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[–] gunpachi 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In case you didn't know, You can get lemmy posts by adding the following to a search query -

site:lemmy.world

You can replace "lemmy.world" with the lemmy instance url of your choosing (or any url for that matter).

[–] gunpachi 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah forums are pretty cool. It's like a massive treasure chest you can sort through. I still enjoy using a few forums like Gamerfaqs and XDA developers.

[–] gunpachi 6 points 1 month ago

Idk why you are getting downvoted but I wish we had a little more variety to the content. I basically see the same things everyday in my home feed.

[–] gunpachi 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Niche communities are awesome ! Sadly reddit is still the king in this aspect.

Maybe in a few years lemmy will reach that level or even surpass it... One can dream.

[–] gunpachi 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with what you are saying. What I really meant is that every community should have some amount of people who think differently and see things from a different perspective. This can help widen the variety of posts, comments and even sources used for citations.

For instance, here on lemmy I've noticed a tendency for people to see things from a political viewpoint and don't hesitate to start a flame war in the comments. Maybe the average user will feel more welcome to express their opinions if they see that the existing users are open minded. Thankfully most communities I'm a part of are very nice, more so than their reddit counterparts.

P.S: forgive me if there are any logical inconsistencies in my comment. I might be a little intoxicated.

[–] gunpachi 3 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile Metal gear Rising players : Spam Parry ! (Except for Senator Armstrong and Sundowner)

[–] gunpachi 83 points 1 month ago (35 children)

I hope more active users move to the fediverse. That way we will have a lot of variety in content and can also potentially prevent communities from becoming echo chambers. I suppose moderation will also have to be taken up a notch for these changes to actually have a positive effect.

[–] gunpachi 2 points 1 month ago

Try zen browser. It's just like floorp but has that Arc browser aesthetic.

I was a floorp user until I tried zen browser. You should give it a try too.

[–] gunpachi 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's one elaborative answer. Thank you for typing this all out. It sounds like a pain, but I think it's worth doing.

All that waiting period to get verified s crazy. Furthermore to view some profiles we need to be in their networking list ? that's even crazier.

[–] gunpachi 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly this has been my daily driver for the past 6 months or so.

I really like it. The aesthetics are really modern, while still maintaining all the things I like about firefox.

[–] gunpachi 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My friends who are less tech literate swear by brave. I think it's the way they market their browser... Some of Brave's core audience don't want to install a third party extension for adblock (either they don't like third party or they just don't know they can do it in other browsers)

Also on opening a new tab, they show the stats of how much data they saved and how much ads it blocked. Some people like seeing the number grow.

All this is my speculation. There may be some other reason for it being this popular.

 

Afaik, archive.md / archive.today used to work but now it doesn't.

Even when browsing while signed in, linkedin will notify them about any person who viewed their profile. I know one can turn on anonymous mode, but still it will notify them.

Does anyone know a way to browse this website without being logged in ?

[–] gunpachi 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“There's no saving America -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. Burn it down! And from the ashes, a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed!”

— Senator Armstrong.

 

Most of the romance anime I've seen are based on a high school setting or something similar.

They were good and all but all have this typical format with the usual shenanigans like Love triangle, beach and fireworks festival episodes, useless love interests that have a shelf life of a hamburger... Etc.

And the memorable ones have me feeling nostalgia for memories I've never even had. And in some cases its almost like waking up after a fever dream but with chest pain.

P.S - From the top of my head- the only grown up romance setting I can think of is Wotakoi. Maybe it's time I venture more into K-dramas for the romance, I remember seeing one named "Twentyfive twentyone" which was absolutely amazing.

 

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->


1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high


2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.


3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.


4. KDE plasma desktop and task manager panel frozen and crashes randomly.

This issue is likely related to any applets you have added to the panel or the desktop. For me this happened when I added the 'Network speed Indicator' and tried to resize the panel (strangely this never occurred to me in the past, but hey it's been a solid 5 years since I tried KDE or any DE for that matter)

The solution is to either delete or rename the following file to something else

~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Then restart the system. Plasma should create a new file which will essentially reset the panel and desktop settings to stock.


I hope that someone will find use in the contents of this post.

 

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->


1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high


2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.


3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.

I hope this post helps someone out.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by gunpachi to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
 

So today I installed Bazzite for the first time on my computer. I continued with the pre-installed steam package (which was surprisingly not flatpak).

I'm using an Intel cpu and an AMD RX6600. Games are working fine but I'm not able to use the in-game steam overlay. Some games like Apex legends rely on it to complete a sign in process. Apex is saying that I don't have in-game overlays enabled, when I clearly have it enabled (for the game and within the gernal steam settings) . I tried changing the keys from the default 'Shift+Tab' but still no luck.

Does anyone have a solution for this ? Or should I install flatpak steam on Bazzite ?

Edit : It seems that I'm also not able to add steam libraries from other drives, not working with ntfs partitions and btrfs partitions.

Edit 2: I haven't had the issue after I switched over to Bazzite-arch distrobox container for gaming.

 

I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I'm pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn't want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But sometimes when I want to game or when I wake up my computer from sleep the display would just keep blacking out and won't let me use it until I restart the computer (I am using an AMD GPU btw). This issue has been happening on Plamsa 6, and Gnome as well. I have tried various fixes from the ArchWiki but it's still there. Other than that I really liked the Distro.

It's not like changing distros can solve my moitor blacking out problem, but I'm going to try something based on Silverblue for a change. Yes, I have tried the Ublue project in the past, it was good but I couldn't get into the whole immutable thing back then, so I hopped back to my staple Arch/Tumbleweed and carried on. Fast forward to today.. I'm thinking about trying Bazzite or Aurora as the idea of having a low maintenance system is now very appealing to me.

I'm not necessarily a hardcore gamer but I do play games every other day and also run some LLMs locally every now and then. I'm not sure which one I should go for between Bazzite and Aurora. Maybe someone who has run both can give their opinion.

 

I want to backup some apps and app data in a zip file and be able to restore it into a device.

It's okay if I have to use something like shizuku to enable backups.

 

So I just bought a OnePlus 12 recently, I was used to controlling volume using the onehand operations goodlock module in my Samsung galaxy S23. I basically never had to press the volume buttons to control the volume unless absolutely necessary.

Possible ways I've thought of (it would be really great if at all possible) -

  1. Using the curved edges in phone screen for volume control.

  2. Using the gestures to control volume when the screen is off.

  3. Setting Diagonal swiping gestures to do different functions, controlling volume in this case.

 

I'm thinking of something like stremio but for audio.

An android app would be great

There are apps like Spotube which are cool but it doesn't have ability to stream lossless audio.

Any suggestions ?

 

In such a case, will the concept of money be wiped out from existence ?

 

Looking forward to seeing some interesting jobs I haven't really thought about. Bonus points if it's an IT job.

 

I'm not good with masking my emotions sometimes, although I do try to process the things before I take any action.

My face and body language on the other hand can reflect what I'm going through at the moment.

Are you aware of any ways to control yourself under difficult situations (apart from things like meditation) ?

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