c10l @ c10l @lemmy.world

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I second Shelly. A Shelly Plus 1 Mini is cheaper and probably more than enough for OP’s use case.

Same. Git GUIs can be great for examining commit trees, visualising patches, etc. For any write operations (this includes things like fecth and pull which write to .git), it’s all in the shell.

You can pay for early access and I think some bonus content but otherwise it’s free.

I second Debian. Stable is excellent.

Testing has newer packages and is generally almost as stable.

I published my Debian gaming setup a few days ago. Haven’t tried VR on it either as I don’t have a headset, but I assume it works.

https://lemmy.world/post/9543661

It’s definitely free to listen, if that’s what you mean. I listen to it on Apple Podcasts without paying a penny.

Yes, generally introverts like aloneness. That doesn’t mean they’re immune to loneliness.

Careful you might get hacked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yUSRom2CM

I’ve long thought Condorcet is at least very close to being the absolute best election method. Nice to see it validated here!

makes the “hackers” scummy

Don’t get me wrong, you’re right that this is bad but I’d think the blackmailing alone would make them scummy.

Please, educate me. Send me a link with the text in question.

No, it doesn’t. One crime doesn’t absolve the other.

Aside from the arguments posited by this comment’s siblings, I’ll add: artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

We’re very far from post-scarcity despite the fact that there’s seemingly no material conditions stopping us from achieving it.

No worries! I also posted the blog on this community (https://lemmy.world/post/9543661) and someone mentioned in the comments they’re running Debian stable for gaming.

That can also be an option if you’d like to avoid testing for the minute, though I’m not sure what pitfalls that setup might have.

Good luck on your journey!

100mbps should be enough for a few 4K streams, and I imagine you’re not streaming more than one thing to your TV at any given time.

You're welcome! Also thanks for the feedback.

I've added a note on the firmware section clarifying there's no harm in just pulling them, and also a link to a Stack Exchange answer explaining how to configure the default kernel.

Do you have any experience with the ones you mentioned, and if so did either have an actual impact for you?

I'm currently using the Xanmod variant. I haven't compared them in any objective way but I have the impression that with the Debian kernel I get slightly more stuttery games. It's very minor though. I imagine with recent enough CPU and GPU the difference would be minimal, if any. It's easy to switch between kernels, so it doesn't hurt to have them all installed to try them out. In the end, whatever works for you is the best choice.

are there any details on what the additional firmware components add on?

I'm not sure. You can search dmesg for messages of missing firmware (grep for amdgpu and if there are any missing ones it should show). In any case, there are no downsides to just pulling them from upstream the way I mentioned in the post. If the driver requests them, they will be loaded and you'll benefit from it. Firmware files that are not required by the driver will just sit on your drive taking up a little bit of space.

I imagine all those files would eventually find their way into firmware-amd-graphics (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/firmware-amd-graphics), so you're really just getting them earlier.

If there is firmware missing, some functionality of the GPU might not be available and you could have degraded performace or maybe other issues.

Anyway, if you go through the post or parts of it, let me know how it went. If there's anything that needs correction or could be improved, I'd be glad to amend it.

Thanks!

This is prety much it actually.

I did do a lot more stuff but only things specific to my personal setup, like having the games on a separate Btrfs partition which can be mounted from other OSs, that kind of stuff.

Assumin all one wants to do is install a few games from Steam, once the setup I described is done, everything is an apt install steam away.

Awesome stuff! I'm running KDE as well - can't wait for Plasma 6 to start hitting the repos to get HDR on CP2077.

I have an even newer GPU so a more current kernel was needed. I went with testing because I prefer to follow a more up-to-date system, and it's almost as solid as stable so I don't see many downsides. I wouldn't do it on a server but on the desktop I can easily work around or fix whatever minor nags appear.

I really wanted to get Mesa from experimental though as it follows upstream pretty closely (just a few days lag usually), and testing being generally closer to it probably helps. Or not, I haven't really tested that assumption. :D