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[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This seems to work with regular Proton these days, it's even SteamDeck verified.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used unstable for years (don't anymore). It broke itself in minor and major ways every couple of months. Maybe it wouldn't boot or X wouldn't start, or the package dependencies were broken and I couldn't install certain packages for a couple of days. Stuff like that.

You will have manually to fix these things from time to time, or do a workaround (like manually downgrading certain packages), or wait a week so stuff gets sorted. Most of the time it works fine though. I imagine the experience is somewhat similar to running arch.

You do not get security fixes, but it's not a massive problem usually, since you'll get the newest version of most software after a couple of days (occasionally longer) after it is released.

Anyway do not recommend unless you want to be a beta tester. I did report bugs sometimes, but almost always by the time I encountered an issue, it was already reported and a fix was already in the works.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I have never used the Steam beta or Proton-GE or whatever information is spreading out there to noobs about what they should do, and I've been gaming exclusively on Linux for more than 20 years. Only do this beta or bleeding edge stuff if you have a problem, and a good reason to believe that will help (like people reporting your specific issue is fixed in beta). Or I guess if you're bored out of your mind. And expect other issues since it's fucking beta.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I don't expect anybody is trying to jailbreak phones that have an official way to unlock them, even if it is very annoying.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Reportedly the Russian factory workers are being paid quite well. And the lack of quality is just a myth I think. There's no indication that's actually true.

The real reason prices in the West are so high is that there's a shortage, and shells are supplied overwhelmingly by private contractors, and so the price has multiplied thanks to supply-and-demand market logic.

You may think the Efficient Free Market Knows Best™, so shouldn't they increase production? Think again. They're making record profits right now. Meaningfully increasing production involves building new factories for billions of dollars/euros, which might be ready in a year or two. By then the war will be over and they would have overcapacity, which would be inefficient and prices would plummet. Why would they do that to themselves?

So they're in a great negotiating position vis a vis desperate Western governments. They want guaranteed profits, of the same sort they're making right now, or else the shortage continues.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ich kann nicht nachvollziehen, wieso die das mit "Auto verliert Vorfahrt" betiteln. Die Beispiele sind doch eher so Kleinkram. Nicht schlecht, aber mal nicht übertreiben hier. Die Vorherrschaft des Autos wird dadurch nicht bedroht.

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

Maybe it's fine with now, but I looked into a Ryzen Thinkpad a couple of years ago and Linux users reported problems with something (maybe power management?).

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

I haven't kept up with all the various lines they're up to now, but that looks about right. Also obviously doesn't hurt to google the exact model. Someone I know got an old tabletty Thinkpad with a touchscreen (don't know what model) and on that one the webcam doesn't work on Linux, so something like that can happen.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not all Thinkpads work equally well. For the best experience, get an all-Intel one, from one of the more expensive business lines, like the T-series. Consumer models are definitely worse, because employees of big Linux-using tech firms are getting the pro models.

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

You can set the default brightness in mpv in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf like this:

brightness=-10

Look in the manpage (man mpv) for other settings. I think any option like --brightness=-10 can also be put into mpv.conf by removing the -- at the beginning.

I don't know if there's a way to make mpv autosave this.

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

This looks good.

I don't know how to figure out on vlc what sort of output method, codec, or hardware acceleration it's currently using, so I second the other person who recommended mpv.

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you check what video driver you are using? You might be on some kind of software renderer.

What does

glxinfo | grep renderer

say?

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