I’ve looked at a lot of other immutable distros and I might just end up using one of those, but I feel like taking on a bit of a challenge and there’s a few things I’m not very keen on with existing solutions (last paragraph is my idea if you want to skip the context)....
BTRFS snapshots are relatively cheap. I have about 10 or 20 or so on my systems. Snapper manages that for me.
Also I’d say that you only want to roll back for catastrophic errors like the system not booting. If you discover after 8 upgrades that a package that was updated on the first upgrade has some critical bug you wouldn’t roll back everything else to fix the issue. You would just downgrade that single package to a known good version.
In my first playthrough he was able to talk to Raphael outside of the Gauntlet of Shar. This time Raphael just left without ever giving Astarion a chance to ask any questions. So, I reloaded a save, did the whole House of Healing fight again, made sure to have Astarion selected when we approached the Gauntlet, and it auto...
I mean, 2023 had a ton of “wow, this is definitely game of the year” releases one after another. So many that you couldn’t even fit all of them into the category of most gaming shows. And for some inane reason Todd Howard still thought he had a shot.
It’s so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn’t like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue....
When I look at what she does before even hitting the AI button I think her artistic interests are not in trouble. But she always liked drawing and painting anyways.
Nah, that’s running on a laptop with the actual AI stuff being rendered on my gaming PC. I think that’s basically what all the AI tools on phones do as well. It’s just some company’s gaming PC.
Yeah. Took me several days to set it up with the AMD card on my gaming rig. I also tried to run it on a Steam Deck but I gave that up. As it says, using the CPU is possible but painfully slow.
For this image she used live mode of Comics & Anime at about 30% strength. Increasing or decreasing the strength as needed. She painted filled out shapes, like filled out triangles for the mountains, green and blue for the field and sky and the general shape of a bird in orange for the phoenix.
Just painting the outlines generally doesn’t work as well as using filled out shapes. And it’s important that you describe. what’s in the picture.
We didn’t use the layers at all. If you can find some documentation on those that would be appreciated, I don’t get them either.
I recorded her work. I’ll ask her if I may upload it.
After years of my desktop environment (kde) being configured the same way, I tried enabling auto-hiding in my panel and I quite like the extra screen estate....
Did you mean with touch support? They can all work without touch if you just don’t use it.
Gnome works quite well with touch. I had to jump through some hoops to get KDE Plasma to work well enough on my Steam Deck. I have to use three different on screen keyboards (Maliit, Onboard and Steam’s) depending on what I’m doing.
When I had my Pinephone I was really tempted to use Gnome as my DE. There were just some really small annoyances and it would have been perfect. Made me wish that Purism had thrown their weight directly at Gnome instead of making Phosh.
Valve is difficult. On the one hand they have their own Wayland compositor with gamescope. Which works by launching an explicitly configured XWayland session for the game.
And on the other hand there’s Steam, which is still an X application.
And on top of that are stupid Steam Input bugs that only happen when you try to launch a game with gamescope.
On the Steam Deck in gaming mode Gamescope is the main compositor which launches two XWayland sessions. I guess one for Steam and one for the game.
Because of the Mac focus I really had a sliver of hope that Halo might get a Linux release. Or that the Windows release might at least be playable via Wine. Then they got bought by Microsoft.
I’ve tried to find them to no avail. I’m guessing the box sets just aren’t made anymore, but I figured it’s worth asking in case there’s some obscure one out there somewhere....
For those that don’t know, a large solar storm is occurring this weekend that may allow much of the US to see the northern lights. However, the forecast calls for clouds where I am, and most of the east coast. space.com/solar-storm-coronal-mass-ejections-moth…
I’m flicking between Arkham Knight (where I remembered why I don’t like the game), Deus Ex (where I kinda think I know why I don’t like the game) and Shattered Pixel Dungeon (where I almost don’t know why I stopped playing the game).
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can’t get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Yeah, the Spider-Man games are a good comparison. A ton of different moves you can do but most of them are pretty easy and intuitive to pull of. I’m patiently waiting for Spider-Man 2 to arrive on PC.
I think I’ll invest a few more hours into Arkham Knight and if I can’t get into it I’ll try Origins. And if that one doesn’t do it for me either I’ll just play Asylum again.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Did you install Windows 10 yourself from scratch? If you managed to do that you should be able to handle most Linux installs as well. I would go so far to say that generally Linux is easier to install than Windows nowadays. Go with Mint or OpenSUSE or Ubuntu and you should be all right.
If you have nvidia graphics that might give you trouble in the form of one extra package to install. If you have Intel or AMD graphics you shouldn’t expect any trouble at all.
The biggest difference between Windows and Linux is that you generally don’t download apps and drivers from websites but use your package manager to install stuff. Similar to app stores on smartphones. And unless it’s nvidia all drivers are already built in.
You can download live Linux images that boot directly from USB to try them out without installing. Often the live image is the same one you can then use to install Linux, if you want to.
Like that monkey experiment where they put food on top of a ladder but every time someone tries to get the food everybody gets sprayed with cold water. When they stop trying to get food they take one monkey out and put a new one in who gets beaten up by the others when it tries to get the food. So they substitute in new monkeys until none of the originals are left but they still beat up anyone trying to get the food although they don’t know why.
Just go with whatever is the default of your distribution.
That said I’ve come to love the automatic snapshots OpenSUSE gives me with BTRFS. I think they use snapper to automate that. It does a snapshot before and after every packet install, update or removal. And it has some system to delete snapshots that aren’t needed anymore but it always keeps enough to give you peace of mind, especially when you’re experimenting.
I should look into keeping some snapshots of my ~ as well. And I should implement that especially for my family.
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
Wasn’t Volvo the company where some exec got run over when they wanted to demonstrate the automatic emergency stop feature? And all this after they gifted seatbelts to the world.
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...
Rolling my own immutable distro
I’ve looked at a lot of other immutable distros and I might just end up using one of those, but I feel like taking on a bit of a challenge and there’s a few things I’m not very keen on with existing solutions (last paragraph is my idea if you want to skip the context)....
GPU Faker - Bypass GPU restrictions imposed by games like Arena Breakout Infinite (github.com)
R34 Rule (file.coffee)
Party crash in Azeribarule (sh.itjust.works)
Astarion can't talk to Raphael?
In my first playthrough he was able to talk to Raphael outside of the Gauntlet of Shar. This time Raphael just left without ever giving Astarion a chance to ask any questions. So, I reloaded a save, did the whole House of Healing fight again, made sure to have Astarion selected when we approached the Gauntlet, and it auto...
PC gaming getting worse every year (www.xda-developers.com)
FOSS AI painting with Krita (swg-empire.de)
cross-posted from: swg-empire.de/post/966893...
FOSS AI painting with Krita (swg-empire.de)
It’s so awesome that I can let my kid paint with Krita and let her enhance the picture with AI live. She wanted to have an AI picture editor on her phone but I didn’t like the privacy policy. But Krita AI Diffusion came to the rescue....
Launcher with integrated clock and tray?
After years of my desktop environment (kde) being configured the same way, I tried enabling auto-hiding in my panel and I quite like the extra screen estate....
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
🟰 b& (sh.itjust.works)
alt-textScreenshot of GNOME Calculator with error message in foreground reading “Error” - “You are permanently banned from Calculator”
[SOLVED] Any DE or distro without touch support?
I have an old AIO PC and its touch panel is not working properly. Are there any DEs or distros that doesnt have touch support?...
rule of cool (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Nathan Pyle is always right
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
Sony and Lego are collaborating on a project based on Guerilla's Horizon franchise, leaker teases (www.eurogamer.net)
Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (www.pcgamer.com)
[Civvie 11] Interspecies conflict bowl '99 (Aliens Versus Predator 1999) (www.youtube.com)
NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+ (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Extremely positive experience with Waydroid
I used to hate android emulators, since the ones I’d tested on Windows were ad-ridden, slow bloatware....
femcel rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I stole this meme edit from TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world. Credit to her
Are there still any versions of Linux sold in a box like in the 90s / 2000s?
I’ve tried to find them to no avail. I’m guessing the box sets just aren’t made anymore, but I figured it’s worth asking in case there’s some obscure one out there somewhere....
This is how it will go this weekend, its the rule. (lemmy.world)
For those that don’t know, a large solar storm is occurring this weekend that may allow much of the US to see the northern lights. However, the forecast calls for clouds where I am, and most of the east coast. space.com/solar-storm-coronal-mass-ejections-moth…
WB Blames ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ For Quarterly Miss (www.forbes.com)
Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of May 6th, 2024
ops forgot
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....
Does Arkham Knight get better?
cross-posted from: swg-empire.de/post/921635...
Does Arkham Knight get better?
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can’t get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Denuvo Outage Makes Hit Single-Player Game Unplayable (gamerant.com)
location sharing
Is location sharing possible? I can’t find any answer
Traffic rule (slrpnk.net)
NetworkManager makes me want to pull my hair out
I’m trying to set up a somewhat weird network configuration, three interfaces on a pi, an adhoc AP, a wireless lan, and a USB modem....
Rule of Theseus (i.ibb.co)
what is this game (sh.itjust.works)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c82fd544-18ee-40b7-acf6-b8321fcce6aa.jpeg
Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4…?...
heteroule (lemmy.world)
Rule their balls (lemmy.world)
Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
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...