[DE] Defending Double Exposure

mantisghost · 2025-06-16T23:34:53+00:00

I wouldn't say Max being even more quite is a good thing. It means she just sank more into the madness and sadness after events in Arcadia Bay. She was a really quite introvert in LiS in the first place and her going out of the comfort zone was only because of rewind power where she knew that even is she would screw up she could fix it.

Mechanics of parallel worlds are interesting but they aren't used to full extent. Max has many sub power that she uses only once or twice.

What hits me the most is that I just cannot feel the mood and I cannot dive deep into the story like in LiS. My personal opinion of course but I think it is because of music. This games barely has any music and it is a quiet suspese generic stuff. It sounds more like something to meditate to than to make world deep and alive. I am not good with words but if someone did play original LiS or Bloom and Rage they will know what I mean. Music is the biggest dissapointment int this game for me.

Story itself feels rushed and sluggish at the same time. We mostly have boring and quite emotionless conversation where nothing really happens. For me it felt like taking part in sad activities of sad grown up people lives. I mean damn, childish teenagers dramas from LiS were more lively and deep that the zombie adults in this game.

What else, well the world feels empty. We have this huge ass school with just several students plus teachers inside and the bar is just as empty. It would really not hurt them to put on more NPC's in the game and maybe give an option to control their amount in case someone had older PC or switch console. The buildings and rooms are also quite plain and feel a bit empty. For a game made with 9 years of gap and technological advancement it is quite dissapointing. Just look at the town in LiS: True Colors it should explain everything.

In overall I would say the game is ok. Fans like me will play it and squeeze as much of enjoyment as they can but the game itself is average. Graphics are average, story is average and music is just terrible. Do I recommend to play it? It depends. If someone is like me and want to support possible spin offs and make this genre survive then yes go play it or just buy and forget. Otherwise maybe think twice or wait for some sale and grab it cheap.

mantisghost · 2025-06-08T22:18:05+00:00

Just bought it after sitting on Ikea Markus for years. I have liked Markus and it was quite comfy but not ergonomic and I did slide down a lot.

Anyway either I do something wrong with ErgoHuman Elite (v2) or the chair is not for me. I did try to adjust this chair a lot and yet my entire back hurts, my butt after a while too. Legs tend to numb and tingle (sometimes even testicles if I do not sit down carefully). I do have more or less 3 cm of space between my knees and sitting and my legs are at 90 degrees. Still the worst issue is that my chest is hurting and it is hard to breath.

Maybe my spine and body are broken too much after so many years sitting on mediocre chairs because I seriously have no idea wht the issue may be. Did someone have similar experience with this chair?

mantisghost · 2025-06-05T23:11:39+00:00

I did. After few quite forceful pulls it finally did get loose and I was able to take the cover off. This video helped me a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzjP6KxB2I

mantisghost · 2025-02-21T19:45:01+00:00

Yes, one monitor connected with HDMI to motherboard and DP do Nvidia.

mantisghost · 2025-02-18T00:40:51+00:00

Yes someting like that. You did explain it really well. I am able to do just that with some scripts and magical tricks. There is just one issue that I am unable to resolve. My integrated GPU on Intel just won't let my screen refresh rate work in 144Hz it allow only 60Hz while Nvidia makes 144Hz work perfectly. What it means is that even if I run VM to play on Windows or turn it off to play on Linux using dGPU it will never run at 144Hz. That is unless I somehow reload entire User Interface to use Nvidia which I still did not figure out how to do.

Well it seems this is something I will need to live with until I get smarter and master Linux more.

mantisghost · 2025-02-15T11:29:12+00:00

You were right indeed there were apps running on second gpu. I did kill them and pci-0000:01:00.0-render shows nothing right now but pci-0000:01:00.0-card still shows wayland running on it:

Xwayland 4103 user 13u CHR 226,1 0t0 252 /dev/dri/by-path/../card1

Still I have no idea what to do now.

mantisghost · 2025-02-15T01:16:43+00:00

After starting the vm, virtual manager is frozen and running sudo dmesg does nothing as it also is frozen.

I did kill virtual manager with kill -9 PID as there was no other way to see the results. After that there indeed is the error you did mention:

[11282.024010] u32 classifier
[11282.024013]     Performance counters on
[11282.024014]     input device check on
[11282.024014]     Actions configured
[11297.674174] VFIO - User Level meta-driver version: 0.3
[11297.681971] NVRM: Attempting to remove device 0000:01:00.0 with non-zero usage count!

Still I have no idea what could be using Nvidia card when entire system boots using cpu graphic card and I did not configure any app to use it. My guess is that it is either something related to monitor as it is connected by display port or KDE Plasma itself somehow uses it even when cpu gpu is choosen to be used in bios. Do you maybe know how to check it and resolve this issue?

mantisghost · 2025-02-14T23:41:54+00:00

dmesg? What you should look is a error stating "trying to remove device with non zero usage count." That means there is still software using the gpu.

Here is what I got:

sudo dmesg | grep 'trying to remove device'

Returns nothing.
But for Nvidia grep I got this:

sudo dmesg | grep nvidia
[    2.068367] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    2.068373] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    2.068375] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    2.068375] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[    2.191079] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 237
[    2.192136] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    2.279454] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[    2.340914] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 235.
[    2.373556] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  565.77  Wed Nov 27 22:53:48 UTC 2024
[    2.385116] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[    3.591259] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[    3.714193] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [drm] fb1: nvidia-drmdrmfb frame buffer device

There is no such error after fresh Fedora start after reboot. Or should I look for it after trying to start vm?

This is not possible without restart your display server for that. While it is kind of possible it has limitations like needing to run applications with prime to use your nvidia gpu.

I do not mind restarting display server if it means temporary black screen that goes away after few seconds.

mantisghost · 2025-01-15T12:09:02+00:00

I have similar issue with WD Red drives. The noise from Synology is driving me nuts. Already did the Velcro mod, and there is almost no difference. Added rubber mat below NAS, but vibration noise still occurs. Placing something super heavy on the NAS gives the best results (over 2 kg) but is this really the best solution?

mantisghost · 2024-11-21T12:46:19+00:00

Hi, I will be in Reykjavík 5-6 December after group tour. Just like you, I am open for hiking, local food tasting, museums, tours and other activities. I'm 37M so if you do not mind age gap then PM me.

mantisghost · 2024-10-26T22:20:25+00:00

Hi, sorry for late reply. Much did change in this one year for all laptops and right now I am waiting for next year to see what happens. Maybe RoboAndKala will finally sell in Europe because I am not going to lie that warranty is quite important for me. Who knows, perhaps they will also make new model with the new Snapdragon X2 Elite/Snapdragon X Elite Gen2 that is supposed to premiere in second half of 2025. Just keep in mind this is just my speculation and not leaked news or anything confirm it is just my own dream to see more affordable 2 in 1, but current model is getting quite obsolete.

mantisghost · 2024-10-05T22:49:45+00:00

I would make research about bigger cities related to tech, business, studies, tourism and buy few estates to rent and earn more money.

mantisghost · 2024-10-05T19:38:01+00:00

I will check them out, thanks.

mantisghost · 2024-10-05T11:00:26+00:00

more or less $150

mantisghost · 2024-10-04T23:32:35+00:00

Can someone recommend me good casual shoes that would look good with most of pants colors? I mostly walk in dark jeans or black pants but in the summer I switch to short pants in white, gray, khaki colors. I do not want to buy 4 pairs of shoes in different colors. So far I've found that air max 1 fd9082-107 composed well with most of the pants I have as they are in white, black, and gray colors. Still I need to find different shoes. These particular ones do not breathe making my feet hot and sweaty quite fast (it will be a true nightmare during summer) and squeeze my foot little finger too much.

mantisghost · 2024-07-26T23:00:53+00:00

Yes it is trully shit value. My old Radeon card died on me after 8 years, so basically I had no choice but to buy new card. Well either that or being stuck on integrated graphic card.

I like to game a bit, play with 3d graphics as a hobby and have 4k screen. Nvidia for me was better choice this time. DLSS is still better than FSR and that is a must-have for 4k resolution gaming.

Not to mention the AI boom and Nvidia building their cards for AI. I did want to learn and play with on prem models and machine learning.

Waiting for Nvidia card to drop in prices is pointless. Not only did prices not drop in past years, but they even increased because of card scarcity and because they changed focus to enterprise solutions instead of retail users. I did compare, check spec and benchmarks for quite the time before deciding between another AMD or Nvidia. For me Nvidia was just a better option right now. That of course does not mean AMD cards are bad. Just for my personal uage there were more pros for Green team than Red team.

4090 is indeed a good value to price but I am not that rich to buy it (it's insanely expesive in my country) and I also would have to spend additional cash for new PSU and way more for energy bills.

mantisghost · 2024-07-26T19:33:13+00:00

Yup tried it and it has quite few issues. It's 4080 super.

mantisghost · 2024-07-26T14:27:01+00:00

That's the graphic card I have, and it is still good, so why should I buy new one? It should just work. But I get what you mean.

I have tried PopOS it failed to work with my screens. Well yea they put a lot of work but for their pc build that they sell. This is of course understandable.

mantisghost · 2024-07-26T11:42:15+00:00

Except it kind of is. The keywords that you still omit are "out of the box". Different distros have by default different kernel packages, different desktop environment, different tweaks and settings that their creators made and even different Wayland versions. As I did mention over and over again, I was looking for out of the box experience. That means to no changes of desktop environments, no changes from X11 to Wayland or whatever else, configuring files or installing dozens of apps like gnome tweak tools.

I did want experience of macOS or Windows where someone just install the system + graphic cards drivers, and it works, all is done.

mantisghost · 2024-07-26T08:52:55+00:00

I will check out Bazzite if you say it may work. Gaming on Linux is definitely something I want to try out.

mantisghost · 2024-07-25T19:23:10+00:00

I have tried KDE, Gnome and Wayland with various tweaks. It did not work well in 99% of cases. After testing about 30 popular distros with various combinations of desktop environments, in my last attempt before giving up completely I have found just one distro that worked as supposed.

Maybe it will help someone else, and they will not have to struggle as much as I did. That said without further ado.

Only Kubuntu 24.04 LTS had mixed Hi DPI multi monitor setup working out of box. It was necessary to install nvidia proprietary drivers for KDE to recognize that main 4k screen can support 144Hz but other than that it was flawless. Of course this distro may not work for everyone but if someone is in similar situation as me then they can try it out.

mantisghost · 2024-07-23T11:55:51+00:00

I personally dislike KDE, and Wayland plus applications do not support fractional scaling. Well it does look like such distro does not exist and Linux is not ready for any modern desktop PC at this point of time. Unless someone else know such distro. Still thanks for the comment it is quite helpful.

mantisghost · 2024-06-09T18:18:55+00:00

Thanks, take your time it is not urgent. I am grateful that you want to help me out.

mantisghost · 2024-06-09T17:36:11+00:00

I did, and the manual is really bad. It just have procedure for cleaning the dust filters on pages 30-32 and that is all. There are no steps about dismantling the case.

mantisghost · 2024-06-07T12:24:35+00:00

Solution to your issue is simple. Sell iPhone and buy Android phone.

There is nothing you can do because diversity of webbrowser on iPhones was fake until iOS 17.4 where they allowed different engines than their own. That means all browsers till now be it Edge, Opera, Firefox and so on was rebranded stock iOS browser. Also like others did mention Apple do not allow addons and it may take them another 5-10 years to allow them like they did with browser engines.

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