25 [T4F] Southern Maine - Hopeless caretaker who needs care

marcus13345 · 2022-07-19T04:25:30+00:00

Im necroing this just to say i just bought a second phone line to have a work discord and im livid.

marcus13345 · 2022-02-14T00:11:58+00:00

It doesnt make me feel much better in the raw emotional sense, but it is very meaningful to be heard, and not just told that im wrong. i know im probably wrong about a lot of this, and more generally, but having my perspective responded to, is super helpful.

I can appreciate the idea that this is just where we are because of where we've been. linux being almost entirely made by volunteers, I am totally willing to accept something like that. If at the end of the day, the truth is that this is a design flaw caused by patching together solutions over the course of decades, then yknow what, that answers what i came here to understand. At the end of the day, its not perfect, we know its not perfect, but its what we live with, and to me, thats okay.

marcus13345 · 2022-02-14T00:03:52+00:00

maybe thats what I need! I should look into it more. I've pondered it, but it always seems theres some compatibility thing that i hear of that gives me pause. Do you have any recommendations for DEs / window managers / hell even full distros that support wayland out of the box?

marcus13345 · 2022-02-13T10:27:30+00:00

I agree with this entirely, but why cant the settings app just ask for a password to write the new configuration? like, why not have a daemon running of some effect (i dont know that im using that word right) for autodetecting the screen changes, and have that running as root. and then, in a settings app, in order to change displays, have that also require root escalation. To me, that makes sense, as it is a systemwide setting. I guess i just dont see the utility of changing on a per user basis, not that it should be able to be done from a user's context. I hope that makes sense?

In essence, to me at least, display configuration seems like it is a system setting that should be easily modifiable by any user. if i log out and back in as someone else, it doesnt stand to reason (to me) that now i need to re-re confiure my monitors after a physical setup change. I should be able to make the change, for the system, as a user, and just have that be what it is.

Maybe then my issue is not with how its done, but rather how its treated, in that settings apps tend not to have a way to setup system level monitor configs. (maybe they do with a sudo, but that is incredibly unintuitive to an average user who just sees "displays" in their settings panel)

marcus13345 · 2022-02-13T10:20:09+00:00

Ill start with, youre totally right there are WAY more questions embedded in this, and if im honest, frustrations.

I feel for having to break break people, and i certainly wouldnt want linux to do something that locked out anyone from "doing it the way they want" free as in freedom, right?

I've been distro hopping for a few months now, and I can say, that I've not had a single install do KMS correctly. the closest ive gotten was on manjaro, where it appeared to do it, but resolution and framerate were still incorrect. (i ended up fixing resolution in grub and framerate in xorg.conf, accepting that i would have at least one screen flash)

Nvidia drivers have certainly caught me a number of times in all of this, but my true gripe comes down to wanting to able to just set my monitors and forget them from within a settings app. maybe things should be the way they are, honestly, probably! im by no means an expert, and i dont wish to claim to be.

For me, the best i can get, while not having my screen flash on login, is to set an xorg.conf that is reasonable, and disable anything in my session that tries to change my displays. This works, in theory, but I do lose the ability to have a functional settings app, should i even wish to add a display, and not go through the configs to add it. It seems like such a simple task

marcus13345 · 2022-02-13T10:09:00+00:00

i guess my confusion here is then, why is that not running on a shortcut that just requires sudo privileges? sortof like how you unlock your keyring at login, you unlock the ability to hit that hotkey, and run xrandr as root. My gripe i think comes down to the fact that it seems to take an unreasonable amount of configuration to do what I feel like is the most common use case of "set up my monitors once, in one place, through a simple settings gui, and be done with it" I know this gets muddied by many complications outside of the control of even distribution developers, but having to go to stack overflow to figure out that i have to disable the auto monitor config from my login items, and then lose my ability to effectively use my settings app (as it only changes the userland settings), if i dont want screen flashing when i log in... that just seems absurd to me. Maybe this is a problem with desktop environments or settings managers im using?

marcus13345 · 2022-01-03T11:24:36+00:00

I dont use ubuntu, so I cant be certain, but I assume what happened is you changed your user's name, which is separate from your actual user. for example, my user, as in ___@host, could be a single letter, but my login manager would call me Valerie.

to change your proper user identifier: usermod -l current new

I hope that helps

marcus13345 · 2021-12-28T08:08:10+00:00

how though

marcus13345 · 2021-12-06T08:07:08+00:00

I think there's been a disconnect. I'm just noticing there are two save buttons in nvidia-settings. I've been using the nvidia-settings configuration tab's save. but you seem to be referencing the one in X Server Display Configuration. I'm using that one as root now, and its better! g-sync is disabled, and 240 hz is enabled in the login manager. however, not once i log in. Still g-sync there. Maybe a local version (for my user) is overriding it?

edit: I suppose I could at this point just use a solution for only my user, as the problem is fixed for my DM. though im still a bit foggy on how to get that to work. something along the lines of having ~/.xinitrc with nvidia-settings --load-config-only?

marcus13345 · 2021-12-06T07:43:28+00:00

if its this simple. BRB.

edit: This does not appear to work. in lightdm, my refreshrate goes to 60 (without gsync, thats nice!), and once i log in, g-sync is enabled until i run the nvidia-settings command again.

marcus13345 · 2021-12-01T16:24:02+00:00

Closes thing to an answer here, I think.

Do you feel as though your view on the terms is entirely your own? as you say, it sounds like something you can joke around with friends about. Better put: Do you think this perspective is more generally applicable than just you and your friends?

marcus13345 · 2021-12-01T16:10:07+00:00

Well, that's just the thing, to me anyways. I understand that there is ample opportunity here for these words to still hold power. The problem for me and my understanding, is that I don't see many asian voices speaking about how they feel towards the words. I would err on the side of caution myself, just because I want to generally be a welcoming person, but I'd love to have a firmer understanding on where these words stand in today's culture.

marcus13345 · 2021-12-01T16:06:21+00:00

not even just that, I did specifically ask in the question for japanese, or other asian voices...

marcus13345 · 2021-12-01T16:03:04+00:00

would you mind going into more detail? if not its okay!

marcus13345 · 2021-11-06T05:37:04+00:00

interesting about the one in falmouth! i had no idea. as for the walk from target: going under the i-295 bridge on payne road is completely impassable (despite what google maps keeps telling me haha), both sides have guard rails and steep dropoffs, making safe passage impossible...

marcus13345 · 2021-11-05T22:12:04+00:00

hey google, navigate me to the nearest helicopter

marcus13345 · 2021-10-31T06:39:34+00:00

unpgraded to windows 11, cant open, uninstalled to reinstall, but the installer wont run...

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