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redcalcium, in Sovereign Tech Fund invests €203,000.00 on Gstreamer

Glad seeing more and more investment in foundational libraries. I guess the world is starting to learn its lesson now.

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demonsword,
@demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

xkcd again being spot on

Petter1, in [not solved] I think I messed something up in the router settings but cannot understand what... now I have no internet connection

Is there a reset button somewhere on the router? Most of them have something like this in order to reset them to factory settings. If not, google for your device name and factory reset, maybe it’s something like „press button while turning on“ etc. I’d try something like that

tubbadu,

Yes there is in the web UI a factory reset button, but I’d rather not do this because it has some settings by other people

Aurix, in [not solved] I think I messed something up in the router settings but cannot understand what... now I have no internet connection

Go to the outer status page. The router should display whether it has an internet connection to your provider. If no, then your router/modem has no credentials or another issue preventing access.

If it shows as working, then you can narrow it down to incorrect DNS and IP routing. Perhaps dynamic IP allocation is set to off or another configuration error or bug, in which case you might need to reset all the router settings. Then, is it only broken for a single end device?

tubbadu,

thanks for the reply! Sorry it isn’t very clear from the post, but yes only one device (debianserver) has this problem (no internet connection, but yes local network connection), all other devices works as before. I’ll update the original post to clarify this

pingveno, (edited ) in Which terminal emulator do you use?

Gnome Terminal. I’ve tried out a few others, but at this point I’m kind of partial to just using the default with good integration with the rest of the desktop. Pop, in this case. I’m curious if they’ll adopt something else for the terminal in COSMIC.

Edit: They just recently announced COSMIC Terminal, so that’s a yes. I look forward to trying it out. It’s based on alacritty’s framework.

Father_Redbeard,
@Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

Since you sound like you know what’s going on with Pop I’ll ask: what is Cosmic? I understand it’s a DE, but is it replacing Gnome entirely and a new DE built from the ground up? Seems like every update assumes you know more than I do :)

pingveno,

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m mostly talking out my ass. But as far as I know, it’s a new DE that’s being written in Rust using the iced toolkit. It looks like they’re aiming to be Wayland native without the X baggage. It’s been a while since the last full Pop release (20.04), so it will be nice to get the rest of the OS upgraded as well.

Father_Redbeard,
@Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

Ah, ok. That makes more sense. I really like the OS so far. Made my first leap into Linux only mid 2023ish. And it’s been awesome!

pingveno,

I am glad you are enjoying it so far! It has a bit of a learning curve, but it has improved significantly since I was first getting into it in high school around 2004. Wow… already 20 years.

hallettj, in are wayland and pipewire building off of weaker systems
@hallettj@beehaw.org avatar

Wayland replaces the older X protocol. It doesn’t have to operate with older protocols. You might be thinking of XWayland which is a proxy that receives X API calls from apps written for X, and translates those to the Wayland API so that those apps can run under Wayland implementations. Window managers can optionally run XWayland, and many do. But as more apps are updated to work natively with Wayland, XWayland becomes less important, and might fade away someday.

PipeWire replaces PulseAudio (the most popular sound server before PipeWire). Systems running PipeWire often run pipewire-pulse which does basically the same thing that XWayland does - it translates from the PulseAudio API to the PipeWire API. It’s a technically optional, but realistically necessary compatibility layer that may become less relevant over time if apps tend to update to work with PipeWire natively.

So no, both Wayland and PipeWire are capable of operating independently of other protocols.

jackpot,
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

youre right i was thinking of xwayland, tysm. also, yes i was thinking of pipewire-pulse. i was worried these compatibility layers WERE the programs in their entirety. as in, they had no protocols themselves but rather optimised older, deprecated ones.

tkk13909, in are wayland and pipewire building off of weaker systems

I’m not even remotely sure how you came to that conclusion.

jackpot,
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

:/

Rentlar, (edited ) in Low battery life due to high power consumption on t490 thinkpad. (help needed)

Well Li-ion batteries are known in conventional wisdom to degrade to 70% of brand new battery life after being charged 500-1000 times. So if it was supposed to have 8 hours when new then 5-6 makes sense.

When I played around with my laptop’s power settings, the LCD screen and screen-brightness were a big power draw between 3W at dim to like 15W at max. That and all wireless functions off, if you can have an ethernet cord plugged in, no bluetooth or USB devices plugged then you can maximize your battery life. Years ago I got my laptop to host a minecraft server with screen off to like 4-5 W at idle.

E: And don’t forget if you have a backlit keyboard to turn that off.

Blisterexe,

Oddly the laptop seems brand new when I got it, it still had the peel on the power button lmao. Also, thanks for the tips!

SomethingBurger, in Wine 9.0 is now available

All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.

🦀🦀🦀

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

X86 to arm will become easier with this as box64 could handle everything now

CalcProgrammer1,
@CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml avatar

Does this change run the 32-bit .exe using x86_64 instructions? From the description it just sounds like it allows 64-bit Linux libraries to be used in place of 32-bit ones, but that the Windows layer still operates in native 32-bit mode. This means there is still a need to emulate 32-bit x86 instructions which I don’t think box64 can do at this time (x86_32 translates to arm32 with box86, x86_64 translates to arm64 with box64). If box86 could translate x86_32 to arm64 then this might work as Wine would handle the conversion between 32 and 64 bit addressing and argument passing into the libraries but I’m not familiar with the inner workings there.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for correction, not everything, but more

henfredemars, (edited )

Come on Steam, show those 32-bit libs the door!

Not the political kind. The shared object kind.

VinesNFluff,
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social avatar

Ok but now I am curious what the difference between 32 and 64 bit liberals would be

5714,

Since they have longer words, 64-bit liberals would be more intellectual than 32-bit liberals. 32-bit liberals also have a term limit in 14 years.

Vash63,

What does this have to do with rust?

BlanK0, (edited )

So in the future no need to install 32 bit packages of wine in a 64 system??? 👀

OsrsNeedsF2P,

Correcto. Which means Steam will probably drop 32 bit libs soon. Which means Ubuntu will stop shipping 32 libs. The era is truly coming to an end

StefanT,

Let’s call it “soonish”. The old proton versions still need 32 bit libs if they do not backport the feature.

OsrsNeedsF2P,

Old Proton builds probably won’t backport this (unless it’s completely isolated, idk the code layout of Wine). But are old Proton builds still necessary? Occasionally there’s regressions, but are there really any games that require like a 2 year old Proton build?

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

quite a few games need old proton IME

not many, but enough to make a difference.

addie,
@addie@feddit.uk avatar

There are, but it’s complicated. Doom (2016) for instance - it doesn’t handle the very large Vulkan swap chain that’s possible on some modern graphics cards, crashes on start-up. Someone patched Proton around that time so that Doom would start; the patch was later reverted since it broke other games. Other games based off of that engine - couple of Wolfensteins, Doom Eternal - have the problem fixed in the binaries, and so run on up-to-date Proton, but depending on your hardware, only a few specific, old, versions of Proton, will do for Doom.

Regressions get fixed - that’s okay. Buggy behaviour which depended on regressions that got fixed - that’s a problem.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble, in Low battery life due to high power consumption on t490 thinkpad. (help needed)

5 hours watching a video is not that unreasonable for a machine of that age, especially since it’s Intel.

www.pcmag.com/reviews/lenovo-thinkpad-t490#:~:tex…

According to this review they got 10 hours with wifi off, playing a 720p video that was stored locally on the machine. Youtube is going to have plenty of background tasks going on, wifi is going to be active downloading things, and you’ve probably got more than just youtube in the background so I would consider 5 hours to be expected without really delving deep into power saving (and probably killing performance).

Blisterexe, (edited )

Alright, I seem to remember someone saying that I could expect 8 hours of battery life, which is why I asked, thank you! Edit: spelling

lemmyvore, in XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - 9to5Linux

But people told me X is not being maintained anymore.

ExLisper,

Yeah, they lied. X being dead and full of security issues is just a FUD. Keep calm and carry on using X.

superbirra,

which is in fact the only productive choice one can do :) when distro will force switch, then we will see

WarmApplePieShrek,

Distros already force switch, it doesn’t work as well.

superbirra,

I’m using debian sid and I’ve got no problem in using xorg until today so I’d say you are wrong :)

NamelessGO,

Actively developed is different from “maintained”

OpenOffice (OO) is being maintained and shouldn’t be used

LibreOffice is being actively developed and should be used as a replacement to OO

Legacy softwares such as X11 and OO get updates to fix vulnerabilities

You prob said as irony, so used this opportunity to promote LibreOffice :)

www.libreoffice.org/…/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/

phundrak,

I invite everyone to take a look at Open Office’s commits over the past few years, it’s hilarious

maness300, (edited ) in Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

That’s the problem with doing everything yourself.

You also have to maintain everything, yourself.

Fuck snaps 🖕

Snapz, (edited )

Yeah. Hey wait? Fuck you!

joyjoy,

🫰Fuck 🫰Snaps 🫰

mozz, in Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

Is gcs-fuse not suitable? I haven't used this but I would guess that it works fairly well.

Cwilliams,

It appears that this only supports Google Cloud storage buckets, not Google Drive

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

My bad, you are correct. For some reason I misread.

There is google-drive-ocamlfuse. Personally, even though the article recommends rclone, I would have started with ocamlfuse; something about the whole interaction with rclone seems flaky-sounding to me (the fact that it's not just fuse commands, but this whole other tool you have to interact with for doing stuff like 'ls' just seems weird). But like I say I have no real experience to be sharing; this is just me searching + sending to you.

xavier666, in Suggestions for consumer cloud syncing on Linux?

Have you checked github.com/box/boxcli ?

It’s by the Box devs but unfortunately only cli.

cbarrick,

It looks like there’s also a 3rd party FUSE driver for Box:

github.com/drotiro/boxfs2

OP, if you’re not aware, FUSE is a type of filesystem driver. It lets you mount things just like an external drive.

Confused_Emus, in Wine 9.0 is now available

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still very new to Linux. I have Wine 8 installed, currently just to run one application for one of my games. Should I bother to update to 9 if my current setup is working? I’m still adjusting to the FOSS environment and haven’t quite figured out whether or not I should always update to the latest and greatest just because I can.

mundane,

If it works and you are still figuring things out, I suggest not taking specific action right now. Use your package manager to keep your system up to date and it will deal with this in due time.

version_unsorted,

A lot of the time the version of wine will cause issues with the application, so if you have something working, stick with it.

It would be worthwhile to look into a wine prefix manager like lutris or bottles for gaming. Regular apps can benefit also, but I am not up to speed on anything not for gaming.

Confused_Emus,

Thanks for the advice! The application I’m using in Wine is Elite Dangerous Market Connector, nota game itself but a small helper app for the Elite Dangerous game. According to the git page, you can get it running from source with Python, but I wasn’t quite skilled enough to get that working.

As far as my actual games go, those seem to all run fine through Steam/Heroic Games Launcher with Proton GE edition, which as I understand it incorporates Wine somehow…? I’m not sure of the specifics, but I assumed Wine in that context would get updated with Proton eventually.

Yearly1845,

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    o7 Fly dangerously!

    Clearwater,

    As a heads up, EDMC runs natively on Linux well, or at least it did the last time I used it. See github.com/EDCD/…/Installation-&-Setup#linux-…

    Since you’ve got it running in wine just fine, I personally wouldn’t change anything, but if you have issues in the future, you can try that.

    Confused_Emus,

    Right, those are the instructions I tried to follow, but had issues in the “running from source” process. I did eventually get it running, but I’d get errors and nothing would work once I tried to start adding the plugins I wanted.

    version_unsorted,

    There appears to be a flatpak for edmc, maybe that would be easier than using wine?

    flathub.org/apps/io.edcd.EDMarketConnector

    Confused_Emus,

    Ah, nifty. I may check that out then. Thanks!

    dustyData, (edited ) in Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

    My google drive is just a special folder on my file explorer. My account is configured with the system account manager. It shows me all my Drive files and when I want to open one it automatically downloads and opens the file seamlessly as if it were in my PC. If I create, move or change folders, add new files, etc. It automatically syncs it with my Drive.

    This is on Linux Mint with Cinnamon DE.

    StefanT,

    I use Gnome but Cinnamon and Gnome are not that different in that topic IIRC. I have to mount the remote folder via file manager (Nautilus) then I can access the files in Code.

    maxprime,

    Can you open Drive files in Codium?

    jerrythegenius,
    @jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah

    maxprime,

    Hmm. It’s not working in Manjaro for me. Is it as easy as just opening any other folder? I have Drive added in KDE and can see my files but I cannot add a folder from drive in Codium.

    jerrythegenius,
    @jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m not sure about kde sorry-- I’m using it in fedora w/gnome

    dustyData, (edited )

    My guess is no, since the folder is a magical protocol address that I assume VScode/codium wouldn’t understand for they insist on handling the directory hierarchy directly. Haven’t really troubleshoot that workflow though. I use exclusively Git with GitHub/GitLab. So there’s no need for GDrive with an IDE for me. My Drive is exclusively for personal files which most other Linux-as-a-first-class-citizen applications (LibreOffice, PDF readers, photo viewers and editors) just use as the OS gives it to them without issue.

    ADD: I would imagine there’s an additional complication depending on whether Codium is running from repository or Flatplak.

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