themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago

Jesus. Good luck finding another job, it sounds like it literally could not be worse than your old one.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

I love that song and yeah, nailed it.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'll bite. Austin, TX circa 2007. Sublet. Moved my (now) wife and one year old into a one bedroom, one bathroom house the size of a shoebox. Cooled by a single window unit, had to steal wifi, and roaches crawled in through the gaps under the doors.

Ironically, it's now a fond memory. First place I lived with my new family, it was just for the summer, we had cool neighbors and were like 200 feet from a bunch of really cool local businesses.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago

I couldn't find the specific reasoning for this change, but I feel like QEMU is probably just too holistic to be appropriate for this kind of project.

QEMU needs to be able to emulate all the ARM hardware with enough fidelity to boot a naive operating system. For the purposes of running userspace applications almost all of that is not required, you really just need to convert one ABI to the other and translate the instructions. No need to handle firmware, the MMU, interrupts, disks etc.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

By myself, probably Apollo 13 - I used to watch it like once a day over the summer. With my dad, we watched Predator every time my mom had to work late.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Yes! It used to be so hit or miss with Wine, but I played WoW in it around the same time and it was crazy that it worked (at least most of the time).

[–] themoken@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago

There's just no reason to do this work. Even if you ignore the fork's controversial maintainer, and just favor the fact that it's maintained at all (which is what the proposal's author is suggesting) just... Why?

X11 is basically over at this point, why throw a last minute wrench into the existing, working Xorg infrastructure?

When we dropped XFree86 back in the day there were license issues, packaging issues and a real alternative didn't exist - all justifying the effort to switch. None of these are a problem today.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago

That's hilarious, but not really the same thing.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 68 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Proton is amazing, but it's entirely overhead translating library/system calls to Linux. It's accurate to say they run better on SteamOS, not to say Proton is making it run better.

Now maybe Proton makes them run better than a janky but native Linux port, but that's a separate statement about games being better optimized on Windows.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago

Also, does anyone seriously think they'd do this without some sort of carve out for Steam to work? I can't imagine a worse idea at this time than for a desktop oriented distro to break the gaming use case that hard.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

It's more of an issue with torrent seeding. You need to be able to accept incoming connections to seed, so you need a VPN/router to allow incoming traffic to a certain port to reach your torrent client.

So, not a problem for leeching, but if you are trying to meet ratio requirements, could be a big problem.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, I see what you mean, fair enough.

 

Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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