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by tapoxi 3y ago
This is about how Firefox, KDE, any app you run draws to the screen. In the old world, they talked to an X server that implemented the X protocol. It's not KDE drawing stuff to your screen, it's X, but KDE is a little special in t
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by tapoxi 3y ago
tl:dr an app connects to the Wayland compositor (like an X server) and sends it draw commands using the Wayland protocol. The compositor accepts these connections on a Unix socket, /run/user/1000/wayland-0 by default The
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Well there goes any hope I had of publishing to the Play Store. I don't know 20 people with an Android phone. What's the option here? Beg for random people to install your beta app?
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by tapoxi 3y ago
There's an unofficial "spin" of Fedora targeted at gaming that might be worth a try: https://nobaraproject.org/ Personally I have separate gaming and Linux machines because I play games with Windows-specific
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Fedora has the release cycle of Ubuntu with the large development and QA team of Red Hat. It is upstream of RHEL, so they give a shit about quality and it shows. They also do things open whenever possible when Ubuntu will either keep things
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Oh boy now you've opened the can of worms that will bring out the people complaining about CentOS... But honestly, it depends on what you're using Ubuntu for. As a server or a VM for some work-adjacent purpose like this, Fedora&#x
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I like to think of myself as an average moviegoer, and I have no interest in seeing this film because of a) superhero fatigue (I know exactly what's going to happen) b) these characters aren't interesting, and c) there's too
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Friends list and matchmaking APIs are also provided by Epic Online Services, and work on consoles, multiple engines, and multiple stores, for free. That 30% cut still seems egregious. Those features are all nice but none of them can be used
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I mean the entire Unreal Engine 5 is a 5% cut, a 30% cut to host forums and screenshots is a little ridiculous.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Valve may be working on a console based on SteamOS, so I'd wait and see.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Well yes, obviously your phone number since it's how they handle accounts. Their argument is that it makes you the owner of your social graph because it uses the existing contact list on your device. https://signal.org/
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by tapoxi 3y ago
It does, if you set up Signal Desktop it involves scanning a QR code. It doesn't sync old messages, theoretically they could do that over a local network transfer.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
It's not just content inside messages, Signal actually knows nothing. The metadata about your user, your contacts, every group, and who is in a group, or who sent a message, all encrypted. The only thing Signal knows about a user is wh
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Awesome this fixes it! For those using the Flatpak: sudo flatpak override com.valvesoftware.Steam --env=STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5
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by tapoxi 3y ago
It's 2256x1504 and 3:2. It's a nice screen, but it's one that absolutely works best at 1.5x scale since 1 is unreadable and 2 wastes plenty of screen real estate.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an e
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Is Intel really supporting this? It seems like ARM is the one with the most to lose here. Intel could actually benefit from an RISC-V play with their own cores and extensions.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I mean I pay the $20 or whatever for a whole season of a given show on Prime Video, you don't need to subscribe to a streaming service.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I've been using it since I migrated our container builds to buildah (docker-dind is spooky) and I needed something Docker-Desktopy without paying for a license. Works great. Even supports Docker Desktop plugins, which was a surprise.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
That's the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is the for-profit developer of Firefox that's owned by the Foundation. If Mozilla never established the Corporation I'd give them more slack, but from a "it's n
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by tapoxi 3y ago
What's the viable alternative to YouTube? Tiktok?
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by tapoxi 3y ago
But you can pay for YouTube Premium, they already have an alternative to an ad supported business model.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I don't even have a name that's very "weird", I have an Irish last name, in Boston, and the O' part is something no computer can reasonably tolerate in 2023. I've missed flights. I've had duplicate account
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I mean it did hit her (again), ran her over, then stayed on top of her. That's not a better scenario at all. A Level 1 system can still avoid hitting people.
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Keeping autonomous vehicles on the road will result in thousands of edge cases, and without a clear safety benefit (as opposed to Level 1 systems) its better to stop everything and reconsider. Honestly, I don't think this tech will be
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by tapoxi 3y ago
Why are you comparing Signal to Telegram? Telegram keeps all of your conversations on their servers in plain text, not to mention any other metadata. Signal only keeps your registration time and last login time. Yes it uses your phone numbe
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I went through the whole "install Linux on Grandma's old desktop" thing a while ago, totally convinced it was a valid alternative, but there were too many bumps in the road. Linux isn't there yet to allow average users t
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by tapoxi 3y ago
It's not purported to be perpetual, the EULA is defined as the "subscriber agreement" and it's clearly laid out that violation of anti-cheat protections violates the terms of your game subscription. https://s
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I mean you're not wrong, but games need a stable set of libraries to target. This comment implies they haven't updated those in a decade, but they have releases based on Debian Buster and Bookworm https://gitlab.steamos
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by tapoxi 3y ago
I'm in this boat, for most games I use my PS5 because its got the big Sony AAA single-player exclusives. The Steam Deck is a perfect option for PC games that need a keyboard/mouse, like CS2, because you can plug it into any USB-C

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