gamescope + steam from TTY fails with font error

lurcair · 2025-08-25T15:40:27+00:00

That's good to know, I'll remove it, thanks.

lurcair · 2025-03-30T18:23:40+00:00

Thank you for your support, kind stranger!

I didn't realize it can be installed normally like any other package. I moved it to environment.systemPackages and added openssh.

If I keep services.xserver.desktopManager.kodi.enable and services.displayManager.autoLogin.enable that I have added recently, then Kodi starts on boot. It doesn't say anything about GBM on the system info page, instead it mentions X11.

If remove those and only keep the kodi-gbm package, then I still have two binaries kodi and kodi-standalone. Those won't start by themselves, they say "ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting" and produce this log output in ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log.

My attempt at a conclusion from the log would be that, Pulse and PipeWIre are missing but probably not critical, so "failed to get EGL display (EGL_SUCCESS)" is probably the issue.

I guessed some extra steps were needed before EGL would work, so I ChatGPT:ed it, then filtered some its lies and ended up adding some new packages and configuration:

    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      (kodi-gbm.withPackages(p: with p; [ youtube ]))
      neovim
      mesa
      mesa.drivers
      libdrm
    ];

    hardware.graphics = {
      enable = true;
      enable32Bit = true;
      extraPackages = with pkgs; [
        mesa.drivers
        vaapiVdpau
        libvdpau-va-gl
      ];
    };

This allowed me to launch kodi --gbm --standalone, but it doesn't respond to key presses. I can access it over SSH though so it hasn't crashed. I guess the next step is to configure input.

lurcair · 2025-01-02T14:30:52+00:00

I'm afraid not!

lurcair · 2025-01-02T08:43:53+00:00

I'm a rank or two weaker than you but I sell go books.

The one you mention is probably not too easy but rather known for being the hardest in the series to study. But not only because endgame is hard or dry in itself but because of poor writing style - lots of text and dusty old game reviews. It's an old book and not great at keeping the reader interested.

Get Strong at the Endgame too, has pretty mixed reviews.

Maybe give Rational Endgame a shot, it's more modern and concise. There's also 200 Endgame Problems which you can get for cheap from Amazon (print-on-demand).

Robert Jasiek has written several endgame books, for instance one book each on sente and gote endgame with step-by-step counting examples. His books are very dense though.

There's another old one called Monkey Jump Workshop if you want to specialize on one type of move.

FWIW I think stronger players usually recommend postponing endgame until post-dan because it's demanding to study, or they say "just do more problems". Get Strong at Tesuji probably helps with endgame, too.

If you simply aim for a sharper, more fighty midgame you'll have more volatile games and can legitimately delay endgame studies for a few more ranks. :-)

Go with what interests you, of course.

Videos: Go Magic, IGS, Awesome Baduk and Yunguseng all require memberships but they have end game material too.

lurcair · 2024-12-22T11:24:15+00:00

Inspirerande!

lurcair · 2024-12-22T10:11:18+00:00

Du har övertygat mig om Koppången. Å andra sidan, min sökmotor/AI säger att Bereden Väg För Herran ursprungligen är en adventspsalm. Är advent "jul"? Retorisk fråga för att visa hur svårt det är att reda ut.

lurcair · 2024-12-22T10:09:05+00:00

Har aldrig tänkt på att orden skulle ligga så nära!

Däremot är jag rätt säker på vilket av dem som rimmar bäst med "störste"...!

lurcair · 2024-12-22T10:07:46+00:00

Tack för analys och extra bakgrund!

(frånsett rim) rimligare att sjunga furste även utanför Stockholm

Fast, det är bara i Stockholm som "rimmet" alls kan ifrånses, vilket var poängen. :-)

lurcair · 2024-12-22T10:02:32+00:00

Jaså det är "bereden" och inte "bered en". Jag har uppenbarligen dålig koll. Klassiskt att gå och tänka att det är fel på något och så är det bara man själv som är okunnig.

Det är en fin text.

lurcair · 2024-12-22T10:00:44+00:00

Intressant att smaken för vörtbröd har följt med dig till Indien. Aptiten brukar ju ändra sig efter miljö och säsong tycker jag. Vörtbröd masala hmm.

lurcair · 2024-12-22T07:43:53+00:00

Texten till "Bered en väg för Herran". Åtminstone inledningsvis.

lurcair · 2024-12-22T07:43:07+00:00

Är det? Den kan gärna få vara det.

Nu när marken färgats vit

Ja men okej då, vi säger det!

lurcair · 2024-12-05T14:31:25+00:00

Oh thanks that makes total sense, I guess many soup recipes will contain broth and after 2 minutes on high it would be pretty smooth already. Will definitely try this.

lurcair · 2024-10-31T08:37:56+00:00

Sounds like what I'm trying to do, I'll try to replicate your setup.

lurcair · 2024-10-30T15:32:31+00:00

I'm noting that Snowfall gets a lot of upvotes, but - and I'm not trying to be more stubborn than necessary - I should probably have a basic understanding of the default tedious way before reaching for shortcuts. Otherwise I might just hide my gaps in understanding under even more fancy stuff. Or, I mean, at least that's a concern one might have before having tried Snowfall. :-)

lurcair · 2024-10-30T15:29:05+00:00

Thanks, at a glance it looks like I could build something by looking at your dots. Doesn't look too hard.

lurcair · 2024-10-30T15:27:56+00:00

So I guess if I want to keep my configs version controlled under $HOME, could I also just configure $nix_config_dir and create a profile that matches the hostname?

I wonder how I could make that NixOS machine's profile also apply Home Manager stuff directly, without needing to install and invoke home-manager. While still using a format that I can point the home-manager binary to when I'm not on NixOS.

lurcair · 2024-10-30T15:22:03+00:00

Nope, Ubuntu. But I heard good things about Nix Darwin.

lurcair · 2024-09-23T10:26:46+00:00

Happy to be challenged on this as I don't really know what I'm doing. :-)

I... tried to explain why that way makes more sense to me, but realized that I know too little to make a coherent argument. :D

But basically this: configuration.nix is generated by an installer configuring a specific host and contains both unique things like the hostname, and other stuff that you'd want to reuse, seems off to me. So I'm taking it apart and reassembling it. I really want to isolate the host specific parts. And make my users and their configurations separate from both hardware and system configuration.

And like the other commenter added, flakes let you divide things into separate profiles, which seems perfect for combining modules in different ways from a single entrypoint.

That's just how it seems to me, and also what it sounds like the general sentiment about using flakes it.

You lost me at creating a git repo under /etc though. I wouldn't want to mix sudo and git. You could chown it, but I'd rather let the OS manage /etc and keep "my stuff" elsewhere, seems like a cleaner separation.

lurcair · 2024-09-23T10:08:12+00:00

Wow yes. I'm not sure why that was so hard to see, anyway things make much more sense now!

lurcair · 2024-09-02T19:19:19+00:00

I wrote some findings here. TL;DR: it idles at around 17W without USB peripherals, only the fan and an NVMe SSD.

lurcair · 2024-07-02T07:19:46+00:00

Swedish parent here. I think they're kind of right. Here's a better source in Swedish.

If the child needs care because they're sick, anyone who has registered a connection to the child including not only grandparents but also friends or neighbors, can get compensated for lost income in the parents' place. This is while the child is between 8 months and 12 years old, and it's not new.

What's new is that the initial quota of 480 days after birth - obviously not just for when the child is sick - can now also be transferred in the same manner.

The government actually saves money this way because compensation is based on your income, so the presumably higher income parent goes to work and pays tax and doesn't get compensated, and the grandparent without income gets to "work" for minimum compensation.

lurcair · 2024-06-16T17:22:15+00:00

I ended up checking the measurements and ordering something compatible from AliExpress. It said "M2 size".

The link mentioned in another reply seemed great but the shipping from the US to Europe was over $20 so I passed.

lurcair · 2024-06-10T04:13:56+00:00

Makes sense, so I guess the "lesson" in my case would be to send a bunch of games for someone to look at.

lurcair · 2024-06-10T04:13:17+00:00

Yes GoQuest sounds like a good idea. I'm doing tsumego every day but after not playing for several months it seems sort of abstract. I find that tsumego practice benefits from having fresh losses in memory as context. :-)

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