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This urinal has advertisements in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The poor cleaning staff isn't responsible for the dystopian ads, neither are other people who just need to use this bathroom.

Vandalizing the ads themselves, and only the ads, is something I could get behind though.

i hate that it's very often like this in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can get Steam on just about any distro, for years at this point. And there's always Flatpak for these cases too although for Steam I recommend native packages.

i hate that it's very often like this in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, it's definitely not something a n00b should attempt in most cases. But I've done this before to save myself the need for distrobox. A lot of proprietary software only offers .deb, but is usually either statically linked or comes with its own set of nearly all the libraries it needs. So just extracting and running it often does the trick on non-debian distros like Fedora in my case.

Seriously though, just use distrobox or see if there's an unofficial package for your distro that you trust (AUR/copr/ppa/OBS). It's more straight forward especially if you don't know what you're doing.

And Gentoo as well, but shush in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

That'll work but distrobox is a much simpler solution

And Gentoo as well, but shush in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Also great when you get some software as a deb for old Ubuntu and don't want the trouble of manually making it work on a new system. Just make an old Ubuntu distrobox.

D or d come on in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.

D or d come on in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.

Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wonder why they use A/B root in the first place instead of a single BTRFS partition with Subvolumes and snapshots

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How do y'all deal with sleep states on modern laptops? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most very recent laptops no longer support S3 sleep which used to be the default for a long time. On my old laptop it allowed me to just close the lid in the evening and open it again in the morning, and it would only loose a negligible amount of charge during that time.

My new laptop (Dell Inspiron 14 Plus, Alder Lake) uses s2idle by default on Linux (Fedora in my case), which depletes the battery very quickly. I tend to shut down my computer every evening now, but even when I just put my laptop in my bag for 2 hours it will have lost 10-15% when I get it out. It's not terrible and I have gotten used to using my laptop like that but there's got to be a better way right?

I know hibernation / suspend-to-disk is an option in theory, but I use secure boot (and also disk encryption), and that makes it a lot more complicated, involving compiling your own patched kernel, so no thanks.

The way sleep on modern laptops is supposed to work is apparently called S0iX but it is not used by default and I don't know if or how I could make use of it on my laptop, and a guide that is linked everywhere on 01.org now just redirects to some generic intel site.

If you have a recent laptop without S3 sleep support, how are you dealing with this? Do you just live with the poor battery life, or is there some secret to getting more power saving sleep on modern machines?

Edit for mare clarification:

The laptop does enter s2idle correctly, it just doesn't get down to a very low power state at all and consumes ~5% an hour
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep only returns [s2idle], no deep sleep is supported. echo deep | sudo tee /sys/power/mem_sleep doesn't work (tee: /sys/power/mem_sleep: Invalid argument)
There's no option in the BIOS to enable other sleep modes
I've even tried patching the ACPI table myself to enable S3 sleep and it didn't work. I have no idea if I did it correctly although according to dmesg it did seem to load my patch

Thank you all for your input but it looks like on this Dell laptop I'm stuck with horrible s2idle sleep :/

Pasta with vegan bolognese sauce (with mushrooms and walnut) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've had lentils based bolognese at a restaurant before. It wasn't bad, but I prefer this one by far. I guess we all have different tastes :)

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Pasta with vegan bolognese sauce (with mushrooms and walnut) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Okay, perhaps not the most visually impressive meal ever. But it sure was delicious.

This is the recipe I used.

I tend to prefer using natural ingredients like mushrooms and nuts rather than artificial / highly processed meat substitutes when cooking vegetarian or vegan meals.

This was not terribly difficult or complex to make (finely chopping the mushrooms took a while though). I definitely recommend giving this recipe a try even if you're not vegan.

Best current hardware solution for selfhosting? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My home server is a RockPro64. I didn't specifically buy it for that purpose but since I had it lying around I figured I might as well use it.

It has a PCIe Slot which I used for a SATA controller, with two 3,5" HDDs.

They have an official NAS case for it too, not sure I'd recommend it as it's kind of expensive, doesn't isolate HDD vibration / noise at all and isn't very convenient to service (to replace the drives for instance). I'm not aware of a better case option for this board though.

I run debian and OpenMediaVault on it (I didn't have to mess with the kernel or device tree at all), with the ZFS plugin, and several docker containers (Jellyfin, PiHole, Syncthing, Tailscale).

For my needs it's working perfectly fine and doesn't need much power. But:

It isn't particularly great at video transcoding
4GB of RAM isn't a ton especially with ZFS, keep that in mind if you wish to run more / heavier services such as Nextcloud
being ARM based, this board basically limits you to OMV or manually setting up stuff on Linux through the CLI, as TrueNAS, Unraid and Proxmox only support x86. OMV is fine for it's core functionality and you can get some more advanced features through plugins, but at that point it often gets kind of janky and annoying compared to e. g. TrueNAS. Also, the KVM plugin apparently doesn't work on ARM.

TL;DR these low power ARM boards are just fine as a cheap option for getting into homelab / Self hosting and I wouldn't necessarily recommend against them, but sooner or later I want to build a low power x86 based NAS with more RAM, SSD cache and TrueNAS Scale instead.

Linux Best Practices in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of this...

Chad GCC actually using all cores be like in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can use VAAPI or NVENC for hardware encoding, I believe there are presets for that in the render dialog nowadays. I think that is or was broken in the AppImage though. Using the GPU for actually processing heavy effects (like color correction, chroma keying, transformations etc) is currently not possible and the GPU processing option in the settings is broken. And many of these effects are single threaded on the CPU.