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data1701d (He/Him) @ data1701d @startrek.website

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2 yr. ago

"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"
Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

9h ago

Spotify enables Lossless on native Linux client!
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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 9h ago
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.

4d ago

Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4d ago

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

5d ago

Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 5d ago

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

6d ago

LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 6d ago

+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.

1w ago

For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 1w ago

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.

1w ago

For Linux gaming (including DX12), is there a strong reason to choose NVIDIA over AMD?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 1w ago

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.

1w ago

FEX 2510 Brings More Optimizations For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 1w ago

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).

2w ago

Cheap Linux tablet?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 2w ago

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

2w ago

Cheap Linux tablet?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 2w ago

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.

4w ago

How is Photoshop performance on WinApps?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.

4w ago

Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.

4w ago

Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

Honestly had better luck with DOSBOX-X.

4w ago

Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.

4w ago

Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

Technically not the Linux kernel.

4w ago

Steam Will End Windows 32-bit OS Support Next Year - Hopefully Linux Follows

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.

4w ago

Baffled at PC freezing on Linux, but not on Windows for the same workload

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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).

4w ago

[SOLVED] my var directory on debian 13.1 has only 500 MiB free space and I cannot update flatpak anymore. How do I solve this?

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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

4w ago

My grub theme

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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

4w ago

Webp

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.

4w ago

My grub theme

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data1701d (He/Him) @startrek.website 4w ago

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.