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data1701d (He/Him) @ data1701d @startrek.website
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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • If only Apple Music would give Linux users some way to access lossless…

    Though honestly, I’m only on Apple Music because my parents pay for it anyway (I’m a college kid), and I’ve already started accumulating a CD/digital audio file collection, which currently covers the first 6 studio albums plus albums 8 and 21 plus 1 B sides compilation, 1 single, half a live album, an album demos compilation, and 1 single.

    Although the 256kpbs limitation on the browser isn’t the worst (better than a lot of video streaming services forcing 480p on unapproved devices), it still irks me.

  • Mostly, he uses Photoshop for printing, though, and I don’t know if Krita has as powerful a printing dialog.

  • My grandfather asked me about Linux, but unfortunately, he’s still using Photoshop for now.

  • +1 for Clevis. I’ve been using it on my laptop for a year and it works like a charm. Sometimes, you need to update bindings after kernel updates, but it’s overall quite smooth.

  • From what I've heard, ROCm may be finally getting out of its infancy; at the very least, I think by the time we get something useful, local, and ethical, it will be pretty well-developed.

    Honestly, though, I'm in the same boat as you and actively try to avoid most AI stuff on my laptop. The only "AI" thing I use is I occasionally do an image upscale. I find it kind of useless on photos, but it's sometimes helpful when doing vector traces on bitmap graphics with flat colors; Inkscape's results aren't always good with lower resolution images, so putting that specific kind of graphic through "cartoon mode" upscales sometimes improves results dramatically for me.

    Of course, I don't have GPU ML acceleration, so it just runs on the CPU; it's a bit slow, but still less than 10 minutes.

  • I feel like most people who use Nvidia on Linux just got their machine before they were Linux users, with a small subset for ML stuff.

    Honestly, I hear ROCm may finally be getting less horrible, is getting wider distro support, and supports more GPUs than it used to, so I really hope AMD will become as livable ML dev platform as it is a desktop GPU.

  • Is there an old AARCH64 laptop (sub-$100, preferably closer to $50) that can be picked up for a song for playing around with crap like this?

    From what I can tell, there’s a lot of crappy old ARM Chromebooks; I wonder if they perform sufficiently faster than an RPi and work well enough with a Linux distro to mess with them. I do wonder, though, if any Windows-on-ARM ones are old enough to also be cheap used (and not be some sort of Windows RT terror or something).

  • Oh yeh. I heard that, just forgot. Thanks for reminding me.

  • At this point, I'd wonder if some of the older Microsoft Surfaces might be suitable for this purpose. Especially if it's just displaying photos, you probably wouldn't even need the Linux-Surface kernel for a lot of things and could just run mainline, avoiding a lot of misery. For instance, a 1st gen Surface Go from 2018 seems to run for ~$70 on eBay these days; I own one and used to daily-drive it on both Windows and Linux, and although there were some annoyances, the display is decent.

    Though honestly, I wonder if you particularly need a Linux tablet at all. There are dedicated digital frame devices out there for displaying photos; a lot of them can just display off a USB drive or SD card in the ballpark of 50 bucks it looks like. I'd probably recommend not getting one that supports Wi-Fi, as I think it's probably a stupid idea to assume some random cheap device you bought online has correctly-implemented network security.

  • Not great. I even got GPU passthrough working once, but you get weird graphics glitches because it's all being sent over RDP.

    I think Cassowary might be better than WinApps, but honestly, at this point, I just gave up on those and just use the VM directly.

  • To clarify, what I mean is WebKit continued while Blink became its own thing. Factually, Blink is not WebKit anymore.

    Replace “WebKit” with Linux and Blink with ELKS.

  • Honestly had better luck with DOSBOX-X.

  • For one, it explicitly calls itself a “subset”; a subset is not the whole set.

    If we don’t want to go just off the pedantics of language though, then here’s the thing: it was forked a very long time ago, and both have diverged significantly, I think. It’s a bit like saying Blink (the rendering engine of Chromium) is WebKit; sure, Blink is a fork of WebKit, but the two are very different now.

  • Technically not the Linux kernel.

  • Just because they existed during the Linux era doesn’t mean they ran Linux; Torvalds was writing for the 386 from the beginning, and Linux has never been written for anything below 32-bit.

    Now, it certainly has RAN on that hardware through emulation, such as on a 4 bit Intel 4004, but only for the heck of it.

  • When it freeze, after you've rebooted it, try running sudo journalctl -p 5 -b -1; you might see something in those logs.

    Maybe also open a task manager before you do anything graphics intensive, just to see if there's a process that rapidly increases its memory usage; while it might not be the cause, I've experienced similar freezes when I use all my memory (on a machine with 32GB of RAM).

  • FYI Don’t use this command. I think it was intended as a joke, but I just want to clarify.

  • Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

  • Webp

    Jump
  • Probably would work well on OpenTTD for similar reasons.

    Honestly, there’s a bit of an “if I had a nickel” meme for open source reverse engineered clones of Chris Sawyer tycoon games, although it would be 3 nickels rather than the traditional 2 due to OpenLocomotion.

  • That is kind of awesome.

    I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.

  • Risa @startrek.website

    You Probably Get That A Lot

  • Risa @startrek.website

    To his credit, Tom Kenny has done good stuff for Trek before

  • Risa @startrek.website

    So it's a prequel, then?

  • Risa @startrek.website

    I think this format has a lot of potential.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    FYI: Audio Crackling Bug with Pipewire 1.4.1 + FluidSynth in Debian Testing/Unstable and Work-Around

    bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
  • Risa @startrek.website

    They Might Be Giants - Why Did You Grow a Beard - Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Fan Music Video

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Honestly, I haven’t watched Severance, but I couldn’t not do this.

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Gul Donal Wants a Statue

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Don't Worry, guys! I've Gone Trek in a They Might Be Giants board as well!

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Warp Core

  • Risa @startrek.website

    You're not the boss of me now!

  • Risa @startrek.website

    I'm finally going to the 🪩DISCO🪩

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Here's Some Parliament Class Love

  • Risa @startrek.website

    (Not OC, mostly) Gowron Jumproping

  • Risa @startrek.website

    "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me."

  • Risa @startrek.website

    I finished watching DS9... again.

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Look at Lower Decks gettings all authentic...

  • Risa @startrek.website

    The most distressing scene in the entire Star Trek franchise

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Where Do You Guys Throw Your Local Git Repos?