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vividspecter

@ vividspecter @aussie.zone

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  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • It's kind of a microcosm of switching to Linux in general, but more emphasised. Beginners will have no issue at all playing within the boundaries; experts will find the workarounds like nix, containers or switching to a different distribution; semi-skilled users might be driven away or become frustrated.

  • Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)

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  • Yeah, both of my SCs are broken at this point (including one of the dongles). I have a decent conventional controller but really miss those touchpads.

  • Google's sideloading restrictions are being eased up somewhat

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  • Yep. Also, unlockable bootloader support has went from a high priority to mandatory on the back of this news. Hopefully there are multiple good Linux options for my next upgrade in a few years too.

  • Steam Controller

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  • I use them both together, touchpds for quick movements and gyro for precision.

  • Steam Machine

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  • That same shadiness is why AMD GPUs can't directly support HDMI 2.1 on Linux. But there are workarounds like DP to HDMI converters or using 4:2:0 which is tolerable for non-HDR gaming at least (not so much general PC use).

  • Fairphone 6 in US

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  • Private health insurance offered little relief for my dental woes

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  • My (likely delusional) hope is that Labor are quietly working on this in the background, but haven't worked out the details yet. But if they are, they should get on with it while they have a massive majority and the Liberal party are imploding.

  • The last guillotine execution in France was in... 1977.

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  • The problem is that medical professionals (rightly) won't perform executions so it's left to incompetent people that can't administer it without causing harm.

  • Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

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  • Requires a smart meter, although they are getting rolled out to most people. My cheapskate landlord won't address the asbestos ridden meter box so I'm stuck with a traditional meter for the moment.

  • What software tools do you use that are gaming related?

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  • Do the VR tools work well with a Meta Quest 3?

    Yep. It's arguably the best supported headset on Linux, perhaps even more than the Index due to some bugs with the FOSS stack. Shame it's Meta though, so hopefully the Deckard actually happens.

  • The Newsom donors missing from Prop 50

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  • Prop 50 is going to pass comfortably so if anything this shows how little power these donors actually have. And I can see why individual donors don't want to tie their name to a gerrymandering bill, even if it's the right thing to do given the state of things.

  • What software tools do you use that are gaming related?

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    • LACT for undervolting/overclocking etc
    • lsfg-vk for frame interpolation (requires paid Lossless Scaling) windows app
    • syncthing for "cloud" saving usually by creating symlinks to the actual game save dir
    • Using unix signals to pause processes so you get a suspend/resume like setup without suspending the whole system
    • Sunshine + Moonlight for streaming to my steam deck and also from a Linux VM to host sometimes. I can also use this setup over my headscale/tailscale VPN setup for remote usage, although I haven't tested it yet.
    • wivrn + xrizer to play VR games with a standalone headset
    • hid-fanatecff is for Fanatec sim racing gear, although I haven't tested this one yet.

    I sometimes also create nix packages to automate download and installation of mods and prefix setup etc, but that's getting into advanced territory.

  • AMD clarifies that RDNA 1 and 2 will still get day zero game support and driver updates — discrete GPUs and handhelds will still work with future games

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  • Come to Linux and get 15+ years of support with AMD cards.

  • I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.

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  • yes but why would you?

    Mainly because you're required to use their distribution, or to build on Debian, which is not to everyone's liking.

    Of course that's an argument against proxmox, and not virt-manager and the like.

  • Michigan lawyer says the Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed

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  • Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing?

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  • Primary goal: Navidrome as server combined with a VPN (tailscale is probably the easiest to setup but not technically self-hosted). Clients can be any that support the subsonic protocol. I personally use dsub2000 (android) + supersonic (Linux) but there are others. I'd start by testing it on your LAN to see if it's workable.

    Secondary goal: if you can get all 12 people to install Tailscale on all relevant devices then you can continue to use that. If not, you'll need to host navidrome (or an alternative) publically preferably with a reverse proxy for better security. You could alternatively try Tailscale funnel or some cloudflare solution to host navidrome.

  • Gadgetbridge data dashboard

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  • There's also endurain but it doesn't support gadget bridge integration yet (gadgetbridge needs to solve it on their end).

  • Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing?

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  • You sound like you want something more like navidrome which is closer to a private Spotify whereas Funkwhale is closer to a public social platform like Lemmy or Mastodon where you share music and follow others (or a little like a free bandcamp).

    You still need to solve the public access problem either way, however, as others have talked about.

  • TrueCrypt, what really happened?

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  • It was forked to veracrypt from memory. And LUKS was already widely available on Linux as alternative.