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I’ll still keep my nose in the phone, pretending that it’s alive

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I don’t think there’s anything there capable of making ozone. My guess is it’s the heat-sink compound outgassing?

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Because fuck you, that’s why

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Personally, I prefer the music of Guy Who Blew His Own Head Off

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While you’re there, the 2 for $6.99 Platinum bundle has Tinykin, and the To The Moon Trilogy, Such Art, Teslagrad 2

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There are plenty of games that require you to do some tweak from ProtonDB, such as using ProtonGE or running a winefixes installer. That amounts to a few clicks in Protontricks(which really needs some navigation fixes) or ProtonUP-Qt.

Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my...

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Nobara, which is by GloriousEggroll of ProtonGE fame, is the first thing to think of when looking for a gaming distro.

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Are the vibration coils actually built to handle a 100% duty cycle? Or will they overheat?

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Most vendors have dropped S3 sleep, since Windows 8+ doesn’t use it. S0ix-way or the highway.

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The horrible part is it was. Your other choice was ext2, which wasted so many lifetimes with its hours long fsck times. Reiserfs was a cut above the rest, we would all be using it today if it weren’t for that one teensy-weensy legal issue.

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You only had it for maybe a year. Let it ride. Spend the money on a 2tb upgrade.

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I don’t think it’s going to do a whole lot of good when the whole KMS/DRM falls over.

(okay I haven’t had that for a few months now. But i am still traumatized)

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Do you mean that you don’t have to find the LBA of the extents of your swap file, and put that into a kernel argument anymore?

Cuz that is a nasty, skanky hack.

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Jeff didn’t follow the machine shop floor rules.

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A camera isn’t very flattering while it’s straining like heck to expose something. To the eye, it’s not that bad.

I definitely feel a little jealous of OLED whenever there’s a “black” loading screen, but once the game gets going I forget about it. I had the OG gameboy, I have had some outrageously bad screens in my time. This LCD can still do reasonably vivid color, has very low color shift when you tilt it, and I can’t make out the pixels. I have some better screens around, but the difference in the quality of my experience with any of my modern screens is pretty small.

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Final Profit. Talos Principle 2, and now I get enough of the mechanics to go back and do a lot of Talos Principle 1.

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Go into desktop mode’s Discover Store, and get Space Cadet Pinball

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Fun fact to keep in mind about your MX4 - if you use the “pair with two devices simultaneously” feature, the headphones shut off their LDAC support. All you get is the baseline audio codec. Nice, huh?

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You have to use a phone app to do it, never found it to be worth the bother.

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I haven’t had much luck with XQ. I don’t believe that Bluetooth can reliably find enough bandwidth for it, unless you’re willing to blow up a few neighbor’s WiFi points/baby monitors/microwaves/weather radar stations.

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The joke is that autism and kissing absolutely do not go together.

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Try putting a script like this in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/. Make sure it is executable.


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">case $1 in
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	pre)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		bluetoothctl power off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	post)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		bluetoothctl power on
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		;;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">esac
</span>

What I said before, looks like a dead end.

Start with “cat /proc/acpi/wakeup” and “lspci”. My LCD deck doesn’t have the new BT chip with wakeup, but I think it might go like this

Look at lspci, find the Bluetooth there (Maybe it’s just part of the wifi?). Note its PCI address, and find a value in /proc/acpi/wakeup that corresponds to that. Take the name from the first column of /proc/acpi/wakeup, and do something like “echo GPPn | sudo tee /proc/acpi/wakeup” . If this works, then you’ll want to (a) make a slightly more permanent version of this per the arch wiki, and (b) remember to undo that when Valve finally gets around to doing a proper control for this.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/…/Wakeup_triggers

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Oop. Look up. I changed the parent post, maybe this time it’ll work?

Trying to find out reason for Framedrops in X4 Foundations, 3060ti on Ubuntu 23.04

Hi everyone! I’m currently investigating some pretty strong framedrops in X4 Foundations on my Linux daily driver. The framerate is usually in the 50s and I’m wondering if something isn’t working right since I’m experiencing some massive frame drops. Here’s some data I have accumulated from my latest gaming session:...

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Try feral gamemode? It should at least tell the powerstates to bugger off.

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I already laid out 90% of what I know ;p

It’s in apt, it’s also available as a checkbox in Lutris & Heroic. I suppose it could also be squirted into the launch %command% of a linux-native Steam game? If the game is running in Steam, in Proton, then I don’t see how gamemode could sneak in there.

Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in...

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The better way is to fix Windows to use a sensible system time. wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Micro…

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Because it is quite possibly the last of its kind - a desktop OS that was built from scratch by one person with one (strange) vision. Everything else has a lineage to AT&T Unix or CP/M.

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The idea worked out pretty well in “To every you I’ve loved before” and “To me, the one who loved you”.

I somehow doubt Hallmark did quite as good a job of it.

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I like the halloween version that ends in door hand hook car door

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If you’re a dog and like “eating anything on the ground”, you’ll never go hungry

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That thing usually goes by the name “wake lock”. I can’t imagine why it’s not doing the right thing by default.

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Hashtag the only winning move is not to play

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They are all good, but Hanna Montana Linux is great.

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It’s kinda wild that GTK’s grandpappy is now the last thing to get updated to the current GTK.

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Smurfs is surprisingly good, it’s a bit of a Mario Sunshine thing.

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A SECOND WEDGE HAS HIT THE TOWER

Noticed a strange occurrence where my monitor buttons will not react to presses when certain conditions are met

I have an Acer XV340CKP monitor connected via Display Port to my GPU. I also have a old LG W2253TQ that I use as a secondary display. It only has a DVI and VGA port. I have a DVI-DVI cable together with a DVI-Display Port converter to connect to my GPU, which is an Asus RX6900XT. I am running Nobara 38....

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My brother had a screen that would occasionally reboot with fullscreen video, but not if you kept some window decoration onscreen. There must’ve been some degree of (you can not turn it off) image processing that would shit itself. Maybe it was local dimming related.

Everything is filled with software, and a lot of it is hot garbage.

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An AAAA cell has 200-350 mohms internal resistance. A 9v battery has 6 of them in series (many of them are literally that, others have their cells as a stack of plastic buckets). The nose ring is a short run of wire, it’s idunno a 0.2 ohm heater?

I think the septum is going to get pretty toasty.

data.energizer.com/pdfs/e96.pdf

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Dry skin is hundreds of thousands of ohms. Even wet skin has pretty good resistance. When you touch a 9v to your tongue, you’re starting to mess around with lower resistance flesh, it is definitely not a comfortable thing to do.

The metal ring doesn’t do anything to move more electricity into your body, but it soaks every electron the battery can push and turns it into heat. Best I can figure it would amount to a few watts, which would be toasty if you were holding it between your fingers. The septum is a thin piece of flesh, I think it would sauté pretty quickly.

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Do it with the piercing OUT OF YOUR BODY. You don’t want a hot piece of metal that you can’t get off of yourself fast enough.

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groaaaan…

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The main point of Arch is the Arch Wiki. Joke’s on them, I steal from the wiki all the time and I don’t run arch at all.

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It may be a little behind on updates at this point, but HML is still the best.

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The main difference is that this one has the money to do a much bigger Columbine.

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And if there’s a circular symlink, we fork bomb

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Were they marvels, though? Itanium made good business sense in that it would cut AMD out of the market, but it was shit technology. Itanium would have also done a good job of cutting GCC out of the compiler market, which is great news for ICC. If everybody had to buy Intel compilers, boy that would have changed the software market.

You shouldn’t be making the compiler guess at conditions-on-the-ground that the CPU should be inferring itself, such as “which data dependencies are in cache and could be running OOO right now?”. You shouldn’t be making the compiler spend instructions and memory bandwidth describing this stuff. You shouldn’t be making code that works well on exactly one generation of CPU, one pipeline design, and is trash on the next generation. Once upon a time, MIPS saved a few gates by making three “delay slots” part of the ISA, and that became an albatross as soon as they weren’t a three stage pipeline. Itanium is all about making that kind of design decision everywhere. Itanium is the Microsoft Word of ISAs, where the spec is “whatever my implementation does is the correct thing”

The immediate failure of the Itanium was the promise that “you are buying a new, more expensive system that runs your current x86 code worse”, and the expectation was that every generation of Itanium would go like that. Just as your software starts getting good, here comes the new chip that will someday make stuff faster, but you will never see that until just about the end of that product cycle.

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I hate people that edit stuff

Firmware update bricked dock

Updated my dock to the latest firmware today. It worked fine until I restarted my deck to try and resolve some game streaming issues. After restarting the deck, the dock no longer works. When it is first connected to power, the ethernet lights strobe then go dark. Ethernet isn’t being detected by the deck and neither is the...

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Wouldn’t you know it, Valve put out a new “stable” release for thanksgiving and it broke my docked audio. So I had to do the thing, too.

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