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I make things: electronics and software and music and stories and all sorts of other things.

  • Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years

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  • Pentium III? Oh man, the cleanup is getting close to affecting me.

    I have a Pentium 4 PC (an old Dell Optiplex that originally ran XP). It still runs modern Linux straight from the distro download page without any other set up needed bc it's an early 64-bit CPU

    But maybe soon it will lose support for some other reason like a driver losing support.

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • Maybe if more projects add things like this it will keep them from having to get rid of bug bounties.

  • Preference

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  • I mean distro only matters in so much as it's how you get software.

    Arch or Arch-based distros (except Manjaro) are nice for Nvidia bc you're always on the latest drivers and latest wine and latest Niri. Mainly bc you get bug fixes and new features early.

    That's what I use.

    Fedora is like that too, but Fedora tends to organize the system in a non-standard way, so I don't use it. Tried for a few months. Ran into weird issues where I ended up needing to just build kernel and nvidia myself bc the COPR and main repo options just... didn't work.

    Nix can do it too but you have to deal with the static, immutable nature of everything. I like the centralized config nature but some apps just don't work immutably.

    Ubuntu and Debian distros can do it, but you might have to tweak more since they're more stable and may not have the latest driver which you may need.

    So I mean, they can all be tweaked to get the software you need. I like Arch bc of the AUR, up-to-date software, extensive documentation, and standard design, but then the risk is every now and then it's "too up-to-date" and you get a regression, and for some people that's too big a problem, even if it rarely happens.

  • Preference

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  • My 16G RTX-3080 Mobile works well with Niri

    I've found it varies from compositor to compositor:

    • Plasma? Mid on Nvidia
      • Constantly I have issues and I can't even solve them myself
      • I have plasma working on Ubuntu Studio on a laptop I use for music making which has some Nvidia card, and that works fine, but not on my main Arch install
    • GNOME? Works okay until you want to do something with portals like screen recording
      • Even if I use a different portal, GNOME overrides it.
    • Hyprland? Works amazing EXCEPT for random tiny issues
      • Also I had to do a lot of tweaking
      • Every now and then some program will not start or something
      • But generally pretty good
    • Sway? Garbo support
      • Nvidia may not even boot. Lots of tweaking. Lots of issues
    • Cosmic? For wayland - solid
      • For everything else... it needs a little work still
      • I also tried Cosmic Shell + Niri, and it just kinda didn't work in some ways like theming, but Wayland worked great.
      • Also performance with multi-displays is kinda poor, or at least it was when I tried it.
    • But Niri? Perfect
      • Absolutely FLAWLESS Wayland. EVERYTHING works
      • And now that I have DMS there's so much done for me. It's really a great system

    Since I love the scrolling aspect of Niri as well, it works out well that it has the best Wayland support. 10/10 project. I love it

    When I was on X11 still I was primarily an i3 user, and the transition to Hyprland and Niri has been generally positive

    But yeah, I've worked with Nvidia on Linux for several years now on multiple machines. I'm finally throwing in the towel whenever I buy a new PC. AMD all the way. It's just better on Linux, even on X11

  • Xfce Desktop Environment Is Getting a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor

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  • I bet they'll get mad if I call it "X-fowl" instead of X-F-W-L lol

  • The state of Linux music players in 2026

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  • All I need is VLC and MPV

  • What do you think of loss32?

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  • I'd recommend using something like Niri instead of mutter for the compositor as Niri is:

    • Extremely customizable
    • Meant to be used alone (unlike mutter which is for Gnome)
    • Supportive of Wayland portals better than any compositor I've tried
    • Very modern
    • Pretty stable
    • Making use of scrolling window management which is, imo, superior to anything else
      • You could force all windows to be floating if you want that traditional method tho

    I'd also recommend using DankMaterialShell and simply providing a theming to get the appeal you want. It works well with Niri and provides all the system tools you need for an OS like bluetooth and audio management, application lookup, etc. It's sort of a stripped down Gnome-shell for standalone compositors but way more customizable.

    Then everything else can just be installed WINE apps.

  • Python Copies

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  • Another reason why raw pointers are superior to object nonsense

    Isn't "explicit is better than implicit" part of the Zen of Python?

  • DAW software for Linux?

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  • I like Ardour. It's got everything you need. It's what I've been using for the past couple years now. It even supports VST2/VST3 plugins through WINE

    I also recommend using yabridge to set up Windows plugins to work on Linux, but be warned there is risk of compatibility issues with plugins on Linux when buying new ones!

    EDIT - Resources:

    Wait a little while and low key Audacity 4 might release a fully capable DAW as well now that it's adding better clip support, plugin support, non-destructive editing for some effects like compression, reverb, etc. Of course, it will be mainly for if you do a lot of recording. For electronic, Ardour would probably be better even after Audacity 4 releases.

  • Biggest invasion of privacy in human history

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  • Nexctloud home server ftw

  • What's a readability

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  • As others said, it means nullable, but to put it in more intuitive, less-jargony way - it's a question mark bc you don't know if the value is actually there or not. It could be a Singleton, but it isn't until you check if there is a value. Whereas if you have, idk, int a no question mark, then you're saying you actually have data.

    Essentially with C# 8, they "removed" null and reused the idea of null references in creating what is essentially an Option like in other languages. You either have some data of some type, or none (a null reference, in this case). By default, everything has to be there. Then when you need null, e.g. you may not have something initialized or an operation could fail, you explicitly grab for it. Thus it reduces null pointer bugs. If you don't need nullability, you can ensure that you don't accidentally write in an issue. It safety checks statements and parameters.

  • Is Hannah Montana linux a good option for beginners?

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  • Yeah I mean it's just a themed Kubuntu, right?

    • Ubuntu is pretty stable, but the latest is pretty up-to-date atm. It's also well supported and well understood by the wider linux community
    • KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11's GUI was based on Plasma)
    • The novelty of using a Hannah Montana themed linux distro is fun

    It's a fine beginner distro

  • Low effort meme

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  • Wdym? They're so good they even got backported to C in C23

    You know how often C gets big features like that? I mean to get auto they had to basically deprecate a keyword (well, sort of)

  • What is it now?

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  • Yeah it was good for a while. But now a few important websites for me just don't work anymore, like a page for paying my loan. It only worked in chromium browsers. I know that chromium will work everywhere because they're the first to implement the newest standards and are the most supported by developers due to it having a huge market share. I can't rely on knowing firefox will work anymore. I've lost faith in it as a product.

  • What is it now?

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  • Brave works. Firefox doesn't. Cope

  • What is it now?

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  • Yes they are. They are agreed upon standards set for future development from a host of different companies. Chrome is just always the first to implement them. It's not that firefox will never have them, they just develop slow.

    And I won't switch from brave bc it's the one browser that just works and has good adblock

  • What is it now?

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  • Good for you. It works for most websites. But when I can't pay my loan bc firefox is crapping itself, it means I can't use firefox.

  • What is it now?

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  • But brave has adblock, so it's all good

  • I'm getting started with functional programming, which language would you recommend?

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  • At the end of the day Lisps are atoms and lists and that's it

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    I made this Linux wallpaper a while ago, but never shared it

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    What is the best setup for Wayland + Nvidia/Intel Laptop (Alternative to Reverse Sync)?

  • C++ @programming.dev
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    ACBS - Another C Build System (compatible with C++)

  • C Programming Language @programming.dev
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    ACBS - Another C Build System

  • Programming Languages @programming.dev
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    It's nothing special, but it's special to me :)

  • Godot @programming.dev
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    OoT-lineage-Zelda-like Camera and Movement in Godot 4

  • The Legend of Zelda @lemmy.ml
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    An unexpected similarity, but a welcome one

  • Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
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    How to declaratively define Strongswan VPN connections for NetworkManager?