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Latest Comments by Bogomips
Debian 11 "bullseye" is officially out now
15 Aug 2021 at 12:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

Well python 2 disappeared so check the possible side effects (like DisplayCal that is almost out of all the linux distros now, colord-kde can help at least to put back your icc profiles).

But so far so good for me. And more devices are now detected.

Valve dumped Debian Linux for Arch Linux with SteamOS 3 because surprise - faster updates
10 Aug 2021 at 10:43 am UTC Likes: 5

Alright, but at the moment, just 4 days to wait for Bullseye if nothing go south :grin:

NVIDIA 470.57.02 released as the next stable Linux driver (updated)
20 Jul 2021 at 7:21 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Bogomips
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: BogomipsOk new big stable NVIDIA driver is here. Now waiting for the release of Bullseye after the full freeze…
Worse situation is it'll be in backports. But I'm betting it can hit the exception for making it into Bullseye. Maybe?
For the NVIDIA drivers I'm outside the repos, every time I tried it was clunky at best.
sudo apt install -t buster-backports nvidia-driver

That's too clunky?
No, I mean the result was, with dependency errors and I didn't want to investigate further because the standalone install works fine for me.

NVIDIA 470.57.02 released as the next stable Linux driver (updated)
19 Jul 2021 at 7:23 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: BogomipsOk new big stable NVIDIA driver is here. Now waiting for the release of Bullseye after the full freeze…
Worse situation is it'll be in backports. But I'm betting it can hit the exception for making it into Bullseye. Maybe?
For the NVIDIA drivers I'm outside the repos, every time I tried it was clunky at best.

NVIDIA 470.57.02 released as the next stable Linux driver (updated)
19 Jul 2021 at 3:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

Ok new big stable NVIDIA driver is here. Now waiting for the release of Bullseye after the full freeze…

After the recent patches, Team Fortress 2 hit an all-time high
28 Jun 2021 at 12:15 pm UTC

The "lucrative" turn of events is exactly when I stopped playing TF2 and it was a really good game at the time.
And to this day I still don't understand cheaters motivation there is no skill, no satisfaction, no recognition. It makes a game completely funproof and unappealing. Can't they play only with other cheaters?

Part of the gameplay routine for me on CS:GO is reporting cheaters, and frankly, if it wasn't for my team of friends I would have stopped playing completely or do what we did with CS:Source, paying for a private server and developing a dozen of plugins to prevent cheating (and it was so nice to see cheaters losing miserably when some security kicked in or being autokicked when trying to reconnect, etc.)

There's now a Debian User Repository in the style of the Arch User Repository
28 Jun 2021 at 11:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShmerlThat's cool! By the way, if anyone wants a newer KDE for Debian testing / unstable, check repos by Norbert Preining:

https://www.preining.info/blog/author/norbert/ [External Link]
Yes but Norbert is a more than vetted source compared to the article. And it is thanks to him that Bullseye will deliver a fairly recent KDE environment.

There's now a Debian User Repository in the style of the Arch User Repository
28 Jun 2021 at 10:03 am UTC Likes: 1

For a workstation it could be nice.
And remove some hassle when looking at ways to make your devices usable (yes I think of old Logitech product like G13 keyboard) by grabbing pieces of software here and there that are not even for Debian distros.

The 'Wooting two HE' sounds like a great analog RGB keyboard to keep an eye on
25 Jun 2021 at 6:29 pm UTC

Unfortunately, Wooting is not planning on having any ortholinear layout.
So I'm going to try a Lily58 once the Nice!Nano controllers are back in European stocks.

Quoting: EhvisInteresting. I wonder if the key caps for all letters are identical shape so I can change them around into dvorak. Although I haven't changed anything on my current keyboard, so it's not exactly necessary. I do usually like tactile switches, but if you can actually get some analogue output from the keys, I might be willing to try something new.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI think I may have to see about getting a UK keyboard though, as I do prefer to have that fat Return key.
I do too, but not at the expense of the large left shift key.
Not sure, it looks like OEM profiles from the picture.

Valve releases a Team Fortress 2 update that helps somewhat against bots
23 Jun 2021 at 12:33 pm UTC

Same thing for me, never played since then…