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If a driver doesn’t behave properly, the things that are built on top of it won’t work properly either. When that misbehaving driver is not open source, you’re at the mercy of the vendor… It’s common knowledge for over a decade that nVidia drivers are problematic with Linux - especially on laptops. Bad drivers are entirely nVidia’s fault.

I’ve been running Wayland with Intel graphics on my laptop and my desktop runs a Radeon. I’ve had 0 Wayland issues in the past years.

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I’m running DualSense on Arch without issues. It even uses the touch pad for mouse movements when not in-game (Steam).

Make sure to check the docs if you aren’t using Gnome: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad.

My only complaint is the atrocious battery life, but that’s not a Linux issue.

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“Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor” has been a blast so far. I’m about 12 hours in.

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I think it’s roughly 2 hours at 60fps, but I don’t know for sure because I have mainly been playing with power connected.

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The existence of ArchWiki and the Arch User Respository (AUR). And rolling releases, if that’s your thing.

otl, to privacy

Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

#privacy @privacy

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In the early days they would quietly take all your contact info on your phone and send emails in your name that made it seem like you were reaching out to those contacts. Something like “(your name) is trying to reach you on LinkedIn”.

Back then, Android didn’t have app permissions like it does now where you have to ask the user explicit permission for access to certain data. It would only show up on the very first app install and only if you’d be looking for that.

I cancelled my account back then and never looked back.

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No issues here with Gnome via Arch on a Framework 13. At 150% scaled if recall correctly.

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My only regret for picking team red is that DaVinci Resolve doesn’t support hardware encoding.

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why doesnt GNOME have a maximize button

Probably because you can double-click the window ‘bar’ to achieve the same.

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I found kdenlive terrible. DaVinci Resolve is much better, but it’s closed source and has some limitations in terms of hardware encoding support (nvidia only).

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Great job! Is there a way to donate to the project?

Cursed 32 Gig NVMe drive? (lemmy.world)

Can anyone explain the purpose of a 32 gig NVMe SSD? I think it’s quite an apple thing to install such a stupidly tiny drive into a computer, but on the other hand it doesn’t seem right. This can’t be a system drive can it? But what else could it be? This is like an impractical, high-speed USB drive that requires...

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It’s probably an SSD for a Fusion Drive setup: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive

It seems to check out for iMac in 2019.

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Besides the other mentioned reasons: exposure through the app store can be a motivator too.

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FreeRTOS is technically an OS though! 😅

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It’s likely mostly Google and a bit of Amazon: Casting support requires Google Play Services installed on the device. Google Play Services is only allowed to be used (as in: allowed by Google) if the Android device also comes with many other Google apps. Amazon probably doesn’t want their device to become a Google-centric device. That’s likely the reason.

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From StackOverflow:

Switches will send packets to all interfaces when using broadcasts or under extreme conditions (full MAC Address Table). This can lead to duplication if there is a loop between two or more switches and if the Spanning Tree Protocol is not used. So the answer is rarely.

stackoverflow.com/…/duplicate-udp-packets-how-oft…

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I’ve used FreeCAD for a few months for small/medium-sized projects and it crashes way too often. It’s pretty much unusable for me. I only use it for CAM these days and do my CAD with OnShape.

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What they didn’t mention is that hat guy is an Alpine user.

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I applaud LibreWolf’s efforts, but the hard-coded timezone makes it unusable for me. Other than that, it’s a great browser. I used it several months until the timezone confusion got the best of me.

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If I recall correctly, it was meant as a measure against fingerprinting. It’s basically one less thing to uniquely define a user based on the info that the browser gives to a website. I’m not sure if it’s still like that, cause it’s been easily a year since I used LibreWolf.

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My Xbox Wireless Controller couldn’t connect with Bluetooth until after a firmware update. The update required a Windows machine and the Xbox Accessories app (VM didn’t work) or an Xbox One (360 didn’t work).

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I looked it up and it seems to be the 2020 version. I recently got it with a Steam Deck that I bought second hand.

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Check the second hand market. That’s how I got a 2TB one (with hub and Xbox Wireless controller) for less than what the 256GB one costs new and out of the sales period.

Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)

The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...

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It seems like this might break the GDPR rules for consent:

Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence which could affect the outcome of that choice renders the consent invalid.

gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/

or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/

I’m not a lawyer though, so maybe a legal expert can chime in.

edit: the jury is still out it seems:

techcrunch.com/…/meta-subscription-vs-consent/

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