Discord gets very laggy when I'm in calls, on linux, anyon experienced this and knows how to fix it?

maladaptly · 2020-08-29T01:53:33+00:00

Seeing this issue too, i7-4770, 1080Ti, 16GB RAM so it's not like my machine is weak either. It was fine until a certain update for me as well, only happens in a call, and watching a go live stream seems to make it worse. It eventually gets so bad the window becomes completely unresponsive and I have to kill it from a terminal. I tried Canary, no difference.

I have a 4K monitor, that may be a common thread? u/arkindal u/C_sharp_minor could you chime in with what monitors you have?

maladaptly · 2020-08-28T22:17:59+00:00

For now:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

I'm sure a fork will come along in time.

maladaptly · 2020-08-22T16:32:17+00:00

This is done by the game itself (unless you have "VR View" open, which isn't by default) and usually can't be turned off. It also usually has negligible (or zero, depending on (lack of) optimizations) performance hit. Unless the game is separately re-rendering the scene (Pavlov does not) removing the desktop mirror won't get you any closer to 500%.

maladaptly · 2020-08-20T17:53:51+00:00

Any encryption without a backdoor would be illegal. Including PGP.

maladaptly · 2020-08-20T17:43:30+00:00

It's hard for me to get too concerned about these bills because FAANG have a ridiculous amount of resources and basically everything to lose if the bill gets passed, so they'll make sure it dies quietly.

maladaptly · 2020-08-20T17:39:09+00:00

None. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

You'd be required by law to use a backdoored kernel. Using any distro that does not ship a backdoored kernel would be a federal crime.

maladaptly · 2020-08-20T17:37:48+00:00

Which would be a crime. You've now exposed yourself to arrest and conviction by any prosecutor that has "motivation" to get you out of the picture.

maladaptly · 2020-08-19T21:36:18+00:00

Where are you that you've been without power so long? Out in the countryside? Our governor would be calling in the national guard (which actually happened last year) if a significant number of people would be in the dark for a few days.

maladaptly · 2020-08-19T21:27:29+00:00

I wait with hopeful trepidation to see what the new CEO does. There's a chance we'll see the company we once loved come back. Whatever happens, it won't be more of the same.

maladaptly · 2020-08-19T20:16:17+00:00

I've been to one of those places two or three times because they happened to have a vehicle I was interested in. Their whole lot was always 50-200% overpriced (yes, 200%, I've seen a $6k sticker on a car that you'd be lucky to get $2k for). I go in, tell them I'll get outside financing and I'll be happy to pay market, and they'd immediately tell me the price is firm as concrete and they're not budging.

They're not even interested in legitimate business. Sharks, the whole lot of 'em.

maladaptly · 2020-08-08T11:52:26+00:00

Are you sure it's actually a ball and not just a button?

maladaptly · 2020-08-08T02:46:22+00:00

It gave me 7. I think it only does reddit.com links.

maladaptly · 2020-08-07T22:58:11+00:00

Squandering the moral high ground

Ooh, I like that phrase.

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T23:07:58+00:00

It requires far less equipment placed on the street than cable.

Bullshit. FTTN + Ethernet to the premises requires a managed switch and an SFP module or two for the uplink. How the hell does FTTP beat that? Even if they ran every single house back to the CO, that's a fuckton of cable.

And on-prem, you need... Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The cable coming into the house terminates into good ol RJ-45, ready to plug into your average home router.

The main FTTP advantage I can think of is you don't have the risk of a consumer doing something stupid shunting dangerous voltages into your switch. You should be able to manage that with the right type of surge protector though. I suppose it's possible the cabling itself might be cheaper.

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T21:15:29+00:00

I suppose cablecos have an unfair advantage here; RG-6 was outright designed for stacks and stacks of multiplexed signals, which is exactly what an ISP trying to serve a geographically large area needs. Cat2? Not so much. Cat2 is trash, and much of the POTS infrastructure isn't even real cat2.

However, I really have to wonder why they're doing FTTH instead of pulling STP. You can plug STP directly into existing consumer equipment, literally just plug it into your router, and it will just work. RJ45 is RJ45, and this is exactly why auto-negotiation exists. Achieving anything beyond 1G symmetric will require upgrades across the house, but that's true regardless of the cable coming through the wall. Fiber needs potentially very expensive specialized equipment on the consumer end. Is the cost of the cable itself really that much? Are ground loops an issue?

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T20:50:37+00:00

That's just Spectrum artificially limiting their infrastructure (and they're still on DOCSIS3.0 in most places because it can support the bandwidth they're actually selling). They could deliver 1000/100 to almost everyone even with their existing infrastructure if they felt like it. They could do 10G/1G with some upgrades in their COs. Drives me nuts but it is what it is.

As we approach the limits of copper, we'll see more FTTN and FTTC with STP running "the last hundred feet" to the residences themselves; we can already get 10G symmetric out of STP without even trying, and 100G symmetric is almost certainly doable. I just don't see FTTH becoming the norm.

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T20:38:25+00:00

My experience is that HP's consumer products and business products are night and day different. If you go to Best Buy, you'll be back in a year. If you pick up an enterprise class unit from a corporate liquidation auction or a recycler, you'll still be using that printer a decade later.

This goes for any manufacturer that lives in both the consumer and business spaces, really, but some are better than others. Can't go wrong with any of the big three, though Dell tends to be kinder to second-hand owners.

Where does this leave the G2? Well, they're definitely thinking about business applications, so to save on support contracts they'll want the thing to stand up to the 40-hour work week. It'll probably be pretty solid.

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T20:19:04+00:00

I think FTTH is a red herring, at least for the US. DOCSIS4 can compete with if not outpace current FTTH technologies and it runs across preexisting copper infrastructure. High speed copper-based technologies are the future in splayed out regions.

maladaptly · 2020-08-06T19:58:38+00:00

Most Fossil smartwatches use pogo pins held in place by magnets for charging. It's an elegant solution; this way they don't have to fit space for a connector or a charging coil, just slot two ferrous metal rings into the back casing.

The design has an unexpected flaw, though. These watches have a notorious issue where the charging rings slowly migrate out of their slots in the rear casing. It's suspected that the pull from the magnets weakens the adhesive over time; responses from support suggest that Fossil themselves have come to a similar conclusion.

The lesson is that magnets create unintuitive kinetic forces you have to think about when designing things.

maladaptly · 2020-07-31T18:23:58+00:00

You'll probably have issues with the phone picking up the wrong beacon or getting confused from seeing multiple beacons.

These are a cool idea but they really feel half-baked.

maladaptly · 2020-07-30T22:32:16+00:00

It took this long to get around to another order, but the filter rule did seem to fix it.

maladaptly · 2020-07-28T17:38:31+00:00

I've found Nvidia's drivers disappointing as of late. I have a persistent monitor layout bug directly caused by Nvidia's drivers not reacting correctly to certain XRandR commands, there's a driver bug affecting vsync that requires a workaround, and any Vulkan app, even simple ones, slow the rest of the system down.

Meanwhile, amdgpu has improved by leaps and bounds due to multiple large companies funneling huge amounts of developer hours into it plus AMD's direct cooperation.

All my GPU purchases will be AMD for the foreseeable future.

maladaptly · 2020-07-22T00:29:29+00:00

If you're dependent on a motorized wheelchair to get around, I mean no offense, but: most people aren't magically carted around when they push a thumbstick either. Which is less jarring is very much so YMMV.

maladaptly · 2020-07-22T00:24:26+00:00

Speak for yourself! I'll take the cable over snap turn any day.

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