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This. I had weird refresh rates showing up for my older 4K TV until I got a HDMI 2.1 cable, especially KDE Plasma... topped out at 30Hz for some reason. Got a "Highwings" 8K cable which was cheap but seems decent quality. Don't get excess length if you don't need it.

I still have one, too! Found for $3 at a flea market because the HDD is going bad... and I can't find a ZIF adapter that recognizes anything I plug into it. HP = custom pinout on the ZIF ribbon?

The sudo who do what-you-don't-have-permissions-to-do people.

I recently saw one of my blank posts on Reddit and almost regretted running the mass eraser...

...Nah, fuck that site. 😂

That was early firmware 1.50. Just put homebrew on MemoryStick Duo and run it on stock firmware. Before Dark_AleX and the beginning of the cat-and-mouse game...

"Look at the bones!"

I can't see this image in my instance/app, yet I know exactly what it is. 😂 Some medieval nobles attempting to explode a particularly dangerous rabbit?

Twitter was well-known to be infested with bots when it was sold to Musk. It turns out, that made it much more valuable to a rich asshole who wants to sway elections.

Sean Hannity and other right-wing talking heads are always shitting on "legacy media", because they are pushing the "new media" that is full of bots, fake accounts, and more easily manipulated young people.

Does "ужасшоу" sound kind of like "asshole"?

What process? KDE under Wayland and I'm guessing you have Nvidia?

Edit: CachyOS. I see references to pageflip kernel bugs on AMD, too. You're running a cutting-edge OS (Arch-based), please get in touch with devs and help improve your OS and maybe learn something along the way?

Edit: Arch of all things, you are a guinea pig. Just like on Windows, except open-source so you can help.

Sorry if harsh, it's getting late:

I've been on Linux for 20 years. Gamer, so dual-booted for the first 10. Ubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Debian -> Mint Debian -> EndeavourOS. I think. Messed with Knoppix and Mandrake before those, THAT was definitely before the "YotLD" 😅

Ads in the OS make me kick that shit out in an instant. Yes, I know there are third-party utils but I've seen settings reverted on update, and if I'm fighting my own PC it's going to be by choice and I'm going to learn to improve it along the way, which is not easy in closed-source land. If ads didn't do it, "AI" "stealing" my data would. Somehow piracy bad but I have to agree to let Microsoft copy my data for profit in order for me to use my computer? Fuck that.

You could make a Windows killer desktop, except which distro?

Mint Debian for computer-illiterate. The built-in software manager has tens of thousands of safe Debian packages available rather than installing adware infestations from random websites. Two clicks and a password OR set automatic for getting all software up-to-date.

EndeavourOS for tech-inclined. More cutting-edge software packages from Arch (and the AUR, but adds a bit of risk/required knowledge). Still no installing random shit from websites.

Which shell/tools/utilities?

The defaults, or whatever you want or need from a wide selection. Choice is bad now?

Steam, duh. Lutris has scripts to install the older/more picky/fiddly Windows games that aren't on Steam. For students/office work, OnlyOffice has better compatibility with MS formats if necessary. List goes on...

Arch is not for Grandma or the average user, try Mint Debian.

Naive take imo. No distro is an excellent desktop.

Wow. Not a single one, huh? I'm sure manufacturers assuming Windows and lazily building hardware that does 90% of the work in giant closed-source drivers have nothing to do with the "flaws and issues" that ALL distros apparently have some of.

No Linux distro I've run has had a necessary parent process like "explorer.exe" crash causing the PC to mysteriously stop working with no indication of what's happening, an issue I'm still encountering in others' Windows PCs 25 years later... or having the main (Start) menu responding to clicks/taps (changing color like it's activated) but not opening the menu, seen that on multiple Windows machines with perfectly fine hardware. Maybe it was too busy loading unwanted, unsolicited ads into the Start menu to do its job.

The "average user" will either pay a not-insignificant amount of money to fix issues or throw away still-good hardware and buy new every 3-5 years, at which point they will still need help backing up and restoring their data unless they are sending it all to Microsoft cloud who is training "AI" with it for profit. Environmentally and financially taxing but I guess I can't complain; more free/dirt-cheap Linux boxes for my friends and family!

Edit: My wife and son are gaming on up-to-date OSes on PCs that are old enough to drive a car. Truth be told, my son has a slightly newer video card than that, though. Energy use is becoming a concern although it's not really wasted when we need to heat the house six or seven months out of the year where we are.

Just watch or dispose of those lithium ion batteries! I wish they weren't such a pain in the ass to open, removing them leaves that hole with exposed contacts, and phones/tablets with custom ROMs could be perfect little servers for 3D printers and the like, but often won't power up without their batteries.

explorer (file manager, taskbar) crashed a lot and had to do win+r -> explorer.exe to get it going again.

This still happens on up-to-date Win10 occasionally. I've seen it on multiple machines, hardware tests good. A variant I've seen is that the Start button responds to click (changes color) but does not open the menu.

Upvoted. It is literally impossible for 99.99% of the population to tell the difference between a good LAME mp3 encode and the original. If someone is working with the audio, making their own remixes and such, they can benefit from lossless/higher bit depth/higher sample rate though.

There were shitty mp3 encoders like Blade in the past (planted by the music industry?) that are easy to hear a difference, and if dealing with files from an unknown source one can only make an educated guess with a spectrogram as to the files' lineage. Example: Was it a Blade mp3 from Napster burned to audio CD that some moron ripped and posted as flac?

Source: old Hydrogenaudio forums and personally been Exact Audio Copying to flac for over 20 years. Had (modded? custom? can't recall) Envy24 drivers on WinXP for bit-perfect S/PDIF output of "bit-perfect" CD rips. It was overkill but fairly easy to get the digital part perfect, then the analog part can be subjective... never used special stones, or coat hangers as speaker wire. 🤣

Right? Hundreds of thousands of people have scrolled over it and yet never seen it.

it didn't have a dedicated cabinet.

This is true of many, many games. Eventually JAMMA made swapping games the norm. When a game stopped making money or was too expensive to fix (glares in Namco's direction), you bought a relatively inexpensive kit, swap the board, stick on new side art and marquee, and maybe add some buttons to the control panel, send it out the door as a new game.

I work in the arcade industry. Fighting games were the big deal, then stagnated. I'm in the US midwest, so hunting games got huge, then only the fancy online ones were left standing (Big Buck Hunter Pro). So, here we have: Mortal Kombat 3 converted to Deer Hunting USA, Killer Instinct converted to Sammy Extreme Hunting, Virtua Fighter 2 converted to Trophy Hunting Bear & Moose...

It's sad/maddening looking through warehouses, but now that classics are popular again, I can sometimes find the old boards and kit the cabinets back to what they used to be. Glad to work somewhere that allows this provided I'm not spending too much; it can be labor-intensive if a cabinet is "mutilated" after having five different games over its lifetime and people trying to cobble in whatever working CRT monitor they had. I swear, every manufacturer and model had different dimensions and mounting (see Standards). Different monitor has a frame hits the back cabinet wall? Sawzall holes and build a wooden box to cover it, we need this game out the door and making money again.

Edit: We also still make money from old stuff by putting them in hotels' and campgrounds' game rooms... water damage and pool chlorine basically makes those places "arcade game hospice", they go there to die.

At least they offer a substantial discount from eBay price.

"Well, this is what it goes for on eBay!"

Me: "No, that is the price it sits unsold on eBay. Refine search -> Sold items, my friend."

Thanks! Like I said I got it running but it's a bit of a mystery. If you are interested, here's where I gave up on Mint Debian for gaming because I couldn't fix the same problem on the same PC.

Hardware is known to be good. Greatly enjoying EndeavourOS and I wanted to get familiar with Wayland and some newer software anyway.