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Quoting: syylkDunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!

Some people have existing hardware with HDMI input but no DP or USB-C, and very much would like to use it instead of trashing a thousand-dollar equipment because of "cable protocol forum is angry at this one dev".

Kinda the same reason people that moved to linux and uses nvidia hardware won't throw away their working card to get an AMD just because "it's the good way to do things".

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Back to e-mail workflow, auto-close GH PRs. Might as well switch to SourceHut while they're at it.

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Quoting: syylkDunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!

If you use a TV screen as your gaming display (like I do, an LG OLED), DisplayPort or USB-C is rarely an option. Most of them only include HDMI inputs, which is a shame.

There are active DP1.4/USB-C -> HDMI 2.1 adapters that support the necessary features and transfer speeds, but I have no experience with them.

PS: In my experience, if you ask any Linux community about anything at all, you'll get at least two conflicting opinions, likely more. If there's a "LinuxHiveMind", it's got dissociative identity disorder or something.

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I would type a reply but it's just going to be a sting of expletives at this point...

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Quoting: syylkEnlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!

Because you want to play Death Stranding 2, sitting on your couch in front of your 75" 4k 120Hz OLED Screen with HDR.
Sure, you could do this on a PlayStation 5, but this is GamingOnLinux, not GamingOnPlaystation...

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Eh, I'd be happier just switching to DP. The 7600 I've got now has 3 DPs and 1 HDMI so I have to use DP anyway.

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We will have to go back to tape drives and floppy disks soon.

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My question is why HDMI is being such an ass?

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Sigh.

I don't even have the energy to care anymore.

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This is getting ridiculous

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Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.

I'm tempted to agree, but this is both impractical and would throw the small percentage of valid cases.

A better approach would to be require all PR to be hand-reviewed *before* submission, and vetted by a human. It's equally impractical, but if we look at the cURL project as an example, it is possible for competent devs to use LLM and similar as tools to raise appropriate issues, fixes, and formulate them properly. Key element is, a human used a tool vs. a tool used a human.

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Dunno, but once you have DP or USB-C, why you'd want HDMI? Legacy? Enlighten me, LinuxHiveMind!

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In theory AI should help for most of us, however in practice it helps just for few people (mainly from big corporations) in the world and is a problem for 95% population. At current situation whole AI is just a horrible waste of resources. I think that in near future we'll see a lot of changes and limitations at how AI is used, because current use cases are jokes.

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Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

In the meantime, I did actually try it in a VM and it worked. I installed Aurora, then added rpmfusion using their official command for Silverblue, then rebooted and layered broadcom-wl package and rebooted again and then "wl" kernel module is actually available

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but that hasn't stopped one developer.

Sisyphus-ass dev. What a chad.

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Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything.

Amen

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Ban AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.

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The latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157

ohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

No, but I did replace entire kernels, and I know people install nvidia drivers on silverblue, as well as that akmods or whatever the module building system is called can actually run when rpm-ostree builds the new image. So yes, I think you should be able to just layer it from rpmfusion or whatever. That being said, can't be sure until you try I guess

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Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

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Quoting: rustynailAurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb

How can I install a kernel module on aurora? It certainly doesn't have the kernel module I need for wifi (Broadcom wl) and I could not figure out how to make a custom image with the wifi driver included.

If you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

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One thing that id really like to see is audio device disconnect to not pause video with the media controls. To have a setting there to either have that enabled or disabled.

I welcome the virtual desktop only on primary monitor. Will take it in use and it will come in handy with games that are troublesome with Alt Tab.

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Quoting: rustynailAurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb

How can I install a kernel module on aurora? It certainly doesn't have the kernel module I need for wifi (Broadcom wl) and I could not figure out how to make a custom image with the wifi driver included.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm interested in KDE, it seems really good (I tried it a couple of times long ago and didn't quite click with it, but it wasn't like I fundamentally disliked it, there were just things, little problems that are probably long gone). But it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

How long ago? Plasma 5 was good but full of paper cuts. With Plasma 6 KDE have really stepped up. They have a huge momentum with lots of devs and funding. You can really feel the bar being raced in every update. I don't know for how long they can keep it up. Most DE's release 1-2 times a year, Plasma does 3 releases a year.

Everyone should use whatever makes them happy and there are plenty of good options, but in my book Plasma is starting to pull away and play in a whole league of their own. Yeah there are lots of options that can be confusing but the defaults are good enough that most don't need to change anything. For most of my time the only customization I did was moving the taskbar to the right and changing wallpaper.

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Quoting: Jarmer... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them.

I don't know, those MDISC Blu-Rays are my standard backup media for years. I cannot be trusted with anything else than WORMs (Write Once Read Many), because quite early i had to understand that i was the biggest thread to my data. I have deleted so many things in my life that a friend gave me the name "delet0r", which stuck...
Optical Media is quite easy, really. Its really nothing more than the optical version of a vinyl record, but with additional layers. Once a year i burn everything vital i have from my family (mostly pictures) on two MDISC Blurays and store them seperately. I really hope to keep those pictures safe for my kids, because i know how sad it is when you don´t have a lot to look at from your past.
As for entertainment, i've gone back to buying CDs and DVDs, actually. Sure, i rip the CDs for convenience, but for movie evenings, DVDs and BluRays are actually quite nice.

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I see the Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, the free update, the low price, and I figure why not. Add it to the cart, and to my surprise, Steam actually says: "This item is available at a lower price as part of <bundle>" due to me owning another game it's in a bundle with. Thanks for the surprisingly consumer friendly feature, Valve, now I definitely have to buy it!

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

I bought 3 WD Red Plus 12TB HDDs for my NAS project two months ago. I paid $229 each. Now the cheapest I can find that model in stock is $369. TWO MONTHS LATER. It's absolute madness out there.

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It doesn't have the Save Sync function yet, but it's great to see a lot of updates. There has been a LOT of changes to the way we're doing non-Steam games in the past 1-2 years since they had a release. The changes were probably tough to get done, but hopefully everything is cleaner from here on out.

I for one have been very happy with the way they preserved my play time and list of non-Steam games.

Heroic will still be my default of GOG & EGS, but Lutris is now back as default for anything that isn't on those platforms (with Faugus for running games from the file explorer).

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