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Flatfire

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  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • Flatpaks are basically containers, allowing applications to maintain their own dependencies separate from your system. It's similar to a Windows program shipping with its own precompiled DLLs, helping prevent dependenct conflicts when you go to update something you installed with pacman or yay.

  • Is it possible to prevent an app from opening another app automatically when clicking on links?

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  • Seems to depend on the flavour of Android. What version/brand do you have? I know my Pixel asks first unless I allow it more generally.

    You may be looking for the "Instant Apps" settings though. Searching "links" in your Android settinbs should provide a similar result regardless what brand of phone you have though.

  • What hardware does not support Linux?

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  • Arc support was added after release to Linux Kernel 6.2 and it's steadily improved since. Older Linux distros, or "LTS" oriented distros that favour stability may still not have support for them. I know Unraid was very slow to pick up on it and I had to settle for passing the pcie device through to a VM to get it working. Intel is keen to made these viable though, and I love having the AV1 encoder from my A380.

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  • That's not an equivalency. From written paper to typewriters and then to computers, writing has remained a product of the author. A typewriter repair shop would transition from mechanical to electronic typewriters and potentially then to computer repair. This is because it supports an evolving technology.

    An author cannot transition to becoming a machine, because they cannot author what they don't write, but a publisher can continue to publish anything that would make them money. So when human experience is boiled down to nothing more than the probabalistic order of the words written by authors who gave no consent to have their work absorbed and mutilated by an LLM, the only winner is a publishing house seeking cheaper labour than the human.

  • What problems can I expect using Linux (Fedora) with an NVIDIA GPU?

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  • That one sounds squarely on Nvidia. Any driver that uses undocumented workarounds to gain kernel level access or utilizes an access loophool for system hooks is a bad driver. I'd assume Debian, or likely more accurately the Linux kernel itself was updated following some matter of CVE that Nvidia was quietly abusing.

    Frustrating, but a good example of why those kinds of proprietary drivers are such a nightmare. You really just don't know what techniques they're using.

  • Near Stock GNOME running on CachyOS

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  • Maybe. At the end of the day, I love the design language but not the design philosophy I suppose :(

  • Vibe coding in a nutshell

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  • Yeah, because at least a decent 3rd party might hand you documentation and have the sense to build something consistent or maintainable. AI has a limited context scope and frequently suffers a type of short term memory loss that results in repeated work or variations in work that confuse the end result.

  • Near Stock GNOME running on CachyOS

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  • Yes lmao. I use it to save scratch files or random crap I haven't yet categorized. Sometimes you're sifting through scripts or software and are going to delete them anyways, or I'm using it as a gallery pane for images I'm sorting before moving to store somewhere more permanent. I know Gnome's philosophy preaches a sort of importance on data management, but I'm never a fan of something that tries to make that decision for me.

  • Near Stock GNOME running on CachyOS

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  • I love the design for modern Gnome but really wish they hadn't departed from using your desktop as a folder. Even MacOS isn't that picky about what you put there. It's pretty, but I always find I end up moving back to Plasma after a while.

  • I put these 2 pics of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker together, can someone who's more clever than I am come up with with some captions?

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  • This feels like it could be used in the same vein as the Vince McMahon increasing excitement meme but maybe a bit more sinister

  • Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks

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  • Hardly. I've played enough dumpsterfire UE4 ports to know it's no better if the devs don't put the effort in.

  • Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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  • Powershell's Get-FileHash does exactly this though.

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Biggest difference is that wormhole will pass traffic between devices on different networks as long as both are routable. So it's not limited to a local network connection.

  • Voicemail should be banned

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  • The feature is called "Visual Voicemail". Your carrier may support it, but if it's like mine they likely charge extra. iOS works around it by just answering the call and saving a recorded message.

  • Voicemail should be banned

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  • It's carrier specific. Mine doesn't do that either. iPhones seem to be the only ones that force it. Otherwise I get to sit through the same dial-in voicemail service as ever.

  • Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO

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  • Ah, I see where I got confused. Yeah, CGNAT isn't very common around here. I don't think I've ever run into an ISP that uses it. I can see how that complicates things.

  • Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO

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  • You really don't though. I use wireguard myself under the same scenario without issue. You just need to use some form of dynamic DNS to mitigate the potentially changing IP. Even if you're using Tailscale you'll still need to have something running a service all the time anyways, so may as well skip the proxy.

  • Linux Mint 22.2 Adds Native Fingerprint Login Support

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  • Fingerprint sensors have been an interesting hurdle for Linux distros. Not one I necessarily would have anticipated either. The biggest question seems to come down to their security as well, given that there have been exposed flaws in the design of biometric hardware that tries to generalize its compatibility.

    Microsoft has defined SDCP as a strong standard for TPM/Windows, but there isn't an equivalent for Linux. Match on chip sensors have made things a bit easier, but there isn't a standard way to communicate the validated authentication to the OS, usually relying on TLS.

  • KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.

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  • I've been meaning to lol, but usually this happens when I need to do something and then I forget about it. I'll make a note to do that later.