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Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?
  • TLDR you might be interested in the rust-based scheduler one of the Canonical Devs released as a PoC. Seemed to be designed similar to your needs of keeping the system (particularly games) responsive even whilst running heavy tasks like kernel compilations. You can swap out schedulers at run time on Linux iirc?

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Scheduler-Experiment

  • MacBook Air owner?
  • I've seen some impressive traction on newer videos putting Linux on (intel) Apple devices for example. Purely anecdotal but regularly hitting 100k+ views on Linux videos is something that I've only seen in the last year or so and moreso on videos documenting "hardware restoration".

  • Barf.
  • salt, pepper, mixed herb, smoked paprika, soy sauce all over a few ripped pieces of extra firm. Fry off in oil until edges are caramelised and golden. brilliant for grilled sandwiches or even on its own imo

  • IDF rescues four hostages from Hamas captivity in daring Gaza operation
  • Hamas offered peace multiple times, from October 9th all the way to LAST WEEK yet Israel decided 200+ dead civilians (plus supposedly multiple dead hostages as collateral) but it was never about peace - it's about bringing the USA into the conflict to kill as many Palestinians as possible.

    But all that aside, this propaganda is cowardly and malicious, and the fact someone reported my last comment for calling that out is ridiculous.

    I cannot wait to see how people like you will try to justify these disgusting lies in 20 years when we rightfully study this act as an abominable and disgusting stain on history.

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    In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!
  • Fucking hell lmao y'all need to go back to reddit this is straight up high school drama behaviour.

    Grow up, I'm serious. Of course you're gonna get banned for brigading into a community and going "muh tiannamen square?????" like that meme hasn't been run into the fucking ground already.

    Make a new community on a new instance, it really is that simple! and if people have issues with the moderation on lemmy.ml (they clearly don't, beyond a few people who demand everyone listens to their concern trolling) then they'll move, but otherwise you're gonna have to accept that people really don't give a rats ass about the united states foreign ministry and its opinions.

  • The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user
  • 270GB feels insane for the source code of a single organisation. Is there media assets or backups in there too?

    EDIT: yep, multiple subsidiaries and slack Comms which could inflate it by a lot. we post a whole lot of uncompressed shit on our slack

  • PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities
  • There's also all of these communities on Reddit if you're truly unhappy that the volunteer owned and run social media you signed up for isn't being astroturfed with US-Israeli state press releases.

  • Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
  • This shit is incessant. You can always move your communities if it's a problem. People can defederate if it's a problem.

    You can even create identical communities on other instances if you want. This isn't Reddit; you have to do things yourself if you've got a problem with it.

    Once again the liberal "why isn't this place identical to Reddit:(((" posters are pissed that Lemmy isn't being astroturfed by American political parties and corporations.

  • In France, the Far Right Is Beating a Divided Left
  • inb4 the "divided left" this article is referring to is actually a bunch of united socialists being told to suck it up and vote for a deeply unpopular ex-banker who barely scraped ahead of le pen the last time he and his paedophile wife were declared the "last hope" against fascism

  • Hardware accelerated transcode - What is *actually* supported on Linux?

    Sure, I could just google this, and I have! However, the results are a bit confusing:

    Plex Documentation

    "Only Intel and Nvidia" Sure, cool.

    Literally every other forum discussing this stuff

    "Oh yeah I used my [Not Intel or Nvidia chip] and it worked out of the box"

    So which is it? Because I'm really not interested on supporting Intel, but if getting HW Transcoding Plex requires them then I'll have to consider migrating to Jellyfin.

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    TIL about the utility "Smokeless_UMAF" That lets you access advanced BIOS options on AMD-based systems.
    github.com GitHub - DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF

    Contribute to DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF

    What is it?

    You can use Smokeless_UMAF to configure almost all options on AMD systems including UMA Buffer size (For systems like the steamdeck and laptops), RAM overclocking, CPU power states and voltage settings, and much more, even if your system's BIOS doesn't expose the option for you.

    Tutorial for increasing your UMA buffer on an AMD Phoenix Laptop

    Boot into a FAT32 drive with the downloaded Zip extracted to the root, and then use the "Device Manager" section to locate the UMA buffer size.

    The location within the utility is at

    Device Manager > AMD CBS > NBIO Common Options.

    Once set, back out and apply the changes, rebooting your system. You can then confirm that the option has been applied by checking your system monitor of choice (Windows > Task Manager, Linux > Whatever) and checking to see if your available RAM has decreased (indicating greater allocation of memory to the iGPU).

    This may not remain applied through BIOS updates, and may cause hardware damage if misconfigured, and may result in an unbootable system if misused or by chance. You may need to reset your BIOS if that's the case, if possible by your system manufacturer.

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    Baking 2D nav regions - Can I use a Polygon2D as the source?

    Child Polygon2Ds of a nav mesh by default act as obstacles, so the nav mesh avoids them. However, I just want to use the Polygon2D as the source for the nav region and remain its own node so I can do stuff like, modulate it when the player hovers over it with their cursor.

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    Is 6.0.1 available on KDE Neon yet?

    I haven't seen the update come through to my system but since I have a more-than-slightly-borked grub setup, I have a feeling it could be to do with that.

    As a side note RE: above -- Are people running a kernel newer than 6.5.0-18-generic ?

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    Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect.
    m.youtube.com Yuzu is dead

    Yuzu - the popular Nintendo Switch Emulator (and recently Citra - a 3ds emulator developed by the same team as Yuzu) is dead. Nintendo has settled with Yuzu ...

    Yuzu is dead

    A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.

    Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.

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    removed my mint partition from my kde-neon system and now grub won't boot :-{

    The title explains it well. But I installed Mint on a 2nd partition, then deleted it since I no longer used it, and now Grub dumps me to the command line on boot :/

    How do I recover?

    EDIT: gonna give up. Fuck grub lmao EDIT2: Just reinstalled mint and used the grub it gives to fix everything lmfao

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    [Neon] [Wayland] Getting memory corruption artifacts when running a fullscreen app at a high/native resolution

    I have a Lenovo 14aPH8 (Ideapad 5 gen 8?) which has a high DPI Screen with an AMD 7840HS (780m iGPU).

    It's giving a bunch of memory corruption when on youtube in fullscreen, or before I reduce the resolution of a fullscreen application (Assetto Corsa Competizione is the only I've tried so far) from the native resolution to 1080p.

    I previously RMA'd the Laptop due to similar artifacts on Pop!OS, and they confirmed the entire motherboard was replaced. However, the artifacts didn't go away so I tried KDE Neon which thankfully didn't have the same issues, until I tried gaming and youtube.On X11, the issues are gone, but as a fan of fractional scaling and touchscreen gestures I'm still using Wayland.

    While this could be a hardware issue (I can't confirm as the laptop is so new not many people have it, let alone on linux) I'm sure this is software related because it only happens on X11, and I've also seem similar reports by nVidia users on Wayland.

    Anyone able to signpost me if this isn't something KDE devs can investigate? I know a lot of them are active within the Wayland space so I thought asking here would be a good idea :)

    ***

    EDIT: Looks like there's some upstream bug in the DRM with variable refresh rates and/or adaptive sync. Disabling it in KDE's settings seems to sort the problem in Youtube/games. Can't say the same for anyone else tho

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    Getting graphics artifacting on my 7840HS laptop, even after a motherboard replacement. Is it a driver thing?

    I've installed Pop!OS after getting my Lenovo Ideapad Pro 5 back from the warranty repair. Supposedly they changed the motherboard (which I don't doubt, it was waiting a week for new parts apparently), but even after that I'm still getting graphical errors and bugs when moving between desktops and other window animations. I know X11 can be a bit buggy at best, so it could just be that on top of the newer SoC.

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    Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6 • The Register
    www.theregister.com Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6

    Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat'

    Wayland heading for default as Mint devs add to Cinnamon 6

    TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are begging beginning to work on Wayland support.

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    What are these little things? they're exclusively eating the green layer off my mint leaves. Manchester UK

    They like to hide under the leaves but I usually catch a few on the top. Have been turning my mint into patchy grey leaves that eventually wither and fall off.

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    Any flutter devs got a build environment working?

    I was trying to use a flake with nix-pkg to set up a flutter dev environment but it just wouldn't stick, and a lot of the examples online are quite old and not documented well for a nix noob like myself.

    Cheers folks!

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    Mapping ports to domain URI [Solved]

    So I've got a couple of services that I access using mydomain.org:1234 for example, but since Nextcloud runs its own web server it's hosted on mydomain.org/nextcloud.

    How do I set up my services so I can access them from a friendly URI like Nextcloud instead of ports?

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    My laptop's touchpad is emitting joystick events

    Using my touchpad seems to act as if it's a joystick - If I touch the edges it acts like I've pulled the joystick to the far edge of its movement, etc. sort of like how a steam controller's touchpads work when emulating a joystick. However, it also just acts like regular mouse input so it's only noticeable in games that detect joypad input.

    This happens regardless of Steam being activated. I have used DS4 controllers on my laptop before but this happens regardless of them being connected.

    Manjaro and GNOME btw. Happens on x11 and Wayland.

    Any ideas?

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    *Finally* found a decently priced laptop using AMD's 780m iGPU | Lenovo UK Laptop configurator

    The worst part of using a gaming laptop on Linux is that, despite the great work of open source developers and hobbyists, it's still way too clunky to use a hybrid graphics setup imo. Once you want to use an interface that's only connected to one GPU (such as HDMI) you're left messing with switching utilities like optimus-manager which (while very useful!) are usually rarely updated and may not work on certain systems.

    At least with a system like this, which is pretty similar to how much I paid for a 1650Ti-mobile (while being faster!) all the graphics are handled by a single driver, which simplifies most of the pain in using a laptop on Linux for anything graphically intensive.

    Looking forward to seeing Framework becoming this affordable one day, because I'd much rather go with them over Lenovo, but at least for now I can use Lenovo which lets you refuse Windows and save £90 :)

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    Getting Hybrid Graphics working *better* with Manjaro (GNOME 44, X11) Enabling HDMI on nvidia laptops

    The most annoying thing about using Linux on my laptop is that the HDMI doesn't work out of the box because by default, "hybrid graphics" means your nVidia GPU won't be turned on until it's told to run a single program using PRIME offloading.

    My system is an Acer Nitro 15 with a Ryzen 4600H and an nVidia 1650Ti

    If you want to get HDMI working, which imo should just be standard functionality in a 2023 Linux laptop, you'll want to go through these steps.

    1. Uncomment #WaylandEnable=False in /etc/gdm/custom.conf - We'll need to log in with "Gnome on Xorg" to use the hybrid graphics mode. It still lets us use Wayland if we want, though, so if something on X11 breaks you have a fallback.
    2. Install gdm-prime from Pacman. It lets the graphics switcher app hook into x11 to control the active graphics profile.
    3. Install optimus-manager from Pacman. This will let us switch to hybrid graphics mode.
    4. Edit /usr/share/optimus-manager.conf and set startup_mode, startup-auto-battery-mode, startup-auto-extpower-mode to your desired options. Hybrid was what you need to set to get HDMI working without extra setup.
    5. Restart the system.
    6. Confirm your system has set your desired option with optimus-manager --status (should be hybrid).

    Extra steps for the reader.

    1. Set up power management for the nvidia GPU. My battery probably will suffer but gaming laptops usually stay plugged in anyway :P You can do this but I'm not sure how to get it working and don't wanna break anything.

    2. Explain how to do this with KDE. Shouldn't be hard just dont do step 1. and check the optimus-manager git repo for tips on doing this on KDE Manjaro.

    3. Figure out how to do this on Wayland. X11 is going out of style and I don't wanna be stuck on X11 forever - GNOME gets so buggy with it ;_;

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