I also run stuff via steamos so I cannot tell much from your setup. However, maybe there is a trick that could potentially work. On the steamos, when you are on to desktopz it is possible to switch between desktop mode and gamepad mode controllers (not sure on exact naming here). You can do this by pressing for a second or two the upper right button from the front (I believe the legend is 3 stripes or similar). On the steamos it changes modes and can help you unblock controls on weird situations.
Maybe this can help?
This is also a good one. Do you notice any battery life changes after the tdp changes that are substantial? I never looked into it too much, but I assume there are very subtle ways to get a bit more battery without too much sacrifices
Decky loader is actually very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Interesting one. I was aware of btrfs but never thought about for the deck. Heroic is on my toolbox already
What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos?
Recently had a question about a game running on the deck, and actually got me thinking since steamos settings were briefly discussed: what are the settings to change for a steam deck, or tools to add? I do not mean more fps or more performance per say only, but more battery life or just better tools for certain aspects of the deck.
Thanks for pointing out. Usually I didn't fiddle with settings at all, much less with the steam deck ones, since usually things look good enough without much effort
Right, didn't even think about steam settings. Half rate shading is off
OK, finally managed to sit with the deck after a long day. So from what I see, no fsr enabled. For the screen resolution, is at windowed at 720p, no framerate limit, motion blur is on (turned off now), chromatic aberration is on (what is even that??), Asus aura ready on (for... Some reason. Turned it off now). As for advanced settings, all low except texture quality and mesh quality on high
Did someone here play "high on life" on the deck?
Very recently I got this on sale (around 50% or so) and it is a very fun game so far. Was playing on my tower, and out of curiosity tried on the steam deck.
For some reason, the game looks super fuzzy and weird on the deck (chiseling hair, strange textures at times, choppiness here and there). My question: is there a setting the game needs to be turned off to work better? Or is just a title that is better played on my main PC and that's it? I do find this even more strange since it's a steam deck verified title, so I would expect 0 tweaking and work ok ootb
Since I am not from the us or ever been there, I do have a question: are there people that truly believe in this bullshit?
Persona 5 is an amazing game. Played back on my ps4, later when trying game pass and I am sure I will play it probably more 2 or 3 times after I get it for PC. Still don't have it because no version on gog... Or no denuvo for that matter. Before anyone mentions: I am very aware that denuvo anti cheat and denuvo anti tamper are 2 very different things. However, single player games that need a "ping" in order to run? Fuck that nonsense
Nice to see these posts being made and adding more quality content around here. Keep it up!
As for what I am playing now: I decided to kick myself in the groin and get persona 3 reloaded, going against my principle of not getting anything with denuvo. Been having a lot of fun with it, but eventually, will get a version without this bloody nonsense and archive it.
... Did they check this place on a Wednesday?
Was busy almost 100% blasphemous 2
My signal app tries to update itself. Installed from obtanium. It is a very irritating process, the thing tries to update, there is sometimes weird response times from clicking it (you click the notification and simply do not know if something is happening) and then without notice the thing restarts and then usually it works. But sometimes, the update notification still comes back. Because of that, I just update via obtanium
Do people tend to use different providers? Because these I got from a search, and ended up on the same usual suspects that I am almost sure all of them were ai written
I really like the Linux flair part. Thanks for the answer! I assume however that one probably does not want to go into Linux porn around Usenet. I an fairly certain you can end up in the unsavory part of it quite quickly.
Need some pointers/clarifications on usenet
Hi,
Lately I've been looking into Usenet, and maybe this time I was planning to try it out (I am aware of Usenet since circa 2000s, so I sort of know what it is).
Still there are some things I still didn't figure out:
- from what I see a Usenet provider and an indexer is required. And from what I gather, both are paid (indexer not exclusively paid but its better). Considering what Usenet is used for, is it sort if a requirement to pay in btc?
- what sort of content is usually Usenet more useful for?
- for what I see, Usenet tends to use SSL like the rest of the web. However, i would argue it gives to the ISP the visibility that you are in fact at least starting/ending connections to Usenet. Is this an issue? If so, does it make VPN a mandatory requirement? Or orbot for that matter
- one thing that bothers me greatly: I've checked the privacy policy for the most 3 known providers (news hosting, Usenet server and euweka) and, first of all, i find incredibly sus that these seemingly
Haven't watched anything anime related for ages... Never watched initial d. But its possible the nationalist thing is accurate (also: what's the deal of portrayals on the regular of Germans in their shows?). Regarding the whole over the top "violence" and other stuff, there is for sure a difference in cultures here. I find funny for instance on anime we have the mega villains and all that, but in contrast, if you leave a bike unattended in the middle of Tokyo there is a big chance you still see it next day. Of course there is the whole yakuza thing and scamming tourists, but I would argue criminality is just very different. As for why people lean into sometimes what we consider extreme content, maybe is just an exposure thing? When people are exposed to different realities they tend to be either more or less inclined to see depictions of it or complete opposites.
I miss this show. Amazing writing overall
This is an interesting take. I've been to Japan as a tourist once, and I can tell it was probably one of my best trips I've ever made (the sheer amount of novelty and getting around the people was really cool), and I can attest the people were very nice to me. But I can also tell, if I was part of the work force, the sentiment would be different. I did never see signs against Chinese people anywhere BTW.
As for the "China bad" part. Check how people brigade on shitter to "cancel people out" (very definition of cancel culture) and you quickly see that some people LOVE the mob mentality. This is also ehay is going on by people going after stuff such as dji for no reason (but I will say straight up, I am not sure if I would trust network equipment easily. Same for me actually applies to cisco as well)
Nice catch. I'll be sure after do run the real thing
How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?
I have an HP pavillion 15-bc235nd that, quite frankly, I don´t really like that much (way too loud of a fan, cannot adjust the fan curve, keyboard and trackpad are terrible, etc).
I was planning to replace with laptop with something else, but in the meantime, I was thinking of something. Instead of getting this laptop in the landfill or give to someone else (no one needs an emergency laptop right now), I could potentially use this has a server machine to be used as an off site backup location.
Right now I am missing the off site backup part out of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Since this laptop has more than enough horsepower to do the job, it could be a solution. But personally, I am not sure how reliable a laptop turned into a server can be. This laptop would be around 3000km away from me, so I have to be really sure it works at a distance without much problem.
For those who turned a laptop into a server: what is your mileage? Are there any specific considerations about this
Trying to understand what should change on my current setup
I have for a while a ubuntu server where I selfhost for my household syncthing (automatic backup of most important files on devices), baïkal, magic mirror and a few other things via docker.
I was looking at what I have now (leftovers of a computer of mine, amd 2600 with 16 gb ram with a 1660 super and a western digital blue ssd of 512GB), and regarding storage wise, at the time I decided to get several sort of cheap ssd's to have enough initial space (made a logical volume out of 3 crucial mx500 1TB, in total making 3TB). At the time I though I wanted to avoid regular hdd at all costs (knew people who had issues with it), but in hindsight, I never worked with NAS drives, so my fear over these hdd with such low usage is sort of uncalled for.
So now I am trying to understand what can I change this setup so I can expand later if needed, but also having a bit more space already (for the personal stuff I have around 1.5TB of data) and add a bit more resilience in case something happens.
What other options for good phones are out there?
I have now a pixel 8, which was working OK from the past 8 months and using grapheneos. Unfortunately, today out of nowhere got the green screen bug (searched around, this seems to be really a thing with pixel 8 and some pixel 7). This really stroke me a nerve. Previously I had a pixel 5 which at some point also got screen problems and later the speaker piece just straight up did not work properly. And now this with the pixel 8.
So my question is: what other phones could potentially be used with a custom ROM that allow bootloader relocking? Other Roms can be something like divest or calyx (I used calyx before, so I am fairly familiar with it).
It really pisses me off the only option until now are pixel phones for proper relocking (from what I know from a while back), and then they have these annoying issues. It makes my skin crawl, but if required I would change to an iPhone (and throwaway a lot of things that android is actually superior, such as proper tor browser, VPN split tunnel
entire system backups onto the server - how?
Hey there, I have a (very) small Ubuntu server and I was dabbling on the idea to do system backups (entire system, meaning, if the disk of the said pc fries, I can get another one, put the info from the backup on the new disk, works immediately afterwards). I have a couple of Linux mint machines and a windows one. I searched a lot out there and found several names, from rsync to Borg backup.But ultimately I don't really know if these solutions would fit my use case.
So the question is: is there a feasible way/service that can be self hosted to do backups of local machines, similar to an image backup? Or, if you believe there are better ways to do it, can you please mention it?
Thanks in advance