dingdongitsabear

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[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

apologies for possibly misleading OP, although they didn't explicitly ask for it.

anyhow, old versions still work for some use cases, with some tweaks being necessary.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

unless you're getting those for free, skip them both and get a RX 570. those can be had in the $50 range. it's a dramatically better GPU, and it can run off the shittiest 500W PSUs.

as to linux, it's hella supported in practically every regard, including overclocking and ROCm.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you need a swap file, a swap subvolume, or a swap partition that's RAM + 50%, on account of zram. then you need systemd scripts that disable zram and enable swap on suspend and do the reverse on resume. also, you need some selinux tuning to allow you to write to said file. you have a detailed howto in Fedora Magazine.

stop using bullshitgpt.

edit: here's the article.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that sucks... those two are the most powerful of all listed models and are available with 8 GB RAM. was hoping to get one of these used and make the jump.

do you happen to know how to determine which phones do support it? is it chipset dependent, and if so, which do support it?

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

btrfs with subvolumes. I have fedora gnome, fedora kde, debian 12 kde, arch mate as subvolumes on the same disk and of course a home subvolume that they all mount on boot, so all my data is always available.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OK, so what this purports to do is use your email server as chat platform. kinda intriguing, could have several use cases, don't know what it does with existing email or how the chat looks like in e.g. thunderbird...

unfortunately, after installing it and being unsuccessful about having it login to my IMAP account (works fine with thunderbird), I've given up.

so, the "onboarding" is less than stellar and the desktop app is electron, which I hate; haven't tried the android app.

edit: it works, the initial login process just takes super long; guess it's trying different ports and stuff to be auto-magical. works fine for intra-server comms (accounts belonging to same domain), adding secondary device works (android, from f-droid). comms (encrypted) are stored in a separate IMAP folder that's unreadable to "normal" mail clients, so it doesn't disturb e.g. thunderbird. a fine array of customizations in the apps, will be testing it further.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

someone needs to rewrite this, both the post here and the promo copy on the website, it's hella confusing and explains nada.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

there were some restomods, like the X62.

I wanted to do something similar with a 2007 17" macbook pro. they have LOTS of space inside and the keyboard, touchpad, camera, etc are all USB, so reusing them would be easy.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the fb route would be awesome, I'm adding this to my research list. would video playback be accelerated in this case?

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

yeah, that's the main question - do I need a window manager, when I all want is just full screen?

I've found something called mpv-kiosk, but that's a snap and that monstrosity is the opposite of what I need.

[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

doesn't matter. in the future I might cobble something together, like a clock or weather or a slideshow, but I'm fine with a blank/black/whatever screen.

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