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  • PSA - If you don't have "Fast Connectable" on in your bluetooth config, you probably should

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  • I swear, every time I hear about Bazzite I'm tempted to switch. Seems like Fedora with but with the rough edges sanded down

  • PSA - If you don't have "Fast Connectable" on in your bluetooth config, you probably should

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  • Huh, now that you mention it, I think I've had that happen a couple of times with my old laptop running fedora (Atheros chip). A simple restart would sort it out and it didn't happen often enough that it was front of mind but it was definitely a thing. I haven't had any issues with my current laptop (Intel chip) so it may well be a driver issue.

  • PSA - If you don't have "Fast Connectable" on in your bluetooth config, you probably should

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  • That's weird, I've never had that happen before but threads about that specifically were all I could find when researching my particular issue. I think it ended up being a power saving issue, I'll link if I can find it. Hopefully it helps

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    PSA - If you don't have "Fast Connectable" on in your bluetooth config, you probably should

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • Most of these are great but I wanna point out some of the ones I don't agree with

    • I've found that the elbow grease bit is gonna be a dealbreaker for 90% of Windows users even when they hate windows. I hate it but that's the truth
    • Nvidia is much better than it used to be but it's still a PITA unless you use a gaming distro or one that comes with proprietary drivers preinstalled and properly configured (even for someone already very comfortable with linux). This is important if you want Wayland to work correctly or need optimus on laptops. Furthermore, and this is laptop-specific, KDE Plasma is gonna have low FPS on secondary monitors or drain tf out of your battery by defaulting to dedicated graphics if your config is wrong (and it's wrong by default on laptops)
    • Switching desktop environments is a massive PITA so choosing the one you like first time is important.

  • Organizing Jellyfin

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  • Been a minute since I set it up but I use a seperare metadata provider for anime and it's just easier to keep separate in that scenario. You can still group libraries together to show up as one in the UI so I have a "TV Shows" library group that contains everything from both "Series" and "Anime"

  • Thank you, Thor! 🥳

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  • Ah, that's completely understandable. Most people don't realize that in a lot of companies, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it's a bad idea.

    Also it's a big fucking company haha

  • Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE

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  • Beat me to it!

  • Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE

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  • Thank you, Thor! 🥳

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  • Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they're Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won't shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

  • Steam’s June Client Update Brings Proton Default on Linux

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  • Real talk, "Linux is the only way you can be sure your porn viewing habits aren't getting logged by some corpo in San Francisco" may be a good way to convert some people

  • Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was

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  • Installing windows step 4 if you're playing games not off the main stores, install:

    • DirectX 9 Jun 2010
    • Visual C++ Redistributables (2008 - whatever the latest is)
    • .NET Framework 3.5 (if you wanna play older games. You have to do this from from programs and features)

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • Huh, this was definitely a fix I used on an older version that I just moved over to a new install with the new drivers so the drm modset line may not be necessary anymore yeah. I'll check next time I connect to my monitor.

    And yeah, it's def gonna get better. I've already seen both wayland and nvidia improve significantly over the last 2-3 years so at this rate, things should "just work" pretty soon (insert meme about year of the Linux desktop).

    I vividly remember struggling to get proprietary drivers working on Fedora 37 (or 38, it's been a minute) only to have them break on the next version on my previous laptop. It was definitely much MUCH easier to install on Fedora 42 on my current one and updates haven't broken anything for me since 40.

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • What gamepad are you using? If it's Xbox One/S/X try out xpadneo

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • This is graat info. Didn't know about Ventoy before, it sounds really cool.

    Just wanted to add that if you're running multiple monitors on an nvidia card, you may find that the second monitor has low fps/stutters on wayland (common on dual graphics laptops). The fix is as follows:

    Add these 3 lines to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf: 

     
        
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1 NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations=0 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

    Add this line to /etc/environment: 

     
        
KWIN_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:01\:00.0-card:/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:02.0-card"

    You may have to modify the part that says pci-xxxx\:xx\:xx.x-card with the appropriate values for your graphics card.

    Run lspci | egrep VGA to list installed PCI graphics cards and try to map the values from there

    Disclaimer: I don't know why this works but it does and it isn't malicious as far as I can tell. If anyone knows what exactly it's doing, I'd like to know please.

  • What's a good slow paced shooter game?

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  • I'd like to second what priapus said - Helldivers is actually making fun of the type of blind patriotism you find obnoxious. It's heavily inspired by Starship Troopers which is also a comedy movie making fun of that type of obnoxious patriotism. It's all very tongue in cheek, devs aren'y actually pushing the patriotism.

  • I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet

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  • I thought you were being serious as well. I've dealt with enough people who would genuinely make that argument so I assume nothing.

  • I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet

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  • Effort or no, if an attacker can reasonably bypass it, it's not secure. That's why software gets security patches all the time, why encryption/hashing algorithms can fall out of favor, and why quantum computing can be pretty fucking scary.

  • I've been using it since I started 10 years ago, and it's always been enough

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  • Not to mention the jump in quality from the 128kbps audio you rip off YouTube (maybe 192kbps if you're lucky) to the 320kbps mp3s you can off any self respecting torrent is MASSIVE (assuming non-shit source obviously). Heck, I can live with 320kbps. I barely notice the jump to lossless on my headphones/IEMs. 128kbps though, I'm not the most discerning listener but I can still hear the artifcats.

  • How exactly do I use massgrave dev?

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  • To add to what everyone's saying since it hasn't been mentioned (as far as I've seen): You can probably disable TPM 2.0 in your BIOS once you re-install Windows 10 so Windows Update will think your PC is incompatible with Windows 11.

    I dunno what the security implications are but it's been working really well for me so far.