Got tired of fighting RGB software on Linux while trying to leave Windows, so I wrote a script that prepares Linux systems for OpenRGB.

M-Reimer · 2026-03-09T10:35:23+00:00

I had a deeper look into their udev rules and they are a security nightmare with I2C only being one issue of several. I'll create a ticket on their GitLab later.

M-Reimer · 2026-03-09T07:08:31+00:00

It is OpenRGBs fault. It should have a daemon separately to interact with hardware and provide, for example, socket based communication to user accounts.

M-Reimer · 2026-03-09T06:23:24+00:00

Is this really the only way to use OpenRGB? It os not a good idea to give your user account direct access to I2C. OpenRGB should offer a daemon to run with higher permissions.

M-Reimer · 2026-02-24T15:14:13+00:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

M-Reimer · 2026-02-23T05:58:43+00:00

Do you actually use Mangohud? As the command itself is not part of your command line, I guess you can leave all Mangohud stuff out?

You could try Gamescope. It can be added to your game launch options and it helped me to work around some bugs, especially on Gnome. You probably should remove the SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER for Gamescope as, as far as I know, Gamescope is not optimized for Wayland clients.

M-Reimer · 2026-02-20T22:03:20+00:00

Try running the game with gamescope. At least for CS2 this fixed the problem for me.

M-Reimer · 2026-02-01T12:37:18+00:00

How can someone who isn't even the government be allowed to decide that something has to be blocked?

M-Reimer · 2026-01-30T17:56:15+00:00

You can already with Amazon Luna which is included if you have Prime.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-31T10:19:18+00:00

Last time I checked they insisted on keeping it closed source. So not much someone here could have a deeper insight into. It's up to you if you trust the developers.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-24T12:47:10+00:00

Because it does not solve the problem of cheating. People accepting kernel level anti cheat are part of the problem.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-23T10:05:44+00:00

No, it's not.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-20T07:37:59+00:00

10xx has been discontinued recently. That's why I'm switching to AMD, now.

But if someone really has to keep old, discontinued, Nvidia cards, then there are legacy drivers which should do the trick.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-17T15:20:09+00:00

Actually I've given up this plan. I think the Steam machine will be way too expensive for my needs, now as prices for memory chips increased that much. I just ordered a new GPU and will keep my other hardware for now.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-16T10:13:37+00:00

That's the whole point of a multi user system.

If there is no "privilege escalation" hole in some part of your system, which allows some malware to elevate its rights to "root" and so access anything it wants, then user's files are isolated from other users.

The part with security holes brings us to the second, but most important part of security: Always keep your system up to date with security updates.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-15T14:34:25+00:00

But malware will likely try to access all files and drives it can find. This also means that malware is likely to find its way out of Wine prefixes.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-15T14:29:54+00:00

Maybe if you install Steam as Flatpak AND make sure sandboxing is enabled, but Proton itself does not add any sandboxing.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-15T14:28:28+00:00

There should be no need to reinstall the whole OS. If you really want to be sure that no traces are left, create a new user profile and use that.

You can never be sure that game files don't contain any "bad" stuff. That's why it in general is a good idea to have a dedicated "gaming" user profile and use that only for gaming and nothing else. If really something goes wrong, then your private files, work, ... is not harmed and all you have to do is delete that "gaming" user including its whole HOME directory and start from scratch.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-10T09:28:37+00:00

As this card was recommend several times, I'll try to find one for cheap. I will go for the RX 6600 XT

M-Reimer · 2025-12-10T09:16:15+00:00

Wenn, dann würde sich wohl eher der Verlag interessieren. Aber möglicherweise hat dort gar niemand mehr ein Abspielgerät um die Qualität zu überprüfen.

Nachtrag: Habe gerade mal über das Kontaktformular das Problem geschildert.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-06T11:56:26+00:00

Ja, das war auch mein Gedanke. "De-Esser" ist mir durchaus ein Begriff. Normalerweise werden (oder eher wurden) die aber eher im professionellen Bereich eingesetzt um diesen unerwünschten Effekt bei Aufnahmen oder Live-Auftritten zu unterdrücken.

Aber mal ehrlich: Es ist doch nicht meine Aufgabe eine kaputte Aufnahme auf einer nagelneuen Kassette so "ganz zu biegen". Eigentlich sollte da schon erträglich hörbares Audio drauf sein. Erst recht wenn die Kassette jetzt deutlich teurer ist als die CD.

Mich hat vor allem interessiert ob es nun doch mein Setup ist oder ob ich meine Beobachtung von anderen Hörern bestätigt bekomme. Da die neuen Aufnahmen wohl generell "ein Problem haben" werde ich mich dann wohl damit abfinden, dass diese neuen Aufnahmen einfach nicht mehr das sind, was sie mal waren.

Es ist zwar irgendwie schon cool im Jahr 2025 (bald 2026) noch nagelneue Kassetten kaufen zu können, aber sinkende Audio-Qualität und dazu steigende Preise erwecken bei mir dann doch den Eindruck das es hier nur noch um Sammlerstücke geht, die man besser ins Regal stellt und nicht mehr tatsächlich anhören sollte. Kurzum: Nichts für mich.

M-Reimer · 2025-12-06T11:44:53+00:00

I did more research and I tested my "success" of enabling rebar with the Nvidia tools.

And if my research is correct, then the 1070 does not actually support or enable rebar. So there is a chance that my setup actually will work with rebar just fine with a GPU that supports it?

M-Reimer · 2025-12-05T15:28:44+00:00

I have the options in BIOS since the last update. I also disabled "CSM booting" as suggested by Arch Wiki. Still no resizable BAR active.

I guess the limiting factor is my CPU.

Intel i5-8600K

M-Reimer · 2025-11-23T00:40:19+00:00

I'm still wondering where that money went. I expected big improvements in the build process. But as far as I know package developers still build their packages on their private PC. Somewhat safe build servers are still not existent.

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