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GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control (www.phoronix.com)

As pointed out in This Week in GNOME, there’s been some continued work on Variable Rate Refresh for the GNOME desktop. The VRR setting within GNOME Settings continues to be iterated on as the developers iron out how they’d like to present the Variable Rate Refresh setting for users. The developers have been discussing how to...

bitwolf,

Bypass is maybe a poor choice of words. Both gamescope and Kwin are compositors so you can use one or the other.

An advantage of making gamescope is that they can add features like VRR or HDR without having to wayiting for KWin to implement it

bitwolf, (edited )

While TeamViewer is definitely neglected I use it often on Wayland and it works well actually!

In the past year or so it doesn’t shut down correctly. But the core functionality works well.

I’ve been experimenting with Rustdesk as an alternative because I doubt they’ll update the Linux client anytime soon. The Windows version looks like an entirely different application at this point

In terms of feature parity. I believe the only thing left is global hotkeys, which hyprland proved it can be done.

Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)] (www.youtube.com)

Further if this technology is open-sourced; can it be extended for use cases beyond that(Dual Motherboards sharing Compute power with low latency for working on a single process?); I know such solutions probably exist for servers and enterprises but i am talking about amateurs who don’t have 10K lying around for specialty...

bitwolf,

It looks as if you can do it, but it doesn’t automagically configure itself on Linux.

Intel seems pretty good about standardizing their TB features so we may see it in a USB4.x or USB5 standard.

That said, USB4 is TB4 capable so it may be able to be introduced into USB4 as is.

bitwolf,

I wonder how well PLA would work for food storage. I learned it’s made with beets and can break down very quickly.

bitwolf, (edited )

I also have this issue where the webview will refuse to change after a while.

I can try to leave a site typing in and address or try to switch tabs the UI will indicate the page changes and is loading but will still show the old site.

Eventually it goes black and is stuck until I force close and reload the page.

Haven’t yet figured out how /where to report as a bug

bitwolf,

Yes, YYYY/MM/DD

bitwolf,

Tbf it’s not exactly made easy to completely remove chrome + Google from phones.

Even if you set Firefox as default, even with webview, some Google apps will call chrome anyway using the built in webview.

bitwolf,

Fedora runs at a twice annual release model and includes kernel and firmware updates within those releases whereas Ubuntu matches a kernel with a release.

Their packages, to me, feel much higher quality in terms of reliability and reaction time to reported bugs. They also test and guarantee updates for packages in their repos. I ran my college laptop through 15 system upgrades without any issues, nothing has been that reliable for me.

I enjoyed using Ubuntu for several years and hadn’t considered Fedora until they were the first to default to Wayland (f21) and never switched again.

You can do anything on any distro, so you end up just shopping for your fav package manager and default repo and staying there. I encourage you to play with all of them with a separated /home partition or so it’s easy to shop.

bitwolf, (edited )

I always interpreted that as a factor of the Plasma team being willing to offer compatibility for things that broke the freedesktop spec.

Whereas Gnome / Mutter for example appear to believe that if they don’t strictly follow spec it’ll perpetuate the fragmentation.

I tend to side with the latter perspective but use KDE + kwin on my desktop for gaming for Wayland + vrr (it’s amazing how smooth and responsive this is). Gnome really shines on the notebook form factor so I use it there.

I'm currently downloading a show that is on a service to which I subscribe

I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and for a trip to Spain I downloaded some stuff to watch on the flight. When I got on the plane none of the stuff downloaded on Disney+ would play. Maybe an issue with downloading to the SD card? I don’t know, but regardless Disney offers SD card as a download destination so they should make sure it is...

bitwolf,

You don’t need a crazy server either. I got a cheap Intel Celeron motherboard for mine. Peaks at 10w and just hangs out streaming music and videos to our phones.

Perfect for <10 people.

bitwolf, (edited )

Just uninstall all the Nvidia stuff and reboot. It’s been great for me so far.

Linux will auto detect the hardware and load the proper modules at boot. I believe initrd does this.

This worked great for Intel -> AMD CPU also. I just removed the Intel microcode packages after I rebooted to save the disk space.

bitwolf,

Depending on how new your GPU is you should be able to try it on the newest Nvidia drivers. :)

You can select it from the login screen (not lock screen), usually it’s a gear icon near the “enter” button on the login screen. Or in the bottom right corner.

bitwolf,

How does that work? Do they count user interaction time only by pausing the timer during package downloads?

Or do you need fast internet to play?

bitwolf,

Pretty.much pure gnome. The only thing I use is the auto night mode extension to make it go dark at sunset.

What's an alternative to Spotify that doesn't play you the same fucking songs over and over?

I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don’t recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn’t cut it, either....

bitwolf,

I do it too, just with Plexamp.

The recommendations and radios on plexamp are amazing compared to any other service I’ve tried.

bitwolf,

Steam Deck gets more popular.

Steam console released with improved multi user experience and VR.

PlayStation sales drop in growth.

Steam OS released, PCs can use it with generic kernels.

Gaming PC manufacturers offer steam OS as a preinstalled.

PC manufacturers start to offer popular distros preinstalled.

System 76 puts their in house laptops into Best Buy shelves.

Adobe and Office no longer stuck on Windows and are distributed as wasm applications.

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