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vappster

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I'm a 20-something #language nerd, #tech enthusiast and #vaporwave / #retrowave / #cyberpunk fanatic. Expect me to boost and toot about #linux and console #hacking & #homebrew, #IT topics in general, art I like and past/current projects of mine (...as well as funposting from time to time because yes :blobcatthumbsup: )

If you follow the #3DS #modding scene, you likely know me thanks to #Snickerstream

Cultural Mediator & Translator by day, coder by night. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น/๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

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pixel, to random
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configuring hibernation on my linux machine is going to give me a conniption

vappster,
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@pixel conniption averted :blobcatthumbsup:

pixel, to random
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okay gnome is much better (for me, obviously) than kde

kde is nice but it's so fiddly, gnome with a few extensions is genuinely gorgeous and got to a point where it was doing most of what my windows desktop was doing almost immediately

vappster,
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@pixel Glad you're enjoying it, I hope the extensions I've suggested helped! :blobcatcoffee:

vappster,
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@pixel About this, dash to dock's issue tracker seems to reveal it might be a conflicting keyboard shortcut issue with GNOME Shell's keybindings

https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/issues/914#issuecomment-490554186

vappster,
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@pixel I guess they implemented the same functionality in a slightly different way under the hood, but ye - one would expect that not to be the case :blobcatfloppy:

pixel, to random
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tbh i might just reinstall manjaro and use gnome because im kind of not fond of how kde looks, and i care a lot about how my computer looks while im using it lol

vappster,
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@pixel GNOME is great, but imo it requires a fair bit of extensions to make proper use of its potential (and also making it very pretty in the process)

...Still, mind you, I'm not saying so to dissaude you from trying it - I am a GNOME user myself after all :blobcatcoffee:

vappster,
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@pixel Absolutely! Here's some I'd consider very useful or essential:

  • Just Perfection (Lets you tweak many aspects of the GNOME Shell, both visual and behavioral)
  • Blur my Shell (Eye candy, adds blur to many parts of the shell)
  • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support (Self-explanatory)
  • Desktop Icons NG (GNOME by default doesn't show files and folders on the desktop, this extensions does just that)
  • Dash to Dock (Turns GNOME's dash into a macOS-style dock)
vappster,
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@pixel I don't need scaling on my devices so I'm not sure myself, but Arch Wiki says it's possible: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#GNOME

Also, there seems to be an extension for that too: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5111/display-scale-switcher/

vappster,
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@pixel Install the extension, either from your distro's package repos or the Extensions website, whichever you prefer and/or is available to you (be mindful that the website requires you to install the GNOME Shell Integration browser extension)

Once installed, it should pop up in GNOME's Extensions app: enable it, and you should be able to get into its settings from there

(Here's screenshot of the extensions app on my system, don't mind the pasta language lmao - Impostazioni = settings btw)

vappster, to pokemon
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Felt like sharing some of my wacky past "tech experiments"... the first one who guesses what this was for gets a virtual cookie

HINT: It had to do with homebrew, but nothing to do with 2DS/3DS games or screen streaming lol

pluralistic, to aitools
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It was all downhill after 2018.

#ad #torino #ComputingHistory

vappster,
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@alexhammy @metin @pluralistic Yes, I'm Italian and I can confirm very few people here had Internet access before the 2000s. Peeps started connecting to the internet around 2004/2005-ish and it only became mainstream around 2007/2008 with the social media boom.

Uraael, to linux

I've had a very enjoyable conversation this morning about Linux, and specifically Linux Gaming. From my perspective this is now absolutely on par with the Windows gaming experience but of course that opinion isn't universal.

I apparently did enough to convince the chap I was talking to to give it a try, prompting me to have an immediate crisis of confidence that someone was actually listening to me on the internet and omg what if I've over-sold it?!? ๐Ÿคฃ I run a Gaming Distro: it's entirely possible I've lucked into this experience with my choice to run it because of things the distro maintainers have set up for me.

But I have faith in Proton. Proton / a.k.a Steam Play is a genuine Miracle for Linux.

When Valve launched Proton in [stresses memory] 2018? 17? it suddenly and gloriously catapulted Linux from an awkward, arcane and painful third place in terms of Personal Computer platform game compatibility all the way up to parity with Windows. ProtonDB now lists 20'000+ previously Windows-only games that at least one person has reported works for them on Linux (Many other games could work that just don't have reports yet). ProtonDb, a volunteer-run website, is also fabulous as it grades compatibility. Platinum for Works out of the Box, Gold for Works with Tweaks/Tinkering, Silver for works but with larger issues, Bronze for Doesn't work.

The Steam Deck (which runs on Steam OS, a Linux distribution) couldn't have launched without proton. The Deck is also having a hugely positive effect on Linux Gaming.

You want proof of how good the situation is? Here's a WINDOWS-FOCUSED website extolling Proton's virtues.

Top Tip: if default Proton doesn't work you have two options in Steam: the Experimental version, basically the upstream beta, or there's the 'Glorious Eggroll' [GE] version, created by a single person, that includes fixes for some games that Valve haven't officially included.

If yon chap has anything near the wonderful time I've had playing games from my Steam and GOG libraries on Linux this last year, I'm sure he'll be fine and I'll have avoided a reputation for being all mouth and no trousers. ๐Ÿ™‚

vappster,
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@Uraael I can't really speak for everyone, especially considering I don't play a lot of AAA games nowadays, but yes - Linux could very well replace Windows for me even for gaming. All of my Steam library works either natively or using Proton, and most of it works OOTB without any kind of tweaks necessary.

My desktop PC is still running Windows, but I've made the switch on my laptop and never looked back!

philpem, to random
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I'm still trying to decide which OS to put on the SCSI-endowed 486. Win95? 98? NT? Interactive Unix? NetWare? I just can't decide...

vappster,
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@philpem OS/2!

vappster,
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@philpem Well, in that case...

If you want a quirky system, I'd say some unusual build of Windows, like Chicago

If you want a more useful system, either Windows NT or an UNIX OS!

boblaw0, to foss

Which FOSS degoogled Android rom would you recommend?

@askandroid

(you can recommend googled roms, just let me know it is)

vappster,
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@boblaw0 @askandroid LineageOS gets my recommend.

I've been a long time user (since way back when it was still called CyanogenMod!) and, although I had installed gapps on my devices, the official releases come degoogled by default. They also include many in-house FOSS alternatives to Google's core apps which are otherwise missing on stock AOSP (like the Eleven music player, Jelly browser, etc) so it can be 100% used out of the box without any kind of gapp package installed

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