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Xwayland Video Bridge created to improve Linux screen sharing
27 Mar 2023 at 7:18 pm UTC
27 Mar 2023 at 7:18 pm UTC
Quoting: melkemindWill this finally allow steam remote play to work properly in Wayland?It should already work if started with -pipewire :) (or -pipewire-dma-buf for more efficiency, but please double check as this is from memory).
Xwayland Video Bridge created to improve Linux screen sharing
23 Mar 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
If you mean the bridge itself, it's difficult while still honoring Wayland's security guarantees, and it would be more a part of XWayland than wayland.
Should it be in XWayland? Maybe, but this modular solution is good as well.
23 Mar 2023 at 6:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: LinasSomething like that should really be built into Wayland.I'm not sure if you mean screensharing or that video bridge? If the former, well, there's pipewire, just not supported by Discord (the "app", it works in browsers).
If you mean the bridge itself, it's difficult while still honoring Wayland's security guarantees, and it would be more a part of XWayland than wayland.
Should it be in XWayland? Maybe, but this modular solution is good as well.
GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker
22 Mar 2023 at 6:47 pm UTC Likes: 2
22 Mar 2023 at 6:47 pm UTC Likes: 2
Finally! That small change (at least o the surface) will make a huge difference in usability. IIRC, some artists have stopped using Gnome because of that.
It's very annoying when I want to pick an image in my picture gallery that contains hundreds of files, named after date and time or just an increasing number (worse for iphone pictures since apparently those are UUIDs), to have to open another program and look up the file name, before selecting the right file(s).
Most things are too dumbed down for my taste in Gnome, and this dialog is a prime example. You can't open or rename a file from it, IIRC, nor perform simple file operations (move, create folder).
It's very annoying when I want to pick an image in my picture gallery that contains hundreds of files, named after date and time or just an increasing number (worse for iphone pictures since apparently those are UUIDs), to have to open another program and look up the file name, before selecting the right file(s).
Most things are too dumbed down for my taste in Gnome, and this dialog is a prime example. You can't open or rename a file from it, IIRC, nor perform simple file operations (move, create folder).
Steam Spring Sale is live, Steam Deck gets a discount and startup movie customization
18 Mar 2023 at 7:16 pm UTC
18 Mar 2023 at 7:16 pm UTC
Re-reading the title, I understood it as a new default boot animation during the sale event. That would be a nice touch (if can be disabled).
Steam Spring Sale is live, Steam Deck gets a discount and startup movie customization
18 Mar 2023 at 7:08 pm UTC Likes: 1
Anyway, hopefully I'll open it in about a week :P
Edit for your other question: No, I haven't opened it at all; I've actually considered if it was worth keeping like that as a collector item, but the lithium battery won't last. Technically, I think manufacturers should honor a 2-years warranty, so I'm still in the green if it doesn't work.
18 Mar 2023 at 7:08 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: KlaasInteresting suggestion. Perhaps, but then it wouldn't work as a carrot anymore. I also made that choice before purchasing it (initially it was "I'll finish before receiving it").Quoting: MayeulCEdit: for more context, I received it about one year ago.I've got questions: You didn't open it to test if it works? Are you sure that setting a daily time limit to spend on the SD wouldn't have been a better idea?
Anyway, hopefully I'll open it in about a week :P
Edit for your other question: No, I haven't opened it at all; I've actually considered if it was worth keeping like that as a collector item, but the lithium battery won't last. Technically, I think manufacturers should honor a 2-years warranty, so I'm still in the green if it doesn't work.
Steam Spring Sale is live, Steam Deck gets a discount and startup movie customization
16 Mar 2023 at 8:33 pm UTC Likes: 4
16 Mar 2023 at 8:33 pm UTC Likes: 4
Still haven't opened mine 🥲
I use it as a big carrot for finishing my PhD manuscript :/
Edit: for more context, I received it about one year ago.
I use it as a big carrot for finishing my PhD manuscript :/
Edit: for more context, I received it about one year ago.
X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins
1 Mar 2023 at 8:38 am UTC
And yeah, terrific perf improvements, thanks to Mike and others, though I thought OpenGL was pretty good on the Pi?
Edit: just realized there was a pasta machine on the zink screenshot from the x-plane blog. Brilliant! Maybe they should rename Zink. Or make a new kind of pasta named Zink :)
1 Mar 2023 at 8:38 am UTC
Quoting: facelessZink allowed me to use opengl on the force engine on an overclocked rpi 400 with the following command:My, isn't that version three years out of date now? Mesa is also shipped with the flatpak runtimes if you don't want to upgrade your version.
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=330 ./theforceengine
I think most linux users have no idea that zink is part of mesa now and is an option, but the impact on performance is huge, at least in mesa 20.3.5. I read somewhere that performance is expected to be much better in latter versions of mesa
And yeah, terrific perf improvements, thanks to Mike and others, though I thought OpenGL was pretty good on the Pi?
Edit: just realized there was a pasta machine on the zink screenshot from the x-plane blog. Brilliant! Maybe they should rename Zink. Or make a new kind of pasta named Zink :)
Valve tricks Dota 2 cheaters and then bans 40,000 of them
23 Feb 2023 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 7
23 Feb 2023 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 7
I agree with hash punishment, but... I cheated once in TF2 as a teen more than 10 years ago, and I still am banned.
Bans shouldn't be permanent, I can't imagine a 5-year ban being less deterrent than a permaban. I think a warning (1 month or couple weeks ban) would be better all around, actually, as you don't use the atomic option right away and leave some room for escalation, so that the cheater knows they have to behave, but I understand that cheats are hard to detect... And some cheaters are not like the others: clueless people, serial cheaters, and cheat developers. The last two categories are the more dangerous, and both will just move on to a new account if one gets banned. VAC bans are not instant to make it harder for the last category.
I wonder if some "serial" cheaters do it in order to level up accounts to sell them, or to sell dropped items on a secondary market?
Bans shouldn't be permanent, I can't imagine a 5-year ban being less deterrent than a permaban. I think a warning (1 month or couple weeks ban) would be better all around, actually, as you don't use the atomic option right away and leave some room for escalation, so that the cheater knows they have to behave, but I understand that cheats are hard to detect... And some cheaters are not like the others: clueless people, serial cheaters, and cheat developers. The last two categories are the more dangerous, and both will just move on to a new account if one gets banned. VAC bans are not instant to make it harder for the last category.
I wonder if some "serial" cheaters do it in order to level up accounts to sell them, or to sell dropped items on a secondary market?
Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps
23 Feb 2023 at 12:58 pm UTC
23 Feb 2023 at 12:58 pm UTC
Quoting: BeamboomBut is it snap or flat that can't update an app while it's runningFlatpak can do that. No idea for snaps.
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 26: Coming to You Live
23 Feb 2023 at 12:57 pm UTC
23 Feb 2023 at 12:57 pm UTC
Still have a few copies of this one... It took me so long to download (7-10 kbps from a source that couldn't resume) that I made many copies :)
My first interaction with Linux, I have fond memories of it!
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