edinbruh

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Beams, Beans, Battlestar Galactica in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago

It's like those impossible comb geometry, one side is a box, the other is the spine of a book

Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents". in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tech Bros make a panopticon and call it a novel approach

Average GitHub PR in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago

I'm about to do this to this kernel driver. Certainly broken before, possibly broken after, what's the worst that could happen

The Troll-ey Problem in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago

The bond's Name. James Name

average programmerule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago

short for "subscribable"

Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Unfortunately it requires vulkan (it says 1.3, but because vulkan is based on extensions so it probably doesn't require the full 1.3). So if you have the Intel GMA 950 that's in the motherboard for your Pentium 4 HT is not supported. But I'm confident that an AMD HD 6000 from 2010 with the Mesa driver "terakan" is enough to run it. And theoretically one could implement vulkan even for an HD 2000 from 2007, but it's an unreasonable effort.

If they made an opengl backend, you would be golden, as the Mesa driver i915 implements opengl 2.1 for the GMA 950, and it's definitely enough to run an editor

P.s.: and I sure did not spend the last 30 minutes looking up vulkan hardware

Me but ublock origin in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 7 points 3 weeks ago

Use YouTube revanced. It's an app that patches the official YouTube apk. Basically you provide the version of the apk it requires (the patcher will tell you), select which patches you want (you can put all of them and disable what you don't need in the settings later) and if will create a new apk without ads that you can install

Core 2 Ruleo in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Core 2 Ruleo in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 38 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

What the hell is up with that computer? You got the fastest core 2 duo paired with the slowest DDR3 ram?

RPN Calculator (Reverse Polish Notation) for Android. in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just use some HP calculator emulator. That way you don't have just an RPN calculator, but a full fat graphing calculator.

How TeX.web is versioned since the early 90's (literal text inside) in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You forgot the part where TeX was created by a CS professor because he didn't like how his editor printed the formulas in his book

Invasive Species in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Download Firefox/ Look inside/ Still Firefox.

Download thunderbird/ Look inside/ Older Firefox.

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Why can ffmpeg kmsgrab capture the tty without root permissions? (feddit.it)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by edinbruh@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm using sunshine for remote gaming on my Linux PC. Because I use Wayland and don't have an Nvidia I use kmsgrab for capture (under the hood sunshine uses ffmpeg).

I have noticed that I can enter tty and kmsgrab will capture it as well. If it just captured after logging in my user I wouldn't be surprised, but it also captures the login screen.

I autostart it at login using my systemd user configuration (not systemwide) so it should just have my user's permission level. I get the same results if I put it in KDE's autostart section, so it's not a systemd thing.

Why does that work? Shouldn't you need special privileges to capture everything?

The installation instructions tells you to do sudo setcap -r $(readlink -f $(which sunshine)) is this the reason why it works? What does the command do exactly?

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[question] shadow of the tomb raider, native or proton-experimental (feddit.it)
 

SOTTR can now run in proton-experimental (it used to crash due to a missing vulkan feature), but how does it compare to the native version?

Normally I would just use the native version, but got the game from epic, which doesn't provide the native build. So if I wanted to run native I would have to acquire the game from other sources (keep in mind that I own the game on epic), which is less than ideal. But I wouldn't do it if there's no advantage.

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Looking for testing of a driver for GPUs with Asus aura lights (feddit.it)
 

Do you have an AMD aura GPU? Do you also use Linux? There's this this driver that needs to be tested.

It allows you to control the lighting of the GPU using programs like openRGB.

I wrote that PR that should make it work for more GPUs, but I only have an RX 480 so I can only test that one. It would be useful to try it on a Vega gpu.

If you have an rDNA 1/2/3 GPU, it most likely won't work, but without the card there's nothing I can do.

On a side note, if you are interested in maintaining the driver it would be great.

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Anyone else experiencing this? (feddit.it)
 

Detailed issue

Basically Kwin and other programs (simple xdg-desktop-portal or even gimp) crash and they bork the entire screen with no recovery other than rebooting. When the program that crash is Kwin it's particularly bad because it happens at login.

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I can now control external display brightness from KDE and I don't know why. Thank you, nameless Linux contributor (feddit.it)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by edinbruh@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml
1 comments fedilink
 

This is a short appreciation/user experience story. Tl;Dr I'm enjoying my time on linux

I have been using Linux for a while (gnome for a year with an Intel UHD gpu, and KDE for a couple of months on a recent AMD gpu), and till now there was no brightness slider. Moreover, I have used the same display with windows for several years and there was no slider as well.

As far as I know (I looked up online some years ago, but this info is sometimes hard to find) my display supports DDC/CI but doesn't expose brightness (haven't actually tried).

For some reason, about a week ago a brightness slider appeared on KDE but it didn't do anything. Yesterday while updating some unrelated stuff I noticed the slider again and moved it for shit and giggles, and the brightness actually changed...

I have several questions... and I don't even know which piece of software is responsible for this... but thanks

I have been using Linux on and off for several years, often alongside windows, but I have entirely switched to it (almost, I still have a windows PC that I use once in a while) about 16 months ago. I have to say that Linux does take a lot more effort in getting some things to work, but when everything goes smoothly it's sooo good, and improves every month.

In the span of a year my desktop experience has only got better. But the shock was when I booted up an Ubuntu 16.04 cd I had lying around to fix grub on a dual boot machine and it was barely usable. Now instead it's almost "plug and play". Plus Nvidia cards are getting more and more usable with every update, explicit sync is almost merged, and prime works fine already.

There won't be a year of the Linux desktop anytime soon (there's still too much that needs improvement), but the next years will definitely be exciting.

P.s.: does any of you know why display brightness works now?

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Nvidia prime on Wayland (feddit.it)
 

Can I get a better Nvidia+Wayland experience by using prime and connecting the display to an AMD iGPU? I saw that in the last year Nvidia Prime had some improvements, do they make it feasible?

I can't just try it because I have yet to buy said AMD iGPU. And I'd like to know it before buying

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Imagine trusting oracle (feddit.it)
 
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All hail lemmyverse.net (feddit.it)
 
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