In my day, the start button hasn’t been invented yet, so Ctrl esc didn’t help much. But by the time windows 8 came around, I was using that specific shortcut. I use alt+space now to invoke my launcher, because in i3wm/swaywn using super for shortcuts meant that using super for the launcher felt a bit conflicting

I have a preference towards keyboard shortcuts, but I dont think I’m in any way anti-mouse, I’m just very pro-keyboard. If there is a quick easy keyboard shortcut, I’ll almost always use it.

Honestly, back in the windows 8 days, I never understood the backlash about the start screen/menu. My workflow was “hit windows key, type name of app. hit enter” and that workflow didnt change with the full screen mobile centric menu, so it never felt problematic to me. Plenty of other problematic things about microsoft and windows, but “But the start menu is full screen!” wasnt one of them for me.

These days there are enough “If we brick your computer, it’s not our fault” caveats that are just basically EULA level nonsense…

He ran: sudo apt-get install steam (after having issues with the GUI)

He got a prompt that said You about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

Steam is a 3rd party app store (🙄)… I get the same kind of fearmongering messaging on my phone when I try to install apps. The warnings say “This could break your computer!”

So he didn’t read the whole message. but asking a computer to install steam and then saying “yes really” when it double checks feels like a reasonable flow.

Should this has prompted him to go “Wait, this still says its removing pop-desktop, that can’t be right?” Probably. But honestly he was doing everything by the book on how to install steam. If he didnt say yes, he was going to be blocked on not being able to install steam, and the video would have highlighted the bug in a different way.

He was using a distro with a MASSIVE bug in it and that was really the problem, not his lack of double checking things.

You had a stroke because your mom cancelled your WoW sub?

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/02/28/definitely-not-lazy/

Given his history, if he had to sue someone to be able to use a title, it’s probably not a legitimate title.

Sometimes you need to specify in config which clipboard to use on unix systems that might have multiple clipboards too

Depending on the UI/app you use for Lemmy, you may only be able to pick languages you have set on your profile (My mobile app lets me pick any language, but the default web UI (shown above) only shows languages on my profile).

I agree. The best part of the fediverse is the diversity.

However, for someone who doesn’t speak this language, having it marked as English content is not helpful. Would be very nice to have content properly tagged as the actual language it is in, so that users can opt to see content in languages they understand, would be great.

I don’t have a language filter on, so this wouldn’t affect me, but language tags and filters exist for this very purpose, so it would be nice to see them properly used.

To help you better understand, the way I see it, every time I do something that financially benefits <Company>, I assume I am giving money to the executives/owners/etc.

For example, if I spend $30 on a Harry Potter book, I assume JK Rowling gets $0.10 of that (i dont know how it works, but lets assume), and she spends a substantial portion of her income on anti-trans rights. If we assume anywhere near 10%, then me giving her 10 cents is the same as donating 1 cent to anti-trans rights. Is Harry Potter a good enough book that I am willing to donate money to hate groups to obtain it? Personally no. Other people may look at it and say “It’s only $0.01, and I really like the story!” and think it is worth it. That’s up to you where your threshold is for when the good outweighs the bad.

Contributing legitimacy to something can financially benefit it. Even if I never spend any money on Firefox (for example), user metrics allow them to make bargains with Google to get more money in exchange for default search status. So me using Firefox gets money for Mozilla. And if Mozilla was spending that money on hate groups, I wouldn’t want to be involved in that.

Yes, I am aware that basically every company out there is super shitty. And giving money or support to almost any major corporation is basically funding hate groups in some way. But when the CEO is loudly outspoken about these things, I’d very much rather just swap to a brand that at least isn’t outwardly proud of it’s stupidity. Unless the other options are just as bad and I need a thing: if my local ISP was run by murderers, I still need internet. That’s not something I’m willing to compromise on. But I do have other choices in browsers and Brave doesn’t have any features I can’t live without.

So to answer your question: it does not reflect on the product quality, but it does impact how much quality I demand from a product.

Brave might be a fine browser, but the CEO is infamously anti-LGBTQ and was anti-mask during the pandemic. And the whole crypto-coin association and injecting affiliate links into search results… Everything about Brave makes me want to avoid Brave. Is there anything magical about it that make it any different than other chromium browsers that makes it worth supporting right wing crypto bros?

The java edition supports VR mods. So it “Supports VR” in the sense of “this is where VR works”

The bedrock edition supports nothing and is capable of nothing.

It’s a semantics game, but if you want Minecraft in VR, you have to use java edition.

Most good things in Minecraft are modded and java is infinitely better than bedrock as a result. Differentiating between base support and modded features in java is contrary to the whole point of java edition

I could see not caring. but actively being proud of it is weird. And asmongold has a lot in common with pewdiepie in that his fans skew heavily towards being morons who will just follow what he says.

And there are plenty of people who are well known who are terrible people. Knowledge isn’t a limited resource, you don’t have to forget something to know that a person is awful. So there is no value in not knowing it.

With the “general public” yes. Within the computing and gaming space, he’s pretty influential. I realize that “linuxmemes” isn’t about gaming, so there are a lot of non-gamers here but he is a well known name in his niche, which is PC gaming, which is a very relevant niche. It’s not like he’s one of the 1000 youtubers and runs a makeup channel.

Yes, he isn’t universally well known. But given how well known he is in the niche, and how relevant the niche is, and therefore how likely his niche is to translate into linux users or linux haters, it’s extremely relevant to the discussion.

And I’m not saying “everyone should know who Asmongold is!” anyway. I’m merely saying “he’s not irrelevant, and bragging about being out of touch doesn’t make you cool”.

no. but asmongold, even if you dont like him is one of the larger, more influential people out there. Should he be? Is his content that good? Doesn’t matter.

“Who even is that” heavily implies “why should I care” and the answer is: because he has a fanbase of rabid morons incapable of independent thought who will do whatever he says to do. So linux spaces are very likely about to be bombarded with people who hate linux without having ever tried it because asmongold said he didn’t like it, or a bunch of people adopting linux.

It also heavily implies “Im proud of the fact that I dont know who this person is.” Which is just not impressive. “Taylor Swift? Who is that?” indicates you are living under a rock, not that you are cool. And aside from pewdiepie, asmongold is probably one of the youtube gamer names people know.

A youtuber with 5 million followers and 5 billion views, and has won “Streamer of the Year” at the streamer awards in the past.

If you’re asking out of genuine curiosity: a youtuber with a lot of influence.

If you’re asking to brag how out of touch you are: someone with more influence than you.

Yep! All those things are true, but it’s due to the hard work of the archlinux team and not discord doing anything valuable. The debian/ubuntu/etc team could probably repackage the tar.xz or include the deb file in their official repos if they wanted. They just don’t. And given how simple the workaround is, i don’t really blame them. Debian isn’t going to ship something that will require constant updating to work with remote servers, and ubuntu probably just wants you to use a snap anyway.

The archlinux team is just pretty cool.

An “official” arch package? The arch package is packaged by the arch maintainers. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord

The maintainers of the PKGBUILD are all arch maintainers, which just downloads the generic .tar.gz file discord provides and puts it in all the places you need for you.

The “official” arch packages are just PKGBUILDs like the AUR, except prebuilt, managed (and signed) by the arch team.

If the CPU clocks are dropping to ~200-300 MHz while the temps are 40-45C (like in the screenshot) then it’s not thermal throttling. The clockspeed would go back up when the temps go down. And it would only throttle enough to keep the temps under the desired temp.

I would investigate what performance profile the CPU is using.

There is a tool called cpupower that will list out all the information about the CPU clock states.

I have a Ryzen CPU so the desired governor is going to be different than an Intel laptop, but for example, the output of cpupower frequency-info for me:

analyzing CPU 13:
  driver: amd-pstate-epp
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 13
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 13
  energy performance preference: balance_performance
  hardware limits: 600 MHz - 5.76 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
  current policy: frequency should be within 2.98 GHz and 5.76 GHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: 4.39 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
  amd-pstate limits:
    Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 5.76 GHz.
    Nominal Performance: 124. Nominal Frequency: 4.30 GHz.
    Lowest Non-linear Performance: 86. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 2.98 GHz.
    Lowest Performance: 18. Lowest Frequency: 600 MHz.
    Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 231.

Which you can see lists the hardware clock range, the current governor’s policy frequency range, the actual current CPU frequency, and how it picks different frequency ranges.

I used to use cpupower on an old laptop to force it into the performance governor, because it would not clock up high enough without it. This obviously does negatively affect battery life, but i was plugged in most of the time anyway.

But either way, look into cpupower for determining the governor/power profile and also figuring out which governor you should actually be using.

AMD doesnt have any software for controlling RGB on windows. They don’t make graphics cards, they only make the GPU chip that goes onto the card (and the GPU chip doesn’t have any LEDs on it).

The LED controllers on the cards are per brand. If you have a Sapphire card, it’s Sapphire software that controls the RGB. XFX card -> XFX software, etc.

I have an XFX 9070xt, and it doesnt have any RGB on it. so I haven’t had to disable it.

OpenRGB is going to be your best bet for Linux RGB management. Sometimes they dont have every device supported (especially newer ones), so you might not be able to change everything immediately. But it’s mostly just a “scan devices, set color values” once it’s working.

And the iGPU you can probably disable in the UEFI config.