CalcProgrammer1

CalcProgrammer1, 6 months ago

I hate the new layout. Why are DMs separate from servers? It makes no sense, and it means extra back button presses/swipes to change between them. Why not just have everything in one sidebar which I feel is way more logically consistent and convenient? This update is trash and Discord should feel bad.

CalcProgrammer1, 6 months ago

For those of us who use Discord primarily on desktop though, this UI is atrocious. I expect Discord to work like Discord, not <insert other mobile app here>. I like the consistent experience between platforms.

Ultimately though, why can this not just be a freaking OPTION? Just put a toggle in the menu [DMs in Server List] [DMs in Separate Tab]. Bad user experience is forcing all users to conform to the One True Vision ™. Especially when that vision is now horribly disjointed between platforms.

CalcProgrammer1, 6 months ago

How much is the money worth to you? If you absolutely love the Steam Deck and have the disposable income, I’d say go for it. I bought the OLED Limited Edition though I already had two LCD Decks (512GB and 64GB upgraded to 512GB) because I broke my first one but later fixed it. I love what Valve is doing with the Deck and with Linux and I had the disposable income to buy it. I’m happy. However, I would say it isn’t the wisest financial decision I could’ve made and if money is tight the LCD Deck is still a perfectly fine option. The performance is basically the same.

CalcProgrammer1, 6 months ago

This is precisely what they’re banking on. Current consumers will be put off but future generations grow up in the enshittified world believing it to be normal. You have to look back in history to see the full trend and most people won’t do that.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Overwatch.

Oroginally I dismissed it as just being a TF2 clone, and being a very loyal TF2 player at the time I didn’t want to play it as I consodered it a blatant ripoff. However, I started going to a LAN party group at work in 2017 and Overwatch was the only FPS they played so I got it. It still does feel similar to TF2 but the variety of characters got me hooked and it became my most played game for many years until OW2 came out and ruined everything. Getting back into it now though and they’ve toned down some of the bad decisions of OW2 since launch. Now I’m dating a girl who plays Overwatch as well and we’ve been playing constantly so I’m back into it completely now.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Also Brodie’s podcast Tech Over Tea. I was on the podcast so I’m a bit biased, but he has a lot of open source developers from different projects on and they are always interesting.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

I got to be on the Tech Over Tea podcast! I really enjoyed talking with Brodie and would definitely recommend his main channel as well as Tech Over Tea. There is another podcast I sometimes watch called Linux Game Cast too.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

I usually put up my Christmas lights at the end of September if I can. Programmable RGB lights so I can use them for Halloween as well as Christmas. I turn them off between Halloween and Thanksgiving usually, but now I’m seeing tons of Christmas lights already on in my neighborhood and I didn’t actually put my lights up this year. Probably will just go without putting them up this year as I hate going up on the ladder, but I have some RGB spiral trees to put up in the yard at least that I’ll still put out probably after I get back from Thanksgiving break.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

I need that limited edition, it looks EPIC! I already have two Decks but man I need that one. The only complaint I have is they didn’t upgrade to a VRR screen, but OLED will be a nice upgrade in the image quality.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Where did it say 90Hz? That sounds like a HUGE upgrade. The OLED image quality will be nice but higher refresh rate is something I’ve really wanted, though unfortunately I haven’t seen anything regarding VRR.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Definitely sounds like a must upgrade. I don’t have a Switch OLED as I barely use my launch model Switch.

But then again I just started dating someone who plays a ton of Switch games…sounds like I might have two upgrades on my hands

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

True, half of 90 is 45 while half of 60 is 30. The LCD Deck benefits from the 70Hz display overclock tweak noticeably so going up to 90 is huge. I hope the OLED can at least operate at any fixed refresh between 30 and 90.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Anticheat is a plague on the gaming industry.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Personally, I think anticheat should be optional. At lower ranks, cheaters and smurfs are often indistinguishable, but smurfing is commonplace and usually unpunished. I don’t really care if I’m getting stomped by a sweaty tryhard on an alt account or by an aimbot, it sucks just the same. The solution is to move those players up the ranks until the cheaters and the tryhards are in the top ranks. Then you get the people who actually stand to truly benefit from cheat detection, and they tend to be the ones who would want anticheat even at the expense of privacy and system integrity so let them optionally enable it.

Us casuals at lower ranks should not NEED to run anticheat to play games at a casual level. It’s a freaking game, nothing is at stake. I’m not competing in tournaments. I care more about my system being free of kernel rootkits than whether some guy who keeps headshotting me from a mile away is a real player or an aimbot. Matchmaking should be able to deal with the discrepancy regardless.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

I’ve been running an A770 Limited Edition on Arch for a year now and I am happy with it now. It was a rough start, with issues ranging from glitches and crashes to HDMI and DisplayPort audio/VRR issues, but these days it is pretty solid. VRR works fine on my DisplayPort 144Hz 4K monitor. Most games perform pretty well but temper your expectations, the A770 is a midrange card.

I can play Overwatch 2 at 4K 144Hz low settings just fine and I don’t see many frame dips. It’s not noticeable if it does dip because VRR. CS2 performance isn’t amazing, but at low settings 4K I get between 100 and 160 frames depending on complexity. I have FSR turned on. On Cyberpunk I have FSR turned on and it seems to dip down to 20fps when out in the desert and the city is in view, but usually 40 to 60.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

I upgraded from a 1440p 144Hz screen last month. It works well with 1440p and you won’t need to rely on FSR as much as on a 4K 144 screen.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

What kernel are you using? Debian tends to lag behind with kernel updates which makes it a bad choice when running new hardware. I switched from Debian to Arch when I got my A770 because at the time Debian’s latest kernel even in sid didn’t support Arc at all while it worked fine in Arch.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Hmm, 6.5 should support VRR just fine yeah

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Just to make sure, you’re using DisplayPort right? I don’t think the Arc cards support VRR over HDMI. The HDMI port on the Arc is actually a built in DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and I don’t think any converter chips support VRR modes.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

The Steam Deck charges fine off of the Switch adapter, and most of my phones do also. I don’t think devices without active USB PD chips will work though as I don’t think the Switch adapter outputs anything until a device asks for it.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Strange, I have two of the 39W Switch adapters and have used them many times with my Steam Deck, including with dock. I have a third party dock that works with both the Switch and the Deck too that I’ve powered with the Switch adapter.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Haven’t used my Deck in a while, but yesterday I played Overwatch on it. New gf plays on console, so she was on Switch and I was on Deck. I’m not good at controller Overwatch but after a few games I felt like I wasn’t a complete drag on our team at least.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

LibreWolf. I don’t need to see “sponsored shortcuts”, recommended bullshit, abd Mozilla VPN ads when I open my browser. Firefox is by far superior to Chromium based alternatives but let’s not pretend Mozilla are saints when it comes to annoying bullshit in their browser.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

PinePhone Pro with keyboard case?

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Hopefully they do release 1 and 2GB memory varoants which should be $35 and $45 respectively if they follow the pricing of previous models. The performance does look like a big upgrade over the Pi 4 at least.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Hopefully the open source Qualcomm drivers will support this chip. The SDM845 chip is pretty well supported on mainline kernel, using SDM845 with 6.5 kernel and postmarketOS to type this comment. The Freedreno driver is probably the best ARM GPU driver in Mesa.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

I’m not sure you can go more than 320kb/s on mp3. I have my music collection on my home server in FLAC but I transcode to 320kbps constant bitrate mp3 for my car and phone. I chose 320 because it’s the highest that I’ve seen mp3 converters able to go.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

I can afford an iPhone 15 but I run a used OnePlus 6T I got on eBay for $100 because postmarketOS runs well on it. I ran a $200 PinePhone for a while before that. Bring on the phones that put the user’s control ahead of the profits.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Why does the entire Linux community assume that sandboxed apps are something we all want/need these days? I have no interest in sandboxed apps tbh. It makes sense for certain situations but I’m happy without them. I don’t like how Flatpak isolates all apps’ config files off into their little sandboxes and makes editing config files annoying. I just want stuff maintained in a central package manager and I want to use software that’s trustworthy enough that it doesn’t need to be sandboxed in the first place.

I use Wayland, but mainly because VRR support is better (except having to keep rebuilding mutter-vrr every time GNOME updates) and I don’t get screen tearing. Couldn’t care any less than I do now about sandboxed apps or unnecessary forced security. I hate that screen capture gets broken on a lot of programs running in Wayland and that global keybinds get messed up because of “designed with security in mind” bullshit. An operating system’s job should be to provide software with the features it needs, not to restrict said features.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Or choose btw (Arch)

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

RGB software is such garbage. Aura sucks, Synapse sucks, iCue sucks, Polychrome really really really sucks, RGB Fusion sucks, they’re all bloated garbage designed to lock you into an ecosystem and produced by the lowest tier of programmers around apparently as they are unstable and usually incredibly bloated messes.

This nonsense is why I started working on what eventually became OpenRGB.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

ASRock’s RGB is the worst of the worst, and even the best official RGB software is garbage. ASRock is many tiers of trash below them.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Just start at 1, set color, keep incrementing until the last LED in the string doesn’t control anything

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

I’m OK with root not being available by default as long as the bootloader remains unlockable. This is bigger than root. I own the hardware so I should be able to use it for whatever OS I desire. If the bootloader is unlockable then I can flash a root package myself. This is fine. If the bootloader is unlockable then I can install non-Android Linux if I desire.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Lemmy is guilty of this too. I have a giant 4K monitor, why is all the content squashed into a teeny tiny sub-1000 pixel column in the middle of a sea of white? There is no reason I should ever have to scroll on a 4K screen to see a standard Lemmy homepage. Old Reddit got this right (same with mlmym) but default Lemmy UI needs the option to stretch. I have a userstyle installed that does this but it’s not perfect.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

OnePlus 6T with postmarketOS, default browser for the Phosh version is Firefox but I use LibreWolf instead.

OnePlus 6 with stock Android, default browser is Chrome but I use Fennec F-Droid (mobile Firefox fork) instead.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

I use it a lot for data and often for texts, but calls are broken for the most part. Only works in 2G mode and sometimes the audio is broken. When ot works, it works well, but it osn’t reliable. That’s why I got a second SIM and am carrying an Andrpoid phone as well for now. Once calls and camera work I’ll drop the Android phone again. Waydroid works pretty well for the few remaining Android apps I use.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Sucks for the low level employees losing their jobs, but I can’t possibly feel bad about Epic losing money. Garbage company that needs to lose their grip on the industry after the shit they pulled with Epic Game Store and buying up games/studios just to delist their games from Steam, axe the Linux support, and make them exclusives on the worst platform in gaming.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

I just hard code all config in the source code. If the user really cared, they would recompile from source.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Do it!

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

It’s a shame that even the Pi Foundation is cutting corners. Cutting corners and removing features all while not even coming close to their target $35 price. Almost double for the base model. This doesn’t feel like it fits the spirit of the original Pi Foundation goals at all.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Yeah, they didn’t even try to come close to the $35 price point. That was always RPi’s big selling point. I know COVID screwed that up but I was hoping it was a temporary thing, instead it seems they’ve used it as an excuse to raise prices permanently. Really stifles any excitement I had for the Pi 5 as RPi’s biggest advantage over the competition has traditionally been their low entry price. The base model is almost double the $35 point and we all know it’s getting scalped. Good luck getting a Pi 5 for a reasonable price.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Intel A770 with stable mesa drivers, can get around 100-130fps mid settings at 4K in CS2, but got 200+ solid and just ran vsync on at 144Hz 4K very high settings in CSGO. Maybe it’s just the Linux build (which notably received zero public beta testing) but my friend said the Windows version was lower frames on his AMD 580 than CSGO too.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Some of the other maps got significant layout changes. Dust 2 remains the same because dust 2. If they changed the layout on that map I’m sure they would get a lot of angry competitive players.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

It’s the same listing, CS:GO just updated to CS2. Reusing the listing meant the game auto updated.

CalcProgrammer1, 8 months ago

Pretty well overall. Performance is pretty solid on most games I play now, VRR is fixed finally, and I don’t get graphical glitches. I bought it a month or so after it came out and it was rough in the beginning, lots of crashes and glitches.

CalcProgrammer1, 7 months ago

Not as well as I would’ve liked, I ended up going back to Plasma on it. It works wonderfully for touchscreen computing, such as browsing and using desktop apps without a mouse and keyboard, but gaming doesn’t work well on it mainly due to the lack of VRR support on Phosh/Phoc.