i just disable screen saver entirely and shutdown the monitor when i'm not using it...

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from an comunity on google Plus

"Jannis
I use a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ to allow commands I want to run with sudo from scripts without password:

# cat /etc/sudoers.d/20-customstuff
jannis ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/openvpn, /usr/bin/cpupower, /usr/local/bin/cryptmount.sh, /usr/bin/radeontop, /usr/bin/psd-overlay-helper, /usr/local/bin/emsync.sh

This allows to run certain commands or scripts with sudo without entering a password.

I put my custom scripts into /usr/local/bin/ as that's owned by root, in path variable, and won't conflict with the package manager. I also "chown root:root" and "chmod 755" my scripts to prevent privilege escalation.

Anyway, to toggle cpu governors, I made a small script¹ and set it to execute on keypress on one of the custom keys on my roccat keyboard. It uses /usr/bin/cpupower which is in the NOPASSWD line mentioned above.

¹ pastebin.com - [Bash] /usr/local/bin/toggleperformance - Pastebin.com
[Bash] /usr/local/bin/toggleperformance - Pastebin.com
[Bash] /usr/local/bin/toggleperformance - Pastebin.com
pastebin.com"

https://pastebin.com/vj6jD8bE [External Link]

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: elmapulplain text in 2017? common! i'm a human being! i hate being Treated as a machine!

Feel free to register unreadablecrap.com and publish there all the documentation you can find in an unreadable tiny font with a choice of colors that makes the readers blind within five minutes.

why? they already did that with this plaintext.

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Quoting: marcushttps://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt [External Link]

plain text in 2017? common! i'm a human being! i hate being Treated as a machine!

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Quoting: JanAndroid uses Vulkan, but all the mobile app developers I talk to on a regular basis make more money on Apple's storefront, even though the market share of iPhone and iPad is smaller.

some reasons:
you need to have money to have an iOS device (at least on my country) iOS devices may sell less, but they are targeted at an premium market.
Apple had quality control on their store for some time, i dont know if they still does, but i'm tired of trying to find something good on GooglePlay and find crappy or apps that are "free" but you end up paying more than if you purchased an console+an good game instead of this time wasted designed to adict then get your money instead of give you fun.
i dont know if that is the case for iOS store, but there, the consumers use to have more money.

other issue is that android has piracy and for last but not least emulators, with an unlimited number of free high quality games, its not a big surprise that developers struggle to make money.

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there is any way to delay an command to run only when the last command finish?

add an non steam game (it is an steam game, but do it anyway)
echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ;
command to launch the game ;
echo powersave | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

not tested!

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Quoting: adamhmWe also need to do our part of encouraging people to try Linux, and helping to make things as easy as possible for new users.

i guess it maybe easier to persuade mac users to use linux than windows people.
why? reasons:
dead island:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/383150/ [External Link]
Saints Row: The Third:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/55230/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_3 [External Link]
payday 2:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_4 [External Link]

we have at least 3 AAA that they dont (we might have others, i'm to busy to search)

also for this game, they will not need buy again.

and for windows users, we might get those few games who have an better performance on linux than on windows (and remind then that the others run worse due to bad ports and being designed for DX)
they will not change for linux but may at least dualboot

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"25 years ago they need to release in a cd-rom or disquettes on shops. Make copies, distribution, shopper, etc. Nowdays you can upload it, and with just one click you download. It's the reason the game is much more cheaper."
distribution copies arent that expensive.

the cost to develop an game like Ocarina of time was arround 7 millions of dollars, GTA 4 costed over 200 millions of dollars.
this makes hell a lot more difference than the box and stuff.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: kellerkindtRidiculous shot to the knee by M$ to support DX12 only on Win 10 - but I cannot complain about that :D

Well, that's exactly what they did with DX10 and DX11 (available only for Windows Vista and newer). And as most of you probably noticed, they really want everyone to use the latest version of their system ;)

Yes, the shot in the knee part is when they expected Win 10 to be successful, and people didn't even want it for free, making DX12 stuck with a market share that will force developers to offer DX11 legacy support for years to come... Or just use Vulkan and get rid of the problem entirely. :D

i hate to say that, but, steam hardware survey states otherwise:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey [External Link]

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Quoting: peterf28what valve removed steamplay ??? that was the only feature that got me convinced to actually pay for game . no way i will pay twice . they can call themselves lucky when i pay once . but i already got used to greedy corporations, I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore .

i dont know if they removed it, or it was implicity since all games support it so they didnt need an logo for that.

that explain why we have 2 entries of the same game (one for the windows version one for the mac/linux version)
instead of, the only difference be that for this game we dont have the steamplay logo

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