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  • I mean they did also inject affiliate links without the users noticing which is really shady behaviour from a browser because it has one job, open the link I click and nothing else. But that's just IMHO if that is acceptable for you personally then there is no issue with that.

  • Accessibility
  • Just leaving this here for everyone! This browser extension saved me a lot of hassle so many times. We need to stop paying where possible and this is the convenient legal way for a lot of papers out there: https://unpaywall.org/

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
  • Definitely, she has served me like the absolute beast she is. To this day the card actually deserves very admirable even in modern titles. The next destination might actually be my roommates PC who'se still running a 960 which is pretty lackluster these days with 2 GB of VRAM.

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
  • Absolutely it's been mostly rock solid. I do however plan on switching to Wayland. Since that will now be doable with AMD graphics it might still be a pain with Gnome 42 so depending on my impatience I might not wait till Pop!_OS 24.04.

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
  • Pop!_OS atm but hopping in the future is not out of question since this was my first and only distro on this device for a few years now. I just was too lazy so far to try out new things.

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
  • Just to clarify, I use Pop!_OS and not Fedora Ublue. I looked at their Wiki because they are the only ones who had documentation on how they made hw accel work with Flatpak and Nvidia specifically. More exaclty I was led there by this Reddit post.

    AFAIK it should work fine with AMD since Firefox can use the VA-API FFmpeg Flatpak to provide hw accel which should work fine with AMD GPUs. This does however not support Nvidia GPUs, which is why you have to expose the driver in the sandbox and force Firefox to try to use it etc.

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
  • Mesa drivers for opengl, vulkan, etc. are likely already installed, what you need to install are the mesa-va and mesa-vdpau drivers for video acceleration. Other than that, you just need to make sure the GPU doesn’t stay in power saving mode when you play.

    Thanks, I'll make sure to install those for sure then.

    Btw, video acceleration with Nvidia mostly works if you use this.

    You know, I actually tried, and I couldn't get hardware acceleration working in the Firefox Flatpak for the love of god. I tried everything, all the guides, looked at the Ublue documentation how they did it etc. and in the end I decided it's just not worth it because playback worked fine without, just with a wee bit higher CPU usage.

  • Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics

    I finally did it and got an used RX 6950 XT to replace my GTX 1080 Ti. I've been using this card ever since I moved to Linux and now I'm wondering what exactly I have to do. On Windows it's mostly run DDU and install the new AMD drivers, everything else will probably work the same with Afterburner etc.

    However, on Linux the only things I know are uninstalling the Nvidia drivers, removing GWE since that obviously won't work and installing Mesa.

    What other steps do people recommend? I'm hyped to finally get properly working GPU acceleration in Firefox and other things like Steam, but is there anything I have to do to get that running? Also what tools are currently a must with an AMD card for some undervolting / overclocking and other functionality y'all can recommend?

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    Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord
  • I never actually tried myself, but it seems like the documentation certainly could be improved. I saw that they provide a Docker compose, so perhaps that could be of help if you didn't use that the last time around. They are currently in the process of cleaning up the projects to make things more maintainable and easier to get an overview, so let's hope things might improve a bit. I think for me personally, this certainly seems like the most promising Discord replacement because it feels like a set and get solution for non-techy people trying to switch instead of relearning everything like with Matrix.

  • Tablet palm rejection
  • I reported basically this issue a few months back with another Lenovo device. Sadly there was no other activity towards resolving this.

    Maybe you can bring in some new information if you can confirm, that you have the same issue.

    In essence the hover recognition distance greatly reduces when touch input is present causing these jumps to happen with the palm because when writing any lifting off the pen will reactivate touch.

  • why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?
  • I don‘t think you understand my point. Let me be a bit more high level. It's not about the three major outages WhatsApp had this year for like 30 mins. or whatever.

    A perfectly set up Matrix server with more than enough resources allocated has issues decrypting messages when there's a few hundred people and that's without federation. This is still happening to today, fully updated server and clients.

    As I said, I know they are working with a lot less resources than Meta. But at the moment the implementation doesn't even do the most basic thing, deliver messages reliably. I know their new encryption library is supposed to do a better job but it's just the cold hard truth that it's not up there with the big messengers yet. Denying that doesn't do the project any good.

  • why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?
  • Matrix does definitely not have the same reliability as WhatsApp or Signal. I've used it for around 3 years now with a group of tech savvy friends.

    It's still a regular occurrence that we get cannot decrypt errors, sometimes the app doesn't show new messages in the chat but they are visible in the preview, also the app can be soooo slow.

    Also, I know it's not user error. If you check the Matrix development and follow their blog posts they already acknowledged the issues and are working on fixes. But for now it's just wishful thinking when one calls them reliable alternatives for mainstream use. I'm not hating and will keep using the project because I truly think they are doing amazing work.

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  • I don't know how exactly it's possible. You'd have to figure that out yourself. However, if you use a tool like chezmoi you can most probably sync the correct folders inside your profile.

    May I ask what part you're paranoid about since Firefox Sync is fully encrypted anyway?

  • So, I want a t-shirt to show off love to open source. I need some org to buy it from (so my money counts). I also want it to have a clear message to regular people.
  • Sure, I agree. The problem is (and I'm sorry Matrix fans) but decentralised services don't cut it for messaging at the moment. I'm on multiple Matrix instances which I use for different groups. One more tech savvy than the other, but still. Message can not be decrypted, or toggling one wrong switch and all messages become unreadable without you knowing. I would absolutely not have been able to switch 90% of my contacts to Signal if that were the experience.

    Centralisation does not inherently have to be bad and Signal has been operating with good faith for many years now. I don't see them selling out anytime soon and I think they are our best shot at a good FOSS instant messaging contender for the broad masses.

  • New Scam: Asking to download Signal/Telegram?
  • I don't see how downloading Signal is directly making this a scam? It might just be that the company cares about security and privacy and isn't comfortable sharing confidential company data over something like LinkedIn?

    If the offer seems legit and you applied for it there is no way you can get scammed just by texting them on Signal.

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