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WFH @ wfh @lemm.ee Posts 14Comments 240Joined 2 yr. ago
WFH @ wfh @lemm.ee
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I don't think it's heresy, but I always find it funny that an extremely vocal community shits on systemd for being a bloated tentacular monster shat should be abandoned, but praise X for being a bloated tentacular monster.
In a way, Wayland is much closer to the Unix Philosophy than X. It's a display protocol, nothing more. Everything else should be implemented by the applications using this protocol. X has grown over the decades to include way too many features and edge cases.
Translation layers like XWayland are important and extremely useful for the transition period, but shouldn't be taken as a sign that Wayland is not ready for prime time. If 10% the people shitting on Wayland had instead worked on adding Wayland functionality to their favorite apps (that includes you fuckers at nVidia), the transition would have ended years ago.
Feature parity with X has never been the goal. Because most of X's features are a legacy of the 80' and dreadfully obsolete anyway.
I'm all for maintaining compatibility where it makes sense, but carrying over a 40 years old feature set just in case is the best way to prevent anything from moving forward.
Wayland can already do or is actively being developed for stuff that is relevant to modern systems: multi-monitor with different refresh rates and scaling, HDR etc. Stuff that X would never dream of.
Still, 100% nVidia's fault, not Wayland.
No offense, but your argument is exactly like "electric cars are still undercooked and not ready for proper daily use because I still have to put gasoline in mine and can't afford one".
Counter-counterpoint: Wayland is perfectly fine and production ready and has been for several years now, as long as you're on AMD or Intel GPUs. The nVidia drivers are still undercooked and not ready for proper daily use.
3D Touch is still working on my XS Max.
I'm gonna sorely miss it when I upgrade.
No chance.
Imagine, you're in a large company and buying (or more likely, leasing) several thousands laptops each year. This is corporate world, you need to minimize expense, downtime and failing that, someone to blame.
You need to have a supplier with sales, 24/7 support and logistics in your country. Who has stock available at all times is able to replace any broken piece of equipment in less than a business day. Even if you keep a small inventory at hand, this inventory needs to be replaced quickly.
Trust me, corpos never buy from small vendors. They always go to the big brands.
This is corporate-grade stuff. That's why only Dell, HP and Lenovo bothered certifying their laptops. They hold an oligopoly for fleet laptops.
There are more bugs reported. That makes all the difference.
People used to closed source everything are trained to eat shit and find a workaround.
Yeah depends on where you are but they're slowly expanding their operations. I think they should ship at least to the whole EU instead of focusing only on the richest markets, and this might be easier since they opened their new fulfillment center in the Netherlands, but having followed closely the SteamDeck's launch, I also know that logistics are a pain even for a huge company like Valve. It probably doesn't make sense yet for suck a "small" operation to spread itself too thin too soon.
AFAIK there are no OEMs that build AMD dGPU-equipped laptops. Most "small brand" and Linux-first laptop manufacturers actually sell rebadged Tongfang or Clevo laptops, and 99% of their products are Intel anyway. AMD CPUs are often only found in "gaming" laptops with nVidia dGPUs.
That's why I've put a deposit on a Framework 16. Zen 4 CPU, optional RDNA3 dGPU module, upgradable and repairable. They're not preinstalling Linux like Tuxedo or Slimbook, but they're at least Linux-friendly.
Same. I basically ended up enjoying only chips drenched in sriracha.
Salty should definitely not be a taste in coffee, unless you're tasting the very first few drips of a cup of espresso.
Proper espresso extraction curve looks like this :
- Salty and very thick (very first drips)
- Sour and thick (underextraction)
- Sweet and chocolatey (the sweet spot where extraction should stop)
- Bitter and suddenly very thin (overextraction)
Properly extracted coffee should let sweetness dominate. Acidity and fruitiness should be still present for pale roasts, but not sourness. Bitterness should not dominate and if so, it's a flaw. Means you overshot the extraction. Which is very easy to do with shitty burnt coffee as darker roasts are much easier/faster to extract.
Sourness and bitterness present at the same time is a big flaw, means that the extraction was very uneven as part of the coffee was overextracted and part was underextracted.
The thing is tho, great coffee is expensive. Good beans properly roasted by a reputable roaster are expensive. Proper preparation skills needs learning and experience. Proper gear is relatively expensive (even at the lower end of the scale like an Aeropress and a good mid-range burr grinder). Most people don't want to invest the time and money it needs to get great coffee each day.
From the top of my head, all these work perfectly on my 5yo Intel laptop and are often found on sale or in bundles.
Baba is You: you know that in every game, there are a fixed set of rules ("physics"), and you must use them efficiently in order to win? In this game, you must change the rules to solve puzzles. Super simple gameplay, tricky to master, really fucks your brain as you need to think outside the box.
Hotline Miami (1 and 2): top-down shooter with impeccable gameplay, level design and soundtrack. Super fast paced, die-retry-die-retry game loop, and great story too. Every level is challenging in its own way which makes it not so repetitive.
Nuclear Throne or Enter the Gungeon: procedurally generated top-down shooters, very similar to each other. Fun pixel-art, never replay the same levels although I guess it could be repetitive after a while.
I'm a long time Debian user, and I switched to Fedora when 38 was released because I wanted to try something new and shiny (well, Gnome 44 mostly).
It was kind of disappointing. With Debian, I had to work to get it perfectly functional on my laptop. Fedora just... worked happily out of the box. Almost nothing to tweak.
I don't know the nature of your problems and solutions, but be assured that the knowledge you gained will still be useful. Nowadays most distros are more similar than they are different. I successfully used Arch Wiki and Arch Forums on Debian issues, because even if they are on the opposite ends of the spectrum, their building blocks are basically the same.
For your screen, try a live ISO of another distro that's not based on Debian. I struggled for years with my 1440p monitor on Wayland when plugged in to my laptop. Turns out, there's something wrong with the way Debian's kernel decodes my monitor's EDID. On Fedora, it worked out of the box.
About Nobara, I'm not sure it's better than vanilla Fedora for a beginner. Sure, there are a lot of nice things baked in and rpmfusion enabled by default, but the dual system update thing is... not great. I'm still running my gaming rig on Nobara tho. YMMV.
About nVidia and their drivers... yeah, they suck. And they will continue to suck for the foreseeable future. That's why I built my system around an AMD GPU from the start. People like to complain about Wayland and that it's not ready for prime time and that Wayland sucks. Well, nVidia drivers are to blame. I've been running Wayland almost exclusively for the past 4 years on Intel iGPUs and AMD GPUs, it's always been nice and reliable.
I quite enjoy my Timemore Black Mirror Nano. It's definitely not cheap (around 100€) but is much better than any cheap, wildly inaccurate kitchen scale or any cheap, painfully slow dealer's scale.
Tiny footprint so it fits under most machines, 0.1g accuracy, super fast (but has a tendency to settle +-0.2g about 1s after stopping pouring whatever), has a few cool modes like an auto timer for espresso and Aeropress or real time flow rate for pourover. I think you can connect it to a phone too but I've never tried it.
Where I live, Apple Maps and Google maps are basically at feature parity for what I care about. Directions, traffic, ETA, public transportation. So I'm using Apple Maps because fuck Google.
Sometimes I feel compelled to use Waze when there is heavy traffic and/or when I know there would be speed traps on the way, but it's propensity to suggest absolutely atrocious directions just to "save" 2 mins (and I always end up losing much more than that) is the worst.
I love my Flair, but the problem with it it that you often need coffee before making coffee...
Yes!
I based my recipe on WOC Budapest from Barista Hustle: https://www.baristahustle.com/blog/diy-water-recipes-the-world-in-two-bottles/
33,75g Sodium Bicarbonate, 62,85g Epsom salts, Dissolve in enough distilled water to make 1000ml of concentrate
Add 10ml of this concentrate to 5l of RO or distilled water.
Boom. Perfect water for brewing.
SO. MANY. STAR. TREK. MEMES.