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Pipeline pump placement
  • In this case, shouldn't the output per pipeline be 33% rather than 50%? After all, there are 3 outputs. Or is 50% on the "middle" pipeline and 50% on the two new ones together?

  • Update every day?
  • Since currently I'm only playing Satisfactory, and I have downloaded the shader's, it should not come back the next day? Or is that wrong?

    I mean, it's not the download which annoy me, its the time before I can start the game. It takes ages to download this 170MB from steam server's. Normally 170MB is transferred really fast for other things, but the update takes 5 minutes and longer from steam server's.

  • Update every day?
  • Yes. Arch Linux, but on a laptop. Nice combination. I thought the pre-caching is displayed as a separate dialog for Vulkan, which I can interrupt, if I want.

    But I have every day a message directly right nearby the play button which reads something about "Download Update..." and the play button is grayed out.

  • Pipeline pump placement

    Somehow I don't understand electricity generation with oil. I have a normal oil well and transport the oil to a refinery 8m higher. However, not enough oil arrives there, even though the oil pump has a delivery height of 10m.

    I have now installed a pipeline pump at approx. 4m, with the result that the previous 0.6m³ in the pipeline became 0. If I remove this pump, the content of the pipeline suddenly increases to 27m³ and the refinery starts working. and yes, the pump was pointing in the right direction.

    The next problem is the fuel generators. I have 4 in a tower on the lower floor working. The supply seems to be sufficient. I now have build another 4 generators on the floor above the first floor, these again don't get any fuel, even though I have installed an mk2 pump directly at the bottom at the start of the riser pipe. The second floor is 8 walls higher above the first floor. This pump supposedly pumps up to 50m, but in the pump settings I only see a maximum height of 4m. Why?

    I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Where should I place the pipeline pumps? Should I use more refinerys? Or what's the secret here?

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    Smudget objects with Vulkan

    Since some time, I'm play Satisfactory on Linux. Performance is fine so far. But if I look on the moving conveyer belts with objects like iron ore or other things, this moving parts produce smudged artifacts on the screen. I don't know what this is called and what I can do against that. I have played the same game on the same laptop on Windows with exactly the same in-game settings. There are no such artifacts.

    Is there anything I can do against that? Graphics card is a Nvidia 1050 with proprietary driver. I'm on Arch Linux. Proton is 8.25 GE. I have tested several Proton variant without any difference.

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    How do I get Nviddia drivers to work in arch?
  • According to the linked wiki, try to go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html.

    Check on your laptop with dmesg | grep -i chipset the codename of your graphic card. With this you can check which driver is the best on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA. There is a paragraph, explaining which driver is the best.

    If I understand it right, the nvidia package is the correct one for 1050. So you can use pacman -S nvidia with root privileges. All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

    I would recommend to reboot, in case there are changed kernel modules.

    2 things i have to note: Using Wayland is a total mess with nvidia. Specially on Arch Linux. I have screen flickering in GUI and games, the performance is so lala and tools like KeePass which needs access to the text in window titles did not work complete. On Manjaro, the flickering doesn't exist, but the other symptoms do. Maybe im missing some packages on Arch.

    Second with Vulkan i have some tearing in games. I have not looked further in to that.

    On the other hand, games like Satisfactory or Elder Scrolls Online, have more FPS with the same settings as on Windows.

    Currently i test Arch and Manjaro in parallel on the same Laptop. But I tend to keep Manjaro and remove Arch. There are light pro's and con's, but overall, I'm more happy with Manjaro. But this has nothing to do with you're issue.

  • Editing grub Menü dual boot not working
  • I got it to work...

    I have used the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id="Arch Linux" before, but without success. This didn't worked before. But now...

    I have no idea, whats changed. Anyhow. Im happy.

  • Editing grub Menü dual boot not working
  • df -h

    Manjaro:

    dev             7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev
    run             7,8G    1,9M  7,8G    1% /run
    /dev/sdb3        68G     50G   15G   78% /
    tmpfs           7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs           7,8G    9,0M  7,8G    1% /tmp
    /dev/sdb4       587G    272G  285G   49% /mnt/games
    /dev/sda1       296M     56M  241M   19% /boot/efi
    tmpfs           1,6G    100K  1,6G    1% /run/user/1000
    

    Arch:

    dev             7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev
    run             7,8G    1,7M  7,8G    1% /run
    efivarfs        128K     46K   78K   38% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
    /dev/sdb5        69G     21G   45G   32% /
    tmpfs           7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs           7,8G    8,6M  7,8G    1% /tmp
    /dev/sdb4       587G    272G  285G   49% /mnt/games
    /dev/sda1       296M     56M  241M   19% /boot/efi
    tmpfs           1,6G    108K  1,6G    1% /run/user/1000
    /dev/sdb2       1,2T    796G  332G   71% /mnt/volume
    
  • Editing grub Menü dual boot not working

    The first OS on laptop was Windows 10. After that, I have added Manjaro. Manjaro has added a Grub menu, with entry's for Manjaro and Windows. Now I want to switch to Arch. I have installed Arch on a separate partition. Arch has not added a entry in this grub menu, but this was expected. I have used update-grub from Manjaro, what added Arch to the menu.

    But for some reason I can't edit the menu from within Arch.

    I have tried to understand Arch Wiki what I have to do, to edit this menu from Arch. Can someone please help me to get this to work? I have tried to add my EFI partition /dev/sda1 via fstab to /boot/efi like in Manjaro, but this doesn't help to find the same menu with grub-customizer.

    Any idea's?

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    Dual Boot Best Practices?
  • Keep a minimum of 30GB free, for Windows update processes on the windows system partition. I don't how much the windows installation counts in space, but add that to the 30gb free space. I would recommend to have a extra partition for the games on NTFS and move your steam, epic, ubisoft, whatever library to that partition.

    I have tried to use the same gaming partition between Linux and Windows, but failed every time. In the worst case this can alter your Windows privileges. At least I had this issue.

    Currently I'm using Windows only for 2 games: Space Engineers and Empyrion. The rest works with better performance on Linux. Satisfactory, Ark survival, Elder Scrolls Online have more FPS on Linux with the same settings. I have to use a nvidia 1050 Ti in my laptop. With a AMD GPU the situation is a lot better on Linux.

    I'm not a hardcore gamer, mostly im coding here and there. But sometimes gaming is a must have.

  • Systemd timer unit
  • OK, many thx for the tips. Since my script in the service file is already doing some logging, i will try to use the last log entry, to find out, when it was last time running and exit the script, if it is not in the timeframe of 1 week.

  • Systemd timer unit

    I try to create a timer unit for weekly and daily backups. For example with the weekly unit, it should be executed once in a week, some minutes after login. If the unit was successful, it should shutdown and not start again until the next week. If a start of this unit was missing, it should be start again some minutes after the next login.

    But for some unknown reason, the current unit starts after every login when I reboot the laptop. I am relatively sure that this timer unit is set up wrong, but unfortunately I don't know how I can implement such a unit better with the functions mentioned above.

    ``` [Unit] Description=Run backup weekly Requires=backup.service

    [Timer] Unit=backup.service OnCalendar=weekly RandomizedDelaySec=120 Persistent=true

    [Install] WantedBy=timers.target ```

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    MangoHUD remove ms setting?

    I want to have only the FPS and the time to be displayed. On my screenshot you can see a setting with 16.7ms. I have no idea what this is, How can i remove this and keep only the FPS and the time?

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    Loosing Lizard Doggo
  • Can you please tell me how to do that?

    Additionally, how does the shredder working? I haven't attached a assembly line to it, but normally I can put manually pieces in to the stations. But this isn't possible with the shredder...

  • Loosing Lizard Doggo

    I have tried to tame a Lizard Doggo today the first time. I'm playing the game now since 3 days and searched for this animal since the beginning. I never found them when i was walking. Today i could build my first vehicle and was more far away from the HUB. I found such a Doggo and could tame him. But after driving some meters, i couldnt find the Doggo anymore. Could it be, that they dont follow the car? How can i bring him to my base/Hub?

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    How to play "Empyrion - Galactic Survival"?
  • Yes, I think the card is the weak point here or better the weak driver support. My next laptop will definitely have a AMD card. But I have absolutely no idea which one is good enough to handle actual games with full details and usable fps. I don't expect Desktop like experience but at least 40 fps with full details in an actual game would be fine. Im not a professional gamer, but when I have the time to play, it should be fun and not frustrating. Mostly I do coding with VSCode and some database stuff in different flavors. So a not to small display is a must have.

    Can you recommend a good GPU? For the rest I can do my own research...

  • How to play "Empyrion - Galactic Survival"?
  • Yes, of course. But nothing helped really. There is a small difference between the used Proton version. With 8.25 GE i get 13 fps and with 6.4 GE1 i get 19 fps. Using PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 makes it more worse than ever, with only 5 fps.

    On the same laptop with windows, I have ~ 60 fps.

  • How to play "Empyrion - Galactic Survival"?

    I try to play "Empyrion" on Linux via Steam. I have tried other games like "Satisfactory" without any issues and with a better performance as on Windows. But with Empyrion i get a max of 10 - 13 fps, where i have ~60fps on Windows on the same laptop. Graphic adapter is a nVidia 1050 GTX and OS is Arch Linux. If i remember correctly, Empyrion is a Unity game.

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    Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?
  • From my point of view, this is all relatively unstable and not really well thought out, far from being reliable. I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to convert my Crossbowser bookmark backend (https://codeberg.org/Offerel/SyncMarks-Webapp) into a functioning PWA. Very disappointing. Don't ask me how many nerves I've lost in the process. At least you can now use the WebApp as a PWA. The share_target also works if it was installed via Chrome or Samsung Internet. It also works offline. These functions are even retained if you subsequently uninstall Chrome/Samsung Internet. The WebApp then asks which browser wants to take over the functions. This also works with Chromite or Firefox. Strange but what the heck. At least you can now share any URLs with the backend. This also works offline, even if this is more of an Edge case for bookmarks.

  • Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?
  • Oh there is a APK, when using Chrome or Samsung Internet (installed via Samsung Store). The store is generating and signing the APK. Only with such a signed APK OS Level functions will work. A good example is the share_target functionality. If this is enabled by the PWA and installed as APK, you can share text and links with the PWA. The same applies for PWAs on the Desktop, for example with Edge on Windows.

    If you use the same PWA with Firefox or Samsung Internet installed from Play Store, it can only add a shortcut on the home screen, without share_target functionality.

    Additionally some service worker functionality is very basic on some browsers. On one hand this is bad for functionality, but good for privacy. Assume a PWA uses a background sync service for example. This can exchange a lot data and sync it with any target in the web, without user consent. This is only a small part where service workers do not respect users privacy.

    If you look at that we come in fast steps to this insane and total crazy manifest v3 webextensions. They are completely privacy nightmare at least how Chromium designed them. The Mozilla implementation is a lot better, but incompatible to Chromium.

    Welcome to the ugly world of new web technologies.

  • Using ntfy as push server for PWA

    Currently i try to create a PWA/WebApp for my own project. I am looking at the possibilities of integrating Web Push into my WebApp. If I understand the concept correctly, I need a push server in addition to my WebApp and the browser. Can ntfy take over this role?

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    App installed from F-Droid and updated via Playstore?
  • This makes sense. Yes, I have paid in the playstore for this app (and I would do it again and again). But if I understand it correctly this would also mean, I could download their v4.3.8-ose from the official GitHub repo for free, and it would be updated automatically from Playstore to v4.3.8-gplay version (which is not free). Strange.

    But this app is worth every penny.

  • App installed from F-Droid and updated via Playstore?

    I have installed Davx5 from F-Droid, from IzzyOnDroid Repo. Today I have checked for updates with the Google playstore and the App was updated to the playstore variant. I thought this isn't possible? What's going on here?

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    Ungoogled Chromium XDG?

    I would like to install Ungoogled Chromium, but I can only find ungoogled Chromium as an older version on Arch AUR and a "Ungoogled Chromium XDG" as a newer build. Can someone please explain me what's the difference between Ungoogled Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium XDG?

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    Change GeForce now keyboard layout?

    Is there some way to set the keyboard layout on GFN in the browser, or at least use the system keyboard layout from Gnome?

    According to the Arch Wiki, i should start Chromium with --disable-features=UserAgentClientHint` and spoof the UserAgent to Windows, but this doesn't work anymore. There are no Keyboard area in the settings.

    If I use GFN on Windows, the area for keyboard layout is working.

    Or is there some way to copy the settings from windows via Cookies or any other storage method?

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    Can't put anything in the assembler to disassemble them

    I have connected my containers via conveyor tubes with some assemblers. The tubes and all parts are green and working. But for some reason, I can't move objects from the containers to the assembler, to disassemble them.

    Do you have any ideas what could be the reason?

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    Gaming laptop with good Linux support?

    A similar question was raised some day's ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I'm searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game's and also native Linux games. As OS, I like to use Manjaro Gnome.

    Should I better buy all of AMD (if yes, which CPI, GPU) or Intel/Nvidia? Or Intel CPU and AMD GPU? Which combination is the right one with best performance for a casual gamer? I prefer FPS games, if that's important...

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    Paint only parts of block?

    Is it possible to paint only parts of block's? For example there are Reinforced Conveyor Tubes with some sort of protection around the tube. They seem to seel a room airtight.

    Is it possible to paint the tube in yellow/orange and the protecting outer parts in the color of the walls? Every time I try to repaint this block's, the whole block get the new color.

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    Automount USB HDD ownership

    I'm on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can't create new directory's on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop.

    I can only switch to root, create the folder and change ownership of this new folder to the currently logged in user.

    Is there any way to automount the USB hdd/stick with ownership of the currently logged in user?

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    systemd path unit questions

    Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don't know how to do that. Any ideas?

    Additionally, the triggered service unit should be delayed for some time. Background is, that I automatically upload sometimes more than one file in a batch. So I will give the script triggered by the service unit the chance, to wait until the upload of all files is finished, so that I can work with all the new files with one script call, instead of multiple calls for every file. Is that possible?

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    RPi4 as NAS - Transfer Speeds?

    This is my first time setting up a Raspberry Pi4 (8GB). Before, I have used a RPi 3B for some other things. From what i have read is, that IO performance should be a lot better on the RPi4, as with the RPi3B. But i get the same speeds as before. I have setup the following:

    • Installed Raspbian Lite (64bit)
    • enabled SFTP/SSH
    • Setup a user for SFTP only access, with home on a connected USB HDD
    • the USB HDD is connected to one of the USB3 ports
    • This is the same setup on the RPi3B

    When I now try to start to copy a 2GB file from my Laptop via LAN, i get in both cases a max of 11.6 or 11,5MB/s. But according to articles like this (https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-25-gbps-16-tb-omv-nas-setup-and-performance), it should be much faster. Is there some secret, or whats the problem?

    BTW: The Laptop runs on Manjaro Linux, where i start the transfer, there is no Windows available.

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    Fill level hydrogen tank

    How can I actually see how full the hydrogen tank is? This is always displayed with 0/total quantity in the station's inventory. Apparently it seems to be full, because hydrogen is only produced again (the ice decreases) when I open a room into space. Is this just a bug or is it intentional? Or is there a possibility to display the filling level in percent or absolute?

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    Beginners questions

    Hi there. Since I removed my Reddit account, I'm really happy to find a new home here. Hopefully beginner questions are allowed here.

    Currently I'm trying to reliable get SE to work on Manjaro Linux. But this seems to be not an easy task. Currently it's the only game, I have tried, which tends to crash on Linux.

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    Difference between F-Droid clients

    It seems there are 2 official F-Droid clients available. org.fdroid.fdroid and org.fdroid.basic. Can someone please tell me what's the difference?

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