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Why I need extra kernel modules to be able to run Wayland on nvidia?
  • No Xorg also ships with up to date distros like Debian, arch, Ubuntu, etc but several of them have switched to using Wayland by default. It is deprecated because it is no longer actively developed and only maintained by a small group of devs and even that because these devs work for companies like Red Hat, Oracle, etc who have a vested interest in fixing those bugs

  • The (RTX 4060 Ti) was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year
  • The 4090 isn't that much better than the 4080, and the 4080 is much more energy efficient

    The 4090 often beats the 4080 with a margin of 25% or more often has a one percent low figure better than the average frame rates delivered by the 4080. If that is not enough for it to be considered much better, I don't know what is.

    Regarding your comments on efficiency, generally the high end is not as efficient as the other GPUs as they are pushed beyond the ideal point of the voltage-frequency curve to extract the most performance. And even after this, in GPU bound scenarios, the 4090 does great as it uses 25-35% more power to deliver 20-30% better fps which puts it on average around 10-15% behind in efficiency which is not enough in my opinion to claim that the 4080 is much more efficient.

    Article based on hardware unboxed's review - https://www.techspot.com/review/2569-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080/

  • The (RTX 4060 Ti) was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year
  • but the 4080 and 4090 absolutely blow previous gens out of the water

    Just the 4090, the 4080 is not is not that big a jump compared to the 3090Ti. Considering the 4080 trades blows with the 7900xtx, can't say that it blows previous gen out of the water

  • Firefox PiP doesn't stay on top in GNOME

    I am using fedora silverblue and in the native version of Firefox, the picture in picture window does not have always on top enabled. Is there anyway to change a setting such that always on top is enabled by default. I know it is supported on gnome+fedora because the flatpak version(I downloaded to test this behaviour) has this enabled by default.

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    Albon shares the secrets of Verstappen’s unique driving style
  • I am getting tired of people claiming the car is built around verstappen and twisting albon's words to 'prove' it. Albon clearly says in the article that the car is what it is and that the only reason the car ends up being developed more towards verstappen is because he is faster and hence his inputs are given more weight.

    Hell even this year started off with the car suiting Perez but even then Perez could hardly match verstappen and once the car was updated slightly. Why would you give the guy who is at best equally matched and at worst nearly a second behind the other guy equal weightage when it comes to upgrades.

  • Perez opens up on F1 2023 slump - "I cannot be this bad, something's going on"
  • Firstly Perez never says this in the article. Secondly not only people who are at red bull but even people who have left red bull have confirmed that the car is never built for a particular driver. Instead, RB develops the car in a way that makes it faster and that just happens to be a oversteery car. Max is able to live with it and hence is able to extract the performance. If RB had 2 Sergio's they would have needed to make a fundamentally slower car because Perez would be able to extract the max from that car and not to able to do the same with a oversteery car. In that scenario, the car would seem slower than it actually is due to Perez's limitation. Kind of like a CPU bottleneck (Perez) masking the true performance of the GPU(car)

  • The risks and rationale of Leclerc’s mooted Ferrari F1 mega deal
  • So in Honda's latest flip-flop they're coming back to f1 again, but completely separate to the RBPT Honda engines that Red Bull use?

    Yes and no. RBPT is just a honda engine rebadged because honda were leaving and did not want their name on the engine. But they own the ip so while the 2026 Honda program does not link to the RBPT Honda Collab currently going on, there is a good chance that their 2026 PU will use a lot of IP of the current engine.

  • The risks and rationale of Leclerc’s mooted Ferrari F1 mega deal
  • Yeah Aston will be the sole buyer of Honda so it will a works partnership where the chassis and engine can be designed for each other. If you are just a customer like McLaren is for Merc engines, they get little to no way to influence engine design

  • [SOLVED] configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError when launching flatpak steam

    So i was trying to launch steam but it did not work so I ran flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam and found the error messages below. I tried looking through the python scripts but i am not a programmer and could not zero in on the issue. Could some body help me as to how to fix it.

    Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/bin/steam", line 8, in sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^^

    File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/steam_wrapper.py", line 466, in main current_info = read_flatpak_info(FLATPAK_INFO) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "/app/lib/python3.11/site-packages/steam_wrapper.py", line 116, in read_flatpak_info "filesystems": flatpak_info.get("Context", "filesystems", ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/configparser.py", line 815, in get return self._interpolation.before_get(self, section, option, value, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/configparser.py", line 396, in before_get self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1)

    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/configparser.py", line 443, in _interpolate_some raise InterpolationSyntaxError( configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%0A;'

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    Privacy benefits of Custom roms

    So recently my moto G60 reached the end of life with respect to security updates. That was the reason I was using to prevent myself from switching to a custom rom(actual reason is laziness). This phone has rom support for pixel experience and lineage OS. So my questions are if pixel experience has any privacy advantages when compared to the stock rom the phone ships with¿? Also if I flash GApps along with lineage OS will all the privacy advantages I get with lineage disappear¿? I might need Google play services for some banking applications.

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    Better performance with recent updates

    I am on a low end Android device (but one with a high refresh rate screen) and with the recent updates, it feels as the app is far more performant. Animations are smoother and stutters are few and far between. Just wanted to appreciate the work done by the dev and also the developers of the ionic framework. Between them they have made the usage of voyager a much better experience for people like me who daily drive a low end device.

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    Is LJ okay¿?

    The app has not been updated in more than a month and LJ also has not been active on lemmy and this community for nearly a month. Is he okay¿?

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    Cant upload png images through voyager

    I was uploading some images but voyager did not allow me to upload png images whereas other lemmy clients do allow me to upload the images. Is this a me issue or a genuine bug in voyager. If it's the latter then I will open an issue on github.

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    Vote on preferred design for subscribing from search

    Since there is no way currently to quickly and easily subscribe to a community from the search menu, sharunkumar (not me) added a way to do that in this pull request.

    There are 2 poosible designs that are consistent with UI of voyager so I will comment the images of the design below. Upvote the design that you prefer. Please refrain from downvoting.

    Also it would be appreciated if the mod (@aeharding@lemmy.world @aeharding@midwest.social) can pin this post (for a day or two) to ensure that it reaches most members of the community

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    Expected behaviour of the 'posts' button

    When I am scrolling/browsing a particular feed(say subscribed or all), what is the expected behaviour of the posts button in the bottom feed. Is it supposed to scroll to the top of thr feed, scroll up a fixed amount of posts or something else entirely¿? Everytime I use it, it seems the feed scrolls up by a different amount

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    Update handling after rebasing Fedora Silverblue

    So I am trying out fedora silverblue and recently rebased it to uBlue to get access to hardware decoding for non-free codecs and for some QoL improvements. Before rebasing, I used to get both system updates(update to image that silverblue is based on) and flatpak updates through the gui package manager(gnome-software in this case) but since i rebased, i was not getting any notifications for system updates. I ran rpm-ostree upgrade and then it pulled from the manifest and updated the system using the updated image. For some reason gnome-software did not know this new image was available.

    My question is does this mean that i will have to run rpm-ostree upgrade to update from now or will gnome-software handle it? I have no problem using the terminal but gnome-software is more convenient and I am lazy.

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    Time based switching between light and dark themes

    There used to be an option in the dark mode settings where we set a time for when the app automatically switched to dark mode and then set a time for it to automatically switch to light mode. I remember using this feature with the previous beta releases(beta 50 and prior). Has the feature been axed for some reason or was it removed by accident¿?

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    [SOLVED] Flatpak version of Steam crashing when launched from desktop

    When i launch steam(flatpak version) from the desktop, the app keeps trying to launch shows a black window for a few seconds and then crashes and the process keeps repeating. The steam icon is present on the system tray so it is running in the background.

    When i run it with flatpak run com.valvesotware.Steam steam starts and runs as normal but the logs show this error

    Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 239 steam-runtime-launcher-service[239]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam" Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 239 exited Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 372 steam-runtime-launcher-service[372]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam" Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 372 exited Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 377 steam-runtime-launcher-service[377]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam" Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 377 exited Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service keeps crashing on startup, disabling

    Is there anyway I can fix this so that steam launches correctly when it is launched from the desktop. I am on fedora kinoite with 5600h+5500m laptop

    Edit : is this somehow related to the dbus access that it has¿?

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    Breaking changes in Lemmy 0.19

    It seems that there are going to be some api changes in lemmy version 0.19 which will break all the current apps unless they are updated to account for the api changes.

    Further information - https://lemmy.ml/post/5711722

    This post is just to ensure that @aeharding@lemmy.world and other users are aware of this. I will also open an issue on github.

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