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A lot of responses and none of them are false but the main reason for the improved gaming performance is DXVK, it translates DirectX 9 and 11 to Vulkan and is used by default on every DX9/DX11 game on Linux when you use Proton.

The Vulkan stack on modern GPUs is much more optimized compared to DX9 and 11. It has gotten so bad that many Windows people use DXVK on Windows to solve performance issues and even Intel uses DXVK (or similar technology) for their Arc GPUs.

I don't think that holds true anymore nowadays.

They added so much bloat to Plex that I constantly got asked where is X and do I need to pay for Y? When they started mixing online content with local libraries in all apps things got annoying because my older family members could not differentiate between them. Since there's no server setting for this but only app settings I had to disable them for every device they use. Rinse and repeat every few months when they added another shitty service nobody asked for.

This and that I couldn't access my library without internet connection were the things that drove me to Jellyfin.

You can take a look at their impact reports they release every year: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2022.pdf

They keep close track of materials used and wage paid for all their suppliers. They also pay wage bonuses to the workers at some of their suppliers (page 41).

I got Psychonauts 2, really cool game.

You're holding off on two serious video game gems right there. Hope you get time to play them soon. :)

HDR works in gamescope (and mpv) right now when started from a TTY.

It's not ideal but since so few games I play support HDR it is enough for me until Plasma 6 comes out.

Why not use the best of both worlds? https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi/

I use Kodi on my HTPC and the Jellyfin client on my phone and PC.

Correct, but both can be called 2160p just because of their vertical resolution. Overall both terms don't matter in gaming because aspect ratio can be changed on the fly (on PC) depending on the output device. Haven't touched a console in years but I assume they are stuck with a 16:9 aspect ratio no matter what they are playing on?

The logic of some people goes that anything under 4000 horizontal pixels is not "real" 4k. But as mentioned, I don't care and also call 3840x2160 "4k" simply because it's shorter than "2160p".

It's nitpicking, whether it runs at 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 does not matter. Same goes for calling it 4K or UHD, even when one is technically incorrect.

If even Sony calls their 3840x2160 blu-rays "4K UHD" I'm fine with the average person using them interchangeable.

Simple Screen Recorder by default uses mkv whereas Youtube and Odysee.com don’t support mkv.

MKV is a much smarter choice for recording things that can be interrupted at any time, with MP4 if you don't finalize the recording it will be unplayable without additional work. It is also the format that OBS defaults to for exactly that reason.

GIMP and Krita save the updated image in some forgettable format and not jpg or png. It’s a pain in the Jazz converting these things and uploading it to reddit/imgur or sending it to friends who aren’t using Linux.

They are not forgettable formats, they are project files and are needed to preserve any changes you made in that project as well as layer information and project settings. If you need a JPEG/PNG you need to export it as such, which is done with 2 clicks. Photoshop also does not save your project as PNG.

Most applications use .tax.gz or something for creating a compressed file , you can’t open those damn files on android.

.tar.gz is vastly superior to zip in compression speed and file size it can also store Unix file attributes (like owner, group, executable, ...) which zip cannot do and as such is insufficient for sharing files between Unix machines. However, both GNOME and KDE include an archive tool that can do both with no extra work.

I love Linux, but this resistance you experience when you do anything sharable is a pain in the jazz.

Linux is about choice with sensible defaults. None of the examples you mentioned seem unsensible to me.

Do you still have access to your email address?

If so, reset your password. They will send you a mail with your username in it.

I don't think Windows server is officially supported by Synapse so Docker, WSL or a Linux VM are probably your only chances.

Yes, it's possible but you either have to host your own server, have to be on a server where the IRC bridge is installed and can be used by anyone or use a service like Beeper that takes care of it for you.

Are we talking about a company?

Element provides hosted and on-premise solutions for companies: https://element.io/

Synapse is the server that's normally used and can be installed pretty easily: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html

There's a list of public servers here: https://joinmatrix.org/servers/

But be careful if it's for a company, public servers might go down.

As frontend you can also use the Element clients or web interface, they are completely free.

As a workaround, you can bridge most services to Matrix. I currently bridge Telegram, Signal and SMS to my Matrix server and only need Element on my phone and desktop.

Unfortunately Element is fairly focused on business users, would be cool if they could host bridges for individuals to make the barrier of entry easier.

For 3D printing, did you try OpenSCAD? If you're already a programmer it's much easier to get into than it is to get into any classic CAD software.

I'm in the same boat. GitLab CI is so nice that I still host it, even if everything else is overkill.

Can you check if you're using the amdgpu driver stack?

dmesg | grep amdgpu

Yes, the Odroid N2+ does not have the license for playing Dolby Vision.

The new version of CoreELEC can play Dolby Vision but only on supported devices:

https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/coreelec-and-dolby-vision/20982

https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/amlogic-ng-and-dolby-vision/24738