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It's steel which 'stains less' than plain steel, it most certainly corrodes. Leave it in a salt-water environment, it'll be gone in no time. For most non-culinary applications, either a maraging steel or plain steel with a coat of paint will be a better long-term choice.

No probs! And that sounds correct. Doesn't have to be supported by the game to work, it should be supported by everything. (Trust you're using the wine-glorious-eggroll-whateveritis option in Lutris, as well?) And yeah, you're not going to see much difference on 'old' games (well, depending on what it is) - if you can already run it at your monitor's refresh rate, it just has the effect of making everything a little blurrier, it can't improve the FPS any.

Okay - you don’t need to switch it on in the game’s settings, it’s just “switched on”. Set an environment variable for the FSR quality that you want, and it’ll appear as one of the ‘resolution options’ in game, and then when you select it, it’ll open at the resolution you select.

So, for me who wants Elden Ring at max settings on my 2560x1440 monitor, which doesn’t quite reach 60fps, and wanting ultra FSR, I’d choose GE8-7 as my ‘run Steam games using this tool’ option, and set my command-line properties to:

WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_MODE=ultra mangohud %command%

When the game starts, I’ll see 1970x1108 as one of the screen resolutions that’s offered. When I select it, MangoHud tells me that my fullscreen resolution is actually 2560x1440, and my frame rate is a good bit better than what I’d expect. (MangoHud isn’t essential here, but it’s handy for monitoring resolution and frame rate.)

‘balanced’ is the default, so I should see 1506x847 as an option for absolutely every game that I start with GloriousEggroll, regardless of any other environment variables, and that’ll run it with FSR for me. I don’t need it for most games, and it’s a bad choice for games with lots of text, but it’s always there.

That’s it.

Reference:

• it’s just switched on page: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton7-29
• list of the resolutions it applies to: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton7-25

Oh yeah. If the options for getting 60+ fps are either:

• turn down the rendering quality
• leave all the settings turned up, but switch on FSR

...then I find that FSR generally gives the better result. Obviously it would be nice to have a monster graphics card that can keep a high frame rate on max, but if that's not an option then it's good to have a plan B. Really nice for having it available for every single game, as well.

Nice one, GloriousEggroll - keeps on making Linux gaming a delight.

I decided to try exclusively gaming on Linux for a few months as a "new year's resolution" back in 2019, see if I could stop dual booting just for games. Never went back, deleted my Windows partition completely that Summer.

There's a couple of important things to note, which you didn't have in your post:

• which graphics card you have. If you're AMD / Intel, the drivers are integrated into most distros, and they just work. NVidia is a bit of a ballache - once you know how to install their proprietary ones and disable Nouveau, they're reasonably trouble-free. Reasonably.
• what kind of games you're into. And really, the question is 'are you into MMOs / online shooters' that are likely to have troublesome DRM, because mostly everything else works.

ProtonDB has an entry for nearly every game on Steam with some compatibility notes, but really, Proton, DXVK, and the advent of the Steam Deck have really pushed things forwards - gaming on Linux seems less troublesome to me now than gaming on Windows used to be

Someone above mentioned 'trouble with Lutris'? Works pretty damn well with my non-Steam games, but then, those are mostly from GOG, so a bit older and DRM free.

Doom3 is one of the landmark games for GPU-based shading - it made a lot of use of GPU stencilling, multiple texture targets, computation in shaders; it massively advanced the state-of-the art in forward rendering. So much so that any modern GPU is very well optimised for 'the things that Doom 3 wants to do', because that's what every game that wants advanced lighting wants to do. The problem then for using it for any kind of benchmarking is that basically any modern card will output Doom3 at 200fps at 4k and still be in power saving mode. It would be like trying to stress-test a CPU with Wolfenstein 3D - the state of the art has long moved past that, you can't use the results of that to tell anything apart any more.

Trying to get Doom3 to render in 16:9 resolutions tho, rather than 4:3? Now that's stressful...

I think having publicly-viewable 'karma' is a mistake - there's no benefit to having karma-whore posts and bots if it doesn't gain you anything, and that's a cancer that eats away at other platforms. Similarly, the effect of brigading a single comment is much less - encourages conversation rather than groupthink. And we can all see each other's posting history anyway - we can see whether any given account is a troll account and admins can ban them.

Javascript might be the most widely-used scripting language in use today, due to its browser dominance. Most popular would imply that it's not completely despised by everyone that has to use it, which is misleading. Even TypeScript tutorials are about 50% 'you have to understand what Javascript does wrong here'.

I don't quite understand where this money is going, either. Does Australia not have existing swimming pools and athletics tracks with grandstand seating, near to some existing large hotels? It seems like any large sporting event (see also, the world cup and the Olympics) demands that everything be built brand spanking new for a one-off tournament. Completely pissing money away, couldn't agree more with cancelling it.

Yeah - China might be pulling ahead in renewables, but they're still building more new coal plants than the rest of the world combined.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin

A lot of that added carbon is to power more air conditioning in reaction to the heat rises caused by increasing carbon emissions - a vicious cycle.

But yeah, this article is one-sided bullshit that ignores the massive elephant in the room. We've one atmosphere and we're ruining it, and it's going to affect everyone. More renewables are great, but it has to be part of the big picture, which means a sustainable perpetual decrease in emissions worldwide. Start with the major polluting companies and industries, and then continue all the way to the bottom.

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome crippled my install as well - both Firefox and Steam took an absolute age to open. Uninstall it, everything perfect again.

I'd consider a sample size of 170 to be pretty large, if the sample was drawn with perfect randomness from the population. But this one wasn't, it was self-selected. Also wasn't a clinical trial, and while they seem to know what they're doing with setting up the questionnaire, I would assume it would result in larger measurement error, which would need more samples to be able to correct for.

Completely agree with you though - the conclusions that it seems reasonable to draw from this are 'not much, really'. Seems to disagree with the results of a larger study by many of the same authors, too, which say that companion animals did result in a smaller decline in mental health during lockdown.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239397

Ha, hadn't realised that I've been running the update Cinnamon all week already.

    
$ pacman -Q cinnamon
cinnamon 5.8.4-1


  

Seems extremely solid, ever more polished, and by far my favourite Linux desktop environment. Not so convinced by the additional xdg-desktop-portal integration - I've no flatpaks installed, so the only side-effect I've seen is the buggy behaviour where Firefox and Steam take forever to open until you disable as much as possible. That's not on the Mint developers, though.

Don't know what it was like before, but bought it in the recent Steam sale and have been most impressed. Looks great, runs butter-smooth, not a hitch or a hiccup anywhere, and not one crash in thirty hours

I do like the 'Sleeping Dogs' style of open world, with tagged up story missions and lots of interesting hand-crafted side missions, which you can role-play your way through - you can resolve missions by talking or sneaking or straight-up combat as desired. Exactly as expected from the studio that made the Witcher games. Much better than eg. a 'Fallout 4' style really-open but barely-interactive world, where every single quest might as well be 'radiant'-ly generated; so many of them, but barely any difference between them.

Never played it at launch, but the main complaints seem to have been buggyness (fixed), bad vehicle handling (seems fine to me) and 'emptyness'. There seems plenty to do; I don't want ten million pointless things in a game to pad it out, no 'climbing a watchtower then jumping off into a bundle of hay in order to fill up the map with a thousand busywork icons' for me.

I'd have to disagree with that. If you don't have enough trust in your managers to talk to them directly about toxicity, stress, and overload, then how on earth would you trust them to monitor all of your communications to determine the same? I suspect that the actual result would be that all employees would be sure to only discuss sensitive matters in-person or through some non-monitored channel, while looking for another job elsewhere. Also, call me cynical, but I've seen enough leadership decisions that are 'we've asked for all these powers, but don't worry, we promise not to abuse them!' that they did, in fact, turn out to abuse.

And after reading all the stories about AI's copyright-infringing ways, slurping up decades of Twitter and Reddit comments, you'd trust the authors to 'keep it on site' and 'forget everything on demand'?

BTRFS, which works great as long as you accept its limitations.

Depends on what kind of post it is.

General discussion threads, sure - 'up' = 'good content', 'down' = 'irrelevant'. Irrelevant could be because it's not to do with the matter at hand, it could be hateful, trollish, whatever.

Post asking for a specific fact, like in ye olde askahistorian? Up = correct, down = incorrect. Doesn't matter how well written or how good the intent is, downvoting for disinformation.

One of the things that Slashdot got right was being able to upvote / downvote with a reason. (Perhaps only being able to upvote / downvote occasionally too, which stops brigading.) Made it possible to filter on why things were good, save ruining your fake internet points when you were mistaken about something as opposed to being an arsehole.

You seem to have fallen foul of all the SystemD haters in the voting, when this is the best answer. OP's question was about doing one thing on a timer and a very similar thing on login; SystemD can achieve both of these in one place with proper logging and status displays, whereas Cron cannot.

Most of the things that you'd want to run on a timer have additional dependencies (I'd like to snapshot the database if the database is running; I'd like to backup up my files to a remote server if the network is up) which as easy to express in SystemD files as anything else it can do. Might as well learn to use the most versatile and powerful tool if you're going to learn anything. Admittedly, I don't like its syntax, but it achieves this kind of thing perfectly.

Actually, I might be wrong there. They were working on Lemmy before the 0.18 updates - my screen used to get completely filled with them seemingly at random. Seems broken at the moment, though.

Well, from someone else running Cinnamon on Arch Linux, browser notifications from the latest version of Firefox do work. Never had a problem with them, which I realise is unhelpful.

I was running Mint before I moved to Arch Linux, and I just moved my home partition over to the new system. Perhaps Mint writes some configuration file that Arch reads but can't create itself? It would be a home-directory file, not a system one, in that case.