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.

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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).

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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).

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Quoting: Klaas

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?

Interesting 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").

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.

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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.

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Quoting: facelessZink allowed me to use opengl on the force engine on an overclocked rpi 400 with the following command:
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

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.

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 :)

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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?

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Quoting: BeamboomBut is it snap or flat that can't update an app while it's running

Flatpak can do that. No idea for snaps.

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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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Quoting: F.UltraAny one knows how this all works with games like Callisto Protocol where Steam downloads shader caches only for the game to then upon launch to rebuild the shaders anyway, sounds like the two systems are fighting each other and that perhaps the steam shader cache should be disabled for games like this, or does it still help in some way that I don't understand?

I haven't played that specific game, but lots of things can happen.

Firstly, having a cache should accelerate your launch times, then, because cached shaders are not recompiled.

Secondly, drivers tend to not compile shaders until they are actually used, which cause stutter, but reduce compilation time a lot (a whole lot of shaders are apparently unused, usually). That one is debatable, but this is where the steam shader cache usually helps. There are ways to force it, so it could be what the game is doing here.

Indeed, if the game recompiles everything, you should just expect a very minor speed improvement on launch (assuming background processing of shaders is disabled, for a "fair" comparison: otherwise, launch speed should increase a lot).

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