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  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • if you'd read the thread you'd see it's not a flatpak issue. also if you spell it correctly maybe people would take you seriously.

  • The Clicks Communicator stumbled by marketing itself as a "second phone". It has everything I want out of a "real" phone, no AI push, and it's small. I'm going to try it as my next (only) phone.

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  • I mean, you do you, but I'll pass this and every other money burning thing and not give it a second glance. my pocket computer is a universal machine, thus I can program it and set it up the way I want to. and if I don't want no AI & friends on my property - that's what's gonna happen.

    if all that crap is truly bugging you, put a blank android on yo phone. set up all apps to work without any intrusions. if I want to talk to people, I open the talk-to-people-app. if I want to read up on stuff, I open the reading-stuff-app. no notifications, no reminders, no nothing, my device doesn't beep at me and demand shit, it's there to serve me when I need it.

    I guarantee you nobody at Xiaomi imagined I'd be running the thing the way I do, let alone - almost a decade after it was introed!

    what I'm saying is, we have all the hardware that we're ever gonna need already created and all we have to do is use it and ignore every spend-money-to-fix-problem ideas from them visionaries and mavericks and those kinda folk.

  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • yeah, that jives with what I got here. wayland - no HW accel, xwayland - HW accel. so I guess that's it, for the time being...

  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • cool beans. can you confirm your flatpak settings, are they for X or wayland? if you run freetube and run xlsclients in terminal, does it return empty? and if freetube runs in wayland, does it say 0% in media when you playback?

  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • check if you have runaway processes: ps aux | grep -i freetube then kill them if they're there. also flatpak settings, here are mine:

  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • works with portable, media percentage is non-zero (dependent on resolution) but only with X11/Xwayland. running it with wayland switches works but nets a 0% in media.

    doesn't work at all with Appimage; won't start with wayland switches. without them starts but media at 0%.

    works with flatpak, media is non-zero, under Xwayland. for some reason now won't start under wayland at all, possibly something I fucked up experimenting. works under wayland but zero media use.

  • Freetube flatpak wayland AMD - hardware acceleration anyone?

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  • flatpak runs fine under wayland, no switches needed, xlsclients comes back empty.

    anyhow, tried it just now, downloaded portable, ran it with those (and other flags), media graph is still at zero. how did you verify yours is HW accelerated?

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • reading all them pain points, I had to type this up. free advice, worth what you paid for it.

    you know how in life you're supposed to pick your side, your team, and stick to it? like, no tifosi is changing their allegiance because the rival got a fancier kit or a new power forward or whatever; in fact, you'll root harder for your underdog darlings. you don't become a nazi overnight because they're flooding the aether or their spokes is a dead ringer for scarjo. etc.

    here, you gotta do the opposite. you gotta anticipate where the major development effort goes to and go there now. you can't cling to X11 and xfce4 and sysv init and whatever and then removed that you can't nicely alt-tab out of games or have functioning HiDPI or you audio stack from 2006 is crapping out and such.

    the largest linux hardware manufacturer at present is valve. they went with plasma, they went with wayland, they put in a lot of work to make it better, and with new steam hardware that's likely to continue. in addition, there's a smorgasbord of activity in that sector and that's your best - and I contend, only - bet.

    so that's what you'll run, and like it. I've ran close to everything prior to plasma and have occasional nostalgic flashbacks and miss a feature or two over here. but this is the thing with the most hands on and your best bet that someone already solved your issue or is aware of it and working on it.

  • Advice for a Mac user switching to Linux?

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  • a bunch of that is wrong; people here read "what's the best thing for this" as "what do you use" and treat it as rooting for a team. I'd still urge you to write up a more detailed post, but you do you.

  • [Opinion] Fast SoC makes Phones slow.

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  • sounds like you're running your phones stock, with all the google spyware running in the background, along with the facebook crap; that shit ain't just hanging back, dormant until you need it. that's why you need the extra speed and RAM and storage, all that shit is constantly rummaging around the phone and sending stuff home.

    get an ex-flagship with e.g. SDM8xx that has lineageOS support for like $50 and play around, you'll find that no part of that thing is slow.

  • Mobile App Frameworks

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  • I'm outta that racket, but way back when I used flutter/Dart, specifically because multiplatform support was a must and having dedicated Android/iOS/web devs wasn't in the budget. no idea how the landscape is now, I imagine react native is the thing. as to performance, it was way faster than the alternatives of its time (meteor, ionic, etc), but still laged a bit behind native app development.

  • Advice for a Mac user switching to Linux?

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  • dude, you need to narrow your query way, waaay down. are you ditching the mac and getting a PC? are you gonna rock them side by side until you transition? desktop? gaming? laptop? converting an existing macbook to linux? which one? intel? pre-T2, post? which wifi? what's your daily software stack you depend on?

    all the listed things are possible, some easier, some less so, but, respectfully, nobody's gonna write up an all-cases guide for your lazy ass. so, hop to it, state your use case and ping back.

  • New project: leftgunguide.com (Teach the left how to arm themselves)

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  • none of that shit is needed, nor was it needed at any point in any uprising throughout history. if it's a coping mechanism, cool, have at it.

    Imma posit that the absence of significant any opposition to the rampant fascismus is because people engage in these vapid "I'm helping!" activities, dulling the blade of revolt.

  • When do you know to stop investing in an old bike and buy a new one?

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  • I mean, "invest"... is that the right word? if ROI is something important to you, maybe look elsewhere for buying stuff? I can get a whole bike for like half of your upgrade budget, and the items listed for a quarter. what I'm trying to say, buying and fixing things on my rig amounts to pocket change so I'm never concerned about getting a good run for money.

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    What's up with FUTO?

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  • I type in four languages and I've tried 'em all, nothing close to Gboard exists. I was willing to give up a lot of comforts in order to switch to a free software version, but the drunken sailor typing from 2015 is a deal breaker.

    so, install gboard, choose languages, block all network traffic (A15+) and updates and that's it.

  • Drag and Drop is an absolute mess

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  • honestly, a rant is a rant and I'd let it go, but the final, entitled "I expect it just to work" is a tad too much.

  • Sometimes, my computer is very slow and sometimes really fast. Fedora 43.

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  • first, press F2 in htop and then scroll down to enable show CPU temp and frequency. you'll know if it's running at full speed and what the temp is when it acts like that. if it's stuck at 400 MHz or such, it's a BD_PROCHOT issue, which is fixable.

    also, try undervolting it a bit. if you make it to -100 mV and beyond, that's a significant decrease in heat in stress-intensive activities and makes the battery last way longer.

  • KDE Linux (Immutable Distro) Thoughts so far

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  • the whole immutable distro idea is just ludicrous to me, in order to upgrade the software, i.e. the new image that got downloaded, I hafta reboot - what the fuck, is this windows 98? I reboot like never, close my laptop or suspend my desktop in the evening and resume in the morning with all my shit how I left it.

    it feels like going the wrong way, wasn't there some progress on hotswapping kernels after upgrade or sumsuch? that was what I thought we were going towards, this feels so awkward and bad on so many levels, nevermind the bloat of getting a whole new OS image because five packages changed... and the cruft and fluff of layering packages and adjacent voodoo, dios mio. basically, everything is way shittier because someone might fuck with /usr/bin or wherever...?

    apple did this years ago, with little to no friction. but those fucks update the OS coupla times a year, so dealing with this once a quarter ain't that big of a deal. apple also ships a stellar backup solution with the system that restores the system perfectly, system and user files, whereas no such thing exists over here.

  • [Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence?

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  • leave it be. there ain't any one reason for the influx of new users or the absence thereof. do your thing to the best of your ability and if you happen to stumble onto something better along the way, that's a job for then. for now, it does its job.