Max-P @ Max_P @lemmy.max-p.me

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Not exactly like DisplayFusion, but virtual desktops have been a thing forever on Linux. There's a ton of options in that department. They don't work the same in each DE, so if it doesn't work in yours try another. I believe COSMIC supports this already, otherwise in the tiling department you might like Sway or Hyprland. KDE and Gnome are a bit weird with per-monitor virtual desktops, and KDE at least is working on it.

USB Passthrough: yes, either the device node itself or the entire controller via PCIe passthrough.

Premiere, I believe so but you will need GPU passthrough for that to work to any degree of smooth. GPU passthrough is super nice when it's all set up, worth the spend for a second GPU. Performance is near identical to native, it's really great. Been gaming in a VM for years... out of convenience.

The only reason Mozilla still exists is because Google needs them to so Chrome can't be a complete monopoly.

Their priorities have always been... questionnable. Like, we got FirefoxOS all while Firefox was basically unusable on Android and Chrome rapidly eating their lunch, PWA support was abandonned then removed, which was the whole idea behind FirefoxOS... Then they started Servo, the rewrite of the rendering in Rust only to cancel it midway.

But hey they acquired an ad company, as if people don't use Firefox so uBlock keeps working. And Pocket, and VPNs and a whole bunch of other crapware nobody wants from Mozilla. It's like they go out of their way to be the second option.

OpenAI: Here's a new model that can think in steps and reason about things!

User: How did you conclude this is the correct answer?

OpenAI: No! Not like that! banhammer

That is simply not possible. Blocking is entirely done on your local instance by filtering API results according to your preferences. Nothing about it is federated out.

It would also open the door to harass those who block certain users/communities/instances, since federating it out would give everyone the detailed list of who blocks what.

They're still much closer to token predictors than any sort of intelligence. Even the latest models "with reasoning" still can't answer basic questions most of the time and just ends up spitting back out the answer straight out of some SEO blogspam. If it's never seen the answer anywhere in its training dataset then it's completely incapable of coming up with the correct answer.

Such a massive waste of electricity for barely any tangible benefits, but it sure looks cool and VCs will shower you with cash for it, as they do with all fads.

Android 4.4 long predates the OEM unlock option in developer settings.

You'll probably want to find a guide specific to that device to get to flashing TWRP, then it would be like most other devices/ROMs via TWRP. If you're lucky it'll be the classic couple fastboot commands to the bootloader and good to go.

Once in TWRP it's just menu driven so it's pretty easy.

If downgrading the kernel fixes it then it sounds a lot like a kernel bug. Still worth reporting to libinput I guess, they'll probably be of better help to report it to the kernel properly with details of what broke, if it ends up that way.

If you really want to get involved you can also bisect the exact commit that caused it in the kernel, but that's a lot of kernel compiling and rebooting ahead of you.

That shouldn't be a problem. You can even install them on the same btrfs partition if you wanted to as long as each distro gets its own set of subvolumes for stuff. Separate partitions and even separate physical disks? No issues there, that's even less weird.

Ideally what I'd do in this scenario is at least make a subvolume for the Steam library that way you don't have to mount the actual home folder, just the Steam library subvolume. I also have a separate subvolume for movies and TV shows, and a few other things. It's just very convenient for organization purposes, and also technical purposes because now my home snapshots don't take all that much space as all the big data stuff is separate. No point backing up a Steam library.

But in the end, none of this really matters, you can mount anything just about anywhere. We all already mount a FAT32 at /boot or somewhere similar because UEFI requires it. The filesystems all have UUIDs which are usually used for configuring fstab and GRUB and whatnot, precisely so even if you physically swap the disks or even put it into another computer, it still works.

New user that didn't exactly choose to try Linux, I'd go with Ubuntu or Mint just for the sake of being compatible with pretty much anything you'd find when looking up "how to X on Linux". On those specs I guess I'd go Xubuntu or Mint Xfce edition.

I'd try a few Wayland compositors and X11 WMs on the thing and see what performs the best. Depending on the graphics situation and drivers, Wayland can be faster or slower. At this vintage I'd guess the best will be Xorg with no compositor at all, just plain 2D acceleration, but sometimes even the crappiest OpenGL can be surprising.

If you put Waydroid on it, it'll also double as a shitty Android tablet. Almost all bank apps will refuse to run because it's not a certified device, but it will be some common interface their friends are more likely to be able to help with.

I guess there's also the option of just installing ChromeOS on it.

That sounds great and all on paper but that also requires a ton of moderation overhead as now every small instance has to have enough mods to deal with everything being posted, since moderation would be local only. So all the spam and CSAM would have to be taken down by each individual instance. Would also somehow have to find a way for instances to pull the hashtags out of every federated instance too. The way it works on Mastodon is someone follows an account and that causes the data to get pulled in. On Lemmy you don't follow users, you need a way to pull the data in.

The end result would be a mess of instances not even agreeing on vote counts with vastly different comments too, and even the posts.

Lemmy doesn't aim to be an uncensorable platform. I join communities for the content, the users, and for better or for worse, the mods too.

The individual problems of having to deal with the duplicate communities will get worked on eventually.

That's fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.

Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

Time to... reads notes start cracking free apps.

Ethernet splitter

What kind of splitter? Not a hub or switch, just a passive splitter?

Those do exist to do 4x 100M links on a single pair each, but you can't just plug those into a router or switch and get 4 ports, it still needs to eventually terminate as 4 ports on both ends.

If you're behind Cloudflare, don't. Just get an origin certificate from CF, it's a cert that CF trust between itself and your server. By using Cloudflare you're making Cloudflare responsible for your cert.

What's the problem with SwanStation? Forks are perfectly okay and normal with the GPL, that's the fucking point of the GPL.

And all that forever too. The developers don't pay a dime after Steam's cut to keep the game alive and downloadable and playable. Even Steam keys, you can sell as many as you want outside of Steam, for free.

The devs can just raise the price by 30% if they feel they really need the money. I'll pay the extra to have it on Steam and just work out of the box in Proton. Unlike Apple, it's not a monopoly, nothing stopping anyone from just distributing on their own.

Epic is anti-consumer and also anti-Linux, they don't make any effort to support other platforms, the app is shit.

Meanwhile, Steam is

• Actively working with the FOSS community to help preserve old games
  • Kernel improvements for better graphics performance
  • Lots of VR and HDR work
  • Many contributions to the open-source AMD drivers
• Has been supporting Linux gaming for a decade with no signs of backing down
• They have a portable Linux gaming console experience, and it's intentionally left wide open for users to mess with
  • They've taken several community features and built them into the OS
• Their DRM is weak and unintrusive
• Their anticheat is ununtrusive
• The sales are pretty good
• They have tons of features for users:
  • Family sharing
  • Remote Play Together
  • Remote Play
  • Streaming
  • Community forums for every game
  • Mod workshop
  • Matchmaking
  • Steam Chat / Voice Chat / Streaming

The only appealing thing for EGS is, EGS takes a lower cut from the developers who just pockets it and doesn't even result in lower prices for users. As a Linux user, praise our Lord GabeN for all the good Valve has done for gamers. Even for the developers, most are quite happy with the services they get back from that 30% cut.

I'd say the dislike is mainly that for the users, EGS doesn't bring in anything new or interesting or useful that Steam didn't already do well, and goes directly against a lot of the good Steam has been doing. It's just a store that makes big developers slightly more happy.

There's also Cockpit if you just want a basic UI

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