This was in fact what prompted my search - the Gnome calculator is so horribly bloated, and yeah, it should have no business making network connections, at least not by default - this should be an opt-in behaviour.
You can already run Linux apps using Termux and Termux-X11, and I'd say the performance would be better than this demo, because this is running in a virtual machine and uses it's own kernel, whereas with Termux you're running your apps directly on top of the Android Linux kernel. Also, you don't have the overhead of running ChromeOS on top of Android.
I don't play D4 anymore so I can't say if this still works, but back when I did, I used to launch it (ie the Battle.net launcher) from Steam, as a non-Steam game.
I also used the latest Proton-GE as the compatibility tool, so that's something you could try as well.
It's r/w, if you specify the filesystem type as ntfs3. I believe if you use just ntfs it'll be read-only, to mimic the behaviour of the old driver, for compatibility reasons.
Mine looks like this:
UUID=blah /media/games ntfs3 uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000,rw,user,exec,nofail,nocase,windows_names 0 0
If you're copy-pasting this, make sure your uid and gid matches of course.
But the key thing for Steam is you need to have your compatdata folder on a Linux partition, because Proton creates folders with invalid characters (like :). windows_names would prevent that of course, and thus prevents corruption, but it would cause Proton to fail since if can't create those folders/files. So you'll need to symlink that folder on your NTFS disk to point to a folder on a Linux partition.
Eg:
$ mkdir -p ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata
$ ln -s ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata /media/games/Steam/steamapps/
Of course, before you run the above, you'll need to delete the existing compatdata folder from the NTFS disk.
There's no need to run chkdsk from Windows, you can run ntfsfix directly from Linux:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/path --clear-dirty
I'd like to see a simple, dependency-free, calculator app, written in Rust, using egui. All other GUI calculator apps I've seen so far are unnecessarily heavy, using bloated toolkits like GTK or Qt.
This would be handy for those run a GTK/Qt-free environment, and/or those who just want a tiny calculator app (optimised for the smallest binary size) without any external dependencies. Preferably even compiled using musl, to remove any glibc dependencies - resulting in a simple, small, portable binary that can run on any distro and doesn't even need to be installed.
Eventually, I would like to see this idea expanded to other apps - such as a simple text editor, a simple image editor, and maybe even a simple and lightweight web browser using Servo.
ntfs3 has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it's been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven't had any issues.
It's not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it's been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the nocase and windows_names mount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.
It refers to modern Intel CPUs where there are two types of cores - performance cores (P-cores) and efficient cores (E-cores). This is similar to ARM's big.LITTLE architecture which we've seen in smartphones for many years already.
See: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/how-hybrid-design-works.html
If it's just Crunchyroll doing this, you can disable auto-play for it (or just disable it for all sites, IMO automatic playback of media is pretty annoying).
Another alternative is to use Auto Tab Discard, which automatically suspends tabs which are inactive after x seconds. This also helps save memory and CPU usage, and also greatly benefits laptop users. So if you tend to leave your browser open and have dozens of tabs in the background, I'd highly recommend getting this.
Indeed. But I think some confusion will still remain as long as the ntfs-3g FUSE driver is still included by distros. Because right now, you have to explicitly specify the filesystem type as ntfs3 if you want to use the new in-kernel driver, otherwise it would use ntfs-3g. And most guides on the web still haven't been updated to use ntfs3 in the fstab, so I'm afraid this confusion will continue to persist for some time.
Here's the TL;DR from Phoronix:
#AMD
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AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for modern Ryzen systems. This is for leveraging ACPI CPPC data between CPU cores for improving task placement on AMD Ryzen systems for cores that can achieve higher frequencies and also helping in hybrid selection between say Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. This AMD Preferred Core support has been in development since last year.
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Performance gains on AMD 4th Gen EPYC
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AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager merged along with other work as part of better supporting the AMD MI300 series.
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AMD has continued upstreaming more RDNA3+ refresh and RDNA4 graphics hardware support into the AMDGPU driver.
#Intel
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Intel Xeon Max gains in some AI workloads
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Intel FRED was merged for Flexible Return and Event Delivery with future Intel CPUs to overhaul CPU ring transitions.
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Reworked x86 topology code for better handling Intel Core hybrid CPUs.
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Intel Fastboot support is now enabled across all supported graphics generations.
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Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" tuning that can yield nice performance improvements for those using new Intel laptops.
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Continued work on the experimental Intel Xe DRM kernel graphics driver that Intel is aiming to get ready in time for Xe2 / Lunar Lake.
Video, Filesystem & Network
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Support for larger frame-buffer console fonts with modern 4K+ displays.
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Dropping the old NTFS driver.
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Improved case-insensitive file/folder handling.
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Performance optimizations for Btrfs.
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More efficient discard and improved journal pipelining for Bcachefs.
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FUSE passthrough mode finally made it to the mainline kernel.
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More online repair improvements for XFS.
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Much faster exFAT performance when engaging the "dirsync" mount option.
Full summary here: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features/
For #4, you could use WinApps - just pair it with a debloated version of Windows (like Tiny11) and you won't even notice any performance impact. I made a custom build of Tiny11 core and it's idle RAM usage is just 605 MB, and CPU usage close to 0%. When I launch a .docx on Linux, it loads up Word as a RemoteApp in less than a second and it sorta feels like a native app. It's all pretty seamless once you get it going.
If you are going down this route btw, I highly recommend using freeRDP v3 (which you can install from the AUR), since it's got a ton of improvements over the old 2.x versions.
Aurora australis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely in the southern hemisphere?!
I haven't heard of Hot Shot, but 200-400GB seems like reasonable usage to me. Especially taking into account 4K streaming, and stuff like video game downloads being 100+GB, that figure actually would seem pretty conservative IMO.
IMO you shouldn't look at it as "should I become an x user", because that sort of implies you're getting married to that distro. Instead, you should be asking, "should I use x to solve y?" For instance, I use RHEL, Debian (Raspbian), Fedora (Asahi), Fedora Atomic (Bazzite) and Arch. I also use Windows, macOS and FreeDOS. All solve different needs and problems. There's no rule saying you should only stick to one distro/OS use whatever suits your needs, hardware and environment the best. :)
Because MIUI deviates from stock Android so much that it often causes unexpected behaviour and bugs. So it's easier for developers to just say they don't support it, instead of putting up with negative reviews and complaints.
Came across a new vegan restaurant in Welly called September, which is turning into one of my go-to joints. So far I've had their Mapo Tofu, Laksa and Stir Fried Veggies with Tofu, and they've all been top-notch. And unlike Aunty Mena's, their food isn't bland - and when I ask them to make it spicy, they make it proper Asian-spicy, which is awesome. 10/10 would recommend.
Nice, welcome to the club! Been using a ThinkPad Z13 for the past couple of years exclusively with Linux (Fedora Atomic) and it has been an excellent experience, with everything working OOTB and decent battery life too. I do have a copy of Windows installed in a VM, but use it only for dev/test stuff.
What's Changed Fixed scrollbars looking wrong (actually Discord's fault) Tray: Added left click hide/show feature by @0bCdian in #404 MacOS: Fixed the app not properly requesting microphone permis...
Vesktop is a custom Discord App with an aim to give better performance and support on Linux.
v1.5.2 fixes various audio issues related to screensharing and also overhauls video streaming with various fixes/improvements:
> - Fix resolution and framerate selection > - Fix bug that stops users from changing the streamed window (created by allowing resolution changes) > - Fix bug where changing windows allows you to lower the fps but not raise it > - Beautify modal for starting a stream(show preview and content type as a dropdown) > - Fix issue where stream quality overlay does not update to show the current quality of the running stream > - Enable contentHint and allow the user to choose between "motion" and "detail" > - Allow users to start streams while watching another stream
Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released and it's now available for download powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series.
Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn't make it to the party, in case you were wondering.
MINISFORUM has started selling the UM790 XTX, a powerful new mini-PC that comes with modern ports like OCuLink and USB4. The MINISFORUM UM790 XTX can also push its AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU to 70 W, unlike many of its competitors.
The 70W TDP boost is a decent improvement from the UM790 Pro's 35W. It is also expected that the XTX version won't have any of the fan issues that plagued the Pro version, if the 780 XTX is any indicator.
Google is killing the VPN service that comes with One subscriptions, because nobody's using it.
> The company rolled out Google One's VPN feature back in 2020, but you could only access it if you're paying for a plan with at least 2TB of storage, which costs at least $10 a month. > ... > it's discontinuing the feature because "people simply weren’t using it."
Gee, I wonder why... 🙄
Background On Friday, March 29th, 2024, a historical and sophisticated security vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094) was discovered in the XZ Utils package and liblzma api in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. While this vulnerability mostly affects Debian and RedHat distributions, there was some interesting discuss...
The main issue is the handling of security updates within the Nixpkgs ecosystem, which relies on Nix's CI system, Hydra, to test and build packages. Due to the extensive number of packages in the Nixpkgs repository, the process can be slow, causing delays in the release of updates. As an example, the updated xz 5.4.6 package took nearly 5 days to become available in the unstable branch!
Fundamentally, there needs to be a change in how security fixes are handled in Hydra. As stated in the article, Nix was lucky to be unaffected, but multiple days to push out a security patch of this severity is concerning, even if there was no reason for concern.
Added Magnifier Added option to add Wallpaper Improved UI Fixed Container startup error that occurred on some devices Improved XInput compatibility Improved Input Controls and Cursor sensitivity Ad...
Winlator is an Android application that lets you run Windows (x86_64) games and applications using Wine and Box86/Box64.
Version 6.0 Changelog:
- Added Magnifier
- Added option to add Wallpaper
- Improved UI
- Fixed Container startup error that occurred on some devices
- Improved XInput compatibility
- Improved Input Controls and Cursor sensitivity
- Added support for external mouse
- Updated Wine, Box86/Box64, Turnip and DXVK
- Added "Bring to Front" on Task Manager
- Added 7-Zip on context menu
- Removed the option to install OBB image (now it's all in one apk)
- Performance improvements and other fixes
Miyoo has showcased its Game Boy Advance SP-inspired retro gaming handheld. Launching later this year after the Miyoo A30, the Miyoo Mini Flip will feature a flip-up display, two joysticks and enough power to emulate up to PlayStation 1 games.
Miyoo has showcased its Game Boy Advance SP-inspired retro gaming handheld. Launching later this year after the Miyoo A30, the Miyoo Mini Flip will feature a flip-up display, two joysticks and enough power to emulate up to PlayStation 1 games.
#Edit: This has been resolved now.
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For those of you who've been using the Steam Deck variant of Bazzite on desktops/HTPCs with AMD GPUs - beware that currently there's a bug affecting (some?) users, where the GPU's TDP is capped to just 15W!
You can check your settings by running a tool like LACT (ujust install-lact):
As you can see, LACT shows the current limit is 15W, but it can actually go upto 280W on my card.
A bug report for this was opened last year, but it was closed as fixed, but at least one other user (besides me) has been experiencing it - so check your wattage, you might be affected too!
At the moment there are no actual fixes - but you can try the workaround posted in the original bug report. Also, using tools like LACT or corectrl isn't a fix unfortunately, because as soon as you go into game mode (or reboot), the limit resets back to 15W. I'm currently troubleshooting this with a couple of the developers, and hopefully we may get to bottom of this soon.
As for the performance impact - here's a screenshot of Last Epoch running at a glorious 4 FPS, thanks to the caps:
This is a bug-fix release with a few new features. Notable changes: Compatible with wlroots 0.17.x releases and wf-config 0.8.x Support for multiple new protocols: shortcuts-inhibit-v1 (shotcuts-...
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
v0.8.1 is a bug-fix release with a few new features. Notable changes:
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Compatible with wlroots 0.17.x releases and wf-config 0.8.x
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Support for multiple new protocols:
- shortcuts-inhibit-v1 (shotcuts-inhibit plugin, #1969)
- fractional-scale-v1
- wlr_drm_lease_v1 for non-desktop outputs
- input-method-v1 for better fcitx5 support (#2172).
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Wayfire's IPC has been extended with many new signals and commands:
- Has methods to get view, output and workspace (and workspace-set) information
- Signals for view-mapped, unmapped, plugin-activation-state-changed and several others.
- More plugins can be activated via the IPC, check the full commit log for details.
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Wayfire supports SIGINT, SIGTERM for graceful shutdown (#2056, #2197)
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Oswitch has binding to switch in the other direction (#2072)
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Many crashes and bugs were fixed, including regressions in the 0.8.0 release.
LACT is a graphical tool for AMD Radeon information reporting, GPU overclocking, fan control, power/thermal monitoring, and additional power state configurations.
v0.5.3 adds support for displaying the current graphics clock "current_gfxclk", information around GPU throttling is now reported, improved fan control for older GPUs, improved fan curve point adjustments, many bug fixes, and other enhancements.
> With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev. > > To ensure no breakage of users' setup occurs, temporary conflicts have been introduced into the respective packages to prevent installing packages that are no longer compatible. > > The following packages needs to be upgraded together: > > - mkinitcpio 38-3 > - systemd 255.4-2 > - lvm2 2.03.23-3 > - mdadm 4.3-2 > - cryptsetup 2.7.0-3 > > Please note that the mkinitcpio flag --microcode, and the microcode option in the preset files, has been deprecated in favour of a new microcode hook. This also allows you to drop the microcode initrd lines from your boot configuration as they are now packed together with the main initramfs image.
Introduction The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 0.6! This second release of 2024 features a number of improvements, both large and small. It comes with a completely new storage driver for cluster users, import/export support for storage buckets, a number of improvements for...
Incus, a community-managed fork of LXD (container and VM manager), has been updated to v0.6.
New features:
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Clustered LVM storage driver
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Storage bucket backup and import
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Listing images across all projects
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Mounting binfmt_misc filesystems inside of unprivileged containers
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Control over shared block storage volumes
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OVN logical router name in network info
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File ownership and permissions in image templates
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Encrypted EC client certificate keys
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lxd-to-incus improvements:
- Support for Void Linux
- Detection of the boot.debug_edk2 configuration key
- Handling of OVN SSL database connections
- Automatic clearing of the simplestreams cache during migration
Changelog v1.3.2 Description Author(s) References fix: Can't detect librocm 6.0.x @imwints, @aristocratos #761 For additional binaries see the Continuous Builds. Linux binaries for each a...
In case you guys missed it - btop++ has had for GPU monitoring for a while now. However, it didn't work with AMD ROCm v6.0 until a few hours ago (v1.3.2)!
To get GPU monitoring to work, you'll need to compile btop with GPU support, or used a distro-provided package compiled with GPU support. Arch users for instance can use the btop-gpu-git package for this.
The other catch is that right now the monitoring options are pretty basic, so if you're really interested in proper GPU monitoring, you might want to stick with nvtop. But hopefully that changes in the near future now that btop has basic GPU support!
Some batches of mini-PCs come with malware
This is probably a good reminder to not be tempted to buy random brand mini-PCs off Amazon and AliExpress.
Corel Linux first launched in 1999, from the same company that at the time owned the WordPerfect word processing software. While it was made to compete with Microsoft's Windows it quickly died off.
Anyone else remember Corel Linux?
kdotool uses KWin's scripting API to control windows. In each invocation, it generates a KWin script on-the-fly, loads it into KWin, runs it, and then deletes it, using KWin's DBus interface.
This program should work with both KDE 5 and the upcoming KDE 6.
One of Google Search's oldest and best-known features, cache links (aka "cached"), are being retired.
One of Google Search's oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the "Cached" button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they're no longer required.
"It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Google's Danny Sullivan wrote. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."
AYANEO has finally launched the FLIP series, which consists of the FLIP DS and the cheaper FLIP KB. Both built around 7-inch and 120 Hz displays, the two gaming handhelds come with a choice of AMD Ryzen 7 APUs, plus three memory configurations and AYANEO's new large vapour chamber cooling system.
The AYANEO FLIP KB/DS series are now up for pre-order globally. Both built around 7-inch 120Hz displays, the two gaming handhelds come with a choice of AMD Ryzen 7 APUs, plus three memory configurations and AYANEO's new large vapour chamber cooling system.