SteveTech

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SteveTech,

Is edid/sony.bin your new EDID? Does it revert back if you remove drm.edid_firmware all together?

Also, do you mind sharing your EDID? I had to edit mine to get VRR to work, so maybe there’s something invalid in yours. It does contain serial numbers though if that’s a problem.

SteveTech,

None of my monitors (which are all DisplayPort) have audio, but one appears in the audio settings, so I’d say DisplayPort itself does support audio.

SteveTech,

I wrote a guide here: stevetech.me/posts/force-enable-vrr-edid

But it was mostly just changing random things and hoping for the best, so YMMV. I hope it helps!

SteveTech, (edited )

how do i do that?

Probably by editing your GRUB config or whatever bootloader you’re using.

Here is the EDID

Thanks, that should be enough I’ll have a look when I’m free. Also something like get-edid > monitor.bin would probably be easier for me though.

Edit: I’ve had a look, I can’t see any issues. Both checksums validate correctly and it advertises audio support. As you’ve probably seen in edid-decode, I’d expect it to show as ‘SONY TV’ (or at least for KDE ‘Sony SONY TV’ I believe).

SteveTech,

To me that does sound like your initramfs just needed recreating, since un/installing a module will do that usually.

SteveTech,

I believe the main contributor for drm_panic wants to add one eventually. Here’s what it might look like:

DRM panic handler panic screenshotgitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1

Link if you can’t scan

Also it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (with white on black default).

SteveTech, (edited )

For electron, if ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT and electron-flags.conf don’t work, you can also add –ozone-platform-hint=wayland to the end of Exec in each .desktop file (also works on Chromium, but not CEF AFAIK and sometimes CEF).

There’s also –ozone-platform-hint=auto if you find yourself switching between X11 and Wayland.

SteveTech,

but I can’t figure out which of the “0000:00:whatever’s” correlate to my Bluetooth card

lspci will list your PCI devices and their ID, but if it’s a combo WiFi & Bluetooth card, they usually use PCIe for WiFi and USB for Bluetooth.

SteveTech,

I think it mostly relies on Glaxnimate for graphics and stuff, which supports most SVG and Lottie animations.

So there’s not really a library, but things aren’t hard to find.

SteveTech,

Online screen recorders already exist too, I also don’t think it really needs any server side logic either.

SteveTech,

I don’t know anything that can do an in-place ext4 conversation, but there’s ntfs2btrfs which is already in the Debian repos if you’re okay with BTRFS.

Of course, backup anything important, ntfs2btrfs should create a backup snapshot if you need to revert back to NTFS, but I wouldn’t count on it.

SteveTech,

Just curious, what parts aren’t open source? At a glance it seems like they’re working on supporting self hosting and I couldn’t find any binaries.

(Newbie question) Did i handle my system crashing correctly?

Ive just installed Linux (Fedora 40 KDE) on my main PC over the weekend, so im a complete newbie and i apologize if some of my questions are nonsensical 😅. Yesterday evening the system seemed to completely lock up at a certain point while playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time (installed & run via steam using proton...

SteveTech,

This might be just me, but I prefer remembering what the keys actually do:

  • R - Raw keyboard
  • F - Free mem
  • E - End everything
  • I - kIll everything
  • B - reBoot

Also good to know:

  • S - Sync drives
  • U - Unmount drives
  • O - power Off
  • C - Crash
SteveTech,

I’ve had bad experiences with ntfs3 anyway, so it’s probably for the best that ntfs-3g is the default. Also last I checked ntfs3 had effectively been orphaned by paragon (the developers), is that still the case?

SteveTech,

Ahh thanks! That’s good to know!

SteveTech, (edited )

It doesn’t have a QR code in it’s current state AFAIK, but I believe the guy wants to add one eventually. Here’s what it might look like:

DRM panic handler panic screenshotgitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1

Also from the commits it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (white on black default), and that exclamation Tux is already there.

Looks like this is already a thing though with [systemd-bsod]

Nah, that only handles boot errors, not kernel panics.

SteveTech,

Well the QR code part hasn’t even been submitted to the maintainers yet AFAIK, so there’s still time to change, and I’m sure it’ll be configurable so you either get a stack trace or a QR code.

SteveTech,

My AMD Laptop has USB 4, which is effectively the same AFAIK.

SteveTech,

archive.today seems to work, but it’s quite slow.

SteveTech,

Just wondering, does seafile cache the previously opened files locally, in case I don’t have internet.

OneDrive does this on Windows and I’ve been looking for something similar and self hosted.

SteveTech,

Can it automatically keep them for a certain amount of time after I’ve opened them though?

I’ll definitely be trying out seafile eventually!

SteveTech,

Cool, thank you! I’ll definitely be sure to try them out.

SteveTech,

I’ve got a similar setup, but my non-root SSDs are F2FS.

SteveTech,

There’s also an open source BTRFS driver for Windows.

SteveTech,

I haven’t had any issues with it so far, but I like having snapshots incase I need to rollback an update or something so that’s why BTRFS.

why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...

SteveTech,

If they haven’t changed in the last decade, it’s basically just 2 USB network adaptors stuck together. So it probably would still work, but I’d also prefer the modern solutions anyway.

SteveTech,

Reminds me of The Truman Show.

SteveTech,

Yeah usually it’ll still use your dGPU to render, but the frames still have to go back through the iGPU, so there’s a fair bit of overhead compared to plugging straight into the dGPU. I’d imagine it might also increase CPU usage too, as it has to coordinate transfering frames between 2 GPUs.

SteveTech,

It starts to break down on Wayland though, screen sharing doesn’t work, drag and drop looks to work but errors when sending, and probably other things.

Edit: Yes I’m already running it with –ozone-platform-hint=auto

SteveTech,

Yeah, but also I really didn’t expect Zoom to have working screen sharing on wayland before discord.

SteveTech,

In theory PWAs can be configured to run offline, whether they’re doing that I don’t know.

The desktop app looks like it’s electron though.

SteveTech, (edited )

Here’s the Google Lens translation: The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”

SteveTech,

Here’s the free device manufacturer version: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n4wgh0z6vhq

SteveTech,

Nah, it’s designed for device manufacturers to preload but anyone can install it.

SteveTech,

Add –ozone-platform-hint=auto to the command, I’ve done it so may times for electron stuff it’s engrained into my head now haha. You can check that it works with xlsclients.

Also QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland for QT based apps is handy to know too if they’re not behaving.

SteveTech,

You don’t have to switch distros, you should be able to have GNOME and KDE installed side by side, and pick which one on the login screen (at least in GDM & SDDM), unless you’re running an immutable distro.

SteveTech, (edited )

discord screen-sharing is not there but can be done from Firefox if needed

You can also install KDE’s XWayland Video Bridge, which converts Wayland screen sharing into an app for discord to share.

flatpak install --user --or-update https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/xwaylandvideobridge-nightly/org.kde.xwaylandvideobridge.flatpakref

You might also want to add the repo for updates, but I think it’s been down for a little while for me.

Edit: There’s a new repo: flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists xwaylandvideobridge-nightly https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/xwaylandvideobridge-nightly/xwaylandvideobridge-nightly.flatpakrepo

SteveTech,

This guy stuck his face inside a microwave and he seems probably fine: youtu.be/3hBRxwQXmCQ

SteveTech,

I think the i and h would the the same height as the T though, so I kinda doubt it’s Timothy.

SteveTech,

TCP Initial Sequence Numbers Randomization prevents TCP ISN-based CPU Information Leaks;

Seems to be related to this: github.com/Kicksecure/tirdad

Although it looks like it’s literally just slightly possible to leak the load on the system. It’s hard to pull off, and isn’t precise enough to leak anything important.

SteveTech,

I think Telstra in Australia has done a similar things in the past too.

SteveTech,

I’ve had a similar issue with a monitor not properly supporting VRR, I ended up dumping the EDID and forcing Linux to use that instead of the monitor’s.

How performant are the Intel Arc GPUs in linux?

I saw the other day about the new video of Hardware Unboxed where they benchmarked the Intel GPUs with newer drivers on Windows. I’m also interested in buying one but I’d like to know how good they are on Linux. Since the GPUs will be using Vulkan renderer on Linux, I was hoping they would be better overall, or rather have a...

SteveTech,

Like other people have said, day to day it works with no issues, I’m also running Wayland; but it did struggle with picking up both my monitors’ VRR, and I ended up changing random things in the monitor EDID to get it working.

Current state of NTFS compatibility?

Hi all. I’ve used Linux off and on for almost two decades now but most recently in a VM. I’m thinking I might make the permanent switch sometime before Windows 10 EOL. My concern is that I have over 12TB of data spanned across many drives, all in the NTFS file system. How is NTFS compatibility nowadays? For a time, I...

SteveTech,

NTFS-3G on Linux is very stable, and I’d recommend sticking to that, although I’d avoid the newer NTFS3 driver.

But if you really want to convert, and it’s data that you don’t mind loosing, ntfs2btrfs can convert NTFS partitions to BTRFS, and it’s available in most distros’ repositories.

SteveTech,

Last I checked, only SUB (Sync, Unmount, reBoot) is enabled by default, you have to edit a sysctl config for REI (Raw keyboard, SIGTERM, SIGKILL) to do anything.

SteveTech,

Yeah, and I feel like someone’s gonna slam that door one day and get egg all over their bananas.

SteveTech,

It’s only a mercury rectifier, totally safe (compared to the radioactive stuff) but looks really cool.

SteveTech,

Woah peertube federating with lemmy is actually really cool!

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