use keywords for SEO so that your restaurant will come up in searches - maybe worthwhile hiring a proper web dev if you’d don’t have experience with this.

Then spread word via word-of-mouth, come up with a referral or coupon system, provide discounted meals for the first month etc. If your menu/service/pricing/location is good, then customers will flock to you on their own and they will do the advertising for you.

d3Xt3r , (edited )

Um, you’re like more than a decade too late to ask this question. Javascript is pretty much everywhere now, whether you like it or not.

For the record, I dislike it as well - not the language itself mind you, but the fact that they’re using it to make bloated desktop apps and desktop UX. Long gone are the days when devs cared about performance, sometimes going as far as writing code in ASM to get the most out of paltry hardware.

Nowadays, even a $25 computer like the Raspberry Pi has enough computing resources to run bloated JS apps, so no one really cares any more, except for old fogies like us who grew up using entire operating systems that fit on a single floppy disk.

d3Xt3r , (edited )

Equally (or more?) impressive is the procedurally generated 3D FPS .kkrieger, which weighed a paltry 96KB. 96KB in 2004 was quite impressive, considering that Doom, released a decade prior, was 2.39 MB, and even the original Wolfenstein 3D, released in '92, was 1MB.

d3Xt3r ,

I never claimed that Javascript itself was bloated - it’s about using the right tool for the right job. The bloat comes from using awful frameworks like Electron to create fake “native” apps, and then fooling users into thinking they’re getting a native app, wasting tons CPU resources and sysadmin time trying to fix these bloody Electron apps into shape (speaking as a DevOps guy).

Also, there’s a world of options to chose from for shell programming that strike a better balance between performance and practicality, in the spectrum between ASM and JS. Oh, and writing a modern shell in ASM is most definitely fun, you should give it a try sometime. ASM shells - actually, entire operating exists already, if you aren’t aware of it. You really should check out MenuetOS or KolibriOS sometime. Sure, it’s nothing more than a hobby project, but it’s quite fun to take it for a spin, and experience a preview of how fast and effecient operating systems could be.

d3Xt3r ,

Yeah, but not a full-fledged GUI OS with all your basic GUI tools, including a GUI web browser. QNX had a floppy version back that that fit everything - even a bunch of games - on a single 1.44MB floppy.

In saying that, there are modern GUI OSes which you can fit on a floppy, such as MenuetOS and KolibriOS. And because they’re coded fully in assembly, it can actually fit and do a lot more that what QNX-floppy could do back then, which is very impressive for modern code.

d3Xt3r ,

It already exists btw: apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/…/9NWK37S35V5T

Gaming laptop with good Linux support?

A similar question was raised some day’s ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I’m searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game’s and also native Linux...

d3Xt3r ,

I was going by this:

areweanticheatyet.com/…/faceit-counterstrike-glob…

d3Xt3r ,

Not according to this: areweanticheatyet.com/game/pubg-battlegrounds

d3Xt3r ,

I prefer FPS games, if that’s important…

Which games exactly? Many popular multiplayer FPS games don’t work on Linux, due to the anticheat software employed by them.

See: areweanticheatyet.com/?search=&sortOrder=desc…

d3Xt3r ,

You probably don’t play garbage games then, like Fortnite, PUBG, Valorant, Destiny 2 etc. These, while garbage, are unfortunately very popular, which is why you keep hearing about why popular FPS games may not work in Linux.

d3Xt3r ,

This. I mentioned this a couple of times, IMO a Tl;DR shouldn’t exceed 150 words, but the bot’s author disagreed with me. It’s not a TL;DR if it takes up half the screen.

d3Xt3r ,

Another classic hit from Epic. Loved this game as a kid. Didn’t realize it was a trilogy though!

d3Xt3r ,

Or just disable image uploads completely. We got by on Reddit without any built-in image hosting functionality for over a decade, so Lemmy should be fine without it as well - especially considering that we don’t really have many image-heavy communities, besides the NSFW instances. I mean, storage costs money you know, and with Lemmy being run by volunteers, it makes even more sense to get rid of image hosting to save costs.

d3Xt3r ,

This can be easily implemented client-side, like how third-party Reddit clients have been doing for years, by uploading to the likes of Imgur. Shift the responsibility away from the Lemmy server and onto dedicated image hosts, who have the storage to spare, plus manpower/policies to deal with illegal content.

d3Xt3r , (edited )

Desktop users exist

So do Desktop tools like Flameshot, which can directly upload to image hosts and copy the URL to the clipboard which makes it easy to share images, and there also exists third-party Desktop web-clients such as Photon, which could be updated with that functionality as well. But with Lemmy itself being open source, it wouldn’t take much effort to modify the code to use a third-party image host.

have a history of deciding to forbid hotlinking

There are plenty of hosts which do allow hotlinking though, like imgbb.com

history of suddenly deleting all (e.g. PhotoBucket) or some (e.g. Imgur) images .

Not a big loss, IMO. Lemmy isn’t an image hosting nor an image-centric site, it’s a text-heavy forum at first instance, and anyone posting images are encouraged to provide text alts for the benefit of blind users, so images not persisting isn’t a big deal.

If image persistence is really that important, there are other services which are better suited for that, such as Pixelfed. But in the first place, I wouldn’t rely on some random Lemmy server, which is vulnerable to DDoS and other attacks and could go down at any time (also why the importance on decentralization - no single instance is infallible). I mean, when there’s no guarantee that a Lemmy instance will even be there tomorrow, is there really a need to worry about image persistence?

d3Xt3r ,

Thanks! It’s good to know that /etc is writable.

But are are you able to elaborate a bit on this please :

However, uBlue actually enables one to engage relatively easily with those harder to modify parts.

What exactly does uBlue do differently to Silverblue, which makes it easy to modify those parts?

d3Xt3r ,

All of that sounds pretty interesting, thanks! Looks like I might need to get my hands dirty this weekend…

d3Xt3r OP ,

The best possible solution would be to update Ventoy! Some ISOs can be funky so the Ventoy dev adds special support for it and then updates the tool. Also, if you’re trying to boot a Linux ISO, choosing the “grub2” boot option may yeild better results.

d3Xt3r ,

I’m thinking it could be more as an alternative to picture-microblogs, like Pinterest or Tumblr.

has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?

I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and...

d3Xt3r ,

Nope. I’ve always had my history disabled, so my homepage was always full off clickbait junk which I never paid attention to. Usually I find new content by searching for stuff that I’m actually interested in, or by recommendations IRL or online.

d3Xt3r ,

Kiwi here, we call them heat pumps over here. In fact it’s the first time I’m even hearing the term “reverse cycle air conditioner” lol.

d3Xt3r ,

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/…/log/?qt…

d3Xt3r ,

As a gamer who uses a Thinkpad Z13 Gen1 with a Ryzen 6860Z APU, I disagree. Most games run just fine here via Proton-GE or Wine-GE. For newer AAA games however, you’ll need to dial down the graphics - but that’s expected of an iGPU. The most recent game I played on it was Diablo 4, which was running at a very playable ~45FPS at 1080p medium settings. This was on Nobara btw, a gaming-optimized distro based on Fedora.

d3Xt3r ,
  • Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (with the Expanding Fronts mod)
  • Age of Empires II HD
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d3Xt3r ,

That rhymes!

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    d3Xt3r ,

    Um, why did you use the spoiler tag btw, it looks weird.

    https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/bc0ab890-d80d-4ab2-8a42-21109a91b2cd.jpeg

    Wrap your code using single backticks instead, so your code will look like this.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I’ve seen this exact issue in the past with AMD cards, like this post: community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/…/465318

    You either try updating to a more recent driver (or a recent beta driver), or try downgrading your driver to an older version, and see if it works.

    In my experience though, AMD cards work better with DisplayPort, so you could perhaps try unplugging one of your other monitors, and reconnect your TV using the DisplayPort adapter. Might be best to power off the TV first before you swap the ports.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Nice, but I wonder if they plan to switch to GPL, or stay with MPL. No mention of that on the website.

    d3Xt3r ,

    UTM is basically QEMU under the hood, which is well supported by Linux, so it’s no surprise that it worked without any issues.

    What would be interesting to know however, is what’s the performance is like. You should run something like Geekbench on macOS and on UTM and compare the result, to see what the overhead is like.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Damn, that’s actually pretty impressive. Assuming you ran the x86-64 version of Fedora in UTM, and the ARM version in Parallels?

    d3Xt3r ,

    You probably were thinking of Unix, which was around since the '60s.

    d3Xt3r ,

    In some of those countries, it’s not really a choice. Like, WhatsApp is the only way of contacting a company’s customer care (via chat bots that run on it), colleges and universities may have study groups on it and teachers may hand out notes etc in those groups, also apparently it’s also the only way to contact even some government agencies.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Do you require WhatsApp to contact certain government agencies? Do you require WhatsApp to get access to customer support? Do you require WhatsApp to get access to lecture notes? No? Then you’re not from one of those countries.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I was there. It was fine. You didn’t need phones to be able to function in a society. Phones were something like an optional convenience that you had only at fixed places, like your home or office. If you were out and about, you typically didn’t have access to a phone, unless you were in the vicinity of a payphone, so you weren’t expected to be available on phone. Whereas in the countries where Meta has monopoly over, everyone expects you to be on WhatsApp, and you don’t really get a choice in the matter.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Which means you can’t really switch to other apps then, which means Meta has you by the balls.

    d3Xt3r ,

    That’s the thing though, they have been pissing everyone off for over a decade now, going back to the days when Facebook introduced the algorithmic feed/timeline thing, and then with the promoted posts, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the data harvesting and ads and blatant privacy violations. They’re one of the scummiest organisations out there and yet you all keep using it’s products and happily whoring yourselves out to Meta. Sure you can switch in theory, so what are y’all waiting for? There’s plenty of reasons to switch, plenty of decent alternatives too. The truth is, you can’t really switch. You don’t have a choice.

    If you think you’ve got a choice, I dare you to uninstall WhatsApp for a month or two, and see if you’re able to get by without any issues. Then you’ll know why I said they they have you by the balls - basically, you’re a hostage, a slave. You really have no choice, no freedom, even if you’ve got other apps installed. You may convince your friends and family to switch, but do you really think the thousands of companies, government agencies etc will just switch for no good reason? Will they make new chat bots for the alternative apps? Will they develop new SoPs/documentation for their internal staff, spend time and money on marketing and advertising the new way of contacting them? Waiting for Meta to do something major to piss everyone off may never happen - Meta isn’t that foolish, and as people get more and more used to Meta’s products and their way of doing things, they get more and more entwined into the ecosystem and they’ll find it even more harder to leave. If everyone’s going to wait for everyone else to switch, then no one will switch.

    d3Xt3r ,

    That may be the case where you and I live perhaps, but these countries that I speak of, have an entire ecosystem built around WhatsApp. Many companies there no longer provide a customer support number that you can call for instance, they expect you to interact with a bot run on WhatsApp, which can further lead to chatting with an actual agent speaking to them, but that’s all done via WhatsApp. Also many teachers in schools and universities share lecture notes and study material via WhatsApp groups. Doctors and medical labs may share electronic copies of your reports via it. Some restaurants accept reservation requests solely via WhatsApp. It can even handle payments now, and besides using it as a means to send money to someone, some companies have even built entire e-commerce platforms around it, using interactive bots and the payment features. So for you and I, WhatsApp may be just another messaging service, but in these countries WhatsApp is quickly turning into an “everything” platform, and it’s not trivial for someone to just replace it, unless they want to go live in a cave and cut themselves off from modern society.

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