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inspector, 9 months ago

I actually have an old laptop with a GTX 780M and a Core i3 3rd Gen running Arch.

When I tried GNOME on it with Fedora, it defaulted to X11 on login when it detected the Nvidia card. However, mine was also an Optimus laptop, and I could mostly always get Wayland working with the iGPU on the Intel. This is how I mostly ran for a year or two without ever using the dGPU.

I need to chuck in a new SSD on that, but I could check it out let you know if anything’s changed in recent years. I don’t think wayland support for older nvidia cards have even been worked on in the last couple of years. There’s work for wayland on newer nvidia cards, but it’s mostly still spotty.

inspector, 9 months ago

Oops! I did wonder if it could be non-Nvidia. Oh well

inspector, 9 months ago

Awesome, will give this a try on a new Arch install with hypr

inspector, 9 months ago

Yep I second this. I’ve been using GNOME, hyprland and sway interchangeably since 2021 Oct on my system as my main DEs. I recently wanted to give Plasma Wayland a try. Was met with multiple crashes, and freezes that required me to long press the power button to reboot to get it working again.

While the new rootless wayland on SDDM worked fine for me, there are several things in Plasma that still don’t yet have support for Wayland. I could never get screen sharing to be reliable on Plasma Wayland, despite having the right portals installed.

GNOME, Sway, and Hyprland are miles ahead in having a stable system on Wayland.

inspector, 10 months ago

I know one guy in one of our Telegram chats that simply loves their Android turtle emoji

👀

inspector, 10 months ago

Bettle Juicing at its finest

inspector, 10 months ago

The reason I switched from Gboard was because it autocorrected a capital “I” to a small “i”

inspector, 10 months ago

How are you connecting the two drives to the Pi? Do they have external power supplies?

inspector, 10 months ago

Thanks! Been on the lookout for good HDDs with external power supply.

inspector, 10 months ago

Asus ZenPhone? Have you been living under a rock these past few months lol

inspector, 10 months ago

IIRC, that is literally just a skinned KDE Connect lol. Probably even just a name change. Never used Zorin, but this is what I remember either DistroTube or Chris Titus saying.

inspector, 10 months ago

Just wait until Google eventually kills it off lol

inspector, 10 months ago

This is usually a function that full blown media servers offer.

Jellyfin is the one that jumps to mind with this functionality, however I haven’t really this functionality out as of yet.

inspector, 10 months ago

Isn’t that still the case there?

inspector, 10 months ago

I wonder how much it’ll cost here, and how long it will be before it gets delivered lol.

inspector, 10 months ago

I’m currently reading Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper, which is the first book in the Dark is Rising sequence.

I first read this book years ago, and what has stuck me ever since was the vivid use of imagery by Cooper. I’ve also watched the movie, but it’s the book that has always stuck with me.

inspector, 10 months ago

Yes, most definitely! It’s the reason I avoid Android tablets in general. I have a random Android tablet from Lenovo that runs Lollipop and is stock-ish.

Used it for about a year, and now it sits as a paperweight.

inspector, 10 months ago

Man, I always wanted a Nexus 7, but it was never easy to get one in my country back then. And then Google officially partnered with Amazon and Flipkart to launch the tablet…right after I’d gotten a new iPad.

inspector, 10 months ago

Yes, definitely! I don’t have as much use for a tablet these days, which is an unfortunate thing. My phone is big enough to cover most use cases, and my iPad 2017 is too big to be used comfortably for most things - it’s not ergonomic to hold upright in most conditions, it’s slippery without a folio case (and cases are hard to find unless you get an official Apple one which is very expensive), typing on it is a pain because of how thin it is, and the only saving grace it has in terms of typing is the mini floating swipeable keyboard added to iPad OS in recent years.

I’d definitely love to run something like a Nexus 7 again! Perfect form factor for most things, including media consumption, reading books, and much much more!

inspector, 10 months ago

There have been very few good affordable Android tablets: both the variants of the Nexus 7, and then the only other one I can recollect is the Amazon Fire Tablet 7, which launched probably sometime in 2015 or 16.

inspector, 10 months ago

I add it through their web interface. I signed up several years ago, but I spent 2020 and 2021 updating OSM for my city to be as good as Google Maps for major places, posting their open and close times, better pin placement and such.

inspector, 10 months ago

So that they can abandon it in short order like they do with their messaging apps

inspector, 10 months ago

Interesting, I saw some of this UI on my Android TV last week. Unsure if that’s how it’s always been or if they were doing some A/B testing. It was refreshing to use a UI that was intuitive, NGL.

inspector, 10 months ago

Was that typed from your Galaxy phone from Tapatalk?

inspector, 10 months ago

Man, I loved ICS. I’ve spoken about this before on a post from a few days ago.

Here’s when I used ICS as my main operating system on my computer for over a year

inspector, 10 months ago

The last phone I tried it on was a Redmi Note 8 back in 2021. I waited for a year using the stock ROM, and finally applied for the bootloader unlock. Got my code fairly quickly (7 days), and unlocking from there was a breeze. I don’t think the process has changed much these days, but yeah, it’s a pain having to go through that to unlock your bootloader.