Max_P

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

At the very least I hope it's hosted by someone outside the US so it's out of reach to the authorities.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They might not even know the source. The Guardian for example has a Tor service to upload them stuff completely anonymously.

Of course the crooked courts will pretend they're refusing to comply and jail them anyway to make a show.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The main issue you'll run into is nicher proprietary software being hard to install, but that's what containers are for. The main one I see is if you need to install some proprietary VPN client it gets annoying, but since you'll be running a VM anyway you can do some network trickery. My work's antivirus only works on Ubuntu and RHEL, proprietary kernel modules so it's got to be at least one of those kernels.

Linux is Linux, nothing's impossible to solve even with Bazzite's immutability. Worst comes to worst you make your own images and it's not that hard, you basically just fork it on GitHub and let the CI do its thing.

But do you have time to fiddle to make it work and take the risk, or do you want to play it safe? How confident are you with Bazzite's more advanced topics?

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 23 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 6 days ago

Ubuntu 7.10 so late 2007, but I guess the nerd part came when I installed Arch in 2011. Still running that very same install.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 points 1 week ago

Gotta condition americans to the norm of guilty until proven innocent early!

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 10 points 1 week ago

And hopefully ad blockers too.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My own personal example: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/8FM1ZvXi68

It just doesn't look great nor serious nor welcoming.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The guy gives a ton of "I don't care about anyone's use cases except mines" vibes too. Also called Gnome and KDE teletubbies DEs when I mentioned xcomposite being an important feature. Basically considering the widely known issues around multimonitor vsync and mismatched resolutions and all as basically not real issues with Xorg.

XLibre is 100% a political fork because the guy claims Xorg is deprecated by a big tech conspiracy pushing inferior software onto users. There's nothing wrong with wanting to continue Xorg's legacy but come on we don't have to pretend Xorg is this perfect thing that always works. Xorg has been hated for decades for a reason. This xkcd exists for a reason: https://xkcd.com/963/

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's been a while, but I believe you do need the annoying new XML/SVG thing as it also doubles as the splash screen animation when you open an app as well. You can embed a PNG in those but vector is preferred because of screen resolutions.

Wishing you great success with your app, disabilities are wildly underserved especially in open-source.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 points 1 week ago

Wine has always done that, last seen on Plasma 5 (I switched to Wayland with Plasma 6), and I remember that being a thing way back in 2007 too. Valved patched the scaling in Proton as well I believe so that might be why it didn't do that.

It behaves how fullscreen apps work on Windows, takes over your whole display and messes with the resolution and all.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's supposed to scale correctly, but otherwise Gamescope will take care of that particular issue.

Kinda annoying on Xorg when the game just decides my screen should be 800x600 and then proceeds to crash and leave me at 800x600 on a 4K display with scaling set to 200%.

 

Cross-posted from "PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)" by @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me in !linux@lemmy.ml


I don't normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I'm pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.

Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.

That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.

 

Neat little thing I just noticed, might be known but I never head of it before: apparently, a Wayland window can vsync to at least 3 monitors with different refresh rates at the same time.

I have 3 monitors, at 60 Hz, 144 Hz, and 60 Hz from left to right. I was using glxgears to test something, and noticed when I put the window between the monitors, it'll sync to a weird refresh rate of about 193 fps. I stretched it to span all 3 monitors, and it locked at about 243 fps. It seems to oscillate between 242.5 and 243.5 gradually back and forth. So apparently, it's mixing the vsync signals together and ensuring every monitor's got a fresh frame while sharing frames when the vsyncs line up.

I knew Wayland was big on "every frame is perfect", but I didn't expect that to work even across 3 monitors at once! We've come a long, long way in the graphics stack. I expected it to sync to the 144Hz monitor and just tear or hiccup on the other ones.

 

All the protections in software, what an amazing idea!

 

It only shows "view all comments", so you can't see the full context of the comment tree.

 

The current behaviour is correct, as the remote instance is the canonical source, but being able to copy/share a link to your home instance would be nice as well.

Use case: maybe the comment is coming from an instance that is down, or one that you don't necessarily want to link to.

If the user has more than one account, being able to select which would be nice as well, so maybe a submenu or per account or a global setting.

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