Thanks for the kind words :)
In all fairness, I've had some really dicey problems on Linux. I think the most difficult problem I've encountered was when I bought a USB soundcard which only worked in legacy mode, but using Wireshark and the USB audio class specification I managed to track down the bug in Linux' usb-audio module, so now I'm technically a kernel contributor :)
For me the difference is that when I get a problem on Linux, it usually tries to provide me with the information I need to figure out what goes wrong, and due to its open nature it tries to make it easy to fix things. Also the majority of the time, Linux is working flawlessly. Windows on the other hand, is plagued by bugs and annoyances that show up on a weekly, if not daily, basis. And when issues happen, they come with little information and are often impossible to fix yourself since the OS is locked down.
The problem I've had with bad themes (e.g. black on black text/icons) seem to stem from apps using system/fallback colours, e.g. not defining it's own list background because it assumes it's always going to be white. But I can't say if it happens more often with Gtk or Qt.. Most recently it happened both with GIMP (Gtk) and FreeCAD (Qt)
Glad you enjoyed it!
As for the choice of distribution, the installation of Bazzite was actually far from trouble free. The precise issue and its solution escapes my mind at the moment, but it refused to boot at first, and I had to spend more hours than I had hoped for before it was up and running. But after that it seems to be stable, the only question the kid has sent me was "can it break my computer if I switch Project Zomboid to the beta branch?" so I assume everything is working well now :D (There was a warning about switching to beta, saying that you should make a backup because things could break, and he wasn't sure what they meant)
So fun watching someone try Linux as their first OS, none of the "Linux is difficult because I learned how to use Windows" or "Linux is bad because it's not exactly like Windows" comments :D Roblox stopped working when the devs intentionally blocked Wine, but he just shrugged and said he didn't play it that much anyway.
It's a little heart breaking hearing him often ask which parts he could buy to get more FPS, because he'd need to replace half the computer to get a newer CPU and DDR4 RAM, since I suspect the DDR3 could be the current bottleneck. But other than that he's very happy with the computer.
Glad to hear it's working well for her. I used Xubuntu myself in the past but switched to Fedora KDE on a whim :). When my wife wanted to ditch Windows I thought Xubuntu would be a good choice for her, but honestly I was surprised with how many different problems and errors we ran into while installing it on her computers. Granted it's more stable now, but during the first couple of months I occasionally had to spend hours trying to get pretty basic stuff working, when it required more advanced Linux knowledge to fix.
"This Linux thing is better than normal computers"
A few years ago my wife and I built a computer out of old parts for her friend's then 10 years old son. Last month we were visiting them, and I heard the wife's friend say something funny that I thought I'd share with you.
They live on the other side of the city, this was the kid's first computer, and his mom doesn't have much computer experience either, so our goal was to build something that was easy to use and hard to break from the beginning. Originally I choose ElementaryOS since it seemed to fit the bill, but after a year or two it turned out that it couldn't be upgraded to a new major version without a full reinstall so it got stuck with an older version. We didn't visit that often, and the kid's games still worked so it wasn't a major issue until Factorio broke due to glibc incompatibility.
When his birthday was coming up last month we bought him a SSD to make the computer a little bit zippier without a major upgrade, and I thought I'd give him a brand new Linux experience to
Was just thinking that if the goal of your video was to showcase the difference between the bed slinger and the corexy, then it would've made a stronger point if you took advantage of its full potential. The MK4 even looks faster in the video, but I suspect it could be the angle and that the bed moving making its motions more visible.
I think I tried to compile Gentoo about 20 years ago for some reason.. Took many hours, and I don't remember even getting it running. Later I tried dual booting Ubuntu, but ended up using Windows all the time since that's where my games were. Started using Linux only (Xubuntu) some time around 2010.
At that printing speed I doubt it makes any difference if the bed is moving or stationary :) Surely the Prusa XL could go much faster than this?
Att det bara är någon sverigedemokrat som är lite fånig är ändå en ganska välvillig tolkning av situationen. Om klimataktivism skulle bli terrorklassat så skulle det inte bara leda till att Greta Thunberg och andra ungdomar skulle kunna få 4-18 års fängelse, utan det skulle även öppna upp för att åtala medborgare som är aktiva i internationella miljörättsorganisationer, samt de som givit bidrag till dem. Se bara terroristbrottslag och tänk hur det skulle kunna appliceras om ett sånt här förslag gick igenom. Jag tror aldrig det skulle leda till att alla som skänkt en hundralapp till Green Peace skulle bli inlåsta, men ifall det var någon röd-grön person de skulle vilja komma åt så är det mycket möjligt att det skulle gå att döma dem för något terror-relaterat. Även om det känns orealistiskt att något sånt skulle kunna hända i Sverige så är det här är ett regeringsparti som leker med idén att fängsla politiska motståndare.
Så här definierar andra terrorism:
- "the deliberate killing of innocent people, at random, to spread fear through a whole population and force the hand of its political leaders" (Michael Walzer, 2002).[18]
- "the organized use of violence to attack non-combatants (‘innocents’ in a special sense) or their property for political purposes" (C. A. J. Coady, 2004).[19]
- "the deliberate use of violence, or threat of its use, against innocent people, with the aim of intimidating some other people into a course of action they otherwise would not take" (Igor Primoratz, 2004).[20][page needed]
- "the use of force or violence or the threat of force or violence to change the behavior of society as a whole through the causation of fear and the targeting of specific parts of society in order to affect the entire society" (Arthur H. Garrison, 2004).[21]
- "The premediated use or threat to use violence by individuals or subnational groups to obtain a political or social objective through the intimidation of a large audience beyond that of the immediate victims" (Todd Sandler, 2010).[22]
- "a doctrine about the presumed effectiveness of a special form or tactic of fear-generating, coercive political violence... [as well as] a conspiratorial practice of calculated, demonstrative, direct violent action without legal or moral restraints, targeting mainly civilians and non-combatants, performed for its propagandistic and psychological effects on various audiences and conflict parties" (Schmid, 2011).
Samtidigt här i vårat land:
- "En vanlig arbetare som är på väg till jobbet blir inte särskilt glad om han eller hon blir sen för att folk har satt sig på vägen" (Sverigedemokraterna, 2025)
Absolut. Det är förvisso fortfarande möjligt att kontakta vården, göra bankärenden, betala kollektivtrafik etc. utan bankid, men iaf i perioder har det varit mycket omständigare (t.ex. nu kan man betala kollektivtrafiken med kreditkort, men för några år sedan var förbetalda kontantkort enda alternativet).
Personligen tycker jag staten borde ha protesterat när bankid slutade stödja Linux, och bestämde att bara folk som köpt Windows, MacOS, Android eller iPhone skulle få ha det lätt att ta del av viktiga samhällsfunktioner. Fast föga förvånande med de senaste årtiondenas utveckling.
Hmm, så alla privata assistansbolag samarbetar med kriminella för att maximera sina egna inkomster ist. för att ge så bra vård som möjligt? Med andra ord bara en tidsfråga innan M skyller problemen på invandrare ist. för att erkänna att deras privatiseringar av välfärden ger motsatt effekt till vad de lovat.
Visste inte ens att det fanns svenskar som firar påsk :D En påskmust är allt det blir för egen del.
edit: men om jag hade firat påsk så hade det nog blivit mycket fokus på lamm och ägg, för att det inte ska bli för likt julbordet.
Hmm, är Lemmy lite trasigt idag? Om jag försöker välja språk för posten så säger den "language not allowed" oavsett om jag väljer svenska eller engelska, och sen drar den in vad som ser ut som ryska från youtube.. Aja, videon är iaf på svenska skånska
Bilbo slutar snusa (Sagan om Ringen på skånska)
Lite fredagsunderhållning åt folket
SVT's nyhetsrapportering är så tragisk, de bara citerar skitsnack rakt av utan att säga att det är skitsnack.. Många svenskar lär ju läsa rubriken och tro att nyheten är att legitimiteten i den franska demokratin faktiskt är skadad.
En vän hade en liknande erfarenhet för några år sedan.. Han var på väg hem från jobbet kl 3 på söndag natt, satt och väntade på bussen då en full snubbe dyker upp och börjar snacka med honom. Lite senare kommer en polispatrull förbi, börjar ställa en massa frågor, varpå den fulle mannen blir lite käftig med dem. Gissningsvis dryg och högljudd, men inte jättemycket värre än "vi har inte gjort något, lämna oss ifred". Poliserna tycker då de ska lära ut en läxa, så de drar in båda två i bilen och kör ut dem i ett öde industriområde, så de får spendera en dryg timme att promenera tillbaka till civilisationen. Min vän missar sista nattbussen och lägger ytterligare en timme på att gå hem.
Hehe, måste erkänna att jag blev lite nyfiken och googlade det, hade inte heller hört det tidigare.
Man vill ju inte vara tråkig och klaga på lite skämt och skoj, men jag tror jag är lite paranoid efter att ha sett ett par trevliga subreddits gradvis tas över av shitposts, vilket resulterade i att de som var intresserat av annat än memes slutade posta saker och lämnade.
Kanske går att försöka variera bidragen lite mer, skulle säkert vara bra för /c/sweden med lite bredare utbud än bara memes och nyheter ändå? T.ex. info om evenemang och inhemska resmål hade jag uppskattat lite mer av. Har även sett önskemål om "goda nyheter", eftersom det brukar vara väldigt mycket fokus på hemskheter och click-bait:igt i media, så det kan förstås vara skönt med lite variation.
Och så finns det ju förstås /c/Mem@Feddit.nu för de som verkligen gillar svenska memes :)
Recommend a distro for a 13-year-old gamer
Couldn't find a dedicated community for distro recommendations, I hope it's ok to ask here.
A couple of years ago my wife and I built a computer and gave it to a friend's kid. We put ElementaryOS on it since that seemed pretty fool-proof, but it appears to require a re-install to upgrade major versions so it has been stuck with an old glibc and because of that he can't play Factorio.
For his 13:th birthday we bought him a SSD so it would be a good time to reinstall Linux, but is there perhaps some better choice than ElementaryOS? They live quite far away so I can't easily pop over to fix his computer if something breaks, we don't spend enough time there for me to teach him to fix things himself, and he doesn't seem very interested in learning how computers/operatings systems work either.
- Hardware: Some old Intel CPU with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX1080
- Usage: Gaming through Steam+Proton, Lutris and browsing.
- Requirements: Games work, OS never breaks on updates. Doesn't need to be "kid
Anyone found "optimal" settings for llama.cpp partial offload?
In case anyone isn't familiar with llama.cpp and GGUF, basically it allows you to load part of the model to regular RAM if you can't fit all of it in VRAM, and then it splits the inference work between CPU and GPU. It is of course significantly slower than running a model entirely on GPU, but depending on your use case it might be acceptable if you want to run larger models locally.
However, since you can no longer use the "pick the largest quantization that fits in memory" logic, there are more choices to make when choosing which file to download. For example I have 24GB VRAM, so if I want to run a 70B model I could either use a Q4_K_S quant and perhaps fit 40/80 layers in VRAM, or a Q3_K_S quant and maybe fit 60 layers instead, but how will it affect speed and text quality? Then there are of course IQ quants, which are supposedly higher quality than a similar size Q quant, but possibly a little slower.
In addition to the quantization choice, there are additional flags which affect
PSA: Update to Plasma 6.3 can make Wayland session unusable if you have configured monitor ICC profiles
Update: Bug fixed in Plasma 6.3.1
Just posting this since I spent over an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't open my desktop today.. After booting and logging in I got a black screen. Switched to a terminal but did not see any obvious errors in the logs.
Not fixed for Fedora 41 KDE yet, so I installed plasma-workspace-x11 to use in the meanwhile. Anyone who hasn't updated to 6.3 yet could probably change their display settings to not use ICC profiles to avoid it.___
How to install Aslain's modpack for World of Warships on Steam
I just spent half an hour trying to figure this out so I thought I'd write it down somewhere in case it helps someone else in the future.
Aslain's modpack contains a whole lot of quality-of-life mods for WoWs, for example Battle Expert (formerly known as Navigator) which shows the exact relative angles between your ship and the enemy's. Almost feels like cheating to me, but Wargaming has endorsed this modpack and it even has a dedicated channel on the official discord server. Theoretically you have the same information without the mod, but it can be difficult to see how a ship is turning or changing speed by just looking at it.
These instructions are for when the game is installed through Steam, which looks like it uses some kind of overlay filesystem. This led to that the game install folder didn't show up for the modpack installer when I tried other methods.
- Install protontricks, I used the version available in Fedora's repos.
Old issues of White Dwarf from mid '90s - nostalgic value or straight into the recycling bin?
Going through some boxes and found a stack of old White Dwarf. I'll keep the first issue I ever bought as a memory but planning to get rid of the rest. Just wanted to check if there are people collecting these before they go into the recycling bin. If anyone's interested I can make a list of which ones I have, and I'll send them to anyone willing to pay for postage. Located in Sweden.
Any "undiscovered" games you think deserve more attention?
Any games with less than 1000 total Steam reviews you've enjoyed and thought more people ought to know about? Not a hard limit, just a guideline for what could be classified as "undiscovered" on Steam, assuming it wasn't released yesterday.
I would recommend:
- Full Bore, a cute block-based puzzle platformer. Solid mechanics, level designs and even a somewhat engaging story.
Unfortunately hasn't been on a sale since 2021 according to steampricehistory.com, while it was frequently reduced to €2-3 before that. Not sure I'd recommend it to everybody at full price, but IMO it's one of the best indie platformers I've played.edit: Did someone email the creator of Full Bore or something? It's suddenly on sale again, for the first time in ages :) Go buy it!
Something resets my monitor colour calibration when I log in
I have calibrated my monitors to create icc profiles, they show up in KDE color management and everything used to work exactly as it should. Now every time I start my computer it goes like this:
- I log in to my account
- It shows my desktop, with the right colour correction.
- After a few seconds the colours revert to look un-calibrated on both monitors.
- I restart the colord service and it loads the colour correction again.
As an alternative to step 4, if I go to KDE colour settings, select the default profile and then back to my profile then it also starts looking good again.
This problem must've started a week or two ago, but unfortunately I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly when. I haven't touched anything related to colour management in months, and don't think I've done any changes to my system other than upgrading packages.
Can't see anything colour related in the syslog except colord loading the correct profiles. I removed all the old profiles that I wasn't using a
Tactical team based fps Isonzo free weekend
Ferocious Alpine warfare will test your tactical skills in this authentic WW1 FPS. Battle among the scenic peaks, rugged valleys and idyllic towns of northern Italy. The Great War on the Italian Front is brought to life and elevated to unexpected heights!
Only played it for an hour but it's pretty good so far, if you like this type of gameplay. Feels somewhere in between Hell Let Loose and Battlefield 1. Native Linux version.
What determines the format of the prompt template?
I'm trying to learn more about LLMs, but I haven't found any explanation for what determines which prompt template format a model requires.
For example meta-llama's llama-2 requires this format:
...INST and <
<SYS>
> tags, BOS and EOS tokens...
But if I instead download's TheBloke's version of llama-2 the prompt template should instead be:
SYSTEM: ...
USER: {prompt}
ASSISTANT:
I thought this would have been determined how the original training data was formatted, but afaik TheBloke only converted the llama-2 models from one format to another. Looking at the documentation for the GGML format I don't see anything related to the prompt being embedded in the model file.
Anyone who understands this stuff who could point me in the right direction?
Are you exposing any ports on your home server?
Maybe I'm using the wrong terms, but what I'm wondering is if people are running services at home that they've made accessible from the internet. I.e. not open to the public, only so that they can use their own services from anywhere.
I'm paranoid a f when it comes to our home server, and even as a fairly experienced Linux user and programmer I don't trust myself when it comes to computer security. However, it would be very convenient if my wife and I could access our self-hosted services when away from home. Or perhaps even make an album public and share a link with a few friends (e.g. Nextcloud, but I haven't set that up yet).
Currently all our services run in docker containers, with separate user accounts, but I wouldn't trust that to be 100% safe. Is there some kind of idiot proof way to expose one of the services to the internet without risking the integrity of the whole server in case it somehow gets compromised?
How are the rest of you reasoning about security? Renting a VPS
Can GRUB cause issues with USB mice occasionally?
The only Linux questions community I found appears to be locked, so I hope it's ok to ask here..
For a very long time I've had the issue that occasionally, perhaps 1 out of 40 boots, my mouse does not work once the OS starts. The mouse appears to turn on during POST/BIOS/GRUB, then it goes dark again while the OS is booting, and to make it turn back on I have to crawl under the desk, unplug it and plug it back in. 39 times out of 40 (approximately) it just goes dark briefly and turns on in time for the OS. The mouse also works just fine in UEFI.
This happens in Xubuntu, Fedora and Windows, and with two different mice from different manufacturers. I've also upgraded the motherboard twice and pretty much every component in the computer. The only thing that's always has been there is GRUB, which is why I suspect it could be involved.
It happens so rarely that I never really bothered to try to find a solution for it, but it is kinda annoying when it happens.
Which 18V brushless drill driver has the least annoying sound?
I'm about to invest in some "prosumer" level 18V power tools, e.g. Makita, Dewalt, Metabo, etc. The general consensus appears to be that they're all more or less equal and it doesn't matter much which brand one goes with, but a few years ago I developed tinnitus which has made me more sensitive to high frequency sounds. And having tested a few cordless drill drivers at various hardware stores I can definitely tell they're not equal when it comes to what the noise sounds like, even if they measure similarly in sound pressure level.
Currently I have a Ryobi 18V brushless that I measure to 83-84 dB(c) at 1m which makes it pretty loud, and it also has a quite a quite high pitched sound which makes it worse. Looking at a spectrogram from a calibrated measurement mic there's a pretty clear peak at 6kHz. The drill drivers I've been looking at all have a rated sound pressure level (Lp) around 76 dB so they should already be noticeably less loud, but I'm hoping to find one without those high f
Do good value-for-money home cinema pre-amps exist?
The 7.1 receiver that we've had for quite some time feels like it's about to give up so I'm considering some kind of upgrade. I'm a bit frugal when it comes to this stuff, so I'm trying to find a good value option that won't have to be replaced too soon. I.e. I'm not looking for something really cheap that doesn't sound good, but I also don't want to spend more than necessary, as one quickly gets into diminishing returns territory.
Now I'm thinking that it's the video and digital pre-processing parts of the home cinema system that age fastest, and it feels wasteful having to replace all the power amplifiers, which is the case of an integrated surround receiver. But looking at the local stores there's a complete lack of mid-range surround pre-amps.. There are plenty of good surround receivers around €1000, but for pre-amps there's a single crap model for €500, and then the rest are €4000-20000. Do companies simply not make the product I'm looking for?
I could definitely buy a surround
Server randomly shows different content when trying to look at this link
So there’s this guy in YouTube who’s following the progress of the cow level search. Really exciting stuff! The initial video: https://youtu.be/c3gYWgrLPV8 [https://youtu.be/c3gYWgrLPV8] The update: https://youtu.be/_KRmuFaJRFM [https://youtu.be/_KRmuFaJRFM] Anybody here who’s participating in the s...
This link showed up on the front page as a post about the search for the secret cow level, posted to the diablo community, but clicking it sometimes shows a post about The Mets and sometimes it's a post about dating advice in the phillipines community.
Note that URL in screenshot is the same as the link I posted, and the right column shows correct community info.
Reloading the page replaced the content with the correct post about diablo.