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mortalic, (edited ) in AMD+Wayland+dual monitor = Screen flickering

I have this same issue, but not for a TV. Just a normal Asus monitor. If I use my laptop built-in panel and the gaming monitor, it happens less. If I enable a third monitor, it happens nearly every time I try to log back in.

Sleep/standby is disabled on mine cuz no distro I’ve found can work properly with it so it’s just turning the monitors back on really.

It also happens exiting a game sometimes.

I’ve found waiting it out doesn’t work, I have to fight through it to open display settings and disable one of the external monitors, then hit revert. Then it’s back to normal.

Edit adding some info since our hardware is different: Lenovo legion slim Nvidia 4050 ryzen 5 Kubuntu 23.10

theshatterstone54, in Should I install Linux on my smartphone?

For a spare phone if you want to just tinker and have fun, go ahead. For a main devicez just. Don’t. It is very very alpha quality software.

Skia, in cheapest new computer running linux <$500

Grab any older Thinkpad from backmarket.com and you’re good to go!

possiblylinux127, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

Frankly this isn’t terrible. I’m sure there was a valid reason.

Oh snap

signor, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Have you rebooted your system or tried selecting a previous kernel version upon boot to see if the problem remains?

dynamo,

GZDoom and Orcs Must Die 1 work now, everything else still the same

dewritoninja, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Then the propheciced hurdnus will rise and awaken a new era of foss

nitrogenez,
@nitrogenez@lemmy.world avatar

fuck i really struggled to pronounce that even in my head, jesus.

Guenther_Amanita, (edited ) in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Thanks for the great and detailled report. Here’s an upvote for you :)

Maybe you can try another prefix, like using Wine/ Proton 7.x instead of the current 8.x. Or try the GE-versions.

That’s what helped me the most so far, but I didn’t have many issues by now.

Also, those glitches sound like a faulty GPU or driver. Maybe try a live USB and launch a game from that with another distro like Fedora?

Have you checked out ProtonDB if the games work OOTB or require some tweaks?

dynamo,

Thx.

Changing prefixes either does nothing, or makes it worse which would be the case for the ones that do start.

Probably not a GPU issue, as these glitches only occurvin the listed games.

Regarding protondb (an winedb too i guess) the games are, at worst, silver rated.

selokichtli, in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?

They are probably using timeshift or some advanced feature in btrfs to auto-generate snapshots so they can go back to a working state using one of them.

The way you do it is probably getting old. I say this because I do the same, but to use several distros with a shared home partition, provided I have the same GID and UID for the users. This is not recommended but only once I’ve had a problem and it was easy to solve, so I kept doing it. Installed Fedora recently with defaults in one partition and they use one fat partition (EFI), and one btrfs partition with a logical volume and some unfamiliar partitioning. I think we are maybe missing some new technologies.

Pantherina, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Nothing. But I would love a microkernel approach like redoxOS. Monolithic kernel is such a bloat?

lauha,

Get on with it then.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Guy: I wish I had a flying car.

You: Invent one then.

pelotron,
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

My megabytes D=

luthis,

Can’t you compile your own kernel with exactly the things you want? Would be a fun project to do

Pantherina,

True. Funny idea I should totally do this. This is how you learn Linux. Like a kernel for exactly your hardware specs!

luthis,

I have doubts you would see any performance increases, and if you change your hardware you’ll be in for a tough time but it would be a fun learning experience!

Pantherina,

Thats a question I have. I have two laptops, a shitty amd ryzen thinkpad t495 and a fancy soon-to-be-corebooted Clevo NV41MZ with i7-11** cpu. Pretty crazy performance difference although the chassis and keyboard suck. But if I get the keyboard I want to simply swap drives, as there is nothing fancy, this should just work right?

kogasa, (edited )
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

Swapping CPU manufacturers entirely? I’d just start my kernel config fresh. Pull up the old one next to a new (default ) one and go down line by line. Odds are there are at most a few flags that would need to be changed, but it’s a good chance to reevaluate your previous decisions too.

Pantherina,

I havent made any specific kernel changes, its just standard Fedora :D

luthis,

Um… I’m going to choose to phone a friend on this one…

Oh, …I have no friends who would know.

My instinct is you’re going to need to journalctl -b and see what modprobe and udev are up to.

Overspark,

This used to be the norm, not a weird thing that noone has thought of before. If you do this your kernel will be a lot smaller, boot faster, and be a bit more secure. Once you’re booted it won’t make any meaningful speed difference though.

kogasa,
@kogasa@programming.dev avatar

It makes a HUGE difference in compile time. Which only matters if you’re building your own kernel anyway. It’s a solution for its own problem.

I think it’s a good learning experience though. There is genuinely a lot of stuff in there that you can easily, safely remove, and reading up on all the less obvious flags is fun.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

Yep. When you have an 800mb HD and 16mb of EDO RAM, you only load what you need. The boot speed was unreal at the time compared to windows.

GustavoM, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

You guys 'member when security patches were (freely) given away, for free, without asking nothing back?

I 'member.

Looks like the “Windowsfied Linux” era is upon us.

Dirk,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s the problem with “corporate Linux”[^1]. They see their users as customers only.

[^1]: Directly or indirectly owned by a for-profit organization of any type or directly or indirectly dependent on such an organization.

ares35, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

do they also lock their sources behind a subscriber agreement that prohibits redistribution of source like ibm's redhat has done?

Ganbat,

RHL: We’re locking down our source because people are using it without contributing!

Also RHL: Thanks for your contribution, but we’re not interested until we have someone ready to pay us for your labor.

Cwilliams, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

Even if Ubuntu does start doing slightly sketchy things, they’ll still be a million times better than Windows or MacOS

drwho,

And how many respins of Ubuntu are out there that just have their own repos? Quite a few, as I recall.

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

canonical has already crossed that 'slightly sketchy' line.

mnmalst, (edited ) in An Untold History of Thunderbird

In addition, we’re going to develop the tools that give people choices other than the big three.

This sentence at the very end makes me very curious. Is this a hint for a Thunderbird mail service or something similar?

On the one hand I would love to have a mail service offered by the Thunderbird team that would also fund Thunderbird development. On the other hand it’s probably not a good idea to split the development resources too thin.

kixik,

Well, there are alternatives. There’s /e/ (murena.io now a days) and distroot, and you can use gnupg with others who also use gnupg, and with distroot you can use its own encryption as well. There’s tutanota and prrotonmail, which use their own encryption mechanisms but only work with the same providers and not with other providers…

I mean there are already several non big corps providers of email. Distroot also provides xmpp, nextcloud, and several other services, the same as /e/. I can’t tell I’d trust more TB than the alternatives, several of them are non profit. But there are options. It’s sad before smart phones, some big corps were already dominating the services, and after them, things got even worse. But there have been, and still are, options for refugees. That’s not the issue in my mind.

The big issue, is that those big corps do what they want, excluding those not using them. All of them, no exception, place received messages from /e/ to the spam, that if the email even reaches the final user, some times it gets discarded by the service without even getting to the end receiver. Several mail registrations for whatever account, banks, insurance, stores and so on, don’t even accept email addresses if not from the big corps. So the huge and toxic influence from big corps doesn’t get corrected by another non big corp service. It’s like with FLOSS alternatives, or more private alternatives in general, the issue is the power most users give to those big corps. Most users prefer those corps services, at times ignoring the non big corps are not less comfortable, but most of the time they don’t even care, even if told there are easy enough alternative they would still select big corps. Then with such power, big corps not only dominate, but also discriminate non big corps users…

mnmalst,

I am aware, I am using an alternative service myself for several years now. My point was that having an email service that helps fund Thunderbird would be nice. Furthermore, more alternative that ethically align with my views are always good.

archomrade, (edited )

I’m curious about this too.

A lot of self-hosted FOSS people draw the line at hosting their own mail servers. Even if Mozilla created a new domain hosting server for handling, the big three could still reject the traffic like they do for people hosting outside the three now, under the guise of spam filtering.

I’d be ecstatic if they did something here, but I’m not really clear on what a solution would look like. On top of them spreading thin as you mentioned

*edited ‘domain’ service to ‘hosting’ service

Kidplayer_666,

I have my own domain (even if hosted on a relatively small provider) and I don’t have that much of an issue tbh?

FigMcLargeHuge,

Just curious what you are using. I have a domain as well, and occasionally consider setting up another email server for it. I also still have some old old accounts that are still linked to my domain email, but I just haven’t run an email server in years. Is it something turnkey that I don’t need to spend weeks configuring? In fact I might only turn it on long enough to receive emails so that I can change the accounts.

Kidplayer_666,

I am not happy with my provider, currently waiting for the email hosting to expire so that I can maintain just the domain there and eventually user zoho for hosting

FigMcLargeHuge,

Thanks. I will take a look.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I use Mailcow and it works well. Easy to configure, and it uses Docker so it’s self-contained and very easy to move to a new server if you ever need to do that.

I’m using an SMTP relay for outbound emails, though. I didn’t want to have to deal with IP reputation issues, especially with Microsoft/Hotmail. I’m hosting my server on a VPS, and spammers in the same subnet can result in the entire subnet getting blocklisted. Configuring a relay is easy in Mailcow’s UI, and can be configured per domain.

archomrade,

I edited the comment, I really meant hosting server, not domain.

Having a custom domain isn’t a big deal, it’s really where that domain is hosted that creates forwarding issues. Since the majority of email is handled by the ‘big three’, anything that’s hosted outside of that is often flagged as spam or is refused to be delivered. That’s allegedly because there are malicious senders also hosted on third party servers (and fair enough, there likely are), but this causes a bit of a potential monopoly that could easily be abused, and there’s obvious motivation to push people into a particular service for data collection.

Even if it doesn’t happen often, occasional failures can be a huge problem if you’re sending critical communication and it isn’t reaching target inboxes because of filtering. It’s enough of a headache that even most avid self-hosters tend to avoid it.

Kidplayer_666,

That is absolutely unreasonable, as the email files don’t actually tell you who the sender is beyond the domain from where it’s sent. The email protocol is SUPER unsafe and really really easy to spoof as someone from the big three

archomrade,

My understanding is that it’s a combination of correctly deploying authentication (DMARC, DKIM, and SPF) and the actual IP address of the server that can get you into trouble. If you incorrectly set up authentication, OR if a malicious sender spoofs you (likely because you didn’t set up auth correctly), it can get your IP blocklisted. And unless you’re monitoring if you’re blocklisted, you often don’t know that things aren’t getting delivered until someone tells you.

And then you’re still kind of at the whim of the big players, because they could change or update their authentication standards, and if you’re not on top of it you can find yourself in the same boat, even if you’re doing everything else right.

It’s not impossible, it’s just a headache. But if i’m being honest, i’m a bit of a novice so it could be easier to a more trained network administrator.

aev, in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

No, they aren’t. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.

TheGrandNagus, (edited ) in An Untold History of Thunderbird

The second-newest is my favourite logo, but it makes sense to have a shared design language between Firefox and Thunderbird.

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