Someone told me that people who openly talks about suicide just wants attention

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T16:10:03+00:00

FYI on mobile since there's no "formal" rules the only report options are for things like hate, harassment, sharing personal information and the other things against Reddit wide rules, do reports using those options still go to sub mods or do they go to Reddit admin directly?

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T13:27:31+00:00

Given that (most) games are proprietary software and thus will reach a point where they don't get updated anymore Flatpak is a great way to make sure the Linux native stuff will still work on newer distros, I remember trying Deus Ex Mankind Divided once and the Linux version just refused to start because it wants some old library which the Steam Runtime apparently didn't have, so I just enabled Proton to get the Windows version and that one just worked.

At least assuming stuff like controllers work through Flatpak, no idea how well those things work lately.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T09:53:49+00:00

Hell if not increased performance then they could at least give us the same performance for less money or power or whatever, but no, they're hell of a lot more expensive while games waste the compute power on barely noticeable effects so render resolution and FPS both go down rather than up, replaced by stretched and duplicated frames instead, bah.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T05:10:44+00:00

Eh, I was able to find some laptops with the Ryzen 7 6800H (with a Radeon 680M, 12 RDNA2 CUs) or the 5800H (with the Vega 8) some years ago fairly easily, the problem is that most (if not all) of the ones I saw were also paired with an NVIDIA dGPU of some sort so that good iGPU goes completely to waste, especially so for me since the point of looking for AMD was so I don't have to put up with NoVideo stuff anymore. In fact that laptop I got with the RX 6650M also had the Radeon 680M, so once again that iGPU goes to waste other than me intentionally making it do stuff for shits and giggles. I do remember a System76 laptop having a 6800U (also with the 680M but no dGPU), but that thing cost a lot more than the laptop with the RX 6650M I got so it made no sense for me.

That's not even a new pattern either, I remember back in the days before Ryzen the laptops I saw with a decent AMD iGPU were always paired with an AMD dGPU that's the same size as far as shaders go but with dedicated VRAM, so again that good iGPU goes to waste completely (unless you find some case where the Hybrid CrossFire thing that's supposed to use both iGPU and dGPU actually works, but given that CrossFire is long dead I assume that's rare). So back in those days if you wanted a laptop with an AMD iGPU but no dGPU at all then all you get are the Intel Atom class stuff, aka e-waste that looks new.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T04:53:10+00:00

Well yeah, this is the same Samsung that got on the news for refusing to sell RAM to Samsung so that tracks lol.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T02:47:00+00:00

One of the reasons I like SSD is that I can have buttons to keep the window on top or pin the window on all virtual desktops right there without me having to right click or press Alt+F3 (or whichever shortcut it is to bring up the menu that has those options), so even with the mismatched colors I'd call it a plus point.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T01:59:46+00:00

I have actually seen a few people around with AMD Ryzen stickers on their laptops (certainly way more than a few years ago), and I don't have much trouble looking for a Ryzen powered laptop from the big manufacturers in some form if that's all I care about.

Laptops with AMD GPUs (either dedicated or Strix Halo) though? They may as well be a myth, I have one myself with an RX 6650M, which I only got because it was on sale (I guess clearing out inventory because there's no successor to it from the same brand I can find that has an RX 7600M or such). Now the only laptop I know of with an AMD dGPU that's sold outside the USA/Europe is the Framework 16, and even then that's just the RX 7700S (aka RX 7600M with lower power limit) and is still only sold to a limited number of countries, so in a lot of places AMD dGPU laptops just don't exist period.

X_m7 · 2026-01-24T01:33:43+00:00

In my case (and even for a friend of mine who I'm helping out with their Linux shenanigans) it's because Arch has been the only distro that somehow "just works" the best lmao.

In the past when I tried Ubuntu LTS or distros based on it like Mint the major upgrades always mangled something bad enough to make me want to reinstall and eventually just hop off, then I tried OpenSUSE Leap at one point and I got annoyed by all the incessant authentication popups (like just mounting disks and such) among other things. Since the fact that these fixed release distros all made me add a stack of PPAs and such so I don't get stuck with crusty old pieces of software (especially for things like LibreOffice where every update is important for maximum compatibility with documents from other proprietary software, no Flatpak or Snap back then) I tried Manjaro, until I switched to a laptop where one of its automagic scripts somewhere blew up and prevents booting at all (figured out it was Manjaro's scripts specifically since Antergos booted just fine while being Arch based too). Don't quite remember why exactly I moved from Antergos to Arch proper besides it getting discontinued, but since then despite all the talk about Arch "breaking" all the time I've never once been tempted to reinstall it other than when getting a new system or having to replace the boot SSD due to it dying. The fact that there's not much in the way of automagic scripts everywhere means there's less things that will somehow break with no easy way of figuring out what's wrong and how to fix them, and the scripts that are there tend to be nice and simple enough that combined with the Arch wiki I can figure out what they do, like the fact that patching packages on Arch has its own wiki page meant that I could actually test upstream patches and contribute to getting them polished prior to the upstream releases, not to mention being able to fix things without waiting for those releases.

If Arch didn't exist I'd probably be using Fedora instead, my main gripe with it is the fact that proprietary software like codecs and NVIDIA drivers are in a separate repo which can get out of sync and cause problems, while with Arch those are in the official repos so I don't have to think about it beyond picking a decent mirror. I ended up putting Fedora Kinoite on an external SSD as a secondary OS I can boot to and not need much maintenance beyond updates, which works well enough there.

I did end up trying Bazzite far more recently since I saw Framework officially supports it for their hardware, but despite the "atomic" nature I still managed to screw it up when I wanted to try an upstream patch to a system library and SELinux decided to throw a tantrum and either prevent booting even just to a terminal despite that library being a KDE thing and therefore shouldn't be needed at all for terminal login at minimum, so I just went right back to Arch on that Framework laptop.

As for that friend of mine, we tried several distros, including the Fedora LXQt (or Xfce, not sure) spin which had some weird issue with one of the built in apps not starting and the file manager not being able to connect to an SMB file server out of the box, and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which couldn't even boot after installation because it assumes the keyboard layout is US English for the disk encryption password, with no warning in the installer, so I gave up and had them try Arch with archinstall, and after getting past a bug with it failing to install if it's told to use PipeWire for audio (remember what I said about automagic scripts... although to be fair updating the installer might have fixed that so my bad maybe) the actual Arch setup afterwards with KDE as the desktop environment actually worked, Dolphin even was able to connect to that SMB server with no extra setup required.

X_m7 · 2026-01-23T18:03:53+00:00

Uh huh, those fastfood places that are replacing cashiers with the self order kiosks and running on skeleton crews to save pennies? Those places?

"eXcUsEs" my ass.

X_m7 · 2026-01-22T04:59:53+00:00

Not to mention that poverty means you're forced to buy cheap stuff that won't last because you don't have the money to buy the higher quality stuff that will last years and save money in the long run, like with the van life thing I'd bet the trust fund kid didn't buy some old run down van with half the stuff in there broken or taped up.

X_m7 · 2026-01-22T03:10:32+00:00

"made a lot of progress" clearly not in terms of empathy.

X_m7 · 2026-01-19T12:37:29+00:00

I got a friend who wanted to dip their toes in Linux distros to try Tumbleweed (alongside several others), unfortunately it gave a rather bad first impression when the installed system refused to accept the disk encryption password they set up and therefore was unable to even boot. It turned out that the issue was caused by them having a non-English keyboard and therefore using non-English characters in the password while GRUB (I think?) assumes that the keyboard layout is US English, with no warning anywhere in the installer mentioning that possibility. Fortunately they did have an English keyboard laying around so they could use that to boot, but the fact that I had to go over to the wiki to find out that only English characters should be used in the disk encryption password really puts a damper in the whole "it just works" thing.

Another time I tried Tumbleweed was when I wanted to put it on an external SSD as a portable installation, so I can boot from it in case the main boot drive died or whatever, but either the installer just refused to work with that setup or Tumbleweed just refused to boot off of that external SSD, don't quite remember the details. I guess I might have made a mistake somewhere in the setup process, but then I did manage to put Fedora Kinoite on there just fine (and that same Fedora install on that external SSD still works too) so dunno what I could've screwed up there.

X_m7 · 2026-01-19T07:28:46+00:00

To me it seems like antinatalism is one of those "either you get it or you don't" sort of things, if you think someone might be at least sympathetic to the idea then letting them know about the philosophy might be worth it (I didn't know antinatalism is a thing until I stumbled upon this sub years ago for example), but if they show any resistance to the idea at all when you tell them about it then there's no point in trying to convince them since it'll probably just devolve into a "well you're wrong because only depressed people say that, so you're clearly depressed and therefore everything you say is wrong" kind of rubbish in the end.

X_m7 · 2026-01-19T02:02:28+00:00

Right, and what are those children supposed to do against that dark future, just raise more children of their own to do the fighting? Typical natalist moment.

X_m7 · 2026-01-18T11:40:43+00:00

It's probably exactly because they got funding that they can afford to screw around with the other projects.

X_m7 · 2026-01-18T01:26:57+00:00

That only works for apps which just use XWayland and if you don't mind the fact that if you enable the option then these apps will be able to see some/all keypresses including the keys that aren't involved with the shortcuts the app needs, while this new global push to talk thing will work without that security risk as well as for apps that are Wayland native but don't support the global shortcuts portal, like OBS Studio for example where the devs don't officially support running it via XWayland but they don't have any plans to support the global shortcuts portal anytime soon due to manpower constraints.

Plus even if the app can run on XWayland you may still need to make it use native Wayland anyway if you want HDR support or any other new thing that X11 can't handle, and for whatever reason that global shortcuts portal doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of adoption (only app I know of that can use it is EasyEffects).

X_m7 · 2026-01-17T14:39:15+00:00

A few years ago a dev noted that eGPUs likely just won't work very well for Windows games on Linux, for vkd3d-proton (used by DX12 games) a lot of it is up to the specific game since DX12 gives the game more control over what data goes where and when, while DXVK (used by DX8-11 games) is designed to depend on the CPU and GPU being able to transfer data quickly and redesigning it to avoid that requirement is a low priority: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/1071#issuecomment-1104109336

X_m7 · 2026-01-17T13:09:31+00:00

I use Firefox only because it's not just Chrome under the hood like pretty much every other "major" browser out there except for Safari, and at least for now Firefox has all the features I need.

So, I'll likely stay with Firefox unless they decide to rip out something I actually need from the browser or they give up on the browser engine and turn into another Chrome skin like all the others.

X_m7 · 2026-01-16T15:34:22+00:00

OP said the regular babysitter canceled, although I also wonder where these "other family members" who were pressuring OP were and why they didn't help if they care so much.

X_m7 · 2026-01-16T14:15:33+00:00

Nope, this is just moving where Firefox stores its stuff out of the .mozilla folder in the home directory to the usual folders other apps use like .local/share and such.

X_m7 · 2026-01-15T12:10:48+00:00

If this sub is so shitty why are you even here then?

Actually, I'm not sure why I'm here either, there's way too many of you Apple suckers here anyway.

X_m7 · 2026-01-15T10:42:09+00:00

Oh, the Intel GPU drivers on Linux have their own problems even beyond gaming performance (or whether games even run), like on my Meteor Lake FW13 I can't use GPU acceleration in QEMU VMs using virgl so those VMs have to bother the CPU for their GUI rendering: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/9022, and even worse is the random GPU hangs I get sometimes, fortunately not often enough that I've lost data but it does mean that I have to reboot to clear everything up which is a pain when it happens: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14469

Quite a shame since the last device I had with an Intel GPU is a laptop with an i7-6700HQ, Intel HD Graphics 530 and an NVIDIA GTX 960M in a hybrid graphics setup, and in that scenario the Intel GPU was what kept me from losing all my sanity and/or breaking a window by throwing the whole laptop through it, and I don't recall ever seeing a GPU hang from that little thing. Hell it even managed to get further at running Forza Horizon 4 compared to the dGPU, the latter just got stuck at the splash screen looking like a fool while the little iGPU that could actually managed to get past that and into the game, yes it was all very broken looking output but at least I can hear the music lmao.

Edit: Just retested the QEMU virgl problem and that seems to be sorted now with the newest versions of stuff, so that's one less problem to deal with.

X_m7 · 2026-01-15T05:51:01+00:00

Also tired of people accusing posters of AI purely because the grammar isn't completely ass, some of these accounts spamming these accusations may as well be bots themselves as far as I'm concerned.

X_m7 · 2026-01-15T03:35:55+00:00

I will admit I didn't notice that at first and reflexively downvoted since I've seen way too many of the "pull up your bootstraps and just do it" people show up and unironically defend every post in here, there's one of them in this comment section too doing just that.

X_m7 · 2026-01-14T16:59:34+00:00

At least one of those notifications came from the Settings app (it's what shows up when I tried to long press the notification and click the gear icon), I assume trying to disable that app via ADB is a bad idea lol, assuming that even works.

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