So I installed pop on my laptop a few months ago, and recently got another one where I installed arch. On both laptops I mostly just watched series, and often times I’d just leave the laptop with the media player still open....
If it’s just Crunchyroll doing this, you can disable auto-play for it (or just disable it for all sites, IMO automatic playback of media is pretty annoying).
Another alternative is to use Auto Tab Discard, which automatically suspends tabs which are inactive after x seconds. This also helps save memory and CPU usage, and also greatly benefits laptop users. So if you tend to leave your browser open and have dozens of tabs in the background, I’d highly recommend getting this.
AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for modern Ryzen systems. This is for leveraging ACPI CPPC data between CPU cores for improving task placement on AMD Ryzen systems for cores that can achieve higher frequencies and also helping in hybrid selection between say Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. This AMD Preferred Core support has been in development since last year.
Performance gains on AMD 4th Gen EPYC
AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager merged along with other work as part of better supporting the AMD MI300 series.
AMD has continued upstreaming more RDNA3+ refresh and RDNA4 graphics hardware support into the AMDGPU driver.
Indeed. But I think some confusion will still remain as long as the ntfs-3g FUSE driver is still included by distros. Because right now, you have to explicitly specify the filesystem type as ntfs3 if you want to use the new in-kernel driver, otherwise it would use ntfs-3g. And most guides on the web still haven’t been updated to use ntfs3 in the fstab, so I’m afraid this confusion will continue to persist for some time.
It refers to modern Intel CPUs where there are two types of cores - performance cores (P-cores) and efficient cores (E-cores). This is similar to ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture which we’ve seen in smartphones for many years already.
ntfs3 has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it’s been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven’t had any issues.
It’s not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it’s been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the nocase and windows_names mount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.
“It’s been a while since I last had Neal Gompa back on the show but he’s once again to talk about Fedora Linux, what’s going on with Fedora KDE, how Fedora change proposals function and much more”
IMO you shouldn’t look at it as “should I become an x user”, because that sort of implies you’re getting married to that distro. Instead, you should be asking, “should I use x to solve y?” For instance, I use RHEL, Debian (Raspbian), Fedora (Asahi), Fedora Atomic (Bazzite) and Arch. I also use Windows, macOS and FreeDOS. All solve different needs and problems. There’s no rule saying you should only stick to one distro/OS use whatever suits your needs, hardware and environment the best. :)
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Because MIUI deviates from stock Android so much that it often causes unexpected behaviour and bugs. So it’s easier for developers to just say they don’t support it, instead of putting up with negative reviews and complaints.
Corporates are using ThinkPads, HP EliteBooks and MacBooks. OS being Windows, macOS mainly. Linux on workstations is pretty rare - mainly used by developers - and the distro being Ububtu LTS (which I do not recommend).
Since you want to use Linux, go for a ThinkPad. There are more Linux-friendly laptops of course (like Framework and System76) but I believe none of them offer corporate-levels of stability and build-quality like ThinkPads yet - as you have experienced yourself with System76.
Main pro-tip is to avoid systems that use nVidia cards - they’re often responsible for buggy suspend/resume in Linux, and can break your OS sometimes when you do an OS/kernel upgrade. So if you’re after stability, avoid nVidia like the plague.
For the docking station, I’ve had good experiences with the HP Thunderbolt Dock G4. The initial releases were in fact a bit buggy with suspend/resume, but HP have released subsequent firmware updates to fix those issues. In fact, HP have been really good at providing regular firmware updates for those docks, and the best part is that it’s on the LVFS too - which means the firmware can be updated directly in Linux using fwupd. A lot of vendors don’t bother updating docking stations - and even fewer update them via LVFS, so this is something you might definitely want to look into.
Finally, for distro recommendations, I would recommend a Fedora Atomic distro since they’re immutable, and rollbacks are as easy as just selecting the previous image in the boot menu. Given your requirements, I’d recommed Bluefin - specifically the Developer Experience version, since it comes with virtualisation tools OOTB.
For reference, I mainly use Bazzite (another variant of Fedora Atomic) on my pure-AMD ThinkPad Z13, and haven’t had any issues with suspend/resume, external monitors, or virtualisation dev/test workflows. There’s virtually no overnight battery drain either when suspending. My system also supports Opal2, so my drive is encrypted transparently to the OS, with virtually no performance overhead. It’s also nice not having to muck around with LUKS and the complexities around it. I use this system for both work and personal use (gaming), and it’s been a great experience so far - both software and hardware. Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Does anyone know how Connectwise RMM does scripting deployments FROM other RMM tools? We are having a tough time trying to figure out how to pass our site tokens through as part of an installation script from DattoRMM, and none of the documentation seems to align correctly. Someone told us it would be something like...
This is a general tech community, mostly centered around news and end-user technology discussions, so it’s very unlikely you’ll get an answer here. Might want to try asking on Reddit or some dedicated Datto/Connectwise forum.
Having binged Fallout, 3 Body Problem and The Boys recently, I’ve moved onto Severance. It’s a quirky, slow burn with an intriguing setup. 7/10 jaffas so far....
Masterchef Australia Season 16. It was nice seeing Jamie Oliver on screen again. The new judges and participants are interesting too, and although it’s still very early in the season, they’ve already put out some very clever dishes. Can’t wait to see what else they come up with over the rest of the season!
There’s also XFCE and LXQt, if you want simple, easy-to-use environments.
My elderly, non-techy mum has been using XFCE over a decade across three different distros (Mint, Xubuntu, Zorin) and her experience has been consistent all these years, with no major issues or complaints. If my mum can use Linux just fine - so can anyone else (who don’t have any specific/complex hw/sw requirements that is). I don’t see how much further intuitive it needs to get.
KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXQt etc all have their own place and audience. There’s no need to have one experience for all - in fact, that would be a huge detriment, because you can never satisfy everyone with a one-size-fits-all approach. Take a look at Windows itself as an example - the abomination that was the Start Menu in Windows 8 (and the lack of the start button) angered so many, to the point that Microsoft had to backtrack some of those design decisions. Then there was the convoluted mess of Metro and Win32 design elements in Win 10, and finally the divisive new taskbar in Win11… you’re never going to make everyone happy. And this is where Linux shines - all the different DEs and WMs offer a UX that suits a different audience or requirements. And we should continue to foster and encourage the development of these environments. Linux doesn’t need to be like Windows.
Nice, welcome to the club! Been using a ThinkPad Z13 for the past couple of years exclusively with Linux (Fedora Atomic) and it has been an excellent experience, with everything working OOTB and decent battery life too. I do have a copy of Windows installed in a VM, but use it only for dev/test stuff.
Came across a new vegan restaurant in Welly called September, which is turning into one of my go-to joints. So far I’ve had their Mapo Tofu, Laksa and Stir Fried Veggies with Tofu, and they’ve all been top-notch. And unlike Aunty Mena’s, their food isn’t bland - and when I ask them to make it spicy, they make it proper Asian-spicy, which is awesome. 10/10 would recommend.
I haven’t heard of Hot Shot, but 200-400GB seems like reasonable usage to me. Especially taking into account 4K streaming, and stuff like video game downloads being 100+GB, that figure actually would seem pretty conservative IMO.
Well I haven’t used Plasma Mobile or any of the apps you’ve mentioned, so it’d be nice to see what it all looks like! (and I don’t have a device I can try it on either, unless I can get it working with Termux + Termux-X11?)
What @lemmyreader said, except this is XFCE installed directly on Termux (and accessed via Termux-X11, a native X server for Android). No *buntu involved here. If you have an Android as well, you can set all this up (minus the actual Chicago95 theme) using this script.
I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot
You can continue to use OneDrive. I use the OneDriver client and it works really well - your drive appears just like a local drive, but files only get downloaded when you try to access them. Once downloaded, it gets cached locally and is available offline, and is kept in sync automatically. Other cloud providers should have similar FUSE clients available.
What are best practices for managing apps?
Best practice is to stick to packages provided by your distro’s repos. Flatpak should be your second option if you can’t find your app there, and AppImages should be your third option (since Flatpaks are superior as they can share dependencies, unlike AppImages). Avoid Snap. In fact, avoid any distros that even use Snap (*buntu). Also, if you’re on a Debian/Ububtu based distro, avoid adding PPAs (thirdparty user repositories) as far as possible, as these can cause dependency issues and may cause pain when you upgrade your distro.
Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications
That should be provided by your distro - Gnome-based ones have “Software” and KDE-based ones have “Discover”.
I’m guessing it’s from dry air god me but even with humidifier I always have to blow my nose a bunch of times in the morning. Sometimes my lungs feel tight for a while after waking up. This happen to anybody else? Why does it happen for you?
Check out bamboo pillows and pillow cases, they have natural hypoallergenic properties and it might suit you better. Or you could just get a bamboo pillow protector + pillow case, in case you don’t want to change your whole pillow out.
Since you’re on Linux, it’s just a matter of installing the right packages from your distros package manager. Lots of articles on the Web, just google your app + “ROCm”. Main thing you gotta keep in mind is the version dependencies, since ROCm 6.0/6.1 was released recently, some programs may not yet have been updated for it. So if your distro packages the most recent version, your app might not yet support it.
This is why many ML apps also come as a Docker image with specific versions of libraries bundled with them - so that could be an easier option for you, instead of manually hunting around for various package dependencies.
Also, chances are that your app may not even know/care about ROCm, if it just uses a library like PyTorch / TensorFlow etc. So just check it’s requirements first.
As for AMD vs nVidia in general, there are a few places mainly where they lagged behind: RTX, compute and super sampling.
For RTX, there has been improvements in performance with the RDNA3 cards, but it does lag behind by a generation. For instance, the latest 7900 XTX’s RTX performance is equivalent to the 3080.
Compute is catching up as I mentioned earlier, and in some cases the performance may even match nVidia. This is very application/library specific though, so you’ll need to look it up.
Super Sampling is a bit of a weird one. AMD has FSR and it does a good job in general. In some cases, it may even perform better since it uses much simpler calculations, as opposed to nVidia’s deep learning technique. And AMD’s FSR method can be used with any card in fact, as long as the game supports it. And therein lies the catch, only something like 1/3rd of the games out there support it, and even fewer games support the latest FSR 3. But there are mods out there which can enable FSR (check Nexus Mods) that you might be able to use. In any case, FSR/DLSS isn’t a critical thing, unless you’re gaming on a 4K+ monitor.
You can check out Tom’s Hardware GPU Hierarchy for the exact numbers - scroll down halfway to read about the RTX and FSR situation.
So yes, AMD does lag behind in nVidia but whether this impacts you really depends on your needs and use cases. If you’re a Linux user though, getting an AMD is a no-brainer - it just works so much better, as in, no need to deal with proprietary driver headaches, no update woes, excellent Wayland support etc.
Laptop randomly playing media
So I installed pop on my laptop a few months ago, and recently got another one where I installed arch. On both laptops I mostly just watched series, and often times I’d just leave the laptop with the media player still open....
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)
#219 Should I Become A Fedora Linux User? | Neal Gompa (www.youtube.com)
“It’s been a while since I last had Neal Gompa back on the show but he’s once again to talk about Fedora Linux, what’s going on with Fedora KDE, how Fedora change proposals function and much more”
Transpower disconnects some North Island power assets due to solar storm (www.rnz.co.nz)
Why many Android apps are unavailable for MIUI phone?
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn’t available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don’t understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?
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Using DattoRMM to deploy CW RMM via scripting???
Does anyone know how Connectwise RMM does scripting deployments FROM other RMM tools? We are having a tough time trying to figure out how to pass our site tokens through as part of an installation script from DattoRMM, and none of the documentation seems to align correctly. Someone told us it would be something like...
What are we watching?
Having binged Fallout, 3 Body Problem and The Boys recently, I’ve moved onto Severance. It’s a quirky, slow burn with an intriguing setup. 7/10 jaffas so far....
KDE Plasma needs stability (www.youtube.com)
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 7/5/2024
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Daily driving Plasma Mobile (fam-ribbers.com)
I wrote a blog post about my experiences on daily driving Plasma Mobile
Dillo 3.1.0 finally released after 9 years! (dillo-browser.github.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15269587...
Switching from win 11
After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows....
Who else wakes up and has to blow their nose or clear their airways every morning and why?
I’m guessing it’s from dry air god me but even with humidifier I always have to blow my nose a bunch of times in the morning. Sometimes my lungs feel tight for a while after waking up. This happen to anybody else? Why does it happen for you?
Nvidia tries to kill CUDA translation layers | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024
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