D_Air1

D_Air1, 17 days ago

While the actual install process is super easy especially if you managed to install windows 10 on your own, I’m actually more curious as to what laptop you went and bought. Whether or not your hardware even works well with linux is the much more common problem that people have when using it. It’s what leads to the vast majority of something works on my hardware, but not yours posts. Plenty of people have already given instructions on installing, so I won’t go into that, but maybe try to research linux on [insert whatever laptop you bought] first.

D_Air1, 21 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

Me and a buddy just set up syncthing and use that when we need to do this and don’t want in third parties involved. Turn it off when you are done.

D_Air1, 21 days ago

For the KDE part, something I haven’t heard most people mention is the wayland support and how fast they are to pioneer and implement new protocols. DRM leasing is the reason why Gnome can’t do VR games and I forget why they wouldn’t implement it, but the why doesn’t really matter for a company focused on gaming. There are quite a number of protocols that have followed this same story with Gnome.

D_Air1, 20 days ago

Yes, but that isn’t really relevant to the current state of things. I still think Gnome’s wayland implementation is ahead in some ways, but why would that matter when various game related stuff doesn’t work on Gnome. We are talking about a gaming company here.

D_Air1, 1 month ago

I’m still struggling with remote desktop software and other alternatives such as sunshine. KDE connect input sharing is inconsistent on wayland, but they will probably fix that eventually. xwaylandvideobridge is great when it works, but currently has an issue with eating input invisibly. Also, some things just seem to be kinda wonky. For example screen sharing portal when sharing my screen in a browser seems to open twice. Same with obs. Still no good virtual keyboard. If onboard worked on wayland that would be perfect.

D_Air1, 1 month ago

My problem with this is that the vast majority of times. Works of art are not the works of a singular person. However, because a single bad person was in it or involved in its production. Some people view viewing that work work as supporting that bad person. For example: how many people worked on the movie space jam? I try to avoid things produced by bad people as much as possible, but you also have to look at the scope of the works involved. If the studio itself was involved in such an incident. That would be enough to justify boycotting the entire studio. If it was a singular person, then I expect that person to no longer be allowed in future works, but not a call for the the total avoidance of current and past works.

D_Air1, 1 month ago

I’m pretty sure it was an nvidia employee who was working on this for the last year.

D_Air1, 1 month ago

Sounds like a case where machine learning would actually be useful.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Been using it since plasma 6

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Cool, so jq but using sql instead of custom syntax. I wonder if it can output to plain text. That is what I usually use jq for.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Interesting, seems like quite a bit of work is needed to do this in rust, but hopefully that will benefit others who need to do the same. I do wonder if all of the efforts to do it in rust will be worth it though.

D_Air1, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Purchasing my first home, apparently all info regarding the sale is public information. Companies scrape or buy this data and then spam your mailbox with various extra services. In my case, it was mortgage premium insurance or something like that. Anyways, the letter I received in the mail went something like this: “You forgot something important regarding your home purchase”. I don’t remember the exact words, but it was something like that.

I’m a first time home buyer and I am trying to stay on top of things. Of course, because they are able to get all the information regarding the sale. It looks legit, they have my name, address, loan number, loan amount, the bank serving the loan and everything. I call to make sure everything is alright and fortunately they didn’t answer. I took the extra time to look up what mortgage premium insurance even was and that is how I came across the fact that it may be a scam.

Anyways, they call me back eventually and by this time I am on to them. I ask some questions regarding their company and the entire time they keep repeating the name of the bank that is serving my loan, but refuse to give me the name of their company. After a bit more back and forth they finally let it slip that they are from some unrelated insurance company to which I decline their offer. I wanted to curse them out, but I just wasn’t raised that way.

Edit: A lot of people don’t take online privacy seriously. Usually going whats the harm. I was never really comfortable with it to the point of apathy, but I was a bit lax at times. This experience made me find out first hand what the harm of everyone having access to your data is.

D_Air1, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I was literally dragging it this whole time because I didn’t know they added this feature. This way is how I’m use to it working, but I’m glad there is an option for you to revert it.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

There is an open bug report for it. Seems like it might be brought back from what I have read on there. bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481069. Someone has commented having already re-implemented the feature, but they seem to be stuck on something. If you can perhaps consider helping them out.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

I bought 64 gigs of ram and still refuse to use it.

D_Air1, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Funny thing about this. I had always though that creating new resolutions didn’t work because I would always encounter an error no matter what guide I followed. It wasn’t until a month ago that I discovered that the new resolution thing with xrandr doesn’t work on nvidia.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Honestly, I don’t like any of the wayland keyboards, I wish onboard still worked, but sighhh.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

The latest driver should be 550 series. If VS Code is running under xwayland then you are probably going to be waiting a few more months for explicit sync to be finished in xwayland and various other pieces of the graphics stack gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/…/967. Since vs code is electron you can try running it with the wayland command line arguments –ozone-platform=wayland. There might be some other arguments you need to pass depending on the version of electron.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Endeavor and Arch both default to whatever upstream defaults to, so if you update Endeavor to plasma 6 then it will be wayland by default.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

kstart5 on plasma6? Try making a new user and seeing if the issue still happens.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

The one thing I disagree with is the technological advancement. I feel like there has been advancement, but the problem is the cost of those advancements. No one is pining to drop thousands/tens of thousands of dollars on OLED, Micro-led, or whatever the hell else they have come out with over the years. On top of that the crappy interfaces of these TV’s as well as privacy problems. See the recent roku debacle.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

I keep hearing people say that, but I paid thousands of dollars for my TV to still have ads. The days of if you don’t pay for the product then you are the product is dead. You will pay for it and still be the product regardless of cost.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

So as it turns out, if you give people a choice. Some of them will pick something else.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Same, this is also the first time that I am able to use wayland on my nvidia card. There are still issues, but there are being worked out. 6.0.2 solved the issue with plasmashell just quitting whenever I turned one of my monitors off.

D_Air1, 2 months ago

Thanks, that works.