End of an era. E3 was better as it was more centralized, IMO. Better to get all the news in one place instead of having to go searching for like, 13 different dates for streams. Plus, everyone was in competition with each other, so their presentations had to be good. Now we get Nintendo Directs with like, 90% indie games.
My laptop came with Windows 11 on it. I installed Fedora pretty shortly after getting it. It doesn’t have working speakers in Linux, and it can’t shutdown - it just restarts on its own - because Lenovo’s Linux support is non-existent outside of a handful of Thinkpad devices.
I accepted the loss. I’d rather use my Bluetooth earbuds when I need them and jump through hoops managing my battery than deal with how hostile Microsoft has gotten towards their customers or their relentless surveillance policies.
I had a restart on shutdown quirk with a dell machine, the fix was adding a kernel quirk number in grub line. You might want to try it. Solved it competely for me. add xhci_hcd.quirks=262144 to grub line or try xhci_hcd.quirks=8192 or you may need both so you add the numbers together for 270336.
Thanks for the suggestion! I tried all three but to no avail. It’s not the worst behavior, I just resort to a less graceful shutdown holding the power button down at the grub menu. Suspend works fine now that I’ve disabled bluetooth wakeup, at least, so I just plug in for a while each day to keep things going.
Bummer. As for sound there, if it is a separate amplifier that runs the audio there was a package that let you manually reassign hardware speaker pins to the corresponding outputs, but it is trial and error unless you find someone’s notes on which pins worked for them. it is HDAjackRetasker might separate package or be part of alsa-tools-gui. when you run hdajackretask you get a dialog box, try the various overrides, or if that doesn’t work then turn on show unconnected pins and advanced override, then it is trying various pin overrides to components and seeing what works. There ia some limited documentation in the gui, and probably more online.
Yep, I messed with hdajackretasker for several hours a few months ago. There was no combination of pins configurations that fixed it that I could find.
It is the amplifier causing the sound problems, but from my research on this and similar issues with other Lenovo laptops like the Legion, it seems to be the way that Lenovo’s bios identifies the hardware and its pins to the OS. It’s likely possible to write a patch to fix it, but that’s over my head and I got the sense from others who have tried that there isn’t enough information to write the patch without more details from Lenovo, who have been entirely unresponsive to support requests.
They’re fantastic speakers in Windows, so it’s a shame, but I can work this way. In another year or two I’ll upgrade to a laptop with hardware that I know plays nice with Linux.
Yeah, unfortunate. I have same issue with an HP zbook and the Bang& Olufson sound. Regular LR is fine but the boost is not. When it is upgrade time I’ll be choosey.
I belive you but how strange. Think pads are like the go to budget Linux laptop option. They’ve worked flawlessly for me for various distros over various models and years.
Ah I should have been more clear. I have a non-Thinkpad Lenovo. It’s an Ideapad, Slim 7 Carbon. I bought it for its gorgeous screen and didn’t really intend it to be a Linux exclusive device but here I am.
So what? I accidentally installed Baldur’s Gate 3 on a hard disk and it was unplayable, because the assets took ages to load. Transferred everything over to an NVMe drive and it’s butter smooth. Just don’t put anything that requires interaction on a hard disk and get with the times and plop in an SSD. Best bang for your buck in terms of an upgrade with a massively noticable effect.
Too true. Upgrading to NVMe was the most noticeable speed boost I’ve experienced all at once in my history of building my own rigs. It’s was like black magic. Wouldn’t shut up about it to all my friends for a month.
People are so desperate to never experience a moment of FOMO in their whole life that they’ll buy some terrible looking game like The Day Before. Rips off TLOU like crazy, but otherwise looks like complete shit. You’re not going to be a popular youtuber. Stop trying to keep up with youtubers who get sent games for free.
There is never any reason to pre-order a game. Like, ever. It’s always stupid and reinforces terrible incentives that drive the enshittification of gaming. Even when the devs aren’t straight up scammers, preorders mean they can be profitable before they’ve even released anything so they’re incentivized to put out whatever half-baked garbage they can.
I’ll never understand online only single player experiences. Makes no damn sense, even as DRM. The moment a players internet is slow, it all goes to shit. Not to mention unstable connections and server issues.
…after being feedup with elevenlabs (popular TTS service) I choose to use a different route.
TTS is made with ttspeaker… and then added a bit of “flavor” by passing the output to a RVC model to give the newscaster a more poignant flavor. Let me know what you think about.
(also I am planning to change the newscaster model)
Have you looked into doing TTS on your own hardware? I recently managed to get this running (free !!).
It’s pretty good imo, i found that the trick is to generate the voice with Bark and use “RVC Beta Demo” on top after. Coming from image generation RVC feels like a Lora.
Now i barely played with it, but i’m sure you can end up with some crazy level of details and customisation.
The current problem with running these AI on local hardware is that, as supposedly tiny tools, they require huge packages to download and often require specific version of Python (3.8 while most modern Linux distro come with 3.10+) and most of the time you’re required to make these massive download (+6GiB of libraries, pip packages and various dependencies/sdk)… just to give one single try. If you mess with something, it’s all over again.
What I’ve found more useful, is using huggingface.I was forgetting about Bark! thanks for remind me… luckily is already available on hugface here
Their modding support is still being worked on though as they had to “basically rewrite the entire game and engine from scratch” and so the full DUSK DDK (Dusk Development Kit) built on the new DUSK is “still a few weeks away” but once done “you will be able to play all the custom maps with both Classic or HD visuals, replace weapons, models and more”. It even supports Quake and Half Life maps.
Being able to easily run other games maps seems cool, I guess this is on some sort of version of the quake or source engines then?
The original Dusk was written in Unity and just used the same map format as Quake. I would assume those aspects are still true for the rewrite, but I could be mistaken.
That one’s not really a red flag. If they keep all of the same assets and lighting settings, UE5 will look damn close if not identical. Updated code doesn’t mean it magically updates the graphics, though I bet plenty of UE-sourced assets have easy upgrade paths.
For an example of a game that doesn’t suck that did this, see Satisfactory. It looks nearly the same. Though I think some things have improved slightly, since they at least enabled a few things.
In this scam’s case, I’d say purely marketing wank so they could say it uses latest. For Satisfactory, I’m sure they mostly just don’t want their code base to fall behind before they’re even out of Early Access.
Same as any library/framework upgrade in code: if you don’t upgrade, you will not eventually get any new features/security updates/asset etc. If you have stopped development, then no point, but if you plan for support game for longer period, it makes sense. Also in the future if UE 7 brings something awesome, upgrade from UE5->UE7 is much harder than two simpler version upgrades.
And ofc this thing is clear scam, so this was just in general
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